PAST EXHIBITIONS 2020-2021
500X is proud to announce Holding Space, an inaugural juried exhibition for all artists over the age of 18 living in Texas that identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The 2021 juror is Daisha Board, curator, consultant, and founder of Black Sheep Art Culture.
The exhibition will be held July 31 - August 22, 2021 with an opening reception on Saturday, July 31st at 7-10 pm. Juror’s Choice Awards will be announced during the opening reception. Awards are cash prizes in addition to one artist receiving a solo exhibition in our Project Space for the 2021-2022 Season.
We are pleased to announce the following artists selected for the Holding Space exhibition:
Aliyah Cydonia Erik Alvarez
Alvaro Villa Gerald Bell
Amani Sodiq-Odunaiya Janak Narayan
Amy Daniels Jayla Aldridge
Antonio Lechuga JD Moore
Brenda Ciardiello Jessica Baldivieso
Charles Gray JoMerra Watson
Cher Musico Kwanzaa Edwards
Cedric Ingram Michael E. Johnson
Cindy Ngo Reyna Ramirez
Cindy Nguyen Sanah Brown-Bowers
Deepa Koshaley Sharidyn Barnes
Dejion Duncan Tiara Unique Francois
Demarcus McGaughey Vanessa Meshack
Ebony Lewis Wendy Yamilett
The gallery is open 12-5 pm on Saturdays and Sundays by appointment for regular hours (excluding special events).
ABOUT THE JUROR:
BLACK SHEEP ART CULTURE INC. courageously bridges the gap between traditional and non-traditional art spaces by making art accessible to the communities they serve. By promoting emerging and established BIPOC artists found locally, domestically, and internationally, Black Sheep Art Culture Inc. is able to create the much-deserved space BIPOC continues to strive for.
BLACK SHEEP ART CULTURE INC. have successfully partnered with several galleries and museums throughout the Dallas and Fort Worth Metroplex art community to enhance and ensure representation of marginalized artists that have repeatedly been forgotten within the mainstream art industry. Black Sheep Art Culture Inc. prides themselves on the role they take in advocating for more visibility and stature for BIPOC artists.
Sight Unseen
Max Marshall & Kay Seedig
Sight Unseen by Max Marshall & Kay Seedig
Opens at 500X Gallery on July 3rd 2021 with a reception on July 10th from 7-10 pm
Closes on July 25th
Instagram handles:
@kayseedig
@x_marshallarts_x
floor rituals
Elizabeth Hill
Curated by Kasey Short
floor rituals encapsulates the need to challenge the concept of continuous resiliency. I recently realized that by constantly priding myself on being resilient, I was playing into the ‘Strong Black Woman’ archetype. For the longest time, I was not giving myself ample time to process my emotions because I was more concerned with putting on a facade for others, but also for myself. The words “I’m okay” were on a continuous loop in my head, but they were hollow and didn’t hold any weight. floor rituals is about being okay with not being okay and learning to move through all of my emotions instead of detouring around the unpleasant ones. This is my way of affirming that I am deserving of softness and vulnerability.
When the weight of my thoughts is too much for me to carry, I sink to the floor until I am able to gather myself and rise again. I lay flat on my back and focus on every single inch of my body-- from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. I focus on my breathing and how my stomach rises and falls with each slow breath. Eventually I return to myself--l always come back to myself in the end. I’ve been performing floor rituals for a while now. When I’m laying flat on my back, I like to think that I can feel the earth turning (slowly but surely), spinning on its axis and carrying me with it. This puts things into perspective and reminds me that I am more than my current situation. In that moment, I am grounded.
fading cowboy
Stephen Abernathy
Hot and Sweaty 2020 Virtual Exhibition
Britteny Akines | Dave Armbrüster | Alyssa Barber | Jennifer Battaglia | Jacqueline Blanco | Danny Bolton | Ashley Brogan | Emily Broussard | Michael Bullock | Daniel Cervantes | Alexandra Constantinou | Christopher Paul Dean | David Dennis | Julie England | Laura Elia | Nikita Ephanov | Aunna Escobedo | Thomas Flynn II | Anna Galluzzi | Stephanie Gerhart | Beronica Gonzales | Ian Grieve | Anna Guillory | Madeline Hernandez | Jane Hickie | Heather Leigh Hoskins | Kyung Hee Im | Cosmo Jones | Claire Kennedy | Ryan Kerr | Mary Klesse | NikosMine Lampropoulos | Jamison LeBlanc | Nan Martin | Leslie Mauldin | Dale McFarland | Troy Medinis | Chloe Scout Nix | Zachariah Mickler-Sandoval | Joshua Moran | Alison Nokes | Andrew Oh | Alicia Parham | Tippi Polo | Mary Post | Max Raign | Cat Rigdon | Katie H. Ritchie | Alli Rogers-Andreen | Conner Simmons | Erika Suarez | Jennifer Thompson | Lexis Thompson | Julia Trinh | Bernardo Vallarino | Megan Van Groll | Doris Vasek | Jim Wilson
Vivrant Thang
Curated by Ciara Elle Bryant
Participating artists: Jeremy Biggers/ Ari Brielle/ Ciara Elle Bryant / Xxavier Edward Carter/ LaShonda Cooks / Danielle Demetria East / Jer'Lisa Devezin / Elizabeth Hill / David-Jeremiah / Jas Mardis / Jamila Mendez / Desireé Vaniecia
First Annual LGBTQIA+ Show
Juried by Chuck & George
An Lusk / Chloe Scout Nix / Brooke Chaney / Gem You / Matthew Weimer / Bernardo Vallarino / Cher Musico / Jessi Jones / Remmie Johnson / Krista Chalkley / Adair Stephens / Anna Galluzzi / Brooks Oliver / Danielle Ellis / Dorothy Yoakam / Dre Burciaga / Elicia Fraga / Ginger Cochran / Erica Kalish / Enrique Nevarez / Heather Levy-Dick / Hope Ly / Iva Kinnaird / Jenna Richards / James Behan / Joshua Moran / Kiara Daniels / Miguel Salgado / Max Marshall / Lane Banks / Natalie Kreidler / Oliver Freeston / Phillip Frye / Purujit Chatterjee / Richard D. Curtin / Romulo Martinez / Ron Geibel / Steven Hector Gonzalez / Seth Tarango / Stuart Hausmann / Victoria Brill / Xandr Arquin / Grace Otten
EXPO 2020
500X is proud to present Expo 2020, juried by Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby! This year our jurors selected 28 artists:
Michelle Gonzales | Brooke Chaney | Jim Wilson | Charles Gray | Goran Maric | Eliana Miranda | Valerie Van Over | Kaitlin West | Madeline Ortega | Cindy Nguyen | Hallee Turner |Marianne Howard | Max Marshall | Kyung Hee Im | Purujit Chatterjee | Thomas Flynn II | Kacey Slone | Juan Castillo | Maria Haag | Jessi Jones | Enrique Nevarez | Jas Mardis | Beronica Gonzales | Marquez Munoz | Victoria Gonzales | Austin Lewis | Tiara Francois | Randal Robins
pues ni modo, a ch!ngarle
Guadalupe Sanchez
pues ni modo, a ch!ngarle
November 7-29, 2020
Project Space
pues ni modo, a ch!ngarle is a solo exhibition by artist Guadalupe Sanchez. Having grown up
with first generation immigrant parents from Mexico, Sanchez has been interested in the way
her parents have navigated their lives before and after emigrating to the United States permanently without speaking English. Her fascination was cultivated through familial anecdotes of crossing borders and family separation. In this exhibition, Sanchez archives photographs, documents, and personal items that have recorded the lives of her parents as they have assimilated through the United States. It is also a commentary on how working class immigrant parents have always had to find a balance between working laborious jobs, remaining connected to their culture, and the pressure of having to choose work to be able to provide for their families. Therefore, a ch!ngarle (let’s hustle).
Members Show
500X is proud to present the 2020 Members Show! This exhibition features new works by our eight current members: Scott Bell, Ross Faircloth, Emmar Grant, Kay Seedig, Kasey Short, Justin Strickland, Narong Tintamusik, and Ashley Whitt. The works vary from painting, sculpture, installation, video, and photography. The exhibition runs from November 7-29, 2020 at 500X Gallery. 500X is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 12-5 pm, by appointment only.
Black Voices Juried Exhibition
BLACK VOICES JURIED EXHIBITION
December 5th 2020 - January 3rd 2021
Juror: Ciara Elle Bryant
500X presents the first annual Black Voices exhibition! This year’s show is juried by artist and curator, Ciara Elle Bryant! The exhibiting artists for the show are:
Tiara Unique Francois
Nitashia Johnson
Elizabeth Hill
Don Dixon
Aliyah Cydonia
JoMerra Watson
Victoria Simmons
Jamila Mendez
Desireé Vaniecia
Jessi Jones
Solomon Mahlatini
Molly Sydnor
Charles Gray
Asia Youngs-Bailey
Terminal 2 by Kasey Short
500X is pleased to present Terminal 2, solo exhibition by Kasey Short on January 9th to February 13th, 2021. There will be two in-person performances by Short on Saturday, January 9th at 5:22 pm and 6:22 pm CST. The performance will also be live streamed that day. Click on the Zoom link above to view performances. The gallery will have extended gallery hours on January 9th from 12-7 pm by appointment only. There will be limited time slot availability on viewing the performances at the gallery
Axiomatic in Pink by Jihye Han and Yuni Lee
Axiomatic in Pink, is a two-person exhibition featuring artists Jihye Han and Yuni Lee. The exhibition examines the root of feminine power within Korean heritage and American Korean culture by the masculine driven world. We’ve been exploring the question what does it mean to be a woman in the contemporary? What determines and who controls the line between “right” and “wrong”? In addition, can you see multiple sides of a circumstance at the same time? Through personal perspectives, the artists present abstract spaces using relatable objects and materials to explore the invisible connections we have within our everyday lives. Both artists use fabric, clay and paper to blend traditional processes with contemporary ideas.
Micro by Ciara Elle Bryant
Micro is a collection of text pieces that portray quotes that have been uttered to black bodies. These silver gelatin prints hold subtle discrimination tactics that have been used to be quitely hostile to marginalized people, marginalized black people.
- Ciara Elle Bryant
Bio:
Ciara Elle Bryant is a multidisciplinary creative working and residing in Dallas, TX. Bryant holds a Masters of Fine Art from Southern Methodist University. Through photography, video, mixed media, and installations, Bryant discusses blackness by focusing on how identity and culture exist in the new millennium. Bryant also teaches and facilitates artist workshops for youth and adults while working as a practicing artist. Bryant’s approach to research and curatorial practice has been integral to her process of furthering conversations surrounding black culture in art as well as historical studies.
College Expo 2021
500X is proud to announce the College Expo 2021 and congratulations to all the selected artists! This year's juror is Valerie Gillespie, Owner of Pencil on Paper Gallery!!
Due to the delay from last week’s inclement weather, College Expo 2021 will run from February 27th to March 21st. The virtual reception was held on Saturday, February 27th at 5-7 pm where we announced the juror’s choice awards and solo show winner.
Nature of Being by Christian Rodriguez
Christian Rodriguez was the Project Space Solo Show Award winner for College EXPO 2020, juried by Tamara Johnson and Trey Burns. Nature of Being is a series of paintings exploring concepts of space, form, color, and texture by Christian Rodriguez.
“My paintings are abstract, void of subject matter. Like my sculptures, I hope that the forms depicted in each painting communicates to the audience as an individual entity that attempts to assert its existence. My initial process varied; sometimes I began with compositional sketches, and other times I began more intuitively without a clear concept in mind. Regardless, I was constantly responding to the forms and colors throughout the process as I tried to maintain a spirit of experimental expression.”
Not Listening
Scott Bell
Not Listening, a solo exhibition by Scott Bell
Not Listening hopes to describe the curse of our current over-stimulated culture. The works in the exhibition act as a visual representation of the struggle to be present while in a constant search for distraction. This will be Bell's third solo show as a member of 500x and will take place Mar.27-Apr.25.
Makin’ Groceries
Jer’Lisa Devezin
Makin’ Groceries is a phrase I use which means to buy groceries. Inspired by a nostalgic memory, this work explores the phrase as an act of resourcefulness by using found objects and discarded materials to create something out of nothing.
Bio:
Jer’Lisa Devezin was born and raised in the Lower 9th ward of New Orleans, LA. She received her BA from Dillard University of New Orleans in 2011 and earned her MFA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas Tx. in 2019. Jer’Lisa’s practice is interdisciplinary with an emphasis in ceramics, metal, mixed media, and video/performance. Her experimental investigations through sculpture, and performance explore the relationships between physical labor, sexuality, and black womanhood. Much of her influence comes from the aesthetics and culture of the diaspora, specifically African and Haitian art, Black culture, and nostalgic memories of New Orleans. Jer’Lisa was an artist in residence with the Joan Mitchell Center of New Orleans, and her work has been presented at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She currently works as instructional special in art and adjunct professor of Ceramics and Art appreciation with Dallas College and is also an adjunct faculty of Art Appreciation with Tarrant County College.
-Jer’Lisa J. Devezin, 2021
They Die Only to be Reborn Again
Narong Tintamusik
They Die Only to be Reborn Again is an exhibition by Narong Tintamusik. Through large scale painting and sculpture, Tintamusik explores innocence, sexuality, and the metamorphosis of trauma. Deriving his lived experiences as a sexual abuse survivor, the work illustrates how life is being altered and corrupted. Using the emergence of springtime as a backdrop, stunted figures frolicked amongst beautiful flowers and lively insects. Water washes away the shame and guilt contained in tainted bodily secretions. This concoction of both fear and desire spring forth pollinators that seek to taste the nectar of the surrounding blooms. Once nature has run its course, the land went from abundance to desolation and back again. An endless cycle of life and death that offers both solitude and paralysis to Tintamusik. He desires to break this sequence within his lifetime to be reborn again.
ReVisited
Ross Faircloth
ReVisited is comprised of a series of photomontages of toned, gelatin silver prints and hand distressed chemi-grams. This work began around 60 years ago with my grandfather creating family memories, as so many others did via 35mm slide film. After inheriting these slides when my grandfather passed, I first set out to look at each image in an effort to organize them into a more manageable collection. After viewing the approximately 1800+ slides, it was interesting to me how disconnected I felt from many of them. I knew only a small handful of the people in the images (my grandfather / grandmother / mother / aunt / great-grandfather / great-grandmother) and about the same with the locations. This created a juxtaposition of physical disconnection and personal connection and vice versa when viewing many of the slides. Revisited applies not only to the feeling of being an outsider in viewing these memories of family but also as a revisiting of style and process. This approach includes combining color toning, distressed photo paper, chemi-grams and most importantly the photomontage aspect of these pieces.
Selected works from the series will be on view at 500X Gallery from May 1- May 30, 2021. The opening reception will be on Saturday May 1st from 12-7 pm at 500X Gallery. The address is 516 Fabrication Street, Dallas, 75212. (No appointments necessary for the reception, but we will limit the number of people who can enter the gallery space at a time.)
Breach
Anam E and Emmar Grant
Anam E and Emmar Grant collaborate on breach, an installation focusing on the separation of worlds, including the collision of gender, nationality, and post-Covid communication. The works include images, relics, sound, sculpture, and multi-dimensional video art.
Anam E learned how to make tamales from their mother, who learned from her bisabuela from la Huasteca. At the Pratt Institute, Anam learned how to mix plaster. At the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Anam learned how to defend their symbols.
From 2012-2019, Anam curated exhibitions challenging identity, performance art, space, and memory. In 2020, Anam created an international biennial for memes.
Emmar Grant is a new media artist, with a background in film. A 500X member for two years, he works experimentally with projection, cinematic video, and holograms. Emmar breaks movies from their rectangular frames, finding ways to put them into new landscapes.
FEVER DREAM, Chapter 1: DOWN
Ashley Whitt
FEVER DREAM
Chapter 1: DOWN
During the full worm moon on March 28, 2021, I fell into a deep, dark rabbit hole. DOWN I went and this is where I live for the moment. This is where FEVER DREAM was born.
The demons inside of me are finally coming out and I can breathe for the first time in 35 years. It’s slowly getting a little easier to say this: I was raped, abused, manipulated, and my innocence was stolen from me starting at the age of 17, during my senior year of high school, while dating someone I knew from honors classes/marching band. I never thought he would hit me or hurt me but it slowly escalated and before I knew it, he was holding me down and fucking me as I screamed at him to get off of me. Instead he got off IN me.
Somewhere between the conscious and the subconscious, between acting out and repression, between optimism and nihilism, are where these images live.
The exhibition, FEVER DREAM, Chapter 1: DOWN contains two collections of work: FEVER and DREAM. Draped in dreamy pastels, DREAM provides a space for the viewer to breathe, meditate, and find pleasure in the patterns. FEVER concentrates on dark thoughts that live in the corners of my mind, creating a more chaotic atmosphere. Together the images work to reflect the emotional and mental tension I live within every day.
FEVER DREAM, Chapter 1: DOWN features various media, including watercolor paintings, collage, handmade books, and stop motion animations. Selected works from the series will be on view at 500X Gallery from May 1- May 30, 2021. The opening reception will be on Saturday May 1st from 12-7 pm at 500X Gallery. The address is 516 Fabrication Street, Dallas, 75212. (No appointments necessary for the reception, but we will limit the number of people who can enter the gallery space at a time.)
Join us for a live performance, part of FEVER DREAM, on Tuesday, May 11th at 7 pm at 500X Gallery.
An artist talk, with Ashley Whitt and Ross Faircloth, FUCKED UP: Navigating the Subconscious through Art, will happen on Saturday, May 8th at 500X from 2-5 pm. Artist talks from 2-3 pm, meet and greet will happen from 3-5 pm.
Vintage Visages of Vinnegar Vampires
Emmar Grant
Vintage Visages of Vinnegar Vampires is a cinematic portrait show by Emmar Grant. This is a sample of the portrait of Azrael Rose Erickson (@rosaskittyghost). The show is June 5th through the 27th at 500X Gallery.
Bahay ba natin ito?
Cher Musico
“Bahay ba natin ito?”; Is This Home? Home isn’t always so definitive; a complexity of layers. As an autistic queer and second-generation Filipinx-American in the South, embracing home can be challenging. ”Does this feel like home?” becomes a frequent question. It is a search. “Bahay ba natin ito?” examines the diaspora I feel related to my Filipino background. Most of the pieces are individuals within a series; all connected.
My childhood experiences center around Filipino potlucks and when I think of Filipino grocery items, particular foods come to mind. “Bagoong” and “Banana Ketchup” examine my relationship and memory with Filipino foods. “Bahay Natin Ito” is my recreation of a Filipino staple: the large carved wooden utensils usually hung in the kitchen. With “bahay natin ito,” it can either make a statement, “This is home” or ask the question, “Is this home?” depending on how it's said or translated.
On the large wall, four images depict four generations: my maternal grandfather, my parents, myself, and my son - “Lolo Victor,” “Miscegenation Made Me,” “Kindergarten,” and “Roman”. Each were created on different materials. “Lolo Victor” connects with thread. “Miscegenation...” and “Kindergarten” are both created on manila paper products; manila papers once made of abaca fiber, a native plant of the Philippines. In “Roman” image, they wear a modern version of a traditional formal FIlipino attire, the barong tagalog. Our different experiences become a balance between social constructs and what is true to self. Do we feel at home? Identity is layered but I am searching for the home that includes not only self but in how we connect and relate.
