L.O.C.C.A.: Law Office Center for Citizenship and Art will host a program of art presentations on Sunday April 7th, 7pm - 9:30pm. Artist discussions will explore the intersection of art with science, nature and biology. We dialog with the presenting artists about their art practice working with the local eco-system; the body and performance; biological materials; the influence, mediation and methodology of science with the tools of science; and the relation of the Mexican-American, Hispanic and Latino/a/x culture, history and experience to bio-art. Attendees are invited to participate in a conversational exchange with the artists during the presentations. Artists Angel Lartigue, Sarah Sudhoff, Francis Almendárez and Jacqueline Posada will present their work on Sunday April 7th, RAIN or SHINE!
Artist presentation, panel discussion, audience Q&A:
Sunday, April 7th, 7pm - 9:30pm, featuring artists Angel Lartigue, Sarah Sudhoff, Francis Almendárez and Jacqueline Posada
Refreshments will be served.
bios:
Houston born Angel Lartigue dropped out of high school as a teenager and has since pursued his art practice in solitary research. Lartigue’s primary motivation is to investigate and redefine the relationship between the body and land through the use of organic matter as raw material. This concentration has led the artist to pursue training in forensic anthropology and human remains recovery. Lartigue was recently invited to take part in the 2019 artistic-laboratory residency, SymbioticA (University of Western Australia, Perth, AU) to forward this research and artistic exploration. www.Angel-Lartigue.com
Sarah Sudhoff holds an M.F.A. in Photography from New York’s Parsons School of Design and a B.J. in Journalism and Photography from the University of Texas at Austin. She has received a 2017 Individual Artist Grant from Houston Arts Alliance for her recent body of work and is the Executive Director for the Texas Photographic Society. Sudhoff was awarded by The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2013) and exhibited internationally and across the U.S. at Galveston Arts Center, Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, Gray Duck Gallery in Austin, Filter Photo Festival and Roots & Culture in Chicago, and the DongGang International Photo Festival in South Korea. https://www.sarahsudhoff.com/
Francis Almendárez is an interdisciplinary artist who traverses the intersections of history, ethnography and the arts. In attempt to make sense of and re-construct identity, he uses them as tools to address memory and trauma, specifically of migrant and queer bodies of Caribbean and Central American diasporas. His work, ranging from video installation to performance and text, incorporates music and storytelling, and brings to the foreground time, labor and rhythm. http://francisalmendarez.com/
Jacqueline Posada is a single-mother of many trades and a home cook with a green thumb. Ascending from a family of farmers she worked in the fields of Central Valley California during the early 80s picking various crops from walnuts to peppers. She is currently studying photography.
“Las Fronteras: Houston artist working with Nature”, bio-artist presentations on April 7, 2019
After a faulty hdmi adapter, a bad connection to the sound system, and a rain delay, “Las Fronteras: Houston artists working with Nature” was finally able to commence on April 7th. The first evening program was cancelled on April 3rd. So we decided to compress all the artists to one evening of presentations. In attendance were the artists presenters Sarah Sudhoff, Angel Lartigue, Francis Almendarez and his mother Jacqueline Posada. Instead of staging the program outside, inside the office space would be safest, in case of another threat of rain. This time the technical problems were solved and at least a dozen people showed up.
This panel presentation differed from the typical art panel discussions. I purposely played a minimal role as moderator. I didnt feel the need to guide the artists to discuss each other’s practice. Not necessary to interject my comments or perceptions about their artwork. Very few, if any, questions from me. I sat aside, took notes and reminded when them when their times were running long. And they all did. Each took at least 30 minutes. To be fair, this should have been spread to two nights. But one has to make due with circumstances as they come.
Though the evening ran longer than I expected at least I was able to accomplish something that I believe had not been done in the Houston art scene before: Latino/a/x Bio-artists talking about how their work intersects with the world of biology, perm-culture, science and nature.
If you wish to read about these artists and the context of their work, please go to the link below.
https://glasstire.com/2019/05/27/who-are-the-houston-bio-artists/
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