Keystones, 2019
Keystones, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas
September 21-December 14, 2019
Opening Reception -Saturday, September 21, 2019
Titled Keystones, this three-month solo exhibition throughout all the galleries of the Beeville Art Museum included a large-scale installation titled Event Horizon connecting three of the museum’s galleries. Smaller sculptures, drawings, glass pieces, and works made of glass and artificial turf filled the rest of the museum.
The exhibition title Keystones refers both to conceptual connections across the entire exhibition and to the archways in the Beeville installation one can enter. As with almost all of my large-scale CD/DVD pieces, swirling vortexes accentuate the art, suggesting infinite space, black holes and celestial light.
Event Horizon, 2019
Media: Donated CD and DVD discs, monofilament, cable ties, wood, ratchet tie down straps, bungee cords, irrigation tubing, eye bolts and eye screws, sheet metal, fender washers, threaded metal rods and bolts, plywood, paint, Theremin, and speakers with amplifiers
Pre-fab(ulous) Post-fraction and Dream Home drawings, 2019
In addition to the installation of Event Horizon which stretched across three galleries, the rest of the Beeville Art Museum featured works such as Pre-fab(ulous) Post-fraction, a fraction of a house that reveals the shadows of figures at play at a table. Also installed in this solo-exhibition was a series of drawings titled Dream Home. In response to the text lyrics on the player piano rolls and a book published in 1950 titled "Your Dream Home: How to Build It For Less Than $3500," I gently draw house plans using graphite pencils between and around the player piano paper holes that contain the now silent notes of the player piano.
The Beeville Art Museum, created and operated by the Joe Barnhart Foundation, is first and foremost a teaching museum, providing cultural and educational opportunities for the citizens of Bee County and surrounding areas.
Jason Collins, "Keystone of Art," Beeville Bee Picayune, Beeville, Texas, September 11, 2019
