SURFACE TIKI: EVERYTHING IS OK
PAINTINGS BY JUSTIN HUNTER ALLEN
11/16/13 - 12/01/13
BEEFHAUS
833 EXPOSITION AVE
DALLAS, TX 75226
OFFICIAL THREAD: http://www.4freedom4empire4.us/f/res/4.html
BEEFHAUS
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2013 - 7PM
BEEFHAUS presents Justin Hunter Allen's first solo painting exhibition, "SURFACE TIKI: EVERYTHING IS OK", a venture in the narrative of modern formalism: contradictory engagements with the lessons of recent history.
"Conscience of a Body of Paintings" is written as an accompaniment to the exhibition, relaying Allen's reflections on the venture as a recursive cross-disciplinary event. In the City of Dallas, the conversation of "Artist Run" in recent years has seen its migration from a splintered periphery to a reliable, indexable, key phrase in blogs and lectures. With this key phrase, disparate artist and organizational philosophies have found themselves homogenized, bound together to each others credit and detriment. "Conscience of a Body of Paintings" recalls not just the excitement of a frontier or juvenile recklessness of curiosity, but also a painting's awareness of its own context and probable fate.
Allen's statement patterns "Conscience of a Hacker", penned by "The Mentor" following his arrest in 1986. The essay, first published in the e-zine "Phrack" [Vol 1, Issue 7], is a reflection of a young man at the dawn of an age, with a scope so incalculable and impersonal that its familiarity to mankind's many stories is obscure to man himself. The Internet hate machine and an ethical anonymous have advocated it. It's own words speak of the value of a varied and unidentifiable network. Yet, in "The Social Network" [2010], it is also displayed on the dormitory wall of the man who would turn that concept on its head.
"SURFACE TIKI: EVERYTHING IS OK" opens at BEEFHAUS Saturday, November 16 and runs until Sunday, December 1. Contact artbeefart@gmail.com with questions.
"Conscience of a Body of Paintings" is written as an accompaniment to the exhibition, relaying Allen's reflections on the venture as a recursive cross-disciplinary event. In the City of Dallas, the conversation of "Artist Run" in recent years has seen its migration from a splintered periphery to a reliable, indexable, key phrase in blogs and lectures. With this key phrase, disparate artist and organizational philosophies have found themselves homogenized, bound together to each others credit and detriment. "Conscience of a Body of Paintings" recalls not just the excitement of a frontier or juvenile recklessness of curiosity, but also a painting's awareness of its own context and probable fate.
Allen's statement patterns "Conscience of a Hacker", penned by "The Mentor" following his arrest in 1986. The essay, first published in the e-zine "Phrack" [Vol 1, Issue 7], is a reflection of a young man at the dawn of an age, with a scope so incalculable and impersonal that its familiarity to mankind's many stories is obscure to man himself. The Internet hate machine and an ethical anonymous have advocated it. It's own words speak of the value of a varied and unidentifiable network. Yet, in "The Social Network" [2010], it is also displayed on the dormitory wall of the man who would turn that concept on its head.
"SURFACE TIKI: EVERYTHING IS OK" opens at BEEFHAUS Saturday, November 16 and runs until Sunday, December 1. Contact artbeefart@gmail.com with questions.
BEEFHAUS
833 Exposition Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75226
>CONSCIENCE OF A BODY OF PAINTINGS
http://www.4freedom4empire4.us/e/kareha.pl/1383940352/
>CONSCIENCE OF A HACKER
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=7&id=3&mode=txt
