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SUMMARY:Carlos Rolón: 50 GRAND
DESCRIPTION:Photo: My Father’s Wishes No. 1\, 2014\, Wallpaper\, wood\, mirror\, 24kt gold leaf\, gold plated chains\, quartz crystals\, metal\, sunglasses and bronzed boxing gloves\nBefore language to Hemingway\, from the ancient Sumerians to the Greeks to the modern day\, there was the sport of boxing. With his exhibit 50 Grand\, Chicago-based artist Carlos Rolón/Dzine will present a dually charged exploration of boxing and domestic culture\, inspired by the tactility and performative qualities of boxing\, and its relationship to contemporary art at Tube Factory artspace\, 1125 Cruft St. Though the third iteration of the exhibit\, it will features a newly commissioned performative installation of live sanctioned Golden Gloves fights\, organized by Indy Boxing and Grappling and sponsored by Top Rank Productions. The exhibit is a nod to Ernest Hemmingway’s 50 Grand\, and like the story explores the relationship between courage and professionalism. \nWith this exhibit\, Rolón continues to mine his childhood memories. He invites the viewer to step into intimate scenes such as his family’s wood-paneled basement\, decorated with gold garlands and vintage beer placards\, where his father would watch prize fights like Roberto Durán V. Sugar Ray Leonard\, also known as the No Más Fight. This fight was particularly important for Rolon growing up as it allowed him to sit for short periods of time connecting with his father. \nRolón monumentalizes his blue-collar trophy den as the setting for his exhibition\, creating an homage not only to boxing culture\, but also to Puerto Rican immigration to America. \nWithin the exhibition is a newly commissioned performative installation of live Golden Glove fights organized by Indy Boxing and Grappling scheduled  June 2 and July 7\, 7-9 p.m. Fighters will wear robes designed by Rolón on each of the three scheduled fights then on display when the ring is inactive. \nWithin the main gallery is an installation of paintings and sculptural fabric works exuberant with color\, texture\, patterns\, and experiments in surface that create a visual dialogue between the physical charge of boxing\, the garments worn by the fighters\, and the artist’s own childhood home and upbringing as a first generation immigrant. Occupying the den is a series of custom-made trophies entitled Immigrants/Emigrants (Symbols and Mementos for the Nuyoricans) created\, as the artist states “for people like my father and mother who came to the U.S for a better life with dreams and aspirations that never quite materialized\, but still achieved success in other aspects of their life.” \nThe exhibit runs through July 22 open Monday-Friday 9 am-6 pm\, Saturdays 11-3 with extended evening hours every first Friday. \nMade possible by the Herbert Simon Family Fund\, Top Rank Productions\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Sun King Brewery \nAbout Carlos Rolón/Dzine (b. 1970\, Chicago\, IL) \nRolón attended Columbia College Chicago with a concentration in painting and drawing. Rolón has been recognized for his elaborately crafted paintings\, ornate sculptures and works that come out of American\, Latino and uniquely based subcultures. His studio practice investigates pop culture\, craft\, ritual\, beauty and its relationship to art history\, subculture\, appropriation and the institution. As a first-generation immigrant of Puerto Rican decent\, the artist creates objects questioning the concept of luxury and craft making to explore questions of identity\, integration and aspiration. His work also represents a detailed examination of curiosity and the process of art making and the cultures surrounding this. The work often addresses his biography by melding memory and the imaginary with carefully crafted\, hybrid works that are playfully situated between the contradictory worlds of conspicuous consumption and urban artifact. The work is at once melancholic\, excessive and exuberant\, poised somewhere between celebration and regret. Rolón illuminates how the masculine can become delicate and the how the baroque can be minimal. The artist often channels this approach with site-specific installation work\, vivid large-scale paintings and ornate sculptures in various materials expanding on ideas of self-reflection and imagined luxury. The works ultimately produce a hybrid language of social practice\, painting and sculpture inviting the viewer to engage in discourse and discussion.\nRolón has had solo exhibitions at The Dallas Contemporary\, Dallas; Bass Museum of Art\, Miami; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art\, Gateshead\, UK; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico\, San Juan\, Puerto Rico; and CAM Contemporary Art Museum\, St. Louis. His work has also been exhibited in group shows at The Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago; Marta Herford Museum\, Herford\, Germany; Museum Het Domein\, Sittard\, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art\, San Diego; Museo del Barrio\, New York and Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM)\, Canary Islands; Oakland University Art Gallery\, Michigan and Museo de Arte de Ponce\, Puerto Rico.\nIn 2007 Rolón represented Ukraine in the 52nd Venice Biennale. He is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation award for Painting and Sculpture. Rolón’s work is included in the following public collections: Bass Museum of Art\, Miami; Brooklyn Museum\, New York; City of Chicago Public Art Collection; Deagu Art Museum\, Deagu; Museo del Barrio\, New York; Museo de Arte de Ponce\, Puerto Rico; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico\, San Juan; Museum Het Domein\, Sittard\, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art\, San Diego; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art\, Kansas City; and Pinchuk Art Centre\, Kiev\, Ukraine\, among others. \nAbout Tube Factory artspace: Tube Factory is a 12\,000 square foot museum space curated based upon the themes of community\, place\, memory and mythology. We commission local\, regional\, national and international contemporary visual and musical artists\, borrow artifact-based exhibits and create community-sourced exhibits. \nA previously vacant former manufacturing building\, it is open Monday-Friday\, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. \nSaturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. \nShauta Marsh is chief curator at Tube Factory artspace\, curating and/or organized over 40 exhibitions including Inheritance: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Tony Buba\, Mound At Large: Trenton Doyle Hancock\, Fermata: Richard Mosse\, RCA: Scott Hocking\, Richard Mosse: Fermata\, Toyin Odutola\, Mari Evans:Carl Pope\, etc. Prior to working as a curator\, she wrote for various national and local publications.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/50-grandcarlos-rolon/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Venezuela The Melody of Beginnings-works by Mary Mindiola
DESCRIPTION:Venezuela The Melody of Beginning-works by Mary Mindiola \nInternational Awareness for Venezuela\nAsociacion de Venezolanos en Indiana and Big Car Collaborative\nare hosting an art exhibition to show the work of Mary E. Mindiola\, a venezuelan artist with an extraordinary talent for creating pieces of art with different techniques such small cuts of paper\, and other art mediums. \nAbout the Artist\nMary Mindiola\, Born in Caracas\, Venezuela in 1971\, as the fourth daughter of an American and Venezuelan marriage.\nThe Family moved to the Andes Valley city of San Cristobal\, Tachira when she was two years old. Mary showed an evident talent from a very young age in drawing\, sewing and crafts.To promote this talent her parents placed her in the Escuela De Artes Plasticas de San Cristobal.\nAfter graduating from high School Mary moved to the USA and enrolled at Lansing Community College and subsequently transferred to Kendal College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids to complete her degree in BFA in Illustration.\nMary moved to Indianapolis\, IN in the year 2000 in the look of broader artistic opportunities and work.\nRecently Mary has displayed her work in different galleries around Indy but mostly in festivals since she also makes other crafts like sewing goods and crochet and other crafts.\nMary’s work involves the combination of recycled goods with new items as well. Her most recent artwork involves paper magazine collages in the making of custom pet portraits\, landscapes\, and people portraits. \nMary wants to dedicate this gallery show opportunity to her country Venezuela. By displaying her recent work she hopes to create more international awareness of the deteriorating Venezuela economic and political situation affecting the country\nand the people. \n“As Venezuelan abroad it is very difficult to watch my country and my people suffer so much while we appear to live a normal life on the outside\, it just doesn’t feel right” Mary Mindiola
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/venezuela-the-melody-of-beginnings-works-by-mary-mindiola/
CATEGORIES:Listen Hear
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SUMMARY:Carlos Rolón/Dzine: 50 GRAND\, LIVE Fights
DESCRIPTION:50 GRAND\, LIVE Fights is a newly commissioned performative installation consisting of Golden Gloves Sanctioned live fights.The participating fighters will wear Rolón’s 50 GRAND robe. The robe is on display in the ring when the ring is not in use. The overall art exhibition\, also titled 50 GRAND\, is open 6-10 p.m. the same evening.\nSeating is limited but fights will be streamed on YouTube Live. \nMade possible by Herbert Simon Family Foundation (a Central Indiana Community Foundation affiliate)\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, Top Rank Boxing\, and Sun King Brewing Company.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/live-boxing-2/
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Adrian Matejka-Presented by UIndy's Social Practice Art MA program and Etchings Press
DESCRIPTION:With the lean\, long jab and agile step of a boxer\, Adrian Matejka delivers this knockout dramatization of the larger-than-life life of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. In dexterous interpolating voices\, and in forms ranging from enveloping sonnets to prose letters and interviews\, Johnson emerges as a scrappy\, hard-edged hero—troubled by his own demons but determined to win the “fight of the century\,” a fight that underscored the bitter realities of racism in America. These poems don’t pull no punches. \nPresented by UIndy’s Social Practice Art MA program and Etchings Press\, a student-run publisher. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves\, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow\, challenging white boxers—and white America—to become the first African-American heavyweight world champion. The Big Smoke\, Adrian Matejka’s third work of poetry\, follows the fighter’s journey from poverty to the most coveted title in sports through the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the white women he brazenly loved. Matejka’s book is part historic reclamation and part interrogation of Johnson’s complicated legacy\, one that often misremembers the magnetic man behind the myth. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nAdrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books\, 2003) and Mixology (Penguin\, 2009). He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards\, a National Poetry Series Award\, the New York/New England Award\, and a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University and lives in Bloomington with his wife\, Stacey Lynn Brown\, and their daughter.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/adrian-matejka-reading-presented-by-uindys-social-practice-art-ma-program-and-etchings-press/
CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park
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