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Shepard Fairey.
Courtesy the artist.

SHEPARD FAIREY Citywide Street Project

4 February 2012

Dallas Contemporary has invited Los Angeles based street artist SHEPARD FAIREY to create more than 12 murals throughout the city with a focus on West Dallas. Known for his iconic designed President Obama HOPE poster, Fairey has worked as an artist creating works on the streets and globally in public spaces using posters, stickers, wheat paste and painted murals.

In celebration of the mural project, Dallas Contemporary will host the first annual PHENOMENON, an over-the-top, neon-inspired dance party. Fairey, a world-toured DJ, will provide the music for guests in the Dallas Contemporary galleries, just days after completing his murals.

Rob Pruitt, 2010
Courtesy Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York.

ROB PRUITT

17 December 2011 - 18 March 2012

Opening celebration – Saturday 17 December 21.00 – 24.00 (9.00 - midnight).

Dallas Contemporary announces an exhibition featuring New York artist ROB PRUITT. The exhibition made specifically for Dallas Contemporary will be Pruitt’s first major institutional exhibition in the United States and his largest exhibition to date.

Pruitt’s interests lie in creating environments where participants feel free to improvise and experiment outside of their comfort zones. In his signature style, Pruitt’s installation of glitter panda paintings has never before been shown and is the largest number of panda paintings to be shown together.

Exhibition sponsored by: J. Patrick and Lindsey Collins; Anonymous Foundation; Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York; Sally Warren and Jeff Jackson

Special thanks: Parinaz Mogadassi and Larry Sayah

David Jablonowski, Powerslave, Revolution Main (Signature Series), 2011
Courtesy Gallery Luettgenmijer, Berlin; Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam and the artist.

DAVID JABLONOWSKI: Many to Many (Stone Carving High Performance)

17 December 2011 - 18 March 2012

Opening celebration – Saturday 17 December 21.00 – 24.00 (9.00 - midnight).

David Jablonowski’s first North American solo exhibition entitled, Many to Many (Stone Carving High Performance), challenges the traditional “one to many” relationship between the artist and the public advocating instead the “many to many” dialogs of multi-layered voices. In his work, Jablonowski increases the range of materials used within the field of sculpture yet subverts museum display strategies to expand the schizophrenic potential of the artist’s signature. He manipulates the tradition of sculpture, much like a sociologist digs in social network structures, transforming complex readings of information and media into what we all experience everyday – a digital madness.

FAILURE
Courtesy the artist.

FAILURE

17 December 2011 - 18 March 2012

Opening celebration – Saturday 17 December 21.00 – 24.00 (9.00 - midnight).

Austin-based artist FAILURE will present his first major institutional exhibition at Dallas Contemporary. FAILURE has been painting grafitti outdoors since 1993 and began with the FAILURE poster imagery in the early 2000’s in Houston. He will present an exhibition of wheat paste posters with spray paint and collage. FAILURE is the founder and Editor of PUREFILTH Magazine, a quarterly fine art photography journal and the Art Director for MadGods clothing.