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All images courtesy of artist. Georg Herold © 2013.

GEORG HEROLD

EXHIBITION DATES
21 SEPTEMBER - 22 DECEMBER 2013

Georg Herold is a contemporary German artist living and working in Cologne. Herold’s figurative sculptures play with meaning and expression as evident in the use of clever titles, aggressive paint colors and acrobatic poses. As a contemporary of Sigmar Polke and Franz Erhard Walther in the late seventies, Herold’s work exists between extremes, at once vivacious and suffering, flawless and imperfect.

Herold has exhibited both nationally and internationally since 1978. His work is in the permanent collections of institutions in Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Spain and the United States. Major art journals have featured his work, including Frieze, Art Monthly, Kultureflash, Artforum and Art in America.

All images courtesy of artist. Kevin Todora © 2013.

KEVIN TODORA

EXHIBITION DATES
21 SEPTEMBER - 22 DECEMBER 2013

Dallas-based artist Kevin Todora explores the photographic object. Todora’s artistic practice was informed by the exhibition Unmonumental, an exhibition about fragmented forms, torn pictures and clashing sounds, which occurred at the New Museum in 2008. Witnessing how photography could be the basis for sculpture, Todora’s work evolved into a fascination of the deconstruction of the photograph. Todora cuts and paints directly onto his photographs in an attempt to “free” the photograph from its original responsibility.

Born in 1977, Todora received his Bachelor of Arts in photography from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2005 and his Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University in 2009. In 2011, he received the Dallas Museum of Art’s Otis and Velma Dozier Travel Grant to attend the Venice Biennale to explore innovative international arts exhibitions.

All images courtesy of the artists. Lucia Simek and Kristen Cochran © 2013.

LUCIA SIMEK + KRISTEN COCHRAN

EXHIBITION DATES
21 SEPTEMBER - 22 DECEMBER 2013

This two-person exhibition at Dallas Contemporary will explore architectural settings of the museum and examine the themes of impediment and stacking through sculptural installations and drawings. The process of stacking and folding summons the overriding interests of Cochran's and Simek’s art -- control, order, and insufficiency -- thus bridging their practices with the traditions of feminist art-making. Magical realism and oneiric repetition are also currents running through their works, including a series of plaster molds, tiny meditative or padded, cumbersome sculptural pieces, and drawings. Cochran’s process speaks to the traditions of live art and performance in that it is process oriented, abstract and conceptually driven, while Simek's works cull from minimalist and conceptual aesthetics, existing in the mode of indexical marks that focus viewer’s attention on the ephemeral and unseen. Both artists are leaning towards non-retinal pleasures. By building their own lexicon of meanings and sharpening it in a dialogue, Kristen Cochran and Lucia Simek convey a kind of sculptural calligraphy which they obtain from encoding the conceptual meanings of sculpture-making.

LUCIA SIMEK is also known as a curator, critic and a leading voice on the state of visual art in Texas. She has contributed to publications from Glasstire to D Magazine. Lucia is currently pursuing her MFA in sculpture at Texas Christian University. She was selected as a winner of the inaugural Dallas Art Fair Graduate student art prize, and has exhibited in a number of art spaces in the area, including Fort Worth Contemporary Arts and 500X.

KRISTEN COCHRAN moved to Texas from the Pacific Northwest to complete her MFA at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. She has exhibited in local galleries such as CentralTrak, Talley Dunn Gallery, Oliver Francis Gallery, Barry Whistler Gallery, Eastfield College, RE gallery + studio, WAAS Gallery, and the Texas Biennial. Kristen presently teaches drawing and sculpture at the University of Texas at Dallas and has taught at Southern Methodist University, The Nasher Sculpture Center and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.