"Electioneering" exhibition now at newest TCU gallery

Fort Worth, TX

10/26/2008

"Electioneering," a thought-provoking exploration of how artists operate as politicized agents is the newest exhibition at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2900 W. Berry Street. The show will be up from now until Dec. 7 at TCU’s newest gallery.

Coinciding with the U.S. Presidential election, the show is an intersection of methods of persuasion common in society with the more formal approaches of rhetoric, debate and argument. Disclosure, concealment and discourse of the election is played out in an environment of blanket media coverage.

The work is by Santiago Cucullu, Yoshua Okón, R.H. Quaytman, Gary Rough, Mike Smith (with Doug Skinner and Mark Fischer), Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries and Carey Young.

Related events:
•    Lecture by Michael Corris, author of a new monograph Ad Reinhardt, 7 p.m.
Oct. 27, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2900 W. Berry Street.

•    “What Has Happened to Popular Democracy?” by TCU political science professor Dr. Donald Jackson, 12:30 p.m. Nov. 11, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2900 W. Berry Street.

•    Artist talk by Gary Rough, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 13, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2900 W. Berry Street.

•    “Artistic Protest vs. Protest Art” by TCU philosophy professor Dr. Blake Hestir, 12:30 p.m. Dec. 2, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2900 W. Berry Street.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Gavin Morrison, TCU gallery curator, at 817-257-7638 or by e-mail at g.morrison@tcu.edu.