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AUGUST
Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
at UTEP
"Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions" exhibit continues on display through August 2,2008.
Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions focuses on performative knitting practice in the creation of avant-garde art. This invitational exhibition highlights artists who are advancing and questioning established textile traditions. The artists address stereotypes of gender and the ideas and materials appropriate for art making. Their work upends tradition through challenges to the domestic-based, utilitarian objects that are typical of the knitted crafts.
Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
at UTEP
" In the Weave: Bhutanese Textiles and National Identity" exhibit continues on display through August 2,2008.
In the Weave presents textile art from the Kingdom of Bhutan as a primary contributor to the intense national identity of this central Asian country. Sandwiched between two powerful neighbors, China and India, Switzerland-sized Bhutan is committed to cultural tradition and environmental conservation as two of the four pillars of its vision for Gross National Happiness. Treasured fabrics are hand woven on traditional looms and incorporated into garments that conform to the national code of dress mandated by the King. The historical textiles in this exhibition are lent by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, which was founded in 1799 and currently houses more than 2.4 million works of art and culture. Recent works will also be featured. This exhibition takes on special significance because in 2008 the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival, the largest annual cultural event in the U.S. capital, has chosen to honor both the country of Bhutan and the State of Texas. Bhutanese architecture is the inspiration behind UTEP’s distinctive campus environment.
Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Information: 747-6164
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Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
at UTEP
"Monica Bengoa The Third Lie: Chromatic Deflections" exhibit continues on display through August 2,2008.
The Third Lie: Chromatic Deflections is a site-specific, wall-sized installation that combines text, drawing and detailed, handcrafted embroideries by Chilean artist Mónica Bengoa. The artist explores the transference of photographic images using craft-based techniques. Industrially produced embroidery thread restricts the palette in The Third Lie, connecting the hand made and the industrial. Bengoa’s meticulous and theoretically complex installations have been exhibited internationally, including at the 52nd Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, CA, the 2006 ARCO International Fair of Contemporary Art in Madrid, Spain and in 2007 at Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy. She currently resides in Santiago, Chile where she teaches at the Art School of the Catholic University.
Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Information: 747-6164
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"Western Impressions Art Show"
Exhibit runs August 1- 22, 2008. This show is El Paso Art Association's only Western themed show. This year, it will be a juried show and will be open to all artists from the states of Texas, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, Mexico. For more information go to elpasoartassociation.com. or call 915-534-7377.
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