Diego Pérez, Artist talk at Flatbed Press on March 25, 2009, photo by Leslie Moody Castro
MAAE: Diego Perez Garcia, March 1 – 31, 2009
Diego Pérez worked in collaboration with Katherine Brimberry, Co-Founder, Co-director and Senior Master Printer of Flatbed Press, the Blanton Museum of Art, and CRL on a project that will engage a local elementary school and provide a transformative experience based on artistic creation. During his time in Austin, Pérez gave two artist talks, participated in a panel discussion, and gave a gallery talk at the Blanton Museum of Art. Additionally he visited ArtPace in San Antonio, and the Menil Collection in Houston.
Diego Pérez (Mexico City, 1975) lives and works in Mexico City. Pérez's photographs and painted books are idiosynchratic in character, both offer two mediums from which the artist is able to explore shared experiences and everyday life. His work investigates both formal and social aspects that connect individuals in urban contexts. For Pérez the artist's role in society is that of a vehicle for transformation that departs from ordinary objects of everyday life to ideological bridges of communication between individuals in any given society. Pírez has participated in the following solo exhibitions: “Mitología Chilanga”, Galería Arte Méxicano, México, D.F., August 2006. P?rez was also awarded the grant, Jóvenes Creadores, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (National Fund for the Arts and Culture in Mexico). At the present he is the recipient of the grant Programa de Arte Actual from the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and the Bancomer Foundation.
Artist Erica Bohm with professor Andrea Giunta at the closing reception for A Strange Land, February 7, 2009, photo by Douglas Marshall
AA Residency: Erica Bohm, January 19 – February 9, 2009
Erica Bohm participated in the ongoing exhibition A Strange Land, an evolving, project-based exhibition that transformed the gallery space at CRL into an artist studio, exhibition space, and communal meeting place where the work evolved over the course of two weeks. The exhibition was curated by Jade Walker and it featured the following artists: Erica Bohm, Beili Liu, Lynn Richardson, Cauleen Smith, Chris Taylor, and Carlos Rosales-Silva. Bohm participated in a panel discussion that addressed how artist residency programs offer the opportunity to create and be influenced by new communities. Additionally, Erica made two research trips to Houston, the first to view the Menil collection, and local galleries, and a second day trip to join a private tour of the NASA facilities. The photographic material collected through her stay in Austin is currently evolving into an exhibition,
Erica Bohm (Buenos Aires, 1976) lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bohm's photographs are centered around her obsession with surrealism and the visual reapropriation of things familiar in the physical landscape. Bohm's process begins by photographing architecturally interesting buildings, then photoshopping them to completely transform them into edifices that are almost unrecognizable outside of their day to day contexts. Bohm has participated in the following exhibitions: “Grandes Fracasos”, C.C. Rojas, Buenos Aires, 2008, “Living Multiestelar” Centro Cultural Parque Espana, Rosario, 2008. She has also been awarded the National Grant for Young Creators, Fonda Nacional de las Artes in 2008.
