Up next: FOTOFEST!

For FOTOFEST 2012, Gallery 1724 is pleased to present:

Kristy Peet (www.kristypeet.com) with "How I Will Die" (above image) and Britt Ragsdale (www.brittragsdale.com) with "Members." Both artists reference the body and performance through photography. This exhibition is curated by Emily Sloan and hosted by Tim Deason.

The exhibition will open Saturday, March 31, from 8-10pm and run through May 31, 2012.

ABOUT GALLERY 1724
Gallery 1724 is a gallery, salon, home, and chicken ranch located in the Houston Museum District at 1724 Bissonnet Street. The space features experimental rotating house exhibits, and a salon.

Hair Washing and Memory Recording this Sunday morning

As last year, this Sunday, September 11, 2011, Emily Sloan will be washing people's hair and recording their memories of "where we were and what we were doing on this day in history..." This event will take place from 10am to noon at 1724 Bissonnet (between Dunlavy and Woodhead), Houston, Texas 77005.

In her practice, Sloan utilizes hair washing for memory, story telling, cleansing, ritual and intimacy. Hair washing has been a vehicle for people to share stories for decades in salons. Additionally last spring, this ritual helped us to raise funds, similarly to a car wash as a fundraiser, for relief efforts in Japan after the tremendous earthquake.

(Photo by Dean Liscum.)

ABOUT EMILY SLOAN
Emily Sloan is an internationally unknown artist, curator of The Kenmore an exhibition mini-fridge, and founding Reverend of the controversial Southern Naptist Convention.

ABOUT GALLERY 1724
Gallery 1724 is a gallery, salon, home, and chicken ranch located in the Houston Museum District. The space features experimental rotating house exhibits.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Event time: Sunday, September 11, 8am to 12pm

CONTACT
Emily Sloan
c/o Gallery 1724
1724 Bissonnet St.
Houston, TX 77005
gallery1724@gmail.com
713-582-1198

BOBBY: A STUDY OF THE FIGURE, curated by Hagit Barkai and Aisen Caro Chacin

BOBBY: A STUDY OF THE FIGURE and panel discussion of related topics
Curated by Hagit Barkai and Aisen Caro Chacin

Opening Thursday, July 14 from 6pm to 9pm
On view through August 12, 2011

Above: Bobby Younce with a painting of Bobby Younce by Kevin Richert.

For over a dozen years, Bobby Younce has been working as a nude model for art classes throughout the city of Houston. His image, through drawings, paintings and sculptures, is approaching a quiet iconic state for many artists all over the city. This abundance of Bobby is the starting point for this project. Apart from being moved by the phenomenon and wanting to give it visibility in the form of an exhibition, we see it as an opportunity for an open conversation about approaches and attitudes to studies of the figure in contemporary art practices.

The exhibition will present a retrospective of Bobby's involvement in educational art practices in Houston. We will fill the gallery space with artworks and studies of Bobby that were executed over the past decade in different art centers in Houston. Since we seek showing the abundance of these works, there will be no discriminative selection process. Due to the abundance of work and lack of space, some of the pieces will be displayed on the walls and others will be presented on tables allowing viewers to flip through them. There is also the possibility of having a panel discussion with local art professionals that deal with related concepts; from artistic examinations to the history of art, social issues of the working model, and to contemporary accounts of technique, figuration, the visibility of the body, and performance.

To participate:
Bring Bobby works to Art League Houston in the Live Figure Labs: Thursday, Saturday or Sunday 1-4, or contact Bobby Younce or Hagit Barkai on FB. A contract will be provided. You may donate or sell your work. 30% of sale goes to Gallery 1724, 20% to Bobby Younce. Art not picked up will become property of Bobby.

Questions and contacts for info:
Hagit: 717-503-2640
Aisen: 713-444-5139
Bobby: 713-213-4797

Location:
Gallery 1724
1724 Bissonnet St. (between Woodhead and Dunlavy)
Houston, Texas 77005

Closing Party: For the Man...The 9 to 5 Show

Next Saturday, June 25 from 1-5pm come to Gallery 1724 to watch the movie "9 to 5", hang out with the working artists one last time, and drink booze!

"For the Man...The 9 to 5 Show" is curated by Stephanie Saint Sanchez and includes the work of Cameron Blaylock, Meredith Cunningham, Matthew Glover, Brent Himes, David Lamb III, Rebecca Novak, Lizbeth Ortiz, Tifani Pust, Soyla Santos, Emily Sloan, Tish Stringer, and Julia Wallace.

Location:
Gallery 1724
1724 Bissonnet St. (between Dunlavy and Woodhead)
Houston, TX 77005
gallery1724@gmail.com

For the Man...The 9 to 5 Show, curated by Stephanie Saint Sanchez, opening Saturday, May 14, 8-10pm

For The Man... The 9 to 5 Show
Curated by Stephanie Saint Sanchez

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Tish Stringer
Matthew Glover
Emily Sloan
Rebecca Novak
Soyla Santos
Brent Himes
Julia Wallace
Tifani Pust
David Lamb III
Cameron Blaylock
Meredith Cunningham
Lizbeth Ortiz

Gallery 1724 is the spot for the exciting show spotlighting artwork created while at work.* Visual, photo, sculpture. Video. Art daredevils in the form of clockwatchers, peons, surfs, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, johnny paychecks who have the audacity to keep creating even after they have clocked in!

Awesome Opening to include 9 to 5 themed surprises!

Installation dates MAY 12&13

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, May 14, 8-10pm
Show Date MAY 14-JUNE 25

Questions? Call Stephanie at 281-701-3452


Gallery 1724, Contemporary Art Salon
1724 Bissonnet St. (between Dunlavy and Woodhead)
Houston, TX 77005

CALL FOR ART!!! For the Man: The 9 to 5 Show

For The Man... The 9 to 5 Show
Curated by Stephanie Saint Sanchez

Gallery 1724 is seeking clockwatcher, peon, surf, butcher, baker,
candlestick maker, johnny paycheck artist types who have the audacity
to keep creating even after they have clocked in! This is a show
exclusively for artwork created while at work.* Visual, photo,
sculpture. Video. *you must be able to document that you were at work
at the time of creation*

Please send
project proposals by APRIL 22 to Chicanalaundry@yahoo.com
Selection notification APRIL 26
Installation dates MAY 12&13
Show Date MAY 14-JUNE 25

Questions? Call Stephanie at 281-701-3452

Please feel free to share this with anyone you think may be interested!

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Gallery 1724, Contemporary Art Salon
1724 Bissonnet St. (between Dunlavy and Woodhead)
Houston, TX 77005

Announcing our Curatorial Residency!

Stephanie Saint Sanchez of La Chicana Laundry Pictures has been awarded a curatorial residency at Gallery 1724. For the residency she is working on: For the Man: The 9 to 5 Show.

Sanchez directing "The Freshleez..." in early 2011.

About Stephanie Saint Sanchez:
Raised in Beaumont corrupted in Houston…Stephanie Saint Sanchez is an awesome multi-media artist, movie maker, instigator and it says so right on her business card so it must be true. As founder of La Chicana Laundry Pictures she has made over 25 award winning, genre-bending shorts. She also started the Senorita Cinema film festival the only all Latina Film Festival in Texas.

She is a recipient a (SWAMP) Southwest Alternate Media Project Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship and Lawndale Artist Studio Program. A super fan of movies with an ensemble cast and ties to friends and artists from all disciplines she looks forward to pushing the limits of their collective talents. For more information, please visit: www.lachicanalaundrypictures.com