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27-6
Reception: Saturday, February 27, 6-9pm
Open Gallery: Sunday, February 28, 12-5pm
Candelabra Gallery, 412 E. 7th St., Tucson, ArizonaYou’ve seen 27 online, now it’s time to see the show!
27 is how different artists approach the same theme.
27 is to be excited and inspired by photography.http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxed27/
***Come to the Saturday reception for to take part in a surprise interactive photographic experiment!***
Music + refreshmentsWork from MAXED ART members not limited to:
Rachelle Diaz, Alex G!, Christian Ramirez, Steven Soloway, Alex Von Bergen (Tucson, AZ)
Molly McClintock, Alex Nelson, Sylvia Sewell (Brooklyn, NY)
Jaxun Doten (Portland, OR)
and others… or perhaps not all of these people.27 is an international group art project occurring on the 27th of every month. The project began in September 2009 as a collaborative photography experiment among mixed/multi-media artists and friends originally based in Tucson who, over the course of a few short months, found themselves living in different cities and missing the connection once accessible when it was easy to meet in person to share and talk about art.
Each month, we pick a different theme simple enough to shoot on a busy weekday, but one that also requires conceptual thinking and attention to detail. Past themes have included Place, Colors, Reflection, Transport, and Portraits. However, we’ve self-imposed a few technical limitations in order to make us stretch our imagination further within the given subject, leaving room for nuance and surprises. Images can only be taken within 24 hours on the 27th of the month, and only “lo-fi” cameras including disposable cameras, vintage cameras, toy cameras, cell phones, webcams and even scanners may be used.
But 27 is more than just a picture-taking/picture-looking/documentary project. We then share the resulting images online for commentary ranging from introspective aesthetic feedback to humorous quips. 27 has not only provided an outlet for communication within our collective, it has also made us grow as artists through examination of our personal thought processes and technical inventiveness.
[Image by Jenny DuPont: "trophy" from Reddy Set Go]
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±92: Downtown Master Plans, 1932-2009
Pop Up Spaces‘ newest project, ±92, is a hybrid of art show, history lesson, architectural exhibit, planning study, performance and interactive experience. It will be unlike anything you or I have ever seen.
±92: Downtown Master Plans, 1932-2009
Soft Opening: Friday, October 2, 4-7pm
Grand Opening: Saturday, October 3, 6-10pm
Exhibit Hours: October 10, 17 and 24, 6-10pm
McLellan Building, 63 E. Congress (NW corner of Scott Ave. and Congress)Tucson artists Bill Mackey, Julie Ray, Rachelle Díaz and Kimi Eisele, representing several collectives and entities including Worker, Inc., Pop-Up Spaces and Design Co*op, present ±92: Downtown Master Plans, 1932-2009, a compilation of over 100 Downtown Tucson master plans, comprehensive plans, studies and projects. The exhibition will include realized and unrealized plans authored from the early 20th century to 2009. An interactive timeline will help viewers track world events, economic and social trends, and Tucson’s history in relationship to the plans’ origins, realization, or death. This is a rare opportunity to see ALL of the planning for downtown Tucson in one space at one time.
Also included in the exhibition will be 92 images (by photographers including Josh Schachter) of spaces and places that make our downtown unique—some of these are a direct result of planning, some of which are not. A crew of official performing “apparatchiks” (i.e. officials in a large organization, usually a political one), will be on site to collect public input for current and future downtown master planning, for which there are no funds, of course. A small booklet entitled “A Guide to the Master Plans of Downtown Tucson” will be available for purchase.
Worker, Inc., Pop-Up Spaces and Design Co*op received pertinent plans, information, space, and materials for this exhibit from Pima County Planning Department Archives, City of Tucson Department of Transportation, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Poster Frost Architects, BWS Architects, Rob Paulus Architects, Wheat Scharf Landscape Architects, PARKWISE, Earl Wettstein, Alex Kimmelman, Donovan Durband, Sy Schorr, J.T. Fey, John Wesley Miller Companies, MOCA Tucson, Wilko, and others.
Created in 1995, Worker Inc. is a company that specializes in promoting change in the built environment. In 2007, Worker Inc. saw the need for science based research of the more mundane processes of popular culture and formed the Neighborhood Residents Resources Ethnography Studies Unit.
POP UP SPACES seeks to produce temporary, interactive, site-specific installations in empty spaces in which the visitors are not just expected to be passive viewers, but asked to be active participants. The goal of these art-based experiences is to enhance economic vitality and public engagement in downtown Tucson through promotion of the area’s culture, history, architecture and business community.
Design Co*op is a collective of Tucson-based architects, designers, and artists working across disciplines to raise public awareness of the value of affordable and appropriate urban design.
For more information, contact Bill Mackey, workerarchitect@yahoo.com; Julie Ray, juliegraphics@gmail.com; Rachelle Díaz, info@popupspaces.org; Kimi Eisele, kimi@kimieisele.com. Visit popupspaces.org to view past projects.
Press for ±92
- Zocalo magazine: “Actualized & Discarded Designs for Tucson” — August 5, 2009
- Tucson Weekly: “Designs for Downtown” — October 1, 2009
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pro•ject
POP UP SPACES presents
proj•ect
\ˈprä-ˌjekt, -jikt also ˈprō-\
noun: something that is contemplated, devised, or planned\prə-ˈjekt\
verb: to cause light or shadow to fall into space or an image to fall on a surfaceThursday, August 20, 2009
5-7pm inside Arts Incubator, 108 E. Congress
7pm-? outside the former McLellan’s Department Store, 63 E. Congress (corner of Scott Ave. and Congress)proj•ect is a live interactive art event in which participants from the general public of all ages are invited to draw their ideas for buildings in downtown Tucson, Arizona on an overhead projector. For one night only, Pop Up Spaces will host two stations of overhead projectors lighting up interior and exterior spaces where viewers may draw architectural details for facades, walls decorations, furniture and fixtures for shops, restaurants, offices, living spaces, working spaces, cultural spaces, play spaces — anything and everything imaginable. Hosted by Tu Scene art blog founder/editor and Pop Up Spaces co-founder Rachelle Díaz, proj•ect will also explore the issues of transience so often seen downtown in terms of space occupation and turnover by erasing the drawings when the participant(s) have completed them and starting fresh when a new concept from a different person.proj•ect will be a stop on the Tucson Tweet Crawl (RT) and part of the 4th Avenue Underpass Grand Re-Opening and Happy Birthday, Tucson! festivities. Special thanks to Kimi Eisele, Rhythm Industry Performace Factory and Dinnerware Artspace. For more information, contact Rachelle Díaz at info@popupspaces.org.
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Tucsonphotomanip
Did this really quick today for zee blog. Been in Tucson for 1 year now. And what a year! Lately I’ve been slowly and quietly working on new paintings, clothing pieces for fall, writings and Pop Up Spaces projects, all currently in the “drudgery” phase of the creative cycle, between the fun parts of inception and accomplishment.
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Can’t Stand Up, Don’t Fall Down
I’ll have some paintings in this warehouse art/music show… one night only!
$5 gets you art, drinks, food, music
Starts at 9pm
901 N. 13th Ave. Tucson
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art diva studios is the home of art, design and commentary by Rachelle Díaz, whose un-pidgeonhole-able aesthetic and amorphous disposition is often mistaken for something else. Instead of dividing her online presence into "art," "design," and "commentary", she classified all three forms into the Common Threads below. For more about her affiliations in Tucson, Arizona and Austin, Texas, visit the Cred page. This website is best viewed in Firefox.Recent Shenanigans
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- Staring At Screens painting #2, and some thoughts on technique/theory vs tips/tricks
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- ±92: Downtown Master Plans, 1932-2009
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