EXPO 2009
January 10th - February 1st, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday January 10, 6-10PM
Featuring DJ Jeff Ross
500X Gallery, Texas's oldest artist-run space, presents EXPO 2009, one of North Texas's most anticipated annual juried competitions. The exhibition, juried by Gavin Morrison, is a survey of contemporary art including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video by Texas artists.
EXPO 2009 features works by:
Summer Baldwin, Lane Banks, Kelly Berry, Christopher Bond, Adam Burkett, Glenn Comtois, Emilie Pena Douglas, Oscar Duran,
Elizabeth Elsberg, Ben Espey, Cuyler Etheredge, Carlos Fernandez, Rachel Fischer, Sara J. Frantz, Bryan Gooding, Alyn Gray, Christopher Griggers, Shelley Hampe, Timothy Harding, Ben Hutchison, Elizabeth Jacome, Laura Jennings, Jennifer Jones, Natalia V. Jones, Norman Kary, Joel Kiser, Timothy Klein, Amanda Kutsch, Bryce Lafferty, Rosie Elizabeth Lindsey, Shelby Meier, Mary Morgan, Laura Neaderhouser, Katie Nixon, Rachel Obranovich, Natalie Prikhodko, Josh Reames, Angela Celeste Rice, John A. Roof, Joel Sampson, Ed Sherrell, Lucia Simek, Joshua Smith, Alison Starr, Erica Stephens, Y.E. Torres, Michael Tracy, Julia Trinh, Sarah Tune, Andrew Douglas Underwood, Kasey Waas, Esther Walker, Attchareepon Watson, Murielle White, Brad Wooley, Trey Wright, Donnie Young
About the Juror
Gavin Morrison is curator of the Fort Worth Contemporary Art Gallery, an auxiliary gallery of Texas Christian University. He is also a director of Atopia Projects, www.atopiaprojects.org, a curatorial and publishing initiative whose projects include the exhibition Lifting, and the publications Shotgun Wedding (2007) and HOUSTON MIES JOHNSTON (2007). Morrison has worked for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and is also a freelance writer. He recently edited the book The Melancholy Thistle and other Works,(2007) and co–authored the book The Slender Margin (2008) with Kiyoshi Okutsu and Andrew Sneddon.