PAST EXHIBITIONS 2019-2020
EXPO 2019
Featured Artists: Wyatt Adams, Raphael Benero, Ari Brielle, Justin Burns, Sarah DePetris, Thomas Flynn II, Lori Giesler, Jihye Han, Nathan Harper, Annie May Johnson, Rebecca Kim, Sam Marie, Emily Holman Morris, Mateus Moura, Joelle Nagy, and Chris Wicker
2019 Juror: Adrian Zuñiga, Director of Exhibitions at Galleri Urbane
Adrian Zuñiga is a writer on contemporary art whose research interests are driven by socially-engaged topics, from the nature of labor and workers on the Internet to artistic interventions within disenfranchised communities. After receiving a BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2012 he began working for Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas, where he has helped plan numerous solo and group exhibitions and art fair presentations. In 2016, he moved to London for a year to study at Sotheby's Institute of Art, receiving an MA in Contemporary Art. He is currently based in Dallas where he is the Director of Exhibitions at Galleri Urbane.
L. Hernandez Walls
Carousels Burn
September 14 – October 6, 2019
Downstairs Main Gallery
Carousels Burn is an exhibition of large graphite drawings on paper by artist L. Hernandez Walls. Inspired by a bell-jar summer spent in bed watching Rodger’s & Hammerstein’s Carousel with her six-year-old daughter, Hernandez-Walls created a group of drawings conflating personal experience and feelings about our current state of affairs with the tired, timeless, and timed-out account of Louise, Julie, and Billy Bigelow.
Blake Weld, Chris Evans, Sean Lopez, and Zak Loyd
Mare’s Nest
September 14 - October 16, 2019
Upstairs Main Gallery
Mare’s Nest is a four person exhibition by artists Blake Weld, Chris Evans, Sean Lopez, and Zak Loyd that meditates on the payoff of repeat experiences and the humor of resolution. Humans spend their life chasing the experience of the first time, and the works exhibited are linked by the absurdity of recreating the original [experience]. The artists took a wide approach to this idea, exploring organized sports, consumerism, thrill rides, and the primordial ooze with a mixture of sculpture, video, photography, and stereography.
Molly Valentine Dierks, Yuni Lee, Tabatha Trolli, and Gracelee Lawrence
POP UP!! SHOP: Art + Design
September 14 - October 16, 2019
Downstairs Project Space
Featuring the work of female artist + designers the 500x Fall POP-UP SHOP!! is a gathering of small items for sale, from drawing and prints to jewelry to handheld collectibles. Collectively, these artists’ work has appeared in Designboom, the New Yorker, Glasstire, Artforum, the Dallas News, and more. Works are priced from $10 and there is something fun, pink, geometric, or blobby - and definitely unique - for everyone. Come on down and get an original collectible for your desk, body, or home from Dallas artists Molly Valentine Dierks, Yuni Lee, and Tabatha Trolli, and NYC-based artist Gracelee Lawrence. To learn more about the artists, please visit their websites:
www.mollyvdierks.com
www.tabathatrolli.com
www.graceleelawrence.com
http://www.yunjunglee.com
Cardoza
R ! P : R!p !n Publ!c
September 14 - October 16, 2019
Upstairs Project Space
Glass has existed for more than 4,000 years but in the past 60 years due to the innovation, research and experimentation of artists, such as Harvey K. Littleton, the Studio Glass movement was able to stray away from its utilitarian confine. R!P is an installation that invites others to consider the appropriate time to act and React. There’s a fine line between !nteraction and destruction but R!P has blurred it. Past comprehension in order to highlight the struggle in our own personal boundaries. Will the reaction/interaction create destruction or will it create a new form of itself?
Charles Gray (winner of College EXPO Juried Exhibition)
Gray Family
September 14 - October 16, 2019
Downstairs Member Space
“While on a website researching our family history, my mother may have found where parts of my family may have been traded for two chickens. In this body of work, I will be painting my family history. I am painting both how we were viewed and who we truly are. To them, my family name was worth the trade of two chickens. To us, we are royalty.”
2019-2020 Members Show
Main Galleries
August 17 - September 8, 2019
500X Gallery is kicked off its 41st year with the 2019-2020 Members Show on view August 17 through September 8, 2019.
The exhibition featured works by senior members Scott Bell, L. Hernandez Walls (FKA Joanne Cervantes), Molly Dierks, Ross Faircloth, Grace Sydney Pham, Justin Strickland, Michelle Thomas Richardson, Blake Weld, Ashley Whitt, and Becky Wilkes, as well as works by new members Kerry Butcher, Emmar Grant, Caroline Hatfield, Bella Jones, Kayla Seedig, Kasey Short, and Narong Tintamusik.