Museum Exhibition in Durango

JANUARY / FEBRUARY

ART LIBRARY AT THE DURANGO ART CENTER

CECIL TOUCHON - With select works from the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction

 OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 11 at 5–7 p.m.

This is an exhibition at the Durango Art Center in Durango, Colorado. The show will be up for the months of January and February 2013. Also...

SPECIAL WORKSHOP: “The Art of Collage” with Cecil Touchon January 19 & 20, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $125 for DAC members, $150 for non-members. Call Deborah Gorton at (970) 385-5212 or Barbara Klema at (970) 385-7600 for information. 

works on view:

1. Pdp579ct12  – Cecil Touchon -  12x12 – collage on canvas http://ceciltouchon.blogspot.com/
2. Pdp259ct02  – Cecil Touchon -  13x10.75 – collage on canvas
3. Pdp460ct10  – Cecil Touchon -  11.5x11.5 – collage on panel
   
4. Pdp578ct12  – Cecil Touchon -  10x8 – collage on canvas
5. Pdp455ct10  – Cecil Touchon - 11.5x11.5 – collage on panel
6. Pdp593ct12  – Cecil Touchon -  14x11 – collage on canvas
7. Pdp462ct10 – Cecil Touchon -  11.5x11.5 – collage on panel
   
8. pdp454ct10 – Cecil Touchon - 13.5x12 – collage on canvas
9. FS2282ct07 - Cecil Touchon -  13x10 – collage on paper
10. FS1931ct03  – Cecil Touchon -  7X6 – collage on paper
11. FS1919ct03  – Cecil Touchon -  7X6 – collage on paper
    
12. FS1940ct03  – Cecil Touchon -  5X4 – collage on paper
13. FS3202ct12 – Cecil Touchon -  5X4 – collage on paper
14. Pdp594ct12  – Cecil Touchon -  12x12 – collage on canvas
15. Pdp592ct12  – Cecil Touchon -  12x12 – collage on canvas
    
16. Pdp566ct12  – Cecil Touchon -  14x11 – collage on canvas
17. Pdp565ct12  – Cecil Touchon -  14x11 – collage on canvas
18. Pdp564ct12  – Cecil Touchon - 14x11 – collage on canvas
19. FS2288ct07 - Cecil Touchon -  12x9 – collage on paper
    
20. OM.2006.001 - Jane Asari  - 14 x 10 inches - View From Across the River - 2006 - Mixed Media Collage
    
21. FS2352ct07- Cecil Touchon -  12x9 – collage on paper
22. Foo Dogs - Sheri Louise - 20x12x8 - paper mache and acrylic
23. OM.2012.147 - Matt Gonzalez - 10 April, 2011 - collage on paper https://sfcollagecollective.wordpress.com/
24. OM.2012.124 - Gary A. Bibb - 2012 - "Nota Bene - 562" - collage w/ mixed media 4.5" x 3.625" garyabibb-art.blogspot.com
    
25. OM.2012.299 - Jonathan Whitfill    - 10 x 5   inches    - collage on paper http://jonathanwhitfill.com/
26. OM.2011.21 - Anthony Zinonos -  United Kingdom   'Sloth' collage on paper   - 7.5 x 9.5 inches   - collage on paper - http://www.anthonyzinonos.com/
27. OM.2012.069 - Robert.McKeown - USA Space #5: A Little Leg - 2011 - paper collage on color paper -12 X 12 inches - http://collagist.org/profile/RobertMcKeown
28. Burni Stephanus  -  Geneva, Switzerland   - 10 x 8 inches      - collage on paper http://stephanus.com
29. Burni Stephanus  -  Geneva, Switzerland   - 10.5 x 13.5 inches - collage on paper http://stephanus.com
30. OM.2012.108 - Zoran Palurovic - A piece of Biedermeier - 18.5x28.cm - 2011- paper collage - http://collagist.org/profile/ZoranPalurovic
31. OM.2012.141 - Claudia Drake - The Hermit - Medium: Collage Print, Digital Year: 2010 -  Size: 8” x 12”, (14” x 18” framed) - http://urgentalchemy.com/
32. Om.2010.061 - Nerina Cochi Zeechini  - 10.5 x 14.5 inches - collage on paper - http://nerinacocchizecchini.org/
33. OM.2012.157 - Dennis Parlante - 7 Avril 1960 - collage on paper - 10.5 x 8.75 inches  http://dennisparlante.com/
34. OM.2009.011 - Robert Mars - USA - 2005 - Time to Stop - mixed media collage on panel - 24x20 inches http://robertmars.com/
35. OM.2012.083 - John Andrew Dixon - USA - Plate Touchonics - Collage on Canvas -http://www.dixondesign.com/jdixon.html
36. OM.2012.160 - Kareem Rizk - Australia - Suit #2 - 2008 - collage on canvas - 10x8 inches http://kareemrizk.com
37. OM.2011.180- Joel Lambeth - Australia - “The Everlasting Gobstopper” - collage on panel - 12x12 inches http://www.joellambeth.com/
38. Pdp567ct12  – Cecil Touchon -  14x11 – collage on canvas

Assemblings (Part One) – Inaugural Exhibition! From the Archives of the Eternal Network at the Ontological Museum (OM)

A Book About Death Installation

Assemblings (Part One) – Inaugural Exhibition! From the Archives of the Eternal Network at the Ontological Museum (OM) in Pagosa Springs, Colorado

Opens: March 10, 2012 and runs through April 15, 2012

Location: 262 Pagosa Street, Pagosa Springs, Colorado 81147 – tel. 817-944-4000

Opening Reception: Saturday March 10, 2012 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Winter Hours: Tues through Saturday 2:00pm - 5:00pm

On view will be a selection of Assemblings including Franticham’s Assembling Boxes from Ireland; Art/Life Magazine, Tensetendoned - We Absorb assemblings; Fluxkits from Fluxpress Saint Louis, Bamboo Assemblings, KART magazine (an assembling publication from Australia); Fluxlist Fluxbox; Post cards from the assembling: A Book About Death; selections from the Fluxcase Micro Museum. Additional related works from the Permanent Collection will also be on view.

 What are Assemblings?

 Assemblings are collections or compilations of works of art, multiples, objects, writings, visual poetry and/or ephemera submitted by a network of participants to a single hub where a central editor collates one copy from each artists' edition of submitted materials into a number of portfolios. A common practice is for the editor to then send back one folio or assembling of works to each participating member. Assemblings might be in the form of a box of loose materials, a bound book or magazine format, etc. or even be a collection of sound works or short videos. On view for this exhibit are examples of assemblings in box form, magazine format, an unbound book and as collections of objects. In fact the museum itself is an assembling in its own right.

 History of Assemblings

 Assemblings - as shown in this exhibit - have been created since the early 1960’s as artists, writers, and small independent printers worked on developing alternative, underground distribution networks for their experimental art and literature. As the art and literary worlds came to be controlled by powerful and well established business interests that, in essence, were seen as cultural gate keepers, the creative community experimented with direct mailings and other self-initiated ways to reach out to their collaborators and extended audiences; what we would call today niche markets based primarily on networks of people with similar interests. This kind of experimentation led directly to the establishment of the international Mail Art community known as the Eternal Network which celebrates its 50 year anniversary this year as does Fluxus, an amorphous group of artists that has been highly influential in developing the Mail Art scene in the 60’s and 70’s and on through to the present.

 About the OM

 The Ontological Museum, established in 1994 as an experimental art museum, opens it’s new space in Pagosa Springs with this exhibition. The museum houses an internationally focused collection of art that numbers in the tens of thousands of items and growing through direct donations of works from artists. The museum collects inclusively within the parameters of its mission that includes several interrelated fields: collage, assemblage and constructive art in general as well as works from the contemporary Fluxus and Mail Art communities and the art groups: The International Post-Dogmatist Group, The Massurrealist Group, the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists and the Neoist Society. Also in the collection are snapshot photography, visual poetry, small press publications, artist books, and the plethora of documentation, correspondence art and ephemera related to these communities and groups.

The Ontological Museum - now open in Pagosa Springs, Colorado - has been a mobile museum keeping works in storage and using exhibition spaces in various locations including commercial art galleries, university galleries, contemporary art centers and museums around the country. The founding director, Cecil Touchon, has curated fifteen+ museum exhibitions and published more than twenty-five related books and catalogs since starting the exhibition program in 2007.

Visit online at http://ontologicalmuseum.org email: info@ontologicalmuseum.org