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Silence & Abundance Opening
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- Silence and Abundance Exhibit opens at inde/jacobs gallery from 5 - 7pm. The work of Iranian born Hadi Tabatabai and Dutch citizen Nelleke Beltjens includes sculpture, drawings and paintings. The exhibit will invite the viewer to examine each piece closely. This is true "slow" art. inde/jacobs is located at 200 East San Antonio Street in Marfa.
Spindrift @ Padre's
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- FRIDAY APRIL 23rd- SPINDRIFT from Los Angeles, CA- psychedelic western band whose songs have been featured in Quentin Tarantino films and also in their own full-length feature film, The Legend of God's Gun (a rock and roll spaghetti western), released in 2008. If you like the Brain Jonestwon Massacre or the Dandy Warhols you will dig this band- you must check out their website! www.spindriftwest.com
Do not miss this show! A special treat for Marfa! 8:30 showtime, $5 cover
Silence & Abundance Opening
- Description:
- Silence and Abundance Exhibit opens at inde/jacobs gallery from 5 - 7pm. The work of Iranian born Hadi Tabatabai and Dutch citizen Nelleke Beltjens includes sculpture, drawings and paintings. The exhibit will invite the viewer to examine each piece closely. This is true "slow" art. inde/jacobs is located at 200 East San Antonio Street in Marfa.
Artists' Reception @ Greasewood Gallery
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- The Greasewood Gallery at the Hotel Paisano hosts an Artists' Reception from 6 - 8pm for an exhibit featuring the work of two artists - Willis LeJeune Wood Sculpture and Barbara Gholson Oil Paintings of the Big Bend. 207 N Highland Ave, Marfa.
Artist Reception & Opening
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- Opening & Artist Reception Friday for
Invisible Thread
Works by Danielle Rubi
April 23rd - July 16th, 2010
Opening: Friday, April 23rd, 6-9pm at Thunderbird Loungs, 601 W San Antonio/West Hwy 90
In Invisible Thread, Rubi confronts the variety of her cast of subjects head on through the imposition of technical and compositional parameters. The criteria are simple: all images in the group were shot on her favorite camera, a 1949, square format Rolleiflex and are all printed the same size; also, every image contains a strong horizontal line across the frame. Displayed, the images are justified according to their individual horizon line, rather than the top, bottom, or center of the frame. The effect of these parameters simplifies and connects a seemingly disparate group of images, in effort to show their common provenance: Rubi's eye. Another notion that emerged from this specific undertaking is the significance of horizons in the way we process, regard, and experience the world: It is how we arrange our written language; it is how we show chronologies; it is what happens when two arms reach for each other. A horizontal line is the simplest respresentation of a stable platform, our one true defense against the downward pull of gravity: the only thing that can truly hold us up. The frames of the photographs are custom made by designer/craftsman, Adrian Dentzel, from wood salvaged from the house in California in which Rubi grew up. Both the wood and the images are fragments of Rubi's personal world. Together, they are a physical and visual connection to her.
Texas Glider Rally
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- The 2010 Texas Glider Rally will celebrate the50th anniversary of glider flying in the Marfa area and honor the memory of Billy Shurley, local rancher, towplane pilot and long-time supporter of soaring activities at Marfa.
The long white wings of sleek gliders will flash against the blue spring sky as twenty of the soaring craft from across the USA gather at Marfa Airport. The annual Rally will be April 17 to 24 as the pilots explore the thermal updrafts and mountain wave lift that make Marfa, Texas, famous around the aviation world.
Strong rising air currents known as "thermals" begin in the spring when the warm air (and the turkey vultures) return to west Texas. "Wave" lift also occurs as the air flows up and over the mountains surrounding the Marfa Plateau. Good thermal conditions exist above Marfa year-round, but the strongest updrafts occur from April to October.
Several World, US and Texas State soaring records have been set at Marfa over the years. The pilots will attempt "personal best" and soaring badge flights, which qualify them for entry into the National Contests.
In 1969 Marfa hosted the largest National Soaring Contest ever held in the USA with 86 sailplanes racing around the Big Bend. The movie "The Sun Ship Game" was filmed by cinema verite director Robert Drew during that contest, and will be featured at the Marfa Film Festival this May.
Burt Compton, Master Instructor at Marfa Gliders will offer some rides and flight instruction during the rally. The public is welcome to visit the Marfa Airport on highway 17 to watch the soaring activities. Contact Marfa Gliders to coordinate rides and lessons in the two-seat gliders at (800) 667-9464 or visit the website: FLYGLIDERS.com
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