Since 2015, SITE131’s mission has been to highlight the concept of pairing–presenting new art from America and abroad side by side with new works by Texas artists. By coupling bright, mostly young talents who deal with similar issues, the art audience sees novel connections and finds a unique context for understanding contemporary art in new ways. Over seven years the gallery has showcased 21 exhibitions towards that mission at its architecturally stunning nonprofit contemporary art space in the Dallas Design District.
Now, SITE131 announces its GRAND FINALE set for Saturday, June 18, 2022, from 1 to 3 p.m. at 131 Payne Street. Cofounders Seth Davidow and Joan Davidow eagerly look forward to thanking the North Texas community of arts patrons for the attention and support shown to SITE131 since it debuted in 2015. All guests are invited to help acknowledge the art space’s seven-year history by coming dressed in their bright white outfits to recognize the crisp life of SITE131 that always began on an artist’s blank surface.
There’s much to celebrate in the expansive time SITE131 initiated gallery presentations on Payne Street of artists from Texas, the US, and abroad. In its seven years, SITE131 has gathered a rich and rewarding showing of worldwide artists at its handsome North Texas address including 500 artworks, 114 artists from Texas, and abroad; 55 female artists, 58 male artists, and 25% diversity including 9 African Americans, 8 Asian artists; 10 Latino artists; 42 artists from Texas, 38 artists from across the country, and 33 artists from abroad. The Davidows, together with Stephanie DeLay and originally, artist Randy Guthmiller, determined early exhibition decisions.
Currently, in Exploring Constructs, comely abstractions by mature New York artist Harriet Korman from New York City meet self-taught Houston sculptor Ronald Llewellyn Jones’ hand-tied string sculptures that appear in the gallery space and in its backyard garden. SITE131 thanks the artists, New York’s Thomas Erben gallery and Houston’s Hooks-Epstein Galleries, for sharing their artistic inventions.
PATRON sincerely thanks SITE131, its staff, and exhibiting artists for their contributions to the expansion of art and culture in North Texas. The gallery led artist talks, community chats, fashion shows, dance classes, educational programming, workshops, and concerts outside of their exhibitions.
“We will miss Joan and Seth’s ingenuity and SITE131’s emphasis on an all-inclusive programming which introduced new voices on a global scale while remaining true to artists of Texas,” said Terri Provencal Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Patron Magazine.