| DANIEL BOZHKOV Recent Works & Underground Waterworks: Rainmaker's Workshop Mar 14, 2007 through May 3, 2007 Reception date: Mar 14, 2007 Reception Time: 5-7pm Gallery Talk by the Artist at 6PM during the opening reception. The Daniel Bozhkov lecture will be held on March 13 at 7pm in room 223, Art Building. T he University of North Texas Art Gallery presents: Rainmaker's Workshop & Daniel Bozhkov: Recent Works Rainmaker’s Workshop & Daniel Bozhkov: The exhibition & special projects were organized by Diana Block, Director/Curator, The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton and Regine Basha, Consulting Curator, Arthouse, Austin. An unconventional garden installation, including dump truck and water storage tank, will herald the exhibition of works by Bulgarian-born, New York-based artist Daniel Bozhkov at the UNT Art Gallery. This newly commissioned work titled Rainmaker’s Workshop, based on a year's research in Texas, accompanies the first major survey exhibition for Bozhkov. The exhibition opened at Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin and traveled to the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art - both galleries featured work created especially for their spaces. The Denton exhibition coincides with the WaterWays 2007 Conference organized by Irene J. Klaver, Ph.D., Director Philosophy of Water Project, Department of Philosophy, University of North Texas. The exhibition Daniel Bozhkov: Recent Works brings together 7 works from the previous 10 years, including the spectacular, multi-dimensional works How To Fly Over a Very Large Larry, Training in Assertive Hospitality, and the recent Eau d'Ernest - a piece that won tremendous recognition at the 9th Istanbul Bienniale. For the past several years Daniel Bozhkov has been involved in realizing projects taking various forms from ambitious interventions, media events, to discrete objects, paintings, and photographs. Given Bozhkov's fine art training in Bulgaria, his conceptually-driven work is often anchored by a traditional craft or skill, converging old world and new world practices in order to pursue new meaning, surprising connections and provoke philosophical inquiry. Part I of a 2-booklet catalog, surveying Bozhkov's previous works and including essays by Regine Basha and Vasif Kortun, Director, Platform, Istanbul.will be available for purchase at the lecture and gallery reception. Part 2, focusing on Bozhkov’s special projects realized for this exhibition in Austin and Denton, will be available in fall of 2007. Daniel Bozhkov studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria where he was trained in the traditional painting techniques of fresco, egg tempera and oil painting and completed graduate studies in Fine Arts at Hunter College in New York City. He teaches at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Columbia University, Yale University and Rhode Island School of Design. An award -winning artist, Mr. Bozhkov works and exhibits nationally and internationally. For information on UNT’s WaterWays 2007 Events March 12 – 15: www.water.unt.edu/waterways .htm Recent Works is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Additional support at UNT is provided by the UNT Fine Arts Series, the Texas Commission on the Arts, WaterWays/The Philosophy of Water Project and the UNT Sova Visiting Artist Committee. Daniel Bozhkov website Aritsts: Daniel Bozhkov Curators: Regine Basha, Diana Block Exhibit Medium: None Specified or Mixed Media |
 DARTH VADER TRIES TO CLEAN THE BLACK SEA WITH BRITA FILTER C-Print mounted on aluminum, Ed. of 5 SEE EXHIBITION IMAGES Last Updated on Mar 6, 2007 09:09:43 am |
