(Re)Collection: Lakes Were Rivers - exhibition and benefit for Pastelegram

Event Description

Pastelegram and brand 10/and X are please to present (Re)Collection: Lakes Were Rivers re-envisions images from the Harry Ransom Archive—an exhibition by the Austin-based collective, Lakes Were Rivers. The exhibition opens November 3^rd and runs until December 8^th, 2012.  On November 3^rd, there will be a free exhibition preview from 5—6:30 pm; then from 8 pm until 11 pm, the exhibition’s opening reception will benefit the Austin-based art publication, Pastelegram, and will include music by M, a performance by Lakes Were Rivers member Barry Stone, an auction featuring artworks, free drinks, door prizes, and a taco truck. Please bring cash for tacos and your checkbook for the auction. More information is to come, and more information about Pastelegram is below.

Lakes Were Rivers is a group of eleven artists whose work is informed by the theory and the practice of photography. They exhibit individually and collectively as well as publish limited-edition books. Based in Austin, Texas with many members who live throughout the United States, Lakes Were Rivers has exhibited at Box 13 as a part of Fotofest in Houston, Texas; Vanderbilt University; and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Lakes Were Rivers is Leigh Brodie, Elizabeth Chiles, Anna Krachey, Jessica Mallios, Sarah Murphy, Mike Osborne, Jason Reed, Ben Ruggiero, Adam Schreiber, Susan Shahan and Barry Stone.

In (Re)Collection: Lakes Were Rivers re-envisions images from the Harry Ransom Archive, each member pairs an original work of their own with a facsimile of a work contained in the Harry Ransom Archive at the University of Texas at Austin. This exhibition was originally shown at 1319 Rosewood Gallery in Austin, TX as a part of the East Side Studio Tour in 2011. Lakes Were Rivers will expand this show and exhibit works alongside original archived objects and images at the Harry Ransom Center in the summer of 2013.

 (Re)Collection: Lakes Were Rivers re-envisions images from the Harry Ransom Archive is organized by Alison Hearst and Noah Simblist.

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Pastelegram is an online and print publication concerned with images and their sources. It is dedicated to contemporary artists, art historians and critics as well as the ideas, images and texts that inform their projects, some historical and others less so. As such, Pastelegram provides an international platform for the examination of artistic and historical practice.

Pastelegram lives in two distinct forms: a biannual print issue and an online site. The print issue features an editorial collaboration with an artist or art historian that includes original works made for the magazine, visual essays, an interview with the issue’s collaborator and a collection of outside texts and images selected by the collaborator and Pastelegram’s editors. Our online version offers supplementary materials to the print issue such as weekly reviews and monthly features offering close examinations of objects and images.

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