[-empyre-] please welcome Alex Donis

[naxsmash]

Hi -empyreans-,

Just when you thought 'queer relational' might have collapsed from  
sheer exhaustion- (electronic sssssszzzz of sighs of relief or  
frustration......)  it's a pleasure for me to introduce Alex Donis.

Alex writes, "I guess I'm officially an artist/curator, am working on  
the big Getty initiative "Pacific Standard Time: Art of Southern  
California 1945 - 1980" My Curatorial project is called "Collaboration  
Labs: Southern California and the Artist Space Movement" will open in  
2011."

Alex has a lively wit as you will soon find out.

http://frankprattle.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/alex-donis-march-20th-2008/

more on Alex:

Alex Donis is a Los Angeles-based visual artist whose work examines  
and redefines the boundaries set within religion, politics, race, and  
sexuality. Interested in toppling societies’ relationship to icons,  
his work is often influenced by a tri-cultural (Pop, Latin & Queer)  
experience. He has worked extensively in a variety of media including  
painting, installation, video, and works on paper.

He was born in 1964 in Chicago, IL and was educated at a Catholic  
school in East Los Angeles, an east-coast prep school in  
Massachusetts, and a military academy on the southern coast of  
Guatemala. He received his undergraduate degree at California State  
University, Long Beach and his graduate degree from Otis College of  
Art & Design in Los Angeles.

Donis has exhibited his work at the UCLA Hammer Museum of Art &  
Culture; the Longwood Art Center, New York; the Santa Monica Museum of  
Art; the Geffen Contemporary (MoCA); the Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna  
Beach; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); the Mexican  
Museum, San Francisco; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago; Galeria de la  
Raza, San Francisco; Pretoria Arts Museum, South Africa; and Artspace,  
Sydney Australia. His work was included in the landmark exhibition  
“Made in California: Art, Image, & Identity 1900-2000” at the Los  
Angeles County Museum of Art, “Potentially Harmful: the Art of  
American Censorship” at Georgia College and State University, and the  
10th Havana Biennale, in Cuba.

He was a 2005 Alpert Award nominee in the Visual Arts and has been the  
recipient of the Durfee Foundation’s Arts Completion Grant and the  
California Community Foundation Individual Artist Grant. His work has  
been featured in Art in America, Art Papers, FlashArt International,  
Artweek, Art Forum the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, La  
Opinión, the Chicago Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle. His  
work is part of the two volume anthology “Contemporary Chicana &  
Chicano Art” published by the Bilingual Press of the University of  
Arizona, Phoenix and “100 Artists of the West Coast” published by  
Atelier Books.

Donis has also been awarded residencies at the University of Texas,  
Austin; the Brandywine Institute, Philadelphia; Artspace, Sydney,  
Australia and the18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica. He has been a  
guest lecturer at numerous universities & institutions and is  
currently represented by Sherry Frumkin Gallery in Santa Monica.


please welcome Alex..

c



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