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The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) is a contemporary arts center with facilities for the presentation of new work in all disciplines, including theater, visual arts, music, film & video, performance, dance, and the literary arts.
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Dallas
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Address:
3120 McKinney Avenue
Texas
75204
Phone: 214-953-1212
Fax: 214-953-1873
Website:
www.the-mac.org
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The MAC is proud to present two new exhibitions: Blueprint, curated by James Cope, and Panoramic Interiors, exhibiting the latest works of Matthew Lopas, in the New Works Space. The opening reception will be Saturday, September 5th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at our galleries located at 3120 McKinney Avenue, which is in the Uptown District of Dallas.
Blueprint exhibits the works of Brian Fridge, Amy Revier, Edward Setina and Paul Slocum. The Blueprint process was originally developed by the British mathematician, scientist, astronomer and experimental photographer Sir John Herschel in 1842 as a photographic process called a cyanotype. In addition to making many contributions to the science of photography, Herschel also originated the use of the Julian day calendar system in astronomy and named seven moons of Saturn and four moons of Uranus.
Blueprint is a working title which encompasses elements of Herschel’s thoughts and ideas and brings together media such as painting, video and sculpture in a site-specific environment. The artists in Blueprint bring a new audience and awareness, inviting the viewer to engage in a visually and texturally lush presentation of site-specific work beneficial to the MAC and its innovative program. The curator James Cope gives the four nationally and internationally emerging artists a platform to express their gestures freely, without constraint in a way which highlights the artist’s grit, valor and a nerve that is quite refreshing in today’s current art climate.
Panoramic Interiors features the works of Matthew Lopas. With over a decade of experience painting spaces in which he dwells, Lopas shares his life by welcoming yo...+ [ Read all ]
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| Kara Walker, Tracy Hicks, Libby Black, David Bates, Jaume Plensa, Rusty Scruby, Lesley Dill, Laray Polk, Simeen Ishaque, Benito Huerta, Billy Hassell, Amy Revier
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The MAC is proud to present three new exhibitions. Eminent Domain, paintings by Mark Messersmith; the second exhibition, Fractured Form, features Philip Evett and Ansen Seale in an installation of sculpture and photography curated by Kevin Vogel, owner of Valley House Gallery. The third exhibition, Collage of Coincidences, features a collaborative show by Dean Corbitt and Curtis Scott. The opening reception will be Saturday, October 17 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at The MAC, located at 3120 McKinney Avenue, which is in the Uptown District of Dallas. The show will run through November 7, 2009.
In the large gallery, Mark Messersmith: Eminent Domain shows three-dimensional paintings by the Florida based artist. Messersmith’s works depict the density of wildlife subject matter in each of his Maximalist paintings, augmented by carved pediments installed above the canvas, mixed media dioramas attached below and occasionally, objects dangling in front of the canvas. He combines all of these elements in an inventive and powerful way to tell stories of environmental changes and their profound effects on wildlife along the edges of suburbia in the American South. Messersmith works has been acquired from: the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Florida, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art in Jacksonville, Florida; Musee du Haut-de-Cagnes at Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, and Florida State University Museum of Art, Florida State University at Tallahassee, Florida.
The square gallery will feature Kevin Vogel’s curatorial piece: Fractured Form, with the works of San Antonio based artists Philip Evett and Ansen Seale. Evett’s organic wooden sculptures focus on the exploration of the unpl...+ [ Read all ]
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| Wednesday through Saturday from 11 to 9pm
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The MAC is located at 3120 McKinney Avenue, Dallas Texas 75204
FROM DENTON
Take I-35 South
In Dallas take the 75/I-45 Houston exit (Woodall Rogers Freeway)
Take the Pearl Street Exit
Veer to the Right (Olive St.)
Cross the freeway then turn right at the first light - McKinney Ave.
Just past the light at OakGrove, the road will curve to the right.
Look for the bright blue wall on the right side of Street
immediately following the high-rise “La Tour”
FROM DOWNTOWN
Take Pearl Street West (across Woodall Rogers)
Turn Right on McKinney Ave. (North)
Just past the light at OakGrove, the road will curve to the right.
Look for the bright blue wall on the right side of Street
immediately following the high-rise “La Tour”
FROM CENTRAL NORTH
Take 75 South
Exit Haskell/Blackburn, Lemmon, & Hall St. exit
Turn Right at Hall (the third light)
You will pass through Greenwood cemetery
Turn Left at the first stop sign, Oakgrove
The MAC is one block down on the right, large bright blue building, just past the trolley barn
This is The MAC’s back entrance, you may enter our parking lot from here.
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| Disabled facilities, shop/cafe, lobby
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| Art Talks, Foreign Cinema, Lectures, Poetry Reading
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| All age groups are welcome, yet is recommended to call in advance to inquire about exhibition content
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| Gallery tours available per request
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| The MAC is supported financially by our membership as well as the generous support of individuals, corporations and charitable foundations throughout Texas and the U.S.
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| City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Harry S. Moss Foundation, Summerlee Foundation, and Texas Commission on the Arts. We have received corporate funding from American Airlines, Atomic Industries, Ben E. Keith Company, Borders Books & Music, Brainfood, Inc., Davis, Clark & Company, the Folwer Group, ExxonMobile Corporation, Glazer’s Distributors, GMR-Jaguar, Phillips Petroleum Corporation, Quin Mathews Films, Interceramic and Sullivan Perkins.
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