BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER
DALLAS, Texas (March 10, 2009)--Breaking The Sound Barrier at Haley-Henman is offering an experience to travel to other dimensions of sculpture, visual art and sound. Cassandra Fink, the curator of the exhibition, has challenged Dallas area artists to stretch beyond the limits of the norm and try something different. Together with Haley-Henman director, Dr. John Marcucci, she proposed the creation of works that allow the viewer to have a new experience of sound in relation to two and three dimensional artworks. The exhibition will open Saturday, April 4, 2009 and continue until May 9, 2009. The reception with the artists will be on Saturday, April 4 from 7 - 10 pm, and it is free and open to the public.
The artists who stepped up to this challenge are Annie Davis, George Davis, Riyad El-Masri, Amalia Zelaya El-Masri, Jeff Hatch, KeLaine Kvale, Christopher R. Morgan, Renee Parnell, Morton Rachofsky, Marco Rubino, John Sadler, Silvia Thornton and Cassandra Fink. Musicians will interact with these works and create musical compositions. Viewers to the gallery will also be encouraged to interact with the works and experience their own breaking of the sound barrier.
One artist in this exhibition, Morton Rachofsky, a founding member of the Texas Sculpture Association, is known for his love of geometric precision. His Cuboid Series featured in Breaking the Sound Barrier welcomes the viewer to interact with the sculpture by creating musical notes with cascading balls. Another artist, Silvia Thornton, presents her encaustic (wax and mixed media) wall relief book that plays music from Beethoven when opened, and can be strummed by hand. Renee Parnell's red cedar sculpture, At Land's End is her own version of an ancient Egyptian wooded musical instrument called a sistrum. This sculpture creates sounds with moving aqua glass. Another highlight of the show is a bronze mammary orchestra series created by George Davis. Inspired by Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument, Christopher R. Morgan, Collin Professor of Music, brings his new music sound with forty-four foot long resonating strings.
Breaking The Sound Barrier will showcase self induced and interactive types of sound with high-tech multimedia pieces to fine art that ask the viewer's involvement. The sculptural works will be bronze, exotic woods, steel, copper, glass, crystals and stone. The visual works will explore feelings of sound, such as Annie Davis' glass paintings and KeLaine Kevale's twenty-six foot ink drawing, entitled, Continuum.
The sounds of these sculptures and others in the exhibition will begin at the opening reception when the group, Impending Bloom, a world music flute and percussion band with Craig Shropsire, Cornell Kinderknecht (who just received the award for one of Texas's Best Musicians), and Martin McCall will set the tempo with their music and show guests how to play the sonic sculptures.
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