Quote by Jean Dubuffet

Fort Worth Community Arts Center

  • 1300 Gendy, Forth Worth, TX 76109
    Director:     Elaine Taylor
    Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 - 5pm, Saturday 10 - 5pm
    Email:     gallerymanager@fwcac.org
    Phone:     817-738-1938
    Fax: 817-738-3766
    Web: www.fwcac.org
    Visitor Admission: Free

    The mission of the FWCAC is to provide the Fort Worth community with a facility for visual and performing artists; and arts organizations with affordable and accessible rehearsal, performance, exhibition, classroom and meeting spaces.  We sponsor 6 exhibitions a year in the Focus Galleries, an international open Works on Paper Show every year and a local open Biennial in even years.  The FWCAC is the home of the Texas Artists Coalition, a membership program for artists, which promotes the growth of artists and the artistic community in Fort Worth.



    Waxy Buildup: Cleaning House

    May 8 – June 20, 2009

  • Josh Reames

     The physical world is made of physical elements; therefore, the spiritual world must be comprised of spiritual elements.  Bridges exist as evidence of the parallels between these dimensions, such as thought existing simultaneously as physical and spiritual. The spiritual world is a place where psychological responses are the essence of matter, like an alternate reality or a parallel universe where the periodic table is replaced with  thoughts and emotions. Collective mental processes are translated into symbolic depictions using color, symbolism, line, and shape, by replacing the non-physical fundamental matter.Based on my emotional perceptions, I am communicating intangible experiences through the symbolism of color and intensity of mark making. I use an understanding of layering from my printmaking background, the potentially spontaneous mark making capabilities of painting, and the inherent qualities of paint as a medium to produce a visual language that depicts a personal, fragmented delineation of the spiritual world. 

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  • – Josh Reames


  • The G.R.A.S. is Always Greener

    July 10 – August 22

    Ian O'Brien

     

    This installation looks at both the invented history of Grip River and my own personal history. I find that my memories from childhood have been taken out of context as I have grown into an adult. I now find myself looking at the games I played and fantastic worlds that I created in my youth with the eye of an amateur archaeologist. Drawing on social anthropology, the role of the museum, academia, and art I try to recreate my past and give you the viewer a guided tour.

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  • -Written by Ian O'Brien