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Jim Hastings
Last Moments 1, 2008
Pen and ink on archival paper
9 x 13 inches

John Skibo
Change of Context 4, 2009
Oil on canvas
20 ¾ x 28 ½ inches
 

COMMUNITY: Jim Hastings and John Skibo
OPENING RECEPTION, Friday, August 27, 2010 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Rising Gallery
Exhibition Dates: August 27, 2010 – October 2, 2010 

JIM HASTINGS is a local artist who has exhibited his work in a variety of venues over the past eleven years. Hastings' work explores basic human relationships - husbands and wives, children and parents, teachers and students, caregivers and the children over whom they watch - the building blocks of community. Hastings incorporates a personal lexicon of symbolism to illustrate the dynamics of people's social interactions with one another at their most instinctual base level; conveying love, violence, joy, tragedy, immaturity, and wisdom.

JOHN SKIBO is a Brooklyn-based artist making his Dallas debut here at Rising Gallery. Skibo's series "Change of Context" revolves around the ways in which modern-day organization of housing affects community. When creating his paintings, Skibo reflects on the process of change within an environment, of how environment is recontextualized through building or demolishing structures and how these constant changes to landscape affect community and one's ability to interact with each other in a meaningful and sustained way.

RISING Gallery is located at 4631 Insurance Lane, Dallas, Texas 75205, just North off Knox between McKinney Avenue and Highway 75.
 

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