Brown Foundation Gallery
October 14 - November 19, 2017
Opening Reception Saturday, October 14, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Christie Blizard
Wanting to not want
Christie Blizard presents work from her ongoing project in which the artist holds up text paintings on The Today Show and Good Morning America. Through Blizard’s disruptions of the broadcast, she tests the boundaries of free speech in America. Since 2014, Blizard has made approximately 30 appearances in the audience of broadcasts of these popular morning television programs. The project has gained national attention through articles in Hyperallergic and ArtNews, and was nominated for an Art Matters award. For her exhibition, Wanting not to want, Blizard presents a new series of text paintings, video projections and still images taken from appearances during the summer of 2017. During the opening reception, Blizard will perform as Matt Lauer, host of The Today Show.
Christie Blizard is a national and international exhibiting artist, working in a variety of media merging painting, poetry, and performance. Since 2006, she has been featured in over 70 national and international art exhibitions including those curated by several renowned art figures such as: internationally known artists Mel Chin and Pradip Malde; Dr. Charissa Terranova, Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies and Director of Centraltrak Artist Residency at UT Dallas; Rene Barilleaux, Chief Curator at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Carter Foster, Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Heather Pesanti, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and Antoine Guerrero, Director of Exhibitions at PS1. Recent exhibitions include an invitation to the Texas Biennial 2011 and 2013 curated by Virginia Rutledge held in Austin, and solo exhibitions at Lawndale Center for Art in Houston and Women and Their Work in Austin. Other recent residencies and fellowships include Artpace in 2017, the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH and Centraltrak Artist in residence program through the University of Texas at Dallas. Her work has been featured in ArtNews, Hyperallergic, Blouin ArtInfo, and Art in America.