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 PERFORMANCE :  NOVEMBER 22 - 6:00 P M 

T I M  B E S T

Wednesday, November 20th 6:30pm

ART BEEF is establishing a ongoing film series that will take place in our storefront space in Expo Park, BEEFHAUS. The purpose of this series is to provide a venue in which artists working in film and video can display their work and then screen a film of their choosing that has been significant to them in some way. This is not a formal setting but rather a BYOB picnic-style event, kind of like a micro-drive-in movie theater. Essentially, we will introduce the artist, the artist will introduce their piece, screen it, there will be a brief Q&A with audience or moderator, then we will screen whatever the artist wishes to show, be it Jaws 3, The Seventh Seal, or Steamboat Willie; there are no rules or prerequisites as to what they can choose to show. It is a night at the movies with a built-in audience for an artist to show their work outside of a gallery setting. Bring a picnic blanket, bring a bottle of wine, beers, snacks, etc. and enjoy the show with us. This will also serve as a fundraising effort of sorts in order to keep the space afloat to ensure future programming. All donations will directly go to offset the cost of rent and utilities of the space. Schedule is being crystallized but future screenings will include Michael Morris, Isabella Bur, David Redish, Anansi Knowbody, Melissa Tran, and many others. The first artist to present his work and choose a film to show will be Tim Best.

BEEFHAUS
833 Exposition Ave, Dallas, Texas
(Located next door to Amsterdam Bar)

Question, concerns, inquiries?
artbeefart@gmail.com

SURFACE TIKI : EVERYTHING IS OK

Opening Saturday November 16th 7-10

SURFACE TIKI: EVERYTHING IS OK
PAINTINGS BY JUSTIN HUNTER ALLEN
BEEFHAUS
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2013

BEEFHAUS presents Justin Hunter Allen's first solo painting exhibition, "SURFACE TIKI: EVERYTHING IS OK", a venture in the narrative of modern formalism: contradictory engagements with the lessons of recent history. 

"Conscience of a Body of Paintings" is written as an accompaniment to the exhibition, relaying Allen's reflections on the venture as a recursive cross-disciplinary event. In the City of Dallas, the conversation of "Artist Run" in recent years has seen its migration from a splintered periphery to a reliable, indexable, key phrase in blogs and lectures. With this key phrase, disparate artist and organizational philosophies have found themselves homogenized, bound together to each others credit and detriment. "Conscience of a Body of Paintings" recalls not just the excitement of a frontier or juvenile recklessness of curiosity, but also a painting's awareness of its own context and probable fate.

Allen's statement patterns "Conscience of a Hacker", penned by "The Mentor" following his arrest in 1986. The essay, first published in the e-zine "Phrack" [Vol 1, Issue 7], is a reflection of a young man at the dawn of an age, with a scope so incalculable and impersonal that its familiarity to mankind's many stories is obscure to man himself. The Internet hate machine and an ethical anonymous have advocated it. It's own words speak of the value of a varied and unidentifiable network. Yet, in "The Social Network" [2010], it is also displayed on the dormitory wall of the man who would turn that concept on its head.

"SURFACE TIKI: EVERYTHING IS OK" opens at BEEFHAUS Saturday, November 16 and runs until Sunday, December 1. Contact artbeefart@gmail.com with questions.

BEEFHAUS
833 Exposition Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75226