Michael Brims, Opening January 14th

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EVIDENCE November 21, 2009 - January 2, 2010

WIRED POETRY NIGHT/CLOSING PARTY

EVENT: "@Wired," a multimedia explosion of poetry, song, music and image

TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 8 p.m. Friday, November 13, at the Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery, 1836 Richmond Ave, Houston, TX 77098-3510

ADMISSION: Free and open to the public Note: Parking is available

Local poets Radames Ortiz, Lupe Mendez and Byron Jones have joined forces to bring Houston @Wired: A Multi-Media Explosion of Poetry. @Wired is a revolutionary approach to exposing the literary masses to a new type of poetry reading. By incorporating social media, music, song, imagery and technology to enhance their poetic performances, @Wired seeks to reconstruct the poetry reading and to engage local creatives to actively participate in making a unique event even more special.

@WIRED will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, November 13, at the Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery.

Radames Ortiz work has appeared in numerous literary journals including, Gulf Coast, Texas Observer, Open City, Hayden's Ferry Review, Cortland Review, and Exquisite Corpse. His work has also been collected in various anthologies which include, US Latino Literature Today, Regeneration: Telling Stories from Our Twenties, and Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas. He was nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize. He was also awarded a 2003 Archie D and Bertha Walker fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He was the 2006-2008 Naomi Shihab Nye Scholar and was a featured poet at the Poetry at Roundtop Festival. You can follow him on twitter @radameso and read his blog at http://theamplifiedbard.blogspot.com/

Lupe Menendez, a writer/educator/performer working with to establish free poetry and creative writing workshops with Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say and the Brazilian Arts Foundation. He has also served as an organizer and host for the former Latino Book and Family Festival and the "Word Around Town" Poetry Tour. He has performed with authors Dagoberto Gilb and Oscar Casarez. His work has been published in the Panhandler Quarterly, the Houston International Poetry (HIP) Anthology, and in What Should Run in the Mind of a Caballero; An Anthology of Latino Short Fiction forthcoming from W.W. Norton & Company. You can follow him on twitter @thepoetmendez visit his website at http://www.thepoetmendez.org

Byron Jones began his career as a slam poet over six years ago, following the steps of the great Micheal Guinn and Saul Williams. He is nationally ranked in the competitive poetry circuit until retiring and seeking greater purpose for his writings in 2006. Byron is now an inspirational speaker, spoken word poet and emcee for the band Purposed. You can follow him on twitter @byronjonespoet and his blog at http://byronjonespoetry.blogspot.com/

EVIDENCE

Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery is pleased to present "EVIDENCE," a group
show featuring the work of Kenneth James Beasley, John Hartley, Lillian
Warren, Jeffrey Wheeler, William Winkler, Miguel Avila and Gabriela Trzebinski.

Opening: Saturday, Novemeber 21, 6-8 pm
Closing: January 2, 2010.

"The theory of evidence is a field wrought with dispute. Many of these
disputes stem from the limits of human knowing, a field known as epistemology.
Possibly the most salient question of evidence is how, if, and what, one can
know. (Or, in other words, the question is to what extent is it even possible
to fulfill the burden of proof.) This is the question of evidence's limits.
Some believe all evidence to be circumstantial, denying the possibility of
direct evidence.

To help deal with this problem, many fields have found it useful to talk about
levels of evidence and certainty, particularly the field of" ... art.

This is NOT an epistemological debate, but simply an art show. There will
certainly be evidence of art!

Featuring:
Kenneth James Beasley
John Hartley
Lillian Warren
Jeffrey Wheeler
William Winkler
Miguel Avila
and
Gabriela Trzebinski

Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery
1836 Richmond Avenue
Houston, Texas 77098
www.RudolphProjects.com
713 807-1836 Tel
713 807-1837 Fax

PATRICK TURK

The world as we know it: How much do we know it? What are the limits of knowledge? These are the simplest philosophical questions that come whispering out of college dorm rooms among the millions of other questions that concern our epistemological status as human beings.

Patrick Turk is a collage artist that wonders about our place in the world that we inhabit and also our place in parallel universes. As humans it is difficult to grasp the profundity of a notion such as a parallel universe or the basic ideas behind quantum mechanics.

I do not pretend that Patrick Turk is a mad scientist concerned with creating a dimension that we can never grasp. But I do feel that Mr. Turk is creating a world in his collages that is generally only touched by people under the influence of reality enhancing substances.

With the abundance of repetitious imagery in Turk's collages, there is a mad order to the dimensions we will never see and can only create with theories. And in the obsessive circles of imagery there is a beauty not unlike the paintings of Alex Grey or any other other artist that dwells on the bright side of post hippiedom.

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