Tyler Stallings
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Tyler Stallings is the artistic director at Culver Center of the Arts and director of Sweeney Art Gallery at University of California, Riverside. He was chief curator at Laguna Art Museum from 1999 to 2006. His curatorial projects focus on contemporary art, with a special emphasis on the exploration of identity, technology, photography, and urban culture. In the past, he has organized Whiteness, A Wayward Construction, Surf Culture—The Art History of Surfing, Re:Cycle—Bike Culture in Southern California; Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map: An Interdisciplinary Response, and Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture. He is currently working on the exhibition Free Enterprise: the Art of Citizen Space Exploration. Most recently, he was part of the curatorial research team and essayist for Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1980, organized by Palm Springs Art Museum as part of the multi-institutional Getty Research Institute initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980. He is also the co-editor of the anthology, Uncontrollable Bodies: Testimonies of Identity and Culture (Seattle: Bay Press, 1994).
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Tyler Stallings revisits the 2003 exhibition, "Whiteness, A Wayward Construction," in light of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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"Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration" is the first contemporary art exhibition in the country to present an international roster of artists and organizations who are exploring the intersection between artistic production and civilian space travel.
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Pomona-based video artist Kent Anderson Butler is open about his Christianity and has found a unique path that allows him to keep-the-faith towards both his religious convictions and towards the contemporary art world's secular persuasions.
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A new exhibition at UCR ARTSblock features defunct motorcycle club vests and their colorful club patches that represent a unique form of American folk art.
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Mexico at the Hour of Combat: Sabino Osuna's Photographs of the Mexican Revolution is an exhibition on view at UC Riverside's California Museum of Photography from November 3, 2012 to January 5, 2013.
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Posted Considering the Sound of an Air Conditioner: John Cage and "Zen Ox-Herding Pictures"
in ArtboundIn honor of the centenary of John Cage's birth, the Pomona College Museum of Art presents the traveling exhibition "John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures". -
"Troubling Borders: Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora," showcases writings and visual works by women of Cambodian, Laotian, Filipino and Vietnamese descent and by women who identify as the often stateless Mien, Hmong, and Cham.
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Tyler Stallings tours a fabricated Iraqi City on the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, CA.
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Is death the end of life or a gateway to a hereafter? Tyler Stallings examines immortality in the Inland Empire.
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Posted Resurrection Machines of Ancient Egypt in San Bernardino and of Ancient Cinema in Hollywood
in ArtboundTyler Stallings explores the remnants and culture of ancient Egypt at CSUSB's Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art and the influence of Egyptomania in Los Angeles. -
Marsia Alexander-Clarke is interested in developing silent video pieces similar to notated musical compositions with the use of small fragments of recorded video material.
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Posted Reconsidering Fourth of July Fireworks and Independence Day in Light of Cai Guo-Qiang's 'Sky Ladder'
in ArtboundNew York-based artist Cai Guo-Qiang is known for creating public spectacles with fireworks and using them to create more traditional drawings with a very non-traditional technique based on pyrotechnics. -
Posted Levitating the Archaic Mind with Michael Heizer's "Levitated Mass" at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
in ArtboundTyler Stallings ruminates on the connections between the archaic and contemporary in Michael Heizer's project "Levitated Mass," which perhaps represents a desire to reconnect with the sacred: the planet itself. -
Our species' past or future is about an hour's drive, due east from Riverside, in the mountain hamlet of Idyllwild. There, the Idyll-Beast is said to exist -- a creature akin to Bigfoot, or Sasquatch.
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For Tyler Stalling, the whistles of the transcontinental rail lines that trisect Riverside are such dominant sounds that they insinuate themselves into both his waking and dreaming lives.
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From beefcakes in bikini bottoms to skater bros flipping tricks in empty pools, masculinity is revealed in 20th century photographs.
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Tyler Stallings revisits the 2003 exhibition, "Whiteness, A Wayward Construction," in light of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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"Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration" is the first contemporary art exhibition in the country to present an international roster of artists and organizations who are exploring the intersection between artistic production and civilian space travel.
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Pomona-based video artist Kent Anderson Butler is open about his Christianity and has found a unique path that allows him to keep-the-faith towards both his religious convictions and towards the contemporary art world's secular persuasions.
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A new exhibition at UCR ARTSblock features defunct motorcycle club vests and their colorful club patches that represent a unique form of American folk art.
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Mexico at the Hour of Combat: Sabino Osuna's Photographs of the Mexican Revolution is an exhibition on view at UC Riverside's California Museum of Photography from November 3, 2012 to January 5, 2013.
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Posted Considering the Sound of an Air Conditioner: John Cage and "Zen Ox-Herding Pictures"
in ArtboundIn honor of the centenary of John Cage's birth, the Pomona College Museum of Art presents the traveling exhibition "John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures". -
"Troubling Borders: Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora," showcases writings and visual works by women of Cambodian, Laotian, Filipino and Vietnamese descent and by women who identify as the often stateless Mien, Hmong, and Cham.
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Tyler Stallings tours a fabricated Iraqi City on the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, CA.
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Is death the end of life or a gateway to a hereafter? Tyler Stallings examines immortality in the Inland Empire.
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Posted Resurrection Machines of Ancient Egypt in San Bernardino and of Ancient Cinema in Hollywood
in ArtboundTyler Stallings explores the remnants and culture of ancient Egypt at CSUSB's Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art and the influence of Egyptomania in Los Angeles.
