Join Project Row Houses for a conversation between artists Christina Coleman, Michael Ray Charles, and Round 53 artist Tammie Rubin. The panel will discuss their art practices while unpacking their contextual connections to power objects, identity, materiality, education, and being Black artists in Texas.
This program is in conjunction with Round 53: The Curious Case of Critical Race…Theory?
About the Artists
Christina Coleman is a visual artist working in sculpture, drawing, and installation. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles. Utilizing various materials, ranging from commercial hair care products to traditional fine art tools, Coleman works through subjects including the human body, space, identity, and materiality. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally including: A Spatial Continuum in Black at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX; Collecting Black Studies: The Exhibition at The Christian-Greene Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings at The George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, Austin, TX; Lone Star at The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO; The First Horizons of Juno at Mass Gallery, Austin, TX. From 2016 to 2017 Coleman was a co-curator at de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART, a gallery in Austin, TX. Her work is included in private and public collections including Black Studies, The University of Texas at Austin.
Michael Ray Charles was a featured artist in the first season of the award-winning PBS series Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, along with Matthew Barney, Mel Chin and Andrea Zittel. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe, including exhibitions at Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany. In 2018, he was awarded the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards given to a practicing artist.
Tammie Rubin (b. Chicago, Il) is an artist whose sculptural practice considers the intrinsic power of objects as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics, while investigating the tension between the readymade and the handcrafted. Using intricate motifs, Rubin delves into themes involving ritual, domestic and liturgical objects, mapping, migration, magical thinking, identity, and sensual desire. Her sculptures open up dream-like spaces of unexpected associations and dislocations. Rubin received a BFA in both Ceramics and Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MFA in Ceramics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Rubin has exhibited widely, selections include the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY., The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX., George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX., Evansville Museum of Arts, History, & Science, IN., Rockford Art Museum, IL., Mulvane Art Museum, KS., Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX., Charak Gallery at Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO., and the Sarah M. Hurt Gallery at the Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN. She is represented by Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX., & Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY.
