Blind Alley projects
Press Release
IDES OF MARCH
March 13 — 28, 2021
Location: 3317 West 4th Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Hours: daylight

IDES OF MARCH
March 13 – 28, 2021

Ides of March is a collection, a gathering and possibly a conversation of a year bracketed by March 2020 and March 2021. With this project, Blind Alley acknowledges a year of contemplation and experience that most of us could not have imagined at its onset.

Interested in the lineage of Shakespeare’s famous line “beware the ides of March” by a soothsayer in Julius Caesar and noting the translation of the Latin Ides as divide, a marker of sorts in the early Roman lunar calendar, we propose an opportunity to consider our own time in relation to the implications and history of “the ides of March.” A day of ritual and sacrifice, a day to settle debts, a day that turned the trajectory of a world empire and resulted in civil war—an ancient day of reckoning in relation to a year that belongs to this moment, a year that we are only beginning to process as we imagine what history will do with it.

Blind Alley projects
Press Release
IDES OF MARCH
March 13 — 28, 2021
Location: 3317 West 4th Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Hours: daylight

IDES OF MARCH
March 13 – 28, 2021

Ides of March is a collection, a gathering and possibly a conversation of a year bracketed by March 2020 and March 2021. With this project, Blind Alley acknowledges a year of contemplation and experience that most of us could not have imagined at its onset.

Interested in the lineage of Shakespeare’s famous line “beware the ides of March” by a soothsayer in Julius Caesar and noting the translation of the Latin Ides as divide, a marker of sorts in the early Roman lunar calendar, we propose an opportunity to consider our own time in relation to the implications and history of “the ides of March.” A day of ritual and sacrifice, a day to settle debts, a day that turned the trajectory of a world empire and resulted in civil war—an ancient day of reckoning in relation to a year that belongs to this moment, a year that we are only beginning to process as we imagine what history will do with it.

Paintings of Michelle’s Paintings PRP Dallas - Virtual Exhibition Benefitting Artists + Healthcare Workers

Inspired by Michelle Rawlings’ version of Pablo Picasso’s Lying Woman, invited artists were asked to make a copy of a Michelle Rawlings’ paintings. Michelle is an admired friend and generously agreed to be the subject of the show. Each painting will be reasonably priced at $250 with proceeds split equally with the artist and GetUsPPE.org, an organization working to build a national, centralized platform to enable communities to get Personal Protective Equipment to healthcare providers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. More information about their mission can be found at: https://getusppe.org/.

Paintings of Michelle’s Paintings will be on view at prp.agency on May 15th.

Featuring: Jesse Morgan Barnett, James Buss, Kerry Butcher, Jake Elliot, Oshay Green, Kevin Ruben Jacobs, Travis Lamothe, Stephen Lapthisophon, Leslie Martinez, Michael Mazurek, Reagan Mazurek, Shelby David Meier, Greg Meza, Jessie Alexandra Moncrief, Hector Ramirez, Ryder Richards, Greg Ruppe, Brandon Thompson, Zeke Williams, Paul Winker, and Michael Wynne

Paintings of Michelle’s Paintings PRP Dallas - Virtual Exhibition Benefitting Artists + Healthcare Workers

Inspired by Michelle Rawlings’ version of Pablo Picasso’s Lying Woman, invited artists were asked to make a copy of a Michelle Rawlings’ paintings. Michelle is an admired friend and generously agreed to be the subject of the show. Each painting will be reasonably priced at $250 with proceeds split equally with the artist and GetUsPPE.org, an organization working to build a national, centralized platform to enable communities to get Personal Protective Equipment to healthcare providers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. More information about their mission can be found at: https://getusppe.org/.

Paintings of Michelle’s Paintings will be on view at prp.agency on May 15th.

Featuring: Jesse Morgan Barnett, James Buss, Kerry Butcher, Jake Elliot, Oshay Green, Kevin Ruben Jacobs, Travis Lamothe, Stephen Lapthisophon, Leslie Martinez, Michael Mazurek, Reagan Mazurek, Shelby David Meier, Greg Meza, Jessie Alexandra Moncrief, Hector Ramirez, Ryder Richards, Greg Ruppe, Brandon Thompson, Zeke Williams, Paul Winker, and Michael Wynne