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Michael Anthony García ![]()
photo by Aidyn Mancenido 
www.mrmichaelme.com
Pamela Sneed
photo by Patricia Silva
Forrest Lighght
photo by Chloe Cusimano
Ena Ganguly
IInterdisciplinary artist & independent curator Michael Anthony García, born in El Paso, Texas, with dual Mexican and US citizenship, is based in Austin, Texas, and predominantly focuses his practices around photography/ video, sculpture/ installation & performance. He studied art at Austin College in Sherman, Texas where he received his bachelor’s degree and completed his Masters of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a founding member of Los Outsiders curatorial collective & has curated large-scale exhibitions of international artists, in & out of the US. Notably, he has led solo curatorial projects for Mexic-arte Museum, Texas State University Galleries, the gallery at the Austin Central Public Library and Fusebox Festival. He participated in the 2011 Texas Biennial & has won awards both for his curatorial & 3D work. He co-hosts El Puente, an intersectional conversation podcast, and is publisher for POCa Madre Magazine. García has premiered work for The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Experimental Action Performance Art Biennale in Houston, The Contemporary Austin, SoundSpace at The Blanton Museum of Art, El Museo de la Ciudad de México, and ThreeWalls in Chicago.
Show Description
Bespoke: The Space Between Words involves the transmogrification of sites into safe spaces where the written and spoken word challenge the fringes of reality and experience and can provide comfort in these confrontations. Interdisciplinary artist and independent curator Michael Anthony García stewards a program of artists wielding the power of poetics, to conjure a space of honesty and peace of mind through artistic synergy.
The cornerstone performance of this iteration, is the writer/performance artist/activist/professor Pamela Sneed, whose incomparable talents have garnered her accolades far and wide, specifically, but not limited to her poetic memoir Funeral Diva, about life during the AIDS crisis, which was awarded the 2021 Lesbian Poetry Lambda Award.
In the manifestation and translation of the space itself LA-based Forrest Lighght‘s text-based paintings, installations, and spoken word delineate the boundaries of their trans experience.
The quiet yet commanding writing of Austin-based poet ena ganguly provides her/ their unique perspective and power of language in the public space.
Show Description
Bespoke: The Space Between Words involves the transmogrification of sites into safe spaces where the written and spoken word challenge the fringes of reality and experience and can provide comfort in these confrontations. Interdisciplinary artist and independent curator Michael Anthony García stewards a program of artists wielding the power of poetics, to conjure a space of honesty and peace of mind through artistic synergy.
The cornerstone performance of this iteration, is the writer/performance artist/activist/professor Pamela Sneed, whose incomparable talents have garnered her accolades far and wide, specifically, but not limited to her poetic memoir Funeral Diva, about life during the AIDS crisis, which was awarded the 2021 Lesbian Poetry Lambda Award.
In the manifestation and translation of the space itself LA-based Forrest Lighght‘s text-based paintings, installations, and spoken word delineate the boundaries of their trans experience.
The quiet yet commanding writing of Austin-based poet ena ganguly provides her/ their unique perspective and power of language in the public space.