From the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth:

"The tenth iteration of MODERN BILLINGS presents works by Francisco Josué Alvarado Araujo, Ciara Elle Bryant, Leslie Martinez, Analise Minjarez, Héctor A. Ramírez, and River Shell.

MODERN BILLINGS X will be on view December 10, 2021–January 30, 2022.

Francisco Josué Alvarado Araujo is an artist living in Fort Worth. He received his MFA in sculpture from Texas Christian University in 2020 and a BFA in printmaking from the University of North Texas in Denton in 2015. Invested in the collaborative act, he has been involved in multiple DIY group exhibitions and projects with the intention of expanding the notion of the exhibition space. For example, in 2019, he collaborated with the artist Chris Wicker in Mov.’t, an open-call video exhibition that took place on the back of a dumpster container. His work pivots on found objects and materials configured in precarious composite forms and installations, where touch and balance are used to highlight contingencies hidden in plain sight. These explorations and expressions stem from the first-generation experience, directed as both anxious and delicate temporary gestures that mirror internal preoccupations with stability, movement, language, and entropy.

Ciara Elle Bryant is a multidisciplinary artist using photography, video, and installation to explore Black culture in the new millennium. Bryant’s art and curatorial practices center around documenting and preserving the Black experience. Her recent solo exhibitions at RO2 Gallery, Nasher Sculpture Center, and ex ovo/ Sweet Pass Sculpture Park featured the ongoing installation project Server, which features imagery and audio from her data archive.

Leslie Martinez is a Dallas-based artist born in the Rio Grande Valley of the South Texas-Mexico border and raised in Dallas. They received an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2018 and a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City in 2008.

Analise Minjarez is an interdisciplinary artist that seeks out the possibilities-and limits-of wonder through nature. Minjarez received her BFA in fibers from the University of North Texas in 2013. She is currently an MFA 2022 candidate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Héctor A. Ramírez is an artist who grew up in El Paso. In 2020, he earned an MFA in sculpture from Texas Christian University. Ramirez’s appropriation of objects derives from a form of play through thought, experience, and senses. He develops a language towards the vernacular. Hector has exhibited in multiple group shows around the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area.

River Shell is a multimedia thing-maker living an anonymous life in Dallas.

Titles and Site Locations

Francisco Josué Alvarado Araujo

Ci.u.da.te

3800 E Lancaster Ave, 76103

Ciara Elle Bryant

Palm Keys

6810 E Lancaster Ave, 76112

Leslie Martinez

Tribute to the Source

1410 Jacksboro Hwy, 76164

Analise Minjarez

Untitled (Portal)

1410 Jacksboro Hwy, 76164

Héctor A. Ramírez

Fievel

3800 E Lancaster Ave, 76103

River Shell

The Wind Loves You So Much You Should Scream

2130 Jacksboro Hwy, 76164"