From the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth:

"With the support of Clear Channel Outdoor, the Education Department of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announces the eleventh iteration of MODERN BILLINGS.

Using space from Clear Channel Outdoor as programming sites, Assistant Curators of Education Jesse Morgan Barnett and Tiffany Wolf Smith work with a variety of artists to situate imagery and text onto billboards, elements of the city that traditionally present commercial advertisements rather than cultural curiosities. For MODERN BILLINGS, artists place works into under-served communities along the periphery of downtown Fort Worth. These large-scale installations along Jacksboro Highway and the Lancaster corridor extend the reach of the Modern and the education department and provide an intervention opportunity for contemporary art in urban landscapes.

Information on this season and past presentations is available at www.themodern.org/modern-billings.

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The eleventh iteration of MODERN BILLINGS presents works by Margaret Meehan and Andrea Tosten. MODERN BILLINGS XI will be on view June 24 until August 7 .

Margaret Meehan is a Virginia-based artist whose work is a research-based, multidisciplinary exploration that pulls from film, music, popular culture, folklore, and traditional crafts. She considers the origins of outcasts through their representation. Meehan’s research includes teratology and medicine, ornithology, the esthetics of cuteness, materiality in high and low culture as well as modes of feminist protest. This all stems from her curiosity about the lines that separate what is protected from what is feared and how gendering plays into these expectations. For MODERN BILLINGS XI, she references the Greek myth of Cassandra as a way to give voice to women and femme identified individuals in the world today.

Andrea Tosten is a Dallas-based artist whose work explores social constructs, binary thinking, and the nature of existence. She uses letterforms, paper, and sewing to recontextualize and conceptualize her Catholic upbringing, background, and place in history. For MODERN BILLINGS XI, she references the use of paper, thread, and ink to display words and symbols that entice viewers to look them up and learn some of the history associated with them.

Titles and Site Locations

Margaret Meehan

Sing Out Cassandra, 2022

1316 Jacksboro Hwy, 76114

Margaret Meehan

Believe All Cassandra's, 2022

1501 Jacksboro Hwy, 76114

Margaret Meehan

Dear Cassandra, 2022

5428 Jacksboro Hwy, 76114

Andrea Tosten

Abeng, 2022

2130 Jacksboro Hwy, 76164

Andrea Tosten

Alchemy, 2022

2137 Jacksboro Hwy, 76114

Andrea Tosten

Survival Symbols, 2022

5316 Jacksboro Hwy, 76114"