{ S T R A N G E F A M I L I A R }

{-- Exhibit/News Archive: 2005-2008 --}

"Photography Show" - F6 Gallery, Arlington, TX. Nov. 22, 2008

"2nd Annual Halloween Art Show" - F6 Gallery, Arlington, TX. Oct. 31, 2008

"Dia De Los Muertos 2008" - Art Hotel, Dallas, TX. Oct. 2008

"Art for D.A.R.F.U.R. (Dallas Artists Rally for Urgent Response) Silent Benefit Auction" - (not sure of the venue name, it was held at various venues) - Austin, TX. Sept. 30, 2008

"Obscenely Unseen III" - Space Studio/Hal Samples Gallery, Dallas, TX. Aug. 02, 2008

"Multi-Cultural Block Party" Sponsored by Town Square Magazine, Club Clearview, Dallas, TX. June 28, 2008

"Wabi Sabi - The Beauty of Imperfection" - Firehouse Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX. June 21, 2007

"Ultraviolet Cystic Fibrosis Charity Benefit" Silent Auction - Club Dada, Dallas, TX. April 26, 2008

"Content" - F6 Gallery, Arlington, TX. March 29, 2008. Spring Gallery Night.

"That's Not Art (artistic inspiration tour)" - F6 Gallery, Arlington, TX. Jan. 26, 2008

Featured 'Spotlight Artist' on Talent Database - week of July 16, 2007

"Photography Show" - F6 Gallery, Arlington, TX. May 19, 2007

"FEMME XX v2.0" - Revolution Gallery, Dallas, TX. April 27, 2007. Part of the Continental Gin Lofts Art Openings, Spring Gallery Night.

Music Performance - Ridglea Theater, Fort Worth, TX. Jan. 27, 2007. Fundraiser for Purrfect Cats, a local non-profit cat rescue organization.

"MASK: A Portrait Show" Juried by Richard Avedon's colleague, GRANT LEIGHTON - Flash Gallery, Lakewood, CO. Nov. 03, 2006

"20th Annual Dia De Los Muertos" - Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX - Oct. 21, 2006

"24th Annual Juried Art in the Metroplex Exhibit" - TCU and Templeton Art Center, Fort Worth, TX. Fall Gallery Night. Sept. 09, 2006

Published in 'Bloodwars Magazine', Issue #22 - Sept 2006

"Outside the Lines 6 - Juried Art Exhibit" - Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. June 03, 2006

"Spring Cleaning" - Kettle Art Gallery, Dallas, TX. May 20, 2006

"Heads Up - The Pat Penny Memorial Art Project" - Medical City Hospital Dallas, Dallas, TX. Sponsored by the Ladies of Legacy. April 30, 2006. Silent Charity Auction benefiting brain cancer patients.

"Paintings and Assemblages - Reduce Reuse Recycle/Trash Art Fashion Show" - Rose Marine Theater, Fort Worth, TX. April 21, 2006

"Pull the String and See the Light" - Firehouse Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX. April 01, 2006. Spring Gallery Night

"RED" Solo Art Exhibit - AMS Production Group - Addison/Dallas, TX. March 01, 2006

"Shifting Room Theory Exhibit" - Art Bar, Dallas, TX. Sept. 2005

"Dia De Los Muertos Exhibit" - Bath House Cultural Art Center, Dallas, TX - Oct. 2005

{~~~ More detail on some of the past shows ~~~}

{ 2008 ARCHIVE }

Ultraviolet Cystic Fibrosis Charity Benefit
Club Dada, Dallas, TX. April 26, 2008
http://www.myspace.com/clubdada

2nd Annual Halloween Art Show
F6 Gallery (Arlington, TX) ~~ More details TBA
http://www.myspace.com/f6gallery

Obscenely Unseen 3
Space Studio (Dallas, TX)
http://www.myspace.com/spaceiztheplace

One Day ONLY!!: August 2nd, 2008 from 3pm - midnight.

Art Anomaly
Online zine by Kris Swenson featuring unique & iconoclast artists of all genres & formats. http://artanomaly.com/

{ 2007 ARCHIVE }

Wabi Sabi - The Beauty of Imperfection
Firehouse Art Gallery (Fort Worth, TX)
http://firehouseart.net/index.html

View newspaper clipping here

Kris was featured as the Spotlight Artist for the week of July 16-21st, 2007 on TalentDatabase.com.

View archive here - >> http://strangefamiliar.com/ts.pdf

FEMME XX v2.0
Revolution Gallery (Dallas, TX)
http://myspace.com/revolution_gallery

Opening Reception: April 27th, 7pm to 12 midnight
SHOW RUNS April 27th through May 18, 2007.

MASK: A Portrait Show
Flash Gallery (Lakewood, CO)
http://www.workingwithartists.org/galleries.html

Opening Reception: November 3rd, 5-9 pm
SHOW RUNS November 3 - December 3 , 2006

JUROR: Grant Leighton
GUEST ARTIST: Jonathan Postal

A portrait can live for generations as a recorded example of personality, character, place and time. However, a picture of someone is not necessarily a portrait. A portrait is something much more and can be one of the most challenging and rewarding genres in photography. It provides information about the sitter and communicates to the viewer. It requires insight and intention. Whether embellished or raw, staged or on the fly, we want to show you the best.

JUROR GRANT LEIGHTON:

GRANT LEIGHTON began his photographic career working at the International Center for Photography in New York where he became passionately committed to fine art photography. While at ICP, as a darkroom assistant, Grant was invited to help Richard Avedon with his Master Class with darkroom printing, and while at this renowned institution for photography Grant studied with many of their most respected instructors.
My photo:

"Self Portrait"
Photograph, 12"x18"

WWA/Flash
Main Gallery
445 South Saulsbury St
Lakewood CO 80226

This event is free and all are welcome to attend. This photo is for sale - $250.00. If you are interested, please contact Kris.

This photo is framed & printed on 100 lb gloss chrome coat stock & will never be reproduced for sale again.

20th Annual DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (Day of the Dead) Art Exhibit
Bath House Cultural Center (Dallas, TX)

Opening Reception: Saturday October 21st, 6:00 pm

The Bath House Cultural Center presents the 20th annual Día de los Muertos art exhibition, October 14 – November 11, 2006. This year’s exhibition features 70 local, regional, national and international artists working in traditional and contemporary styles to celebrate, explore and honor people, things, and ideas that have “passed on.” This eclectic exhibition includes a collection of eighty pieces of art, all of which promise to be challenging, inspiring and thought provoking. The show includes works by artists from the DFW area, Texas, Mexico, Paraguay, Japan, Norway and Colombia.

20th Anniversary of the Day of the Dead exhibition:
The year 2006 Marks the 20th Anniversary of the Day of the Dead exhibition at the gallery spaces of the Bath House Cultural Center. The Bath House's tradition of presenting the Day of the Dead show began on November 1986 when Teatro Dallas incorporated displays of traditional Mexican altars of the dead into a theatrical presentation titled Johnny Tenorio.

Throughout the years, the exhibitions have evolved from being primarily a collection of traditional altar installations done mostly by Dallas Hispanic artists to a much wider selection of artistic interpretations that include-- in addition to the altars-- sculpture, painting, photography and other contemporary mixed media techniques. The last ten years have also seen a significant increase of non-Hispanic artists participating in this exhibition as more people embrace the Day of the Dead tradition and see the tremendous potential of the show’s theme for artistic creation.

Reception with the artists:
Saturday, October 21st, 2006 - (6-8 PM)

Free and open to the public.

The photo in this exhibit, entitled "Guardian Cemetary Angel Bearing the Miracle Water of Lourdes" is for sale.

This photo is framed & printed on 100 lb gloss kodachrome stock & will never be reproduced for sale again.

If you are interested in purchasing this piece, please contact Kris for a preview or stop by the Bath House Cultural Center during the Day of the Dead exhibit to inquire about purchasing or to view.

24th Annual Juried Art in the Metroplex exhibit
(Fort Worth, TX)

Opening Reception: Saturday September 9th, 2-8 pm, in conjunction with Fall Gallery Night.

TCU and Templeton Art Center's joint Art in the Metroplex exhibition is the North Central Texas area's only serious, theme-free, competitive survey of contemporary art.

Works in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture and mixed media selected from artists' works submitted from 16 north Texas counties that comprise the Metroplex.

The exhibition runs from Saturday, September 9 - Thursday, October 5.

JUROR

Janet Bishop is Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Bishop's recent projects have included the special exhibitions Pop! From Bay Area Collections (2004), Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art I and II (2001) and Fact Fiction: Contemporary Art that Walks the Line (2000).

Free and open to the public.

Featured in Bloodwars Magazine, Issue 22, Sept. 2006

Thanks to SFaustina at Bloodwars Magazine for the 2-page spread on my artwork. Download here for free: http://bloodwarsmagazine.com/downloads.html

Outside the Lines 6 - Juried Art Exhibit
Bath House Cultural Center

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 3rd - 6:00 pm

The Bath House Cultural Center presents Outside the Lines 6, a juried art exhibition featuring new works by local and regional visual artists. This exhibition celebrates the transcendent, innovative and experimental work of contemporary visual artists.

This year, Outside the Lines was juried by a panel of three jurors that includes Gabrielle Castañeda Pruitt, Jacob Kupersztoch and Rita Barnard. The panel selected forty local and regional artists presenting works in different media, including painting, sculpture, photography, etchings, installation art and mixed media.

Exhibition reception with the artists:
Saturday, June 3, 2006 - (6-8 PM)

Featuring a poetry reading by Thomas L. Walker and an award presentation at 7 PM and a jazz concert presented by Mark Cook's Static Trio at 8 PM.

Free and open to the public.

Spring Cleaning
Kettle Art Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 20th - 8:00 pm

Kettle Art Gallery
2714 Elm St. (Deep Ellum)
Dallas, TX 214 573-7622

Music by Timothy Moffett - Touch Synth & Vocals.

piece titled: 'departure' 2006.

price list & preview >>

Paintings and Assemblages - Reduce Reuse Recycle

Opening Reception: Friday April 21, 6:30 - 9:00pm

In the Gallery:
Art Exhibit: Paintings and Assemblages -Reduce Reuse Recycle
Griot Storyteller (Melody Bell)
Music by Terry Horn & Mark Cook

In the Theater 7:30 - 9:00pm
Poetry (Tammy Gomez) 7:30
Trash Art Fashion Show

Earth Day Celebration!

Rose Marine Theater's Gallery is pleased to present Reduce, Reuse, Recycle curated by Junanne Peck, April 21 & 22, 2006. This exhibit features works that are concerned with recycling. Artists come together to introduce a body of works incorporating recycled materials and found objects. Exploring recycling through art, the exhibit, Paintings and Assemblages- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, focuses on the world's problem of disappearing resources that are necessary to sustain life.

As a part of its year long 40th anniversary celebration, the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is supporting local arts events in cities and towns across the state. To show their appreciation for helping to make Texas the State of the Arts, the TCA is promoting the Earth Day 2006 Art Exhibit and Trash Art Fashion Show

Kris will have several new pieces displayed in the gallery for this exhibit.

Spring Gallery Night

"Pull the String and See the Light"
Opening Reception Saturday, April 1, 2006 from 4-9pm. Music & Refreshments will be served.

Kris will be exhibiting 3 pieces at the FireHouse Art Gallery. Sponsored by the Fort Worth Arts Consortium & Participating Art Galleries.

Spring Gallery Night will be here on April 1st this year. We will have the bus again this year and will be stopping at the following galleries: Untitled #1518, Warehouse Gallery, Studio 4, William Campbell, Firehouse, Heliotrope, Arts 5th Ave.
>> The tour will start at 4:00pm and end at 8:00pm.
More details on cost and starting point to come.

Memorial Art Project

"Heads Up - The Pat Penny Memorial Art Project"

PRESS RELEASE .pdf

Opening Reception: Sunday, April 30 @ 7:00 PM

Medical City Hospital Dallas
Atrium A, Entrance 3

7777 Forest Lane | Dallas, TX

Parking Provided

Please RSVP: 817.538.3209
Email cynthia.ward@ladiesoflegacy.org

Head's Up - The Pat Penny Memorial Art Show is expected to feature artwork by people such as Congressman Michael Burgess, the Fort Worth and Dallas mayors and Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, the Texas Rangers, the Fort Worth Cats, as well as local artists. The pieces will then be auctioned on ebay June 1, 2006 with proceeds benefiting the new foundation. So far, the artwork is scheduled to be displayed at Medical City Hospital (April 30th, May 1st, May 2nd), Presbyterian Hospital (May 3rd, May 4th and May 5), Firehouse Gallery in Fort Worth (May 6th through May 13th).

This benefit serves to raise public awareness about the unique challenges posed by brain & spinal cord tumors, while also creating a legacy of love that will enhance the quality of life for patients and their families now and in the future.

The pieces will be displayed at local hospitals and other venues from May 1st - May 31st, Brain Cancer Awareness Month.

As a non-profit charity, Ladies of Legacy offers referral information, education, and financial assistance such as grants-in-aid for patients and scholarships for their children. Although the focus of our organization is on female brain tumor survivors, families come first for most women, therefore our services are also available to survivors of male brain tumor patients.

RED Solo Art Exhibit

RED opens at the AMS Production Group Gallery

Friday, March 10, 2006 through March 31st.

Opening Reception:
Friday, March 10 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm.

For more info & a sneak preview of some of the new pieces, go here>>

View RECEPTION PICS

Mosaic Minds CD is released

Mosaic Minds cd artwork by Kris. Artwork was also used in construction of the MM website (developed by 100 proof entertainment). View FULL cd artwork!!

"Battie" Page digital dress up doll

Dress up your favorite Pinup Girl! "Battie" Page Dress-up doll.

(you'll need Flashplayer - )

Preview New Pieces by Kris - February 2006.

> http://strangefamiliar.com/new/

> http://strangefamiliar.com/srt_preview/index.html
> http://strangefamiliar.com/new/#
> http://strangefamiliar.com/rrr2006/rrr_preview.html
> http://strangefamiliar.com/red/red_preview.html
> http://strangefamiliar.com/heads-up
> http://strangefamiliar.com/blackmagic/blackmagic.html

{ 2005 Archive }

2005 Dia De Los Muertos Exhibit

Sunday, October 16, 2005: Opening Reception with the Artists for 2005 DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (Day of the Dead) Art Exhibition at the Bath House Cultural Art Center.
http://www.bathhousecultural.com/dod2005.html

(Sold photograph in this art show entitled "Guardian".)

View reception pics >>

Shifting Room Theory Exhibit

Friday, September 23, 2005: Art show featuring the artwork of Kris Swenson, Jared Thornton & Jose (Joey) Chabolla at the Art Bar in Deep Ellum, TX.

This exhibit will run from Sept. 23 through October 29th.

PREVIEW NEW PIECES BY KRIS for "Shifting Room Theory" Exhibit HERE >>

View invitations here >>front<< >>back<<

Art Show PRESS RELEASE (.pdf)

View pics from Art Bar Reception:

pics by Sarah Hauser | pics by Kris

06.30.05: Underground Railroad cd, "the Origin of Consciousness" released. Band photos inside cd by Kris

04.01.05: "When Ghosts Will Die"
performance art and interactive installation by Steve Gibson & Dene Grigar (Dallas, TX). Performance photographed by Kris >>

03.17.05: Read "The Tales of Black Magic" - a short pictoral story. (disturbing but true...)

03.08.05: Dress Up Spiderina by Kris on DressupGames.com

(you'll need Flashplayer - )