From Dusk to Dawn: The Poetics of Being
Resuming Round 51 | Lanecia Rouse Tinsley at Project Row Houses
On View: Saturday, October 22, 2022 – Saturday, December 3, 2022
On View: Saturday, October 22, 2022 – Saturday, December 3, 2022
Photo by Sol Diaz compliments of Project Row Houses
From Round 51: Local Impact II was curated by Project Row Houses former Curator and Programs Director Ryan N. Dennis. The Round was scheduled to open to the public on March 14th, 2020, but unbeknownst to our community, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. As the Project Row Houses curatorial team gathered in the Community Gallery to prepare for the upcoming event, Mayor Sylvester Turner announced that Houston, Texas would halt all public events for the rest of the month. That month then nearly turned into a year until the first phase of vaccinations were released on December 14, 2020.
Our Round 51 artists gracefully shifted with us as we reimagined how to continue to engage our community. Though we redesigned the approach to Round 51 with video walkthroughs and virtual programming, we also acknowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic (alongside social uprisings, rapid climate change, and numerous injustices around the globe) had a significant impact on the Round, our artists, and our communities. With Resuming Round 51, we invite Round 51: Local Impact II participating artists back to our site to present works that they have created since March 11, 2020. In this series of exhibitions, artists will share the evolution of their Round 51 installations or present new concepts to their actively evolving practices. With the return of these artists, we reignite the key themes that sparked the first Local Impact exhibition in 2017: collaborative public art, social justice, and radical imagination.
-Project Row Houses
From Dusk to Dawn: The Poetics of Being
Lanecia Rouse Tinsley’s artistic practice is contemplative, exploratory, and improvisational. She explores the language possibilities of materials and photography as she builds mixed-media collage works that point toward alternative ways of viewing and knowing human experiences. Tinsley sits with questions and draws upon memory, geographies she has inhabited, poetry/literature, spirituality, and history to create works that reflect the textured and complex layers that make up the human experience.
In this work, Tinsley explores the embodiments that enable making a life and imagine new possibilities for being as we live here on this bridge between
starshine and clay
the finite and infinite
joy and deep sorrow
the tangible and intangible.
Our Round 51 artists gracefully shifted with us as we reimagined how to continue to engage our community. Though we redesigned the approach to Round 51 with video walkthroughs and virtual programming, we also acknowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic (alongside social uprisings, rapid climate change, and numerous injustices around the globe) had a significant impact on the Round, our artists, and our communities. With Resuming Round 51, we invite Round 51: Local Impact II participating artists back to our site to present works that they have created since March 11, 2020. In this series of exhibitions, artists will share the evolution of their Round 51 installations or present new concepts to their actively evolving practices. With the return of these artists, we reignite the key themes that sparked the first Local Impact exhibition in 2017: collaborative public art, social justice, and radical imagination.
-Project Row Houses
From Dusk to Dawn: The Poetics of Being
Lanecia Rouse Tinsley’s artistic practice is contemplative, exploratory, and improvisational. She explores the language possibilities of materials and photography as she builds mixed-media collage works that point toward alternative ways of viewing and knowing human experiences. Tinsley sits with questions and draws upon memory, geographies she has inhabited, poetry/literature, spirituality, and history to create works that reflect the textured and complex layers that make up the human experience.
In this work, Tinsley explores the embodiments that enable making a life and imagine new possibilities for being as we live here on this bridge between
starshine and clay
the finite and infinite
joy and deep sorrow
the tangible and intangible.
SELECTED WORKS
marigold, 2022
Paper, acrylic, photography by the artists and 23kt gold leaf on a discarded book cover
8in x 10in white minimalist wood frame
Paper, acrylic, photography by the artists and 23kt gold leaf on a discarded book cover
8in x 10in white minimalist wood frame
reach, 2022
Paper, acrylic, photography by the artists and 23kt gold leaf on a discarded book cover
8in x 10in white minimalist wood frame
Paper, acrylic, photography by the artists and 23kt gold leaf on a discarded book cover
8in x 10in white minimalist wood frame
within, 2022
Paper, acrylic, photography by the artists and 23kt gold leaf on a discarded book cover
8in x 10in white minimalist wood frame
Paper, acrylic, photography by the artists and 23kt gold leaf on a discarded book cover
8in x 10in white minimalist wood frame
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Four Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer + Fall, 2022
12in x 16in
12in x 16in