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Pard Morrison - Orient Me Towards The Sun, 2024 - Graphite, gesso, molding paste, acrylic on Belgian linen over panel

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METAL MASH-UP: Jeremy Thomas, Pard Morrison, Elliot Norquist

July 5 - August 3, 2024

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Colorado artist Pard Morrison sends us beneath the surface of his familiar grid paintings

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Colorado artist Pard Morrison sends us beneath the surface of his familiar grid paintings

It has been nine years since Colorado painter Pard Morrison showed his work in Denver, though it is clear that he saved up a lot of thought-provoking ideas for his return.

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Pard Morrison (American, 21st Century). Everything in Our Power, triptych, 2008. - Heritage Auctions.

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Episode 125 - Literary Theory & Literary Criticism

This episode we’re talking about Literary Theory & Literary Criticism! We discuss what literature even is, books we haven’t read, preconceived notions, and much more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas 

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin

Is Gender Necessary?

A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832–1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

Other Media We Mentioned

XKCD - Types of Scientific Paper

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

The ecology of dystopia : an ecocritical analysis of young adult dystopian texts by Stephanie Dror

Anne of Green Gables (Wikipedia)

The Hunger Games (Wikipedia)

Merlin (2008 TV series) (Wikipedia)

The Vampire Diaries (novel series) (Wikipedia)

Harry Potter (Wikipedia)

The Third Man by Graham Greene

The Collaborators by Pierre Siniac, translated by Jordan Stump (originally published in French as Ferdinaud Céline)

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

Annals of Pard (blog posts about cats)

Links, Articles, and Things

Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction

Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)

Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism (Purdue)

Racebending (Wikipedia)

Category:Star Trek fandom (Wikipedia)

Hugo Award (Wikipedia)

Best Fanzine

Best Fan Artist

Best Fan Writer

Best Fancast

The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde

Read it online

Very Short Introductions (Wikipedia)

Robert Crumb (Wikipedia)

James Tiptree Jr. (Wikipedia)

Norman Mailer (Wikipedia)

Episode 047 - Creative Writing/Books About Writing

20 Literary Theory Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures by Aijaz Ahmad

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat

The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice

Ex-Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani

Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie

Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith

The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected by Edwin Wong

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 18th, we’ll be talking about Books We Did Not Finish!

Then on Tuesday, June 1st we’ll be discussing the genre of Crime Fiction!

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Pard Morrison Heliotrope, 2018 fired pigment on aluminum 96 × 30 × 6-1/2 inches

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I love discovering vibrant sculptures around the city (especially when it’s cloudy outside).  Pard Morrison “Heartmouth” 2018 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art

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Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART presents PARD MORRISON: Warp and Weft

An exhibition of new work by Pard Morrison will open at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art on August 1 and extend to August 31. An opening reception with the artist will be on Friday, August 2, from 5-7 p.m. at the gallery, which is located at 554 S. Guadalupe in the Railyard Art District.

Bright lines weave through and over each other, each line made of different colors, one giving way to the next: blue to yellow to red; red to pink to gray to violet. The effect is of a precarious balance between quietude and activity.

It is this meeting of diverse elements – woven together to make a whole -- that forms the underlying theme to Morrison’s aptly named exhibition of new works, Warp and Weft. The tall slim aluminum pillar from which the exhibition has taken its name – white, lined horizontally and vertically by these stitched, colored lines, exemplifies a shift in visual language for Morrison; while the title itself also directly references the exploration of an entirely new medium for Morrison: painting on canvas.

Those familiar with Morrison’s previous work will immediately note the distinctive shift. Morrison has long worked with 1/8-inch aluminum plate – cutting and welding the pieces himself to create both sculpture and wall works which he hand-paints with enamels and then heat cures in industrial ovens. The unraveled-puzzle-box shapes of the wall works were painted in solid geometric sections of color.

The new works focus more on painting – with the grid pattern appearing throughout the works in the show, though seen from different angles or heights. Some, like the small metal wall pieces, give us only bits of grid – as if Morrison has zoomed in on one small piece of a vast network. Others, like the large canvas work Flowers for Brains, have the opposite effect, showing the multiplicity of grids as if seen from a distance.

While the visual shift is quite distinct, the more time one spends with the work, the more one can see the way Morrison’s new series lifts off from older ones. There is a sense that, with previous works, these grid patterns were there all along – only invisible, hiding behind those geometric puzzle-patterns. Now, lifted out to the surface, this woven pattern feels like a mystery brought gently up into the light to be examined.

In speaking about the new work, Morrison noted that it had arisen out of questions about the nature of human life and change. Like the warp and weft of his grid patterns, Morrison suggests that there are two forces at work in life: the fundamental characteristics of who we are and the aspects of our selves which are malleable. Life, chance, circumstance, opportunity, disaster – these weave in and around that fundamental, stationary warp of us, shifting our lives into new directions, creating new patterns. For Morrison, each new shift of color in the gridlines represents some new element, new experience, feeling, idea, energy, entering into the pattern.

Perhaps the most direct reference to this exploration is with the 80 x 80 canvas work, Lieutenant Dan. Graphite, acrylic, and gesso on canvas, the piece gives us a view of 6 grid lines. The colors, ranging from strong primaries to fainter pastels, red through pink, gray through blue, have found a moment of perfect balance – not unlike the referenced character from the movie Forrest Gump, who despite all the challenges of his life, finally finds a moment of peace, floating in the ocean.

Which highlights another aspect of the works in Warp and Weft – time. The energy of the lines, the color shifts, contribute to a feeling of flow and movement. While earlier series may have dealt more directly with space – these works seem to actively engage with time. The sense is that Morrison has captured these energies in the briefest moment of rest. What we are seeing are not finished patterns but unfolding ones, caught in an instant before they begin to move and shift and change yet again.  

For more information about this exhibition please contact 505-989-8688 or press554@charlottejackson.com or visit our website: www.charlottejackson.com.

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The Song of Songs: A Biography by Ilana Pardes

The Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song of love. But the kind of love readers have found in this ancient poem is strikingly varied. Ilana Pardes invites us to explore the dramatic shift from readings of the Song as a poem on divine love to celebrations of its exuberant account of human love. With a refreshingly nuanced approach, she reveals how allegorical and literal interpretations are inextricably intertwined in the Song’s tumultuous life. The body in all its aspects―pleasure and pain, even erotic fervor―is key to many allegorical commentaries. And although the literal, sensual Song thrives in modernity, allegory has not disappeared. New modes of allegory have emerged in modern settings, from the literary and the scholarly to the communal.

Offering rare insights into the story of this remarkable poem, Pardes traces a diverse line of passionate readers. She looks at Jewish and Christian interpreters of late antiquity who were engaged in disputes over the Song’s allegorical meaning, at medieval Hebrew poets who introduced it into the opulent world of courtly banquets, and at kabbalists who used it as a springboard to the celestial spheres. She shows how feminist critics have marveled at the Song’s egalitarian representation of courtship, and how it became a song of America for Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Toni Morrison. Throughout these explorations of the Song’s reception, Pardes highlights the unparalleled beauty of its audacious language of love.

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Pard Morrison - Reverse Vampire, 2021

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METAL MASH-UP

JEREMY THOMAS, PARD MORRISON, ELLIOT NORQUIST

July 5 - August 3, 2024

Opening Reception for the Artists: Friday, July 5, 5-7 PM

Summer is heat and space and light. Summer is color. Summer is bold. Summer is perfect for sculpture. This summer, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art is excited to revive its themed group sculpture exhibition: Metal Mash-Up. A group exhibition is always a way to set up room for comparison and contemplation. The unique perspectives of different artists allow a viewer to relate to pieces in a whole new way. Metal Mash-Up, playing on the idea of a mash up in music or literature, features three talented artists whose metalworks offer a wide variety of forms, formats, approaches, fabrications, and colors: Pard Morrison, Elliot Norquist, and Jeremy Thomas. This diverse range of metalworks offers the chance to explore nuance, detail, and difference in ways that a single-artist show wouldn’t allow.

The first thing you see, entering the gallery, may be Pard Morrison’s large freestanding aluminum columns. These pieces are a bit larger than human scale – ranging from 6.5 to 12 feet tall and 1.5 to 2.5 feet wide. Covered in softly vivid blocks of woven colors, they are brush painted, contrary to what one might expect with metal sculpture of this size, using special industrial paints that offer a vast catalog of color options. On very close inspection, you can see the hand of the artist in the brushwork on the surfaces. Morrison weaves strips of colors together across the horizontal and vertical planes in varied patterns. Where the colors meet, lines sometimes disappear or overlap, or sometimes merge, morphing into different hues. These complex, interlaced and unexpectedly connected colors prove to be both thoughtful and mesmeric.

Turning to Elliot Norquist’s steel wall pieces and found object work, we find a shift in perspective, as well as in volume. These works perfectly balance the elegance and humor we’ve come to expect from Norquist’s work. Here the spare folded steel shapes of works from his Folded series (based on the intriguing shapes of folded paper scraps), with their spare colors, somehow seamlessly compliment the unusual Found Object – an industrial gear or wheel, painted green and set into a custom made metal stand. The Folded pieces play with new color tones and combinations, while the more anomalous Found Object references earlier site specific work, while still playing with new colors.

Also playing with a whole new range and use of color is Jeremy Thomas, who brings his familiar inflated steel forms to the exhibition. His complex, multi-form pieces, including both wall-mounting and floor sculptures, are given a whole different aspect through a new ap- proach to the utilization of color inspired by the colorwork of his recent inflated canvas pieces. Rather than using one or two of his signature bold, slick color choices and patinaed planes to coat and contrast, with his new pieces Thomas “pushes or pulls” the color in ways that highlight or thwart the angles and planes of the forms. The color combinations can be surprising – with flared out colors and subtly merging tonalities created using airbrushing. While Thomas’ inflated pieces are a way to visually record the effects of atmosphere and pressure (air pushing against form in ways that will always be unique to the moment) his changing use of color realigns us in rela- tionship to our expectations. We must look again.

A walk through the gallery is a walk through a landscape of strange forms, dazzling colors, and quite a few wonders. Each piece in Metal Mash-Up has its own story, it’s unique vocabulary of form, material, color, theory. Together they create something new, an experience that gives the viewer a new context within which to explore the possibilities of metal sculpture.

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From Left: Jeremy Thomas, Snapper Yellow, 2024, cold rolled steel, powder coat, & vinyl emulsion, 25.5 x 40.25 x 14.5 in.,

Pard Morrison, Bring Peace to Midnight, 2023, fired pigment on aluminum, 24 x 24 x 1.5 in.

Elliot Norquist, Black/Red Fold, 2024, painted steel, 36 x 52 in.

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Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) Releases New EP, Taps Kaytranada for New Song: Listen

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Nick Murphy (formerly known as Chet Faker) has shared a new EP—his first release since he changed his artist moniker last fall. As teased last week, Missing Link is out now via Downtown Records/Interscope. The five-track effort opens with the single “Your Time,” which is produced by Kaytranada; hear it below, along with another new track, “Forget About Me.” Listen to both below, and check out Murphy's new interview with Zane Lowe here. Murphy is also set to head out on a world tour this year. Find his full tour schedule below.

Missing Link EP:

01 Your Time 02 Bye 03 I’m Ready 04 Forget About Me 05 Weak Education

Nick Murphy:

05-11 Denver, CO - Club Vinyl (DJ Set) 05-12 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks ^ 05-13 Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival 06-01 Sydney, Australia - Vivid LIVE, Sydney Opera House 06-02 Sydney, Australia - Vivid LIVE, Sydney Opera House 06-03 Sydney, Australia - Vivid LIVE, Sydney Opera House 06-13 Ibiza, Spain - Pacha (DJ Set) 06-17 Barcelona, Spain - Off Sonar (DJ Set) 06-23 Salt Lake City, UT - Bonanza Camp Out Music & Arts Festival 07-29 New York, NY - Panorama Music & Arts Festival 08-17 Pardes de Coura, Portugal - Pardes de Coura Festival 09-10 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 09-15 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer  09-18 Boston, MA - The Royale 09-22 Montréal, Québec - Le Métropolis 09-25 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall 09-27 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre 09-29 Chicago, IL - The Riviera Theatre  10-09 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Vogue Theatre 10-13 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom 10-14 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo 10-16 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 10-19 Los Angeles, CA - The Shrine Auditorium 10-20 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory 10-21 San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park 10-25 Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory 10-26 Austin, TX - Moody Theater @ ACL Live 10-28 Live Oak, FL - Suwannee Hulaween Music & Arts Festival 11-22 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle  11-23 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall  11-24 Zurich, Switzerland - Komplex 457  11-26 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso  11-27 Brussels, Belgium - Cirque Royal  11-29 Paris, France - Bataclan 12-02 Manchester, England - Albert Hall 12-05 London, England - Troxy

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Pard Morrison 

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Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) Releases New EP, Taps Kaytranada for New Song: Listen

Nick Murphy (formerly known as Chet Faker) has shared a new EP—his first release since he changed his artist moniker last fall. As teased last week, Missing Link is out now via Downtown Records/Interscope. The five-track effort opens with the single “Your Time,” which is produced by Kaytranada; hear it below, along with another new track, “Forget About Me.” Listen to both below, and check out Murphy's new interview with Zane Lowe here. Murphy is also set to head out on a world tour this year. Find his full tour schedule below.

Missing Link EP:

01 Your Time 02 Bye 03 I’m Ready 04 Forget About Me 05 Weak Education

Nick Murphy:

05-11 Denver, CO - Club Vinyl 05-12 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks ^ 05-13 Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival 06-01 Sydney, Australia - Vivid LIVE, Sydney Opera House 06-02 Sydney, Australia - Vivid LIVE, Sydney Opera House 06-03 Sydney, Australia - Vivid LIVE, Sydney Opera House 06-13 Ibiza, Spain - Pacha 06-17 Barcelona, Spain - Off Sonar 06-23 Salt Lake City, UT - Bonanza Camp Out Music & Arts Festival 07-29 New York, NY - Panorama Music & Arts Festival 08-17 Pardes de Coura, Portugal - Pardes de Coura Festival 09-10 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 09-15 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer  09-18 Boston, MA - The Royale 09-22 Montréal, Québec - Le Métropolis 09-25 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall 09-27 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre 09-29 Chicago, IL - The Riviera Theatre  10-09 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Vogue Theatre 10-13 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom 10-14 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo 10-16 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 10-19 Los Angeles, CA - The Shrine Auditorium 10-20 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory 10-21 San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park 10-25 Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory 10-26 Austin, TX - Moody Theater @ ACL Live 10-28 Live Oak, FL - Suwannee Hulaween Music & Arts Festival 11-22 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle  11-23 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall  11-24 Zurich, Switzerland - Komplex 457  11-26 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso  11-27 Brussels, Belgium - Cirque Royal  11-29 Paris, France - Bataclan 12-02 Manchester, England - Albert Hall 12-05 London, England - Troxy

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