Photos courtesy of Tim Amundson
Perfect Sunset (there’s nothing sad about it)
by Kristen Cochran
Friday December 2nd, 2016 6-9pm
*Retirement parties begin hourly at 6, 7, and 8 pm.
Gifts welcome. Cake served.
Front/Space is pleased to present "Perfect Sunset (there’s nothing sad about it)" an exhibition examining the idea of endings by Dallas-based artist Kristen Cochran. Through video, sound, sculpture, and imagery relating to retirement parties, happy hours and sunsets, an installation is constructed to play with the complex emotions relating to times of liminality and change. Using early 1990s footage from her grandfather’s retirement party as source material, Cochran proposes faring well in the face of loss in an exhibition that invites participants to arrive ready to retire and to draw back the curtain on what’s next.
About Kristen Cochran:
From the Pacific Northwest, Kristen Cochran moved to Texas to complete her MFA at The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in 2010. She has exhibited in the Pacific Northwest, Texas, New York and Europe and has works in private collections in Italy and London. In Texas, Cochran has exhibited extensively at venues such as Talley Dunn Gallery, Oliver Francis Gallery, CentralTrak, Barry Whistler Gallery, RE gallery, Southern Methodist University, University of Texas at Dallas, Eastfield College, The Dallas Contemporary Museum, and at Women & Their Work and Blue Star Contemporary for the 2011 and 2013 Texas Biennials respectively. She has been awarded residencies in Long Island City, NY, Mittersill, Austria and Banner, Wyoming and will commence a year-long residency at The Center for Arts and Medicine at Baylor Hospital Fall 2016. Kristen presently teaches drawing and sculpture at the University of Texas at Dallas and is a gallery educator at The Nasher Sculpture Center. She has taught at Southern Methodist University, The Nasher Sculpture Center, The Dallas Museum of Art and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth as a teaching artist. Recent exhibitions include Surfacing at the HF Johnson Gallery at Carthage College.
