We are pleased to revisit early work by Paul Turounet on the 25 year anniversary of its creation. The San Diego based artist was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1997 that supported his work Tierra Brava, a project that marked a changing point in the contemporary artist’s career and seeded the interests that still drive him today.
Read moreOne Last Look: 2018 in Review
Our Artists had a banner year: Ian van Coller was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his ongoing work Naturalists of the Long Now, Matt Eich released the second volume of The Invisible Yoke: Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town, Jennifer Greenburg exhibited Revising History in Italy, and Paul Turounet’s Estamos Buscando A was included in the 5th Transborder Biennale, which occurred simultaneously in El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez.
Read morePaul Turounet in The Architecture of Four Ecologies At La Jolla Historical Society
Espera y Maravilla | Wait and Wonder by Paul Turounet
on view through January 20, 2019
This exhibition was curated by Rebecca Webb and takes British architectural historian Reyner Banham’s treatise Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, a tribute to LA as a “mobile city"as its inspiration. San Diego: The Architecture of Four Ecologies similarly pays homage to San Diego as a city of change and possibility, with a focus on the car as the current and predominant means to access and experience four of its own ecologies: Beaches, Freeways, Sub/urban and Border. Espera y Maravilla | Wait and Wonder is a selection of images tailored to this exhibition but drawn from Turounet’s larger body of work, Tierra Brava.
Read moreTurounet Exhibits in 2018 Transborder Biennial : El Paso + Juárez
Three of Paul Turounet's Estamos Buscando | We're Looking For (fragments) were selected for inclusion in an international and trans-border exhibition happening in El Paso and Juárez this summer.
The exhibitions' structure heightens the aims of the artists, underlines, and brakes the divide between points, thus prompting reflection on life in the border region, including issues of crossing, immigration, and physical, linguistic, and cultural hybridity.
Read morePaul Turounet at 'In Transit | En Transito'
The Symposium Anchors in the Sonoran Desert borderlands and draws together artists, activists, and academics for a series of cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborations. Turounet was invited to speak on the themes of art, migration, and resistance through the lens of his work.
Read moreVirtual View: Estamos Buscando A
The quest for a greater understanding of purpose and meaning is universal to our collective existence. We wrestle with the anxiety and uncertainty we all face when we leave behind the known for the unknown. Regardless of the demarcation lines of country and culture, we are all migrants in search of something profound and meaningful to our being.
Read morePaul Turounet at MOCA Tucson
Estamos Buscando A
October 7 - December 31, 2017
Reception: Saturday, October 7
Members Preview: 7 – 8 pm | Public Reception: 8-9pm
Artist's Talk: Saturday, October 7 | 10 - 11 am Great Hall
Paul Turounet is interested in storytelling, perspective, and the space between places, emotions, or states; the tension in his work often emerges from the gaps exposed. Estamos Buscando A (We're Looking For) is a photo-driven installation that examines the psychology of the US|MX border. It is composed of recovered border wall, intimate portraits of migrants on metal plates that the Artist calls retablos, sand, dirt, and found objects such as backpacks and tire-drags.
Read morePaul Turounet Selected For Exhibition at SF Camerawork
'Circus,' features a wide range of photographic interpretations pertaining to the meaning, history, and the symbolism of the circus. Turounet's selected work from his early "King of the Compacts," which follows "Charlie 'Too Tall' West", a rodeo clown performer who embodies what it means to be a part of the American West.
Read moreTurounet Contributes to Collaborative Exhibition: Weather on Steroids
Weather on Steroids: the Art of Climate Change Science
On view at the La Jolla Historical Society from February 11 - May 21
Public Viewing Hours: Sat. & Sun. 12:00 - 4:00 pm
This collaborative exhibition merges art and science to create a visual dialogue about the vexing problem of climate change as being experienced in Southern California.
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