Houston-based Dario Robleto is a conceptual artist creating intricately handcrafted objects that reflect his exploration of music, popular culture, science, war and American history.

Inspired by his visits to New Orleans, Robleto focuses on the transference of music across multiple generations. His show opens March 23, 2012 at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

above: The Minor Chords are Ours, 2010. Vintage mason jars, vintage wooden spools, stretched audio tape, minor chords, linseed oil, willow. The minor chords from a family’s 60-year record collection were isolated to audio tape, stretched into thread, and spooled. 60 x 23 x 23 inches

New Orleans based conceptual artist Stephen Collier recently finished an onsite installation for the Spaces show at the CAC, entitled Concealment Wall.

above: Concealment Wall, 2012. 122.5 x 101 x 6.25 inches. Installation at the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans. In collaboration with Brett LaBauve.

Bruce High Quality Foundation is a collective founded on September 11th, 2009 in New York City. Basing their work on the “wishes of Bruce High Quality”, a fabricated personality, BHQF seeks to utilize the social sculpture teachings of Joseph Beuys and the humor of Andy Warhol in a contemporary context. 

While the founders prefer to remain anonymous, they’ve teamed with Vito Schnabel to establish Bruce High Quality Foundation University in Soho. The BHQFU is a free art school open to all who would go and to all who would teach in defiance of a dysfunctional art school system that steadily becomes less economically attainable to most.

February 29th will see the opening of the 2012 Brucennial on 159 Bleecker St. The exhibition will feature mostly emerging and some mid-career artists and will be up until April 20th.

Opening this Saturday, February 25, SPACES brings together Antenna, The Front, and Good Children Gallery at the Contemporary Arts Center for four months of programming. The second floor of the CAC will be divided amongst the cooperative galleries for exhibition space, events, performances, and screenings with front window displays highlighting work from Parse Gallery, T-LOT, and Staple Goods collectives. Additionally, three site-specific projects by Rachel Brown & James Goedert, Bob Snead, and Jonathan Traviesa will be outside the second-floor exhibition space.

Fore more information visit CAC, Antenna, The Front, and Good Children Gallery. 
SPACES was curated by Amy Mackie, Director of Visual Arts with Angela Berry, Visual Arts Coordinator 

Admission to the opening event on February 25 from 6 pm to 8 pm is free. 900 Camp Street (at St. Joseph)