Deadwest

deadWEST is an exhibition of artists working in a variety of media that takes place in Winter Rusiloski and Angel Fernandez’s studio. deadWEST was conceived as an alternative artist space in North Texas, with a location that is due west of the Dallas and Fort Worth Cultural Districts. Rusiloski is a transplant of the Northeastern United States to Fort Worth, and Fernandez is a transplant of Mexico to Fort Worth, to the Northeast and back to Fort Worth. This is their first curatorial collaboration where numerous themes percolate throughout the selection of artists; the dominant two are PLACE and IDENTITY.

Several artists in this collection reference PLACE as a physical environment while others use that physical space as a foundation to construct material responses shaped by individual aesthetic sensibilities. The remaining participants address a psychological PLACE that is a function of IDENTITY and vice versa. Geographic location, social matrices and personal histories are factors that form the IDENTITY that deadWEST artists explore.