Jim Pirtle Exhibition
CUE Art Foundation
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Jim Pirtle has worn many hats in his life and because of this, he has presented audiences with an odd and unique view of the world. He has worked in very traditional art forms- as a painter of portraits, for example- and he has expanded our understanding of those genres. But some of his most compelling works are those that don't readily fit into any category. For example, he has crafted a strange, hilarious and terrifying style of entertainment/performance that borders on insanity with an array of alter ego characters that trump any found in today's popular culture. As a filmmaker, he has created a full-length parody of Forrest Gump with a budget of spare change and in a style enviably slack and free. But notsuoH, Jim's functional, experimental, social/sculptural urban environment, is his supreme art/life work. notsuoH (Houston spelled backwards) is a vintage 1893 three-story former pawnshop on Main Street in downtown Houston. notsuoH is part bar, part chess club, part art gallery, part open-mike sanctuary that serves as a political platform, rehearsal hall, and performance stage for all types of musicians, artists, intellectuals, scholars, aesthetic wannabe's and gawkers. Jim Pirtle's notsuoH is a creative community vortex nexus fueled by alcohol, cigarettes, idealism and a paradoxical, all-embracing, pro/anti-everythingism.
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Schedule
from September 04, 2008 to October 11, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-09-04 from 18:00 to 20:00