IRIS BECHTOL
Iris Bechtol is an artist and curator connecting the community to the arts through her work as Gallery Programs Coordinator at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center. She is an alumnus of 500X Gallery (2001-05), Texas’ oldest artist cooperative and received her Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia from the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2013 she founded Terrain Dallas which focuses on temporary, experimental interventions by emerging artists in the landscape of a front yard. In her art practice she is currently exploring fragility, instability, and uncertainty via materials and spaces between the natural and the human made.
Statement: Something ongoing, unfolding, acting – this is how I view my work. With an interest in just about everything, I see the world as a living field – a space that requires a diversity of responses. Avoiding categories that might simplify my work or stifle the breadth of my interests, I refrain from working with only one material or process. Working in a variety of materials, I draw on my examination of the phenomenological or “lived experience” and how it is reflected back through image, object, and place.
IRIS BECHTOL
Iris Bechtol is an artist and curator connecting the community to the arts through her work as Gallery Programs Coordinator at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center. She is an alumnus of 500X Gallery (2001-05), Texas’ oldest artist cooperative and received her Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia from the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2013 she founded Terrain Dallas which focuses on temporary, experimental interventions by emerging artists in the landscape of a front yard. In her art practice she is currently exploring fragility, instability, and uncertainty via materials and spaces between the natural and the human made.
Statement: Something ongoing, unfolding, acting – this is how I view my work. With an interest in just about everything, I see the world as a living field – a space that requires a diversity of responses. Avoiding categories that might simplify my work or stifle the breadth of my interests, I refrain from working with only one material or process. Working in a variety of materials, I draw on my examination of the phenomenological or “lived experience” and how it is reflected back through image, object, and place.
IRIS BECHTOL
Iris Bechtol is an artist and curator connecting the community to the arts through her work as Gallery Programs Coordinator at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center. She is an alumnus of 500X Gallery (2001-05), Texas’ oldest artist cooperative and received her Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia from the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2013 she founded Terrain Dallas which focuses on temporary, experimental interventions by emerging artists in the landscape of a front yard. In her art practice she is currently exploring fragility, instability, and uncertainty via materials and spaces between the natural and the human made.
Statement: Something ongoing, unfolding, acting – this is how I view my work. With an interest in just about everything, I see the world as a living field – a space that requires a diversity of responses. Avoiding categories that might simplify my work or stifle the breadth of my interests, I refrain from working with only one material or process. Working in a variety of materials, I draw on my examination of the phenomenological or “lived experience” and how it is reflected back through image, object, and place.