Donald Calledare      Donald Calledare is an Italian-born painter and writer who has lived and worked in Houston for many years, creating a substantial body of large scale paintings that explore landscapes of the imagination, the mythic and the fantastic. He is a contributing editor of the Texas art magazine "Artlies" and has written frequently on contemporary art and culture. Donald's manuscript, composed under the name of the fictional writer Generico Vespucci, became the libretto for AlienNation's MIGBOT exhibition and the development of a new opera, MIRAK. Donald now resides in North Carolina.

Exhibitions: (* Indicates solo exhibitions)

2000

1999

 

TROUBLE SHOOTING gun violence, Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte,NC

MIRAK,AlienNation Co., DiverseWorks, Houston

Vespucci film installation, Winter Street Art Center, Houston, and ACA Gallery, Artplex Austin

   
1998
  MIGBOT, AlienNation Co., Winter Street Art Center, Houston
1998
 
Altered Landscapes, Group Show of paintings and photography, ArtScan, Houston
1997
  Texas National, Nacogdoches Texas
1995
  -Day of the Dead, Lawndale, Houston
  Portfolio 2000, College Station, Tx.
  The Big Show, Lawndale, Houston
1994
  -Day of the Dead, Lawndale, Houston
  * Fergus-Fernandez Gallery, Houston
  The Big Show, Lawndale
  Out of This World, Contemporary Arts Museum,Houston
1993
  Scenic Allegories, Lawndale
  Day of the Dead, Lawndale
  Anonymous Show, West End Gallery, Houston
  The Portrait Show, West End Gallery, Houston
  West End, West End Gallery, Houston
1992
  Dream and Imagination, Six Houston painters, Transco Gallery, Houston
  Day of the Dead, Lawndale
  The Big Show, Lawndale
  Case for Art, Lawndale at Houston Central Library
  Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston
1991
  The War Show, Fountainhead Gallery, Houston
1990
  Group Show, Economic Summit, G.V.G. Gallery
  Group Show, Graham Gallery, Houston
1989
  MFA Thesis Show, Blaffer Gallery, Houston
1988
  Synergy 88, Museum of Fine Arts at Glassell, Houston
1987
  East End Show, Lawndale Annex, Houston
1982
  * Galleria Albatross, Rome, Italy
1979
  Group Show, Obelisk Gallery, London, England
1976
  * Deja Vu, Coffeehouse/Gallery, Los Angeles
1975
  -* Kerchoff Hall, UCLA
 
Performance Collaborations    
2001

Vespucci, video installation, University of Brasilia Art Gallery, Brasilia

Media Center, Graduate School of Semiotics and Communications, PUC, Sao Paulo

 
2000

Vespucci, video installation, Performance 2000 Platform, Dartington College, UK

Vespucci, Performance Studies International Festival-Conference, Arizona State University, Phoenix

 
1999 Mirak, stage design, module preparation, live computer display, collaboration with Alien Nation Company, at Diverse Works, Houston,TX  
1999 Vespucci, video installation, at ACA Gallery, Austin, at Lee College,Bay City,Tx and Winter Street Art Center, Houston, with AlienNation Company  
1998 Œmigbot¹/Vespucci, Black Box, Dec 4-5, opera libretto, stage design, and collaboration with AlienNation Company, Winter Street Art Center, Houston  

 

Publications:

1998

 

1997

 

 

 

1996

 

North by South, online review for Leonardo,

Theater of the Beyond, ArtLies,

Interview with Reverend Tony Cambell, feature, ArtLies

Cliff Notes to American Canvas, feature, ArtLies

Troy Woods, review, ArtLies

Jorge Garnica, review, ArtLies

Trance Plantain, review, ArtLies

Panarchy 666, feature, ArtLies,

ArtLies, Issue #11, Editor, June-September 1996

Codex Mesouranima, feature ,ArtLies,

Crossing the Great Divide, review, Artlies Magazine, March 1994

1994
 
Decoding Violence: A Few Texas Photographers, review, ArtLies Magazine, May-June 1994
1994
  La Cordillera Enamorada, review, ArtLies Magazine, October-November 1994


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