New Piece “Home” Completed for American Roulette Exhibition at Austin Community College
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American Roulette in Austin
February 25-June 26, 2025
Gallery 4000 (HLC 4.2105)
Austin Community College, Highland Campus
Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10am-5pm
Free and open to the public
The Art Galleries (TAG) at AustinCommunity College is proud to announce the Spring 2025 exhibition, American Roulette–Austin: Navigating Gun Culture in our Violent Society. The artist collective, American Roulette, seeks to open dialogue and foster discussions related to mass shootings and gun violence in the United States. Through exhibitions, the collective engages with communities by inviting local artists to submit artwork to be included in every exhibition. The selection of the works is juried by gallery curators and the American Roulette Collective.
American Roulette–Austin: Navigating Gun Culture in our Violent Society aims to give back to communities through experiencing the collective’s work and providing a space for reflection upon the country’s stance on gun violence. The goal is to spark a much needed dialogue through art so gallery visitors can explore differing opinions and perspectives surrounding this critical issue.
Artist Collective’s Statement:
Violence and disregard for life have become so ingrained in American society and culture (from police brutality and institutional abuse, to poverty and domestic violence) that our collective consciousness is now shaped by paranoia and fear. The media we choose to consume numbs us and the suffering endured by others becomes nothing more than flickering images on a screen, slowly turning our desensitizations to apathy and fascination. As artists, we seek to open dialog and foster discussion through our version of “activist” art. The best way to spur these conversations, especially with those of differing opinions, is to present provocative images and engage in the discourse that they initiate. Through the practices of artists from around the country, all making work about gun violence and how it impacts our society, we strive to bridge cultural and societal divides and demonstrate that this is an issue that affects all of us.
For more information about American Roulette artists, visit:
https://www.americanrouletteart.com/artists
“United”
A new piece was recently created in hopes that it will turn into a small body of work. The sculpture consists of a full size dining room chair split in half – the piece is suspended on a welded steel frame which is connected to a work vice. The piece has the ability to open and close to appear more or less open depending on the desired view.
For more process images : https://yousifdelvalle.com/proposals/united-series/
“Aurora” now available online
The full version of “Aurora” is now available to view online. The piece will be featured in the upcoming Texas Sculpture Group exhibition Material Evolution at Austin Community College.
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Upcoming Exhibition: Texas Sculpture Group at Austin Community College
Upcoming show featuring work of the Texas Sculpture Group will be on view at Austin Community College Highland Campus.
Material Evolution: Selected Work from the Texas Sculpture Group
Gallery 2000
January 16 – March 7, 2023
American Roulette on View this week
New work has been created for our current American Roulette exhibition at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO.
American Roulette will be on display in the Hatton Gallery from November 10 – December 22. General gallery hours are Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
More information for this project can be found under
https://yousifdelvalle.com/proposals/aurora-colorado-movie-theater-american-roulette/
When She Says Baby
A new video piece has been completed in preparation for an upcoming American Roulette exhibition in Las Vegas, NV.
When She Says Baby depicts a 1:12 miniature recreation of Mandalay Bay room 32134, one of the rooms that was used during the 10/01/2017 mass shooting of the Route 91 Country Music Festival in Las Vegas. The piece exists as a video and photo documentation of the space initially bleeding and ultimately collapsing into itself. The piece is part of series of 1:12 miniature recreations of mass shooting sites throughout the country. The title stems from the song Jason Aldean was playing onstage when the shooting started. There are two versions of the video, one of them includes Jason Aldean’s “When She Says Baby” towards the end of the video.
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American Roulette
I am excited to announce that I recently joined American Roulette, an art collective which strives to open a dialogue about guns, gun culture and gun violence through visual art. I am excited to continue my work and contribute to the message the collective strives to engage. For a full list of the artists involved please visit American Roulette
Cesar Conde
CJHungerman
Michelle Graves
Dominic Sansone
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in San Angelo, TX – Texas Sculpture Group.
As a recent member of the TEXAS SCULPTURE GROUP, my video piece, Amalgamation is being shown at The State of Sculpture: an All-Member Exhibition in beautiful San Angelo, TX.
