Marcos Rosales

Still from Song for a Righteous Revolution, 2002. Digital video, running time 11minutes.

Installation view of The Back of Laughter, 2001, at 1234, Los Angeles. Macramé sculpture,  dimensions variable.

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Waco, Texas, 1967
Resides: New York
Education: California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A., 1995); University of North Texas (B.F.A., 1990)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2002
“Sublimated, Reduced and Eventually Annihilated,” Angstrom Gallery, Dallas.

2000
“The Back of Laughter (Scenes from ‘The Glamour of Evil’),” 1234, Los Angeles.

1996
“Dark Clouds,” Conduit Gallery, Dallas.

1995
“Eau de Toilette,” Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Hallwalls Gallery, Hollywood, California.

Selected Performances

2003
“ . . . and the Black Snakes” (with Luciana Achugar, Maria Hassabi and Jeremy Wade), Movement Research @ the Judson Memorial Church, New York.

2001
“Mouthpiece” (with Jeremy Wade and Michael Floyd), Something Raw Festival, Frascati Theater, Amsterdam. Traveled.
“Songs from . . . The Back of Laughter” (with The Experimental Make-Up), Leo Koenig, Inc., New York.

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2002
“Step Up To The Mic” (screening), LA Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles.
“The Writing on the Wall” (screening), Collective Unconscious, New York.
“Unknown Pleasures,” Daniel Reich, New York.
“Monsters and Miracles” (screening), Cinema @ Z-Bar, Berlin.
“Song Poems,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles. Traveled.

2001
“Presenting Miss World 1972,” Daniel Reich, New York.
“Penny Dreadfuls,” VTO Gallery, London.
“Waveform,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

1998
“Lost and Found,” Post Gallery, Los Angeles.
“I’m Still in Love with You,” Women’s Century Club, Los Angeles.

1997
“One of These Things Is Not Like the Other,” Angstrom Gallery, Dallas.

1996
“Things That Quicken the Heart,” Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Traveled.

1994
“The Freed Weed,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles.

1992
“Spanish Remnants,” Blue Star Artspace, San Antonio, Texas. Traveled.
“The Instinctive Eye,” The Pioneer Museum, Dallas.

1990
“Rewriting History” (with Robert McAn), 500x Gallery, Dallas.

Selected Bibliography

2001
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Miss World 1972,” The New York Times (December 28).

1999
Mitchell, Charles Dee. “Antiworld,” The Dallas Morning News (March 26).

1997
Kutner, Janet. “An Exhibit Culled from Our Pop Culture Capital,” The Dallas Morning News (April 4).
—–. “Art of the Moment,” The Dallas Morning News (May 11).
Tyson, Janet. “California Cool,” The Fort Worth Star Telegram (May 20).

1996
Odom, Michael. “On View: Dallas/Fort Worth,” New Art Examiner (September).

1995
Greene, David. “What’s My Line? Marcos Rosales’ Twisted Identity Crisis,” Angeles Reader (May 5).

1993
Emenheiser, Karen. “Review,” Art Papers (May-June).

1991
Tyson, Janet. “Probing Cultural Identity,” Forth Worth Star-Telegram (November 8).

1992
Bass, Shermakaye. “Having a Real Eye for Art,” The Dallas Morning News (April 21).
Emenheiser, Karen. “Rewriting History,” Dallas Observer (March 19).
Kutner, Janet. “Historical Attitudes,” The Dallas Morning News (March 21).
Tyson, Janet. “Artists Evoke Political and Personal Past,” Forth Worth Star-Telegram (March 25).

1990
Cadenhead, Rodgers. “Show Went to the Dogs,” Forth Worth Star-Telegram (June 14).
Dawson, Shannon. “Of Sense and Sensorship,” Dallas Observer (September 20).