Levente Sulyok, modern art, contemporary art, contemporary painting, contemporary american painting, contemporary hungarian art, contemporary hungarian painting, conceptual painting
 

Exhibition announcements, reviews and other text:
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Painting
can be a vampire,
Main Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, curated by Christie Blizard, January 13 - February 19, 2016



Essay by Christie Blizard here .......... Brief Glasstire review here ......... additional article in Rivard Report here


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1st Asuncion Biennial,
Asuncion, Paraguay, October 1 - 31, 2015



Catalogue essay by Royce W. Smith here


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Transmission
and Everyday Is Ordinary group exhibitions at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, June 4 – Aug 9, 2015




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12th Havana Biennial: Between, Inside, Outside,
Havana, Cuba, May 22 – June 22, 2015



Catalog essay by Royce W. Smith here ..... and here ...... article in lahabana.com here ...... blog by Paloma Checa here


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Forming the Sound of Color
at the Empire House Theatre and Frame Guild Gallery, February 27 – March 21, 2015




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Peripheral Vision
exhibition at E B White Gallery, Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS, September 26 - October 31, 2014





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Verbing Painting
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culturehall.com, online exhibition curated by Christie Blizard, February 5 - March 4, 2014



Essay by Christie Blizard here


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con•struct•ed
exhibition at Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, January 7 - February 7, 2013



Review on bigmonkeygroup here


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Small Pleasures
, commission of interactive public project, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, 2012-2016



NPR radio segment by Lindsey Hercommer on KMUW here ................... Article by Alice Mannette here


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All the Paranoid Monoliths show at Martina}{Johnston Gallery, Berkeley, CA, Nonember 18- December 30, 2012



Review by Alex Bigman here ................... Exhibition essay by Farley Gwazda here


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Biennale Detour, Kassel, Germany, June 19 - July 19, 2012



Artistic intervention and collaboration with Dr. Royce W. Smith and Seth Minor..................blog here


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Outpost
exhibition at E B White Gallery, El Doredo, KS, February 29 - March 30, 2012



Curted by Ann Resnick.............................................catalogue essay by Rachel Epp Buller
here


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Celeste Prize exhibition at the Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY, November 2011



A 150-page catalog
was published in conjunction with Celeste Prize, including a critical essay by Eugene Tan.


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Producing Censorship exhibition at the Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY, November 2011



"The exciting work in this exhibition reflects and intervenes on the conditions of information production, exposing the apparatus of power and its relationship to new forms of censorship. The distinctive aesthetic strategies utilized by the artists confront the 'medium of the message" and provide extraordinary, alternative modes of seeing communication and its meaning."
- Curators Aria Spinelli and Jason Waite


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Exhibition catalog for Dynamism of Forms and Pathways of Desire with an essay by Royce W. Smith

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Exhibition at the Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita KS, December 2010




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Exhibition at The University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, November 2010





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Exhibition at Sam Houston State University's 3G gallery, Huntsville TX, October 2010




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Excerpt from Center to Edge catalogue essay by Stacy Switzer, written for the 2008 River City Biennale, June 2008:

Interestingly, the Hungarian-born artist Levente Sulyok has also zeroed-in on the oft-ignored space of advertising architectures, such as billboards and scaffolds, to explore the possibilities for agency and meaning in the curious liminal zones of these “non-places” or “non-sites.” Sulyok’s recent paintings on paper and canvas feature, among other things, an explosion at the top of a cell tower, an industrial scaffold buckling under the weight of a bloated crimson stain, and a billboard with a cryptic pun written in the Hungarian language (translation: “THIS SENTENCE CONSISTS OF WORDS”). Weaving a complex network of vocabularies—from Russian Constructivist designs to the utopian architectures of Buckminster Fuller, to the languages of global commerce, graffiti, interventionism and protest art—Sulyok’s works reconfigure the modern experience to uncover both darkness and humor at its core.