Exhibition
Noel Waggener | Satch Grimley
“Freedom isn’t the privilege of a single generation; it is a conquest which must each time be undertaken over again. Freedom is victory.” –Albert Ayler
As part of the Fire Into Music presentation Ballroom Marfa commissioned a new silk-screened mural from Austin-based artists Noel Waggener and Satch Grimley. The mural, titled A Silk Screened Mural in Four Movements: African Genesis, Free Spiritual Musics, Black Power and Afro Psychedelia, was thematically inspired by African American art, politics and philosophy of the 1960s and early 70s. The mural was not intended to be a history lesson, rather a contemporary reverberation of a cultural explosion and cosmo-drama still being felt and played out in the present.
Noel Waggener, a graphic designer, founded SubCulture Press in 2002 to give name to the series of silkscreen prints that incorporate “lost” and “forgotten” subcultural imagery. Satch Grimley, a painter and master printmaker, works with SubCulture Press and collaborates with artists for the Serie Print Project at Coronado Studio in Austin.
Artist Bios
Noel Waggener
Noel Waggener and Satch Grimley have been collaborating on installations for the past few years. Noel Waggener, a graphic designer, founded SubCulture Press in 2002 to give name to the series of silkscreen prints that incorporate “lost” and “forgotten” subcultural imagery.
Satch Grimley
Satch Grimley, an Austin based painter and master printmaker, works with SubCulture Press and collaborates with artists for the Serie Print Project at Coronado Studio in Austin.
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