WORK

To order books or collages, email texkerschen @ gmail.com

Books:

Swine, Civic TV-FIU, 2018.
Tidal Economics, Studded Left/GirlGang, 2016.
Hothouse, Girlgang Books, 2011.

Art (Swine, on view through February 28, 2018, at Civic TV Laboratories)

Each collage below, approx 9″ x 12″, hand-cut and pasted, not digitally created. Happily, for you digital enthusiasts, digitally mediated prints are also available.

Selected Videos:

Tex Kerschen’s Video Poems (1), 2019. Commissioned and thereafter decommissioned for a New York Public Access Program on poetry.

INDIAN JEWELRY “TURN IT ON AGAIN” 2015.
INDIAN JEWELRY “RIDING CARS TALKING TRASH” 2015.
CLIPD BEAKS’ “WOMB TO TOMB” 2013.
INDIAN JEWELRY’S “FREAK PRIDE” 2013.
INDIAN JEWELRY “TRAVELIN’ CROSS COUNTRY” 2012.
INDIAN JEWELRY’S “GUNS” 2011.
INDIAN JEWELRY’S “SOSOS” 2009.
FUTURE BLONDES “STATIC QUEEN” 2009.

Recent Curatorial Work:

Danny Kerschen and Heath Flagtvedt, March 2020, BS Projects, Houston, TX. Exhibition sponsored by Civic TV.
via Self Actualization, Houston, TX.
Heath Flagtvedt: Mystery Meat, April to May, 2016.
Ian James: In the Caverns of Your Mind, January – February, 2015.
Heath Flagtvedt: New Body, November – December, 2014.
Tex Kerschen’s Please Yourself, 17 Artists You Shouldn’t Live Without, September – October, 2014
via Persuasion at Cardoza Fine Art, Houston, TX
All Dread Set: Jonathan Read, Tina Forbis, and Ken Wiatrek, January to February, 2012.
via Persuasion at Temporary Space, Houston, TX.
Vince Shlomi’s Bidden Tongue, February to March, 2010.
Domokos Benzcedi: Night Tours, January to February, 2010.
Michael Dee, Song of Myself, January to February, 2010.

Older Curatorial Work:
1998 to 2004, Chief Curator at Art Car Museum and the Station Museum, Houston, TX.
Organized “Made in Palestine” and countless other exhibitions of work by international, national, regional, and local artists, some of which toured, many of which were reviewed favorably in diverse publications including Art in America, Christian Science Monitor, Houston Press, Houston Chronicle, among others. Started a sound series at the Station which continues to the present.

If you’re reading this, you may be curious, you may be bored, you may be a bot, feeding on the unbroken text in your haste to ruin the universe. In any case, you need consultation.  Here are some things I do: writing: long-form; short-form; koans & exhortations; essays, creative and factical; interviews; letters to the delinquent, letters to the lonely-hearted; business writing, including copywriting, abstracts, treatments, coverage, pitches, public relations, and, if you truly need it, powerpoint.
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Research: print, digital, and person-on-the-street.
Editing and proofreading.
Public speaking and presentations, lectures, readings, and seminars.
Music production, songwriting, sound design, film scoring, consultation, and referrals.
Art direction, consultation, and referrals.
Video production and referrals.

Certified teacher, fire-watch, and confined space attendant.

contact texkerschen@gmail.com