Dara Paprock's Texas Tea House

D A R A P A P R O C K is a multi media conceptual artist. She was educated primarily in dance and was coined, “The Midwest’s Youngest Dance Impresario” by the Daily Cardinal in 1991 in the midst of producing and creating over 100 dance and theater works at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her ideas often cross boarders of a single art form and run into themes that include paintings, ceramics, poetry, prose, performance art and installations. Her work embraces broad observations, conversations and guttural sensations of contemporary culture and a broad spectrum of human experiences. Though her ideas are complex, her work is often humorous, human and employs wit. Her art works, which includes paint, ceramics and textiles, are in private collections in the United States, Korea, Sweden, Great Britain, Columbia, France and Poland and have been featured in theme-based exhibitions including the first “Day Without Art” at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Baltimore, “Art and Ego Festival” at the Public Theater in NYC and she was a centerfold in the National Geographic 1999 issue of Global Cultures. Her dances and dance films have been shown at Dance Camera Istanbul, performed in Great Britain, Spain and the USA. She moved to Austin TX in 2005 from Los Angeles where she spent the previous 12 years working behind the scenes in Hollywood and raised 2 sons. She writes articles, short stories and prose. In Austin she is a Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapist and works in Addiction Counseling as well as is the area representative for Global Water Dances.
A R T 2010-Present-Photography, Collage and Paint. 1985-Present. ‘Black Dogs and Other Things” Series of 30 paintings on canvas, paper and other object in blacks, mixed media. Collages “Bullet Proof Clothing For Kids and Young Adults”, 2008-2009 “This Looks Like Shit”, Series of 10 painting in browns on canvas, mixed media. 1995-2008 Water Colors, Painting on Canvas, Textiles, Line Drawings, Video, Sound Design, Installations. 1988-1995 Collage, Ceramics, Oil on Paper, Oil on Canvas,Video, Digital Art and Sound Design, Performance Art.1983-1987 Performance Art, Office Art with Joe Lewis III, Water Colors and Paint on Canvas.1980-1983 Portraits, Drawings, Pastels, Paint and Bead Work. Collaborations, More in Full CV.
PERFORMANCE BASED ART 2013/2014 International Art Expo, Spain, Global Water Dances, TX, 2001-2012 /Austin, TX “Haunted Hospital”, “Kabuki Karaoke”, Sangeet Millenium of Amie Maciszewski, With Performer, Artist, Denise Prince, Fundraiser for Gallery, Austin, TX., Model, Photographer Denise Prince, “Screaming Out Loud” Experimental Social Media Photography and Video collaboration with Italian Artist, Giancarlo Baraldo., 1993-2002/Los Angles Various Performances, Video and Audio Recordings with Arianne MacBean, Anya Pryor, Viggo Mortensen, Sara P Smith, Smokey Hormel and Duke McVinnie, Joe Lewis III, “Almost Improvisation”, Director Producer Performer, Barnsdall Art Theater, Los Angeles, CA., “I’m So My Pink Sari, “The Big Thing” Festival, Venice, CA, 1988-1992/ Madison, WI Various Performances and Print with Eddie Lee Sausage, “In Performance”, “Just Fall”, “Almost Cabaret”, “She Spaketh Words” , Madison, WI., 1985-1988/NYC “Art and Ego” Festival with Robert Harding, Improv at the Old Jewish Theater, “Apple Voyage” with The Czechoslovakian Black Light Theater of Jitka and Leos Exler. Vidal Sassoon “Glamour Girl” Runway Show., Full CV Available Upon Request.
EDUCATION University of California Los Angeles, World Arts and Cultures, M.A. Dance, 1996 University of Wisconsin Madison B.S. Dance - Inter Arts and Technology and Dance 1992 Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Scholarship 1983-1985