Name/Title
124, The Blank Canvas DeWrecko Artistes, Blank CanvasTags
~Description
---- "Blank Canvas" is a rolling Tribute to Houston Landmarks along this year's Art Car Parade Route. She arrived at the parade naked and unpainted. No art, no theme, no artists - just 18 feet of blank canvas glued to a dull Texas work truck. BUT…, through the imagination and painting skills of dozens of parade attendees chosen for their ability to hold a brush with one hand, she's been transformed TODAY into a rolling work of art depicting the bridges, signs, art and buildings along the Art Car route. This is a first-ever crowd-painted Art Car! A true work of performance art.
Blank Canvas was born from a crushed 2003 Ford-F-150 that lost a valiant battle with an 80 foot Sycamore Tree blown over in the 2024 Derecho Storm in Houston. What the Derecho took away from Houston, the DeWrecko Artistes have given back to Houston. I'm open to having a "winner(s)" of an Orange Show or HEB contest get to paint one of the truck panels.---- The Art Car Parade has always been my favorite Houston event. Nothing compares with the majesty of hundreds of shiny noisy wacky goofy contraptions rolling through downtown Houston beneath the polished granite towers and freeway overpasses. I love seeing the kids whose faces light up when they study a crazy contraption unlike anything they've ever seen. The Art Car parade inspires kids and adults both.
After attending dozens of times and tiring of "when i get the time.." excuses, i built my first three-wheeled bike contraption in 2013, and then a decorated tandem bike, and then hitched a ride on Dancing Queen, and then built the Mobile Mobile Mobile truck my brothers last year. My goal this year is to get a selection of parade attendees to completely paint Blank Canvas in the 3 hours of the parade Line-Up (my favorite part of the parade BTW). I plan to provide about 30 different photos of parade landmarks that my artistes will use as "prompts" to paint their interpretations. Not quite sure what it'll look like, but that's one of the fun parts about making art right?
I'm a long-time Houstonian that worked in corporate jobs. Not an artist, but always interested in art and architecture. My brother's old F-150 truck got smashed by a tree in front of his house when the Derecho blew through. He was thinking salvage value. I was thinking drive-able art car with the roof cut off!