Noah Simblist’s new show opens at Cactus Bra on Thursday, December 6 and Friday, December 7:

For this exhibition, Simblist will create a fictional organization of Christian Zionists called the New Elders of Zion. The exhibition will include a manifesto for the group, modeled on the real anti-Semitic text, The Protocols of Zion. It will also include drawings that this group made to map out the various stages of the end times and excerpts of sermons by their spiritual leader the Reverend Gene H. Jaho.

The mission of this fictional group is to borrow strategies from avant-garde artists of the early 20th Century to further the cause of the Jews returning to the land of Israel, for their enemies to be vanquished and for the second coming of Christ to come in the next few years.

Noah Simblist is an Assistant Professor in Art in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Simblist’s work involves paintings, drawings, video, wall text and sound installations that explore the limits of symbolic meaning in political, religious and quasi-religious modernist iconography.

A frequent contributor to Glasstire.com, Zerodegrees.com and Artlies, Simblist has exhibited at Garner Tullis in New York, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse in Houston, the 2007 Texas Biennial in Austin and The Dallas Contemporary, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, And/Or Gallery and Gray Matters Gallery in Dallas.

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