George Mendoza: Colors of the Wind
Abstract, brightly colored paintings by George Mendoza, declared legally blind as a young boy. In spite of his visual handicap he went on to become [...]
Bert Long Jr.: Whatever It Takes
Bert Long gave up a career as a chef in the late 1970s to become a full time artist. Drawing upon the traditions of assemblage, [...]
Form & Substance: The Art of George Tobolowsky
“Forceful and witty” abstract sculptures made from discarded machine parts and salvaged steel. His larger works will be installed on the Museum’s Rooftop Terrace and [...]
Houston Counterride/Countercrawl Excursion
A bike tour of venues on the nascent Houston CounterCrawl. The ride starts at Sedition Books (901 Richmond Avenue) at Noon on july 9, stopping [...]
Still Life: Travis Kent, Morgan Jones, Stacie Johnson & Ben Ruggiero
Four artists whose work abstracts and expands the ordinary things in our everyday world, curated by Katie Geha of Austin’s SOFA Gallery.
Barnaby Whitfield: Auguries of Innocence
“For Contemporary Rabbit Month, Sala Diaz presents a single work by Barnaby Whitfield. This arresting portrait of Abraham Lincoln will be coupled with several July [...]
Street Science: GONZO 247 and John Stuart Berger
Sacramento street-style fantasy painter John Stuart Berger, specializing in “things that crawl, bite, squirm and slither,” is teamed up with Houston’s urban art educator, GONZO247 [...]
Jennifer Sullivan: One Week Walden
Next up in Arthouse’s Five Artists, Five Weeks video showcase is Jennifer Sullivan (July 6- July 10). In One Week Walden, Sullivan wanders in and [...]
Sex/Twist
Daniela Comani, Sharon Engelstein, Bryan Florentin, Debora Hunter, Keri Oldham and David Van Ness give sex a dark intellectual spin via Foucault: secrecy, hypocrisy, community, [...]
Michael Christopher Matson and Kevin Obregon: “The American Beast”
The American Beast is a collaborative effort between Michael Christopher Matson and Kevin Obregon, two artists “converging points on the American spirit.” Their massive sculpture [...]
Potter-Belmar Labs video Retrospective
Leslie Raymond & Jason Jay Stevens will show selections from 12 years’ worth of work as experimental cinema duo Potter-Belmar Labs. The program includes the [...]
11th Annual Summer Exhibition: The Group of Twelve
Works by gallery artists including Sandra Langston, Susu Meyer, Randall Reid, Joseph Hammer, Dianne Grammer, Laurel Daniel, Christopher St. Leger, David Leonard, David Everett, Mathew [...]
Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist-inspired works by local artists
Works inspired by the Surrealists, much of it created on-site during events held in June. Participating artists include Jennifer Arnold, Grace Barraza Vega, Matthew Barton, [...]
Salon des Refusés
An even bigger show of artworks rejected by the juror of Lawndale Art Center’s Big Show, organized by artist-provocateur Emily Sloan. This second annual Salon [...]
Helmut Newton: White Women, Sleepless Nights, Big Nudes
The first large-scale U.S. exhibition of fashion photographer Helmut Newton’s work presents 205 images from Newton’s first three books, White Women (1976), Sleepless Nights (1978), [...]
Hardbodies: Benjamin Marra, Nathan Fox, Zack Soto & Keenan Marshall Keller
Five comic-related artists whose work is “beyond the cutting edge. . .in the cut itself.” Benjamin Marra is the creator of the comic books Night [...]
Francisco Moreno: Seven Days in America
For the inaugural show at Oliver Francis Gallery, RISD MFA candidate and UT Arlington Alum Francisco Moreno will work in the new art space for [...]
John Cody Williams: Spectral Play in the Golden Ether
San Antonio artist John Cody Williams explores homo-romanticism within ephemeral moments of self-medicating fantasy, adolescent fear and desire, contemplation on death, and ecstasy.
Jason Ransom: For the Beautiful is Nothing but the Onset of the Terrible
For his first show at the new Cueto James Gallery, Houston artist Jason Ransom makes paintings said to “use oil paint as though the colors [...]
