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 a world-class runner, author, and…
June 2011
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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, dada, folk art and surrealism,…
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“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 on the museum grounds as…
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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 at MECA , a raft…
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Four artists whose work abstracts and expands the ordinary things in our everyday world, curated by Katie Geha of Austin’s SOFA Gallery.
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“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 screenings of Jim Jarmusch’s 1995…
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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 of Aerosol Warfare Gallery for…
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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 around her father’s pop-up camper…
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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, dogma and control.
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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 will be lighted for public…
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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 premiere of the single-channel video…
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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 Fuller, David Hefner, and Caprice…
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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, Diana Byers, Amorette Garza, Eric…
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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 de Refusés allows the audience…
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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), and Big Nudes (1982), some…
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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 Business, and Gangsta Rap Posse.…
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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 seven consecutive days on a…
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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.
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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 themselves were raw emotions.”