Using handmade paper as their principal medium, artists Jane Ingram Allen, May Babcock, Nancy Cohen, Melissa Jay Craig, Joan Hall and Aimee Lee manipulate natural fibers to create installations, sculpture,…
January 24, 2012
-
-
Collector Workshop featuring Jean-Michel Placent, of Phillips de Pury, talking about purchasing art at auction or overseas; Jill Arnold, Director of Business Development, AXA Art, on Caring for your Collection;…
-
The first Texas exhibition for German painter Erik Offermann. Offermann’s magical landscapes involve perspective and the opposition of closeness and distance.
-
A complex, multimedia combination of drawings, paintings, video, and installation in which, for the first time, images of men infiltrate Lark’s traditionally all-female pantheon of sexy 1960’s fashion icons.
-
The first comprehensive, midcareer retrospective of Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and curator Scott Rothkopf, in close collaboration with the artist.
-
Plein air + impasto by a Brooklyn painter.
-
Carved wooden sculptures atop a wide, low plinth engage in various surreal dramas: two heads are connected by a nose, a form in a cage entangles itself, a hand emerges…
-
This edition of the quarterly Modern’s Graduate Lecture Series features Houston artist Eileen Maxson. Graduate students from across the state can see the show, hear the lecture, and talk it…
-
23 women of all ages are photographed alone in their bedrooms, a place that they feel most at rest and in control, to discuss issues of domesticity, feminine space, and…
-
Kevin Jones uses the symbolic language of established scientific disciplines like chemistry or physics to create his own conceptual taxonomy of signs and systems that appears familiar, but is ultimately…
-
An exhibition of collaborative and solo artworks by Gene Hester and Liz Conces Spencer who have collaborated on public and large scale projects for several years.
-
Says Austin artist Steve Wiman: “My personal compulsions to save and collect veer dangerously close to hoarding, but, I am not a hoarder, I’m a collector.”
-
Documents the relationship between “Techjano* performance artist” Jimmy James Canales and a Prickly Pear Cactus. Canales leads us through the painful affair utilizing videos and mementos from the first time…
-
A members-only booksigning event at 6 p.m., followed by a public talk between Fairey and curator Pedro Alonso at 7 p.m.
-
Art influenced by Hollywood and the Oscar ceremonies; the gallery will be dressed up for the big event with a red carpet, glitter, cameras and more. Featuring works by a…
-
Roberts is a self-taught Dallas photographer. As a pedestrian in a car-centric city, she finds her inspiration from what others may view as the mundane to-and-fro of everyday life.
-
A look at Warhol’s lifelong obsession with both celebrity and disaster. This exhibition, exclusive to the McNay, (and with a $15 special admission fee!) is drawn from the collections of…
-
Rice Design Alliance’s lecture series exploring ideas, technologies, and cultural forces affecting furniture design brings dutch furniture designer Jurgen Bey to Houston. There will be a pre-lecture reception at 6:00…