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Cassandra Emswiler: Views of the Lake

Cassandra Emswiler: Views of the Lake

A recent MFA graduate from the University of Texas at Dallas, Cassandra will exhibit new work based on quotidian details, mass production and memory.

City Council Meeting

City Council Meeting

City Council Meeting is an exercise in “performed participatory democracy” based on the procedures and processes of actual city council meetings. The piece is performed [...]

City Council Meeting

City Council Meeting

City Council Meeting is an exercise in “performed participatory democracy” based on the procedures and processes of actual city council meetings.  The piece is performed [...]

Massa Lemu: Passages For The Undocumented

Massa Lemu: Passages For The Undocumented

With slight grammatical alterations, misspellings, and odd word insertions, common expressions are transformed into awkward phrases and nonsensical but semantically loaded poetic statements. These statements [...]

Ushio Shinohara: Oiran Goes to Wild West

Ushio Shinohara: Oiran Goes to Wild West

Thursday’s private performance will feature Shinohara’s famous Boxing Painting, in which the artist dips boxing gloves in sumi ink and creates splattered paintings by punching [...]

City Council Meeting

City Council Meeting

City Council Meeting is an exercise in “performed participatory democracy” based on the procedures and processes of actual city council meetings. The piece is performed [...]

Elizabeth Payne: People and Places

Elizabeth Payne: People and Places

53 paintings of portraits and images from New York, California, and Texas.

The Esteban Vicente Archives Visiting Library

The Esteban Vicente Archives Visiting Library

An opportunity to study Vicente’s drawings from the 1950s through the 1970s. Eren Johnson, Director of the Archives and Editor of the Esteban Vicente Catalogue [...]

CHIHUAHUA

CHIHUAHUA

Curated by Arturo Infante Almeida

David McClain: Oleo

David McClain: Oleo

“We were an Oleo family.  Butter was luxury and we were a space age family on a budget. Oleo is where it all started to [...]

Trish Ramsay: Goodnight Theory

Trish Ramsay: Goodnight Theory

Thread, wire, plastic and wool used to explore spatial tension.

Gissette Padilla & H. Jennings Sheffield: Transitory Spaces

Gissette Padilla & H. Jennings Sheffield: Transitory Spaces

A collaborative work investigates the idea of time and physical and psychological space through light and projections.

Bill Conger & Adam Farcus: radioactive Pal? – Pal, radioactive

Bill Conger & Adam Farcus: radioactive Pal? – Pal, radioactive

Sculptures based on the poetry of John Berryman propose a simple question, “Are you afflicted?” and a delicate response, “My friend, I am.”

Lego Stop-Motion Animation: A Popcorn Kids Workshop

Lego Stop-Motion Animation: A Popcorn Kids Workshop

Snap, click, move and shoot your own stop-motion animation with Lego characters and blocks. Admission: $15 Member, $25 Non-Members. Advance Registration Required.

Lecture & Book Signing: AIA Houston Architectural Guide

Lecture & Book Signing: AIA Houston Architectural Guide

The long-awaited third edition of the AIA Houston Architectural Guide contains 1,391 entries divided into 29 tours. The new text was written by Stephen Fox [...]

Catherine Colangelo: Double Wedding Ring

Catherine Colangelo: Double Wedding Ring

New paintings inspired by an old traditional quilt pattern of interlocking rings.

Elizabeth Cencini: Relationships

Elizabeth Cencini: Relationships

Morehshin Allahyari: Re: Apologies To The Many Wonderful Iranians

Morehshin Allahyari: Re: Apologies To The Many Wonderful Iranians

An installation that explores and combines personal memories of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) with the constant awareness of life filled with drumbeats of war against [...]

Christopher Blay: Machine Time

Christopher Blay: Machine Time

An installation is based on a mid-century flight test facility and launch control station, manned by uniformed assistants.

Sandow Birk And Elyse Pignolet: The 99 Names Of God And Selections From the American Qur’an

Sandow Birk And Elyse Pignolet: The 99 Names Of God And Selections From the American Qur’an

Selections from more than 300 pages illustrating the 114 suras of the Qur’an by Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk, and ceramics by Elyse Pignolet.