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Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, Directed by Ben Shapiro

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, Directed by Ben Shapiro

Filmmaker Ben Shapiro documents acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s 10-year quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life. [...]

Cleo Boone: Figure Riddles

Cleo Boone: Figure Riddles

Thirty works about stimulating thought and forcing the viewer to question and solve. Remember, “Say the name-See the big picture”.

Birds, Grids and Other Symbols: Art by Roberta Harris

Birds, Grids and Other Symbols: Art by Roberta Harris

Harris uses a quintessentially Jung-Center mash-up of modern and primitive symbols to express and inspire hope, joy, encouragement, peace, kindness, strategy and imagination, and it [...]

Emily Sloan: Funeral Party

Emily Sloan: Funeral Party

Emily Sloan hosts an interactive Funeral Party, including visitation, drinking, eulogy writing assistance, a funeral service, a funeral sound procession created by the audience along [...]

Turnin’ Headz presents: Blank Canvas

Turnin’ Headz presents: Blank Canvas

Turnin’ Headz: Blank Canvas is a monthly showcase celebrating local and regional hip hop and visual artists & is held on the 1st Thursday of [...]

Lindsay Palmer and Casey McGuire, Seeing is Believing; Transient Spaces for Home

Lindsay Palmer and Casey McGuire, Seeing is Believing; Transient Spaces for Home

Wayne Gilbert: Human Remains Paintings

Wayne Gilbert: Human Remains Paintings

Gilbert, owner of G Gallery in Houston, uses the cremated remains of Americans, uncollected for various reasons, to create works of art.

Gastronanza: Archetapas

Gastronanza: Archetapas

Artists Nestor Topchy and Robert M. Rosenberg, performing as Gastronanza, invite participants to enter their portable Gelatinearia, a welded steel chapel on wheels, to sample [...]

Continuum Live Art Series, Second Night

Continuum Live Art Series, Second Night

The second Performance Art Night of Continuum’s six-month residency at AvantGarden, featuring performances by Jajah Gray, Ryan Hawk, Aisen Caro Chacin and Alex Tu, David [...]

Kyle Evans: GO

Kyle Evans: GO

GO spotlights Evans’ practice of using junk technology to spark a dialogue concerning the “Dirty New Media” movement in Chicago.

Criminal Whimsy

Criminal Whimsy

A celebration of silliness for the end of the world. Lets all go out with a giggle.

Surreal Landscapes

Surreal Landscapes

A group show presents landscapes- actual or fancied, dreams or reminiscences, past or future- present scenarios, artifacts of space and time, by Cari Palazzolo, Ryan [...]

M’kina Tapscott: New Soil: Tessellations of Dark Matter

M’kina Tapscott: New Soil: Tessellations of Dark Matter

Imagine the floor tiles at Art League have become overgrown with Dark Matter, created when the shredded remains of the deconstructed Black stereotyped objects began [...]

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Convertibles and Polygons

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Convertibles and Polygons

Farmanfarmaian balances techniques and imagery drawn from Islamic decoration with the innovations of the Minimalist avant-garde.

Cantanker Magazine: The End

Cantanker Magazine: The End

Cantanker’s latest project, an exhibition and catalog, features work exploring the symbolic, personal, apocalyptic, contemplative and humorous themes surrounding “The End”. Selecting work from an [...]

Jonathan Jindra & Y. E. Torres: Cyclea – Comeplay Comply Arraycycle

Jonathan Jindra & Y. E. Torres: Cyclea – Comeplay Comply Arraycycle

An hour-long performative audio/visual/dance collaboration divided into multiple rooms and transmission stations throughout El Rincon which are sonically synced. Over a dozen projectors & televisions [...]

Autumn Knight: El Diablo Y El Cristo Negro

Autumn Knight: El Diablo Y El Cristo Negro

A text-based performance influenced by Portobelo’s Black Christ Festivals and the mythology of the region which features the Devil as a pivotal figure. Maurice Duhon [...]

Bob Briddick’s Big Beautiful Book of Collage

Bob Briddick’s Big Beautiful Book of Collage

The premiere of Bob Briddick’s Big Beautiful Book of Collage, first edition. Proceeds form the sale of Bob’s new book will benefit Houston’s Outreach United. [...]

Autumn Knight: Portobelo: Food, Humor, Movement

Autumn Knight: Portobelo: Food, Humor, Movement

A performance piece centers on Knight’s experience of being immersed in Afro-Latin culture while in residency at Taller Portobelo Norte Art Residency in Portobelo, Panama [...]

Favio Moreno: When All Else Fails + Sour Grapes: La Tienda

Favio Moreno: When All Else Fails + Sour Grapes: La Tienda

Moreno’s debut solo exhibition: familiar religious iconography reinterpreted in vibrant colors. The Public Trust’s small room will be transformed into a Sour Grapes store, selling [...]