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Pancakes & Booze Art Show

Pancakes & Booze Art Show

Join the art show movement that is taking over the nation! Eclectic art, music, body painting, and of course, pancakes and booze!! Cover $5. 21+ [...]

Judith Cottrell: It’s Yellow

Judith Cottrell: It’s Yellow

The artist explores the nuances and patterns of the human psyche with an interactive installation.

Judged & Juried with guest juror Alyssa Monks

Judged & Juried with guest juror Alyssa Monks

Africa Smiles – An Afternoon of Film and Dance

Africa Smiles – An Afternoon of Film and Dance

A screening of For The Best And For The Onion!, the story of a young couple whose engagement is repeatedly delayed by the declining value [...]

Contemporary Crash Course: Andy Campbell presents For Anyone? For Anyone!

Contemporary Crash Course: Andy Campbell presents For Anyone? For Anyone!

For the art-curious and expert alike, this whirlwind introduction tackles recent issues-from appropriation to digital performance-setting the stage for works on view in Majority Rules: [...]

Howard Sherman: Artist’s Picks

Howard Sherman: Artist’s Picks

Native Houstonian and artist Howard Sherman assembles an exciting exhibition of paintings by some of the city’s cutting edge visual arts talent. Participating Artists: Michael [...]

Cheryl Koen: Rodeo

Cheryl Koen: Rodeo

Aurora Picture Show Presents Soul Nite at Eldorado Ballroom

Aurora Picture Show Presents Soul Nite at Eldorado Ballroom

Vintage performance footage will be projected on screen for a night of dancing benefiting the Aurora’s youth programs. Aurora Members $10, Non-Member $15, VIP Soul [...]

Cell Series: Kana Harada

Cell Series: Kana Harada

Playful trees, flowers, and climbing plants cut from foam sheets.

Ricardo Ruiz: Love Songs For The Palomia

Ricardo Ruiz: Love Songs For The Palomia

A Chicano artist using folklore, religious iconography, and the Mexican American culture of South Texas to explore life and love in detailed paintings  of devils, [...]

Go Figure

Go Figure

This all-female group show features figurative prints and paintings from artists Michelle Brandley, Sarah Green, Nancy Lamb and Devon Nowlin.

Contemporary Texas Art from the Barrett Collection

Contemporary Texas Art from the Barrett Collection

A selection of artworks featuring prominent Texas artists including David Bates, Bill Haveron, Jim Woodson, Robert McAn, Joseph Havel, Bill Komodore, Michael Miller, Helen Altman, [...]

Overlapping Impressions: A Study in Contrasting Cognition

Overlapping Impressions: A Study in Contrasting Cognition

Typographic prints made with the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection, which is housed at UT, Austin. Organized by austin graphic designer and Ut [...]

Just Ink: Chapter II

Just Ink: Chapter II

Guest curator Robin Baker’s one-night showcase of art in various ink and pen formats.

Joshua Goode: Origin of Myth

Joshua Goode: Origin of Myth

Goode transforms the gallery into an alternative reality in which an ancient tomb was discovered beneath a Houston public works. The artist plays the lead [...]

Bud Clayton: On Time

Bud Clayton: On Time

Shattered, distressed fields of vivid colors bursting across heavy, hand built substrates.

Zoe Berg: Til sjøs (At sea)

Zoe Berg: Til sjøs (At sea)

Berg crafts an absurd yet deeply sincere Norwegian-American identity through historical research, family heirlooms, and pathetic aesthetic.

Majority Rules: A Decade of Contemporary Art Acquisitions

Majority Rules: A Decade of Contemporary Art Acquisitions

Since 2003, the McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum has purchased one or two works of art for the McNay’s collection at the group’s annual fall View [...]

70 Years of Mexican Art: New Languages, New Worlds

70 Years of Mexican Art: New Languages, New Worlds

A new collaboration between the El Paso Museum of Art and the Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso, brings 59 works by Mexican artists [...]

Building Modern Houston with Anna Mod

Building Modern Houston with Anna Mod

Author, preservation consultant and Preservation Houston member Anna Mod will discuss Space City’s architecture of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s as featured in her book [...]