A Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of Co-Lab’s 2014 programming year: smaller components from each of projects shown together. Artists: Erica Botkin, Leslie Moody Castro & Miguel Monroy, Emily Cayton, Ryan…
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Texas artist Corinne Jones uses the simplest of techniques to convey the language of her art, from earth drawings made by rubbing her native yard-dirt into paper, to layered silhouettes…
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A new gallery in Isabella Court presents it’s inaugural show, featuring works by Corpus Christi artist Barbra Riley.
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Stranger Than Fiction: Julia Brown, Erika DeFreitas and Nicole Miller
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonVideo, painting, textile and sculpture by artists Julia Brown, Erika DeFreitas and Nicole Miller. The works record and highlight the occurrence of the absurd in everyday or commonplace settings.
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Two of the exhibiting artists (Melinda Laszczynski and Caroline Roberts) have curated a group show of 21 artists, spanning five years of the University of Houston’s MFA Painting Program. The…
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Few artists have subjected themselves to the discipline and formal economy of just using black and white as their elemental colors of expression. Muller, using india ink, and Twaddle, using…
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Art major students at Austin Community College are showing work in this juried exhibitio.
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Developed over three years starting in 2011, Riddy’s Palermo emerges from a process of observation both intuitive and deliberate. Slow and considered walks through the city allowed patterns of change,…
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San Francisco-based artist Jennie Ottingeris is out to save the U.S. Postal Service and the endangered mode of written communication. The show features postcards with “social media type messages” that…
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Contemporary Mexican artist Aguinaco contrasts everyday objects against revolution; the commonplace impregnated with models of belief beyond the scope of human life.
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Hicks not only collects coincidences, but offers an alternative model of the cosmos with coincidence as the key to natural law. Super String Theory is a larger collection of works…
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The two artists take the ceramic medium away from center literally and conceptually. Through the use of camouflage, Merrie Wright’s urban wildlife challenges perceptions of time, space and reality, questioning…
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Kantor’s exhibition of mirror, light, and video installations and time-based drawings. From the artist: “Our brain puts up the show of a continuously flowing, conscious world, but it is just…
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Steampunk, a literary sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy popularized by the works of H.G. Wells, Mary Shelly and Jules Vernes, has inspired aesthetics in the fields of movies, fashion,…
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Velliquette’s new series of dimensional cut paper constructions embrace their folkloric origins, but insist on a new spiritual vocabulary—one that combines aspects of 20th-century formalism with contemporary sensibilities about the handmade.
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Harmeyer appropriates elements of scientific and medical illustration and sublimates them into embodiments of an inner vision. Using a variety of media, the works explore the mysterious embedded within the…
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Two artists who work with strong geometric structures—but both, in their own ways, are totally involved with organic textures derived from their material choices.
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The ultimate street photography! James Nares captured 16 hours of footage on the streets of Manhattan from a moving car. Using a high-def camera, typically used to record fast-moving subjects…
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Houston-based Padilla’s work addresses memory as a series of shifting views composed of the real, the distorted, and the perceived elements that make up a single recalled moment.
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Brister’s organic and staged photographs question the nature of sculpture, performance, and portraiture. Both humorous and melancholic, these images emphasize the gap between the natural world and its synthetic imitations.