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New American Paintings Volume #90
G Gallery
Opens Saturday, September 4, 6-9 pm
Through October 2.
(713) 802-9466
G Gallery kicks off its Fall schedule with an exhibition in collaboration with Open Press Studios, in celebration of New American Paintings Volume #90. The exhibition includes the Houston winners of the New American Paintings competition who were selected by Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for the Menil Collection. The artists include Mark Aguhar, Michael Bise, Gregory Michael Carter, Joseph Cohen, Garland Fielder, Jonathan C. Leach, Marcelyn McNeil, Howard Sherman, Joseph Wooten, and, not surprisingly, G Gallery's very own Wayne Gilbert!
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Melanie Crader: The Eula Project
O'Kane Gallery (UH-Downtown)
Opens Thursday, September 2, 6-8 pm
Through October 7.
(713) 221-8042
Houston artist Melanie Crader’s solo exhibition, The Eula Project, begins the fall season at the O’Kane Gallery on the campus of UH-Downtown. Crader’s installation is based upon the discovery of a box found over 20 years after her grandmother’s death. Through the mundane objects that the box contains, Crader explores the similarities between their two lives and the formation of identity.
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Joseph Havel: Cockroach Poems/ Jillian Conrad & Jeff Forster
Art League Houston
Opens Thursday, September 2, 6-9 pm
Through October 15.
(713) 523-9530
Art League Houston launches the Fall season with the opening of Cockroach Poems, an exhibition of sculpture by 2010 Texas Artist of the Year Joseph Havel. Using text cut from the book The Dream Songs by poet John Berryman, Havel creates a narrative in which a group of collage “poems” are edited by glue-and-text eating cockroaches, randomly altering the work. Don't miss the two-person show featuring recent work by recent Core Fellow Jillian Conrad and clay artist Jeff Forster. Conrad's work created with plywood, concrete, and cardboard reference everyday landscapes while Forster's sculptures are made from reused materials, fired remnants, and photographs of pre-existing sculptures.
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Joseph Havel: Cockroach Poems/ Jillian Conrad & Jeff Forster
Art League Houston
Opens Thursday, September 2, 6-9 pm
Through October 15.
(713) 523-9530
Art League Houston launches the Fall season with the opening of Cockroach Poems, an exhibition of sculpture by 2010 Texas Artist of the Year Joseph Havel. Using text cut from the book The Dream Songs by poet John Berryman, Havel creates a narrative in which a group of collage “poems” are edited by glue-and-text eating cockroaches, randomly altering the work. Don't miss the two-person show featuring recent work by recent Core Fellow Jillian Conrad and clay artist Jeff Forster. Conrad's work created with plywood, concrete, and cardboard reference everyday landscapes while Forster's sculptures are made from reused materials, fired remnants, and photographs of pre-existing sculptures.
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Melanie Crader: The Eula Project
O'Kane Gallery (UH-Downtown)
Opens Thursday, September 2, 6-8 pm
Through October 7.
(713) 221-8042
Houston artist Melanie Crader’s solo exhibition, The Eula Project, begins the fall season at the O’Kane Gallery on the campus of UH-Downtown. Crader’s installation is based upon the discovery of a box found over 20 years after her grandmother’s death. Through the mundane objects that the box contains, Crader explores the similarities between their two lives and the formation of identity.
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New American Paintings Volume #90
G Gallery
Opens Saturday, September 4, 6-9 pm
Through October 2.
(713) 802-9466
G Gallery kicks off its Fall schedule with an exhibition in collaboration with Open Press Studios, in celebration of New American Paintings Volume #90. The exhibition includes the Houston winners of the New American Paintings competition who were selected by Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for the Menil Collection. The artists include Mark Aguhar, Michael Bise, Gregory Michael Carter, Joseph Cohen, Garland Fielder, Jonathan C. Leach, Marcelyn McNeil, Howard Sherman, Joseph Wooten, and, not surprisingly, G Gallery's very own Wayne Gilbert!
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Road Show: Houston
3917 Main Street (Inman Gallery Annex)
Opens Friday, September 10, 6-8 pm
Through October 23.
713-526-7800
David Shelton Gallery of San Antonio takes their new exhibition on the road to Inman Gallery's annex space at 3917 Main Street in Houston! Road Show: Houston is David Shelton Gallery's first traveling exhibition that features seven Texas-based artists exploring an array of diverse issues. Austin artists Jonathan Faber and Sara Frantz are included along with Augusto DiStefano from H-town and San Antonio artists Judith Cottrell, Jayne Lawrence, George Schroeder, and Vincent Valdez.
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HJ Bott: Paradigms in Paint and Wire
Anya Tish Gallery
Opens Friday, September 10, 6–8:30 pm
Through October 9.
713-524-2299
HJ Bott's new collection of work, Paradigms in Paint and Wire, at Anya Tish Gallery includes a series of paintings and wire sculptures created over the last decade. Bott’s fascination with the complex and hypnotic systems of lines within his paintings and sculpture stem from a motif he developed in the seventies called the DoV module in which he organizes a system of archetypal patterns and symbols into a grid-like structure.
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Peat Duggins: St. Boniface's Last Days
Art Palace
Opens Friday, September 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk September 11, 2 pm
Through October 21.
(512) 496-0687
Taking the medieval legend of the German St. Boniface, who chopped down a sacred oak tree and used the wood to build a chapel, as a starting point, Peat Duggins's new exhibition St. Boniface's Last Days at Art Palace takes an ironic view of the legend. Duggins creates a series of sculptures in which a chapel is torn down in order to build an oak tree. Using the Christian legend, Duggins questions the nature of religious belief through expertly crafted Pop Art sculpture.
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Joe Mancuso: Trace
Barbara Davis Gallery
Opens Friday, September 10, 6:30-8:30 pm
Through October 9.
(713) 520-9200
Joe Mancuso's latest body of work, Trace, is opening at Barbara Davis Gallery on September 10. By transforming a variety of common, everyday materials such as plywood, layers of newspaper, and paint, Mancuso focuses on process and the transformation of humble materials through the strategies of artmaking.
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Before (During) After... and Under-Standing Water
DiverseWorks
Opens Friday, September 10, 6-9 pm
Through October 23.
(713) 223-8346
DiverseWorks begins the new season with an exhibition and symposium that commemorates the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Before (During) After and the accompanying exhibition Under-standing Water connect viewers to the perceptions, experiences, and memories of artists from Southeast Louisiana whose lives were impacted by the storm. Running concurrently in flickerlounge, DiverseWorks in partnership with Aurora Picture Show presents two films by Brent Joseph that explore challenges faced by storm survivors as they attempt to rebuild their lives.
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Created and Found Maps + Learning Curve 4
Houston Center for Photography
Opens Friday, September 10, 6-8 pm, Curator remarks and Artist Talk at 5:30 pm
Through November 7.
(713) 529-4755
Houston Center for Photography presents Created and Found Maps - Exploration of Self and World, an exhibition of works by nine contemporary photographers curated by HCP Exhibitions Committee Chairperson, Frazier King. The exhibition examines the ways in which artists are currently using mapping as a means of exploration. The second exhibition Learning Curve 4 showcases a selection of work by HCP´s Learning Center students from the past year, juried by HCP Resident Education Instructor Kristy Peet, as well as Instructors Eric Zapata and Jerry Brown.
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Cookie Wells: A Closer Look
Archway Gallery
On view Saturday, September 4, Reception Saturday, September 11, 5–8 pm, Artist talk Friday, September 24, 6-8 pm
Through September 30.
(713) 522-2409
Cookie Wells presents a new series of works entitled A Closer Look at Archway Gallery. The Women’s Institute of Houston is co-hosting Wells’ opening reception with Archway Gallery on Saturday, September 11 from 5-8 pm where attendees will have the chance to win an original painting being raffled by Wells.
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3rd Annual Houston Fringe Festival
FrenetiCore/ Frenetic Theater
Program 1: August 19, 20, 21, Program 2: August 26, 27, 28, Program 3: September 2, 3, 4, "Anything Goes" Weekend: September 10-11, Doors open at 7:30pm, 8:00pm showtime, Tickets: $17 in advance, $20 at the door, For more information call 832.426.4624
Through September 11.
832.426.4624
The Houston Fringe Festival is back for its third year and is brought to you by FrenetiCore. The annual performing arts festival takes place at Frenetic Theater for four consecutive weekends throughout August and September and offers independent theatre, film, dance, music and visual arts from Houston area artists and beyond. Each weekend features a different program with performances, multi-disciplinary visual art, live music, and light-painting. The "Anything Goes" Weekend brings us fast paced, over-the-top performances the last weekend of the event so get over to FrenetiCore and get your Fringe on. Check here for a detailed list of performances.
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German Impressionist Landscape Painting/ Drawing from Nature
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
On view Sunday, September 12
Through December 5.
(713) 639-7300
German Impressionist Landscape Painting brings together works by Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, and Max Slevogt, known as the "triumvirate of German Impressionism." The exhibition features more than 90 paintings and is organized by the MFAH and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne, Germany. Drawing from Nature is exhibited concurrently with German Impressionist Landscape Painting and presents works on paper by the three highlighted artists which establish a dialogue with the paintings.
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Mary L. Davis: Unexpected
Archway Gallery
Opens Saturday, August 7, 5–8 pm
Through September 2.
(713) 522-2409
Water media artist Mary L. Davis presents a new series of works, Unexpected, at Archway Gallery. Davis was selected from among 113 artists to receive an award from the Watercolor U.S.A. 2010 competition for her painting entitled, Shattered Glass. Davis served as the President of the Watercolor Art Society-Houston from 2009 to 2010 and is one of the newest members of the Archway Gallery roster of artists.
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Muñoz, Maggi, Rojas, Mora, and Siquier
Sicardi Gallery
Through September 2.
(713) 529-1313
Sicardi Gallery's current exhibition features the work of five renowned Latin American artists including Oscar Muñoz, Marco Maggi, Miguel Angel Rojas, Gabriel de la Mora, and Pablo Siquier exploring the ongoing drug war amongst other related issues. Rojas presents a beautiful landscape print from his native Andes mountains laden with a critique of deforestation caused by the drug war while Muñoz's aerial photos of Cali, Colombia are covered in shattered glass. Don't miss the wall drawing by Argentine artist Siquier that took 35 hours to install!
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Harold Garde
Wade Wilson Art
On view Thursday, July 1, Opens Saturday, July 10, 6-9 pm
Through September 3.
(713) 521-2977
Wade Wilson Art presents an exhibition of new paintings by nonagenarian artist Harold Garde. Garde's paintings investigate the human form and its relationships to color and compositions.
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The Paper Runway
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Opens Friday, June 4, 5:30–8 pm, Gallery Talk by Cindy Bowden Saturday, June 5, 11 am
Through September 4.
(713) 529-4848
Head on over to Houston Center for Contemporary Craft for The Paper Runway! This juried exhibition of nearly 50 stunning works of paper clothing and accessories are by artists from the U.S. and around the world. Everything from handcrafted evening gowns to jewelry made from magazine pages are featured along with a suit made from lottery tickets! Don't miss Elaine Bradford's crocheted body sculpture and headdress and Jeff Forster's chunky ceramic neckpiece that incorporates recycled materials. During the reception HCCC’s current artists-in-residence will have their studios open and an Artist Hall exhibition of works by the 2009 artists-in-residence will also be on view through July 25.
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Naked
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
On view Saturday, July 10
Through September 4.
(713) 529-4848
Five contemporary ceramists are highlighted in the new exhibition, Naked on view in the small gallery of Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Working in all-white porcelain, Charles Birnbaum, Lindsay Feuer, Heather Knight, Jennifer McCurdy, and Kamila Szczesna present objects that have no colored glazes. HCCC Curator, Gwynne Rukenbrod, organized this exhibition of finely crafted, non-functional sculptural works that focus on form and material.
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Found: Discoveries of FotoFest and PhotoNOLA
John Cleary Gallery
Opens Saturday, July 10, 6–8 pm
Through September 4.
713-524-5070
John Cleary Gallery presents the exhibition Found: Discoveries of FotoFest and PhotoNOLA, which brings together recently discovered and emerging artists selected by Catherine Couturier, owner of John Cleary Gallery. The artists in Found were discovered in Houston’s FotoFest and New Orlean’s PhotoNOLA and features artists from Switzerland to Houston. We think EJ Major's is a must see + check out almost fifteen other photographers showing for the first time at John Cleary Gallery!
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If We Only Knew Now What They Knew Then
Houston Arts Alliance space125gallery
Opens Thursday, July 29, 5:30 pm
Through September 9.
(713) 527-9330
Houston Arts Alliance presents the new exhibition If We Only Knew Now What They Know Then opening on Thursday, July 29. The exhibition features works by Houston artists Melanie Crader and Katy Heinlein. In Crader's body of work, entitled Take Away Project, fashion, gender, social class and identity are explored. She will have a series of printed stories which viewers are encouraged to take with them. Heinlein's (shown) mysterious and suggestive sculptures create interplay between gravity, tension and movement. By using cloth as her medium, her theatrical sculptures are vague yet partially revealing.
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Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America through Galveston...
Moody Gardens
Through September 11.
1-800-582-4673
Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America through Galveston Island, Texas at Moody Gardens chronicles the Port of Galveston’s largely forgotten history as a major gateway to American immigration from 1845 to 1924. The exhibition travels to New York after it closes in Galveston on September 11.
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OUTLOUD: A Word-Based Exhibit
Philomena Gabriel Contemporary
Opens Saturday, August 14, 6-9 pm, Open House Saturday, August 28, 11am-4pm
Through September 11.
713-523-7424
After presenting several impressive, roving exhibitions at different spaces around town, Zoya Tommy settles in and presents PG Contemporary's inaugural exhibition, OUTLOUD at 3227 1/2 Milam Street. Tommy assembles a group exhibition featuring artists who incorporate words and phrases into artworks by some of H-Town's favorite visual wordsmiths: Bill Davenport, Joseph Havel, Rachel Hecker, Kelly Klaasmeyer, Tierney Malone, Aaron Parazette and Gabriela Trzebinski. Be sure to support this exciting new space, and, as they say, spread the word!
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Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Through September 12.
(713) 639-7300
The MFAH presents one of Japanese photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro´s most celebrated bodies of work in the exhibition Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture. His images of the legendary 17th-century Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto led him to be considered one of the most influential figures in post-World War II Japanese photography. Seventy of these photographs are shown and for the first time uncropped and as Yasuhiro had originally intended them to be seen.
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Will Bryant and Rand Renfrow: Summer City
Domy Books
Opens Saturday, August 14, 7-9 pm
Through September 16.
(713) 523-3669
In their debut show, Summer City, the dynamic duo- Will Bryant and Rand Renfrow explore the basic struggle between good and evil. "The good things being fruits, vegetables, exercise, and making stuff. The bad being dependency on technology, laziness, and negative energy." Check out this collaboration with their light-hearted commentary on social media through painting, drawing, printmaking, and zines at Domy Books.
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Matthew Glover & Melanie Jamison
Gallery 1724
Opens Saturday, August 14, 8-10 pm
Through September 18.
(713) 523-2547
Just coming off a feature at Labotanica, Matthew Glover's work is derived from female models and has an intentional low resolution-look in Knitted Nudes. Also on view at Gallery 1724 is the exhibition, Index For The Molecular Inevitable by Melanie Jamison. Jamison now independently composes electronic music and participates as an experimental vocalist and sound texture contributor in the female improvisational band, Pear Prickley Pear. Look in the bathroom behind the bookcase for her work...
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Vanessa Estrada / Trey Speegle
Koelsch Gallery
Opens Saturday, August 7, 6-10 pm
Through September 18.
(713) 626-0175
In conjunction with White Linen Night in the Heights, Koelsch Gallery presents two solo exhibitions opening Saturday, August 7. Vanessa Estrada's exhibition titled Just Kiddin’ Around is on view as well as Trey Speegle's (shown) exhibition Outside the Lines. Check out the artwork plus live music by the LL Cooper band from 8-10 pm!
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Dolls Now
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
On view Saturday, July 29, Opening Reception Thursday, August 5, 5:30–8 pm
Through September 19.
(713) 529-4848
Stop by the Artist Hall at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft to see an exhibition of handcrafted dolls made by members of the Texas Association of Original Doll Artists (TAODA). The works showcased in Dolls Now are figurative and are created from a variety of materials including clay, wood, and fiber and range from scenes of realism to fantasy. TAODA was founded in 1999 by ten doll artists who set out to promote the “art of the doll.”
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BECAUSE WE ARE
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
Opens Saturday, June 19, 7-10 pm, Screening of Kirby Dick's "Outrage" (2009)- Saturday, August 28, 2 pm & 4 pm
Through September 19.
(713) 529-6900
The Station Museum unleashes the exhibition BECAUSE WE ARE. Featured artists include Eric Avery, James Morrison, Patricia Cronin, Brian Kenny, Conrad Ventur, Slava Mogutin, David Wojnarowicz, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Goldstein, Arthur Robinson Williams, and the poetry of Staceyann Chin. The Station always gives us rowdy, thought-provoking exhibitions that provide food for thought long after the shows are over.
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Boozefox, Robert Harrington, Tobiah Mundt, Logan Beck
Lawndale Art Center
Opens Friday, August 20, 6:30-8:30 pm, Artist talks 6 pm
Through September 25.
(713) 528-5858
Lawndale Art Center kicks off August with four new exhibitions featuring the Austin collective Boozefox. The four members transform the John M. O'Quinn Gallery into a large scale multimedia installation resembling that of a giant head, weighing over 450 tons! Robert Jackson Harrington create a new modular sculpture in the Mezzanine Gallery while the fantastical creatures of Tobiah Mundt are made from sculpted wool and fabric in the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery. In the Project Space, Logan Sebastian Beck's Following Huck Finn documents a long-distance bicycle tour from Houston to Missouri in honor of the 175th anniversary of Mark Twain's birth and the 100th anniversary of his death. Don't miss the mobile photography exhibition Those Who Fell through the Cracks by Stanley Greene & Kadir van Lohuizen which documents Hurricane Katrina survivors five years after the storm- through August 26.
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Perspectives 171: Jennifer West
Contemporary Arts Museum
Opens Thursday, July 15, 7-9 pm, Gallery walk-through with Jennifer West at 6:30 pm, Artists/Scholars Talk with Peter Lucas Thursday, August 12, 6:30 pm
Through September 26.
(713) 284-8250
Perspectives 171: Jennifer West is the first solo museum exhibition for this Los Angeles-based artist and is curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, CAMH curator. Working in film and film installation, West creates experimental works that blend filmmaking, painting, and performance art and reference iconic moments in film, music, and art history. Five film projections created between 2008 and 2010 are on view and a limited edition zine, created by the artist, will also accompany the exhibition.
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Kaneem Smith
Texas Southern University - University Museum
Through September 26.
713-313-7011
Houston-based artist Kaneem Smith shows her recent work in a solo exhibition at Texas Southern University. Known for her mixed media sculptures of organic shapes and cocoon-like vessels, Smith utilizes materials such as barkcloth, cotton muslin, felt, burlap, aluminum and bronze. Her work has also recently been shown at the Contemporary Art Center in Dallas and Project Row Houses in Houston.
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George and Judith Gonzales: An Artistic Union
Jung Center
On view Wednesday, September 1
Through September 28.
(713) 524-8253
Still-life paintings by George Gonzalez are joined with realistic portraits and figurative paintings by Judith Mroski-Gonzalez at The Jung Center in An Artistic Union...
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Joyce Howell: Local Color
Bogan Gallery (Galveston)
Preview & Artist talk Friday, August 27, 6-9 pm, ArtWalk Opening Saturday, August 28, 6-9 pm
Through October 2.
(409) 765-1711
Joyce Howell's first show in Galveston takes place at Bogan Gallery in her exhibition titled Local Color. By using the colors of the sand and sea, Howell uses her own memories and surroundings to inspire her abstract works on board. Howell was also a longtime friend of the beloved Texas artist, Virgil Grotfeldt, whom she claims she learned as much from as from her formal education.
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Ellen Hart and Dixie Beer
Buchanan Gallery
ArtWalk Opening Saturday, August 28, 6-9 pm
Through October 2.
(409) 763-8683
The exhibition Shadow and Reflection features new paintings by C. Ellen Hart who explores patterns of shadow and light at a monumental scale. Works by Dixie Beer will also be on view as well as new paintings by Danna Ruth Harvey with her one-of-a-kind combination of oil, wax and cloth works. In the Viewing Room you'll find recent work by Tony Saladino, sculptures by Damon Thomas, and encaustics by Gwen Plunkett.
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Milton Ausherman and Marion Mercer- New Work
Wagner Sousa Modern Art
ArtWalk Opening Saturday, August 28, 6-9 pm
Through October 2.
(409) 392-3331
Milton Ausherman's eight and ten foot grisaille oil paintings are smooth, blocky updates on deco and cubist themes while Marion Mercer's boxy constructivist sculptures are created from different varieties of wood.
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Dixie Friend Gay: Mural Studies 1998–2009
Galveston Arts Center
ArtWalk Opening Saturday, August 28, 6-9 pm, Gallery Talk 6:30 pm
Through October 3.
409-763-2403
Galveston Arts Center presents an exhibition in celebration of the completion of Dixie Friend's Gay's most recent public art project installed in the lobby of the new Ocean and Coastal Studies Building at Texas A&M University at Galveston. The exhibition Mural Studies 1998–2009 features studies the artist has created for public and private art projects during those eleven years. In her exploration of the mystery and power of nature, Friend Gay's recent project of three mosaics is composed of tumbled Smalti glass mosaic tile depicting undersea life. Preparatory paintings and drawings, as well as samples of glass, and photographs of the A&M project will also be on view.
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Hans Molzberger: Never Let It Rest!
Holocaust Museum Houston
Opens Thursday, April 15, 6- pm, Visit www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx to RSVP online
Through October 3.
(713) 942-8000
German artist Hans Molzberger remembers growing up in the south of Germany after World War II. Through his unique mixed-media pieces in Never Let It Rest!, Molzberger documents the lives and histories of the Jewish citizens of Salzwedel. An installation in the exhibit combines a window from the synagogue in Salzwedel with glass artwork produced by master glass-blower and Houston-area Holocaust survivor Rubin Samelson. Never Let It Rest! also includes works made from destroyed weapons, pieces of a German aircraft and pieces of a railway station tunnel.
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Melanie Crader: The Eula Project
O'Kane Gallery (UH-Downtown)
Opens Thursday, September 2, 6-8 pm
Through October 7.
(713) 221-8042
Houston artist Melanie Crader’s solo exhibition, The Eula Project, begins the fall season at the O’Kane Gallery on the campus of UH-Downtown. Crader’s installation is based upon the discovery of a box found over 20 years after her grandmother’s death. Through the mundane objects that the box contains, Crader explores the similarities between their two lives and the formation of identity.
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Peter Precourt- Katrina Chronicles: Origins
University of Houston, 4th floor Projects Gallery
Opens Thursday, August 26, 5-7 pm
Through October 7.
(713) 743-3001
Katrina Chronicles: Origins is the artist’s reflections on the events leading up to his experience with Hurricane Katrina while living in Coastal Mississippi. The series hovers somewhere between a graphic novel, a journal entry, and painting. Formerly from Houston, and a graduate of the UH graduate painting program, Peter Precourt is currently the Coordinator of Art and Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Maine at Augusta.
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Barbara Jones: Her Life in Paint
Art Car Museum
Opens Saturday, July 3, 7-10pm
Through October 8.
(713) 861-5526
The work of Barbara Jones is featured in the exhibition Barbara Jones: Her Life in Paint at The Art Car Museum. Jones was a prolific artist throughout her 30 year career and was a highly regarded Houston painter who passed away last year after a difficult battle with cancer. She also studied at the University of Houston under professors Richard Stout and John Alexander. Her vibrant portrait paintings are exhibited as well as her God and Girls with Guns series.
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Dance with Camera
Contemporary Arts Museum
Opens Friday, August 6, 7-10 pm, Artists/Scholars Talk Saturday, August 7, 2 pm
Through October 14.
(713) 284-8250
Dance with Camera features art works in film, video, and still photography that shows the ways dance has inspired visual artists to record bodies moving in time and space. Twenty-six artists and filmmakers are highlighted in the exhibition which has been organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, and curated by Jenelle Porter, ICA Curator. The exhibition includes works from the 1960s by Bruces Conner and Nauman along with heavy hitters Mike Kelley and Merce Cunningham. Numerous live performances are also scheduled and co-presented by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts so check the CAMH website for the full line-up!
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Joseph Havel: Cockroach Poems/ Jillian Conrad & Jeff Forster
Art League Houston
Opens Thursday, September 2, 6-9 pm
Through October 15.
(713) 523-9530
Art League Houston launches the Fall season with the opening of Cockroach Poems, an exhibition of sculpture by 2010 Texas Artist of the Year Joseph Havel. Using text cut from the book The Dream Songs by poet John Berryman, Havel creates a narrative in which a group of collage “poems” are edited by glue-and-text eating cockroaches, randomly altering the work. Don't miss the two-person show featuring recent work by recent Core Fellow Jillian Conrad and clay artist Jeff Forster. Conrad's work created with plywood, concrete, and cardboard reference everyday landscapes while Forster's sculptures are made from reused materials, fired remnants, and photographs of pre-existing sculptures.
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Bernar Venet
Hermann Park Conservancy
Opens Thursday, Jan, 21, 4-6:30 pm; Lecture at the MFAH Friday, Jan. 22, 6 pm
Through October 30.
(713) 524-5876
The Texan-French
Alliance for the Arts (TFAA) unveils a nine-month exhibition of
15 monumental sculptures by acclaimed French artist Bernar
Venet. That means that Houston will join the ranks of over 20 other international
cities including Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, New York, and
Chicago to host a Bernar Venet exhibition! The works
will be sited by the artist and McClain Gallery in eight
locations throughout the park. Enjoy!
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Objects of Devotion
Menil Collection
On view Friday, August 13, Gallery Talk by exhibition curator Kristina Van Dyke with Linda Neagley, Associate Professor of Art History at Rice University- Tuesday, October 12, 7:30 pm
Through October 31.
(713) 525-9400
Religion is never far from art. A new exhibition, Objects of Devotion, at the Menil, explores this persistent connection. Culled from the museum's permanent collection and featuring many works never before on view, Objects of Devotion exhibits a wide range of devotional objects that exist at the intersection of religion and art. Exhibition curator Kristina Van Dyke presents approximately 32 objects, from a ninth century Mayan drinking vessel, to Medieval shrine figures of saints, that comment upon our past and present human need for art and religion that helps guide us through uncertainty.
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Gabriel Kuri / Amy Patton
Blaffer Art Museum
Opens Friday, August 27, 6-8 pm
Through November 13.
713-743-9530
The Blaffer Art Museum brings forth two major exhibitions featuring Gabriel Kuri and Amy Patton. Both exhibitions are the the first solo exhibitions of each artist organized by a U.S. museum. In Gabriel Kuri's exhibition Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab, a ten-year survey showcases an installation that questions production and exchange. Amy Patton shows a new sculptural installation as well as a recent film titled Oil, a filmed theater piece and a documentary on the making of the film, in collaboration with Justin Doran, a member of the Alley Theatre Company, and students from the U of H School of Theatre & Dance.
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EARTH PAINT PAPER WOOD: Recent Acquisitions
Menil Collection
On view Friday, August 27, Gallery Talk Monday, September 20, 8 pm
Through November 28.
(713) 525-9400
Organized by Assistant Curator Clare Elliott, the exhibition EARTH PAINT PAPER WOOD emphasizes works on paper from the 20th century from the Menil Collection's permanent collection. With an eye toward the realization of the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center, which is set to eventually occupy its own building on the museum campus, this exhibition encompasses nearly 60 works that continues to build upon the legacy of its founders, John and Dominique de Menil. Don't miss works on paper by Claes Oldenburg, works by Willem de Kooning, Frank Stella, Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, Robert Gober, plus metal sculptures by Jim Love, and more.
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Third Saturdays at Nance/Hardy Street Studios
Hardy & Nance Street Studio Complex
Open Studios- Every Third Saturday: August 21-December 17, 1-5 pm
Through December 17.
832-545-0707
Take a whirl into the Nance/Hardy Street Studios for their monthly open studios. Artists in residence at the Hardy/Nance Street Studios open their doors from 1-5 pm every third Saturday, every month through December for an opportunity to watch the artists in action and create their work in realtime. Grab a drink, buy some art and see them paint, sculpt and sew!
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Live Oak Meeting House FINALLY re-opens!!!
Live Oak Friends Meeting House
Regular viewing of James Turrell's skyspace begins again on Friday, July 30 one hour before sunset, Open every Friday one hour before sunset for prayer, meditation, and viewing of the skyspace
Through December 31.
713-862-6685
Live Oak Friends Meeting (Quaker) announces the regular viewing of James Turrell's skyspace which begins again on Friday, July 30 one hour before sunset. All are welcome and The Meeting House and skyspace will be open every Friday one hour before sunset for prayer, meditation, and viewing of the skyspace. Private group viewings can be arranged by contacting the meeting scheduler at friendjann@hotmail.com. James Turrell, Leslie K. Elkins Architecture, Atlantech Systems, and W. S. Bellows Construction reengineered and rebuilt the moveable roof component to the skyspace with funding from Houston Endowment.
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AirStation, Site Specific Installation by Dion Laurent
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
Located at the 1930's Art Deco Gas Station directly across the road from the Station Museum of Contemporary Art @ the corner of Alabama & La Branch
Through December 31.
(713) 529-6900
AirStation is a temporary installation created by Dion Laurent in a 1930's Art Deco Gas Station directly across the road from the Station Museum of Contemporary Art. This "self-contained, self-sustaining bio-environment" will develop over the next 6 months and planned performances will also take place on a monthly basis. AirPlane1 was awarded first place in the Houston Art Car Parade and will also be part of the installation. Stay tuned for more dates and the performance Earthman!
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