Shotgun
Rice University Art Gallery
January 30 - March 15, 2015
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Today, January 30
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Opening
Rice University Art Gallery
5–7 pm
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Opening
Jamie Ellen Davis: troublewithwords
Fresh Arts
6–9 pm
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Opening
Kcam - Katy Contemporary Art Museum
6–8 pm
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Opening
Grace Zuñiga: Sweat of the Sun
MECA
6–8 pm
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Opening
East End Studio Gallery
7–11 pm
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Saturday, January 31
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Lecture
FotoFest: International Discoveries V
FotoFest
2–3 pm
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Opening
Gallery Sonja Roesch
5–7 pm
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Artist talk
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Infinity Machine
Byzantine Fresco Chapel
6–7 pm
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Opening
Jessica Ramirez and Jacob Spacek: Digital Elements Project
Mariago Collective
6–8 pm
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Performance
The East-Klectic
9 pm – 12 am
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Saturday, February 7
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Artist talk
Organized Love: Ideas on Non-Violence
The African American Library at the Gregory School
2:30–3:30 pm
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Opening
Shahla Rosa: Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Jung Center
5–7 pm
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Closing
Sherman Finch: Symphonic Infinitum
post-studio projects
6–9 pm
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ON VIEW NOW
Maggi Battalino: Blue Skies
Lee College Performing Arts Center Gallery
December 2, 2014 through January 30, 2015
Battalino has been making paintings for over twenty years and, while best known for geometric work, her recent work plays with transparency and depth and reveals her true inspiration: the authenticity of nature.
Salon des Refuses
January 6 through 30, 2015
A group exhibition at the Jung Center featuring work by artists Keith J.R. Hollingsworth, Janet Hull Ruffin, Valentina Kisseleva, and Charisse Weston. (*Not to be confused with Houston's annual show of Big Show rejects with the same title.)
J. Todd Allison: Conversations from the Satellites
January 3 through 30, 2015
Painter J. Todd Allison’s work pulls from a multitude of experiences and perspectives. The work on view in this solo show is characterized by a new found ease and looseness with imagery.
Stories of a Workforce: Celebrating the Centennial of the Houston Ship Channel
Houston Public Library’s Julia Ideson Building
Last Chance - September 2, 2014 through January 31, 2015
Houston wouldn't be Houston without the Ship Channel, and this show will explore the "lore of work" associated with the city's port — and there is nothing not to love about their press image of the heavily tattooed young man suggestively wrangling two big ropes. Dockworkers of the world, UNITE! In conjunction with Transported + Renewed.
Eric Heist: Biosphere 2 and Anna Elise Johnson: Cajole The Nice Nice
Last Chance - November 29, 2014 through January 31, 2015
Eric Heist's installation continues his interest in the economic and psychological dynamics of communal idealism in the face of individual interests. As in previous exhibitions by the artist, an array of media is directed toward a research-based approach to an historic event. Opening in the Project Space are new works by Anna Elise Johnson. The title for this exhibition comes from a line in the Dada Manifesto by Tristan Tzara that asks if art is only meant to "cajole the nice nice bourgeois." Her collages manipulate a historical photograph that presents an archetypal scene of political negotiation.
David Lackey: Memories and Maladies
Last Chance - December 6, 2014 through January 31, 2015
A show of new art assemblages by antiquarian-turned-artist David Lackey using found, 19th century photographs and objects.
Andy Grotfeldt and Luke Harnden: Extended Stay
Last Chance - January 9 through 31, 2015
Paintings and drawings by Andy Grotfeldt (Houston, TX) feature a unique, interpretive mark making process, while paint, light, and sculptural installation work of Luke Harnden (Dallas, TX) has been processed by technology and new media practices.
Dick Wray: Uncompromising Vision
Last Chance - January 9 through 31, 2015
An exhibition of work by artist Dick Wray (1933-2011), who played a critical role in the development of Houston’s contemporary art scene since the 1950s. The show–including some works not previously exhibited–and a special lecture by art historian Dr. William Camfield illuminate the work of this remarkable, local artist.
Bob Russell: Fault Lines
Last Chance - January 10 through 31, 2015
New, abstract works by artist Bob Russell, inspired by aerial satellite imagery.
Fresh Perspectives in Clay
Last Chance - January 22 through 31, 2015
Group show of student works that push beyond traditional notions of clay as an art material, including ceramic pieces by Amber Eggleton, Erika Aguirre, Colton Clifford, Shelby Coleman,Theresa Goolsby, Frank Graham, Jerry Gardner, Haden Henderson, Caroline Long, Juanita Rodriguez.
KAA Winter Show 2015
Kcam - Katy Contemporary Art Museum
Last Chance - January 24 through 31, 2015
Annual juried art exhibition held by Katy Area Artists (KAA).
Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence
Last Chance - October 2, 2014 through February 1, 2015
What does peace look like? This show explores the resonance in the visual arts of Gandhi’s ethics of nonviolence.
Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River
Last Chance - October 26, 2014 through February 1, 2015
Fifty paintings on loan from locations around the world provide an intimate look at the Seine, a subject essential to Monet’s identity as an artist.
Houston Iranian Film Festival
Last Chance - January 23 through February 1, 2015
MFAH’s 22nd Annual Houston Iranian Film Festival includes the local premieres of five recent feature films, as well as current Core Fellow Anahita Ghazvinizadeh in person to present her two acclaimed short films about coming of age and preview the third film in this trilogy, shot in Houston. More info here.
Jennifer May Reiland: Veronicas
Last Chance - January 10 through February 3, 2015
Artist Jennifer May Reiland’s drawings and watercolor paintings examine perceptions of fantasy, reality, distance, and closeness in the digital age. The title refers to the Catholic Saint Veronica and Latin origin of the name, “vera icon,” meaning “true image.”
Jim Adams and Sherry Tseng Hill: Masks, Monsters, and Monoliths
Last Chance - January 3 through February 5, 2015
Masks and figures made by two artists who create with repurposed materials. Jim Adams works with scrapped, industrial metal, while Sherry Tseng Hill layers readily available, ephemeral found objects and colored papers.
Emily Peacock: Soft Diet
January 9 through February 7, 2015
Houston artist Emily Peacock's newest photographs, videos, and sculptural elements stem from her facing the recent illness and death of a loved one. With a mixture of surreal sterility and organic grotesqueness, these unusual, personal works process shards of mortality, memory, family, and identity.
Sherman Finch: Symphonic Infinitum
January 9 through February 7, 2015
Revisiting John Cage’s ideas of chance, Sherman Finch’s new audience-activated wall assemblages explore the relationships of sound and visualization.
Wings of the City
September 5, 2014 through February 8, 2015
A collection of nine magnificent bronze sculptures by Mexican artist Jorge Marín.
Alfredo Gisholt: Canto y Calavera
January 10 through February 11, 2015
The paintings of Mexican artist Alfredo Gisholt resists categorization, as they combine abstract, figurative, and narrative elements. This is Gisholt’s first solo show in Houston.
Linear Imaginations
January 20 through February 11, 2015
Taking Gego's notion of the line as a starting point, this investigation into the unpredictability of abstraction features work by Gego, Anna Elise Johnson, Mikhail Lylov, Gabriel Martinez, and Lauren Moya Ford.
Stephen Daly: Drawings and Sculpture
January 15 through February 13, 2015
An exhibition of wall works by artist Stephen Daly that combining his practices in both metal sculpture and ink and watercolor drawing.
The Ground On Which I Stand
Lone Star College – Montgomery County Campus
January 12 through February 13, 2015
Located along the railroad line between Houston and Conroe, Tamina is one of the few remaining freedmen towns in the U.S. Photographer Marti Corn’s exhibition presents photographic portraits and oral histories from this historically significant, African American community.
Postcards from the Trenches: Germans and Americans Visualize the Great War
October 23, 2014 through February 14, 2015
The exhibition focuses on the art created by soldiers, demonstrating how individuals from opposing sides of the conflict personalized and humanized the war experience. Seventy-five hand-painted postcards by German painter, Otto Schubert, serve as a focal point of the exhibition and depict the daily realities and tragedies of the war.
Adela Andea: On the Left Side of Mercury
January 9 through February 14, 2015
Using a variety of lights, tubes, rods, coils, mirrors, and debris, Adela Andea’s new sculptures and installations blend science and fantasy to bring to life a vibrant, playful future-universe.
Joe Davidson: White Dust
January 9 through February 14, 2015
A solo-exhibition featuring a new series of totemic, cast plaster stacks by Los Angeles-based artist Joe Davidson–informed in part by the Dada movement and Art Povera artists.
Cheryl Donegan and Stephen Lapthisophon: Subject Matter
January 9 through February 14, 2015
Works by New York-based Cheryl Donegan and Dallas-based Stephen Lapthisophon.
Bradley Kerl: Blind Arcade
January 9 through February 14, 2015
Bradley Kerl's newest paintings and collages playfully subvert the viewing process by framing imagery with arches.
Angel Oloshove: Floating Worlds
January 9 through February 14, 2015
Ceramic sculptures by Houston artists Angel Oloshove
Christopher H Martin: Twenty Years
January 17 through February 14, 2015
New, reverse-glass abstract paintings by international artist Christopher H. Martin, who's been making work inspired by celestial elements and organic forms for 20 years.
Lisa Ludwig: nests
January 17 through February 14, 2015
A show of new sculptures by artist Lisa Ludwig, which represent and play with forms from the natural world.
Katsumi Hayakawa: Paper Works
January 15 through February 14, 2015
This exhibition of new paper constructions by Japanese artist Katsumi Hayakawa creatively explores systems, alternative realities, and metropolitan spaces.
Anna Mavromatis: Coffee Rituals
January 17 through February 14, 2015
Artist Anna Mavromatis has used a variety of printmaking and paper staining techniques to create these new works.
Ann Johnson: Hoop Dreamin'
January 17 through February 14, 2015
A series of works by mixed-media artist Ann "Sole Sister" Johnson incorporating decorative basketball goals and investigating social issues.
VAA 7th Juried Invitational Exhibition
January 15 through February 14, 2015
Visual Arts Alliance's 7th Juried Invitational Exhibition, with works selected by artist and gallery owner David Hardaker.
Rachel Phillips
January 17 through February 14, 2015
Three new bodies of work by artist Rachel Phillips–From Time to Time, Divinations, and Fixed– play with time, history and personality.
Narinder Sall: What Do We Have Here?
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
January 15 through February 14, 2015
Dreamlike, black and white photographs by local Indian-American artist Narinder Sall play with texture and light, as well as mixed cultural influences and innuendo.
Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi
October 25, 2014 through February 15, 2015
The work from the contemporary Japanese artist Bidou Yamaguchi, who is a master Noh mask carver in the Hōshō tradition, employing a modern interpretation to facial features.
Jeff Jennings: End of The Line
January 8 through February 15, 2015
Recent paintings by artist Jeff Jennings' explore the interactions of man-made structures and the natural environment.
Organized Love: Ideas on Non-Violence
The African American Library at the Gregory School
October 4, 2014 through February 21, 2015
Contemporary artists and writers respond to the history of nonviolent struggle in Houston and related visual culture. Work by Regina Agu, Rabe'a Ballin, Gregory Michael Carter, Jade Cooper, Jamal Cyrus, Kenya Evans, Robert Hodge, Autumn Knight, Lauren Kelly, Thomas Meloncon, Robert Pruitt, Phillip Pyle, Garry Reece, Deon Robinson, Anthony Suber, M'Kina Tapscott
Preetika Rajgariah: Migrating Identities
January 16 through February 21, 2015
Indian-born/Houston-based artist Preetika Rajgariah explores themes of migration and cultural identity in these new works, including a large-scale watercolor painting on paper wrapping the entirety of the Art League hallway gallery.
Ed Wilson: A Survey
January 16 through February 21, 2015
An exhibition bringing together a wide selection of powerful sculptural works spanning over twenty years of the Houston artist’s career.
Mel Chin: Paper Trail and Unauthorized Collaborations
January 16 through February 21, 2015
A selection of drawings, diagrams, and paraphernalia made by artist Mel Chin over the past four decades, accompanied by new, unauthorized physical alterations of oil portraits. Held in conjunction with Rematch, an expansive, multi-venue survey of Chin's work.
Carlee Fernandez: Arranging Family
January 9 through February 21, 2015
Carlee Fernandez’ photographs and sculptures explore personal identity by finding connections and blurred familial boundaries.
Candace Hicks: Napoleon’s Wallpaper
January 17 through February 21, 2015
Interactive, kinetic sculptures, puzzles and wall texts by artist Candace Hicks.
Lee Mullican: Paintings 1956-1977
January 17 through February 21, 2015
Abstract works by California painter and member of the Dynaton group, Lee Mulican.
OK these five artists walk into BOX 13 with a piano…
January 17 through February 21, 2015
Artists Christie Blizard, Jimmy Canales, Mat Kubo, Ken Little, and Mark McCoin dismantle both the physical form and historical contexts of the piano.
Lindsay Palmer: Don’t let the sun go down on me…
January 17 through February 21, 2015
Lindsay Palmer focuses on the life and career of French filmmaking pioneer Alice Guy Blanche, and specifically, her 1912 film, Falling Leaves.
Janet Morrow: Snow Garden
January 17 through February 21, 2015
Janet Morrow’s cast sugar window installation explores ideas of isolation, brokenness, silence and dependency.
Texas Abstract
January 10 through February 22, 2015
This survey exhibition, organized in conjunction with the recent release of the book, TEXAS ABSTRACT: Modern + Contemporary, features work by more than 20 significant contemporary, Texas abstract artists.
In Passing: New work by GIVE UP
January 23 through February 22, 2015
This show’s title might refer both to GIVE UP's transition from ephemeral street art toward the creation of more permanent gallery works, as well as to the themes of time and change central in the work.
Prematurely Discarded: Photography of Chuck Ramirez
January 22 through February 25, 2015
In partnership with Ruiz-Healy Art of San Antonio, Octavia presents a selection of photographs by Chuck Ramirez (1962- 2010) made in the last decade of the artist’s life. His work often reexamines everyday, discarded objects, finding beauty in the mundane as well as exploring the fragility and temporality of life.
Luke Ikard: Transmute
College of the Mainland Art Gallery
January 29 through February 26, 2015
An installation by artist Luke Ikard, a recent Sam Houston State University graduate.
Assistance League of Houston annual exhibition
January 14 through February 27, 2015
The Assistance League's Williams Tower Gallery exhibition features work by artists Kelly Moran, William Cokeley, and others.
Public Communication: Performing Knowledge of the Body
January 23 through February 27, 2015
Performance, photography, and video works by seven female contemporary artists addressing issues that limit and confine the body. Features work by Jessica Borusky (Kansas City), Melanie Gilligan (London), Sarah Hill (Austin), Katherine Hubbard (Brooklyn), MPA (Brooklyn), Autumn Knight (Houston), Katharina Swoboda (Hamburg/Vienna).
Karen Bystedt: Andy Goes Street
January 9 through February 28, 2015
In the early 1980s, Karen Bystedt was one of the very few allowed to do sit-down portraits with Andy Warhol. After being lost for nearly 30 years, the negatives were recovered and brought back to life through her collaborations with a variety of artists.
Ted Kincaid: Not for Another Hour, But This Hour
January 9 through February 28, 2015
New works by artist Ted Kincaid blur the lines between traditional photography and digitally manufactured reality.
{exurb} Topologies
January 23 through February 28, 2015
Johnny DiBlasi, Stephen Kraig, Patrick Renner, and Eric Todd explore space as a medium in this site-specific, kinetic and data-driven installation.
Ryder Richards: The Idyll
January 23 through February 28, 2015
Richards’ installation–an information temple complete with security cameras, projections, and panels with unintelligible text and formulas–promises dissolution of self for communality. Surrender your identity.
Jed Foronda: Day Dreams
January 23 through February 28, 2015
Jed Foronda carves organic, abstract patterns into the surfaces of paper mediums– from Art Forums to Playboys–subverting and transforming cultural memory.
Stephanie Patton: Synthetic Happiness
January 23 through February 28, 2015
Exploring the issues and impacts of mental health and medical treatment, Stephanie Patton’s Project Space exhibition includes padded vinyl, quilted mattress pieces, and video works alluding to emotional states.
S.A. Hinson: I'd Prefer To Keep My Distance
January 23 through February 28, 2015
S.A. Hinson’s elevator piece is part of a larger project using texts gleaned from everyday usage to address individuals in shared spaces.
Eating Paint
Rudolph Blume Fine Art | ArtScan Gallery
January 24 through February 28, 2015
Paintings with visual opulence and energy by artists Michael Blair, Casey Gregory, Julon Pinkston, Howard Sherman, and Jackie Tileston. The show’s title refers to Claes Oldenburg’s 1961 manifesto in which he argues for a visceral and exuberant way of art making. (Artwork not actually edible.)
Karin Broker: Damn Girls
Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC)
January 28 through February 28, 2015
A triptych of Karin Broker’s large-scale drawings from her recent series damn girls will be on view in the Rice Public Art BRC Pop-Up Gallery. Broker is Professor of Printmaking and Drawing for Rice's Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.
55th Annual Faculty Exhibition
January 26 through March 4, 2015
An exhibition featuring a wide variety of new painting, photography, drawing, graphic design, video, sculpture, and installation work by 12 artists who teach in the SHSU Department of Art.
Round 41: Process and Action: An Exploration of Ideas
October 18, 2014 through March 5, 2015
Project Row Houses' Round 41 explores the ways in which contemporary artists deal with labor-intensive practices. As the first round devoted entirely to female voices, Process and Action features installations by an interdisciplinary group of eight artists, including Rabéa Ballin, Julia Brown, Vanessa Diaz, Akua Holt, Rosine Kouamen, and Monica Villareal.
Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak: Nature Studies
January 23 through March 7, 2015
Houston-based artist Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak’s work is a living archive of collected objects, events, and stories reflecting the current socio-political climate of her home, Ukraine. The recent works on view explore time, memory, and nature’s reclaimings.
Oliver Herring: Areas for Action
January 21 through March 7, 2015
German-born, New York-based artist Oliver Herring’s evolving exhibition consists of daily performances, improvisatory sculptures, and real-time collaborative artworks created on-site. Gallery visitors are invited to participate or simply observe, and Herring's constructions and photo/video documentation will accumulate in the exhibition as it progresses.
Carlos Cruz-Diez: A Chromatic Condition
January 20 through March 7, 2015
Color experiments by Paris-based Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, including a selection of recent Physichromies and a Transchromie, paired with a portfolio of screenprints from 1970-1971.
FotoFest: International Discoveries V
January 22 through March 7, 2015
A wide range of new photographic work from around the globe by Khaled Akil (Syria), Chris Bartlett (USA), Pedro David (Brazil), Roberto Fernandez Ibanez (Uruguay), Do-Yeon Gwon (Korea), Jungho Jung (Korea), Hankoo Lee (Korea), Marcela Magno (Argentina), Hector Rene Membreno-Canales (Honduras/USA), Hosang Park (Korea), Sebastian Szyd (Argentina), and Tang Desheng (China).
Double Life
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - CAMH
December 12, 2014 through March 13, 2015
Pushing at our definitions of “performance,” Double Life features a video and performance by Paris-based choreographer Jérôme Bel, a sculptural environment by South Korean artist Haegue Yang, and film/video works by Los Angeles-based Wu Tsang, including the premiere of two-channel video installation, Miss Communication and Mr:Re.
Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined
January 17 through March 17, 2015
Hand-colored engravings and lithographs that depict westward expansion in North America throughout the 19th century.
Seeing Native American / Being Native American
January 15 through March 17, 2015
Dual exhibitions explore and contrast various historic and contemporary depictions of Native American life. Seeing Native American: Historic Impressions (Forsyth Galleries) features late 19th- and early 20th-century depictions by non-Native American artists, while the companion show Being Native American: Contemporary Expressions (Stark Galleries) features contemporary perspectives by Native American artists.
Pablo Gimenez Zapiola: Praxis 2
Lone Star College - Kingwood Art Gallery
January 28 through March 18, 2015
An exhibition combining video projections and photograph installations from four bodies of work by artist Pablo Gimenez Zapiola.
Mel Chin: Rematch (Blaffer Art Museum)
January 17 through March 21, 2015
Part of the expansive, multi-venue survey of artist Mel Chin, the Blaffer presents 31 works, including documentation of numerous projects, selections from Chin’s Erased Currency (1997) and Drawn Currency (2006-08) series, and his collage installation The Funk and Wag from A to Z (2012) a surrealist arrangement of collage.
Janet Biggs: Echo of the Unknown
January 16 through March 21, 2015
Drawing from the effects of Alzheimer’s on her family members, artist Janet Biggs’ installations combine video, sound, and objects to explore the role of memory and the construction of identity.
Line: Making the Mark
December 12, 2014 through March 22, 2015
This exhibition of drawings and prints from the museum’s permanent collection shows how various artists, since the advent of Modernism, have explored and expanded mark-making. Includes works by Josef Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Sam Messenger, Joan Mitchell, and Barnett Newman.
Sensational Landscape
January 16 through April 3, 2015
The inaugural show at She Works Flexible (formerly The Brandon) features work by Texas artist Cat Clifford and Arizona based artist Erika Lynne Hanson, with an accompanying text by Egyptian artist Malak Helmy.
Mel Chin: Rematch (Asia Society)
January 17 through April 19, 2015
Part of the multi-venue survey of Houston artist Mel Chin, the six works on view at Asia Society Texas Center extends the artist’s connection to Asian culture, history, and aesthetics.
Mel Chin: Rematch (CAMH)
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - CAMH
January 17 through April 19, 2015
Part of a multi-venue retrospective of work the Houston-born artist Mel Chin, the CAMH presents 19 of Chin’s discrete works made between the early 1970s and late 2000s, as well as his iconic animation 9/11-9/11 (2007) and the documentary S.O.S Straight Off the Streets (2004).
Mel Chin: Rematch (Station Museum)
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
January 17 through April 19, 2015
Part of the multi-venue Mel Chin retrospective, the Station presents his 1991 installation Degrees of Paradise, and hosts the opening night party. (The group show degrees of separation paying homage to the important Houston artist also opens at the Station on the 17th.)
Rajni Perera: AFRIKA GALAKTIKA
November 14, 2014 through April 24, 2015
This exhibition of new works by Sri-Lankan born artist Rajni Perera features a large-scale mural, and a series of paintings that cross-translate between the visual languages of Indian miniaturist art, Blaxploitation, and the images produced by the Hubble Deep Field Telescope. Floating between Western and Immigrant culture, the work creates an interesting East-West dialogue of ideas, concerning immigrant identity issues, female sexuality and science fiction and fantasy.
Jason Villegas: Mineral Spirit
November 14, 2014 through April 24, 2015
A site-specific sculptural installation, inspired by string theory and spiritual vibrations, by Houston-based artist Jason Villegas in the ALH Sculpture Garden.
Texas Czechs: Rooted in Tradition
January 24 through April 25, 2015
An exhibition of photos, films, and text shows the roles that Czech culture has played in shaping Texas. The free beer, kolaches, and accordion music at the opening will prove it.
Degrees of Separation
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
January 17 through May 1, 2015
In conjunction with Mel Chin: Rematch, this group show pays homage to the important Houston artist with works by Wayne Gilbert, Mike Hollis, Mary Jenewein, the collective Sin Huellas (No Footprints), and street art by Empire I.N.S..
The Natural Flow of Migration: Monica Villarreal and Armando Rodriguez
December 20, 2014 through May 2, 2015
Using the natural flow of plants and animals across borders to characterize migrant stories, this collaboration between Monica Villarreal and Armando Rodriguez features various works made with Mexican printmaking techniques. Part of “Migration Is?”
American Brilliant Cut and Engraved Glass (c. 1876-1914)
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
January 15 through May 16, 2015
A show celebrating the uniquely American art form of cut glass, also referred to as “crystal,” with a variety of pieces made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Contemporary Texas Regionalism
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
January 23 through May 16, 2015
A selection of nearly 30 art works–paintings, drawings, and prints–showing different takes on Texas’ landscapes, people, and traditions.
The Lyricism of Ben Woitena
January 28 through June 1, 2015
Works by Houston artist Ben Woitena, known for sculptural works in wood, steel and stone.
Pauline Jakobsberg: Birthrights Left Behind
October 31, 2014 through June 14, 2015
DC-area printmaker Pauline Jakobsberg’s works address the Holocaust and the loss of birthright that accompanies the loss of one's homeland.
Takis: The Fourth Dimension
January 24 through July 16, 2015
The first U.S. museum survey of sculptures, paintings, and kinetic works created over the past half century by Greek artist Takis–a self-described “instinctive scientist” whom Duchamp dubbed “the happy ploughman of magnetic field.”
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