Forrest Prince: The Truth Will Set You Free
PG Contemporary
February 17 through March 18, 2012
Houston
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Heather Bause: If You Sprinkle When You Tinkle
Last Chance - September 9, 2011 through February 24, 2012
Wall Paper as Art: If You Sprinkle When You Tinkle, a hand-painted wallpaper installation by Houston artist Heather Bause in the Art League Houston's main gallery restroom.
Hillerbrand + Magsamen: eState Sale
Last Chance - January 13 through February 24, 2012
Video-performance duo Hillerbrand + Magsamen, fill Art League Houston with junk and projected video about emotions, family, consumerism and media: eState Sale, their new piece, combines video, sculpture, theater and spring cleaning-inviting visitors to pile unwanted stuff from their closets and garages throughout the gallery. At the end of the show, the heaped post-consumer goods will be auctioned off live for Houston's Star of Hope homeless shelter.
Houston 20/20 Visions:Ten Years to Clarity
Last Chance - January 19 through February 24, 2012
This exhibition, and the ongoing blog tenyearstoclarity.org, present what Houstonians consider the most critical issues challenging our city today and their ideas to solve them. Co curated by architects David Robinson, and Camilo Parra.
Animal Architecture
Last Chance - January 19 through February 24, 2012
An exhibition of the 2011 Animal Architecture Awards (for animals, not by animals). Animal Architecture seeks architectural projects that engage the lives, minds and behaviors of alternative species, exploring how architecture can mediate and encourage new ways of species learning and benefiting from each other.
Edgar Hernandez & Sandrita Mendez: The Magical Lost Kingdom & Mystical Portals
Last Chance - February 17 through 24, 2012
A magical journey by a married couple who both work with sculpey clay.
Emily Sloan: ShadeCloud
Last Chance - August 25, 2011 through February 24, 2012
Houston artist and naptist Emily Sloan weaves together a diverse selection of new and recycled lampshades into four cloud-like structures in the Art League sculpture garden.
Observed, Imagined, Abstracted: Julie Bozzi, Will Henry, Brooke Stroud with Selected Works by Sherrie Levine
Last Chance - January 14 through February 25, 2012
John Sonsini: New Paintings
Last Chance - January 13 through February 25, 2012
Eleven paintings showcase new developments in LA artist Sonsini's decades-long engagement with painted portraiture. In this latest work, the artist pictures men in fútbol/soccer uniforms, drawing attention to clothing’s role in conveying identity.
This Weird Place
Last Chance - January 20 through February 25, 2012
Kinda-sorta figurative art with a decidedly unsettled edge. Described by curator Sebastian Forray as a "flaying" of representation, a "dissection" of abstraction, new works by a coterie of younger artists including Lane Hagood, Alika Herreshoff, Cody Ledvina, Lee Piechocki, Anthony Record & Eric Shaw.
Jade Walker: Contact
Last Chance - January 20 through February 25, 2012
An array of Walker's sexualized fuzzy fabric characters, plagued by physical breakdown, or, in other words, "a personal struggle with spectatorship, binaries within gender, abstraction, narrative, found objects, desire, and the body as temporal."
Carlos Rosales-Silva: Unfadeable So Please Don’t Try To Fade Me
Last Chance - January 20 through February 25, 2012
New work by Texas-based artist Carlos Rosales-Silva reflects the absorption and appropriation of minority culture by mainstream American society.
TJ Hunt: Breaking Ground
Last Chance - January 20 through February 25, 2012
TJ Hunt attempts to place her work in dialogue with canonical artworks of the past in order to examine her own position in an art historical lineage, often resulting in absurd, subversive gestures.
Luminous
Last Chance - January 21 through February 25, 2012
Seven emerging artists using light as both subject and medium: Kristen Beal, Tobias Fike, Chris Lavery, Rick Silva, Annie Strader and Matthew C. Weedman, curated by the latter two.
Accrochage 2012: Celebrating 21 Years
Last Chance - January 14 through February 25, 2012
A group exhibition of reductive and concept-based art marking Roesch's 21st Anniversary since the Gallery opened its doors in 1991 in Neubrunn/ Wuerzburg, Germany.
Flickerlounge unBlocked: Performance Based Video
Last Chance - January 19 through February 25, 2012
Blurring the distinction between performance, video art and body art, young artists from the University of Houston use their bodies as tools for expression. Organized by Aurora Picture Show.
Raw Beauty: Recent Paintings by Zachariah Rieke
Last Chance - January 26 through February 25, 2012
New, predominately monochromatic paintings that speak of the nature of the universe through movement of paint.
Alice Leora Briggs: Abecedario
Last Chance - February 4 through 25, 2012
Briggs takes an unabashed look at the terror of Juarez, Mexico-a site under siege by rampant gang and drug related violence. Using a 13th c. etching technique called sgraffito, she cuts through dark wood to reveal images of what was laid before her eyes.
Matthew Buckingham: Where Will We Live?
Last Chance - December 16, 2011 through February 26, 2012
A mini-retrospective for New York-based artist Mathew Buckingham’s conceptually-driven work, said to merge historical moments with a personal narrative. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be Likeness, a film of a dog projected onto a shipping crate within an installation made to look like a storage space. Ten more works span the artist’s oeuvre since 2000. Organized by Mary Leclère, and Yasufumi Nakamori.
Charlotte Smith: dot, dot, dot
Last Chance - January 28 through February 26, 2012
Dallas artist Charlotte Smith's “trans-dimensional,” works built of multi-colored strata of paint to form dangling stalactites, beaded strings and piles of paint-blob ropes.
Jerry Cabrera: Escapism
Last Chance - February 4 through 26, 2012
Spare paintings that reflect a visit to a concentration camp in Germany several years ago which made San Antonio artist Jerry Cabrera consider the importance of light in hallowed environments.
OKLAHOMA: A Show About Texas
Last Chance - February 2 through 26, 2012
Showcasing paintings and prints dealing with the concept of "Texas", ranging from ideologies, to nature, to false histories by Burning Bones Press, along with Texas based Art Collective Art Sandwiches.
Occurrences: Tom Barnes
Last Chance - February 1 through 28, 2012
Tom Barnes lives and works in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Marfa, Texas. His paintings are about occurrence and are themselves occurrences, both ordinary and extraordinary. The physicality of oil paint and perceived imagery exchange places in such away as to affect the senses.
Kathryn Rabinow: Seeing with the Soul
Last Chance - February 1 through 28, 2012
Houston artist Kathryn Rabinow, using her camera and computer, creates large abstract images which reveal the essence and unexpected beauty of everyday objects.
Jimmy Houston: Shenanigans
Last Chance - February 1 through 29, 2012
Houston's signature monkeys are up to something.
Prologue 2012
Last Chance - February 4 through 29, 2012
Skydive begins its 4th year with a group exhibition featuring the work of the three artists who run Skydive: Sasha Dela, Nancy Douthey and Brian Piana, along with work culled from community of local artists surrounding Skydive.
Gene Hester and Liz Conces Spencer: Generation
February 3 through March 1, 2012
An exhibition of collaborative and solo artworks by Gene Hester and Liz Conces Spencer who have collaborated on public and large scale projects for several years.
Reconstruction: with Featured Artist Sherry Sullivan
December 17, 2011 through March 2, 2012
The Art Car Museum’s 7th annual open-call exhibition invites artists to interpret the topic "Reconstruction." 125 artists respond, including featured artist Sherry Sullivan.
Curtis Gannon: and everything in between
Spacetaker ARC Gallery @ Winter Street Studios
January 13 through March 2, 2012
Gannon collages intricate geometric patterns from of overlapping, cut-up, and woven comic book pages, reflecting the color, movement, dialogue and dramatic story lines of American action comics.
Mile Marker
January 12 through March 2, 2012
30 years of Barbara Davis Gallery: a group show celebrating Barbara's unique vision and three decades of contemporary art with new works by gallery artists. Additionally, 15% of proceeds from this exhibition will benefit the Houston Arts Alliance presentation of Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at Hermann Park!
Donna E. Perkins: Exposure
January 28 through March 2, 2012
Large, dark painterly works on paper, and two series of metal photographic prints.
HCC Central Art: The Annual Faculty Show
January 31 through March 2, 2012
Showcasing 19 of the artists who teach at Central including: Corey Ackelmire, Bennie Flores Ansell, Gladys Bel, Joanne, Brigham, Celia Butler, Scott Carothers, Nathan Dube, Kelley Eggert, Loli Fernandez, Anthony Garbarini, Michael Golden, Perry House, Jessica Jacobi, Sergius Kovalchuk, Joan Laughlin, Julon Pinkston, Beth Secor, Michael Stone, and Katie Wwynne.
Cindy Butler Rasche and R. Michael Reed: Planes of Consciousness
January 21 through March 3, 2012
R. Michel Reed creates 3-Dimensional works on Plexiglas. Cindy Butler Rasche creates Cement, Acrylic, & Glass Bead Sculptures.
Michael Kennaugh: Zero Road
January 28 through March 3, 2012
Kennaugh's fifth exhibition with Moody Gallery; paintings and works on paper, many of which refer to the artist's family and travels during the last year, working on a commission in Macau, China.
Lights, Camera, Action...
February 2 through March 3, 2012
Art influenced by Hollywood and the Oscar ceremonies; the gallery will be dressed up for the big event with a red carpet, glitter, cameras and more. Featuring works by a cast of thousands.
Per Johansen
February 4 through March 3, 2012
Danish photographer Per Johansen stuffs icky things into bottles, then photographs them beautifully.
16th Annual Citywide African American Artists Exhibition
February 1 through March 3, 2012
Sponsored by Five-A, the African American Art Advisory Association at the Museum of Fine Arts, the annual juried mega-show features 61 artists and is split into two venues: Heritage Plaza and the Community Artists Collective.
Project Row Houses: Round 35 & Communograph
October 15, 2011 through March 4, 2012
Seven new projects in row Houses Row Houses, this time without a connecting theme; artists include: Regina Agu, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Kopriva, Patrick McFarlin, Robert McKnight, Carrie Schneider and Charles Washington.
The Cattle Baron’s Daughter and the Artists Who Loved Her: Royston Nave & James Ferdinand McCan
February 3 through March 4, 2012
Paintings by Texas artists James Ferdinand McCan (1869-1925) and Royston Nave (1886-1930), two husbands of Emily Nave, the museum's builder.
Susan Spjut: Hidden Epidemic
February 11 through March 4, 2012
Spjut, who is also a nurse, explores the subject of children/women abuse in paintings.
Earl Staley: Dreamsapes
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
February 9 through March 4, 2012
Imagined landscapes with rocky, dimensional outcrops sometimes covered in lush, colorful foliage. Like Alexandre Hogue on acid.
Geoff Hippenstiel
January 14 through March 6, 2012
Newcomer Geoff Hippenstiel reaffirms that in Houston, if you're good, you'll get noticed. In the 18 months since his MFA show at UH in March 2010, his intensely material paintings have been included in a three-person show at Darke Gallery, a two-person show at PG Contemporary and now solo at Devin Borden, promising large new paintings fraught with zealously emotive marks and spiced with unsettling uncertainty.
Kevin Jones: Chemtrail "Broadcasting to Unknown Points"
Rudolph Blume Fine Art | ArtScan Gallery
February 4 through March 10, 2012
Kevin Jones uses the symbolic language of established scientific disciplines like chemistry or physics to create his own conceptual taxonomy of signs and systems that appears familiar, but is ultimately undecipherable.
Erik Offermann: Recent Paintings
February 9 through March 10, 2012
The first Texas exhibition for German painter Erik Offermann. Offermann’s magical landscapes involve perspective and the opposition of closeness and distance.
Heather Bause: The Stanford-Binet: The Modern Authority on Identifying Intellectually Deficient Children
February 3 through March 10, 2012
Large-scale works on canvas, based on the 1937 Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test Picture cards.
Modernism on the High Plains: Rediscovered Work of Robert and Troy Allen Lockard
February 10 through March 10, 2012
A treasure trove of early Texas modernism: a cache of recently rediscovered paintings by West Texas husband-wife duo Robert and Troy Allen Lockard from 1937-1954.
Personalities & Provocateurs: New Work by Camargo Valentino
Talento Bilingue de Houston TBH Center
February 16 through March 10, 2012
Odd Nerdrum protégé Camargo Valentino mashes up realist painting, pop culture, iconic personalities, celebrities, myths and Latino imagery. Bedrock city comics will be at the opening hosting a costume contest.
Brendan Cass: Texas
February 16 through March 10, 2012
In his debut solo show at McClain, Brendan Cass presents a new paintings: sweeping swaths of unbridled Texas landscape.
Sandy Ewen
January 26 through March 14, 2012
Sandy Ewen graduated with a BA Architecture from the UT Austin in 2008. She has been experimenting with vintage slide projectors when not improvising music.
Hate Expo: Mushroom Necklace
February 4 through March 15, 2012
An exhibition of collaborative posters intent on providing a time-spanning psychic chasm somewhere along California's Interstate 5 between San Francisco and San Diego.
Art Guys: Funny Space
February 4 through March 16, 2012
A conceptual mini-installation organized by Snack Projects, the portable mini gallery.
Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon
Prairie View A&M University Art Gallery
February 8 through March 16, 2012
A wide-ranging overview of Ali's life and times through photographs by Annie Leibovitz, Gordon Parks, Steve Schapiro, Thomas Hoepker, Art Shay, and Sonia Katchian and others.
Edward Lane McCartney: SHIFT
January 14 through March 17, 2012
McCartney explores optical kinetics through shifts in color, texture, and the play of light, in sculpture and jewelry, made from novel materials, inspired by his encounter in the Spring of 2011 with Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. The Kenmore, Emily Sloan's gallery-in-a-refrigerator, makes a cameo appearance as McCartney and Cat Coombes reprise (k)Craftism, orginally at Box 13 Artspace.
Justin Durand
February 11 through March 17, 2012
Justin Durand paints with the kind of raw honesty that can be unnerving. In preparation for this Valentine-themed show he forced himself into a love trance and opened his heart to a world of romance, lust and passion.
Ellen Berman: Ten New Paintings
February 18 through March 17, 2012
Ten new still lives inspired by 17th century Dutch painting, of objects from the most ordinary of worlds -- the table, the kitchen, the grocery store.
Tony Magar, Cecil Touchon: Channeling the West
February 18 through March 17, 2012
Magar, channeling the legacy of De Kooning, Johns and Rauschenberg, plys his painterly craft with gesture and color. Touchon’s typographical abstractions, are measured compositions formed of letters and words.
John Chakeres : Structure
February 18 through March 17, 2012
More an image builder than traditional photographer, Ohio native John Chakeres revels in expressing the beauty of the world around him through studies in order, texture, form, surface, color and light.
Joel Shapiro: New Installation
February 2 through March 18, 2012
In a gravity-defying array of color and form, celebrated American sculptor Joel Shapiro will suspend wooden planks, vibrantly painted with supersaturated pigment, from the gallery’s sixteen-foot ceiling.
Forrest Prince: The Truth Will Set You Free
February 17 through March 18, 2012
Self-taught Houston artist Prince explores everything from global politics to America's fast-food culture. Prince has an upcoming retrospective at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art.
Fernando Mastrangelo: This Too Shall Pass
February 17 through March 18, 2012
Brooklyn-based Fernando Mastrangelo uses unconventional and controversial materials such as condensed gun powder, cocaine, pressed corn meal and human ashes to create cultural objects that propose direct relationship between the piece and how it should be understood.
Victoria Kovalenchikova: Our Colorful World
Russian Cultural Center Our Texas, CaviArt Gallery
January 7 through March 31, 2012
Palette knife abstractions like bare trees.
Joel Shapiro: New Sculptures and Drawings
February 3 through March 31, 2012
Shapiro's in town for his installation at Rice University Art Gallery.
Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion
January 6 through April 1, 2012
The Houston debut for this Chicago-based, mid-career painter, born in 1946 as the eleventh child in a family living in rural Mississippi. Decidedly minimal, Binion's luminous hybrid paintings are comprised of wax-based crayons pressed onto shaped wood and aluminum panels.
Young Architects of Spain
Hines College of Architecture, UH
January 26 through April 1, 2012
The cities of the future are being shaped by a new generation of Spanish architects. Works of more than 60 rising architectural stars under the age of 40.
Laura Lark: The Liveable Forest
February 11 through April 3, 2012
A complex, multimedia combination of drawings, paintings, video, and installation in which, for the first time, images of men infiltrate Lark’s traditionally all-female pantheon of sexy 1960’s fashion icons.
Reconnecting Through Photography: Czech Republic – Slovak Republic
University of Houston, Clear Lake Art Gallery
February 16 through April 6, 2012
Photographs from faculty and students from the Institute of Art and Design of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic, and from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic ask: nearly 20 years since the split-up of Czechoslovakia do artistic styles drastically differ?
Alyssa Salomon: The Handmade Print
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
February 4 through April 8, 2012
Photographs on handmade paper by Virginia artist Alyssa Salomon, using her own mad-scientist recipes for the nineteenth-century photographic processes of cyanotype and van dyke printing.
Elegant Perfection: Masterpieces of Courtly and Religious Art from the Tokyo National Museum
February 19 through April 8, 2012
The final installation in the MFAH's new permanent Arts of Asia galleries opens with a special exhibition, showcasing important objects from the collection of the Tokyo National Museum, including a few National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties that will stay in Houston for only eight weeks.
Sarah Greene Reed: Decade
January 21 through April 14, 2012
A 10 year survey of the artist's digital collage work. The Austin-based artist, a proponent of “more is more,” creates large, colorful, multi-layered collages, featuring a variety of objects including scanned photos, fabric swatches, bottle caps, zippers, food, string and wire.
Marilyn Lanfear: The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting
January 21 through April 14, 2012
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991
January 21 through April 15, 2012
A travelling show examining the feminist contribution to 70's and 80's deconstructivism, curated by Helaine Posner of the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York and art critic Nancy Princenthal, former Senior Editor at Art in America. 68 works by 22 artists, including Judith Barry, Barbara Bloom, Sarah Charlesworth, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jenny Holzer, Deborah Kass, Silvia Kolbowski, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Sturtevant, Carrie Mae Weems, and others.
Nathan Carter: Always Vocal on the Interboro Crosstown Local
Blaffer Museum's Window Into Houston
February 3 through April 20, 2012
Carter’s piece is a fictional cityscape inspired by technological networks and devices, modes and pathways of mass transit, and typography and graphics that seeks to capture the essence of the contemporary city, version 2012.
Lillian Warren: Drive By Landscape
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
January 7 through April 29, 2012
Warren makes visible the invisible infrastructure of power lines and cell phone stores in her cityscapes and a more recent series of "Trafficscapes".
Andy Freeberg: Guardians
January 9 through April 30, 2012
During his travels in Russia, California photographer Andy Freeberg was fascinated by the babushkas (grandmothers in Russian) in Russian museums that keep watch over the works of art. The Guardians are typically older women who wear their own everyday clothing, which magically begins to resemble the textures, the colors and the subject matter of the artwork they love and protect.
Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski
February 12 through May 6, 2012
30+ monumental canvases offer an incisive survey of the career of color field painter Jules Olitski (1922-2007). Stain paintings, Spray paintings, Baroque paintings, and High Baroque paintings from one of America’s last classic modern painters.
Bridge 11: Lia Cook
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
February 4 through May 13, 2012
Large-scale weavings by a California fiber artist known for her pixelated images of human faces made using a digital loom.
Transference: Andy Paiko & Ethan Rose
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
February 4 through May 13, 2012
Spinning glass vessels fill the gallery with ethereal music in this collaborative exhibition by glass artist Andy Paiko and experimental sound artist Ethan Rose, first exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon.
Returning: The Art of Samuel Bak
February 17 through August 12, 2012
50 of Bak's paintings, studies and sketches bear personal testimony to the trauma of surviving.
Recents Posts
WHAT’S THE WORD FROM JOHANNESBURG?
Vital film document, Come Back, Africa screens at the MFAH. “This film was made secretly in order to portray the true conditions of life in South Africa today. There are no professional actors in this drama of the fate of a man and his country.” So begins Lionel Rogosin’s fascinating 1959 film, Come Back, Africa. [...]
Abstraction Packed
There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions featuring abstract painters, and there are several galleries featuring solo exhibitions by painters– Zachariah Rieke at Wade Wilson Art, Michael Kennaugh at Moody Gallery, Geoff Hippenstiel at Devin Borden Gallery, [...]
Mientras me caso…
There are few times that I complain about living in Mexico. There are even fewer things that bother me about living here. Generally, I love everything about the country and the city. However, at times living in Mexico is like confronting gender roles as they were in the 1960s. Here it is normal to live [...]
Wonderful Thing: Indian Fly Whisk
This Mughal Dynasty (mid-18th c.) fly whisk is on view in the MFAH’s Indian art galleries. It’s an outstanding object which alone merits a visit to the museum. The MFAH purchased it in 2009, at the time of the opening of the Indian art gallery. The handle is a remarkable example of ivory carving, but [...]
