Group exhibition of recent prints by the members of Printmatters, the org sponsoring PrintHouston 2011.
May 2011
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Painterly figuration based on Barkai’s personal history. Vulnerable people in small, dark rooms, some with erased faces and features. Competent, creepy, sentimental.
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Two years’ worth of Black and white photos sympathetically document transgender sex workers and male escorts of New York City’s Christopher Street, home to the Stonewall Inn, and hangout and…
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HCCC celebrates the 10th anniversary of its artist-in-residence program with Crafting Lives, featuring 35 of the program’s alumni, including pieces by Melissa Borrell, Elaine Bradford, Gabriel Craig, Michael Crowder, Sharbani…
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Shimmering wire jellyfish. The touring version of renowned jewelry artist Arline Fisch’s 2008 installation for the Racine Art Museum.
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Cars by Noah Edmundson, Kathy Ortiz, Madeleine Crozat-Williams, Wilmer La Bome and others. Like big art cars, but small. Wouldn’t it be something if they were radio-controlled . . .
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Four more Texas artists all practicing the decorative Howard Sherman style semi-abstraction that is so popular with collectors these days. Michael Blair (Denton), Jesus De La Rosa (Kingsville), Jorge Puron…
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Inventor of the “family room,” the ball clock, and the storage wall, mid-century designer George Nelson’s retrospective traces the prolific writer, publicist, lecturer, exhibition curator and author’s career. Nelson was…
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A two-person show of works by Anna Mavromatis and Clarke Curtis at Lone Star College’s Bosque Gallery (located in the Center for the Arts building on the Barker Cypress campus).…
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East coast cozy conceptualist Kerry Adams’ first show in Texas suspends dozens of windows and rocking chairs throughout Spacetakers ARC gallery.
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Works from the DMA’s collection with loans from “important local collectors” about solitude, reflection, and time, based on John Cage’s famously silent 1952 composition 4’33”. DMA curator Jeffrey Grove has…
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The good old days come back to haunt us as father/son nostalgia-art duo Randy and Bryan Welborn capture life growing up in Beaumont during the 1950s for AMSET’s Café Arts…
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Sean FitzGibbons, son of Blue Star director Bill FitzGibbons, returns to San Antonio after a career in politics. His reclaimed-steel sculptures share Joan Grona Gallery with with Brianna Burnett‘s misty,…
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The first independent video documentary to delve into the work of the renegade 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo.
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Drawings and sculptural objects which employ modulation, progression, memory, erasure, and reference by Nicholas Wood. Mr. Wood is a professor of studio art at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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A music/potluck/dance/performance party beginning at 7pm at labotanica in Houston. From 7-9pm are music performances by Carlos Pozo, VRS, Damon Smith & Sandy Ewen, and bellydance by Y.E.Torres. From 9-11pm…
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The MFAH’s Ninth Annual Eleanor and Frank Freed Lecture brings Bill Arning, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, to offer insights into the work of Charles LeDray and the…
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Rino Pizzi had 16 Austin women artists practice smiling like the Mona Lisa, then photographed them in settings of their choice. Then the sitters made their own art pieces, based…
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University of Houston architecture students, challenged to design some practical, low-budget containers, display some startling results at PEEL Gallery: Jamie Tirpak and Aatique Shaikh’s wicked “grenade” packaging explodes design’s habitual…
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Drawings, prototypes, photographs, and objects illustrate the genius of earnest mid-century designers like Gilbert Rohde, Ray & Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Steve Frykholm, Bill Stumpf, Don…