A new site-specific exhibition by NY artist Mika Tajima created specially for the Visual Art Center. According to the press release, it’s everything: sculpture, painting, performance, and video, rehearsal, performance,…
August 2011
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A former student artist and a current adjunct faculty member team up for “when the lights go out” exhibition on display at Lone Star College-CyFair’s Bosque Gallery. Referencing genetic modification…
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Cast iron art by fourteen artists associated with the Texas Atomic Iron Commission, a collaborative network between universities, industry, students, and artists.
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Michigan artist Sarah Buckius employs her body to express and explore tension, anxiety, pattern, and interpersonal relationships on a big screen overlooking Congress Avenue.
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Beijing-based artist Cao Fei explores Chinese youth subcultures through her “Second Life” avatar China Tracy, a virtual artist who creates videos, games, and performances that explore- you guessed it!- the…
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LIFT Projects (aka the elevator) at Arthouse presents videos of banal props and repetitive actions exploring the concept of the Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment” that somehow converge in a narrative of…
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Selected photographs from Schalliol’s series, Isolated Building Studies: Revealing Meaning through Recontextualization. Schalliol, a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Chicago, studies social stratification through photography, in this series…
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An installation by Hunting prize winner Wendy Wagner inspired by her childhood, pets, family, and fantasy.
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Large-scale enigmatic photographs that investigate the often-uneasy relationship existing between the natural world of animals and the confusion and chaos created by human activity. Hauntingly beautiful scenes of animals seemingly…
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Comprised of the leading lights in European/Australian improvisation, MURAL’s music creates deep, large spaces, luminous rooms of various shapes, and reveals large sound-surfaces. They’re in Texas to celebrate the release…
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Images resulting from photographer Samandari’s ongoing fascination and spiritual connection to landscapes around San Antonio. Enchanted Rock, Pedernales River, Guadalupe River are the backdrops for these Earthly Bodies, whether in…
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For twenty-one days, Mexican artist Carla Veliz tortured her silk canvas in ways that echo society’s ills, then spent twenty-one days in a painstaking attempt to repair the piece, documenting…
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Velliquette signs copies of his new book, Lairs of the Unconscious at David shelton Gallery, selected new works will also be available during the event.
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Curator Paul Middendorf moderates a panel discussion on the importing and exporting of artists and concepts among panelists Dean Daderko (Curator, CAMH), Alison De Lima Greene (Curator, MFAH), Joseph Havel…
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Goal explores stories of glory and disappointment in athletics, playing with the notion of the athlete’s body as a scene of drama.
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Galveston County-based artist Gray combines traditional Japanese calligraphy and Western drawing techniques in 4 large drawings representing the four seasons. Each contains Japanese proverbs entangled in what appear to be…
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Joseph Cohen delves into the very nature of the reading of art: using hundreds of coats of rejected paint on found objects he re-purposes the known elements of painting. Not…
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Sculptures and drawings “focused on confusion and ambiguity caused by endlessly changing points of relevance.”
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Now in its 3rd year, Senorita Cinema is Texas’ own all-Latina film festival. Founded by Houston filmmaker Stephanie Saint Sanchez, each installment gives the screen over to women making movies…
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A showcase of performances and documentation by Houston performance art troupe Continuum. Non-stop live performances at the opening with audience participations like confessing one’s sins to a shrine of Bud…