Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion.
Rice Public Art, overseen by the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, has announced a new series to commission a site-specific installation by a recent graduates of the Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Glassell School of Art. Off the Wall, the title of the initiative, will present a new commission each year for three years, and the year-long installations will be on view on the south wall of the Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion, a modern structure that houses a popular campus café designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners.
Detail of “Mask”
Archival pigment print and graphite mounted on dibond 19″ x 22″ 2019. Harold Mendez.
The inaugural artist in the series will be Harold Mendez. Mendez received an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007, and attended the Core Program in Houston in 2013-2014. His work addresses history and meaning in the context of geography and cross-cultural discourse, and also explores notions of identity and place.
Harold Mendez at Tiffany Hollowware workshop for 2017 Whitney Biennial. Mendez is an alumnus of Houston’s CORE Program.
Mendez’s work has been featured in a range of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; MoMA PS1, NYC; Studio Museum, Harlem, NYC; Drawing Center, NYC; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Project Row Houses, Houston; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Mendez’s forthcoming exhibitions include the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago and the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.
There will be an opening reception and artist talk by Mendez on Thursday, September 19, from 4 -6 p.m., at the Brochstein Pavilion, 6100 Main Street, MS4 Houston, Texas 77005. Mendez’s installation will be on view from September 19-August 24, 2020.
This program is made possible by Raymond and Susan Brochstein, Deborah Brochstein and Steven Hecht.
Established as a University-wide arts initiative in 2008 and overseen by the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice Public Art presents and commissions public artworks, exhibitions, and programs that are accessible to all and which underscore the caliber and spirit of scholarly inquiry at Rice University.
