January 17 - 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.
Opening: January 17, 2015 | 12–2 pm
Artist talk: February 19, 2015 | 7–8:15 pm
Mel Chin in conversation with art journalist Tyler Green
Curator Talk: March 3, 2015 | 7–8:15 pm
Exhibition curator Miranda Lash in conversation with Blaffer public affairs director Devon Britt-Darby
Lecture: March 4, 2015 | 12 pm – 1 am
Dr. Robert Zaretsky, UH Honors College, on the French Encyclopédie and the reshaping of the modern self.
Workshop: March 2, 2015 | 1–4 pm
A family-friendly afternoon of art making inspired by some of Mel Chin's innovative projects.
Curator Talk: March 11, 2015 | 12–1 pm
Gallery talk
120 University of Houston Fine Arts Building
Houston, 77204-4018 TX
713-743-9530
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