November 27 - December 31, 2021
From the Houston Museum of African American Culture:
“The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) proudly presents Justin Sterling: Windows of Opportunity in the Bert Long Memorial Gallery on the second floor of HMAAC. Curated by John Guess jr. The exhibition opens Saturday, November 27, with a reception beginning at 2pm. The museum will be open from 11am – 6pm on Saturday. Houston raised, New York based artist Justin Sterling uses history and politics to subvert, critique, and transform ideas around the human condition to illustrate the fundamental idea that small everyday habits of social neglect can lead to larger and more pernicious practices and a more general kind of community malaise. Justin embraces, provokes, and appropriates to explore the ways civil disobedience, violence, and economics have a stake in what it means to be a citizen. His chosen medium is the city, which he appropriates to create a poetic storytelling relationship with the urban and domestic, which in turn becomes a catalyst for social, political, and environmental discourse and activism. His work compels us to look at our responsibility to the neighborhoods in which we live. According to Sterling, “My medium is the city, in other words, I find very specific objects around the city and bring them back to the studio to try to give them a new meaning. These objects often contain social and environmental symbols that tell stories about life to the viewers through their own experience. The object is intended both as a mirror to be reflected or a void to be filled.” His work has been reviewed in major art media, including Artforum, Made In Mind Magazine, and Art Critical. Sterling has shown work at BRIC in Brooklyn, NY; Foundation Francois Schneider in Wattwiller, France; CampoBase in Turin, Italy; Our Neon Foe Gallery in Sydney, Australia; MoMA PS1 in Queens, NY; 1980 Performance Space New York, New York; University of Rochester in Rochester, NY; and the Australian American Association (AAA) in New York, NY.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Houston Endowment, HEB, the Anchorage Foundation and the Board of Directors of the Houston Museum of African American Culture. It will have a companion presentation at The Deluxe Theater in the Fifth Ward. HMAAC is located at 4801 Caroline Street, Houston, TX, 77004. For more information please call (713) 526 -1015 or email [email protected]. The museum is open Fridays and Saturdays, 11AM – 6PM, and will be closed friday November 26 for the holidays.”
Reception: November 27, 2021 | 2–4 pm
Houston Museum of African American Culture
4807 Caroline St.
Houston, TX
(713) 353-1578
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