October 26 - March 17, 2024
From CAMH:
“Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is excited to announce its newest exhibition, Six Scenes From Our Future, which will be staged in celebration of the Museum’s 75th anniversary. Six Scenes From Our Future features the work of six artists who were invited to respond to the institution’s inaugural exhibition, This Is Contemporary Art (1948). The exhibition will include new commissions alongside existing works from Mel Chin, JooYoung Choi, Leslie Hewitt, Lisa Lapinski, Jill Magid, and Leslie Martinez.
Several artists use abstraction to grapple with history—abstraction of the body in the case of Leslie Martinez’s light fixtures and rethinking architecture in the case of Leslie Hewitt’s leaning wall fragment. Artists Mel Chin and JooYoung Choi each add playfulness through theatrical vignettes. Systems of display are central to Jill Magid’s multipart exploration of artistic legacy and Lisa Lapinski’s iconic department store scene. Each of these artists mine the curatorial framework from This Is Contemporary Art, looking at art in everyday life and extrapolating the different ways contemporary life and arts collide.
Installation view of This Is Contemporary Art organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (then Contemporary Arts Association) at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1948. Photo by Frank Dolejska. Image courtesy Woodson Research Center Special Collections & Archives, Fondren Library at Rice University.
Six Scenes From Our Future provides an opportunity to honor CAMH’s past while emphasizing the continuing central role that artists play in envisioning its future. This cohort of artists is expanding on the blurred hierarchies integral to CAMH’s first exhibition by further complicating the boundaries between disciplines and artistic mediums, as seen in this exhibition’s presentation of three-dimensional photographs, performative jewelry, and hybridity between television set and institutional installation.
Six Scenes From Our Future is organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and co-curated by Rebecca Matalon, Senior Curator, and Patricia Restrepo, Curator, with Ginevra Bria, 2022–23 Rice University Curatorial Fellow.
Six Scenes From Our Future graphic designed by Phillip Pyle.
Six Scenes From Our Future will open at CAMH on Thursday, October 26, 2023, with a public opening and celebration of CAMH’s 75th anniversary from 7-10PM. RSVPs are encouraged to attend this event.
For more information on this exhibition and its related events, visit our website through the link below.”
Reception: October 26, 2023 | 7–10 pm
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