March 24 - November 6, 2024
From the Orange Show:
“Paul Kittelson’s sculptures invite the viewer to look and look again. They have a sense of humor. You’d probably like to have a beer with them. Oversized lawn chairs, impossibly complicated wayfinding signs, plants made from shiny aluminum—Kittelson always puts an unexpected spin on otherwise familiar objects, figures, and forms.
Wind Field comprises twenty-three kinetic sculptures that dazzle the eye and lampoon the contemporary art canon. Animating the Orange Show Center’s campus through the fall, Kittelson’s collection of pinwheels and whirligigs riff on the legacies of Andy Warhol, Eadweard Muybridge, Jasper Johns, and most of all, Marcel Duchamp in a playful swirl of color and motion. They acknowledge the traditions of op art and vernacular yard art, and they echo the Orange Show’s perpetually-spinning wind vanes.
Kittelson was part of the original cadre of artists at the University of Houston’s legendary Lawndale Annex that helped define the character of the city’s developing art scene. He received his MFA from UH in 1985 and joined the faculty of the UH School of Art in 1992. His work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries, but it’s been most frequently seen on esplanades, parks, and airports. He’s currently associate professor at University of Houston.”
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