PAST EXHIBITIONS 2008
Art League Houston's annual Summer Exhibition and Benefit Art Sale takes place on Friday, June 20, in the Art League Houston galleries, 1953 Montrose. The evening will include music, hors d'oeuvres provided by Whole Foods Market, door prizes, cash bar, and a sale of art created by students enrolled in the Art League's Studio School and the Healing Art Groups. Festivities from 5:30 until 9:00 pm. The exhibition will be juried by Kerry Inman of Inman Gallery.
Proceeds from the sale will provide free art classes and art supplies to members of Art League Houston's Healing Art Programs serving those with HIV/AIDS and cancer related illnesses, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, and other physical challenges.
Art League Houston is pleased to announce the opening of Observer's Event Horizon, an exhibition of new glass works by Stacey Neff, May 3 - June 13, 2008 in Art League Houston's Main Gallery. Observer's Event Horizon is an exhibition of sculptural souvenirs from a fancifully imagined territory of malleable time and space. This is Ms. Neff's first opening in Houston. The opening reception for Observer's Event Horizon is May 3, 2008 6-8 PM, with an artist talk by Stacey Neff at 6:15.
Neff's unusual glass works pair supplies found in automotive/nautical factories with the ancient material of glass, combining multiple units hand blown in a traditional glass style into singular, large forms. Taking the well formed ideas of science on artistic adventures, Observer's Event Horizon explores a frontier of equalized relativity between the macrocosmic and microcosmic worlds. The works included in this exhibition are sculptural snapshots encompassing a panoramic view from the Hubble telescope to the micron microscope, converging between the known and the imagined. For example, The Great Rhombi Cub octahedron and Icosahedrons geometric bases of her Star Seed pieces exist as visually manifested echoes between a star nursery in a far away galaxy and a bacteria on a human heart. Her Europa loop, which references one of Jupiter's moons, describes a world and an orbit, a particle and a wave. Breathing Stone VI, without the anchor of relativity, explores something as large as the landscape of an asteroid, or as tiny as the crevices of magnified pollen, or the spaces between seeds in a pomegranate. Stacey Neff says about her work, "My inspiration ignites at Conscilience, the fusion of art and science. In the words of J.E. Hoke, 'Science may create a vehicle to take you anywhere you want to go, but only myth will give you a reason for going.'"
Art League Houston is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Of Winter to Spring by Suzanne Manns, May 3 - June 13, 2008 in Art League Houston's School Gallery. This exhibition of work emphasizes her individualized and extremely personalized relationship with nature. The opening reception for Of Winter to Spring is May 3, 2008 6-8 PM, with a talk by the artist at 6:30 and music by DJ DelSur.
For a number of years, Suzanne Manns' work has been directly influenced by her garden and the landscape directly surrounding her home. Her Houston Heights bungalow is surrounded by a densely layered and compact urban English garden. Within her prints, Manns balances images from her garden, focusing on shifts of scale, and meditating on the fragile, yet enduring nature of life. Recording bits and fragments from this environ of which she is so intimately familiar, Manns creates highly individualized imagery, filtered through her own physical and psychological perceptions. Rather than being simple portraits of nature, the resulting works become a diary of intimate experience.
Art League Houston is pleased to partner with FOTOFEST 2008 and its Twelfth International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art in presenting three separate exhibitions of works by Chinese-based artists, Sun Guojuan, Chen Lingyang and Liu Lijie, March 8 – April 19, 2008. The opening reception for Sun Guojuan: Sweetness Forever, Chen Lingyang: Twelve Flower Months and Liu Lijie: Another Episode will be at Art League Houston on Saturday, March 8, 2008, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. These conceptual, mixed-media works are presented as part of Current Perspectives 1999-2008, a series of 11 one-person presentations by leading contemporary Chinese artists. Current Perspective exhibitions feature predominantly color, large-scale, staged, constructed, and digitally produced works by Chinese mainland-based artists, which address issues of religion, ethnicity, gender, urban transformation, identity, globalization, and the inter-relationship of contemporary art to classical Chinese art and history.
Art League Houston is pleased to announce "Pysanky...", an exhibition of paintings and decorated eggs by Nestor Topchy on view at Art League Houston, February 11 through February 23, 2008.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of Harris County seeks to recognize and encourage young artists and writers in public, private and home schools. |
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Eric Michael Jones' digital photographs are inspired by stories - both fairytales and contemporary fiction, such as the work of the Brothers Grimm and Raymond Carter, among others. Some influences in his work are clearly recognizable, while others are not, with the stories used simply as launching points for image making. As in fairy tales, a reoccurring sub-theme runs through the work - an ominously foreboding landscape (the horrible woods, the threatening sea), a place where children go willingly or otherwise, to work out their greatest fears and anxieties. more |
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Wayne Gilbert "Blind Philosophy" featured on The Engines of Our Ingenuity, click here to listen.
The human ashes that Gilbert uses in his paintings are either unclaimed cremated remains obtained at funeral homes, or those willed to him by others. more |
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on view at Houston Chapter of the American Institute Architects (AIA Houston)
an exhibition of public art projects and concepts
by 2007 Texas Artist of the Year
Dixie Friend Gay
A companion exhibition to "the Private" highlights Friend Gay's work in the realm of public or civic art projects, entitled "the Public" will take place at the Houston Chapter of the American Institute Architects (AIA Houston) from Oct. 4 - Nov. 28, 2007, with an opening reception on Thursday, Oct. 4, 6-8 p.m. For more information on this event, call 713-520-0155 or visit its website at www.aiahouston.or
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January 19 - March 2, 2007 (f to b) Sheila Klein, Thin Place : Threshold, Kate Petley, Complimentary Relationship
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Orange, 1974, Courtesy Moody Gallery
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Curated by Clint Willour, Texas Patron of the Year 2006 On view through September 1
artwork from the exhibit by Mary McCleary May 12 - June 23
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The Giant Art Guys and other works by Art League Houston's 2005 Texas Artists of the Year, The Art Guys
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It was not a diabolical natural disaster that was responsible for this scene but a pair of artists, Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. The two wooden buildings - used for decades by the local arts council, Art League Houston, as classrooms and exhibition space - were to be replaced by a new-build project. For the few months that they awaited the demolition crew, they were reincarnated as an architectonic installation. Owing to the lack of a budget, Havel and Ruck erected the work with the materials on hand: dismantling the existing building, board by board, they used the old timber to realize their installation. The project became a kind of exercise in architectonic excavation; they turned the premises inside out. Impossible to illustrate the implosion of a recycling process in a more salient way. If ever a structure deserved the label 'uncanny', it has to be Inversion House, a building stripped of its soul, devoid of life. Its gaping hole fulfilled the same role as the hall closet in Mark Danielewski's brilliant novel House of Leaves (the space tunnels into a dark and never-ending void) : both were sinister signs of the presence of another dimension. That the installation has now been demolished is an apt part of the picture. As a memory, the image is a haunting reminder that although architecture exists to provide shelter, buildings do not always assure peace of mind." link to article on Glasstire Jeffrey du'Vallier d'Aragon Aranita & Roy Hanscom Opening Reception: March 11th 6:00- 8:00pm Curated by Zena Stetka- Howe & Don
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