BACKBONE
BRIAN ELLISON
On View: February 18 - April 16, 2022 I Main Gallery
Opening Reception: 6-8 PM, Friday, February 18, 2022 I ALH Sculpture Garden*
Artist Talk: 2:00 - 4:00 PM, Saturday, February 19, 2022 I Main Gallery*
*Opening reception will be in-person and outdoors at the ALH Sculpture Garden. Masks and social distancing are required.
*Artist Talk: February artist talks will take place both in-person and virtually. The talk will be live-streamed via our social media accounts - more details to come.
Art League Houston (ALH) is proud to present Backbone, an exhibition by Houston-based Artist, Brian Ellison. For his installation in the ALH Main Gallery, Ellison has produced a series of video interviews, photographs and performances, as well as curated a collection of artifacts that celebrate black grandmothers. In the artist’s words, it is an homage to “...the unsung heroine, the backbone of black families everywhere that have come before and those that we are blessed to still have with us. The exhibition is dedicated to the women in our lives who hold many names, yet have all embodied the same role”.