Gunilla Klingberg
Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg will cover Rice Gallery’s floors, walls, and windows with an ornate mandala of supermarket, fast food, and big box store logos
Performance: Kalup Linzy
One of Kalup Linzy’s newest characters, Kaye, a forlorn artist coming to terms with a series of failed relationships, debuts. Using the video as a backdrop to Kaye’s experiences, Linzy will perform the soundtrack created for the Romantic Loner project (a feature length film), accompanied by a five-member band. Co-presented by Houston Museum for African [...]
Sunday Peoples: A Group Exhibition for the Love of Bicycles
A group exhibition and pop-up store featuring the work of: Magnificent Beard: Matt Brinker & Connor Hill, Kyle Confehr, Brian Gibb, Taro-Kun, Gina Mayes, Favio Moreno, Mylan Nguyen, Brent Ozaeta, Brendan Polk and Emily Stoker. The exhibition will focus on the artist’s collective love for bicycles and bike culture.
Pedro Gadanho, Curator for Contemporary Architecture, MoMA
Part of the MFAH’s New Commons: Between Aesthetics & Engagement lecture series. A 6 p.m. wine reception precedes each lecture.
Janice Jakielski: Constructing Solitude
Jakielski is a visiting artist at Alberta College of Art & Design.
UT Dept. of Art & Art History’s Annual Juried Printmaking Show, Blowout VIII Part Two
30+ prints by 15 UT students: Brittany Bernstrom, Ashley N. Tristan, Jacqueline Negreros, Nick Francel, Anastasia Miller, Joshua Orsburn, Jason Roh, Shannon Mercado, Katie Horbal, Rachael Holt, Clarissa Gonzalez, Elizabeth Lujan, Santiago Tolosa-Zegarra, Eliana Bernard, and Alyssa Creagh
Art Hotel Collective: La Boheme
Sit, sip, enjoy dessert, stimulating conversation, poetry reading, music, and original art by Steve Danner, Roberta Masciarelli, Sherry Houpt, Laurie Mahoney, Sharon Neel Bagley, Jacque Forsher, Melissa Wertz, Karen Gray, April Greenlee, and Johanna Roffino Hulsey.
Upshot X 3
Beautiful photographs and silverpoint images created using the destructive and explosive force of gunfire.
Texas Prints from Houston Collections
Mix of artists, decades, styles, and techniques exploring printmaking – on loan from Houston collectors.
Artopia 2013
Houston Press Artopia returns to Winter Street Studios with musical performances by Bang Bangz, Bagheera and Poor Pilate, two fashion shows, live performance art, works from over 25 local artists, and the 5th annual Houston Press Mastermind Awards: during the event, Houston Press will award a $2,000 grant to three progressive individuals or small organizations [...]
Performance: Danny Tisdale
In Transitions, Inc., Danny Tisdale becomes Tracey Goodman, the head of a fictitious company that specializes in transforming one’s physical appearance for the purpose of greater social access and financial reward. In 1992, Tisdale spent two days standing on a crowded street corner advertising and promoting his company, whose tagline is “we turn minorities into [...]
(Wo)manorial Presents: Susan/Elizabeth
Susan/Elizabeth presents artists addressing feminine relationships. Including works by Kristin Aardsma, Hanna Andrews, Marisa Crawford, Becca Klaver, Krystal Languell, and Caolan Madden; Haley Kattner Allen; Holly Andres and Grace Carter; Kat Bossi; LauraLee Brott; Courtney Brown; Jennifer Chan; Rebecca Carter and Andrea Goldman; Cornelia Hediger; Hillary Holsonback; Jessica Iannuzzi Garcia; Mariya Kozhanova; Natalie Labriola; Alisa [...]
Raul Cordero and Michel “El Pollo” Pérez: Painting of all Excuses
Raul Cordero and Michel “El Pollo” Pérez both represented Cuba in the Havana Biennial in 2012, but this will be their premier exhibition in Dallas. Cordero, a 2012 CentralTrak artist-in-residence, and Pérez will present artworks based on photographs and miniature models, respectively.
Leslie Wilkes: Double Take
Ten new works in her signature abstract geometric style: five intimate gouaches along with five large oil paintings based on the same symmetrical patterns.
Valentin Popov: Pempimentor
Numerous examples of Popov’s tour-de-force photo-realist painting techniques, including his latest proto-Dutch still-lifes.
Jesse Bransford: The Fourth Pyramid
For GAR’s first anniversary, Brooklyn-based artist Jesse Bransford’s drawings and numerical symbols transform the GAR gallery into a three dimensional incantation. Under the influence of these symbols, the wind whispers to the wasted land, the images flash: sunrise, sunset, sulphur pit, the foaming tide, a hand traces patterns on sun drenched sheets, the mouth opens [...]
Julia Kunin
In Julia Kunin’s ceramic sculptures, shells, flowers, octopi, snakes and butterflies create anthropomorphic amalgamations at once visually striking and grotesque.
