Prophecy: An Exhibition by Day Wheeler and Jimmy Peña
K Space Contemporary
January 4 through February 22, 2013
K Space Contemporary
January 4 through February 22, 2013
International Museum of Art and Science
Last Chance - September 6, 2012 through January 20, 2013
After eighteen years, Benini returns from the Hill Country to the International Museum of Art & Science to showcase his latest works.
January 4 through February 22, 2013
A collaborative installation fashions plastic sea-trash into a cast of grotesque pods and creatures, foretelling the slow decline of the ecological balance of the Gulf Coast.
International Museum of Art and Science
October 18, 2012 through February 24, 2013
For over a year Mark Cloet has been working alongside UTPA professors and students, IMAS, and various members of the community. Thursday evening will be the culmination of this year long process.
Sensory Substitution, Devices, Perception, Alternative Displays, Bone Conduction Hearing, Parametric Sound, Tactile Visual Displays, HipHop, Gastronomy, Echolocation, Accessibility, Hardware, Physiology, Bionics, Tongue Display Unit, Electrode Vibrotactile Stimulation These are the keywords listed in Aisen Caro Chacin’s MFA thesis on sensory substitution. In the year and a half since she left Houston for The New School, [...]
Lynn Barber lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. She has degrees in microbiology and law, and intermittently works as a patent attorney. She enjoys playing the hammer dulcimer and the concertina. She’s married to a shy guy named Dave, who holds advanced degrees in meteorology and theology. Both are members of the ACLU and are [...]
Lauren Kelley creates animated videos that often feature Barbies altered by clay and confectioner’s sugar and that evoke a complex commentary on race, youth and desire. Kelley’s works also engage materiality and the craft of making miniatures. Her show True Falsetto is currently up at Women & Their Work through January 17th. I sat down [...]
Draped in camouflage, bunting, or shroud, war’s singular product is death. In face after face of WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, nothing is more abundantly clear than the awful intimacy of war and death. The exhibition begs the question, is our greatest modern efficiency murder? [...]