Tony Feher: Free Fall
Texas-raised and New York-based artist Tony Feher creates an interactive, performative installation combining music, dance, and sculpture, coinciding with his major survey exhibition presented at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Museum. Opening Weekend Performances Friday, January 18 (8 pm) and Saturday, January 19 (2 pm): Leslie Scates (choreographer) and Damon Smith (musician) featuring Shanon Adams, [...]
The Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. & Personal Freedoms & Liberties
The third in a series of monthly one-day only grassroots, pop-up street art shows emphasizing regional graffiti, street art, and contemporary urban artists will feature a gallery show, exterior mural paintings, and a live DJ performance by DJ Jay¢ee. Artists include: Daniel Anguilu, Dual, The One Lee, Deck WGF, Article, Bryan Cope, Cutthroat, Christian Navarrete, [...]
Common Objects
Common Objects, curated by Houston painter Shane Tolbert, brings together three painters from three coasts who modestly mine the idiosyncrasies of daily experience. Ted Gahl, from Connecticut, makes small-scale gestural paintings of dubious intentinality; Nathan Hayden, from Southern California, is an obsessive hoarder of everyday experiences, and the Good Witch of the South, Houston’s Lane [...]
Musiqa Presents: Percussive Illusions
Contemporary classical group Musiqa presents a concert explores the evolution of percussion throughout the past century, featuring the award-winning University of Houston Percussion Ensemble, directed by Blake Wilkins. Percussion’s capacity to shape the experience of film is also explored in a trio of films curated by Aurora Picture Show. Works performed include John Cage’s Third [...]
The Illusion of the Precise
A group exhibition featuring works by Robert Ryman, Mark Williams, and Todd Williamson.
Johnny DiBlasi: RGB
An interactive multi-channel video installation that explores digital color space(s) by UH Grad and Texas gulf coast native Johnny DiBlasi, a cofounder of {exurb}, a collective of artists and engineers who experiment at the intersection of art-making processes and engineering.
Window Works: Leigh Anne Lester: Cultivated Divergence
Facing Main Street, Lester’s 2013 Window Works installation merges prehistoric ferns, animal-eating flowers, desert succulents, and backyard weeds in new synthesized arrangements.
Brian Molanphy: Encapsulations
New work by Southern Methodist University Assistant Professor Brian Molanphy: three groups of ceramics called “trim”, “carrés encadrés”, & “square cubed”, exploring the physical and imaginary implications of enclosure and concealment.
Gene Flores: Proverbios and Dichos Chicanos
Whimsical and surreal visualizations of traditional Chicano proverbs or sayings by the El Paso native printmaker.
Ana Fernandez and Leigh Merrill: Staged
Staged presents viewers with an familiar yet undeniably off-kilter view of the Texas landscape.
Jan Heaton: line / form / color
Watercolors are known for their translucent, graceful layering. The concept for these works began three years ago with an early morning discovery of tiny moving creatures near the ocean’s edge.
Letitia Huckaby: Bygone
A tribute to the strength, resourcefulness, creativity, faith and traditions from previous generations.
Magnificent 7 Ice Carving Competition
Seven acclaimed ice artists from around the country wielding chainsaws, blow torches, and razor sharp chisels to transform blocks of ice into amazing works of art in five hours. Thousands will make their way to Discovery Green to watch the carvers battle for cash prizes and the people’s choice award. Free!
Lynet McDonald: Intensity
McDonald, a self-taught artist born and raised in Mexico City, started painting again in 2006. She says “It felt wonderful to once again enter that other world where anything is possible. The world where you can create whatever you want and you can be whoever you wish to be. I had forgotten about that place [...]
Mac Whitney
A solo exhibition of steel sculptures and paintings by Texas-based Artist Mac Whitney, including the recent Linked Sculpture Series, in which an interlocking chain of shapes ise welded upright into a vertical sculpture.
Juventud
Paintings, photographs and sculpture by young RGV artists, a grunge fashion show, and an indie rock concert follow at 8. Admission to the later events is by $10 donation.
Prophecy: An Exhibition by Day Wheeler and Jimmy Peña
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.
