Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, Directed by Ben Shapiro
Filmmaker Ben Shapiro documents acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s 10-year quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life. Showtimes are Friday, January 4 at 5 & 7 p.m., Saturday, January 5 at 7 p.m., and Friday, January 18 at 7 p.m.
Cleo Boone: Figure Riddles
Thirty works about stimulating thought and forcing the viewer to question and solve. Remember, “Say the name-See the big picture”.
Birds, Grids and Other Symbols: Art by Roberta Harris
Harris uses a quintessentially Jung-Center mash-up of modern and primitive symbols to express and inspire hope, joy, encouragement, peace, kindness, strategy and imagination, and it works! Harris, a native Houstonian, has been exhibiting here since the 1970′s, her new show is part of a recent spurt of activity, showcased in a solo show, “Step Up” [...]
Emily Sloan: Funeral Party
Emily Sloan hosts an interactive Funeral Party, including visitation, drinking, eulogy writing assistance, a funeral service, a funeral sound procession created by the audience along with whatever instruments they’d like to bring, a funeral pyre for burning symbolic items contributed by the public, and a funeral food pot luck and recipe swap, so bring a [...]
Turnin’ Headz presents: Blank Canvas
Turnin’ Headz: Blank Canvas is a monthly showcase celebrating local and regional hip hop and visual artists & is held on the 1st Thursday of every month at UP Art Studio. This month’s featured artist include Kab Tha Don, The VX, Trix, & Ghost Boss.
Wayne Gilbert: Human Remains Paintings
Gilbert, owner of G Gallery in Houston, uses the cremated remains of Americans, uncollected for various reasons, to create works of art.
Gastronanza: Archetapas
Artists Nestor Topchy and Robert M. Rosenberg, performing as Gastronanza, invite participants to enter their portable Gelatinearia, a welded steel chapel on wheels, to sample ten unique customized flavored shapes of vegetarian pâté de fruits gelatin, or Archetapas, matching flavors to shapes from geometrical designs similar to those found in pysanky, the intricately patterned Ukrainian [...]
Continuum Live Art Series, Second Night
The second Performance Art Night of Continuum’s six-month residency at AvantGarden, featuring performances by Jajah Gray, Ryan Hawk, Aisen Caro Chacin and Alex Tu, David B. Collins, Kelly Alison, Nestor Topchy and Jim Pirtle, Raindawg, Julia Wallace, Joshua Yates, Unna Bettie, Jonathan Richie and Molly Brauhun, Tina McPherson, Y.E.Torres, Koomah, Jade, Daniel Bertalot, Black Magic [...]
Kyle Evans: GO
GO spotlights Evans’ practice of using junk technology to spark a dialogue concerning the “Dirty New Media” movement in Chicago.
Surreal Landscapes
A group show presents landscapes- actual or fancied, dreams or reminiscences, past or future- present scenarios, artifacts of space and time, by Cari Palazzolo, Ryan Davis, William Cardini, Kevin Dehan, Jess Bee, Christa Palazzolo, Cristina Vasquez, Jimmie D. Martin-Hinshaw, Rhythm Method, & Angie Steding. Gallery Viewing Hours: Saturday December 22nd & 29th 12-4pm or by [...]
M’kina Tapscott: New Soil: Tessellations of Dark Matter
Imagine the floor tiles at Art League have become overgrown with Dark Matter, created when the shredded remains of the deconstructed Black stereotyped objects began to ferment. It becomes fertile soil for the evolution of Blackness, a continued expansion of dark energy. In conjunction with the STACks exhibition of week-long residencies.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Convertibles and Polygons
Farmanfarmaian balances techniques and imagery drawn from Islamic decoration with the innovations of the Minimalist avant-garde.
Cantanker Magazine: The End
Cantanker’s latest project, an exhibition and catalog, features work exploring the symbolic, personal, apocalyptic, contemplative and humorous themes surrounding “The End”. Selecting work from an open call, Cantanker’s editorial staff has chosen work in a variety of media in consideration of inevitable demise. Including artists Shawn Camp, Terri Garland, Emma Hadzi-Antich, Hollis Hammonds, Hector Hernandez, [...]
Jonathan Jindra & Y. E. Torres: Cyclea – Comeplay Comply Arraycycle
An hour-long performative audio/visual/dance collaboration divided into multiple rooms and transmission stations throughout El Rincon which are sonically synced. Over a dozen projectors & televisions line the walls of El Rincon with an array of video art and synaesthetic imagery. With contributions by Brian Traylor, Sandy Ewen, Balthazar Canales and a fabric installation by Zubi [...]
Autumn Knight: El Diablo Y El Cristo Negro
A text-based performance influenced by Portobelo’s Black Christ Festivals and the mythology of the region which features the Devil as a pivotal figure. Maurice Duhon and Phillip Pyle will perform along with Autumn Knight.
Bob Briddick’s Big Beautiful Book of Collage
The premiere of Bob Briddick’s Big Beautiful Book of Collage, first edition. Proceeds form the sale of Bob’s new book will benefit Houston’s Outreach United. A selection of Mr. Briddicks collage works will also be on view.
Autumn Knight: Portobelo: Food, Humor, Movement
A performance piece centers on Knight’s experience of being immersed in Afro-Latin culture while in residency at Taller Portobelo Norte Art Residency in Portobelo, Panama during the summer of 2012. Denise Frazier will perform with Autumn Knight. Part of PRH’s Round 37 installations.
Favio Moreno: When All Else Fails + Sour Grapes: La Tienda
Moreno’s debut solo exhibition: familiar religious iconography reinterpreted in vibrant colors. The Public Trust’s small room will be transformed into a Sour Grapes store, selling prints, t-shirts, zines, stickers, buttons and end tables for the holiday season.
