Houston to San Antonio
We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the Bottoms. A rag doll was being thrown in the air from a blanket while the artist performed with a group of collaborators. They were accompanied by a small band facing [...]
Houston’s Lawndale Artist Studio Program Picks New Residents
Lawndale Art Center has announced its new crop of resident artists for 1012-2013: Domokos Benczédi, Nancy Douthey and Patrick Turk will each get studio space on Lawndale’s third floor, $500 a month, and $1500 for materials. Works produced by the residents will be exhibited in May 2013. The 2012-2013 residents were selected from over 100 [...]
Sustainable Practice: Sasha Dela
Sasha Dela moved to Houston about seven years ago as a fellow in the MFAH Core Program and quickly became an important part of the Houston art scene as a founder of SKYDIVE Art Space and regional editor of Temporary Art Review, where she recently wrote an insightful take on our city that recognized the [...]
Skydive Celebrates Its 4th Year
Four years ago, Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch opened a studio on an upper floor of an outdated and slightly ominous looking office building across from Montrose Krogers and the Chinese Consulate after the artists were both in the 2008 Houston Area Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum. They decided to curate small exhibitions in [...]
Three Artist Receive HAA Liz Alexander Memorial Awards
Emerging artists Sapphire Williams, Gisette Padilla and Nancy Douthey will each recieve $1,000 Liz Alexander Visual Art Awards from the Houston Arts Alliance, to be used for a specific artistic project. The one-time award is in memory of past HAA grants coordinator Liz Alexander, who died in 2010. Sapphire Williams will research the role of [...]
Land Arts of the American West
A new art class titled “Land Arts of the American West” combines the study of “geomorphology and human construction” through a field program including visits to minimal/conceptualist land art monuments like the Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels and Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, earlier art sites like Chaco Canyon, and other big ol’ desert objects like Turrell’s Roden [...]