Michael Bise: Life On the List, Chapter 2
The Glasstire Drawing Project presents Chapter 2 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list. For Chapter 1, click here. CHAPTER 2 Coverage of Houston artists has been made possible in part by the William A. Graham Fund.
Houston Finalists Named for Sixth Round of Artadia Awards, Winners To Be Announced at TX Contemporary Art Fair Oct. 19
Panelists Michelle White, Curator at The Menil Collection; Margot Norton, Curatorial Associate at the New Museum, New York; and N. Dash, a New York artist, named have selected ten finalists finalists out of over 200 applications received for the sixth cycle of Artadia Awards in Houston. Michael Bise, Jillian Conrad, Bill Davenport, Francesca Fuchs, Jang [...]
Blind Archer Strikes Again: Michael Bise Wins $50,000 Hunting Art Prize
Houston artist, Glasstire contributor and heart transplant patient Michael Bise has been awarded the Hunting Art Prize for 2012. The $50,000 unrestricted prize is the largest in North Amerca, and is given to a Texas artist anually by Hunting PLC, an oil services company. Jurors for this years award were Eric Crosby, Curatorial Assistant of [...]
Life Off the List: Bise Recovery Continues
Fab artist and GT contributor Michael Bise continues to recover from recent heart transplant surgery- he’s home from the hospital and is doing well.
This Sunday: Boom Boom Benefit for Michael Bise’s New (Pre-Owned) Heart
This Sunday evening there will be a benefit for Houston artist and Glasstire contributor Michael Bise, who is awaiting a heart transplant he can’t afford, and can’t postpone. The cover charge for what promises to be a sell-out show is a donation of any (preferably large) amount to the Michael Bise Transplant Fund collected at [...]
Moody Begs for Bise: New Hearts are Expensive. Obamacare, we need you now!
Setting a high-water mark for art-dealer niceness, Moody Gallery has sent out an open letter asking for help for artist (and Glasstire contributor) Michael Bise, who, as you may have heard, is awaiting a heart transplant: November 4, 2011 Dear Friends, Recently we have been confronted with the news that Michael Bise is now on [...]
Glasstire Drawing Project #1: Life On the List, Chapter 1
The Glasstire Drawing Project debuts with Chapter 1 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list.
Texas Contemporary Art Fair: LIVE BLOG
BLOG CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED!!! The Texas Contemporary Art Fair is open! The Glasstire staff will be live-blogging the fair through Sunday. Come by and see us at our booth, with Art Fair Mad Libs with exciting prizes (i.e. t-shirts) throughout the weekend. And, just like the Houston Fine Art Fair, we’ll be asking readers for their [...]
Life on the List: In the Crowd
There’s a person somewhere in Houston. They are healthy, just entering the prime of their life. They’ve left childhood but haven’t entered old age. They might be next to you in a movie theater, at an opening or pushing a cart out of the grocery store. Maybe they’re with someone—their dad, their wife or their [...]
Michael Bise
Glasstire audio slide show profiling Michael Bise. The artist talks about drawing from old movies, Disney vs. religion and why art should be hard.
Alice Neel at the MFAH
I come from a young family. I’ve been lucky enough to grow up with my mother’s parents playing a significant role in my life. When I was very young my grandmother was still in her forties and I remember my grandfather’s 53rd birthday party. As an adult, their advancing age shocks me every time I [...]