Common Objects
David Shelton Gallery
January 11 through February 16, 2013
David Shelton Gallery
January 11 through February 16, 2013
Last Chance - December 15, 2012 through January 17, 2013
Read's Dark Ride (under construction) will take viewers through the painting in a self-powered cart in the style of Walt Disney’s “It’s a small world.".
Last Chance - December 6, 2012 through January 19, 2013
Contemporary paintings from the remote Aboriginal community of Lockhart River, located on the Cape York Peninsula at the very northern tip of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, featuring artists Naomi Hobson (in attendance), Irene Namok, Josiah Omeenyo, Patrick Butcher and Silas Hobson.
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Last Chance - October 14, 2012 through January 20, 2013
Alliance Gallery- Houston Arts Alliance
Last Chance - December 13, 2012 through January 20, 2013
Weihong uses the gallery space as a meeting place for people to come, interact, and drink tea. Regular gallery hours for the interactive art performance are on Fridays from 4 – 8 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 2 – 6 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to participate in the art performance, and reservations are suggested.
November 21, 2012 through January 25, 2013
Farmanfarmaian balances techniques and imagery drawn from Islamic decoration with the innovations of the Minimalist avant-garde.
October 27, 2012 through January 26, 2013
Little seen, almost secret bodies of works by two artists, curated by Emily Sloan. Havard's drawings arrive from a meditative, intuitive process. McClain explores spontaneity.
January 12 through 26, 2013
Photo-paintings by Houston-based artist and writer Devon Britt-Darby who began transferring digital video stills to linen using an inkjet printer and t-shirt iron-on transfer paper in 2010. The paintings' imagery is often drawn from Britt-Darby's experiences mixed with found Internet footage. Note: this will be the final exhibition at the old PG Contemporary loation. Visit Zoya Tommy Contemporary's new space at 4411 Mpontrose.
August 26, 2012 through January 27, 2013
Popular, useful minimalism from the MFAH decorative arts collection by the likes of Georg Jensen, Orrefors, Alvar Aalto, Bruno Mathsson, Kaj Franck, Timo Sarpaneva, Tapio Wirkkala, Poul Henningsen, Finn Juhl and Verner Panton.
January 5 through 27, 2013
Staged presents viewers with an familiar yet undeniably off-kilter view of the Texas landscape.
January 12 through 27, 2013
jan 12- jan 27 opens jan 12 6-9 18 Hands Gallery Over 80 teapots by an international cast of clay artists pushing the boundaries of the teapot concept.
January 5 through 28, 2013
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 for many years, but thankfully, I found it again."
January 4 through 30, 2013
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" at Kirk Hopper Gallery in Dallas last March.
January 11 through February 2, 2013
A group exhibition featuring works by Robert Ryman, Mark Williams, and Todd Williamson.
January 12 through February 2, 2013
Gestural, layered mark making bridges abstraction and realism.
September 20, 2012 through February 3, 2013
Rarely displayed collages offer insight into sculptor’s extraordinary take on the everyday.
November 11, 2012 through February 3, 2013
A major show exploring 165 years of armed conflict through the eyes of photographers. Organized by a curatorial team consisting of Anne Wilkes Tucker, MFAH Curator of Photography, Will Michels, and Natalie Zelt.
Lone Star College - Kingwood Art Gallery
January 7 through February 7, 2013
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.
January 11 through February 9, 2013
The Romania-born, Houston-based artist's second solo exhibition is an installation of lights, LED fans, computer hardware and fiber optics that move, surge and flow across the gallery walls. Andea was the first master’s recipient in New Media from the University of North Texas.
January 12 through February 9, 2013
Narrative paintings invite the viewer to participate in a new world of the artists' making. Beautifully rendered, Kinsell transforms the traditional landscape and still life into a springboard for new conceptual associations both comical and tragic.
January 12 through February 9, 2013
January 12 through February 9, 2013
Following the success of her 2010 joint showing with husband/photographer Jerry Uelsmann, Maggie Taylor returns to Catherine Couturier Gallery (formerly John Cleary Gallery) for another solo exhibition, featuring images form the last fifteen years.
January 12 through February 9, 2013
Artists include: Gregory Michael Carter – acrylic, transfer on maps, Ann Johnson – iron relief prints, found objects, Anna Mavromatis – monotypes in folded structures, Rahul Mitra – ink on paper, Jacqueline Dee Parker – paper, acrylic, graphite on cut canvas.
December 30, 2012 through February 10, 2013
Gilbert, owner of G Gallery in Houston, uses the cremated remains of Americans, uncollected for various reasons, to create works of art.
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
January 12 through February 10, 2013
Memphis Yin is an accomplished industrial designer based in tomball, TX who paints expressive works in oil in his spare time.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - CAMH
November 17, 2012 through February 15, 2013
Chronicles the persistence of black performance in the field of visual arts. Featuring video and photo documentation of performances, performance installations and relics, as well as ephemera related to work by three generations of artists.
University of Houston, Clear Lake Art Gallery
November 19, 2012 through February 15, 2013
Images of the genetic testing of human and animal cellular tissue, incorporating video and sound of actual cells dividing, exhibiting simultaneously at Space Center Houston and Florida International University’s Miami Beach Urban Studios.
January 11 through February 16, 2013
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 Hagood, celebrates beauty found in the crude, the odd, and the obscure with his accustomed wit.
January 12 through February 16, 2013
The third in a continuing series of juried exhibitions connecting Houston to the surrounding arts communities brings together artists from the Houston and San Antonio, curated by Kimberly Aubuchon, Director of Unit B (Gallery) in San Antonio. Including works by San Antonio artists Holly & Bryson Brooks, Nate Cassie, Más Rudas Collective, Justin Parr, Kristy Perez, Jeremiah Teutsch, Ethel Shipton, and Gary Sweeney; and Houston artists Christina Carfola, Monica Foote, Janine Hughes, Nyssa Juneau, Melinda Laszczynski, Kia Neill, David Politzer, and Preetika Rajgariah.
January 11 through February 16, 2013
Photographs connect the spaces, objects and roles occupied by The Bridge Club's temporal performance works.
January 11 through February 16, 2013
Using her direct experience with a place, event or object as a catalyst, Rizzo abstracts, invents and explores new realities in painted space and form.
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
October 27, 2012 through February 17, 2013
Eight significant Houston artists: Daniel Anguilu, Robert Pruitt, Prince Varughese Thomas, Forrest Prince, Lynn Randolph, Fabio D’Aroma, Serena Lin Bush, and Floyd Newsum.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - CAMH
November 1, 2012 through February 17, 2013
Eleven young artists from China using video, featuring artists are Chen Qiulin, Chen Zhou, Hu Xiaoyuan, Huang Ran, Jin Shan, Li Ming, Li Ran, Lu Yang, Ma Qiusha, Sun Xun, and Yan Xing. As a second component of the exhibition, a selection of cinematic shorts will screen at Asia Society Texas Center on December 2 and January 6, both at 5pm. Curated by James Elaine, an independent curator who has lived and worked in China since 2008.
September 7, 2012 through February 22, 2013
An outdoor light installation transforms the ALH sculpture garden into a sprawling bio-electronic environment.
January 5 through February 23, 2013
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.
January 11 through February 23, 2013
Photographically-based work explores digitally manufactured realties. Intimate nocturnal landscapes are fabricated from scratch, lunar images dissected and reconfigured and tumultuous seascapes are punctuated with struggling vessels from the artist's imagination.
December 14, 2012 through February 24, 2013
Harun Farocki is a German filmmaker, critic, editor, and curator who turned his attention to video and installation in the 1990s. Art/Work and the Invisible Hand explores the impact of automation on human interaction—work, culture, and war. Organized by Gabriel Martínez and Mary Leclère.
October 20, 2012 through March 3, 2013
Six new art projects in the historic shotgun houses on Holman St. in Houston's Third Ward. Artists Miguel Amat, Jason Griffiths, Autumn Knight, Maurice Roberts, and In Situ from the UK (Paul Hartley, Kerry Morrison and William Titley) and Question Bridge: Black Males (Chris Johnson, Bayeté Ross Smith, Hank Willis Thomas and Kamal Sinclair).
January 11 through March 9, 2013
Paintings of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal that investigate the impact of industrialism on the surrounding area, laden with desolation and abandonment.
October 12, 2012 through March 17, 2013
Blaffer's first exhibit since its renovation! The first-ever retrospective look at the 20-year career of American sculptor Tony Feher will showcase Feher's notably unpretentious and intriguing approach to art, which typically involves generic commercial materials like jars, bottles, and packing materials.
December 2, 2012 through March 17, 2013
The Menil, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria join together to explore the changing modes and meanings of love in today’s global society, as seen by more than two dozen contemporary artists from Africa and a few of their counterparts from Europe and America.
September 14, 2012 through March 24, 2013
Explores the "second generation" experience as the daughter of a hidden child and refugee from the Holocaust. Themes of repression and loss emerge, as do memories and stories about a family decimated by war.
September 14, 2012 through March 24, 2013
Boston-area artist and photographer Leslie Starobin highlights the bravery and hope of six families through a series of individual photomontages, each depicting their experiences during the Holocaust.
December 16, 2012 through March 31, 2013
100+ masterworks from a renowned museum, including works by Francisco de Goya, El Greco, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Jusepe de Ribera and Diego Velázquez.
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
January 12 through April 28, 2013
7 innovative ceramic artists from across the United States, presented in conjunction with the National Council for Education on the Ceramic Arts 2013 Conference held in Houston, March 20-23, 2013. Featuring works by Barbara Frey, Meredith Host, Liz Howe, Tsehai Johnson, Katherine Taylor, Cheryl Ann Thomas, and Merrie Wright.
The average viewer spends around thirty seconds in front of an artwork. Seems unjust considering how long the artist likely spent making the thing. But I will admit that my first visit to any exhibition is spent quickly looking over every artwork, and there is something to be said for works that grab my eye [...]
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 [...]