UP Art Studio is thrilled to present the third Houston edition of the Big Walls Big Dreams Mural Festival taking place September 14 - 30, 2024. Building on nearly a decade of success, including its origins in Miami during Art Basel (Miami Art Week), BWBD has become synonymous with top-tier artistry and impactful community engagement. […]
Koslov Larsen is pleased to present Sun to Earth, the gallery’s third solo presentation by artist Brenda Biondo. Combining several series of Biondo’s works, Sun to Earth introduces new ways of looking at common subjects while challenging viewers' perception of color and three-dimensional space. The works explored throughout the show focus on atmospheric phenomena and […]
Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation, a video, and a series of commissioned sculptures, Erlanger continues her decade-long disruption of the “semiotics of suburbia.” In her practice, Erlanger thinks of the home as a greater ecosystem containing not only houses but […]
Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege presents work by the acclaimed Chicago-based artist, featuring large-scale paintings, sculptures, and installations that highlight the seen and unseen dynamics of Freedmen’s Town in Houston’s Fourth Ward. Throughout his career, Theaster Gates has soulfully elevated our understanding of Black labor, materials, place, and community to revitalize underrecognized neighborhoods […]
"Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms" examines drawing as a meditative process that invites the gradual appearance of indeterminate images. Selected from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, this display of twenty-nine drawings dating from the late 1930s to the present share a visual language of emerging forms. On view September 20, 2024 through January 26, […]
"Fragments of Memory", a selection of works from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, explores the ways in which the past imbues present experiences. In their drawings, the featured artists take up commonplace embodiments of personal and collective memory, such as scrapbooks, snapshots, notes, relics, and odes, to reimagine how we might access fraught memories and […]
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo features a site-specific work by New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981). The 36-foot triptych, C A R A A C A R A, 2024, explores the relationship between origin, transfer, and translation, with each panel of the composition indicating a different step in the artist’s process.
Take a psychological look at the aging process and explore how to deepen our experience of meaning using skills and rules for living that may be very different from what we learned in school. Our universities prepare us to check the boxes of social and material success. We learn how to get a job, how […]
Te invitamos a un evento organizado por MONDAY Paper para explorar nuestras historias de migración y resiliencia y donde celebraremos el mes nacional de la herencia hispana. Nos enfocaremos en nuestra innovación, creación artística y sostenibilidad. Gracias a Jatziri Barrón, artista y co-fundadora de Kroma Art House por brindarnos un espacio inspirador para compartir. […]
Discovery Green invites you on a journey to a bright future this fall at The TUNNEL. Visitors will experience 12-foot-tall structures arranged to form a 100-foot-long tunnel of magical light and sound. Other visitors may serve as “pilots” using an interactive device to manipulate the array and guide your path. Over 150 LED bars are […]
Join us for a walking tour of Houston’s historic Freedmen’s Town led by Charonda Johnson and Priscilla T. Graham. The tour will meet and start at the African American History Research Center (1300 Victor Street, Houston, Texas 77019), making several stops throughout the surrounding neighborhood and ending at the Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy Visitors Center. […]
Marking a major shift in Maloney’s practice, Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make, introduces a selection of 10 new oil paintings made by the artist within the last year. As the title suggests, a lot of the pieces were first conceived as ideas for films that for one reason or another never came to be. […]
