"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.
"Tacita Dean: Blind Folly" is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by British European visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965). The exhibition, organized in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking.
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns” – Octavia Butler Framing explorations of space, geography, mapping, and land/waterscapes, especially of the African diaspora, New Suns in Lawndale’s Cecily E. Horton Gallery features new installation, painting and drawing by Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud.
Project Row Houses (PRH) proudly presents the second iteration of our Southern Survey Biennial in the historic row houses on Holman Street in Third Ward. This survey of recent works created by contemporary visual artists living and working in “The South” will feature installations in PRH’s historic row houses from Rabeeha Adnan (Richmond, VA), Nic […]
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? is a participatory installation by artist collaborators Alex Strada and Tali Keren. It critically examines the U.S. Constitution and creates space for intervention and political imagination. The artists ask visitors to engage critically with the U.S. Constitution and pose two questions: What […]
River on Fire is a multidisciplinary exhibition showcasing the work of 14 artists who respond to environmental crises and climate change. Curated by Ashley DeHoyos Sauder, the exhibition draws inspiration from a long history of environmental activism related to river fires across the nation— events that have significantly shaped understandings of ecological preservation and environmental […]
Throughline will open its fifth two-person collective member exhibition, “FOLDED TIME”, featuring new works by Colleen Maynard and Sarah Sudhoff, on Friday, October 4 at 3909 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002. An opening reception will occur from 6 to 9pm the same evening. In Folded Time, Colleen Maynard and Sarah Sudhoff examine the compounding and […]
Post-film Q&A with actor Yang Dong-geun moderated by Jaewook Kim, University of Houston Yang Dong-geun stars as real-life Korean-born Choi Yeong-eui as he arrives in 1938 Japan, hoping to become a fighter pilot, but ending up on a different path. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama and went across the country, defeating martial artists […]
Andrew Durham Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of a new solo exhibition by contemporary artist Kelli Scott Kelley, titled "Nature Morte." The gallery will hold an opening reception on October 12th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. An artist talk will be held November 2nd, 2024 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.The exhibition will be on […]
Redbud Arts Center is excited to present "Disruption," the first solo exhibition by emerging artist Lord Karl, debuting with a public reception on Saturday, November 2, from 6–9 PM. Known for his bold, unconventional style, Lord Karl uses brand-name leather jackets as his canvas to explore themes of identity, rebellion, and self-expression. Drawing inspiration from […]
