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. […]
Money has history and ancestors just like we humans do. Over 500 years ago, the “family history” of the dollar currency was established due to the agreement of the Lands Diet of the Kingdom of Bohemia. This one event can be regarded as the origin of all the dollars that belong to many different countries […]
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, […]
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.
Throughline is pleased to present its fourth two-person collective member exhibition, “When You Invent the Ship, You Also Invent the Shipwreck,” with new work by artists Garland Fielder and Gabriel Martinez, opening Friday August 23, on view through September 21, 2024. Paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture address threats humanity faces and the fear they engender. […]
Developed over 4 years and across multiple locations in Texas and New York, At the Still Point comprises over 70 sculptural works employing various weave structures. Evolving from an exploration of the canvas – a woven textile - into a study of composition with space, the work contemplates what exists between. At the Still Point will […]
Join NMLY.dance, Katelyn Halpern and Persi Mey for an afternoon showing of work in progress. This showing is the culminating event of the week long Excavating: Practice, Process and Presentation Research Week. The weeks workshop participants will showcase the movement research they have been engaging in over the week with NMLY.dance co-Artistic Directors Nicole McNeil […]
"Bear-ied", a dark comedy by Persi Mey, will premiere alongside other works during the Excavation showcase at the Houston Metropolitan Dance Center.
This event is the launch of East End Echoes. We will listen to previews from the art installation while having activities with papel picado. Free coffee will be provided to participants at Segundo Coffee Lab at Ironworks, located at 711 Milby Street. East End Echoes was born out of a desire to document the stories […]
