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Interactive art installation OPTIK debuts at Avenida Houston July 4

Avenida Houston 701 Avenida de Las Americas , Houston, TX, United States

This summer Houston First Corporation (HFC) will welcome an exciting new feature to its entertainment and convention district with the installation of Optik, which debuts Tuesday, July 4 at Avenida Houston. Optik is an interactive installation that reflects on our ability to play with our surroundings while giving the opportunity for brand new point of […]

Are We There Yet?

Archway Gallery (Dunlavy) 2305 Dunlavy, Houston, TX, United States

Archway Gallery presents Are We There Yet? featuring new paintings by Cookie Wells and wood furniture by Tom Wells, on view August 5 – 31, 2023. The artists will be available to visit with guests during the opening reception on Saturday, August 5, 2023, from 5 – 8 p.m., with an Artist Talk at 6 […]

Ray Dunlap: Diary of an Abductee

Sabine Street Studios 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, United States

There will be a public reception for the artist on Thursday, August 10, from 6-8pm in the gallery. Ray Dunlap is an artist that lives with real mental experiences. Diary of an Abductee explores the line between dreams and imagination vs. reality. Through Dunlap’s dreams, he lives a vivid experience of being abducted by the Seventh […]

The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy

The Menil Collection 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, United States

This exhibition presents more than one hundred portraits made over the past twenty years by Houston-based artist Nestor Topchy (b. 1963). The small paintings, with their gold backgrounds, resemble Byzantine icons; however, rather than representing religious figures, Topchy depicts friends and colleagues in the art community.

Laura Rathe Fine Art presents Dream within a Dream, a two-woman exhibition featuring Lucrecia Waggoner and Audra Weaser

Laura Rathe Fine Art River Oaks 4444 Westheimer Road , Houston, TX, United States

Dream Within a Dream explores the Waggoner and Weaser’s distinct approaches to creating multilayered artworks, unveiling their unique processes and unleashing the depths of imagination and symbolism that reside within each piece. This thought-provoking exhibition promises to take visitors on an ethereal voyage through the realm of dreams, where reality intertwines with the surreal, and […]

The G5 Collective: Ignition Art Exhibit

The Jung Center of Houston 5200 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Collectively we are united by a passion to create, but we are each ignited by different forces. Saran Alderson is inspired by the human body, with all of its eccentricities and fabulocities.  Through the lens of portraiture, Sarah Fisher records the human need to be authentically seen. Liz Gates is driven by a desire to […]

Out of Longing

This body of work is inspired by mythical creatures, religious objects, funeral jewelry, and anthropomorphic animals, which have symbolic meaning and embody our longing for what we don’t have as well as what we wish did. The work is made from found insect parts assembled chimerically referencing Buddhist and Hindu deities, transformed into copper, then […]

Event Series Ming Smith: Feeling the Future

Ming Smith: Feeling the Future

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, United States

Ming Smith: Feeling the Future explores artist Ming Smith’s unparalleled career and is Smith’s first solo exhibition at a major institution to survey her work from the early 1970s through the present. The exhibition encompasses a multitude of artistic expressions to represent Smith’s vibrant and multi-layered practice, which is grounded in portraiture, and amplifies the […]

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Event Series Jordan Strafer: Trilogy

Jordan Strafer: Trilogy

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, United States

Both perversely pleasurable and pleasurably perverse, Jordan Strafer’s videos are absurd, fantastical, humorous, and, at times, violent meditations on power and the uniquely human capacity to inflict violence, be it physical, psychological, or both. The artist’s first solo museum exhibition, Jordan Strafer: Trilogy presents Strafer’s recent trilogy of videos PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure) (2019), SOS […]

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Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

The MFAH continues its series of grand-scale, immersive presentations with Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish. This special experience brings together two works from the Museum’s collections: Pixel Forest, an installation of thousands of hanging LED lights; and Worry Will Vanish, a video projection that takes viewers on a dreamlike journey through the natural landscape, the […]

Diabelli 200 Explorer

Diabelli 200 Explorer is the interactive website accompanying Anthony Brandt’s February 24-25 premiere of Diabelli 200, commissioned by Performing Arts Houston for their New/Now performance series. This virtual component explores the historic and neuroscience inspiration behind this new work, which was developed in collaboration with University of Houston neuroscientist Dr. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal. In 1819, […]

“Hyperreal: Gray Foy”

Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Between the 1940s and 1970s, American artist Gray Foy (1922–2012) created a body of extraordinarily meticulous drawings, most often rendered in graphite on paper. This exhibition celebrates two recent gifts that have made the Menil Collection the foremost repository of Foy’s work. Intrigued by Surrealism and Magic Realism as a young artist, Foy characterized his […]