This summer the President’s Choice Mural at Discovery Green takes a three-dimensional turn with for.ever.bloomby Jo Ann Fleischhauer. The piece, located along the side of the Alkek building and facing the Sarofim Lawn, consists of parasols arranged in front of a printed image attached to the building’s windows. Various photographs, schematic drawings and words are […]
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 […]
Repurpose by Colby Deal is the inward practice and outward act of repurposing materials and experiences that carry personal resonance. This collection is a mirror to his own life's journey of self-reconstruction and preservation through the collaging of consciously safeguarded materials and images, seeing in them not only their inherent value but also his own […]
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 Negro Motorist Green Book, a new exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in collaboration with award-winning author, photographer and cultural documentarian, Candacy Taylor will be on display in Holocaust Museum Houston’s Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery Sept. 1 through Nov. 26, 2023. The Green Book provided critical, life-saving information on […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Gazukin’s art was an embodiment of the bliss of color, light, and space. His unique model of the world eliminated all the unnecessary elements, focusing solely on the essence of harmony. Throughout his illustrious career, Valery Gazukin’s artworks found a home in various prominent locations, including the Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts, museums, and galleries […]
UST Dance and Houston MET come together this fall to bring you our Fall Master Class Series, open to all intermediate-advanced level dancers! Modern-based dance teachers from the community will join us for the first Friday of each month starting in September to bring the Houston dance community a unique combination of Master classes. Drop-in […]
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 […]
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 […]
