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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 […]

Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits

Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

Tsherin Sherpa Spirits tells the stories of loss, struggle, and empowerment in this thought-provoking and participatory art experience by renowned Himalayan artist Tsherin Sherpa. Born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sherpa studied Tibetan Buddhist painting with his father from the age of thirteen. In his late 20s, he relocated to California, where he continued his traditional art practice […]

Ruhee Maknojia: Pattern and Power

Anya Tish Gallery 4411 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

Maknojia utilizes the dichotomy of these two societies to propose global questions about contemporary ethics, values, and power structures in an ever-growing and interconnected world. The viewer will enter Maknojia’s fictional, sublime world of paintings, installation, and animation to learn and discover the intricacies, importance, and ethnology of patterns, emphasizing and identifying their multicultural relationships. […]

Beautiful City—Empty City

Architecture Center Houston 315 Capitol, Suite 120, Houston, TX, United States

Beautiful City—Empty City showcases the architectural photography by Leonid Furmansky shot in downtown Houston during the pandemic. Selected from a portfolio titled Oil Towers, these images depict the city we know so well as a mostly empty and evocative canvas for exploration. The isolation experienced due to COVID-19 is visible in the vacant, frozen quality of the […]

Multisenses of Dyslexia

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

This exhibit, by dyslexic artist Stephanie A Skolik, MD, depicts not only visual representations of what it “feels” like to be dyslexic but presents each work in a five senses manner to enhance the exhibit into a multisensory adventure. The basic premise is that each of us individually experience art in our own manner, the […]

Tania Candiani: Lifeblood

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston 4173 Elgin St The University of Houston, Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX, United States

Histories and lives embedded in the land – and particularly the waterways that have alternately built and destroyed Houston over time – will be the subject of a newly commissioned, multi-disciplinary work by Mexican artist Tania Candiani. In her past work, Candiani has worked across a spectrum of media and practices to explore the intersections […]

Chryssa and New York

Menil Collection 1515 Sul Ross, Houston, TX, United States

This exhibition presents the innovative art made by the Greek-born artist Chryssa (1933–2013) while she was living in New York City from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Renowned for her adoption of industrial process, found commercial materials and early work with neon light, she stands at the forefront of American art in the […]

2023 TEXAS ARTIST OF THE YEAR VINCENT VALDEZ

Art League Houston 1953 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX

In his exhibition as the Art League Houston (ALH), 2023 Texas Artist of the Year, Vincent Valdez examines memory and remembrance from both personal and cultural perspectives. His installation piece, Siete Dias/Seven Days, features an installation of twenty-one banners suspended from the gallery's ceiling that showcase a handful of the over 150,000 individuals who have […]

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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Words of the Work: A Survey of the Semantics of Social Justice (In Person)

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

Words have histories, and they are also dangerous. In some cases, they can be so dangerous that their history is also a story of how their meaning has been manipulated or even hidden by those in positions of power. Join us for this examination of the language related to the social justice and racial equity […]

DIY IRL: Little Bog of Horrors: Carnivorous Gardens

Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX, United States

Explore the darker side of Nature where beautiful and unusual flesh-eating plants are surprisingly easy to grow and thrive everywhere from windowsills to outdoor container gardens, in a wide variety of climates. Learn the basics of choosing, growing, and caring for Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews, and other predatory plants, and take one home to […]

2023 Italian Contemporary Film Series

Italian Cultural Center - Milford House 1101 Milford Street, Houston, TX, United States

The ICCC is proud to continue to promote Italy’s compelling film legacy by exploring its contemporary films. All movies will be screened at the Milford House. Movies are in Italian with English subtitles. Doors open at 6 45 p.m. Film starts at 7:00 p.m. All sales are final. $10 ICCC Members | $15 Non-Members 2023 […]