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Opening BLAST!
Lawndale Art Center
Drawing in Space Curated by J Hill. Featuring work by John Adelman, Daniel Adame, Annette Lawrence, The Art Guys & Cory Wagner.
Joshua Smith’s The Suburbs of the Emerald City consists of handmade geodes with Monopoly houses in the formation of housing developments inside each.
what we want is too late, features residents for the second year of the Lawndale Artist Studio Program, interdisciplinary artist Danny Kerschen, performance/video artist Lynne McCabe, and installation artist Teresa O’Connor.
3 Months and 90 Days, featuring work by artist Catherine Colangelo.
Joan Wich & Co.
Julie DeVries: Part of the Process, featuring cardboard wall pieces
Houston Symphony
Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto, a dazzling work that showcases the instrument’s expressiveness. You’ll encounter fanfares, graceful melodies, and both whimsical and rollicking humor. Yet you’ll also hear exquisite craftsmanship and glowing beauty.
DiverseWorks
A Problem of Courage is an installation of video and other works by Kara Hearn that takes a look at the way travesties large and small, imagined and real, mediated and lived hang about.
Stephen Vitiello’s latest project, Four Color Sound, combines modulated light and audio tracks that morph and shift in subtle ways, transforming the gallery space into a virtual meditation chamber.
Blaffer Gallery
The Houston Area Exhibition has been a significant component of Blaffer Gallery’s program since 1974. This year’s installment will be selected by Blaffer Curator Claudia Schmuckli through careful portfolio review and a series of on-site studio visits.
Contemporary Arts Museum
The Old, Weird America, the first museum exhibition to explore the widespread resurgence of folk
imagery and mythic history in recent art from the United States.
Organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston senior curator Toby Kamps, the exhibition illustrates the relevance and appeal of folklore to contemporary artists, as well as the genre’s power to illuminate ingrained cultural forces and overlooked
The Objective
A new line of concrete tables by Parvez Taj and James Dewulf will be launched at ICFF under Parvez Michel. Technology involving UV light that cures the eco-friendly inks is used to print the tables. via
Elecom commemorates the 20th anniversary of its original egg-shaped EGG MOUSE with this latest model (M-EGUR series). via
Bomi Kim’s Meaning of Time is a clock mechanism that allows us to supply our own hour and minute hands.
“Through passive amplification alone, these unique pieces instantly transform any personal music player + earbuds into a sculptural audio console. Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone II inventively exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibels.”
Azerbaijani classical music
Four Color Sound and A Problem of Courage
Stephen Vitiello: Four Color Sound: Known for his powerful, beautiful and immersive installations that transform atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes, Vitiello combines modulated light and audio tracks that morph and shift in subtle ways, transforming the center’s Main Gallery into a virtual meditation chamber. stephenvitiello.com
Kara Hearn: A Problem of Courage: By building intimate and absurd narratives, Hearn’s installation of video and other works takes a look at the way travesties effect our lives and explores the way the emotions attached to them play themselves out before and after the fact. karahearn.com
Opening at DiverseWorks Saturday, May 9; 6-8pm
These are their stories…
What happened last weekend?
Check out our galleries from opening at Box 13, Bering and James, First Saturday Arts Market, and Houston Center for Photography.
Brangwen Dance YouTube Channel
Check it out here.
Highlights from Tom Waits’ Press Conference
Coming to Houston June 22
Lawndale Openings
3 Months and 90 Days
Catherine Colangelo
Catherine Colangelo works with notions of time and memory, using drawings in gouache, pencil and dye on paper, to explore the passage of time, the hit-or-miss snatches of memories that our brains recall. For her installation in the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery, Colangelo created a 4” x 6” drawing every day for 90 days. Together they become a whole that represents a visual record of the artist’s life (moods, artistic inclinations, etc.) over 90 days. Three larger works, executed over a period of one month each will also be on view. As a whole the installation records the reality of the time spent by the artist working over a period of six months. Working with gouache and pencil on paper, and sometimes integrating text, Catherine is interested in exploring the passage of time and way random bits of time stick in our minds to become our memories.
The Suburbs of the Emerald City
Joshua Smith
The Suburbs of the Emerald City consists of handmade geodes with Monopoly houses in the formation of housing developments inside each. Geodes take
millions of years to form through tremendous heat and pressure and are considered precious when found. The housing development which in many cases build up over night carry in them an immediacy of the ideal. The installation raises questions dealing with but not limited to individuality versus conformity, the ideal versus the reality, and what makes a house a home.
what we want is too late
Danny Kerschen, Teresa O’Connor & Lynne McCabe
Danny Kerschen has been working collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged projects situated within the contradictions and critiques of culture. Currently, Kerschen has been focused on producing graphite drawings on paper. Dreamlike, yet well defined; the drawings are quiet, subtly tonal, graphite images of asymmetrical marching bands enveloped by the negatives space of the paper. The marching bands exist between regimented choreography and collective unraveling. While meticulously rendered, the figures seem to drift away into the void of the paper with the gentleness of the gradation.
dannykerschen.com
Lynne McCabe is a multi- disciplinary artist whose work is contingent upon the exploration and critique of the idea of collaboration. McCabe designs environments whereby she can manipulate socially constructed notions of authority and trust. As part of the Lawndale Studio Artist Program exhibition, McCabe is producing a video documenting her ‘Building a platform to support her weight’, A collaboration between various Artists of the international Art world and McCabe’ alongside a series of printed ‘instructions for social sculpture’; which have been exhibited progressively throughout the duration of the residency, in the third floor corridor.
lynnemccabe.com
Teresa O’Connor is an installation artist that incorporates video, sound and found objects in a gesture to
stimulate the duality of presence and absence, body and landscape. For the Lawndale Studio Artist Program exhibition, O’Connor is working with musicians “Sharks and Sailors” to create a music video for their song “Cliffs”. The night of the opening, the video will be launched on YouTube as well as on view at Lawndale. O’Connor is also working on a collaborative choir project, “All You Need” that is open to all to participate. More information at teresa-oconnor.com
Drawing in Space
Curated by J Hill
Work by John Adelman, Daniel Adame, Annette Lawrence, The Art Guys & Cory Wagner
“For artists of all backgrounds and disciplines drawing is a fundamental part of the art-making process. For some the result has finality and results in a product; The Drawing. For others it is a way to think through engineering of a more elaborate project and results in a sketch. This is not to say that picking up a pencil and putting pencil to paper is the basis for art-making across the board. Drawing is much broader than that and artists of all kinds approach it in many different ways. Rather, drawing is fundamental simply because it is an activity, a process, in which artist can think and do… simultaneously. That process or activity is the underpinning of this exhibition. That is to say that this not simply a show of drawings, but is an exhibition about drawing.” – J Hill
May 9th 6-8:30pm; artist talk @6
Lawndale Art Center
Calling all crafters
For all you crochet-ers and knittas, Sew Crafty has just opened to serve all your yarn and DIY needs.
Located centrally in Houston’s diverse Heights district, Sew Crafty is here to help you make something. Anything. Our classes in sewing, knitting, kids crafts and general DIY projects give beginners to super crafters the chance to learn new skills and have a blast. Drop by to take a class or just sit in our knitting nook and enjoy the company of other just like you. Join us and make something!
Sew Crafty, 3210 White Oak