Persona Euphonia: A Messaging Makeover for Public Art of UHS
So what’s a fitting shape for public art to take, especially in Texas, on the urban campuses of a public institution?
Visual Art
Eclipsed No More: DMA Shines Light on Rare Edward Steichen Murals
In 1913, Agnes Ernst Meyer, the wife of financier Eugene Meyer, Jr., and pregnant with her second child, was out of sorts and unable to make her rounds to the art galleries, where, as a former New York Post reporter on the art beat, she had been dubbed “the Sun Girl” by photographer-gallerists Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Writing to Stieglitz, a brooding Meyer quipped, “I am now your Eclipsed Sun-girl.”
Art Aglow: Light Charmer Electrifies Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
A shop owner flips a switch, sending a few thousand volts through glass tubes bent into the shape of the letters O-P-E-N.
Abstract Horizons: David Aylsworth at Holly Johnson Gallery
“I don’t really have a fixed idea when I start a painting,” says Houston painter David Alysworth.
First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone at the Nasher
Extraordinary examples of handmade stone tools, some of the first aesthetically-conceived objects known to humankind, will be included in the exhibition First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone which opens Jan. 27 at the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Show Up: Michael Golden
“I was like a waiter at a wedding,” Michael Golden laughs, recounting the process of creating some seventy new collages to be exhibited at the Galveston Art Center.
Vincent Falsetta: New Paintings/Sketches 1997-2007 at Conduit Gallery
Anyone who delights in the freshness and immediacy of oil sketches should make a beeline for Conduit Gallery, where the show’s up through Jan. 6.
TX Studio: Jimmy James Canales and Megan Harrison
In her description of her artist/partner, Megan Harrison says Jimmy James Canales is “kinda like a cat. He brings in a dead bird from the yard, and I’m like ‘I can do something with that.’”
Show Up: Nathaniel Donnett
It’s not easy to describe Houston artist Nathaniel Donnett’s studio.
Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s Lawndale Art Center
Lawndale Art Center’s exhibition Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s, on view Jan. 18-March 25, is comprised of approximately 380 works
Tierra. Sangre. Oro.: Rafa Esparza at Ballroom Marfa
An adobe brick archway made by artists Rafa Esparza and Beatriz Cortez reorients and frames the entrance of Ballroom Marfa for the exhibition Tierra. Sangre. Oro., on view through March 18.
Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely: Gabriel Martinez at Blaffer Art Museum
In Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely, on view upstairs at the Blaffer Art Museum through Jan. 27, Gabriel Martinez intervenes in or trespasses onto urban space and the rhetorical and material organizations, constructions, signs and strategies of significations which seek to make sense of and discipline the bodies and materials dispersed there.