EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW January 12, 2013 – February 16, 2013

DISTURBANCE OF DISTANCE Curated by Kimberly Aubuchon of San Antonio in all four BOX Spaces

You’re invited to BOX 13 ArtSpace’s annual fundraiser on Saturday, May 4, 2013, 7-9:30 PM! Come celebrate our fifth anniversary of providing affordable studio spaces to artists and showcasing exciting exhibition opportunities in the Houston art scene. The Empty BOX offers collectors and art lovers the opportunity to peruse and acquire amazing art donated by local, national and international artists. We’d love for you to come by, enjoy a beer (sponsored by Saint Arnold’s), some light snacks (from El Tiempo Cantina) and quality art!

An online preview will be made available to the public on Monday, April 29. Early bidding will run from April 29 to May 4; please email us at box13artspace@gmail.com if you’d like to make a bid!

The silent auction includes works from past and present members of BOX 13 ArtSpace, as well as artists from across the nation.

The Poor Man’s Raffle ($5) allows one to enter the raffle at a low cost and win a prime work of art by a current BOX 13 artist.

Entering the Mystery BOX ($25) guarantees a piece of art.

Save the date now and stay tuned for more updates and early bidding! Donating artists to The Empty Box 2013: Year of the BOX! include:

Kelly Alison, Sterling Allen, Kimberly Aubuchon, Debra Barrera, Daniel Bertalot, Elaine Bradford, Karen Braiser-Young, Tim Brown, Erika Buentello, Michelle Chen-Dubose, Thedra Cullar-Ledford, Paige Davidson, Anthony Day, Jeremy DePrez, Sasha Dela, Kent Dorn, Monica Foote, Tim Gonzales, Nathan Green, Casey Arguelles Gregory, Tommy Gregory, Quinn Hagood, Dennis Harper, Michael Henderson, Janine Hughes, Kathy Kelley, Kate Kendall, Jonathan Leach, Cody Ledvina, Emily Link, David McClain, Jennifer McNichols, Mauricio Menjivar, Rahul Mitra, Tudor Mitroi, Seth Mittag, Rex Mohammad, Kia Neill, Gissette Padilla, JoAnn Park, Justin Parr, Emily Peacock, Kristy Peet, Kristy Perez, Mark Ponder, Ariane Roesch, Jenny Schlief, Hana Shoup, Alyssa Stephens, J. Michael Stovall, Annie Strader, Alonso Tapia, Ben Terry, Sandy Tramel, Mike Venable, Monica Vidal, Ann Wood, and many more!

A special thanks goes out to our friends at Saint Arnold Brewing Company and El Tiempo Cantina.

4 Exhibitions in conjuncture with the annual NCECA Conference in Houston, TX March 20 – March 23

National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference
Opening Reception Saturday, March 9th, 7-9:30 PM

Inheritance | The Bridge Club
Downstairs Front BOX

Personal Landscapes | Christa Mares, Marianne McGrath, Teruko Nimura
Downstairs Back BOX & Upstairs BOX

BOX 13 is now the host of a world record. a gods eye OUTPOST by KATE KENDALL- in the Installation BOX now holds theWorld Record for WORLD’S LARGEST GOD’S EYE! Check it out on www.recordsetter.com!

I got a gut feeling. –Devo
Do we need distance to get close? –Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City

Exhibition on view January 12 – February 16, 2013
Opening reception Saturday January 12, 2013, 7-9:30 PM
Curatorial statement + artist talks February 16, 2013, 3:00 PM

Disturbance of Distance 3 is the third in a continuing series of juried exhibitions connecting Houston to the surrounding arts communities. This round of Disturbance of Distance brings together artists from the Houston and San Antonio areas, curated by Kimberly Aubuchon, Director of Unit B (Gallery) in San Antonio.

Curatorial statement: When choosing the artists for Disturbance of Distance 3 there was no running theme in mind. The only objective was to use my gut and create a visual dialogue between two somewhat distant art communities.  However, as a curator who generally works with a theme, I couldn’t help contemplate the annual show title Disturbance of Distance, and “distance” as a curatorial problem to investigate.  During studio visits and conversations with the artist’s, connections and references to “distance” were evident — the distance between, distance from, separation in time, spatial remoteness, emotional separation, psychological separation, and aesthetic distance.  While not all of these notions may be obvious, you’ll note subtle references throughout the exhibition.

Disturbance of Distance 3 features work by Holly & Bryson Brooks (SAT), Christina Carfora (HOU), Nate Cassie (SAT), Monica Foote (HOU), Janine Hughes (HOU), Nyssa Juneau (HOU), Melinda Laszczynski (HOU), Más Rudas Collective (SAT), Kia Neill (HOU), Justin Parr (SAT), Kristy Perez (SAT), David Politzer (HOU), Preetika Rajgariah (HOU), Jeremiah Teutsch (SAT), Ethel Shipton (SAT), Gary Sweeney (SAT).

Opening Reception November 3rd, 2012, 7-9:30 PM

radioactive Pal? – Pal, radioactive | Bill Conger & Adam Farcus
Downstairs Front BOX

Transitory Spaces | Gissette Padilla & H. Jennings Sheffield
Downstairs Back BOX

Goodnight Theory | Trish Ramsay
Window BOX

Oleo | David McClain
Upstairs BOX

Houston, Texas – BOX 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present four exhibitions opening November 3rd, 2012, 7 – 9:30PM. In the Downstairs Front BOX, Bill Conger and Adam Farcus share familiarity through the use of readymades and poems in radioactive Pal? Pal, radioactive.  Gissette Padilla and H. Jennings Sheffield’s Transitory Spaces builds a psychological space with fabric and projections in the Downstairs Back BOX.  The Window BOX holds the installation of Trish Ramsay’s dreamy formal investigations in Goodnight Theory, and the Upstairs BOX displays David McClain’s new paintings of Oleo.

The exhibitions continue through December 15th, 2012.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 3rd, from 7 – 9:30PM at BOX 13 ArtSpace, 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77011.

Downstairs Front BOX

Taken as an exchange between two people, radioactive Pal? -Pal, radioactive proposes a simple question, “Are you afflicted?” and a delicate response, “My friend, I am.” The repetition and symmetry of this line delineates how a poetic structure can emphasize the complex cultural functions intrinsic to words and signs. In poetry, the goal is to present a large amount of affect in the most simple manner. This dialog, borrowed from John Berryman’s Dream Song #51, sets up a structure for the conversation in and between the work of Bill Conger and Adam Farcus.

The Dream Songs, which loosely adapt the structure of minstrel shows, use the vehicles of the interlocutor and end man as dual psychological composites for Berryman himself. Their relationship in this debased early American art form was for the end man through punctuating interaction to add comic relief to the interlocutor’s situation. Within Conger and Farcus’ individual works, and in relationship to each other, they often employ simplicity and playfulness, which counter and re-emphasize their ecstatic aspirations. Conger and Farcus do not support the racist origins which Dream Songs were produced out of, but rather are interested in how Berryman’s character, Henry, marries emotional strife to seemingly simple language. In analogous associative moves, Conger and Farcus utilize familiar objects to attend to the person and majestic. In these pieces, rigid structures like abstraction, geometry and repetition isolate the hidden romanticism, inherently present in everyday materials.

Bill Conger is an artist who uses a myriad of readymade materials to assist in the production of his work. He describes himself as a frustrated synthesis of painter, sculptor and poet. Conger’s work has been exhibited throughout the US as well as in Poland, Ireland, Germany, New Zealand, and Austria. His work deftly engaged in strategies of collection, appropriation and curation, all the while paying quiet homage to the Duchampian Readymade and Proustian notions of memory.

Adam Farcus carries at least one lucky penny in his left pocket at all times. It might not actually bring him luck but, as a site of potential energy, it does make him feel better. The art he creates in his creative practice are equally imbued with an internal power. He currently lives and works in Baltimore, MD, where he co-directs an alternative art space named 500.500.100. His work has been exhibited at the Gallery 400, Chicago; University Galleries,
Normal, IL; Hyde Part Arts Center, Chicago; Columbia College’s A+D Gallery, Chicago; The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; and the Miami Bridge Art Fair, Miami. He has also lectured on his work at numerous venues, including The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Performance Studies International 16 conference. Adam received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA from Illinois State University, and AA from Joliet Junior College.

Downstairs Back BOX

Transitory Spaces: The collaborative work of Gissette Padilla and H. Jennings Sheffield investigates the idea of time and physical and psychological space through light and projections.  Their work explores different facets of perceived spaces and layered images.  Padilla creates the physical space utilizing vertical strips of translucent fabric that hang from the ceiling and screen prints layered images and patterns onto the fabric.  These patterns represent the noise and static that is created in the mind as if to fill in the gaps of a memory.  Sheffield then projects videos and sound of re-contextualized personal memories and appropriated family imagery onto the fabrics.  The multiple projections of imagery and sound overlap and distort the visual space.  The projected imagery begins to fill in the missing information and characters in Padilla’s created spaces and joint moments in time are created.  Upon entering the space, the viewer is encompassed by the projections and asked to walk around and explore the space. As the viewer interacts with the created space and characters, they too become part of the memory.

Gissette Padilla was born in Coro, Falcon, Venezuela. She moved to Houston, Texas, at the age of 8. She received her BFA from The University of Houston in 2008 and her MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2011. Her works consist of a combination of drawing, painting, and various printmaking techniques. Her work has been exhibited in a number of juried and group exhibitions in Houston, San Antonio, Boston, Kentucky, Sequin, and Austria.

H. Jennings Sheffield received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1996 and her MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2011. She is an international artist with her latest work exhibiting in the following shows: Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston Texas; Pride, Protest and Plains, Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas Texas; The Billboard Art Project, Atlanta, Georgia; Intimacy & Voyeurism: 2012 SPE Women’s Caucus, The A R T S at C I I S, San Francisco, California; Luminaria, San Antonio, Texas; Red Dot, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas; Breaking Boundaries II, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; Rust Fest, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio; and What Do You Really Need?, Medien Kultur Haus Wels, Austria.

Window BOX

Goodnight Theory is an installation generated from blind contour drawings Trish Ramsay began during an artist’s residency in Finland.  Ramsay likens her process to automatic writing. Working with empty cups, jars, and plastic containers as subjects, she creates loose and spontaneous forms. Paired down to contoured and implied volumes, then sewn onto Mylar, these drawn objects become something entirely new, defying organization and creating a wilderness of form. Ramsay uses pliant materials such as thread, wire, plastic and wool to explore spatial tension between flat and dimensional, drawn and constructed, playing upon how the works read as image, drawing, object or environment.

Trish Ramsay teaches Metals and Jewelry at Lone Star College in Montgomery, TX. From 2002-2008, she was Assistant Professor of Art and coordinator of the Metals area at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Her artistic research has led her to work in Kiryu, Japan as a visiting artist and in Fiskars, Finland, where, during a two month residency, she studied Finnish Design and Feltmaking near the arctic circle. Ramsay’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is part of the Georgia World Congress Center Collection in Atlanta, GA. Her work is included in “We Knit Graffiti” and in “100 Felt Objects”, both forthcoming from Lark Books. Ramsay received her BFA from University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, and MFA from Syracuse University.

Upstairs BOX

Oleo is a generic term for any margarine or spread marketed as a butter substitute.  In its natural state oleo is a white or near-white emulsion but yellow food coloring can be added to make it more palatable (the term margarine comes from the ancient Greek — a loose translation of “pearl”).

In the United States, oleomargarine was widely marketed as an affordable, “progressive” alternative to butter. Oleo remains inextricably tied in my mind to its class connotations.  Advertisements from the mid-sixties (when my mother was shopping for our family of 12) made it clear that oleomargarine was “every bit as good” as butter, but only a fraction of the price. I have only one distinct memory of shopping with my mother at a supermarket when I was about six years old.  I remember seeing the pure, rich butter on the shelves, next to the lighter oleomargarine we always bought.  I asked if we could try butter instead, and my normally docile mother gave me a sharp look.  We were an Oleo family.  Butter was luxury and we were a space age family on a budget. Oleo is where it all started to go wrong for me.

David McClain is a Houston-based artist whose work has been exhibited in Texas, New Mexico and Illinois and published in art and literary journals in the United States and Germany. He holds his BA from Rice University, and MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and a JD from the University of Houston.  McClain is currently the artist in residence at the Houston Community College Southeast.

in the INSTALLATION BOX

Claim your Cave! Closing/Deconstruction Party September 22, 2012 1-4pm

The magical, mesmerizing and beloved “cave” series of installations is coming to an end. The “cave” series taken on multiple forms throughout many exhibitions: starting at Diverseworks Art Space, reinventing itself at Lawndale Art Center and BOX 13 ArtSpace in Houston, and Women & Their Work Gallery in Austin. Come celebrate the final moments of “Boulder”, the last of the cave series, in all its sparkly glory as we break it open! Eye protection recommended.

Whether you are able to attend the Saturday breaking or not, please reserve your piece of the cave via PayPal. There are probably no more than 30 sections available, so reserve yours today! Saturday, Kia will be selling sections of the cave as well as other memoirs of the work. Cash, check or charge. General pricing:

• Basic cave tile (approx. 2′x3′): $50
• Larger cave tile (approx. 2′x3′x3′): $100
• Christmas lights: $2
• 12×18 digital photo prints: $25
• Various CD crystal sculptures will be available at event.

Please inquire about larger custom installations, such as a large cave section to fill the ceiling of your foyer or dining room.

Opening Reception September 8th, 2012, 7 – 9:30PM

1 Way, Then Another - Karl Erickson & Andrew Falkowski
Downstairs Front BOX

Systematic Life - Kristy Peet & Christopher Tuttoilmondo-Holmes
Downstairs Back BOX

A Proverbial Supercluster - Karen Brasier-Young
Window BOX

Note to Self - Benjamin Terry
Upstairs BOX

Houston, Texas – BOX 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present four exhibitions opening September 8th, 2012, 7 – 9:30PM. In the Downstairs Front BOX 1 Way, Then Another showcases Karl Erickson’s & Andrew Falkowski’s existential and psychedelic works. Kristy Peet & Christopher Tuttoilmondo-Holmes present their collaborative photographs in the Downstairs Back BOX. Karen Brasier-Young outfits the Window BOX with an eclectic installation in A Proverbial Supercluster. In the Upstairs BOX, Benjamin Terry shows a series of paintings in Note to Self.

The exhibitions continue through October 13th, 2012.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 8th from 7 – 9:30PM
at BOX 13 ArtSpace, 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77011.

Upstairs BOX

Benjamin Terry’s work in Note to Self escapes the confines of naturalism and flirts with ideas of abstraction. Working with memory, fantasy, dreams and time, duplicated figures create narrative sequences that reflect on internal conflict, self-doubt, ulterior motives and emotional trauma. The complexity of relationships with loved ones serves as a constant resource for narrative content. Like a memory or dream, parts of those stories become blurred or fragmented, and the original thought is always transformed. Each painting’s evolution, whether through multiplicity, incompleteness or obliteration implies that the subjects are odd fragments of a half-forgotten memory.

Benjamin Terry is an artist working in Denton, TX. He is currently completing his MFA in Drawing and Painting at the University of North Texas. Terry received his BFA from UNT in 2010. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions throughout Texas. He has been featured in New American Paintings and recently received the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Grant from the Dallas Museum Award. He is currently working as a Teaching Fellow at the University of North Texas, teaching beginning drawing and figure drawing classes.

Window BOX

A Proverbial Supercluster is a site-specific installation consisting of hanging conglomerations of familiar found objects-showing a curatorial favoritism toward light fixtures. The parameters of this project are the polar locations of an iconic, vernacular, storefront display context (the Window Box) and the abstracted, scientific definition of a supercluster (a group of galaxies thought to be held together by gravitational pull). In marrying the mysterious intellectual qualities of astronomy with the mundane realities of tangled, messy, very present physical stuff in the detritus of the artist’s life, this installation manifests in woven wires, wrapped cords, suffocated toys-an almost dangerous web of light that hints to the loss and hope of a failed inventor.

Karen Brasier-Young is an interdisciplinary artist based in Houston, TX. She holds a masters degree in architecture from the University of Cincinnati and has also pursued graduate studies in sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute. Fueled by an interest in the conundrums of the built environment, Brasier-Young’s work indirectly explores issues of space, place, interaction, and assemblage from the safe, detached perspective of abstract sculptural practice. She is a resident artist at BOX 13 ArtSpace, loves teaching art as an adjunct instructor at Houston Community College, and pays the bills by day as an architectural and interior designer.

Downstairs Back BOX

Systematic Life is a photographic series that explores physical, bodily systems. There are so many components within the human body and time is never taken to appreciate the microscopic clockwork of the many systems that contribute to life. Kristy Peet and Christopher Tuttiolmondo-Holmes attempt to dissect the framework of life in hopes of instigating an acknowledgment for the mystery of each system of the body. Stylized use of light is employed to mimic the wonder and complexity of these unnoticed, everyday processes.

Kristy Peet and Christopher Tuttoilmondo-Holmes are artists living and working in Houston, Texas.  Peet completed her undergraduate work at Austin College and graduated with an MFA in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design, and Tuttoilmondo-Holmes is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in natural science followed by a masters degree in astronomy. Their photographic work deals primarily with psychological issues that stem from personal experiences.  Peet is currently teaching photography at College of the Mainland and is a resident artist at BOX 13 ArtSpace.

Downstairs Front BOX

1 Way, Then Another is about the limits of normal vision, the confusion that comes from having expected sight thwarted and the need to embrace visionary paths for future survival. Karl Erickson and Andrew Falkowski have created a series of works that explore the visual and existential impact of op art, psychedelia and early military camouflage. The works include hard-edge abstract paintings, collages, t-shirts, and latch-hook pillows. The exhibition is the zone between the kinetic and entropic, vision and hallucination.

Karl Erickson is an artist whose interests include psychedelia, language, transcendental experiences, and counter-cultures throughout the ages. His primary media are video, posters, collage and latch-hook rugs and pillows. Currently his work is taking the form of an invocation of the potential for motivational sloganeering to effect real transformation and possibly even transcendence in the form of a hyper-kinetic combination of references.

Andrew Falkowski received a BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1995, an MA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1999, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, in 2003. Selected solo shows include Remain in Light  at Illinois State University in Norma, Illinois, and New Paintings at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica, California. Andrew Falkowski lives and works in Chicago.

The photographers in Domestica Dentata, operating separately in Chicago but with roots in Russia, Israel and Serbia, explore the domestication of the toothed vagina, the domestication of the castration anxiety Freud found so pervasive, and the domesticity of the terrible.

Anna Shteynshleyger’s MFA is from Yale and she recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship and currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The MFAH currently has one of her photos on display and the New York Times recently gave her a very favorable write-up.

Daniel Bauer received his MFA from Columbia University and has exhibited widely, including at Kunst Werke, Berlin; Malmo Konsthaal; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY; Tokyo Wonder Site; Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY.

Irena Knezevic is a Serbian artist whose one person projects and performances have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ThreeWalls, Chicago; White Columns, New York; MIT; Harvard University; Northwestern University; University of Pennsylvania; Wellesley College; Jan Van Eyck Academie, Netherlands and Illinois State Galleries. Collaborations have occurred at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She has a MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago and her last show was reviewed in ArtForum (ARTFORUM review of Here Comes The Darkness by Claudine Ise, December 2011).

On view January 21 – February 25, 2012
Opening reception January 21, 7-9:30pm

A curatorial talk led by Annie Strader and Matthew C. Weedman will be held Saturday, February 18th at 3pm.

Luminous
Kristen Beal, Tobias Fike, Chris Lavery, Stephen V. Martonis, Rick Silva, Annie Strader and Matthew C. Weedman
Curated by Annie Strader and Matthew C. Weedman
Downstairs Front, Back, Window and Upstairs BOXes

Light is the original technology. Light simultaneously reveals the history of the universe, while prompting the question, what is this thing we call history? Light’s material qualities can be shaped to fit our aesthetic needs and desires while unwaveringly feeding the very biological essence of life itself.

Artists require two things at all times, inspiration and tools, light consistently fulfills both of these necessities. From Vermeer’s bending of light through lenses to pull never before seen exactness from his subjects, to Monet’s obsessive use of light’s direct retinal stimulation in order to capture never before seen colors of the “moment” specific, to ManRay’s burning of light on paper showing a new sense of form and volume, to Bruce Nauman’s exploitation of video and neon tubes proclaiming the “now” of art itself. Throughout history and in contemporary practice light remains a consistent source for artistic inspiration.

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BOX13 Artspace will participate in the 19th Annual ARTCRAWL Houston on November 19, 2011 from 10am to 9pm. Stop by and visit with our resident artists or come late and enjoy the opening of two new exhibitions.

For more information on ARTCRAWL Houston, please visit: www.artcrawlhouston.com

DOWNLOAD THE MAP HERE!

November 19, 2011 – January 7, 2012
Opening reception November 19, 7-9:30pm (during Art Crawl)

A reception for the Dutch artists will be held on Saturday, December 10, 2011
from 6 – 8PM. Panel discussion at 5PM.

Dutch invasiON
Curated by Maria Smits in collaboration with Mrs. J. Bolten-Rempt
with work by Christine Bittremieux, Anna Bolten, Hans de Bruijn, Demiak 
and Jessica Muller

Front & Back BOXes

Dutch invasiON presents the work of five artists living and working in the Netherlands. They are Christine Bittremieux, Anna Bolten, Hans de Bruijn, Demiak (Maarten Demmink) and Jessica Muller. In the variety of their artistic approach one can find one common subject: it is all about space. Every one of them appropriates space in a different way, the outside space, interior space and conceptual space translated into two or three dimensions. This preoccupation with space in and around us is typically Dutch.

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November 19, 2011 – January 7, 2012
Opening reception October 1, 2011, 7-9:30pm

Timothy Harding
Omitted
Window BOX

Omitted is a new work within Timothy Harding‘s on-going series of constructed drawings that explores scribbling and how it is used to omit information. Usually, the artist works in a controlled environment. The acts of concealing and revealing information are, ideally, decided upon by the artist. Whether or not the studio and process work are seen is normally at the discretion of the artist, as well. In review of the documentation of my past construction processes, Harding has become fascinated with his own inherent awkwardness. Harding has captured a number of the awkward positions and interactions that take place throughout construction. This awkwardness exists in stark contrast with the final work seen by the viewer. In a response to the highly controlled image that is normally seen, he has decided to intentionally show the awkward scenarios that are not usually desirable. However, the urge to control has become instinctive and the scribble represents Harding’s tendency to try and hide what he has already presented.

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October 1 – November 5, 2011
Opening reception October 1, 2011, 7-9:30pm

Monica Vidal
Temple Hive
Downstairs Front BOX

Temple Hive is the second in Monica Vidal‘s series of large scale forms whose purpose is to distort the relationship between body and sculpture.  The first, Tumor Hive, represented the enormous emotional impact of an excised lump of cells gone amok.  Temple Hive is inspired by the idiosyncrasies of Vidal’s youth as they linger into hypothetical adulthood.  She was then, as she is now, obsessed with escape, for both body and mind.

Vidal explains, “When I was young we had gold-colored, polyester curtains in our dining room.  They had a dense, abstract pattern and if you stared at them for long enough you saw rows of crouched figures, the heads tucked down and their knees brought up.  At least, if I stared at them long enough, I did.  On weekends I spent my time in a homemade tent of blankets and dining room chairs, tucked away from my rowdy brothers. I liked my space, even if it was just the mini mental vacation provided by picking out the pattern in stippled sunlight through curtains.”

Temple Hive is meant for the act of isolating yourself from the world to contemplate pattern and texture.  It is an ode to sunlight and quilts and calico and brocade, all at once.  It was built from triangles into hexagons-like the cells of honeycombs– and as they spread they also collapse. Vidal created this space for herself and to share.

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October 1 – November 5, 2011

Lisa Choinacky
Reality Is Only A Rorschach Ink-Blot, You Know
Downstairs Back BOX

All of existence can be understood as a relationship. Alan Watts posited that our physical world is a system of inseparable things where everything exists with everything else. In this system of metasystems, each relationship aggregates with many, giving form to the universe. And within this pattern, even the most seemingly disparate of elements ultimately reveal themselves to be conjoined and interwoven. Is it coincidence that the world is made up of undividable opposites? Lisa Choinacky seeks to examine how this relates to that.

In a life-sized Rorschach-esque diorama consisting of plywood and still projections Choinacky explores symmetry, opposites & relationship. Choinacky has collaged together mirror images of basketball players in motion, illustrating that when we accept that the universe runs off a blind energy, this can cause a very insular worldview. We form teams and then we form opponents. The opponents occasionally rise to meet each other in pursuit of the same goal, bifurcating and mirroring one another, each existing because of and for the other.

In layering these images/pieces in a space, Choinacky aims to work towards total awareness of connectedness and order, while demystifying the idea of the cosmic fluke. She has chosen to identify and explore sites of mirroring and convergence to highlight the relationship points that bind us, and the universe, together.

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October 1 – November 5, 2011

Krista Birnbaum
NEW GROWTH
Window BOX

NEW GROWTH uses artificial plants to reference the forms that living plants take around the Houston area. Inspirational forms range from the manicured to the overgrown. When Krista Brinbaum moved to Houston, she was struck by the carefully shaped plants and hedges fitting neatly inside fences or trimmed to enhance a brick wall. Meanwhile, posts and buildings in neglected areas sprout wild green hair-dos.

Birnbaum’s work is motivated by a desire to understand my own relationship with nature. She finds new impetus for her work when confronted with an unfamiliar landscape. These unfamiliar encounters force her to find new explanations for her simultaneous desires to both be unified with and in control of nature.

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October 1 – November 5, 2011

Jed Foronda & Emily Link
False Face High
Upstairs BOX

False Face High is a series of new work from Jed Foronda and Emily Link. Through installation, sculpture and 2D works, Foronda and Link articulate shared cultural apprehensions in tandem.

Jed Foronda’s work is influenced by notions of identity through personal history and daily observations. These ideas are portrayed through an array of unconventional sources to the viewer. Emily Link works to expand upon existing myths and legends to create another dimensional layer that stems from her experiences. In these legends, she acts as Shaman; the expert of their origins. Link’s work is part of an ongoing series of works dedicated to the excavation and reinterpretation of personal narratives through the employment of soft sculpture forms and recurring characters, illustrative drawings, and hand-crafted artifacts.

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August 6 – September 10, 2011
Downstairs Front BOX
Sentition
Joe Meiser

“Our human perceptions and faculties are limited, allowing us only a partial understanding of the world around us. Many of our questions about the true nature of things cannot be answered conclusively, and yet, humans have a fantastic tradition of explaining the unknown. These explanations can offer us comfort, and can make it possible to be at ease with a world which might otherwise overwhelm us. The human tendency to mythologize is both the subject and strategy of my work-while analyzing our compulsion to create metaphysical narratives, I simultaneously weave my own.

“Our physical bodies are limited and impermanent, and in humanity I observe a universal desire to transcend these limitations, whether it is through the cultivation of metaphysical beliefs, or the modification and augmentation of the physical body. The body feels quite permanent to its owner, but it is actually a temporary material object. Each owner of a body is well acquainted with, and necessarily bound up in the physical. My interest in sculpture is connected with my acute awareness of the physicality of my existence. Sculpture provides a means for me to solidify my thoughts materially, with a broad range of motions that are often physically challenging.

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August 6 – September 10, 2011
Downstairs Back BOX
Response
Culture Laboratory in collaboration with Noah Simblist

Artist and writer, Noah Simblist, has offered a statement to the members of Culture Laboratory Collective: ”I am writing this (self reflexive) sentence but it is writing you.” In “Response” the artists have each taken a word from the statement and developed art, interpreting and elaborating on their fragment of the sentence.

The exhibition pinpoints the individuality of the participating artists and their localized attempts to remain part of the larger group discussion, while inversely opening the artist community to influence from an outside source.  The exhibit allows multiple interpretations and relational aesthetics, favoring the complexity of individuation and community vitality over homogenization.

A version of “Response” in collaboration with Ben Lewis of “Art Safari,” London, was held at Richland College, Dallas in early 2011. The success of the exhibit prompted another collaborative effort to further explore the discourse and relation of object to context.

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August 6 – September 10, 2011
Window BOX
Trigger
Jonathan C. Leach

As we drive on highways through the city, the blur of the surrounding landscape becomes streamlined and unnoticed with the exception of bold adverts and vibrant warning signs.  The signs that caution and direct us instill a confidence in us that guides us on a path as natural as if were hiking on a trail through the woods. This installation is inspired by the impulses triggered within us by these roadside patterns and colors. I exploit this vibrant visual language to guide the viewer through the work, but the way I construct the painting allows that direction to be questioned and subverted.

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August 6 – September 10, 2011
Upstairs BOX
Nohegan East

Nohegan East 2011 is supported in part by The Idea Fund!

June 18 – July 23, 2011
Downstairs Front BOX
Not Tourists
Dumitru Gorzo & Tudor Mitroi

Not Tourists intends to focus on people and places as an expression of the complexity of human experience. Gorzo’s work focuses on people as they relate to a variety of places and the artist’s relationship with them. Mitroi’s work constructs places based on maps, found geographies and imagery of both personal and historical significance, such as those of air raids over Romania during WW2.

Gorzo’s paintings focus on people: those he has seen around him (peasants from his ancient native village, or anonymous inhabitants of big cities like Bucharest, Istanbul, or New York), as well as those from the pages of Romanian art and history, old and new. Mitroi explores places in his paintings that become objects with irregular contours based on a variety of sources. They are containers that condense personal experiences into maps combining disparate locations, the randomness of the immediate environment, and personal and historical imagery.

Both artists are aware of their status: at once participants and spectators to different cultures, trapped between mainstream and periphery, past and present.

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June 18 – July 23, 2011
Downstairs Back BOX
The Clearing
Joey Fauerso

“Over the last few years I have become interested in the dominant themes of Romanticism in the literary and visual arts, and how these themes, including nature, imagination, erotic love, and the development of self, are influenced and in many cases defined by gender. A lot of my work attempts to re-frame the historical gendering of nature as feminine. In a recent series of watercolors on paper, anthropomorphized landscapes depict intimate acts of dominance and submission, dissolving the boundaries between “male” and “female” “inside” and “outside”.

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June 18 – July 23, 2011
Window BOX
Jenny Schlief Stock Photography: From the Woman Series
Jenny Schlief

Jenny Schlief Stock Photography is an ongoing project where Jenny Schlief assumes the role of the identity-less models in everyday situations sold for companies to use in a variety of promotional uses. This particular series is based on a search in shutterstock and istockphoto called “fun woman.” The photos will be available on flash drive and online through these websites. Photography by Jenny Antill.

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June 18 – July 23, 2011
Upstairs BOX
Gawd parents: I am real.
Cody Ledvina

“I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I love the Views’ ‘Hot Topics’. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition.

“Invention, movement, entertainment, sincere excitement about life, sincere confusion about meaning, and competition are major themes as well.”

- Cody Ledvina

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Houston Arts Alliance, American Association of Museums (AAM), PODS Houston and Discovery Green present the Portable On Demand Art Project (PODA). The P.O.D.A. Project is a temporary public art exhibition featuring the work of Aerosol Warfare, BOX 13 ArtSpace, Jillian Conrad, The Joanna, Lynne McCabe, Gabriel Martinez, Metalab, and Anthony Shumate. Each artist or collective of artists has uniquely transformed a PODS® container into a work of art.

Created in conjunction with the 2011 American Association of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo™ and in partnership with PODS Houston, the City of Houston, Discovery Green and the Houston Arts Alliance, the P.O.D.A. project provides a non-traditional platform for artists to explore the cultural, ecological, political, scientific and socio-economic forces shaping Houston’s aspirations for the future, and showcases our city as a vibrant arts and cultural capital and museum mecca for locals and visitors alike.

The P.O.D.A. Project was first revealed on May 19, 2011 at Discovery Green and after six weeks at the park the containers were moved to six Neighborhood Centers, Inc. locations throughout Houston through the end of 2011. The P.O.D.A. Project is generously funded by PODS Houston and a grant from the City of Houston’s Special Initiative Grant Program through the Houston Arts Alliance and Houston Museum District Association.

For more information, please visit www.portableondemandartproject.com.

BOX of Curiosities Venues:

Discovery Green
Cleveland-Ripley Neighborhood Center
Ripley House Neighborhood Center
Friendswood Public Library
Houston Fine Art Fair
University of Houston

Texas Biennial 2011 at BOX 13 Artspace
Exhibition on view at BOX 13 April 9 – May 21, 2011
Reception April 30, 7:00-9:30pm

BOX 13 ArtSpace is proud to partner with the Texas Biennial by hosting 2011 selected artists Cassandra Emswiler, Laurie Frick, Tim Harding, Olivia Moore and Brad Tucker.

For the complete list of TX★11 artists, please visit www.texasbiennial.org

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DiverseWorks is using RED WHITE YELLOW to present two days of live internet broadcasted performances from all over the world.

April 29, 2011 from 7-10pm
April 30, 2011 from 2-5pm
See the schedule here

All performances will be recorded and on view through May 21, 2011

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Save the date for The Empty Box, BOX 13′s annual fundraiser, Saturday, March 12, 2011, 7-9:30pm at BOX 13 Artspace, 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77011. Artist works up for raffle include BOX 13 members and friends at $50 per ticket, or or try your luck at the poor man’s raffle for $5. All proceeds benefit exhibitions and programs at BOX 13 Artspace.

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Disturbance of Distance 2
Curated by Charles Dee Mitchell

MARY BENEDICTO, Dallas
VAL CURRY, Dallas
BRIAN JONES, Dallas
DANIEL MCFARLANE, Houston
BRIAN SCOTT, Dallas
SUNNY SLIGER, Dallas
BONNIE YOUNG, Houston

Exhibition on view January 15- February 19, 2011
Opening Reception January 15, 7:00-9:30pm
with a performance by Binary Sound Machine
Curator and artist’s talk February 19, 3:00pm

Disturbance of Distance 2 is the second in a continuing series of juried exhibitions connecting Houston to the surrounding arts communities. This round, Disturbance of Distance brings together artists from the Houston and Dallas areas, curated by Charles Dee Mitchell. For this exhibition, Mitchell looked for artists working in a “superabundant mode,” and this promises to be an over-the-top exhibition.

Disturbance of Distance 2 features work by Mary Benedicto, Val Curry, Brian Jones, Daniel McFarlane, Brian Scott, Sunny Sliger and Bonnie Young.

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November 13- December 16, 2010

What We’re Up To – BOX13 Member Show

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September 18 – October 21, 2010
Downstairs Front BOX and Window Box

I Am Immortal I Have Inside Me Blood of Kings

Carlos Rosales Silva

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September 18 – October 21, 2010
Downstairs Back BOX

A Close Distance

Rebecca Finley

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September 18 – October 21, 2010
Upstairs BOX

Techno Cumbia

Debra Barrera and Lauren Moya Ford

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September 18 – October 21, 2010
BOX Stairwell

Sounds for Stairs – Lina Dib

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July 24 – August 19, 2010
Downstairs Front BOX

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July 24 – August 19, 2010
Downstairs Back BOX

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July 24 – August 19, 2010
Window BOX

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July 24 – August 19, 2010
Upstairs BOX

July 24 – August 19, 2010
Around the BOX

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Opening Reception Saturday, September 18, 7:00-9:30pm
Exhibitions on view September 18 – October 21, 2010
Open Saturdays, 1-5pm and by appointment

Downstairs Front BOX and Window Box:
I Am Immortal I Have Inside Me Blood of Kings- Carlos Rosales Silva

Downstairs Back BOX:
A Close Distance - Rebecca Finley

Upstairs BOX:
Techno Cumbia - Debra Barrera and Lauren Moya Ford

BOX Stairwell:
Sounds for Stairs – Lina Dib

May 15- June 17, 2010
Downstairs BOX

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May 15- June 17, 2010
Window BOX

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May 15 – June 17, 2010
Upstairs BOX

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May 15- June 17, 2010
The Kenmore Icebox

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May 15- June 17, 2010
Red White Yellow

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May 2, 2008
The Green Box
The Green Box presents “800 Meters” a video installation by Kim Cook
The Green Box is an exhibition space inside Box13 ArtSpace with an emphasis on new media and video projects.
Kim Cook is a graduating senior at Sam Houston State University. She will receive her BFA in Studio Art in May and attend the San Francisco Art Institute this fall for graduate study. In “800 Meters” Cook uses video projections and sound to recreate a meditative experience achieved through repetitive actions.

March 13- April 15, 2010
Downstairs and Upstairs BOXes

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March 13- April 15, 2010
Closet BOX

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March 13- April 15, 2010
Red White Yellow

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March 13 – April 15, 2010
The Kenmore Icebox

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January 16- February 18, 2010
Downstairs BOX

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January 16- February 18, 2010
Upstairs BOX

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January 16- February 18, 2010
Closet BOX

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November 14 – December 17, 2009
Downstairs Front BOX, Back BOX, Upstairs BOX and Window BOX

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November 14 – December 17, 2009
Closet BOX

Jonathan Clark has found the realms of art and nature to be a places that have no boundaries. He believes nature evolves around a point of endless possibilities as it grows and adapts to its own environment. Art can be a direct response to nature’s wonder. The Golden Spiral is a mystical shape that is an absolute in both abstract mathematics and chaotic nature. The Golden Spiral is one of nature’s most magnificent blueprints; its geometry, with its harmonious proportions, is found in Art, Architecture, Music, Mathematics, and Science. The Phythagoreans loved this shape for they found it everywhere in nature: the Nautilus Shell, Ram’s horns, milk in coffee, the face of a Sunflower, your fingerprints, our DNA, and the shape of the Milky Way.

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November 14 – December 17, 2009
The Green Box

David Waddell presents his latest endeavors in stop-motion animation, which include a robotic moving species. Pulled out of a collaged world which has been pieced together from a range of magazine images, these subjects come to life by mimicking actions of living organisms found in this world. The viewer is confronted with both old and new technologies that describe cultural views of evolution, monstrosity and the unfamiliar. The images are pared down to botanical and specie studies and recontextualized with the help of slide projections of environment in combination with a wall installation.

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September 19 – October 22, 2009
Downstairs Front BOX

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September 19 – October 22, 2009
Downstairs Back BOX

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September 19 – October 22, 2009
Upstairs BOX

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September 19 – October 22, 2009
Window BOX

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September 19 – October 22, 2009
Closet BOX

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September 19 – October 22, 2009
The Green Box

The Green Box presents a series of works by Barna Kantor, a 2005 MFA graduate of the University of Texas Transmedia Program. Kantor combines video technology with other electronic gadgetry to produce projections and kinetic sculptures. The camera is one piece of equipment he does not use. The videos and moving images in this exhibition are made by a deft manipulation of the technology itself. Kantor is interested in watching our own visual process: the way we process visual data. He is searching for the fastest loop between ‘the way we see’ and ‘what we see’. His goal is to short the visual cortex through the ultimate seizure.

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July 18 – August 20, 2009
Downstairs Front BOX

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July 18 – August 20, 2009
Downstairs Back BOX

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July 18 – August 20, 2009
Upstairs BOX

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July 18 – August 20, 2009
Window BOX

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May 23 – June 25, 2009
Downstairs Front BOX

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May 23 – June 25, 2009
Downstairs Back BOX

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May 23 – June 25, 2009
Upstairs BOX

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May 23 – June 25, 2009
Window BOX

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May 23 – June 25, 2009
The Green Box

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March 28 – April 30, 2009
Downstairs BOXes

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May 23 – June 25, 2009
The Green Box

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January 17 – February 19, 2009
Upstairs and Downstairs BOXes

HANA HILLEROVA, Houston
LESLIE MUTCHLER, Austin
JENNIFER PRICHARD, Austin
Skote: JILL PANGALLO, Austin and ALEX WHITE, New York
EMILY SLOAN, Houston
GABRIELA TRZEBINSKI, Houston
Curated by Eleanor L. Williams

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January 17 – February 19, 2009
The Green Box

Austin Video Bee is a multimedia video collective based in Austin, Texas that seeks to promote experimental and innovative pieces and to be an integral part of the vital Austin arts community. Seven of the members of AVB have mined the history of performance art to find works that they felt were not “alive” or available to newer generations of artists and audiences. They each “re-performed” the work of an artist they admired and created video documentation of their performances. Stringing these documentation videos together becomes analogous to a game of “telephone,” where our potential misunderstanding of what the performance originally was becomes a generative process, like covers of songs that retain the essential qualities of the original but become something new in the process.

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November 15 – December 1, 2008

WRETCHED LITTLE BRITIONS present ANTI-HEROES, a group exhibition of six London based artists.

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September 27 – October 25, 2008
DOWNSTAIRS BOXes

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September 27 – October 25, 2008
Upstairs BOX

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September 27 – October 25, 2008
Green Box

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BOX Office

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May 17, 2008

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May 2, 2008

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May 2, 2008
Color, whimsy, psychological tension, and a penchant for the vaguely irreverent punctuate this group of painters completing the University of Houston Painting Block program under the tutelage of Rachel Hecker and Al Souza. Visitors can expect to see everything from confectionery installations to experimental suburban landscapes and graffiti inspired sculpture to paintings of dewy-eyed sexpots and the delicately geriatric.

Graduating seniors include: Jessica Childers, Elizabeth Fowler, Tim Garcia, Cameron Kolaja, Scott McCombs, Megan O’Brien, JoAnn Park, Alexandra Quevedo, Lynn Sanders, Shane Tolbert, and Emily Wetterauer

May 2, 2008
This exhibition is the culmination of the Advanced Sculpture course at the University of Houston. Pieces presented were made to stretch the work spatially (explicit with viewer or particular site), in time (by activating it through motion or use), and/or contextually (how it behaves in the “world”).

Featured artists: Ashley Aichelman, Christa Havican, Brian McCord, Joy Moore Ian Sigley, Alexander Tu, and Anh Vu.

May 2, 2008

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