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WED 04.10.2024
🎨 ARTIST RECEPTION "Visual Arts Alliance: 40th Juried Open Exhibition” 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at The Jung Center Houston (5200 Montrose Blvd., Houston 77006). Juror Kerry Inman of Inman Gallery curated this exhibition now on view thru May 11, 2024.
THU 04.11.2024
🎨 ART OPENING “UHD Student Exhibition 2024” 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM at O’Kane Gallery at the University of Houston Downtown (201 Girard St., 3rd Fl., Houston 77002). The annual exhibition is on view thru May 4, 2024.
🎨 ART EVENT "Art Criticism Discussion Panel” 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at Basket Books + Art (115 Hyde Park Blvd., Houston, 77006). Moderated by art editor Lauren Cross, art critics Raphael Rubinstein and Valentin Diaconov engage in conversation with Constance Collier-Mercado, the winner of the 2023 Beauchamp Prize Art Criticism presented by Gulf Coast, a journal of literary and fine arts.
🎨 CLOSING PARTY "Moon Papas Art: Through the Eras" 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM at Mid Main Gallery (3550 Main St., Houston 77002). The collaborative duo of Julian Luna and Matt Fries work primarily in large playful electronic sculpture, utilizing light, sound, interactive sensors, and a wide array of physical materials including steel, wood, and acrylic.
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FRI 04.12.2024
🎨 RECEPTION "Mami Wata Afrofuturism: 500 Years Back to the [Afro][F]uture" 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Houston Museum of African American Culture (4807 Caroline St, Houston 77004). On view thru June 29, 2024, paintings, photographs, video, and sculpture from seven artists of the African Diaspora envision the future through the lens of the past.
🎨 ART PERFORMANCE “THEY ARE FALLING ALL AROUND ME / Postcards from the Edge of Latent Space” 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University (6100 Main St., Houston 77005). Experience a groundbreaking interactive performance that explores the intersection of image, poetry, and artificial intelligence - the result of a collaboration between poet Nick Flynn, media artist David Rokeby, and curator Natalie Klym.
🎨 ARTIST RECEPTION "Abstract Realities" 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM at Our Texas Cultural Center (2337 Bissonnet St., Houston 77005). Works by Houston-based artists Irene Sheytman and Saida Fagala originally from Baku, Azerbaijan are on view thru May 31, 2024.
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SAT 04.13.2024
🎨 BENEFIT ART AUCTION "Gaza, Tigray, Sudan & Congo" 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Neighbors (3401 Harrisburg Blvd., Suite A, Houston 77003). Nearly 30 artists have organized this fundraising event to use their art, voices and audiences to heighten awareness and provide an actionable step towards providing assistance and awareness for those with little relief and forced to exist within the conflict zones.
🎨 OPENING RECEPTION + ARTIST WALKTHROUGH “James Sterling Pitt: Decoder (Lost Sculpture and a Few Ideas)” 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Seven Sisters Gallery (805 Rhode Pl. Ste 500, Houston 77019). Drawings and sculptural works on view thru May 18, 2024.
🎨 ART OPENINGS + EXHIBITS ON VIEW at Houston's Gallery Row (Colquitt and Lake Streets, Houston 77098):
Note that Avant-Art is between exhibitions and Thornwood Gallery has moved to a new location on Old Katy Rd.
🎨 ART OPENING “Madeleine Dietz: Fragments Earth and Steel” 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Gallery Sonja Roesch (2309 Caroline St., Houston 77004). On view thru June 29, 2024 are sculptures by Madeleine Dietz -- fragments of things that have been uncovered in archaeology, ruins, parts of a whole.
🎨 OPENING RECEPTION “Threads of Time: Brian Kansiime Lister” 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Mitochondria Gallery (2220 Commerce St. #D, Houston 77002). On view thru May 4, 2024 are figurative paintings of women in contemplation by this Ugandan visual artist.
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SUN 04.14.2024
🎨 ART EVENT “Unveiling of Segundo Barrio Mural” 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Villa Arcos (3009 Navigation Blvd., Houston 77003). Join artist Angel Quesada for an unveiling of his latest mural based on the history and culture of food in Houston's Segundo Barrio.
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