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WED 04.17.2024
🎨 ART EVENT "Jazz and Juleps" 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at MFAH Bayou Bend Collection & Gardens (6003 Memorial Dr., Houston 77007). Sip mint julep cocktails under an elegant Southern garden tent, and listen to live music by the Paul Chester Quartet during this enchanting evening outdoors. Tickets $35 ($30 for members) include a drink and access to the historic house and gardens.
THU 04.18.2024
🎨 ART TALK "Christopher Rauschenberg: Studio Photography" 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM at ELLIO Fine Art (3201 Allen Parkway, Ste. 180, Houston 77019). Curator Anne Wilkes Tucker and arts editor Catherine Anspon of Paper City Magazine discuss the artist and his exhibition.
🎨 ARTIST RECEPTION "Tay Butler: A Friendly Game of Basketball" 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Lawndale Art Center (4912 Main St., Houston 77002). On view thru May 18, 2024, this multimedia exhibition presents the artist's research and art engagement with basketball’s racial history and contemporary anti-Black issues through various media, including installation, painting, drawing, photography, collage, music, and performance.
🎨 OPENING RECEPTION "Liz Hingley: The SIM Project" 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Houston Center for Photography (1441 W. Alabama St., Houston 77006). On view thru April 28, 2024, new artworks will be made by Houston residents to add to this collection of SIM-scale artifacts made during workshops in Europe by over 170 participants from countries including Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Ethiopia, and Libya.
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FRI 04.19.2024
🎨 ARTIST RECEPTION “Wildlife Watercolors: Where Art and Nature Unite” 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM in the Cloister Gallery at Christ Church Cathedral, Reynolds Hall (1117 Texas Ave., Houston 77002). On view thru May 20, 2024: Katherine Rodgers displays her paintings of birds and wildlife observed in and around Houston and during her time in Cuba.
🎨 OPENING RECEPTION "Ripple Effect" 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Buffalo Bayou Partnership in Sunset Coffee Building (1019 Commerce St., Ste. 200 Houston 77002). On view thru April 24, 2024, this collective exhibition showcases works by nearly 50 local artists inspired by flora, fauna, and life along the bayou.
🎨 OPENING RECEPTION "Potentia // Actualitas" 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Throughline Collective (3909 Main St., Houston 77002). On view thru May 18, 2024 is this collaborative, immersive installation by Cindee Klement and JR Roykovich.
🎨 PUBLIC OPENING "Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow" 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (5216 Montrose Blvd., Houston 77006). On view thru October 27, 2024, this exhibition features an installation, a video, and a series of commissioned sculptures that continue the artist's decade-long investigation into what it means to call a planet home.
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SAT 04.20.2024
🎨 ARTIST MEET-AND-GREET “Topographies of a Place to Know” 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at Hooks-Epstein Galleries (2631 Colquitt St., Houston 77098). Artist Lorena Morales' mixed-media works are on view thru May 11, 2024.
🎨 ART OPENING “Ping Zheng | Nature’s Canopy” 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Seven Sisters Gallery (805 Rhode Pl. Ste. 500, Houston 77019). On view thru May 18, 2024, the artist's recent works rendered in oil stick on paper take viewers on a hypnotically radiating journey through sunlit valleys, hills, cascading waterfalls, and into the night sky.
🎨 ART EVENT "Spring '24 Block Party + Exhibits Closing Reception" 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Art League Houston (1953 Montrose Blvd., Houston 77006). Music by Alexis Pye, Barkada, and Ice House Radio plus local vendors and a last chance to see exhibitions by Krista Chalkley, Alexis Pye, Renata Lucia, and Susana Lewandowski.
🎨 ART SHOW "Black and White Show 8.0" 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Hardy & Nance Studios (902 Hardy St., Houston 77020). One-night-only exhibition of 2D and 3D works in black, white, and all shades of gray.
🎨 ART OPENINGS 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Reeves Art + Design (2415 Taft St., Houston 77006). On view thru May 4, 2024 are five simultaneous solo shows:
- "BAKERZDUZEN: Alter Ego"
- "Alex Paulus: All I have to do is live until I die"
- "Evan Pardue: Warnings"
- "Kevin Gilmore: Lonely Family Reunion"
- "Tyra J: Celestial Origins- A Multiverse of Worlds and Souls"
🎶 LIVE MUSIC "Jeff Black" 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM at Abrams House Concerts (2017 W. Main St. Houston 77098). Also check out Black's performance at Anderson Fair on Friday, April 19, 2024. Support live music!
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SUN 04.21.2024
🎨 ART EVENT "It Came From the Bayou Print Fair" 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Saint Arnold Brewing Company (2000 Lyons Ave., Houston 77020). Printmakers from across the country descend upon Houston during this annual print fair held every April. Don't miss the "Poster Show" at Mid Main Gallery on Saturday, April 20, 2024 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
🎨 ART EVENT "Spring Festival: New Beginnings" 1;00 PM to 5:00 PM at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1001 Bissonnet St., Houston 77005). Food, fun, art and music for all ages -- FREE!
🎨 ART OPENING "Sheila Forde & Tuomas Korpijaakko" 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at F Gallery (4225 Gibson St., Houston 77007). On view thru May 26, 2024, this two-person exhibition features paintings, both hard and soft, punk and emotional.
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