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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Amy Lincoln: Sun\, Moon\, Stars
DESCRIPTION:Amy Lincoln presents recent paintings in her second solo exhibition with the gallery. Her laborious acrylic-on-panel depictions of flora and landscapes are at once ravishing and comically surreal. Event will be held at 534 west 24th street. \nLincoln is a committed figurative painter with a bent towards the surreal\, making works that depict the world and then give way to a certain slow-burning abstraction and symbolism. At face value her oeuvre features closely observed representations of plants and other elements of the natural world:  ocean\, sand\, sun\, moon\, clouds\, mountains\, and volcanos. To render these the artist relies on sources ranging from the familiar (Lincoln’s own backyard)\, to the splendid (elaborate botanical gardens)\, to the virtual (images found on the internet)\, adeptly weaving together disparate imagery to create fantastic worlds rooted in the real. \nLincoln’s hard-earned painterly language\, marked by opaque planes of keyed up color\, graphic clarity\, and flattened pictorial space\, brings a somewhat cartoonish quality to each landscape\, highlighting the otherworldliness of the forms depicted and inviting entry into almost alien worlds. Playfulness abounds\, but it is also a smokescreen for a latent\, more complex psychological content. The paintings’ insistence on formal repetition (gently pulsing light gradients and repeating motifs of leaves\, stars\, clouds) asks the viewer to slow down during the experience of looking and take in each compositional twist and turn. Plants take on uncanny anthropomorphic qualities and seem to exert their will on the structure of the image\, competing with and complementing one another as if characters on a stage. This exhibition finds Lincoln deftly threading the needle between the familiar and strange\, beauty and mystery. \n  \nAmy Lincoln received her MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and her BA in Studio Art from the University of California\, Davis. Recent exhibitions include Regina Rex (NY) and Monya Rowe (FL)\, with Sargent’s Daughters (NY) upcoming. She has participated in the Lower Manhattan Swing Space residency\, the Inside Out Art Museum artist residency in Beijing\, as well as the Wave Hill Winter Workspace in NYC. Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic\, The New Criterion\, Two Coats of Paint\, and The Brooklyn Rail\, among other. The artist lives in Glendale\, Queens. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Molly Gochman: Drenched
DESCRIPTION:Molly Gochman \nDrenched  \nMarch 8th through April 21th\, 2018 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, March 8th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm with Artist Talk at 7:00 pm. \nSound Bath lead by Sara Auster: Saturday\, March 10th at 2:30 pm and 6:30 pm. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Molly Gochman’s Drenched which is in conjunction with the FotoFest 2018. This 17th Biennial FotoFest 2018 will run from March 10 to April 22\, 2018 with participating art spaces across the city. Molly Gochman’s Drenched will be on view at Deborah Colton Gallery from March 8 to April 21 with an Opening Reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm on Thursday March 8th\, that includes an Artist Talk and Walk Through the exhibition from 7:00 to 8:00 pm. On Saturday\, March 10th\, at 2:30 pm Sara Auster will lead a sound bath meditation as an enhancement to the exhibition. \nDrenched will combine three bodies of works: Before\, Waterfalls Wept and Surrogates. Alone\, these works represent many different things. Together\, they seek to explore\, in the context of both Houston and India\, the myriad ways water works to build\, destroy\, connect\, devour and grow. \nBefore\, specifically\, is an examination of life in Houston after Hurricane Harvey and in India after the extreme flooding. Harvey was the costliest tropical cyclone on record\, inflicting nearly $200 billion in damage all over Houston. In a four-day period\, it became the wettest storm on record in the country. And the resulting floods inundated hundreds of thousands of homes\, displaced more than 30\,000 people and resulted in 100 deaths. \nMeanwhile\, as a result of heavy monsoon rains that led to flooding in South Asia\, more than 1\,200 people died across India\, Bangladesh and Nepal. Over 40 million people were immediately affected by the devastation\, and 1.8 million children were left out of school — but the numbers continued to grow with time. \nThe images Gochman created for Before are memorials to the emotional loss caused by flooding. She combined images of flood-damaged personal items and parts of homes that became piles of trash with images of fabric\, and transferred them onto aluminum.. \n“All of the images I saw of flooded towns and cities in India depicted brown water — the same color as the water in Houston\, Port Arthur\, Galveston and Rockport. The fabric you see reminds me of the colors of India\, these disasters and of water\,” Gochman said. \nMolly Gochman is an interdisciplinary\, conceptual artist and activist based in New York City. Gochman has exhibited her work at Lincoln Center\, New York; Emily Harvey Foundation/Performa 09\, New York; Deborah Colton Gallery\, Houston; Diverse Works\, Houston; Chashama\, New York; Sara Roney Gallery\, Sydney; Grace Farms\, New Canaan; Barbara Davis Gallery\, Houston; Zilkha Hall\, Houston; Elsewhere\, Greensboro; and other traditional and non-traditional exhibition spaces. Gochman is known for activating public spaces and creating participatory experiences through large and small scale installations. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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SUMMARY:DCG: Looking Back and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:DCG: Looking Back and Beyond \nFebruary 3rd through February 24th \, 2018 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 3rd from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present DCG: Looking Back and Beyond\, a group exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings\, mixed media\, photography\, sculpture and video. As Deborah Colton reaches twenty years of being incorporated in the art business\, she reflects on select exhibitions and highlights since moving back to Houston from Asia in 2000\, including what is important to her today. The exhibition opens Saturday\, February 3rd\, with an Opening Reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \nFrom her first Houston exhibitions in public spaces\, like Two Allen Center supporting the Asia Society’s vision of creating their new building where Colton sponsored major contemporary Asian art exhibitions from Thailand\, China and Japan in October of 2000\, 2001 and 2002…to supporting FotoFest in 2002 by bringing the film Downtown 81 featuring Jean Michel Basquiat to the Angelika Film Center and the accompanying exhibition to a funky art space restaurant in Montrose…\, then going to Summer Street and opening Deborah Colton Gallery in 2004\, which started the revitalization of that area…Colton has always paved the way to help positive things happen for Houston in the future. \nEarlier shows brought video and futuristic Sci-Artists like Suzanne Anker and Michael Rees to Houston in 2004\, at a time when the city was not showing much video or digital interactive works yet\, like in the DCG shows Integrating Digital Consciousness and Touch & Temperature: Art in the Cybernetic Totalism that included pioneers in digital art like Manfred Mohr from Germany and Yael Kanarek and Matthew Barney from New York. In 2005 Colton debuted in Houston “The godfather of American avant-garde cinema”\, Jonas Mekas\, in the solo exhibition Film Framed\, and at the same time started the movement to revere Houston art history through representing the Estate of Suzanne Paul. In 2005 also\, Colton introduced the Warhol Factory’s Ultra Violet to Houston in the New Cartoon exhibition and then gave Ultra Violet a solo exhibition in 2006. September of 2006\, DCG organized and sponsored the historical WORD exhibition which was a fusion of the original conceptual and fluxus artists\, including Jenny Holzer\, Jospeh Kosuth\, John Baldessari\, Lawrence Weiner\, Ben Vautier\, The Art Guys and 22 others. As part of this exhibition\, Colton sponsored the public space installation of Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE billboard that was displayed on I-45 South going into downtown\, which made the statement worldwide that not all of Texas was for war. Shortly thereafter\, Colton helped organized Michael Somoroff’s  Illuminations sculpture to be placed on the Rothko Chapel grounds for several months\, to further support international peace. Being the only gallery in the United States to exhibit at the first Abu Dhabi Art Fair\, this message of promoting international peace prevailed in 2007 and still continues. \nBy 2007 China was expanding rapidly and was in the forefront of international contemporary art. DCG debuted exhibitions and performances from Chinese internationally acclaimed artists like Han Bing\, the Gao Brothers\, XU Yong & YU Na and had major shows in the heat of the Chinese contemporary art movement like China Under Construction. When the Middle East contemporary art scene broke open \, DCG brought exhibitions from this region to Houston\, like Qatar Narratives in 2008 and many exhibitions of cutting edge work from the Middle East and Arab world thereafter. DCG continues to work with many of these artists\, like Houston-based Soody Sharifi and Rania Daniel. Russia’s strong presence in the art scene has been a focus of DCG also\, with the gallery representing top artists Oleg Dou\, Olga Tobreluts and Ivan Plusch. \nTouching on universal spirituality with exhibitions like Visions in the spring of 2017 brought artists like Satish Gupta and Amita Bhatt from India to the gallery. Revering the past\, yet reaching far beyond of us is exemplified by artist like Lowell Boyers\, Angelbert Metoyer and Susan Plum. Exhibiting early feminist artists like Mary Beth Edelson and then provocative work that addresses social issues like Jay Rusovich and Frank Rodick has been part of the gallery programming also. Showing young talent has also always been a priority of the gallery all the way back to the beginnings of artists like Paul Horn\, Jason Villegas and Molly Gochman. Young “Texas talent” like Grayson Chandler debuted this past summer with a “sell out” exhibition. David Frischkorn’s cartoonist Pop super hero art… along with the iconic Daniel Johnston’s work is included in this exhibition also. Noriko & Ushio Shinohara (Cutie & the Boxer) are also part of DCG and have had several exhibitions.. \nSince 2013 especially\, DCG has had a strong focus on Houston establishing Foundations which reveres our city’s artistic roots. The Gallery’s Foundations I which was Suzanne Paul’s PROOF exhibition and Foundations II\, Focus on the 70’s & 80’s this past fall\, including the Foundations Symposium Series exemplifies this. Many of these artists which Deborah Colton Gallery represents are featured in this exhibition\, including Ann Harithis\, Forrest Prince\, Dick Wray\, Jesse Lott\, Sharon Kopriva\, Earl Staley\, Bert Long\, Don Redman\, Virgil Grotfield and Bert L. Long Jr. DCG has the permanent Houston Foundations Room which highlights Suzanne Paul’s photography of the Houston art scene plus excerpts of the video’s Lee Benner captured from the DCG Foundations Symposium Series. Lee Benner’s film Yelling Underwater will be shown on Sunday\, February 18th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. \nRespecting our past\, being aware of our current environment and looking far beyond into the future has always been part of the vision of Deborah Colton Gallery.. The mission statement has been the same since our first exhibitions. Deborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Angelbert Metoyer: Real Eyes (Realize)- An Artist’s Survey: 1987 – 2017
DESCRIPTION:Angelbert Metoyer \nRealize: Studio Survey \nNovember 16\, 2017 through January 27\, 2018 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, November 16 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Realize: Studio Survey\, an exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings\, mixed media and sculpture by internationally recognized artist\, Angelbert Metoyer. The exhibition opens Thursday\, November 16th\, with an Opening Reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nEven before studying at the Savannah College of Arts and Design\, Angelbert started as a draftsman\, then transitioned into painting\, mixed media\, sculpture\, textiles and fashion\, as well as sound and film. \n  \nThis exhibition is the culmination of Angelbert’s artistic journey and career thus far\, including drawings\, paintings\, mixed media\, sculpture\, works on paper\, works on canvas\, works on wood\, and textiles. This is a studio survey for which the installed works serve as the fully immersive language of an exposition; a comprehensive description and explanation of the thoughts behind life’s ritual and spiritual focus as well as the after life. \n  \nAngelbert’s work goes beyond painting and traditional fine arts mediums. His work spans across all mediums to contribute to the visual expression that is fashion; motions and performances captured on the frames of a film; as well as sonic elements and sounds used to compose music. The exhibition is installed Salon Style and represents the influence of Metoyer dividing his life between the United States and Europe as well as his connection to history.  \n  \nAngelbert’s work is very autobiographical and his entire family history is a prominent theme. In his artist statement he mentions that he is interested in “concepts of memory\, moment and social changes in human history\, examining scientific and philosophical questions about multi-dimensionality\, teleportation and M theory (quantum concepts)”. This is another prominent feature in his work as you can see that the abstract expressionist technique creates an intergalactic travel for the viewer. This exciting studio survey of almost 90 works will transport the viewer through time and space… and will also crystalize de oeuvre of a restless and talented artist whose work is energetic and visionary. \n  \nPublic collections include The British Museum (London)\, The Delfina Foundation (London)\, Kaleemat Foundation (Istanbul)\, A.M. Qattan Foundation (London) and Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (UAE)\, as well as private collections throughout the Middle East\, Europe\, Asia and the United States. Solo exhibitions include Art Paris Art Fair (Paris 2016)\, Yallay Art Gallery (Hong Kong 2015)\, The City Hall (Thessaloniki\, Greece\, 2015)\, Galerie Tanit (Beirut 2015)\, Darat AL Funun (Kuwait 2014)\, The Mosaic Rooms (London 2011)\, Ayyam Gallery (Damascus 2009) and Al Bareh Art Fallery (Bahrain 2006). Group Exhibitions include Galeries de Verre L’Art en Marche (Bordeaux 2015)\, Institut des Cultures d’Islam (Paris 2014)\, Meem Gallery (Dubai 2013)\, BIEL Center\, (Beirut 2013)\, Athr Gallery (Jeddah 2013)\, Europe Art Expo (Geneva 2006) and Gallery Amber (Leiden 2003). \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Focus on the 70s & 80s: Houston Foundations Part II
DESCRIPTION:Focus on the 70s and 80s: Houston Foundations Part II \n  \nAugust 26 through November 4\, 2017 \nSchedule of events during exhibition to follow \n  \nJOHN ALEXANDER   LEE BENNER     HJ BOTT     BOB CAMBLIN     MEL CHIN     IBSEN ESPADA \nDAVID P. GRAY   VIRGIL GROTFELDT   ANN HARITHAS   ROBERTA HARRIS     MIKE HOLLIS \nDOROTHY HOOD   PERRY HOUSE     LUIS JIMENEZ     LUCAS JOHNSON     SHARON KOPRIVA \nBERT L. LONG JR.   JESSE LOTT     SUZANNE MANNS     BASILIOS POULOS      \nFORREST PRINCE  DON REDMAN   JULIAN SCHNABEL     EARL STALEY   JAMES SURLS    \nDICK WRAY \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present  Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations Part II\, a group exhibition of multimedia works by artists who contributed to art scene in the 70’s and 80’s\, which greatly influenced the Houston arts today. Focus on the 70’s and 80’s is part of the gallery’s Foundations Projects. Though conceived in 2013\, Houston Foundations was launched during FotoFest 2016 with the Gallery’s Suzanne Paul PROOF exhibition. \n  \nAs Deborah Colton states\, \n  \n“Houston today is a dynamic international city that thrives on its rich diversity and has the potential to become a leading national and international destination city of the arts. Respecting our past in terms of how we became who we are today gives us a strong foundation to continue to build upon. Suzanne Paul’s archives and our PROOF exhibition was an important way to start this process\, and I have been committed to making this investment for the city by perserving and working towards organizing her archives since 2005. Part II of this project is far greater than Suzanne Paul’s work alone\, and includes an exhibition which highlights many of the artists who contributed to the vibrant art scene during a time of rapid and dynamic growth… and then changes.. The series of Panels and Discussions strives to help identify our artistic roots and how this and the city’s changing envinorment over the years have contrubited to what the Houston art community is today\, as we all move forward together to the future.” . \n  \nIn addition to the exhibition\, there will be the Foundations Symposium Series which will consist of a series of seven filmed artist talks\, panels and lectures that will also give the audience a chance to interact and address “where have we been\, what is special and unique about us and where should we go collectively as a city in the future”. The professional videos will be available on line for all to have access to. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to create awareness for positive change.  \n  \nHouston Foundations  is an extension of this mission that was created at the time of Colton’s first Houston exhibition in 2000\, and continues to be the focus today. \n  \nBorn on the bayou in east Texas\, John Alexander has made an international career as a skilled draftsman\, a painter of lush landscapes\, and as a satirist creating allegorical tableaus. Alexander (b. 1945) began studying art at Lamar University in his hometown of Beaumont. After earning an MFA in 1970 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas\, Alexander took a teaching position at the University of Houston\, where he became a key figure in the city’s nascent art scene. Alexander moved to New York City in 1979\, taking a SoHo loft he still calls home. In addition to his continuing fascination with the surreal and humankind at its worst\, Alexander gravitates toward depicting marshy landscapes\, and studied portraits of flora and fauna\, particularly the birds flocking to his part-time home on Long Island’s East End. Naturalism and conservation remain hallmarks of his work\, and he says the Beaumont bayou of his youth is never far from his mind. Alexander has been widely exhibited\, with major shows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington\, D.C.\, and the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. His work can be found in public collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; and many others. \n  \nLee Benner artistic endeavors are as well known as his love for Houston history. What began with a homemade go-cart at the age of ten evolved into multimedia sculptures over his extensive career. Traveling cross-country and into Mexico led to studio photography for Benner. Sculpture was next on his artistic journey as he began Design Concepts\, his first sculpture studio\, and his first commission for Coca-Cola. Through the years Benner cultivated an interest and talent for filmmaking and jewelry\, eventually developing a line of jewelry and even furniture too. Reflecting on his work\, Benner confesses “My hobby is Houston history. Houston is a future city. History is getting revitalized\, and I thought a lot might be missed. I’m interested in true stories of old Houston and Houstonians. I really love history.” \n  \nBorn in 1933\, HJ Bott describes himself as a Baroque Minimalist\, and is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. Inspired by such artists as Joseph Albers and Barnet Newman\, Bott first came to prominence in the mid 1950s in Germany and France while working as a propaganda analyst for the United States Army. Now living and working in Houston\, Texas\, Bott continues to create a prolific body of work more than six decades strong. Bott’s works are included in more than seventy museum and university collections worldwide\, including the Museum of Fine Art\, Houston; the Denver Museum of Art; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and Columbia University\, New York. \n  \nBob Camblin was born in Oklahoma in 1928 and studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute\, earning an MFA in 1955. He taught at Rice University from 1967 to 1973 with Joe Tate and Earl Staley\, with whom he shared a studio space. His influence and art was a constant undercurrent in the Houston art scene\, revealing much about the environment and those that surrounded him. He left Houston in the early 80s. Known for his drawings\, watercolors\, paintings and his gregarious\, direct personality\, Camblin was included in the Fresh Paint\, The Houston School Museum of Fine Arts exhibition in 1985 and was the only artist without a written statement in the catalogue.. . \n  \nMel Chin was born in Houston to Chinese parents\, the first of his family born in the United States. In 1975\, Chin graduated from Peabody College in Nashville\, Tennessee. In 1976\, Chin created See/Saw: The Earthworks for Houston’s Hermann Park\, where the artist manipulated two sections of the park’s surface to create a kinetic\, minimalist earthwork. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, in 1988 and 1990. His work has been documented in the popular PBS series Art:21\, Art of the 21st Century. One of Chin’s most recent artistic feats was presented in Houston in 2015 — a city-wide retrospective\, Mel Chin: Rematch\, which included simultaneous installations across four venues\, including the Asia Society Texas Center\, the Blaffer Art Museum\, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, and the Station Museum of Contemporary Art. \n  \nIbsen Espada was born in Queens\, New York. Espada has been a major force in the history of contemporary gestural abstraction in Houston since the early 80s. He grew up in Puerto Rico and studied under Cuban muralist\, Ronaldo Lopez Dirube. He earned his bachelor of fine arts degree at the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan. After relocating to Houston\, he continued art studies at the Glassell School of Art under Dorothy Hood. Espada worked with Hood as her studio assistant and she encouraged him to develop his first portfolio of work. Since then\, in addition to Puerto Rico\, Colorado\, Shanghai\, Russia\, and all throughout Texas\, Ibsen’s artwork has been exhibited in Houston since 1975. He is also included in permanent Museum collections in Houston\, Corpus Christi\, Beaumont\, Forth Worth\, and Lubbock. Espada’s mixture of formalized and public art\, together with the more spontaneous\, informal gesture of graffiti and street art\, became a moment of genesis for the young artist.  And that\, together with the pervasive influence of Abstract Expressionism\, brought a fusion of influences together where the art of Ibsen Espada could develop\, grow\, and flourish. \n  \nDavid P. Gray\, born in 1952 in Atlanta GA.\, moved to Houston from Mexico in 1960. Gray’s signature style reveals a personal and contemporary expression of beauty and order that pays homage to the Classical Tradition in its craftsmanship. Collectors of David’s work often relate that his painting provoke a sense of peace\, stillness\, or a contemplative mood. His award winning works have been covered by major art publications including Southwest Art\, Art of the West\, and American Art Collector. Gray taught Art and Photography for the University of St. Thomas\, in Houston Texas from 1976 – 1985 and Tomball College 1994 – 1995 In addition to group and solo exhibits across the United States\, Gray has also received a plethora of awards including Oil Painters of America’s “Best of Show\,” and “Award of Excellence\, Best of Show in the 2006 Lawndale Big Show in Houston\, Texas. \n  \nBorn in 1948 in Decatur\, Illinois\, Virgil Grotfeldt earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from Eastern Illinois University in 1971 and a master’s degree at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1974. He moved to Houston in 1977. He began teaching painting and drawing at HBU in 2002\, where he was also widely considered instrumental in the concept and construction of the University Academic Center’s new building\, of which the art department occupies about 70 percent. Grotfeldt’s work is included in many private and public collections\, including The Menil Collection\, Houston\, Texas; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, New York; NOG Insurance Company\, Amsterdam\, The Netherlands; Free International University World Art Collection\, Zeist\, The Netherlands; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art; El Paso Museum of Art; Tyler Museum of Art\, Tyler\, Texas; and Upriver Gallery Collection\, Chengdu\, China. \n  \nBorn in New Jersey\, Roberta Harris grew up in Houston. She was chosen for the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and studied at Parson’s School of Design\, Hunter College\, University of Texas\, and received a B.A. degree from the University of Houston. She has been a visiting lecturer at the Kimbell Art Museum\, Ft. Worth; the Museum of Fine Arts\, Santa Fe\, New Mexico; Brookhaven College\, Dallas; University of Houston and the Menil Collection\, Houston. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in many collections including MTV Corporation\, Chase Manhattan Bank\, Frito-Lay\, Hewlett-Packard and Texas Heart Institute. In 2009\, The Women’s Museum (a Smithsonian Institution) Dallas\, Texas\, honored her with a retrospective of her work\, titled “UP\,” covering the period of 1985-2009. Reflecting on her work\, Harris states\, “Throughout my career\, through a variety of media\, my mission as an artist has been to inspire hope and its corollaries – dialogue\, joy\, encouragement\, strategy\, peace\, kindness and imagination. This approach is not the least bit sentimental. Given the challenges that we face\, hope demands courage\, commitment\, endurance and renewal – the best expressions of the human spirit.” \n  \nAnn Harithas draws from a well of classic Texas culture\, education\, and personal history to create her art. Born in Houston 1943\, Ann Harithas spent her childhood between school in Victoria\, Texas and her parents’ nearby cattle ranch where her interests in collage were recognized and nurtured from an early age. As an instrument for learning\, collage would not only be a fundamental component of her adolescent development\, but consequently has evolved to become the predominant medium in which she expresses herself as an adult. After graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in English\, she received her MFA from Rice University. As the early founder and proponent of the Art Car movement in Houston in the 1980s\, Ann continued to diversify her methods and application of collage and assemblage\, including the creation of her own art cars. This marked an evolution of her techniques\, employing technological advancements in color printing\, construction\, and materials. Summoning her personal history to capture and catalog her experience\, Ann assembles her past and present to express a notion of time that invariably oscillates between ‘what has been’ and ‘what can be. \n  \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, and one of the few female artists working in large scale throughout the decades\, Dorothy Hood led an adventurous life. Born in Bryan\, Texas in 1918 and raised in Houston\, she won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design and went on to study at the Art Students League in New York. Hood was front and center in the cultural\, political\, and social activity of Mexico and Latin America during a period of intense creative ferment. She developed close friendships with all the European exiles\, Latin American surrealists\, and Mexican social realists of the time — artists\, composers\, poets\, playwrights\, and revolutionary writers which influenced her art. Upon returning to Houston in 1961\, Hood began to produce the epic and deeply emotive paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space. This prolific body of work would be the material with which she would be recognized for her outstanding contribution to the visual arts\, not only in Houston\, but all throughout Texas too—earning her the title of Texas Artist of the Year in 1984. Over the next four decades\, she became a renowned and highly collected Texas painter whose works were spread across the United States. \n  \nMike Hollis was born in Houston\, Texas\, in 1953. After receiving his BA in Fine Arts from the University of St. Thomas\, Hollis has built a well-respected and much admired reputation as a favorite among Houston artists. Merging West Coast concepts with geometric abstraction\, Hollis has created an easily recognizable body of work that is both cerebral and emotive. He creates his paintings utilizing various methods\, blending various painting techniques with new technology. Hollis is a decades-long devotee of geometric abstraction\, using techniques and strategies generally attributed to post-minimalism. Having mastered this approach he has also found ways to give each work a radical new meaning while imbuing it with calculated emotions. With works found in major collections including The Museum of Fine Arts: Houston\, the Menil Collection\, Houston\, and The Chase Manhattan Bank\, NY\, Hollis has presented solo exhibitions of his work in Houston and nationwide\, including in Santa Fe\, New Mexico and in New York\, New York. \n  \nPerry House was born in Orange\, Texas. He pursued art as a vocation at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts. Upon his return to Texas\, House settled in Houston and began his lifelong career as an artist and a teacher of artists. His work often strips away decoration\, narrative\, sex\, politics\, and traditional perspective\, while at the same time evoking the passage of time\, weight\, depth\, and our mortal coil. As Houston’s art scene was coming of age\, House was one of the early pioneers of abstraction\, showing with some of the most historically notable galleries in Houston. In the collection of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts\, the artist received an NEA fellowship award in 1990 and mounted solo efforts at Diverse Works in 2000\, curated by Susie Kalil\, and 2004 at the Galveston Arts Center curated by Clint Willour. On his work House comments “My art has always been about some particular opposites; elegance and violence\, humor and horror\, the sacred and the profane. Things are sectioned\, distorted and exploded.” Perry House has since retired from Houston Community College\, Central after 30 years of teaching and is now painting full-time. \n  \nLuis Jimenez is a sculptor whose work marries elements of pop culture and social commentary with allusions to his Mexican-American heritage. Known for his large\, colorful fiberglass sculptures that often incorporate neon and electrical lighting\, Jimenez extended his bold choices of materials to his subject matter\, creating confident and expressive figures while exaggerating cultural stereotypes. Much of his work deals with social and political issues and explores the cultures and legends of both Mexico and the United States.  His work has been shown at museums throughout the United States and his work is part of the permanent collections of the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo\, Mexico\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Texas\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, New York\, Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, New York National\, Collection of Fine Arts\, Smithsonian Institute\, Washington\, D.C.\, and the Hirshhorn Museum\, Washington\, D.C.\, as well as many others. \n  \nLucas Johnson was a self-taught\, multi-disciplinary artist immersed in the creative community in Houston from the time of his settling here in 1973 until his passing in 2002. He lived for an extended time in Mexico City\, where he was embraced and influenced by artist contemporaries who followed the great Mexican muralists. Self-taught in drawing\, paintings\, printmaking and bronze casting\, he debuted paintings for the first time in 1967. Johnson was a guest instructor in the arts at the Glassell School of Art and at Houston’s Rice University. His work is represented in the permanent collections of museums in Mexico City\, the Menil and Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, and the Modern Art Museum in Tel Aviv. In 1993 Johnson was a founding board member of the Houston Artists Fund with two associates\, effectively establishing a charitable organization\, still active\, that serves as a fiscal sponsor for nonprofit art-related projects and provides administrative support and budgets monitoring for funds raised from the art community. \n  \nSharon Kopriva is a Houston native. Her career launched in 1985 with the exhibition Fresh Paint at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. In the past 25 years she has exhibited her art in major cities in the United States\, Mexico\, Peru\, India\, Cuba\, China\, and Europe. In addition to her participation in Fresh Paint\, her most notable exhibitions include a solo show curated by the legendary Walter Hopps at The Menil Collection in 2001 and a retrospective of her work shown at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, curated by Bradley Sumrall in 2012\, entitled From Terra to Verde. Kopriva is deeply influenced by a varied set of inspirations\, including her Catholic upbringing\, the wonders of nature\, and her continued spiritual journey. \n  \nBert L. Long\, Jr.\, a self-taught artist\, was born in 1940 in Texas\, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a master chef Long\, decided to devote himself entirely to art in 1979. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work\, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas\, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, and artists John Alexander\, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate\, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work. Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history\, along with complex philosophical and social issues. Long describes the philosophy behind his work as “a quest to help people diagnose their inner self\,” believing his art to be “the vehicle to help facilitate [such a] process.” The late Peter Marzio\, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, said of Bert Long: “Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful\, but as [his artworks] testify\, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.” Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter\, sculptor\, and photographer he was awarded several significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. \n  \nJesse Lott is an African-American sculptor of great distinction and a long time 5th Ward\, Houston resident\, who began his artistic career creating and selling his works as a student at E.O. Smith Elementary School in 1957. Jesse Lott works in paper\, metal\, and wood as well as working with armatures and wire\, all the while building with his artistry a capacity for emotional power. His technique is derived from collecting and recycling discarded materials\, as a type of urban archeology fused with scientific methodology. He has influenced many artists\, including Texans as well known as James Surls\, Bert Long Jr. and Angelbert Metoyer. The all-ages workshops that he has held over the years in his studio as a community service have inspired many students who would otherwise have no exposure to art. Lott’s community-oriented philosophy and his Artists in Action program helped spark the creation of the now famous Project Row Houses.” \n  \nSuzanne Manns was born in Pittsburg\, PA. in 1950. She received her B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Carnegie-Mellon University and did graduate studies in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design\, after which she studied under master printmaker Dadi Wirz from Atelier 17 in Paris. In 1973\, she moved to Houston and in 1975 began to teach at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts. At Glassell she established a substantial printmaking department. She currently is on faculty at Glassell\, teaching in the Drawing Department. Early works from Houston referenced the burgeoning downtown skyline. Later drawings and prints depicted cities which were important to her personal history such as Paris\, Florence\, and Washington D.C. From the mid 90’s to the present\, her work is inspired by the garden of her Heights bungalow and other personal places/landscapes. The work combines both traditional and innovative print and drawing techniques. Her work is a diary of intimate experience meditating on the fragile\, yet enduring nature of life. She has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions\, nationally and internationally. Her work is included in private and public collections including The J.P. Morgan Chase Collection\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. \n  \nBasilios Poulos came to Houston in 1975 from NYC to be Artist-in-Residence at Rice University. He was born in South Carolina and went to the Atlanta School of Art for his BFA and Tulane University for his MFA. His many art career honors include French Gov Grant from 1965-1966\, Guggenheim Fellowship 1974\, Artist Residency at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts\, Paris 1983\, and Visiting Professor for the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program\, Cortona\, Italy 1997. His solo exhibitions in Paris\, Athens\, NYC\, Atlanta\, San Francisco\, New Orleans\, Houston\, and others comprise forty-eight years of painting. Retiring from teaching at RiceU in 2008\, Poulos has continued to paint in his Houston studio with sojourns to his Greek village studio near Sparta in the Peloponnese. \n  \nForrest Prince was born in Houston\, Texas in 1935. With no formal art education\, he began making art in 1969\, and in 1976 was given his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum\, Houston. In 1983 Prince founded the Praise God Foundation. His body of work is unusual in it’s freedom from the machinations and impurities of the art world and represents man’s higher spiritual aspirations. In addition to his Christian religious work\, Prince’s artwork is also concerned with political and social issues. Some of his artworks involve the artist’s investigations into food consumption other works severely question the satanic practices of the US Government. He has participated in many group exhibitions in museums and galleries including: Diverse Works\, Hooks-Epstein Gallery\, San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts\, Lawndale Art Center\, Art Car Museum\, Station Museum\, and The Menil Collection. . \n  \nDon Redman was born in Houston and spent much of his childhood on the Gulf of Mexico. His father was a ship builder and provided him his first opportunities to work with steel\, while his mother supplied him with stockpiles of wood with which he could carve\, saw\, and paint. After attending the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Art Institute of San Francisco\, he was fortunate to become the apprentice to several internationally recognized artists; among them Luis Jimenez\, James Surls\, and Salvatore Scarpitta. Over his forty plus years as a sculptor\, his work has grown from a fascination with kinetics to a more subtle utilization of movement created by light. His sculptures are in public\, private\, and corporate art collections throughout the United States and around the world. \n  \nJulian Schnabel is a lauded/ award-winning American painter and filmmaker. Born in 1951\, Schnabel moved with his family to Brownsville\, Texas\, when still young. It was in Brownsville that he spent most of his formative years and where he took up surfing and resolved to be an artist\, graduating from Brownsville High School in the late ‘60s. He entered into his collegiate studies the University of Houston in 1969 and received his B.F.A. in 1973. In 1976\, Schnabel had his first self-titled solo museum exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Though he maintained a studio practice in the Houston Heights for some years after graduating from university\, by 1979 Schnabel found himself in New York City\, eventually establishing himself as one of the leading figures of the art world in the 1980s. \n  \nEarl Staley was born in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park\, received his BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and his MFA from the University of Arkansas. His first teaching position was at Washington University\, Saint Louis\, Mo. Earl arrived in Houston in 1966 to teach at Rice University. In 1969 he became the chairperson at the new studio art department at the University of St. Thomas. He left that position to move to Rome Italy with a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. He remained there 4 years studying the old masters and painting from the Classics. His major influences are Texas/Mexico and Classical Art. Earl showed at the 1973 Whitney Biennale\, and then in 1979 in the landmark show Bad Painting at the New Museum\, NY. He has had two exhibits at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; one was a 10-year survey 1974-1984 which traveled to the New Museum\, NY. Earl was included in Fresh Paint in Houston and the Venice Biennale 1984 and numerous exhibits across the USA and Europe. Since 1992 He teaches at Lonestar College/Tomball. \n  \nJames Surls is one of the most preeminent artists that the state of Texas has produced. Born in East Texas\, James Surls has long been held as a respected artist and dynamic art educator. He earned a B.S. at Sam Houston State College\, and an M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Surls’ artistic output ranges from pencil drawings and prints to monumental steel and bronze sculptures. Early in his career he taught at Southern Methodist University\, and he continues to lecture about art around the country. He has been at the forefront of the contemporary sculpture scene for decades and has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art\, the Walker Art Center and the Art Institute of Chicago\, as well as in numerous international venues and dozens of Texas museums. His works are in the collections of major museums including the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, the Smithsonian American Art Museum\, and the Museum of Modern Art. As a sculpture instructor at the University of Houston\, and with the support of fellow artist John Alexander\, he founded the Lawndale Alternative Space for Art in 1979\, today Houston’s Lawndale Art Center\, and championed alternative and experimental processes and approaches to art-making. He has also founded an artist’s compound where he established his studio in Splendora\, Texas. \n  \nA native Houstonian born in 1933\, Dick Wray\, was an artist of incomparable talent and personality who played a critical role in the development of Houston’s contemporary art scene since the 1950s. Often categorized as an Abstract Expressionist\, Wray is best known for his explosive and dynamic abstractions that received numerous accolades from Houston’s critical community as well as notable arts figures across the United States throughout his career.  Wray attended the University of Houston’s School of Architecture followed by the Kunstakademie\, Dusseldorf\, Germany. Returning to Houston in 1959\, he began seriously working as an artist.  Over the next fifty years\, he participated in a large number of important exhibitions nationally\, landing his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1975.  Wray was an instructor at the Glassell School of Art from 1968 until 1982.  Wray was awarded the Ford Foundation purchase prize in 1962\, a prestigious Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston in 2000.  His work is in major collections\, including the Albright Knox Museum\, Buffalo\, National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C.\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth\, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Grayson Chandler: Tautologies & Memoirs
DESCRIPTION:Grayson Chandler \nTautologies & Memoirs \nJuly 1\, 2017 – August 19\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday July 1st 6:00 – 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Tautologies & Memoirs\, a solo exhibit featuring a selection of paintings by Grayson Chandler. Tautologies & Memoirs gives a glimpse into the unique perspective of a young artist from Houston\, Texas. The exhibition opens Saturday\, July 1st\, with a reception for the artist from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nBorn in Houston\, Texas 1994\, Grayson Chandler has been exposed to the visual arts from a young age. He began practicing drawing and painting in junior high at Lanier Middle School\, and continued to practice at Lamar High School where he was awarded most artistic in his graduating class. Now studying Fine Arts at the University of North Texas\, Grayson’s aim is to graduate with a BFA in Studio Arts as he continues to advance his artistic career. \n  \nFascinated by the intrinsic order and beauty of nature\, Grayson’s work attempts to capture and abstract it’s character in a manner that is recognizable\, yet unfamiliar. Deeply curious about the forces that govern human reason and faith\, his work probes the amphibious network linking logic\, intuition\, consciousness\, and emotion. Through this perspective\, we are encouraged to draw upon our own experience and sensation as a means of illuminating the border between real and imaginary—exposing their dichotomy—to explore our desire to identify with imagery that resembles things we already know\, and draw from that tendency as an aperture to view something empirically new. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Reflections on the Noughties
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery \nReflections on the Noughties  \nJuly 1\, 2017 – August 19\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday July 1st 6:00 – 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Reflections on the Noughties\, a group exhibit featuring a selection of \n  \nMichael Bise  \nMichael Bise was born in Flagstaff\, Arizona and moved to Dallas\, Texas in 1990. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting at the University of North Texas in 2001 and his Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting at the University of Houston in 2005. His work has been shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum\, Houston; the Art Museum of Southeast Texas; the McKinney Avenue Contemporary\, Dallas; and Fort Worth Contemporary Arts at TCU. He was a recipient of a Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant and an Artadia Finalist in 2014 and was awarded The Hunting Art Prize\, an Artadia Finalist\, and a Nominee for the Texas Contemporary Award in 2012. His work is part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, the Houston Airport System\, City of Houston\, and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas\, Beaumont. \nBise’s work consists of graphite drawings that combine autobiographical narrative with labor-intensive attention to detail\, creating a disorienting relationship between personal psychology and formal picture making concerns. \n  \nJessica Ciocci/PAPER RAD \nWith three primary members – Jacob Ciocci\, Jessica Ciocci\, and Ben Jones – Paper Rad are a collective dividing their time between Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania and Providence\, Rhode Island. At once affirmative and critical\, their pieces posess an exuberantly neo-primitivist digital aesthetic. In keeping with their focus on current pop culture and media\, Paper Rad synthesize popular material from television\, video games\, and advertising\, making comics\, zines\, net art\, video art\, MIDI files\, installations\, paintings\, and music. \n  \nRachel Hecker \nRachel Hecker was born in Provedence\, Rhode Island. She attended Moore College of Art\, and after receiving her BFA in Sculpture\, she returned to RI\, where she got her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently an Associate professor of painting at the University of Houston. Hecker has received considerable critical attention for her solo exhibitions in Texas venues\, such as the Contemporary arts Museum in Houston\, the Dallas Museum of Art\, and ArtPace in San Antonio. Additionally\, she has shown in commercial and university galleries and alternative spaaces throughout the United States. Hecker was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts award in Painting\, and is currently represented in many public and private collections including the Houston\, Dallas\, and New Orleans Museums of Art. \nHecker’s work shares a common lineage rooted in the ancestral history of Pop art\, but in contrast to Warhol and Lichtenstein who’s art operated according to a larger cultural scope\, Hecker’s approach reflects concepts and concerns that express a more temporal intimacy. Most interesting though is how her work and practice transcends the Pop Art impulse. Whereas the common Pop Art canon seeks to expose the margin between consumers of high and mass culture by examining methods implicit of mass production\, Hecker painstakingly recreates the machine-manufactured appearance by hand. In doing so\, Hecker elevates the significance of time spent painting\, adding a deeper conceptual component\, so as to underscore the fleeting permanence between life and time. \n  \nPaul Horn \nPaul Horn is a Houston based artist and curator best known for his three dimensional collages and sculptures that draw from images and motifs found in popular culture. His carefully orchestrated exhibitions often feature artwork in nontraditional exhibition environments as a means of re-contextualizing Pop Art within contemporary sensibilities. His work has been reviewed by the esteemed trifecta of art journals: Artforum\, ARTnews\, and Art in America. He also has had reviews in Houston Press\, The Houston Chronicle\, Artlies\, and Glasstire. \nAmong Paul Horn’s numerous solo and group exhibitions are shows at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita\, Kansas\, and the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida. He began his artistic career during his graduate studies at the University of Houston\, where he also has been exhibited. Using venues from a Holiday Inn to an elevator carriage\, and even a Quick Mart convenience store\, he has not only made the art a focal point\, but engages the viewer as part of the exhibition as well. \n  \nDaniel Johnston \nDaniel Johnston has spent approximately the last 20 years exposing his heartrending tales of unrequited love\, cosmic mishaps\, and existential torment to an ever-growing international cult audience. Daniel was born in 1961 in Sacramento\, California\, and over the years\, Daniel’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited in Los Angeles\, Zurich\, and Berlin. The cover of a recent edition of music writer Richard Meltzer’s “The Aesthetics of Rock” was drawn by Johnston. Throughout his career\, Daniel’s songs and drawings have been informed to some degree by his ongoing struggle with manic depression — lending an added poignancy to his soul-searching times. In January\, 2005\, the feature-length documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” premiered at Sundance Film Festival and at film festivals around the world that year. The movie was distributed in North America by Sony Pictures Classic and by Tartan Films in the United Kingdom on March 31\, 2006. \n  \nOtabenga Jones & Associates \nOtabenga Jones & Associates is a Houston-based artist collective founded in 2002 by artist and educator Otabenga Jones in collaboration with members Dawolu Jabari Anderson\, Jamal Cyrus\, Kenya Evans\, and Robert A. Pruitt. The group’s pedagogical mission is manifested in a myriad of forms\, e.g. actions\, writings\, DJ sets\, and installations. In scope the collective’s mission is three-fold: to underscore the complications of black representation\, to maintain and promote the core principles of the Black radical tradition\, and (in the words of the late Russell Tyrone Jones) “teach the truth to the young black youth”. \nWork by Otabenga Jones & Associates has appeared in exhibitions at the Studio Museum of Harlem and Whitney Museum of American Art (Whitney Biennial)\, in New York City; the High Museum\, Atlanta; and the Menil Collection and Contemporary Art Museum Houston\, Houston\, among others. \n  \nFrancisco Larios \nBorn in Guaymas\, Sonora 1960\, Francisco Larios is a multidisciplinary artist whose work achieved exceptional notoriety in the Nineties\, and has since gained him global acclaim. He has accumulated a plethora of awards and exhibitions recognizing his multidisciplinary abilities in painting\, drawing\, lithography\, photography\, and digital mediums. Included in these are the Biennial of Cuenca in Ecuador for digital idealizations of faith\, science\, and domestic violence\, the Museum of Monterrey Biennial for painting\, solo exhibitions across the globe\, and a residency at the prestigious Polígrafa Gallery in Barcelona working with traditional printing techniques. \nLarios’s competence across various visual mediums result in two and three-dimensional compositions\, manifested from immemorial spiritual references and philosophical motifs\, which reflect a critically poetic exploration of how cultural expressions and relationships have led to contemporary visual languages. \n  \nPatrick Palmer \nPatrick studied at Heatherley’s School of Art in London and The National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He has studied under Michael Clark – a friend of Francis Bacon – and by Bobby Gill – an honourary fellow at The Royal College of Art. Whilst an element of realism is important\, in the artist’s own words: “I move beyond artistic convention and avoid an image that is too predictable. Realism is not enough – what you take away and what you add to what you see are what transforms a picture into art. I believe that the viewer wants to see a degree of draughtsmanship from an artist\, but they deserve more than this. I aspire to make my pictures touch people personally and to be considered simple works of beauty.” \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Amita Bhatt\, Satish Gupta\, Sharon Kopriva and Susan Plum: Visions
DESCRIPTION:Visions \nSatish Gupta – Sharon Kopriva – Susan Plum – Amita Bhatt \nApril 29 through June 24\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, April 29th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Visions\, a group exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings and sculptures by Satish Gupta\, Sharon Kopriva\, Susan Plum and Amita Bhatt. Visions explores the journey of four artists coming from different backgrounds and how they reveal spirituality in their work. The exhibition opens Saturday\, April 29th\, with a reception with the artists from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nA versatile artist\, Satish Gupta is India’s celebrated painter\, sculptor\, poet\, writer\, printmaker\, skilled draftsman\, muralist\, designer\, calligrapher and ceramicist whose work is influenced by his Zen philosophy. \n“Sometimes what is left unsaid is more important than what is said. Silence can communicate on a much deeper level than words\, this emphasis on an eternal silence is an essential part of Zen” \nWinning the Sanskriti Award at an early stage in his career\, Gupta’s work honed through a deep engagement with mysticism and Zen spirit and has been exhibited in more than 37 solo shows at important art institutions throughout India and abroad\, including in Delhi\, Mumbai\, Bengaluru\, Kolkotta\, Dubai\, Bahrain\, Antananarivo\, London\, Paris\, Altea\, Murcia\, Amsterdam\, Ljubljana\, Vancouver\, Ottawa\, San Francisco\, New York\, Washington and Melbourne. His works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art\, New Delhi. Recently Satish Gupta’s sculptures and paintings were acquired by The Museum of Sacred Arts\, Brussels and were exhibited in the show “Forms of Devotion” in Thailand and in the Shanghai Museum of Modern Art. \nSatish’s 23 foot sculpture in copper “The Buddhas Within” is currently exhibited at the Prince Of Wales Museum (CMVS)  in Mumbai. In early 2017 he painted live at the National Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana along with a showing of his calligraphic scrolls. His sculpture ‘Mandala’ was exhibited as one of the finalists for the prestigious The Art Laguna Prize 2017 at Arsenal in Venice. Satish’s  large sculpture “The Sun God” can be seen at the International Airport in New Delhi. He has also created a 30 feet long mural for the Bengaluru International Airport. Another monumental 5 piece metal sculpture ranging from 11.5 feet to 35 feet in height and weighing over 22\,000 pounds inspired by the five primal elements\, is located at the Jindal Center in New Delhi. His sculptures\, wall murals and paintings are the signature works at the Leela Palace Hotel in New Delhi and The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Bengaluru. Satish’s “Utsav Murti of the Goddess Linga Bharavi” resides in the main temple at Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation in Coimbatore. His Holiness\, the Dalai Lama wrote a foreword for Satish’s book of short stories and haikus “I am the dewdrop\, I am the ocean.” and Deepak Chopra has written the foreword for his portfolio “Zen Space”. The artist collaborated with India’s Prime Minister\, Narendar Modi on a sculpture-painting “Om Namo Shivaya” for a charitable cause which was auctioned by the Sotheby’s. Known for its special meditative quality\, Satish Gupta’s art is created at his studio Zazen on the outskirts of Delhi\, surrounded by a Zen garden of his own design. \nSharon Kopriva\, a Texas native\, currently works in Houston\, Texas and Hope\, Idaho. She earned her MFA in painting from the University of Houston in 1981. Since her inauguration with the “Fresh Paint” exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston in 1985\, Kopriva has exhibited nationally and internationally including at The Menil Collection\, Houston; The Ogden Museum\, New Orleans; and The National Museum of Peru in Lima. For more than thirty years\, Sharon has combined two and three-dimensional media often with fusions of papier-mâché and found objects. Her career has taken her through investigations of pre-Columbian cultures in Peru\, examinations of her Catholic faith\, and inspirations from the spiritual forests of the beautiful Pacific Northwest United States. \nThe works in this exhibition are from “The Verde Series” which reflect the confluence or coming together of Nature\, Spirituality and formal religion. Among the forest greens and tangled woods one might glimpse parts of cathedral windows or other Gothic architectural features. These represent Kopriva’s base\, a more formal\, Catholic religious foundation that through her life has been strengthened by the Natural world. \n“I feel God’s existence both inside and outside of Church. I appreciate both. But my best conversations with God have taken place while hiking in the woods\, and “The Verde” paintings are an extension of these walks” says Kopriva. \n  \nSusan Plum was born in Houston\, Texas. She spent her early and formative years in Mexico City\, Mexico\, where she began to study art\, embracing surrealism and Magic Realism. Magic Realism became the vehicle for her to explore and transcend cultural and spiritual boundaries. In this context\, Susan envisioned a world that was inclusive\, culturally diverse\, and aesthetically vital\, and she created a visual language that encompassed the mythic\, imaginal world and the real. Her art is deeply informed by nature\, by its diversity and intelligence. Light has also been a strong interest for her. Susan began working with glass in the late 1980s in Seattle\, and more recently with photography. Photographing her glasswork as a means of capturing moving light\, or kinetic light\, began when she moved to Houston in 2009. \n  \nIn this series of paintings and drawings\, Naturaleza Tejida/Woven Nature\, Susan addresses the elements and ancient creation stories that tell us we are made us of stardust–that we come from the cosmos and return to the cosmos.  This act of inhalation and exhalation\, or\, warp and weft\, is a universal experience and nature’s “natural” weaving.  Her paintings allude to simultaneous states of existence between the cosmos and the earth inspired by the modern-day physics which informs us of a multidimensional universe and the Mayan cosmology that universe is made up of lines of light.  For Susan the filaments of light create a web of intelligence\, which acts as a vehicle for consciousness.  The drawings are inspired by the sacred indigenous Huichol symbol of the Eye of God or Ojo de Dios.  Susan sees the geometry of the Eye of God representing the soul of a human or other life forms.  A line is drawn from the center of one “soul” to the to the center of another “soul\,” ultimately creating a connected universe. \n  \n​As Plum states\, “We live in a tremendous time of expansion and discovery while at the same time much violence\, hunger\, and extremism on all fronts\, however\, this extreme polarization hopefully points to an end in sight and that ​there is a glimmer of hope for re-connectedness and compassion to grow and flower for both humanity and the treatment of our beautiful planet.” \n  \nSusan works a sculpture\, a painter\, a mixed media\, installation and performance artist. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass\, New York\, Hunter Art Museum\, Chattanooga\, Tennessee\, University Art Museum\, Arizona State University\, Tempe\, Arizona\, World Bank\, Renwick Gallery\, Smithsonian Institute\, Washington\, D.C.\, Mobile Museum of Art\, Mobile\, Alabama\, the American Embassy in Belize\, and the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York and the Tacoma Museum of Art\, Tacoma\, Washington. Her work has exhibited at museums throughout most continents\, world-wide. \n  \nAmita Bhatt received her BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University\, Vadodara\, India and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art\, Baltimore\, USA. From her earliest days\, Bhatt explored Hindu and Buddhist Tantric philosophy to answer existential questions as she addresses the classic themes of conflict\, ideology\, spirituality and transcendence. \n  \nWhile remaining deeply intrigued by Tantric philosophy\, (which professes salvation through extreme experiences)\, Bhatt also explored other religions and ideologies including ancient Egyptian and Greek mythology. Her research led her to investigate ideas of destruction and creation\, the continual cycles of life and death\, karma and karmic cycles\, the interconnectedness between all elements of nature\, chaos theory etc. \n  \nArmed with humor\, paradox\, symbolism and mythology\, Bhatt creates complex worlds that implode and explode as she encourages her audience to reflect on the endless cycles of conception and annihilation\, highlighting the impermanence of all things\, animate and inanimate. Her protagonists negotiate abundant\, primordial and potent spaces. They oscillate precariously between the ambivalent edges of insatiable desire and aversion; knowledge and catastrophe; monumentality and sacrifice\, passion and destruction.  They experience and exist within suspense filled public/private spaces and are armed with the indefatigable resilience of the human spirit. Her lines continue to remain simple. \n  \nA favorite quote of Amita’s reinforces her vision\, “Everything in the universe is cyclical and must run its course. The dynamics of the universe are dialectical\, apparently in a conflict\, but occurring within a larger context.” (Margot Anand on Tantra.) \n  \nAmita Bhatt’s works have been exhibited at prestigious venues such as the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum (USA\, 2013\,)\, Museo Pedro de Osma (Peru\, 2011)\, The Walters Art Museum (USA\, 2009)\, Die Monchskirche Museum (Germany\, 2010)\, and The Station Museum of Contemporary Art (USA\, 2004). She has also been the recipient of the several prestigious grants. Her works are included in the private collections of Marilyn Oshman\, Sharon and Gus Kopriva\, John and Berthe Ford\, Nancy Kienholz\, Geetan and Tarun Tejpal\, and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art among others. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include paintings\, sculpture\, works on paper\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to create awareness and make help make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Miriam Medrez: Inverted Dresses
DESCRIPTION:Miriam Medrez \n Inverted Dresses  \nCurated by Mariana Valdez Debes \nApril 1 – April 23\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, April 1st \, 5:30 to 7:30 pm \nArtist Talk: Sunday\, April 2nd\, 11:00 am \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Inverted Dresses\, an exhibition featuring sculptural work from Mexican artist Miriam Medrez. The exhibition opens Saturday\, April 1\, with a reception for the artist from 5:30 to 7:30 pm and is accompanied by an artist talk on Sunday\, April 2\, beginning at 11:00 am. \nInverted Dresses invites the viewers to rediscover the female body and delve into its unexplored spaces\, but above all\, to identify common places taking the inner self as point of departure. The series consists of eighteen dresses which combines artisanal techniques such as embroidery and knitting with modern techniques such as the digitalization of images and numerical printing build over metal structures that provide a vertebral appearance to the pieces. \nFor Medrez\, Inverted Dresses deals with the notion of domestic space as a “microcosms” and a place of épanouissement. Under this premise\, she creates the House Dress\, a piece that articulates domestic spaces\, feminine figures and small mirrors. About the purpose\, the artist shares: “I invite you to get a glimpse of that intimacy\, to reflect yourself in the small mirrors\, to inhabit those spaces that are common to all women.” \nThe artworks of the series combine hard structures with soft materials\, inviting the viewers to question the notion of fragility in the representation of the feminine. This can be observed in the Bridal Dress where the metal structure provides contrast with the soft fabric that covers the spools of thread. This dialogue of materials brings a poetic tone to the piece and is a resource frequently used by artists such as Safaa Erruas\, whose mobile Nuage has a special relationship to the Strainer Dress. \nIn the Inverted Dresses series the female figure stands out as the “caretaker” an attribute traditionally associated with women in the domestic environment\, which the artist accentuates with soft hollow spaces\, knitted or embroidered receptacles and structures that open and close. \nThrough this series Medrez offers three significant contributions to the global aesthetic discourse on gender. First\, she shows a verification of the feminine perception of her surroundings in a specific cultural context. Second\, she refreshes questions concerning the construction of gender. What does being human mean? What does being a woman mean? Are the challenges that we as women confront today imposed or self-imposed? Are we the victims of our own mental structure? Finally\, the series awards visibility to the contemporary feminine praxis starting with a specific aesthetic discourse. \nWithin contemporary Mexican art\, Miriam Medrez is an established artist whose interdisciplinary practice has taken place over three decades. Medrez was born in Mexico City in 1958 and studied Plastic Arts at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico)\, and Concordia Univeristy (Montreal\, Canada). She lives and works in Monterrey (N.L\, Mexico). A renowned sculptor\, she received the “Artistic Creator” award in 2010 from the National Systems of Art Creators in Mexico. That triennial stimulus coincides with the repositioning of her sculpture activity\, which causes her to explore and later move her aesthetic discourse from clay to cloth. \nPublic collections include UDPLAP collection (Puebla\, Mexico) \, Modern Art Museum (Mexico City)\, MARCO Museum (Monterrey\, N.L)\, Amparo Museum (Puebla\, Mexico)\, Monterrey Museum (Monterrey\, N.L)\, Casa Candina (Puerto Rico)\, Keramik Museum Grimeerhaus (Denmark)\, FEMSA collection (Monterrey N.L)\, Jingdezhen Ceramic Cultural Center (Jiangxi Province\, China)\, Reyes Meza Museum (Nuevo Laredo\, Tamaulipas). \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Fadi Yazigi: STILL LIFE… STILL ALIVE… STILL A LIFE
DESCRIPTION:Fadi Yazigi \nStill Life….Still Alive…Still a Life \nFebruary 18 through March 25\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February18 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Still Life…Still Alive…Still a Life\, an exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings and sculpture by Syrian artist\, Fadi Yazigi. The exhibition opens Saturday\, February 18\, with an opening reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \n“Irrespective of what’s happening in the world I live in\, I am still alive and still have a life.” Yazigi says. Having arrived at this realization\, Yazigi uses his thoughts and findings as the starting point for a new\, landmark\, mixed-media installation of works that juxtapose still life\, or figures in black ink\, reflecting the artist’s documented observation that there are times when we are all motionless\, be it planned or a random act\, yet we are still breathing\, thinking\, living and even creating art. \n  \nA large installation consisting of squares painted in contrasting colors on rice paper and mounted on canvas\, acts as the platform for one narration on which the artist explores several themes and concepts. Subjects inevitably include the war in Syria and its impact on both the artist himself and others\, but also their desire for a better tomorrow. \n  \nAnother installation includes a collection of ceramic\, mosaic figures in jeweled\, arabesque colors on wooden bases in the shape of a cross. All of the subjects include figurative illustrations\, while some are also upside down. Their thoughts remain a mystery and beg rhetorical questions aplenty; are they feeling pain? Or perhaps they long to be closer to god. \n  \nThe Wall\, a bronze sculpture\, of which\, on each side of this zig-zag wall are confined figures\, their backs cemented to the surface. Each figure appears to be holding a different item that reflects something they are trying to protect. One figure holds a rock\, ready for combat. Another clutches a child to its bosom. \n  \n“The war has had a big effect on me\, but I can’t stop working\,” the artist notes. “It’s part of my survival and a way of looking for a solution.” \n  \nFadi Yazigi is a multi-media\, figurative artist known for his paintings\, ceramic relief carvings and sculptures. Yazigi was born in 1966 and studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts\, Damascus University. He still lives and works in the city today. In his instantly-recognizable pieces\, Yazigi often presents his subjects as underdeveloped creatures or half-human beasts\, capturing their emotions and expressions as they deal with whatever life throws at them\, from the mundane and humorous to the horrors of war. \n  \nPublic collections\, include The British Museum (London)\, The Delfina Foundation (London)\, Kaleemat Foundation (Istanbul)\, A.M. Qattan Foundation (London) and Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (UAE)\, as well as private collections throughout the Middle East\, Europe\, Asia and the United States. Solo exhibitions include Art Paris Art Fair (Paris 2016)\, Yallay Art Gallery (Hong Kong 2015)\, The City Hall (Thessaloniki\, Greece\, 2015)\, Galerie Tanit (Beirut 2015)\, Darat AL Funun (Kuwait 2014)\, The Mosaic Rooms (London 2011)\, Ayyam Gallery (Damascus 2009) and Al Bareh Art Fallery (Bahrain 2006). Group Exhibitions include Galeries de Verre L’Art en Marche (Bordeaux 2015)\, Institut des Cultures d’Islam (Paris 2014)\, Meem Gallery (Dubai 2013)\, BIEL Center\, (Beirut 2013)\, Athr Gallery (Jeddah 2013)\, Europe Art Expo (Geneva 2006) and Gallery Amber (Leiden 2003). \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Bert L. Long\, Jr.: Looking for the Right Time
DESCRIPTION:Bert L. Long\, Jr.  \nLooking for the Right Time \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Looking for the Right Time\, a solo exhibition of the works of Bert L. Long\, Jr. (1940-2013)\, one of the most talented\, versatile\, and prolific artists ever to hail from the state of Texas. With his paintings\, sculptures\, drawings\, prints\, and photographs\, he sought above all else to communicate with the viewer. As Bert once put it\, “I paint in order to help people understand their ills so that they might cure them.” The exhibition opens with a public reception on Saturday\, November 19\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition will be on view through January 28\, 2017. \nBorn and raised in the city’s Fifth Ward\, Bert’s biography is a story of gumption\, ingenuity\, and stubborn perseverance. He first developed a successful career as an executive chef in the kitchens of major hotels in Las Vegas\, Chicago\, and Houston and\, for a few years\, at his own gourmet eatery in Klamath Falls\, Oregon. After he picked up the paintbrush in 1975 he rarely put it down\, becoming consumed by the spirit of art and devoting himself to full-time art making by the end of the decade. After a few years of driving his canvases (and his family) to art shows in malls and parking lots across the American West\, he broke through in 1979 with a solo show at the O’Kane Gallery at the University of Houston’s downtown campus. \nThroughout the ‘80s\, Long’s paintings became larger and more elaborate\, and eventually it became difficult to tell if they were decorated paintings or painted sculptures. He placed many of them in heavy Hydrostone frames of his own making\, embedded with found materials such as mirror shards\, empty paint tubes\, bones\, glass eyes\, even shellacked fish heads. Often\, they were self-referential works dealing with the struggles faced by the working artist. \nIn April 1990\, the American Academy in Rome announced that he was among the twenty-five winners of the Prix de Rome. During this prestigious yearlong residency\, he was celebrated at home as the Art League of Houston’s “Texas Artist of the Year” and just after his return\, he displayed the results of his Italian sojourn in an expansive solo show at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. \nThe new millennium inspired an explosion of artistic activity including a city-sponsored “Spark” park at the E.O. Smith Education Center and “Field of Vision\,” a site-specific work of fifty painted concrete eyes on fifty pedestals\, dedicated at its original site on Lyons Avenue in the Fifth Ward in 2000\, and later relocated to the Project Row Houses campus. \nBy now\, Long had become acknowledged and cherished as one of Houston’s true master artists. The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston celebrated his career with a retrospective in 2006\, and a year later\, Long was commissioned by the Houston Arts Alliance to produce a 30-foot mural for the Looscan Public Library. Long’s friend John Guess produced a biography film about him\, and Mayor Bill White declared July 6\, 2009\, “Bert L. Long\, Jr. Day” in Houston. \nIt’s been close to three years since Bert Long’s passing\, and his departure leaves a gap in Houston’s art scene that can never be filled. We still have his art\, however\, and a newly- published tribute book by his friend\, the esteemed art critic Thomas McEvilley. Deborah Colton Gallery celebrates both with this exhibition. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national\, and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Hood: Select Paintings
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Hood: Select Paintings  \nDeborah Colton Gallery  \nNovember 19\, 2016 through January 28\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 19\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Dorothy Hood: Select Paintings\, an exhibition featuring abstract paintings from Texas-native Dorothy Hood\, which presents artwork that spans four decades of her artistic career. The exhibition opens Saturday\, November 19\, with an opening reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, and one of the few female artists working in large-scale throughout the decades\, Dorothy Hood led an adventurous life. Born in Bryan\, Texas in 1918 and raised in Houston\, she won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design and went on to study at the Art Students League in New York. On a whim\, she drove a roadster to Mexico City with friends in 1941 for a two week tour and ended up staying for almost twenty years. Hood was front and center in the cultural\, political\, and social activity of Mexico and Latin America during a period of intense creative ferment. She developed close friendships with all the European exiles\, Latin American surrealists\, and Mexican social realists of the time — artists\, composers\, poets\, playwrights\, and revolutionary writers which influenced her art. In 1945\, she married the famous Bolivian composer José María Velasco Maidana and they traveled the world. \nIt was upon returning to Houston in 1961\, however\, that Hood produced the epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Over the next four decades\, she became a renowned and highly collected Texas painter whose works were spread across the United States. Her works are included in over 30 major museums throughout the United States\, as well as the collections of many individuals\, corporations and foundations. Upon Hood’s death from cancer in 2000\, a major portion of the artist’s estate\, including 1\,017 works of art as well as her archives and studio contents\, was acquired by the Art Museum of South Texas. \nA large-scale exhibition of Hood’s works is currently on view at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi\, accompanied by an exhibition monograph\, both which share a title: The Color of Being/El Color del Ser: Dorothy Hood (1918-2000). This exhibition marks the first major retrospective of her artwork and the monograph is the first in-depth scholarly analysis of her life and artistic career\, both of which include paintings\, works on paper\, and collages from the 1930s to her death. The Color of Being/El Color del Ser: Dorothy Hood (1918 – 2000) will be available for purchase at Deborah Colton Gallery. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Between: Daniel Kayne - Ivan Plusch
DESCRIPTION:Between: Daniel Kayne – Ivan Plusch \nExhibition Dates: May 7 to July 2\, 2016 \nPreview Opening Reception: Friday\, May 6th\, 6:00 to 8:30 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Between: Daniel Kayne – Ivan Plusch\, an exhibition featuring accomplished young Russian artist\, Ivan Plusch and the late Houston artist\, Daniel Kayne. This unique show includes large scale paintings on canvas and various mixed media works of these two talented and thoughtful artists. Although born into very different political and social environments\, both artists were inspired by a strong desire to create a positive difference through their works which are remarkably cohesive\, though also distinctly different. \n Ivan Plusch\, born in 1981\, is a young Russian artist on the rise and part of the Nepokorionnye Group. He is based in St. Petersburg and has studied in various art schools including the State Academy of Art and Design\, the Roerich Art School and the PRO ARTE Institute. Plusch is among a generation of artists who were still children at the time of the fall of the USSR and was influenced by the consequent sudden sociological and economic changes in his country in the early 90s. His work is heavily influenced by the effects from these changes… from the freedom of speech\, hard fought and regained with difficulties by the people and by their collective relationship with society. Whether influenced by the effects of alienation or of liberation\, the work of Plusch is more sophisticated and evolved than simply representing his sociological observations. \nWorking with a variety of mediums\, Plusch reinterprets the history of art and the norms of social realism\, in particular those of monumental sculpture by integrating them into his paintings. As an artist influenced by the thoughts and trends of Post-Soviet art\, Ivan Plusch plays with the image of a happy future and with elements of the former Communist Regime. Plusch also questions on a larger scale format\, the relationship of men within their environment. \nIvan Plusch’s work has been exhibited throughout Russia and worldwide including in France\, the Netherlands\, South Korea\, the United Kingdom and the Balkans. Most recently his work has been included the 2015 Venice Biennale at Glasstress Gotika which was a collaboration between the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and Venice’s Berengo Sutdio. His work is in prestigious private and public collections world-wide. The works presented at the Deborah Colton Gallery booth at the 2015 Houston Fine Art Fair marked the first presentation of Plusch’s works in the United States. \nDaniel Kayne was an award winning painter\, sculptor and performance artist born in Liberty\, Texas. His fascination at an early age with the act of creating ignited an insatiable passion for what was to become his career as an artist. Kayne’s work was first seen at the Deborah Colton Gallery in a 2006 solo exhibition Urban Mix. He later received a Master’s Degree from the University of Houston. His studies included painting at the Glassell School in Houston and painting and silk-screening at the New York School of Visual Arts. Kayne used both his Houston and New York studios to create his solo exhibition\, Dividing God which was shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2008. In 2008 also\, Kayne was honored twice\, first as the first place winner of Lawndale Art Center’s Big Show in Houston\, Texas and then by the Texas French Alliance for the Arts\, as their first annual art exhibit and competition winner. These awards allowed him to receive an art residency in Paris as well as an exhibit in Shenyang\, China. \nDaniel Kayne had a zest for exploring and understanding the world including spending much time in Iran and the Middle East in 2009 where he worked towards trying to bridge cultural gaps to create more world-wide peace and understanding. The body of works created from his time in Iran was featured at Deborah Colton Gallery during FotoFest of 2010. Through this exploration\, Kayne developed a higher level of thinking and attained a truly global and universal perspective. This self- actualization brought him to create a studio in Houston called The Temple where he spent much time meditating and thinking about the human living in the world today all as one within the universe and presenting his work. \nAs Daniel – Kayne evolved\, he started to donate more of his time to non-profit/ good-will projects\, including A Day With Art\, which benefited the AIDS Foundation Houston Teen Leadership Forum and Notre Soleil a public art installation created for the children of Leon Berard Hospital in Lyon\, France which is was fully dedicated to. In 2011\, Daniel Kayne’s solo exhibition at The MAC in Dallas reflected this change also and was both meditative and inspirational. This exhibition received much attention and continued to reveal his evolved spiritual journey. In 2013 Deborah Colton Gallery hosted a tribute exhibition of Daniel Kayne’s work entitled Reflections on Reality. The exhibition was a celebration of his life through his art and allowed his friends and collectors to reflect on Daniel Kayne’s life and accomplishments. Though the Houston art community suffered a great loss at Kayne’s passing\, his life’s vision and work continues to make a huge impact in the art world today. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make a positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Ushio Shinohara: ACTION! Boxing Paintings and Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:Ushio Shinohara  \nACTION! Boxing Paintings and Sculptures  \nMay 7\, 2016 through July 2\, 2016 \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Ushio Shinohara: ACTION! Boxing Paintings and Sculptures. The exhibition features the newest works by the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist\, Ushio Shinohara\, whose performative paintings are created with boxing gloves he uses like paintbrushes. His flashy\, multicolored three-dimensional sculptures are also included in the exhibition\, which nearly vibrates with the energy of the twenty-one works that comprise the show. \nBorn in Tokyo in 1932\, Ushio Shinohara (nicknamed “Gyu-chan”) is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist and international Pop painter who has lived and worked in the United States since 1969. His parents\, a tanka poet and Japanese painter\, instilled in him a love for artists such as Cézanne\, Van Gogh\, and Gauguin. Most recently known for his exuberant boxing paintings\, which are artifacts of his performances\, Ushio Shinohara works in several mediums\, including painting\, printmaking\, drawing and sculpture. His work was featured last year at Deborah Colton Gallery in the grand exhibition Love is a Roar-r-r!\, alongside works of his wife\, artist Noriko Shinohara\, whose series Cutie and the Bullie tells the story of their tumultuous relationship. Both were featured in the Academy Award nominated documentary\, Cutie and the Boxer\, which depicts their more than 40-year relationship as a couple and as artists. \nUshio Shinohara’s bright and frequently oversized work has been exhibited at prestigious international institutions\, including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art; Centre Georges Pompidou; the Guggenheim Museum\, New York; the Japan Society\, New York; the National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Pusa; and is currently exhibiting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Recently\, Ushio was also featured in two group exhibitions\, one entitled International Pop at the Dallas Museum of Art\, and the other The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop at the Tate Modern in London. Earlier last year his work was included in International Pop\, a landmark exhibition at the Walker Art Center that chronicles the global emergence of Pop art from the 1950s through the early 1970s. A recent New York Times article on the exhibition mentions: “Ushio Shinohara… engaged in a practice that might have been called punk if the concept had existed then…” \nUshio Shinohara is represented by Deborah Colton Gallery\, which was founded as an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media\, and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national\, and international artists to make a positive change. \n  \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Oleg Dou: Broken Mirror
DESCRIPTION:Oleg Dou  \nBroken Mirror  \nMarch 12\, 2016 through April 23\, 2016 \nArtist Reception: Saturday\, March 12th\, from 6:00 to 9:00pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Broken Mirror\, a solo exhibition of multimedia works by Russian artist\, Oleg Dou. This exhibition is the international debut of his newest body of work which\, reminiscent of previous collections\, explores the notion of exposing the inner self that hides behind our “social masks.” Oleg is known for his interest in human individuality and self-expression and attempts to solve the problem of identity in our times. The exhibition will open on Saturday\, March 12th\, with an artist reception from 6:00-9:00 pm that evening. \nIn Broken Mirror\, Oleg Dou reflects on the instability of world order and the clashing of civilizations. Civilizations which are each losing identity or finding alternative identities through the constant breakdown and rebuilding of their structures. Oleg believes these processes directly effect our reality and will create a world where in some ways we will be closer and in other ways further away from our true human nature. Through this exhibition he also explores his own identity and personal journey. \nOleg Dou has won countless International awards and has been exhibited in many major institutions worldwide including the Pingyao International Photography Festival (China)\, the Seoul Photo Festival (Korea)\, the FotoFestival Naarden (Netherlands) and the International Photography Awards. His works have exhibited twice at the Kandinsky Prize (2007 and 2008)\, which is the main contemporary art exhibition award in Moscow. Oleg Dou was also rated number 3 under 30 world wide according to Art Market Insight\, in their “30 under 30.. Up and Coming Photographers.” His artistic career continues to thrive as his work is consistently placed in prestigious public and private collections throughout the world. \nOleg Dou first exhibited at Deborah Colton Gallery during the 2012 FotoFest Biennial in Focus on Russia II and has also been featured by Deborah Colton Gallery at the Dallas Art Fair\, the Houston Fine Art Fair and ArtAspen. He has also shown in countries outside of the United States including France\, Belgium\, Germany\, Republic of Korea\, China\, Spain\, Poland and Turkey. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make a positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Paul: PROOF
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Paul  \nPROOF  \nCurated by Theresa Escobedo \nMarch 12th to April 23rd\, 2016 \nOpening Reception: March 12th\, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm Walking Tour & Discussion: Tuesday\, March 15th\, 2016\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present PROOF\, an exhibition that features work from the archive of Houstonborn artist Suzanne Paul. PROOF highlights influential characters in Houston’s art history and examines Suzanne’s unique approach to creating photography. With the dedicated and continued support of Founder and Director\, Deborah M. Colton to the well being of this art estate and Paul’s daughter\, Mercedes Mallard Paul since 2005 when Paul passed away\, PROOF has been curated by Theresa Escobedo\, who Colton appointed to carefully review the archives and help uncover these treasures of Houston art history. Viewing these archives from a new perspective coming from a younger generation\, Escobedo has created a fresh approach to Paul’s work which connects the past with the present. \nQuote from Theresa Escobedo: \n“The collection of photographic negatives\, slides\, prints and related memorabilia\, left in the possession and care of Deborah Colton Gallery at the artist’s’ passing in 2005\, now exists as evidence and affirmation of the health\, vitality\, and creative vigor of Houston’s alternative arts community from its early years to its present state. PROOF surveys this body of documentary photography and portraiture\, highlighting the artist’s extraordinary talent in capturing unfiltered impressions of her subjects\, and offers an intimate glimpse into the artist’s creative praxis.” \nSuzanne Paul\, a native Houstonian and avid photographer from a young age\, has made an inestimable contribution to representing the arts in Houston and to recording Houston’s art history. In intimate and revealing ways\, Paul has documented many of the artists\, patrons\, and community leaders who have shaped Houston’s art scene since the 1970s and 80s. Her introduction to the Houston Arts and launch of her career happened in 1976 when she was commissioned by James Harithas\, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, to photograph artists and installations for the museum’s publications and was offered the first solo photography exhibition by a woman at the museum. \nBorn in Houston\, Texas in 1945\, Suzanne Paul practiced photography from the age of nine. Paul received her BFA from the University of Houston in 1968 and did graduate work at the University of California\, Berkeley. In the 1960s Paul became a political activist for anti-war and civil rights causes. In Houston\, she photographed for the feminist magazine Breakthrough in the late 1970s. Paul has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, the Fort Worth Art Museum\, the Galveston Arts Center and the University of California\, San Francisco. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Collaborations: Artists Working Together in Houston at the Glassell School of Art and Texas Artists at the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York. In 1981 Paul received a National Endowment for the Arts Photo Survey Grant. Paul’s photographic works have been featured in both solo and group presentations by FotoFest International since its founding in 1983. Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery\, including at a memorial service in her honor in 2005. \nPROOF opens to the public on Saturday\, March 12th\, 2016\, with a reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and runs through April 23rd\, 2016. There will be a Walking Tour & Discussion of the exhibition with Elizabeth Avedon\, Catherine Anspon\, Mercedes Mallard Paul\, Theresa Escobedo and Deborah M. Colton on March 15th\, 2016\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hafez: Codes of Hermes
DESCRIPTION:Khaled Hafez  \nCodes of Hermes \nNovember 14\, 2015 through January 31\, 2016 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 14th\, from 6:00 to 9:00pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Codes of Hermes\, a solo exhibition of multimedia works from international artist Khaled Hafez. This exhibition is a personal diary in ten mystical chapters and will feature paintings as well as large video installations. Codes of Hermes marks Hafez’s first solo exhibition in the United States! The show opens Saturday\, November 14th\, with an opening reception from 6:00 – 9:00 pm that evening. \nIn Codes of Hermes\, Khaled Hafez proposes a series of mixed media paintings\, installation and video works\, coded with personal experience that continuously explore notions of identity\, the intimate\, migration and the struggle of wealth and power\, all visually coded in pictographs\, ideograms and—at times—déjà vu banal symbols from the consumer goods culture. The project Codes of Hermes is inspired from the merged concepts of the ancient Greek snake God Hermes and the Egyptian wisdom God Thoth. \nSome ancient cultures made Hermes the God of nature\, farmers and shepherds with shamanic attributes linked to divination\, reconciliation\, magic\, sacrifices\, experience-initiation and contact with other planes of existence\, a role of mediator between the worlds of the visible and invisible. Hafez draws on the physical attributes of the God to express hybridized cultures of today’s globalization; Hermes was the teacher of all secret wisdoms available to knowing by the experience of religious ecstasy\, and due to his constant mobility\, Hermes was considered the God of commerce and social intercourse\, the wealth brought in business\, travel\, roads and crossroads\, borders and boundary conditions\, agreements and contracts\, friendship\, hospitality\, sexuality (represented for over a decade in Hafez’s paintings by the symbol of the tulip) and playfulness. Playfulness and irony play a major role in the visual language of Hafez across all the mediums he uses to express; Hafez believes that both artist and viewer must enter a game of coded pleasures while living with the artwork. \nKhaled Hafez is a Cairo-based visual artist and filmmaker. Born in Cairo\, Egypt in 1963\, where he currently lives and works\, Hafez explores through painting\, film/video\, photography\, installation and interdisciplinary work elements of local identity exposed to the global consumer goods culture and uses irony to probe notions of subjugation\, equal rights\, games of wealth and power and changing social politics. His work has been shown at the 56th Venice Biennale (Italy\, 2015) and the 55th Venice Biennale (Italy\, 2014)\, 3rd Mardin Biennale (Turkey\, 2015)\, Manifesta 8 (Spain\, 2010) and in the USA (The Studio Museum in Harlem\, NY)\, France (Centre George Pompidou\, Paris); UK (British Museum)\, Germany (Kunstmuseum Bonn); Belgium (MuHKA Museum of Art)\, Greece (Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art); The Netherlands (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde); Sweden (Uppsala Museum of Art) and Brazil (Instituto Tomie Ohtake\, Sao Paolo) among other places. \nKhaled Hafez has exhibited in Houston during the 2014 FotoFest\, which focused on the Middle East and in the Group Exhibition\, “Mapping Strife” at Deborah Colton Gallery. His work was also featured at the 2014 Houston Fine Arts Fair. Khaled Hafez is represented by Deborah Colton Gallery throughout the Americas. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make a positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Noriko and Ushio Shinohara: Love is a Roar-r-r!
DESCRIPTION:Noriko and Ushio Shinohara \n Love is a Roar-r-r!  \nMay 2nd through July 11th\, 2015 \nBoxing Painting Performance: Friday\, May 1st\, 6:30 pm \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, May 2nd\, 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Love is a Roar-r-r!\, an exhibition by internationally-known artists Noriko and Ushio Shinohara\, featured subjects of the Academy Award nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer\, which explores the history of the couple’s often tumultuous marriage and their lives as artists. The exhibition will open on Saturday\, May 2nd 2915\, with a reception for the artists from 6:00 until 8:00 pm\, and will run through June 27th\, 2015. \nBorn in Tokyo in 1932\, Ushio Shinohara (nicknamed “Gyu-chan”)\, is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist who has lived and worked in the United States since 1969. His parents\, a tanka poet and Japanese painter\, instilled in him a love for artists such as Cézanne\, Van Gogh and Gauguin. Known for his boxing paintings\, which are artifacts of his performances\, Ushio works in several mediums including painting\, printmaking\, drawing and sculpture. \nUshio’s bright and frequently oversized work has exhibited at prestigious institutions internationally\, including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art; Centre Georges Pompidou; the Guggenheim Museum\, New York; the Japan Society\, New York; the National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Pusan; and soon at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Tate Modern\, among others. His work is currently included in International Pop\, a landmark exhibition at the Walker Art Center that chronicles the global emergence of Pop art from the 1950s through the early 1970. A recent New York Times article on the exhibition mentions Shinohara: “Ushio Shinohara… engaged in a practice that might have been called punk if the concept had existed then…” \n  \nThe New York Times: When the World Went Pop \nNoriko Shinohara was born in 1953 in Takaoka City\, Japan\, moved to New York in 1972 to study art\, and soon met Ushio in 1973. She has worked as an artist for many years\, but the work she is best known for is her Cutie and Bullie series that began in 2006. This series includes drawings\, paintings\, and prints that feature her characters Cutie and Bullie and are based on herself and Ushio. All of the Cutie and Bullie works are truthful to the point of discomfort and follow Cutie’s early trials of being married to an alcoholic older man and the difficulty of being an artist in New York. The scenes inspired by recent events show Cutie’s triumphs as her work and worth are finally being realized\, by both herself and the outside world. Noriko’s work has been exhibited frequently in New York and Japan\, and is part of the permanent collections of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Lowell Boyers: Vibrating\, Beyond All Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Lowell Boyers  \nVibrating\, Beyond All Knowledge  \nFebruary 28th through April 25th\, 2015 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 28th\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Vibrating\, Beyond All Knowledge\, a solo-exhibition of paintings by artist Lowell Boyers. Vibrating\, Beyond All Knowledge presents a selection of recent works from the artist that both investigate and demonstrate parallels between his creative and philosophical practices. The exhibition opens Saturday\, February 28th\, with a reception for the artist from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. \nA master painter\, Lowell Boyers is a graduate of the prestigious Yale University MFA program and the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA). His work has been included in both private and institutional exhibitions in Cologne\, Germany\, Abu Dhabi\, New York\, Los Angeles\, Houston\, Dallas and St Louis. Boyers lives and works in New York City. \nLowell’s paintings spark the phenomena of the creative imagination. His paintings have a spiritual nature that reflects the world in which we live our daily lives\, unleashed by flesh and bone. His work becomes a passageway that draws us in and plays with the fabric of everyday reality. Through the sweeping palette of acrylic resins\, and spectral colored inks\, Lowell’s paintings shift our view of the narrative activity and dimensions possible in figure painting. In this series of works\, the secret world of the figures blend with the relative physical world to create an experience of two occurrences at the same time. This modern fusing of time\, space\, and perception is a rarity and beautifully realized in Boyer’s contemporary paintings. \nTo quote Lowell\, “The creative impulse can cut through habitual phenomena\, how we see things\, feel things\, our perception of self\, our notion of body\, birth and death\, of appearance.” His creativity has successfully cut through the mundane converging boundaries into springboards for liberation. Lowell states\, “I see the creative imagination as a birthright belonging to every being\, and my work is fundamentally a textural portrayal of the unfolding blossoming of various stages of awakening to that active nature.” \nIn 2012\, Primavera Materia\, marked Boyers’ fourth exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery. The artist’s work was first seen at the Deborah Colton Gallery in the 2004 group exhibition Touch and Temperature: Art in the Age of Cybernetic Totalism\, curated by Michael Rees. Boyers’ artwork has also been featured by Deborah Colton Gallery with his 2006 solo exhibition Awakening\, at the 2007 Abu Dhabi Art Fair\, at many Dallas Art Fairs\, at his 2009 solo exhibition Emerge and in his 2010 solo exhibition Whispers of Becoming. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Olga Tobreluts: New Abilities
DESCRIPTION:Olga Tobreluts \nNew Abilities \nFebruary 28th through April 25th\, 2015 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 28th\, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present New Abilities\, the second solo-exhibition of multimedia works by Russian artist\, Olga Tobreluts. New Abilities explores adaptive evolution in human visual perception in the 21st century and offers new forms of visual expression that discuss the simulation of reality and “realness” in our advanced technological age. The exhibition opens Saturday\, February 28th\, with a reception for the artist from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm. \nTechnological progress and the gradual substitution of innate human ability with artificial intelligence have lead to a change in human perception of environment. The act of absorbing information filtered without discretion and void of meaningful or truly relevant context lends itself to a new condition in which individuals\, on our age of hyperconnectivity\, find themselves over stimulated\, especially visually\, yet in a state of ironic segregation and isolation: unconnected. \nHuman adaptation to this new modern condition suggests that the human brain is quickly evolving\, acquiring new functions in response to a fragmentary perception of reality. An overabundance of status updates\, commercials\, and information bits from the internet and the world of mass media facilitates the emergence of new visual abilities in humankind\, as a new kind of survival tactic\, as we begin to see and internalize the visual and informational worlds differently than those who lived before the 21st century. \nOf the works presented in New Abilities\, Tobreluts writes: \n“My new project is dedicated to the examination of new human abilities of visual perception through well-known works from of the old masters which are based on fantasy and colorful reminiscences. \nWhen the whole image is divided into fragments and then recomposed again\, it does not let our memory reconstruct the image to completion\, but does reward us with the feeling of recognition of the familiar ” \nBorn in 1970 in Murino\, Leningrad Oblast\, Russia\, Olga Tobreluts now lives in St. Petersburg and also has studios in Berlin\, Germany and San Tagliamento\, Italy. An accomplished artist who works with photography\, video\, painting and sculpture\, Olga is a pioneer of digital art movement in Russia and has belonged to the Neo-Academism group of artists\, The New Academy\, in St. Petersburg since 1994. This movement\, through traditionally pleasant and refined aesthetics\, addresses ideas of the “beautiful” the acquiescent-recreative and hedonism. Olga uses new media as a means of expressing her own system of poetics based on the dialectics of high and low academism: where the artist endeavors to strike a balance between high-style classical models and low-brow\, kitschy\, and crude models. \nOlga has had numerous solo museum exhibitions through out the world\, including in Belgium\, Germany\, France\, United Kingdom\, Spain\, Italy\, Netherlands\, Norway\, Sweden and Finland and has shown with American favorites like Tony Oursler and Cindy Sherman at the Tate Modern\, as well as countless other well known international artists. Her works have also been exhibited at such prestigious institutions as the Tate Modern in London\, the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg\, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow\, as well as at the Ostende Museum in Belgium and the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm\, among numerous others. Her works have been acquired by significant collections including at the MoMA\, NY\, the State Russian Museum\, the Ludwig Musuem\, the Baron von Stieglitz Museum\, the Mario Testino Foundation\, and the Wolfgang Joop Foundation. \nTwo comprehensive books written on her work and have also been featured in most major international contemporary arts publications and her work has been included in such publications as Art Actuel\, Flash Art\, ArtReview\, METROPOLISM\, ART\, and FOCUS. Her work as also been featured in premiere fashion publications such as W Magazine\, Vanity Fair\, Vogue Paris\, Vogue Russia\, and Vogue Germany and V Magazine. \nIn 2012 alone Olga had solo exhibitions Paris and St Petersburg\, and in Italy\, in addition to a five floor retrospective called The New Mythology at the MOMA Moscow. In 2013\, The New Mythology toured and was hosted in Yekaterinburg\, Russia; Rome\, Italy; and Berlin\, Germany. Her work was exhibited for the first time at Deborah Colton Gallery during the 2012 FotoFest Biennial in a solo exhibition\, Focus on Russia I and has also been featured in art fairs nationwide. Olga Tobreluts is represented by Deborah Colton Gallery throughout the United States. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Paintings by Lowell Boyers - ZaZa Art House Dallas
DESCRIPTION:Hotel Zaza Dallas & Deborah Colton Gallery Announce the second installment of the stay ZaZa Art Series\, Featuring artist Lowell Boyers \n  \nDALLAS\, Texas (January 14\, 2014) – Hotel ZaZa\, Texas’ fashionable boutique hotel brand\, launches the second installment of the Hotel ZaZa Art Series featuring the works of artist Lowell Boyers\, with an invitational reception taking place on Thursday\, January 29\, 2015 at the Stay ZaZa Art House & Social Gallery\, just adjacent to the Dallas property along McKinney Avenue. Boyers will be in attendance at the January 29th event to mingle and nosh alongside Dallas’ art enthusiasts and revelers alike. \nArt is top focus and main inspiration for the Hotel ZaZa brand\, as displayed throughout their hotels. Hotel ZaZa Dallas will host new art installations throughout the year within their Stay ZaZa Art House & Social venue. The ZaZa team has partnered with well-known art lover and curator Deborah Colton of Deborah Colton Gallery. The art series launched in October 2014 with noted photographer Jonas Mekas. Following Boyers’ exhibit\, the ZaZa team along with Colton are planning to bring other exciting and highly notable artist to Dallas for the continuing series They also have plans to incorporate handpicked\, local. up-and-coming artists within the city at dates later to be disclosed. \n  \nAbout Lowell Boers: \nA master painter\, Lowell Boyers is a graduate of the prestigious Yale University MFA program and the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA). His work has been included in both private and institutional exhibitions in Cologne\, Germany\, Abu Dhabi\, New York\, Los Angeles\, Houston\, Dallas and St Louis. Boyers lives and works in New York City. \nLowell’s paintings spark the phenomena of the creative imagination. His paintings have a spiritual nature that reflects the world in which we live our daily lives\, unleashed by flesh and bone. His work becomes a passageway that draws us in and plays with the fabric of everyday reality. Through the sweeping palette of acrylic resins\, and spectral colored inks\, Lowell’s paintings shift our view of the narrative activity and dimensions possible in figure painting. In this series of works\, the secret world of the figures blend with the relative physical world to create an experience of two occurrences at the same time. This modern fusing of time\, space\, and perception is a rarity and beautifully realized in Boyer’s contemporary paintings. \nTo quote Lowell\, “The creative impulse can cut through habitual phenomena\, how we see things\, feel things\, our perception of self\, our notion of body\, birth and death\, of appearance.” His creativity has successfully cut through the mundane converging boundaries into springboards for liberation. Lowell states\, “I see the creative imagination as a birthright belonging to every being\, and my work is fundamentally a textural portrayal of the unfolding blossoming of various stages of awakening to that active nature.” \nPrimavera Materia\, Boyers’ 2012 exhibition\, marked his third solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery. The artist’s work was first seen at Deborah Colton gallery in the 2004 group exhibition Touch and Temperature: Art int he Age of Cyberic Totalism\, curated by Michael Rees. Boyers’s artwork has also been feature with Deborah Colton Gallery in his 2006 solo exhibition Awakening\, at the 2007 Abu Dhabi Art Fair\, at many Dallas Art Fairs and the 2009 solo exhibition Emerge\, and his 2010 solo exhibition Whispers of Becoming. \n  \nAbout Deborah Colton: \nDeborah Colton is a patron of both the visual and performing arts in the United States and internationally\, having served as a Board Member of Exit Art and the Advisory Committee of Artadia (both in New York). Colton has been a Board Member of the Dallas McKinney Art Contemporary (MAC) since 2007 and currently also serves on the Advisory Board of Anthology Films Archives in New York. Deborah has also chaired and been actively involved in numerous fundraiser in the arts including the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater\, Fodice Foundation in Houston\, Exit Art in NYC and for Catherine D. Anspon’s “Texas Artists Today” Book. In Dallas\, Deborah has supported the Dallas Art Fair all six years by exhibiting there and also served on the Advisory Board in the Fair’s beginnings. She has also supported many institutions\, including the Crow Collection of Asian Art and the Dallas Symphony since her daughter\, Elizabeth\, was a 2013 Dallas Symphony Debutante. Deborah’s husband\, William Colton\, is the Vice President of Corporate Strategic Planning in ExxonMobil’s executive headquarters in Los Colinas. As a patron of the Arts in Texas she accepted the role as the Chair of the Houston Fine Arts Fair for 2014 and will also be the Co-Chair of the City Art Works “Art of Conversation” fundraiser in November 2015. \nRaised in Essex Fells and Summit\, New Jersey\, Deborah Colton has also lived and worked in Tokyo\, Bangkok\, New York\, New Haven\, Miami\, Houston and Dallas. Deborah became an active art patron in1993 when she and her family moved to Asia for her husband’s career. \nIn 1998 while living in Asia\, Deborah started Deborah Colton Gallery\, an international contemporary fine arts gallery\, with the vision that art can make a positive difference in the world. Deborah Colton Gallery has sponsored numerous exhibitions that featured artists from Asia\, the Middle East- Arab world\, Russia\, Canada\, Latin America and Europe\, with the goal of encouraging more world understanding and cross cultural exchange through arts. Deborah Colton is also the Co-Founder of OUTPOST NYC DCG\, the Deborah Colton Gallery virtual arts initiative. Deborah Colton has received numerous nominations and awards including various Who’s Who and the YWCA Women in Leadership\, Texas Women of the Arts Award. \nAbout Stay ZaZa Arthouse & Social Gallery: \nLocated in the heart of the vibrant and fashionable Uptown neighborhood\, lies one of the most unique Dallas venues: the Stay ZaZa Art House & Social Gallery. The space is considered as a truly one-of-a-kind location for business meeting\, social events\, and art exhibitions. From fashion installations and runway shows\, to photography\, painting\, sculpture\, pop up exhibits and seminars\, the possibilities for this unique backdrop are endless. This dynamic event space can accommodate large and small events. Through this venue\, Hotel ZaZa is able to showcase its full-service hotel and catering services\, while also offering creative freedom to the guest. Catering is provided by Dragonfly: A modern American Kitchen. \n  \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Sharon Kopriva: Illuminations
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Kopriva: Illuminations \nMay 17\, 2014 to June 26\, 2014 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, May 17th 6:00 – 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to announce\, Illuminations\, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings and sculpture by Houston artist Sharon Kopriva. Illuminations introduces a new series of self-portraits and surveys Kopriva’s artistic evolution as inspired by her Catholic upbringing and primitive culture\, awe-inspiring nature\, and the spiritual journey within that is marked by her recent foray into self-portraiture. The exhibition opens Saturday\, May 17th with a public reception for the artist from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \nIncluded in Illuminations are examples of Kopriva’s earlier works\, which the artist calls Terra (of the earth). That period involves an exploration of the Catholic religion and primitive culture\, especially Peru. Following this period was a reexamination of the artist’s own religion and a search for spiritual meaning\, which eventually evolved into what the artist calls Verde. Of this greener artistic period inspired by the experience of nature\, Susie Kalil writes: \n“Kopriva’s Verde paintings take their cue from the mountain forests of northern Idaho\, where she has a summer home. These images map the vaulted interiors and stained-glass windows of Gothic cathedrals onto the forest. The monumental Cathedral Green (2012) is loaded with cascades of meticulous brushwork and vertiginous build-outs of actual tree branches. All baroque curves and flickering light\, the work bristles with a newfound energy that is primal and perpetual.” \nSusie Kalil\, Art in America\, March 2013 \nIn 2013\, Kopriva was invited by the Art Museum of Southeast Texas to participate in the exhibition Mirrored and Obscured: Contemporary Texas Self-Portraits\, which prompted her to address her physical image in her art. The results are the first series of self as subject in the artist’s career. \nOf this time Kopriva writes\, “Fate found me emerging from a 30-year survey exhibition. It became a time for reflection. In the same period\, I had become more conscious of my physical condition. In November of 2011\, I hired a physical trainer\, chose a healthier diet and have become more fit. Time Traveling was the first to be completed and Metamorphosis is the most recent.” In this series of self-portraits Kopriva continues her exploration of universal themes from nature\, life and death\, and the human relationship with the spirit and the self. Kopriva\, in life and in art\, is in pursuit of illumination – a spiritual enlightenment achieved only through the exploration and expression of the self and the soul. \nOf this time Kopriva writes\, “Fate found me emerging from a 30-year survey exhibition. It became a time for reflection. In the same period\, I had become more conscious of my physical condition. In November of 2011\, I hired a physical trainer\, chose a healthier diet and have become more fit. Time Traveling was the first to be completed and Metamorphosis is the most recent.” In this series of self-portraits Kopriva continues her exploration of universal themes from nature\, life and death\, and the human relationship with the spirit and the self. Kopriva\, in life and in art\, is in pursuit of illumination – a spiritual enlightenment achieved only through the exploration and expression of the self and the soul. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Anker: Remote Sensing: Micro-landscapes and Untold Stories
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nFotoFest 2014: Suzanne Anker: Remote Sensing: Micro-landscapes and Untold Stories  \nMarch 14\, 2014 – April 26\, 2014 \nOpening Reception: Friday\, March 14\, 2014\, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Artist Talk: with Suzanne Anker\, Sunday\, March 16\, 2014\, 2:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery\, a participating space in the FOTOFEST 2014 Biennale\, is pleased to present Remote Sensing: Micro-landscapes and Untold Stories\, an exhibition of artworks from the accomplished visual artist and theorist Suzanne Anker. This exhibition opens on Friday\, March 14th with a public reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and an Artist Talk with Suzanne Anker on Sunday\, March 16th at 2:00 pm \nFrom microscopic imagery to video animations\, from time-lapse photography to rapid prototyped sculpture\, Remote Sensing\, is an ode to nature’s delicacy and decay. While high technology tools extend our vision to access sites yet unknown\, at the same time such intrusions can be dire. Remote Sensing: Micro-Landscapes and Untold Stories brings together underwater motifs of animals that look like flowers\, “vanitas” in Petrie dishes inspired by art history\, porcelain sponge sculptures that appear as coral or meteorites\, and high tech 3-D extruded sculptures which reference tiny wondrous landscapes. \nContinuing to work at the nexus of art and the biological sciences\, this exhibition brings into focus visions of a “future/natural” in which life’s ebb and flow\, always in flux\, combine with its synthetic other. In Anker’s work nothing is what it appears to be\, yet visual representations abound. Although there are many references to the “still life” as a genre in visual art\, the moving images address the fact that life is not still. \nWorking with images garnered from marine research centers such as Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and MOTE Marine Laboratory\, on Summerland Key in Florida\, the viewer becomes aware of the intricacies of nature and the need to preserve it. Other images are derived from the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico’s research facility in which samples are collected in the wild and housed in drawers and cabinets for further study. Not intended to be a scientific study of nature as data\, these images and objects talk at once to a scientific imaginary fused with cultural necessity. How we perceive the natural world is tantamount to discovery. How we re-imagine the living world as an interconnected network fuses what was once science fiction to the real. \nSuzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography and projected video\, to plants grown by the light of LEDs. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the first International Biennial in Cartagena\, Columbia\, the Walker Art Center\, the Smithsonian Institute\, the Phillips Collection\, P.S.1 Museum\, the JP Getty Museum\, the Mediznhistorisches Museum der Charite in Berlin\, the Center for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin\, the Pera Museum in Istanbul and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. \nThe Huffington Post: Seeing Ourselves: The Science and Art of Diagnostic Medical Imaging \nAnker is also presently the Chair of the Fine Arts Department of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan\, where she initiated and introduced the Nature and Technology Lab\, where students have the opportunity to engage with nature and art making simultaneously through multidisciplinary exploration known today as Bio Art. Anker lectures widely around the world\, including several Max-Planck Institutes\, Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam in the Netherlands\, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin\, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London\, Banff Art Center in Canada\, Yale University\, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico\, Mexico City any most recently at Harvard University. \nNew York Times: Where Art Studio Meets Science Lab  \nNew York Times: Technology: FOOTLIGHTS  \nNYCityWoman: Suzanne Anker: Doyenne of Bio Art \nIn Anker’s role as an educator she has been successful in publishing and contributing to many academic volumes which express an emphasis on the incorporation of scientific and technological influence to explore the ways in which our social\, ethical\, and cultural values are shaped. Publications of Anker’s include\, among many\, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age\, co-authored with the late sociologist Dorothy Nelkin\, published in 2004 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press\, Visual Culture and Bioscience\, co-published by University of Maryland and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington\, D.C. Her writings have appeared in Art and America\, Seed. Nature Reviews Genetics\, Art Journal\, Tema Celeste and M/E/A/N/I/N/G. Her work has been the subject of reviews and articles in the New York Times\, Artforum\, Art in America\, Flash Art\, and Nature. She has been a speaker at Harvard University\, the Royal Society in London\, Cambridge University\, Yale University\, the London School of Economics\, the Max-Planck Institute\, University of Leiden\, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin\, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London\, Banff Art Center and many others. Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005\, Ms. Anker continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s new digital initiative. \nNew York Times: ART REVIEW; The Haunting Terrain Between Creation and Science \nSuzanne Anker debuted at Deborah Colton Gallery during the 2004 October – November exhibition\, Touch and Temperature: Art in the Cybernetic Totalism. Curated by Michael Rees\, this group exhibition investigated the ways in which new technologies have been incorporated into the fine arts. Examples presented in the exhibition included computational video and rapid protyped sculptures. In 2005 Anker had an expansive solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, titled Future Natural\, which introduced themes much ahead of their time. This exhibition brought together Suzanne Anker’s work in the areas of neuroscience and genetics and consisted of paintings\, sculptures and prints\, images of chromosomes\, brain scans\, and Rorschach tests combined with scripts and butterflies to create a morphology of symmetry and codes. \nTouch and Temperature: Art in the Cybernetic Totalism Suzanne Anker: Artist Talk from Touch and Temperature: Art in the Cybernetic Totalism Suzanne Anker: Future Natural  \nDuring FotoFest of 2008\, Anker had a solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, titled Bio-Blurbs\, which presented a series of photographic works by Anker\, which were inspired by the transformation of matter through scientific investigation\, namely botanical inquiry. This exhibition showcased Suzanne Anker’s photographic and animation works. Bringing together several motifs such as pictorial representations of animals at markets\, scientific laboratories with overlaid gardens\, and fetuses housed in glass vessels\, this show questioned the differences in values concerning life forms. \nSuzanne Anker currently has an exhibition at the MAC in Dallas\, While Darkness Sleeps\, which debuts a new series of artworks. As in previous exhibitions Anker continues to explore life/death continuums in various forms through her work. An excerpt of this work will also be shown at the Deborah Colton Gallery booth at the 2014 Dallas Art Fair this April. \nPaperCity Magazine: Art Notes \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Soody Sharifi: The Space Within
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nFotoFest 2014: Soody Sharifi: The Space Within  \nMarch 14\, 2014 – April 26\, 2014 \nOpening Reception: Friday\, March 14\, 2014\, 6:00 – 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery\, a participating space in the FOTOFEST 2014 Biennale\, is pleased to present The Space Within\, an exhibition of artworks from Iranian-American artist Soody Sharifi. The Space Within is a photographic exploration of the expansive and contradictory territory that lies between public identity and private self. This exhibition opens on Friday\, March 16th with a public reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \nThe Space Within addresses an internal conflict\, the condition of being at once a part of and apart from one’s culture. Through a series of self-conscious portraits and fantastic desert tableaus\, this exhibition explores the conceptual space where private and public impinge upon one another. \nFocusing on personal side of things\, the portraits develop the theme of public and private as one of internal negotiation. Haunted faces hint at vast inner landscapes\, where conflicted men and women struggle to separate who they really are from what they feel compelled to be. Traditional gender expectations loom large\, but introspective poses and dreamy gazes clue the viewer not to take the conflation of self-identity and public persona at face value. \nWhile a group of oversized photographic collages shifts the perspective from the personal to the political. In these surreal desert landscapes\, populated by figures plucked from the medieval miniature tradition\, the encounter between private and public reads more as clash than collaboration. Playfully exploding the viewer’s sense of time and place\, these works cast their hapless characters into an imaginative arena\, where\, in a series of encounters both humorous and violent\, they are condemned to play out the perennial conflicts between the individual and society. Both genders battle with the forces of authority and tradition\, enacting scenes that are both timeless and timely. \nSoody Sharifi is an Iranian/American artist based in Houston. Her work primarily deals with the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in living between cultures—cultures being broadly and variously conceived. In many of her series\, she has explored the notion of identity and what it means to participate in a particular culture from both an outsider’s and an insider’s perspective. She has investigated this concept as it applies to Moslem youth in Iran and the USA\, and as it applies to women as archetypal insideroutsiders within their respective cultures. \nSharifi\, a 2011 Jameel Prize nominee\, has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including at the Baku Biennial of Contemporary Art\, Azerbaijan\, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London\, L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris\, at the Contemporary Arts Museum\, Houston and in museum group exhibitions in Norway and Finland. Her work has been collected by major patrons worldwide and is included in the collections of such institutions as the Portland Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Art Houston\, among others. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Paul Horn: Ancient Aliens
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nPaul Horn: Ancient Aliens  \nFebruary 1 to March 8\, 2014 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 1st\, 2014\, 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Ancient Aliens\, an exhibition of new artworks from artist Paul Horn. Ancient Aliens\, as with all Paul Horn productions\, is a commentary on the pulse of popular culture in the present. This exhibition opens on Saturday\, February 1st with a public reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm in conjunction with the Bert L. Long Jr. exhibition and fundraiser. \nPaul Horn is an enthusiastic Houston based artist and curator best known for his collaged “pop ups” and assemblages works which incorporate comics\, cartoon characters\, action figures and other plastic toys and his outlandishly curated art exhibitions and events. His exhibits and events are known for their originality and high energy that always attract large crowds. He has curated several exhibitions\, including Paul-Mart for Plastic Fantastic in 2011\, Use Your Illusion in 2011\, and the very successful Camp Lucky for Deborah Colton Gallery in 2004 that attracted over 1\,200 people. This historical Houston evening which helped permanently change the art scene for the positive in the First Ward Artist Studio area. \nHorn’s curatorial projects\, exhibitions\, and unique art events include wide varieties of media from installation to performance controlled by a contorted Pop environment. His curatorial debut at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Camp Lucky\, invited key artists like Scott Burns\, Sharon Engelstein\, Mark Flood\, Jeremy Eilers\, Bill Davenport\, Francessca Fuchs\, Rachel Hecker\, Kyle Hendricks\, Aimee Jones\, Anthony Liberto\, Theresa O’Connor\, Aaron Parazette\, Jenny Schlief and Jason Villegas\, from galleries throughout the city and included interactive performances and collaborations with the Art Guys\, I Love you Baby and others. Taking a pretty dead part of town before Deborah Colton Gallery opened it 6\,500 square foot Gallery on the top floor the artist studio building of 2500 Summer Street a few months earlier\, the impact this exhibition/happening had on the city gave a surge of energy to this district\, causing Winter Street to be bought and restored shortly thereafter and the First Ward eventually becoming an Arts District for artist studios with Deborah Colton Gallery’s impact and continued support in the area through 2008. Paul Horn’s most recent curated collaborative Paul-Mart\, which proclaimed “Stackin’ Em High\, Sellin’ ‘Em Cheap\,” paralleled and parodied the Wal-Mart concept\, commenting on democratic retailing and discount volumes; all art offerings were priced at $99.99 or less at Deborah Colton Gallery’s Plastic Fantastic exhibition\, curated by Catherine D. Anspon. \nHorn carefully orchestrates exhibitions that contextualize artwork in non-traditional exhibition environments meant to enhance the viewing experience. Using venues from a Holiday Inn to an elevator carriage\, he has not only made the art a focal point but questions the way we view the work as well. He continues to question the role of artist as curator and finds new and interesting ways to contextualize work by a range of established and upcoming artists. \nHorn began his art career during his graduate studies at the University of Houston (1999-2001). He was represented by the Texas Gallery until moving to Deborah Colton Gallery and since then has collaborated on four previous exhibitions and performance art installations with the Deborah Colton Gallery. Previous shows were staged in Houston’s Quick Mart Convenience Store and at a Holiday Inn. He has also shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum of South Florida’s University and the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita\, Kansas\, the Dallas Art Fair\, the Houston Art Fair among others. Horn’s work has been reviewed by Art in America and ArtForum and is in many prominent private and institutional collections. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Bert: Back and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nBert: Back and Beyond  \nFebruary 1 to March 8\, 2014 \nOpening Reception and Fundraiser: Deborah Colton Gallery\, Saturday\, February 1st\, 2014\, 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nFebruary 1st\, 2014 marks the anniversary of Bert Long’s passing to Beyond\, but he is still with us always … and his presence will come back in full glory for this joyful event of his works and life! \nA celebration of Bert L. Long Jr. and a fundraiser for his book\, Riding the Tiger: The Art and Life of Bert L. Long Jr. and the Bert Long Foundation. \n Host Committee  \nThe Art Guys John Alexander Blazek & Vetterling LLP Cyndy Allard Catherine D. Anspon George Barnstone Joan Batson Dr. William Camfield Jereann Chaney Deborah M. Colton Sara Balinskas and Jeff Debevec Jim Edwards Dr. Carolyn Farb\, hc Joe Havel Melanie Lawson and John Guess Jr. Kirk Hopper Toby Kamps George O. Jackson de Llano Sharon and Gus Kopriva Rick Lowe Dr. Penelope and Lester Marks Poppi Massey Tatiana and Craig Massey Star and Jack Massing Angelbert Metoyer Robert Morris Valerie Cassel Oliver Marilyn Oshman Erin and Adrian Patterson Diane Rudy Manny Sanchez Linda Shearer Charmain Locke and James Surls Cynthia Toles Dr. Alvia Wardlaw Clint Willour  \n  \nComplimentary valet\, cocktails and delectables. \nMusic: Blues Legends\, Texas Johnny Boy & Milton Hopkins \nMaster of Ceremonies: The Art Guys \n$25 donation at door to Houston Artists Fund to benefit Bert’s book. https://houstonartistsfund.org \nThe Houston Artists Fund is a §501 (c)(3) tax-exempt public charity that serves as an umbrella organization for the Houston arts community. It was created to fiscally sponsor art-related projects and organizations that intend to raise funds from individuals\, foundations\, and corporate donors\, but do not have their own tax-exempt status. During the past twelve years\, the Houston Artists Fund has sponsored projects for publications for Lucas Johnson\, Charles Schorre\, MANUAL\, James Surls\, George O. Jackson and Bernard Brunon. Current projects include a book about Bert L. Long Jr.\, and a biography of John and Dominique de Menil by William Middleto. \nArtwork sales are through Deborah Colton Gallery where a portion of the sales will be used to start the Bert Long Foundation. The exhibition is in conjunction with Kirk Hopper Gallery\, Dallas. \nMore details on Bert: Back & Beyond can be found on www.deborahcoltongallery.com\, under Artists section and Future Exhibitions. \nBert L. Long Jr.\, was self-taught artist\, was born in 1940 in Texas\, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a master chef Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in 1979. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work\, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas\, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, and artists John Alexander\, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate\, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work. \nLong’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history\, along with complex philosophical and social issues. Long describes the philosophy behind his work as “a quest to help people diagnose their inner self\,” believing his art to be “the vehicle to help facilitate the process.” \n“As artists we have the obligation to provide the world with art which communicates as truth. I believe that art has the power to heal our souls of their afflictions. I try to create art which helps to diagnose the prevalent conditions within our societies\, hopefully providing an insightfulness which will help us all become brothers and sisters united in equality and compassion” – Bert L. Long\, Jr. \nThe late Peter Marzio\, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, said of Bert Long: \n“Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful\, but as [his artworks] testify\, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.” \nOver Long’s 33-year career as a painter\, sculptor\, and photographer\, he was awarded several significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. Other notable awards of Long’s include the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award in 2009\, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant in 1997\, The Rome Prize Fellowship\, 1990-91\, the Houston Art League Texas Artist of the Year in 1990\, the NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant\, 1987 and the Bemis Foundation Residency in 1998. His work can be seen in over 100 private and public collections worldwide\, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Dallas Museum of Art\, Houston Museum of Fine Art\, Blanton Museum of Art\, the El Paso Museum of Art and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain. \nThough the Houston art community suffered a great loss at Long’s passing last February\, his life’s vision and work continue to make a huge impact in the art world of today. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Jonas Mekas: LIFE GOES ON…I KEEP SINGING\, Part Two
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery \nLIFE GOES ON… I KEEP SINGING\, Part Two \nJanuary 2 through January 25\, 2014 \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present selected works and video installations by Jonas Mekas in an exhibition entitled “LIFE GOES ON… I KEEP SINGING” which includes still frame photographs produced from material from Mekas’s films. The exhibition opens November 9th and continues through December 28th\, 2013. The Gallery will host an Artist Reception open to the public on Sunday\, November 10th at 2:00 pm\, which will include a Q+A with Jonas Mekas and Deborah M. Colton. \nJonas Mekas is the Founder of Anthology Films in New York\, a filmmaker\, poet\, writer\, and artist. Jonas Mekas captured moments that we all cherish in art history\, in American history\, in life… from filmmakers\, Salvador Dali\, Kennedy’s\, Warhol\, Yoko Ono and John Lennon\, Elvis Presley\, the World Trade Center… to the more personal special moments of nature\, his family\, being human and celebrating life\, cherishing each experience to the fullest. \nJonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai\, Lithuania. In 1949 he emigrated to the U.S. together with his brother\, settling in New York. He has been one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking playing various roles: in 1954 he founded Film Culture magazine; in 1958 began writing his “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice; in 1962 co-founded the Film-Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) and in 1964 the Film-makers’ Cinematheque\, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives. His own output varies from narrative films (Guns of the Frees\, 1961) to documentaries (The Brig\, 1963) and to “diaries” such as Walden (1969)\, Lost\, Lost\, Lost (1975) and As I was Moving Ahead\, and Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001). Known as an artist\, filmmaker\, art critic\, curator and icon of contemporary American Culture\, Mekas documented the era that promoted peace through his acclaimed independent film and still frame photography\, which features Yoko and John in Happy Birthday to John and Bed-In. His films have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world. In 2005 he represented Lithuania at the Venice Biennale\, the exhibition was noted with Special Mention price for extraordinary presentation of contemporary classic art. \nThrough his accomplished career as a filmmaker\, visual artist\, writer and organizer\, Jonas Mekas has received awards from New York State Council on the Arts\, Rockefeller Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Golden Medal from Philadelphia College of Art\, “For the devotion\, passion and selfless dedication to the rediscovery of the newest art\,” Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966\, Creative Arts Award in 1977\, Brandeis University in 1989; Mel Novikoff Award at San Francisco Film Festival\, 1992; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from Ministry of Culture\, France in 1992 and 2000; Lithuanian National Award\, 1995; Doctor of Fine Arts\, Honoris Causa from Kansas City Art Institute in 1996; Special Tribute\, New York Film Critics Circle Awards in 1996; Pier Paolo Pasolini Award\, Paris in 1997; International Documentary Film Association Award\, Los Angeles\, 1997; Governors Award\, Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, 1997; Artium Doctoris Honoris Causa\, Universitatis Vytauti Magni\, Lithuania in 1997. \nIn 2011 Jonas Mekas was honored at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s award ceremony for his significant contribution to American film culture and had a solo exhibition at Ludwig Museum in Cologne\, Germany. Last December Mekas participated in an extensive presentation at Serpentine Gallery\, London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Most recently there opened an exhibitions of his works at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg\, Russia\, at the Cinémathèque Royale and the Bozar Center for Fine Arts\, both in Brussels\, Belgium. \nJonas Mekas is a featured artist and special guest of the 2013 Houston Cinema Arts Festival\, which will present his film Sleepless Night Stories as part of the festival’s “Cinema on the Verge” programming that highlights the most adventurous film and installation work by experimental media artists. Sleepless Night Stories debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011 and continues to enthrall audiences with Mekas’s recording the seemingly mundane happenings in his life. \nDeborah Colton Gallery first debuted Jonas Mekas in Houston in the solo exhibition Film Framed at 2500 Summer Street in 2005. In 2007\,Jonas Mekas was also included in the Group Exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Chemical City. Since then Deborah Colton Gallery continues to represent Jonas Mekas\, including a one-man solo exhibtion at Paris Photo Los Angeles in April of 2013\, and through projects via the Gallery’s OUTPOST NYC DCG. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Jonas Mekas: LIFE GOES ON…I KEEP SINGING
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nLIFE GOES ON… I KEEP SINGING \n November 9 through December 28\, 2013 \nPublic Artist Reception: Sunday\, November 10\, at 2:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present selected works and video installations by Jonas Mekas in an exhibition entitled “LIFE GOES ON… I KEEP SINGING” which includes still frame photographs produced from material from Mekas’s films. The exhibition opens November 9th and continues through December 28th\, 2013. The Gallery will host an Artist Reception open to the public on Sunday\, November 10th at 2:00 pm\, which will include a Q+A with Jonas Mekas and Deborah M. Colton. \nJonas Mekas is the Founder of Anthology Films in New York\, a filmmaker\, poet\, writer\, and artist. Jonas Mekas captured moments that we all cherish in art history\, in American history\, in life… from filmmakers\, Salvador Dali\, Kennedy’s\, Warhol\, Yoko Ono and John Lennon\, Elvis Presley\, the World Trade Center… to the more personal special moments of nature\, his family\, being human and celebrating life\, cherishing each experience to the fullest. \nIn addition to the video created for this exhibition\, FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE that is cohesive with the main gallery room exhibition\, Deborah Colton Gallery will be featuring the video WTC HAIKUS. 2010. As Mekas describes this:\n“‘Looking through my finished and unfinished films\, I was surprised how many glimpses of the World Trade Center I caught during my life in SoHo. I had a feeling I was Hokusai glimpsing Mount Fuji. Only that it was the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center was an inseparable part of my and my family’s life during my SoHo period from 1975-1995. This installation is my love poem to it. My method in constructing this piece was simply to pull out images of the WTC from my original footage\, while including some of the surrounding scenes. The result I felt came close\, albeit indirectly\, to what in poetry is known as the Haiku.” \nJonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai\, Lithuania. In 1949 he emigrated to the U.S. together with his brother\, settling in New York. He has been one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking playing various roles: in 1954 he founded Film Culture magazine; in 1958 began writing his “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice; in 1962 co-founded the Film-Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) and in 1964 the Film-makers’ Cinematheque\, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives. His own output varies from narrative films (Guns of the Frees\, 1961) to documentaries (The Brig\, 1963) and to “diaries” such as Walden (1969)\, Lost\, Lost\, Lost (1975) and As I was Moving Ahead\, and Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001). Known as an artist\, filmmaker\, art critic\, curator and icon of contemporary American Culture\, Mekas documented the era that promoted peace through his acclaimed independent film and still frame photography\, which features Yoko and John in Happy Birthday to John and Bed-In. His films have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world. In 2005 he represented Lithuania at the Venice Biennale\, the exhibition was noted with Special Mention price for extraordinary presentation of contemporary classic art. \nThrough his accomplished career as a filmmaker\, visual artist\, writer and organizer\, Jonas Mekas has received awards from New York State Council on the Arts\, Rockefeller Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Golden Medal from Philadelphia College of Art\, “For the devotion\, passion and selfless dedication to the rediscovery of the newest art\,” Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966\, Creative Arts Award in 1977\, Brandeis University in 1989; Mel Novikoff Award at San Francisco Film Festival\, 1992; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from Ministry of Culture\, France in 1992 and 2000; Lithuanian National Award\, 1995; Doctor of Fine Arts\, Honoris Causa from Kansas City Art Institute in 1996; Special Tribute\, New York Film Critics Circle Awards in 1996; Pier Paolo Pasolini Award\, Paris in 1997; International Documentary Film Association Award\, Los Angeles\, 1997; Governors Award\, Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, 1997; Artium Doctoris Honoris Causa\, Universitatis Vytauti Magni\, Lithuania in 1997. \nIn 2011 Jonas Mekas was honored at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s award ceremony for his significant contribution to American film culture and had a solo exhibition at Ludwig Museum in Cologne\, Germany. Last December Mekas participated in an extensive presentation at Serpentine Gallery\, London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Most recently there opened an exhibitions of his works at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg\, Russia\, at the Cinémathèque Royale and the Bozar Center for Fine Arts\, both in Brussels\, Belgium. \nJonas Mekas is a featured artist and special guest of the 2013 Houston Cinema Arts Festival\, which will present his film Sleepless Night Stories as part of the festival’s “Cinema on the Verge” programming that highlights the most adventurous film and installation work by experimental media artists. Sleepless Night Stories debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011 and continues to enthrall audiences with Mekas’s recording the seemingly mundane happenings in his life. \nDeborah Colton Gallery first debuted Jonas Mekas in Houston in the solo exhibition Film Framed at 2500 Summer Street in 2005. In 2007\,Jonas Mekas was also included in the Group Exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Chemical City. Since then Deborah Colton Gallery continues to represent Jonas Mekas\, including a one-man solo exhibtion at Paris Photo Los Angeles in April of 2013\, and through projects via the Gallery’s OUTPOST NYC DCG. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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SUMMARY:Frank Rodick: Selections from Labyrinth of Desire
DESCRIPTION:McKinney Avenue Contemporary\, Dallas\, Texas\n\n\nMarch 23\, 2013 to May 11\, 2013\n\n  Save  
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LOCATION:The MAC\, 1503 S Ervay Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75215\, United States
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SUMMARY:Harif Guzman: Dying to Live
DESCRIPTION:Harif Guzman \nDying to Live \nFebruary 23 through April 20\, 2013 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 23\, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present the Texas debut of artist Harif Guzman with his solo exhibition Dying to Live. Dying to Live opens Saturday\, February 23\, 2013 with a reception for the artist 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \nHarif Guzman\, born in Venezuela\, spent much of his childhood surrounded by his mother and sisters And was influenced strongly by his father (a printer and typesetter). As a little boy in 1980\, Guzman came New York City. Guzman calls New York not only home\, but his canvas and inspiration. The inspiration of his work derives from mechanical reproduction and the hands-on kill-based technique that refuses the deadening effects of iconographical conformity. Further inspiration is the result of Guzman’s earliest experiences of image making and the honest craft that he encountered working in his father’s print workshop as a boy. The subsequent trajectory of his path from shop worker\, street-smart skate punk\, busboy\, and valet\, to the art gallery\, involves an alchemical shift as humble cast-offs become Fine Art gold in his studio. \nGuzman’s work explores the idea of behavior and human transformation. The reclaimed materials Guzman employs are not just physical elements but deeply rooted second hand imagery that characterizes the contemporary urban existence. At times portraying urban life as simply an assemblage of humanity\, Guzman simultaneously forces the concept of a deeper\, in-depth individuality. This individuality is subtle and purposely consumed within Guzman’s works. \nRelevant themes of power\, death and money become romanticized as Guzman exposes human addictions within culture extremes. He collectively explores the concept of behavior adjacent to obsession yet individually and aggressively exploits it through visually capturing commonality and the elemental functions that drive us. Circumventing the traditionally approved arc that takes an artist from art school to art gallery\, Guzman’s unorthodox route from the basemetal street artist to the gold of the accomplished work centers his attention in a stylish\, contemporary urban idiom. \nHarif Guzman’s works have been included in numerous international exhibitions in London\, Tokyo\, Sydney as well as throughout the United States in New York\, Miami\, San Francisco\, and Los Angeles. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, and conceptual and future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  Save  
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