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SUMMARY:Joanne Freeman: New York Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is thrilled to announce New York Conversation\, an upcoming exhibition of new work by Joanne Freeman. New York Conversation is Freeman’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will be accompanied by a group show curated by Freeman titled Betty and Veronica. They will run concurrently from January 5th – February 11th\, 2023. \n  \n“New York Conversation references my studio process\, and metaphorically describes the random thoughts\, snippets of conversation\, lyrics and memories that ebb and flow over the course of a painting. Visual signs\, nostalgia and the emotional residue of color\, guide my aesthetic choices\,” Freeman says. While intuitive\, Freeman’s stencil-like forms and irregular hard-edge curves harken Modernism and minimalist sensibilities. This is heightened by a palette of saturated primary colors\, or monochromatic works.   “My paintings reference forms found in architecture and design\,” she says.  “I create compositions based on loose geometry and layered saturated colors. The hard edge process of cutting shapes and layering color onto treated raw linen\, recalls qualities of mid-century low-tech graphics\, color field painting and collage\,” she continues.  \n  \nThe forms are hard-edged while still breathy and organic.  The subtle transparencies at the edges of the forms and the contrast of the brushstrokes across the tooth of linen reveal the artist’s hand. “When applying oil paint to linen I try to accentuate the inherent qualities of both mediums\,” she says. “ I consider both the transparency and opacity of the colors\, how they abut and overlap\, and how they respond to the textured tooth of the linen.” She is mindful of each medium’s materiality when painting.  Her saturated colors in either gouache or oil paint are absorbed by the handmade paper or linen\, enhancing the modernist flatness of her forms and use of space. “My reductive abstract paintings are about the beauty of singular color\, the impact of pure abstract forms and the quiet order that cuts through the noise\,” Freeman says.  \n  \nJoanne Freeman has had solo exhibitions in galleries around the United States\, and shown at The Queens Museum\, Zillman Art Museum University of Maine\, The Painting Center\, and the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She’s a 2021 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant\, and the Vice President of the American Abstract Artists organization. She has her M.A in Studio Art from New York University\, and lives and works in New York City. \n  Save  
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LOCATION:Kathryn Markel Fine Arts\, 529 West 20th\, Suite 6W\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023 Winter Juried Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:BLUE MOUNTAIN GALLERY is pleased to present the work of 47 artists\, 51 pieces of artwork\, selected by Eric Holzman for this year’s winter juried exhibition. The artists\, drawn from over two hundred applicants from across the country\, work in a wide range of media\, including oil\, acrylic\, pastel\, gouache\, photography and mixed media.  \n​Heidi Alamanda \, Marilyn Allen\, Hilary Houston Bachelder\, James Baker\, Nina Kardon Baran\, Bob Barnett\, Raymond Berry\, Leslie Blackmon\, Pam Bowers\, Nancy Breakstone\, Karina Cavat\, Audrey Cohn-Ganz\, Elizabeth Courtney\, Anne Delaney\, Stephanie DeManuelle\, Kiran K Dhaliwal\, Janine Dunn Wade\, Melanie Essex\, Tom Fitzharris\, Meghan Fleming\, Nancy Granda\, Theresa Heidig Rooney\, Teresa Jade Jarzynski\, Moishe Kampin\, Sam Kelly\, Michele King\, Laura Levine\, Pattie Lipman\, Aaron Lubrick\, Manuel Alejandro Macarrulla\, James McKenna\, Elizabeth Meyersohn\, Mark. Milroy\, Blake Morgan\, Arnaldo J Rivera Rivera\, Gail Rodney\, Rebecca Gray Rolke\, Roxy Rubell\, Alyssa Schmidt\, Abbey Stace\, Leslie Ross Stephens\, Yuri Tayshete\, Preston Trombly\, Laura Vahlberg\, Ekaterina Vanovskaya\, Aidan White and Lenore Wolf. \n​Juror ERIC HOLZMAN has been painting and searching for connection in nature and other representational genres all his life. He is a romantic and a classicist who looks into the inner nature of things and tries to walk “The Beauty Way.” He was educated at Tyler School of Art\, Yale\, Skowhegan and the New York Studio School. Eric has taught at Pratt\, the New York Studio School\, and Bard College among others. He is a National Academician and has exhibited twice at the American Academy\, winning awards from both institutions.  Eric has also shown work at Lori Bookstein\, Tibor de Nagy\, Sideshow and Artist Equity\, all in NYC\, and at Gremillion Fine Art and Ellio Fine Art in Houston\, Texas. He has received many honors\, including grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the NEA\, the Pollock Krasner Foundation\, the Gottlieb Foundation and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Website: www.ericholzman.com \n\n  Save  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/2023-winter-juried-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Blue Mountain Gallery\, 547 W 27th St\, Suite 200\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:August-September @ Art Works!
DESCRIPTION:Throughout August Art Works is open to the public\, offering a variety of engaging exhibits. Adam and Anita Bradley present life-size figurative sculptures and paintings capturing a chaotic world. Mike Bily’s exhibit investigates ecosystems; Sharon Denmark captures light flowing through glass. Rachel Rowden exhibit is a portal of mysteries and Rebecca Visger provides a view from behind the wheel. Blake Bottoms exhibit is featured in the Community Bridge Project. \n  \nJoin us for a fun-filled scavenger hunt with prizes\, perfect for both the young and the young at heart. The activity culminates with prizes for all who participate. We also offer figure drawing sessions on the 1st and 3rd Sundays and Queer Life Drawing at Gold Lion Community Café on August 20th.  \n  \nBradley + Bradley: The Weight of Vanishing Shadows \nAdam and Anita Bradley explore the human condition through their unique mediums. Adam presents life-sized figurative sculptures in wood\, steel\, ceramics\, and smaller bronze pieces\, reflecting themes of anxiety\, loss\, and grief. Anita complements this with layered paintings and mixed media collages\, capturing the struggle for order in a chaotic world. Their intertwined approaches invite contemplation of deep human experiences. \n  \nThe exhibition will be in the Jane Sandelin Gallery at Art Works and will continue through September 20\, 2025. \n  \n  \nArtifacts by Anne Chamblin \nAnne Chamblin’s work is about merging sight and feeling. For her\, painting is a way to process what she experiences. She brings spaces\, places\, and faces to life on canvas\, turning bodies into landscapes and using layers to hint at the passage of time. Anne constantly reworks her paintings\, always keeping a bit of the past to shape the present. Her journey is grounded in everyday experiences\, resulting in unique\, relatable art. \n  \nThe exhibit will be in the Centre Gallery at Art Works through September 20\, 2025. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nBetween Worlds by Hannah Anderson \n  \nAmerican abstract artist Hannah Anderson (b. 1953)\, raised in the simplicity of a Quaker household\, rediscovered her love for painting in 1990 with a Crayon watercolor set. Self-taught and inspired by contemporary artists\, her work reflects the light and dark periods of her life\, blending elements of nature and archetypal symbols from healing traditions. Her debut exhibit\, Between Worlds\, explores the liminal space between worlds and relationships. Hannah resides in Richmond\, Virginia\, and finds inspiration in Taos\, New Mexico. \n  \nThe exhibit will be in the Corner Gallery at Art Works through September 20\, 2025. \n  \n\nMental Health Matters: Celebrating Resilience Through Art All Media Show\nThis exhibit is a focal point of all Art Works’ openings. It is a juried show with cash prizes for 1st\, 2nd and 3rd place. The show is open to all artists and all mediums. \n  \nIn August the theme is Mental Health Matters: Celebrating Resilience Through Art. The community has donated terrific items that we will be auctioning to benefit NAMI\, and Art Works will donate the sales from the All Media Show to NAMI. \nWonJung Choi an international artist and educator\, will be the juror for the exhibit. Wonjung Choi is a Korean-born\, Virginia-based artist whose multidisciplinary work delves into the complexities of identity formation in a globalized world. See more on WonJung’s website: Click here. \n  \nCall for entries is July 15  – August 10\, 2025\, and may be submitted through the online form. The exhibit will be in the Port Gallery at Art Works through September 18\, 2025. Check our website for details on submitting artwork:  Call for Entries \n  Save  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/august-september-art-works-2/
LOCATION:Art Works\, 320 Hull Street\, Richmond\, VA\, 23224\, United States
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SUMMARY:4th Friday Art Shows and Opening Reception @ Art Works!
DESCRIPTION:4th Friday September 26th at Art Works \n  \nJoin us on September 26\, 2025 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for an exciting opening reception of our new exhibits at Art Works. Meet the talented artists\, and enjoy live music\, refreshments\, and libations sponsored by RVA Thriving Artists.  The featured artists are Adam Reinhart\, Jen Cook-Asaro\, Sarah Miller\, Tatiana Grace\, Kenneth Lee\, and experiment with interactive art by RVA Game Jams. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. Convenient and free parking is available. The exhibits will continue through October 18\, 2025. \n  Save  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/4th-friday-art-shows-and-opening-reception-art-works-56/
LOCATION:Art Works\, 320 Hull Street\, Richmond\, VA\, 23224\, United States
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SUMMARY:Heather Stivison\, “Ebb & Flow”\, a Solo Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:In this her third New York City solo exhibition\, Heather Stivison explores the intersection of environmental science and visual art with a series of immersive paintings of the ocean. \nStivison paintings capture the essence of water—something clear and colorless\, with its shape formed entirely by the external forces of objects\, land\, wind\, gravity. Searching for water’s most primary qualities\, she uses light\, color\, form\, shape\, line\, to engender a sense of water. Fluidity\, reflections\, rhythms are evident in her ocean surface paintings. Stivison is fascinated by the reflections and patterns created by the coastal ocean surface. She paints variations on patterns\, exploring how much she can change them and still maintain the sense that the subject is surface water. \nCurator and director of Manhattan Arts International Renee Phillips writes: \n“Stivison ventures beyond nature’s physical boundaries into abstraction with the profusion of free-flowing biomorphic patterns and tonal ranges. In her paintings the innate attributes of water evolve into metaphors\, symbolism and visual poetry.” \nThe exhibition includes a massive 110-inch quadriptych that explores the sense of weightlessness and mystery that she finds in the imagining unknown ocean depths. Other paintings explore surface water patterns as abstract design. \nIndependent curator Kathy Imlay writes: \n“Stivison’s paintings have a luminous glow—accomplished by the artist building up layer upon layer of viscous paint\, which she pours\, smears\, scrapes and otherwise manipulates to create fields of color that conjure the watery depths of the ocean or intergalactic space\, depending on the palette.” \nSome of the paintings on view are the result of her multi-year\, grant funded collaboration with Noah Germolus\, a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who was researching ocean chemistry. Stivison created two paintings about him and his work\, and four five-foot paintings that interpret his research data in paint. \nThe collaboration led to a unique special feature of this exhibition. After Stivison interpreted his data in paint\, he in turn\, interpreted four of her paintings in music. The exhibition includes an on-demand sound installation of original jazz music composed and performed by Germolus. \n  Save  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/heather-stivison-ebb-flow-a-solo-exhibition/
LOCATION:Pleiades Gallery\, 547 W 27th St. Suite 304\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:September - October Exhibits @ Art Works!
DESCRIPTION:Now showing six new exhibits. The featured artists are Adam Reinhart\, Jen Cook-Asaro\, Sarah Miller\, Tatiana Grace\, Kenneth Lee\, and experiment with interactive art by RVA Game Jams. Also see 80+ working artist studios. \nVisit us Tuesdays through Sundays 11am- 5pm. Admission is free and open to the public. Convenient and free parking is available. The exhibits will continue through October 18\, 2025. \n  Save  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/september-october-exhibits-art-works-4/
LOCATION:Art Works\, 320 Hull Street\, Richmond\, VA\, 23224\, United States
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SUMMARY:October - November Exhibits @ Art Works!
DESCRIPTION:Now showing six new exhibits. The featured artists are Blake Seals\, Felicia L. Reed\, Adam Reinhard\, Sorvino\, and Tobi Holtslag. Also see 80+ working artist studios. \nVisit us Tuesdays through Sundays 11am- 5pm. Admission is free and open to the public. Convenient and free parking is available. The exhibits will continue through November 22nd 2025. \n  Save  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/october-november-exhibits-art-works-5/
LOCATION:Art Works\, 320 Hull Street\, Richmond\, VA\, 23224\, United States
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SUMMARY:Robert Braczyk: Cardinal Directions
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: January 27 – February 21\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Thurs.\, January 29\, 2026\, 5PM-8PM\nArtist Talk: Saturday\, February 14\, 2026\, 3PM-4PM\nGallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday\, 11AM-6PM \nBowery Gallery is pleased to present “Cardinal Directions\,” an exhibition of new sculpture by Robert Braczyk.  \nFor many years a prize-winning figurative sculptor\, in recent years Braczyk has turned to abstraction. In his new work—most about 24 inches high—he assembles various tree elements into vertical compositions that echo figural forms\, but whose abstract vocabulary of open volumes and discontinuous contours suggests the possibility of multiple allusions. Each work evinces a powerful spatial tension between the cardinal point from which it is begun and the complex three-dimensional image that Braczyk builds with primary thrust\, axis\, and meridian.  \nBraczyk’s trajectory from figure to abstract figure may be seen as a temporal through line connecting the events of a life. The artist’s comment that he brings all his life’s experiences into the studio reminds us that in the long arc of his career\, the spatial and temporal are never far apart. \nView the exhibition website. \n  \nBowery Gallery\n547 W. 27th Street\, Suite 508\nNew York\, NY 10001 \n  Save  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/robert-braczyk-cardinal-directions/
LOCATION:Bowery Gallery\, 547 W 27TH ST Suite 508\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:Plastic Fantastic with Paul Mart
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery \n Fall 2012 Season Opener  \nSeptember 8th\, 2012 through October 27th\, 2012 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, September 8th\, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nArtist Talk: Sunday\, September 9th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Plastic Fantastic\, an exhibition inspired by plastic pioneer Dr. Harry D. Anspon. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Anspon’s daughter\, Catherine D. Anspon\, the visual arts editor for PaperCity magazine (Houston + Dallas) and is the second curatorial project that Anspon has conceived for Deborah Colton Gallery\, the last being A Time for Change\, which inaugurated the fall 2008 season. Plastic Fantastic opens Saturday\, September 8\, 2012\, with a reception for the artists and scientist from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \n Plastic Fantastic headlines five principal artists\, alongside a performance by two puppeteers — who have been specially commissioned to devise puppet plays just for this show — as well as featuring a happening organized by one of Texas’ most provocative artists\, who for the seven-week run of the show will realize “a shopping experience” analogous to one of America’s retail giants\, in collaboration with nearly two dozen other Texas talents. These artists and their performing and visual arts elements all share one common thread — they are made from\, or staged from\, one form or another of plastic\, one of the defining materials of modern life. \nPlastic Fantastic is inspired by Dr. Anspon\, who is interviewed for this exhibition by his daughter; their conversation and his contributions to the field of post-war plastics research and development are presented in a 10-minute film segment edited and produced by Shau Lin Hon. As the short documentary reveals\, Dr. Anspon\, who graduated with his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Maryland in 1942\, spent the remainder of the war years in post-doctoral research. He holds more than 70 U.S. patents in the plastics field\, where he produced breakthroughs and conducted research and development on polyethylene\, polystyrene\, polypropylene and polyurethane\, while employed during the booming years following World War II\, first at U.S. Rubber\, then General Aniline and Film (GAF)\, followed by Spencer Chemical\, Gulf Oil\, U. S. Steel (where Anspon headed the plastics division from 1968 into the early 1980s); later ensued a career\, still ongoing\, as a patent agent and independent consultant in the chemical field\, with a plastics specialty. \nAs Plastic Fantastic underscores\, all the “poly” components Anspon worked on are used by contemporary artists today towards a myriad of purposes and practices. These range from urethane resin in the case of Connecticut-based Andrea Morganstern —who makes her Texas debut here with resin-formed sculptures which in turn are then photographed in nature — to the well-stocked polystyrene consumer pleasures of Paul-Mart\, which proclaims “Stackin’ Em High\, Sellin’ ‘Em Cheap” about the wares curated by Paul Horn\, assisted in his commercial endeavor by Solomon Kane\, who collaborated with Horn on the packaging\, store displays and end-caps. (Note\, paralleling the Wal-Mart concept\, Paul-Mart is totally about democratic retailing and discount volumes; all art offerings are priced at $99.99 or less.) \nJoining the ode and exploration of plastic are Selven O’Keef Jarmon\, represented by his intensively laborious button text pieces formed from mass-produced plastic buttons\, which are then painstakingly hand sewn; and again Paul Horn this time working solo\, presenting his signature Cornell-ian pop-up boxes bearing plastic lenticular windows through which the viewer glimpses alternately disquieting or endearing\, but always prescient\, moments of American culture. \nDeborah Colton Gallery’s Plastic Fantastic also marks the Houston debut of two North Texas artists: Billy Zinser of Dallas\, and Karen Arzamendi of Denton. The former is known for his Macrodon series\, droll molded plastic toys that exist at the intersection of childhood and contemporary art\, critiquing current collecting practices; Zinser’s multiples will be stocked at Paul-Mart while his large-scale biomorphic sculptures\, and their accompanying paintings will also be highlighted in another gallery room. Additionally\, watch for Zinser’s gargantuan building-sized\, forced-air Macrodon inflatable to make an appearance. In contrast\, Arzamendi’s practice is not rooted in fantasy\, but in the concept of domesticity and the home. For this exhibit\, the artist\, whose background encompasses fiber arts and a fascination with quilt-making\, will reprise her University of North Texas thesis show with a translucent house formed from quilted plastic zipper bags containing discarded or salvaged moments from everyday life\, mostly featuring a plethora of plastic belongings. In dialogue with the cottage-sized house (with a door for the viewer to enter)\, this sculptor will create a site-specific timeline on the surrounding walls of the main gallery\, documenting via found and treasured plastic objects\, a modern book of hours referencing the moments of the day\, and the cycle of months and years. \nAdding a soupcon of performance energy\, Justin Dunford and Camella Clements — who have both performed with Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre — each debut a new piece for Plastic Fantastic\, employing out-sized plastic puppets concocted from neoprene. The opening night puppet performance is set for Saturday\, September 8\, 2012 at 8:00 pm. \nRounding out the exhibition\, former model and now proprietor of the just launched Laboratoria: The Chemistry of Style\, Tatiana Massey will collaborate with window designer Balushka on creating a Blossom Room busting with giant plastic flowers\, which sprout eyewear by New Zealand designer Karen Walker\, French master Thierry Lasry (whose shades are favored by Lady Gaga) and British talent Holly Fulton whose latest plastic-and-rhinestone necklaces dazzle with their nod to both the Deco period and the future. \nNOTE: A Complete Artist Roster for Plastic Fantastic and the Paul-Mart Store follows. \nFor additional details\, including artists’ bios and statements\, and high-resolution press images\, please contact Deborah Colton Gallery\, 713-869-5151; info@deborahcoltongallery.com. \n  \nPlastic Fantastic Artist Lineup \n  \n Headlining Artists: \nKaren Arzamendi \nPaul Horn \nSelven O’Keef Jarmon \nAndrea Morganstern \nBilly Zinser \nShau Lin Hon\, Filmmaker \nJustin Dunford and Philip Hays\, Puppeteers \nCamella Clements\, Puppeter \n  \nPaul-Mart Participants: \nAmerimou$ \nScott Burns \nAlejandro Castro \nBrent Bruni Comiskey \nBill Davenport \nKelley Devine \nG.P.S. \nNathan Green \nJohn Paul Hartman \nPaul Horn \nDaniel Johnston \nMarjorie Johnston \nSolomon Kane \nFelipe Lopez \nMichael Macedo Meazell \nJonathan Rosenstein \nAlfredo Scaroina \nGian Palacios-Swiatkowski \nDandee Warhol \nDavid Wilhelm \n  \nFashion Installation: \nProduced by Tatiana Massey‘s Laboratoria: The Chemistry of Style \nBlossom Room crafted by Balushka \nCollections highlighted by Karen Walker\, Thierry Lasry\, Holly Fulton and more! \n  \nOther Plastic Fantastic Happenings: \nShop Paul-Mart\, a retail extravaganza shopping party and performance by Paul Horn\, with puppet shows by Justin Dunford and Camella Clements on Thursday\, September 27th\, 6:30 to 8:30 pm Closing Blow Out and Artists Toast on Wednesday\, October 31st\, 6:00 to 9:00 pm \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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LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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SUMMARY:LEO VILLAREAL: COSMOS
DESCRIPTION:An homage to the late Cornell astronomy professor Carl Sagan\, Cosmos is a site-specific installation by New York–based artist Leo Villareal (born 1967)\, a pioneer in the use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and computer-driven imagery. His signature pieces explore complex movement and dazzling patterns created by points of light using his own computer software. \n \nVillareal – Cosmos – Johnson Museum – Cornell final from Walter Patrick Smith\, AIA LEED A on Vimeo. \nPlanning for Cosmos began in November 2010\, when Villareal—along with the project architect\, Walter Smith\, and donors Lisa and Richard Baker—worked with Johnson Museum staff to determine the optimal location for the installation. The ceiling of the Sherry and Joel Mallin Sculpture Court was chosen for its high visibility not only on campus but also from the city of Ithaca. After studying the Museum’s architectural plans and considering structural and aesthetic aspects of the installation\, the artist’s team returned to Cornell in April 2012 to install a nine-foot-square mock-up. Installation of the final piece took several weeks\, with twelve thousand energy-efficient LEDs on a gridded framework attached to the ceiling of the sculpture court. A zero gravity bench was designed by the artist for viewers to fully immerse themselves in the viewing experience and to foster a more communal involvement with his installation. Villareal gave a public lecture to mark the opening of the installation. \nVillareal’s works reinterpret fundamental components of such twentieth-century art movements as pop\, minimalism\, conceptual\, and post-painterly abstraction while responding to the ingenuity and imagination that defines technology in the twenty-first century. Among his most notable site-specific works are the illumination of the exterior of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2006)\, Multiverse in the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings at the National Gallery of Art (2008)\, and Sky at the Tampa Museum of Art (2009). His largest installation to date is The Bay Lights\, illuminating the West Span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge for its 75th anniversary in 2013. \nAndrea Inselmann\nCurator of Modern and Contemporary Art \n\nImage:\nLeo Villareal\nCosmos\, 2012\nWhite LED Lights\, custom software\, and electrical hardware; site-specific installation.\nAcquired through the generosity of Richard Baker\, Class of 1988\, and Lisa Baker.\n2012.056\nPhoto: James Ewing \n\n  Save  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/leo-villareal-cosmos/
LOCATION:Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art\, Cornell University\, 114 Central Avenue\, Cornell University\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14853\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Angelbert Metoyer: Babies: Walk on Water: Present\, Future and Time Travel
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery \nAngelbert Metoyer\, “Babies: Walk on Water\, Present\, Future and Time Travel” \nNovember 17\, 2012 – January 19\, 2013 \nPublic Opening Reception: Saturday\, November 17\, 2012\, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Babies: Walk on Water\, Present\, Future and Time Travel\, an exhibition by Angelbert Metoyer. \nAngelbert Metoyer is one of the most dynamic artistic creators of our time.  Launching his artistic career when he was still in high school in 1994\, Metoyer was given two rooms in the Project Row Houses: a community arts center based in Houston. In 1995\, he was included in exhibitions concurrently at Project Row Houses and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and then moved to Atlanta to study at what is now the Savannah College of Art and Design. Through this time\, Metoyer began thinking about objects as the representation of moments and drawn images as the formalization of memories. This influenced Metoyer’s later artwork that explored his own family history within the context of the narrative of this country and considered the cultural complexity of America’s past. Metoyer’s more recent work investigates the physics and mathematics of the universe\, turning attention beyond ideas of self-identity and personal experience to notions of universal truths\, metaphysics and questions about the human soul. The scope of his wide-reaching exhibition history attests to the fact that his works expresses universal ideas and speaks across boundaries\, beyond words\, to compellingly address a diverse audience. \n  \nAngelbert Metoyer has acquired a devoted following of collectors in Texas\, nationally and abroad. His artwork is included in many museum collections including the African American Museum in Dallas\, the Museum of Fine Arts: Houston\, the Museum of Fine Arts\, Leipzig (Germany) and the Williamsburg Museum of 21st Century Art in Brooklyn\, among others. Metoyer was first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in Qatar Narratives: A Country Expressed By Its Own Voices (2008). In this exhibition\, Metoyer was selected as the only American artist\, where his work reflected on the art of the nine prominent Qatari artists also included and revealed Metoyer’s mystical connections to the Middle East. Since then he has consistently shown his breathtaking work worldwide\, exhibiting in various cities in the United States\, as well as internationally in Italy\, Germany\, Peru\, the United Kingdom\, France\, China\, Cuba and the United Arab Emirates. \nBabies: Walk on Water: Present\, Future and Time Travel is the visual expression of the notion that inherent in new life is untouched wisdom. This intelligent intuition is a divine gift that is imparted upon us through the birth and existence of a pure being – the baby. Present from the first moments of consciousness in the womb\, this universal knowledge lies latent in the physicality of a fragile new being\, protected and preserved as the baby is unable to speak a worldly language. As one ages\, this untouched wisdom is replaced with the knowledge of experience and its external manifestation—communication. Gradually\, the pursuit of knowledge and the experience of chronological time obscures this original unadulterated vision\, however one can forever find this eternal link in life anew\, through the baby’s presence of goodness\, innocence and unconditional love. In doing so\, this can restore the memory of the infinite wisdom of the pure being. \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  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/angelbert-metoyer-babies-walk-on-water-present-future-and-time-travel/
LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Soody Sharifi: The Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me
DESCRIPTION:Soody Sharifi \nThe Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me \nNovember 17\, 2012 – January 19\, 2012 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 17\, 2012\, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to announce\, The Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me\, a solo exhibition featuring new work by Iranian-American multimedia artist Soody Sharifi. This exhibition opens Saturday\, November 17th with a public reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \nThrough the visual juxtaposition of cityscapes and desert landscapes\, the series The Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me tells the story of cultural and political life in 21st century Iran\, in all its rich complexity. Reminiscent of Breughel and Bosch landscapes\, Soody Sharifi’s new series stages a dizzying range of events\, from Peeping Toms in Iran’s segregated beaches to protesters filling the streets of Tehran. Colliding dynamic urban conditions with the ritualistic practices of the remote\, rural Middle East\, The Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me seamlessly speaks to larger geopolitical issues. An example of such an issue can be found in the protest movement that followed the highly contested 2009 Iranian presidential election. Not only did this public outcry foreshadow the greater region’s “Arab Spring\,” (a term given to the widespread wave of demonstrations\, protests\, and wars occurring during the still ongoing Arab Revolution)\, but it also brought to the surface an underlying tension at the very heart and name of the country itself: between a republic and a theocracy\, between public and private\, between the secular and the sacred\, all as found in Sharifi’s work. By bringing elements of traditional Persian iconography together with contemporary subjects\, The Desert series approaches these complex issues with a compelling collapse of time and space. \nSoody Sharifi is an Iranian/American artist based in Houston. Her work primarily deals with the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in living between two cultures. In many of her series\, she has explored the notion of identity and what it means to participate in two cultures from both an outsider’s and an insider’s perspective. \nA 2011 Jameel Prize nominee\, Soody Sharifi has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including museum exhibitions at the V&A in London\, l’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris\, in Finland and in Norway. 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 Arts\, 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 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  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/soody-sharifi-the-desert-beyond-the-city-belongs-to-me/
LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, 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  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/harif-guzman-dying-to-live/
LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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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  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/frank-rodick-selections-from-labyrinth-of-desire/
LOCATION:The MAC\, 1503 S Ervay Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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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  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/jonas-mekas-life-goes-oni-keep-singing/
LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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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  
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/jonas-mekas-life-goes-oni-keep-singing-part-two/
LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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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