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SUMMARY:DANIEL JOHNSTON FILM SCREENING WEEKEND AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES IN NYC.
DESCRIPTION:Songwriter\, musician\, and artist Daniel Johnston passed away in 2019\, but both his music and artwork continue to attract rapturous attention. Johnston is certainly best known as a stunningly prolific songwriter\, whose unique\, deeply personal\, vulnerable\, and unapologetically lo-fi songs – most of them initially recorded and distributed on cassette tape – attracted legions of fans despite\, or because of\, their unpolished textures and their disarming reflections of the mental illness with which he struggled throughout his life. Celebrated both by critics and fellow musicians (most famously Kurt Cobain\, but also Jad Fair\, Tom Waits\, Jeff Tweedy\, and many others)\, Johnston’s music was only one manifestation of his creativity. He was an equally prolific artist\, compulsively producing countless drawings that reflected – perhaps even more than his music – his singular preoccupations\, highly distinctive set of characters and symbols\, and his unique view of the world. \n  \nIn collaboration with Johnston’s sister\, Marjory Johnston\, as well as gallerist Deborah M. Colton\, owner of Deborah Colton Gallery and OUTPOST NYC DCG. \n  \nAnthology Film Archives presents a weekend of screenings of some of the films and videos that have documented Johnston’s life and work\, including the acclaimed documentary THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON (2005)\, the concert film THE ANGEL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON: LIVE AT THE UNION CHAPEL (2008)\, and a brand-new work\, FLAT TIRE DOWN MEMORY LANE (2025)\, in which filmmaker Avalon Stevens provides a fascinating glimpse of Johnston’s artwork and the collections that he assembled and among which he lived in his home in Waller\, Texas\, in his final years. \n  \nMarjory Johnston\, Avalon Stevens and Deborah Colton will be here in person to present the screenings. \n  \nAvalon Stevens \nFLAT TIRE DOWN MEMORY LANE \n2025\, 60 min\, digital \nThis newly completed work – made after Johnston’s death – constructs a highly revealing portrait of the artist via interviews with his sister\, Marjory (who in his later years collaborated with Daniel on his artwork and continues to advocate for and promote his work)\, a special focus on his drawings\, as well as documentation of his last home\, a house in Waller\, Texas\, which he filled with a truly mind-boggling volume of books\, records\, VHS tapes\, and other collections\, all of which serve as a kind of self-portrait of a unique mind and sensibility. Plus\, additional clips and excerpts! \nSat\, Sept 20 at 5:30 and Sun\, Sept 21 at 7:30. \n  \nJeff Feuerzeig \nTHE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON \n2005\, 110 min\, 35mm \nThis acclaimed film – made with the cooperation of Daniel Johnston – is the definitive documentary portrait of the singer-songwriter. Delving deeply and sensitively into Johnston’s extraordinary music\, his equally singular and accomplished artwork\, and his struggles with mental illness\, it’s a profoundly revealing exploration not only of a particular artist and his work\, but of the relationship that so often exists between artistic creation and psychological disturbance. \nSat\, Sept 20 at 7:30 and Mon\, Sept 22 at 7:30. \n  \nAntony Crofts \nTHE ANGEL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON: LIVE AT THE UNION CHAPEL \n2008\, 65 min\, digital \nThis concert film captures one of Daniel Johnston’s greatest live performances\, a July 2007 appearance at London’s Union Chapel. Joined by an impressive array of friends and admirers\, including longtime collaborator Brett Hartenbach\, Scottish folksinger James Yorkston\, and English composer Adem\, Daniel delivers definitive renditions of favorites from across his body of work. \nSun\, Sept 21 at 5:30.
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SUMMARY:Alfredo Gisholt: Gaze and Gesture
DESCRIPTION:Catapult Gallery in collaboration with Deborah Colton Gallery is proud to present Gaze and Gesture\, a solo exhibition of works on paper by Alfredo Gisholt. These compositions—created along the coast of Maine—capture an intuitive response to place. Using a deliberately minimal palette of black\, white\, and gray\, Gisholt evokes a coastal landscape in flux: tides\, grasses\, rocks\, and changing light interpreted through gesture and mark-making.
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LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alfredo Gisholt: Gaze and Gesture
DESCRIPTION:Catapult Gallery in collaboration with Deborah Colton Gallery is proud to present Gaze and Gesture\, a solo exhibition of works on paper by Alfredo Gisholt. These compositions—created along the coast of Maine—capture an intuitive response to place. Using a deliberately minimal palette of black\, white\, and gray\, Gisholt evokes a coastal landscape in flux: tides\, grasses\, rocks\, and changing light interpreted through gesture and mark-making.
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SUMMARY:Survey of Works by Soody Sharifi Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:A Survey of Works by Soody Sharifi \n  \nMarch 15 through April 5\, 2025 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, March 15\, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. \nWalking Tour with Artist\, Saturday\, March 22\, 2:00 to 4:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present A Survey of Works by Soody Sharifi. This extraordinary exhibition that includes several bodies of works encompasses the entire grand Deborah Colton Gallery location\, at 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, Texas\, 77098. The opening reception includes complimentary valet and refreshments and is open to the public. \n  \nSoody Sharifi is an Iranian American artist\, based in Houston\, whose work addresses the complexity of identity\, namely the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in living between two cultures. Since 1999\, she has explored what constitutes American\, Iranian\, and Muslim notions of modernity and tradition. She has focused particularly on youth culture and the role it plays in self-identity\, especially within environments considered to be conservative or traditional. Her work has been exhibited around the world\, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London\, the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston and Sharjah Museum of Art\, amongst many others. \n  \nFor over two decades\, Soody Sharifi has documented and staged settings of students\, punk rock groups and gay and lesbian couples in the United States and in Iran. Through a capacious use of photography as documents and collage as gestures\, Sharifi has always offered a poetic\, tender lens on harsh social realities. By staging herself\, members of her family\, or friends\, her work tends to undo the images of Muslim stereotypes represented through the often-narrow focus of traditional media. Sharifi’s Flag Series (2011\,2012) captured iconic moments of the post-9/11 moment in American allegiances. Her Maxiatures Series (2004–2012) and Persian Delights Series (2008–2016) bring a uniquely contemporary perspective to the millennial tradition of Persian miniatures. Her two new bodies of Women Life Freedom and Surreal Images cast a dreamlike look on recent events around the globe­\, from the 2022 protest movement in Iran to the increasing polarization of the United States. \n  \nThis extensive and noteworthy survey of Soody Sharifi’s works will debut at Deborah Colton Gallery and will then be presented to several art institutions throughout the east coast of the United States. We are fortunate to have this award-winning\, highly acclaimed artist here in Houston. \n  \nA walking tour of the exhibition with Soody Sharifi will take place on Saturday\, March 22nd from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is an international contemporary arts gallery\, based in Houston\, Texas\, that initiates projects and exhibitions for their artists throughout the United States. Deborah Colton Gallery also has OUTPOST NYC DCG\, an east coast arts initiative\, with a Studio Space in New Jersey.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/survey-of-works-by-soody-sharifi-opening-reception/
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SUMMARY:Select Works by Harif Guzman
DESCRIPTION:Select Works by Harif Guzman \nAugust 24 to October 26\, 2024 \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Select Works by Harif Guzman which was inspired by his artistic debut in Texas in his solo exhibition\, Dying to Live\, a decade ago at Deborah Colton Gallery. \nHarif Guzman\, born in Venezuela\, spent much of his young childhood surrounded by his mother and sisters\, and was influenced strongly by his father (a printer and typesetter). As a young boy\, he was moved to the west coast of the United States and then to New York City. Guzman’s works have been greatly inspired by his time in New York which he has called “not only home\, but his canvas and inspiration.” His work derives from mechanical reproduction and the hands-on technique that refuses the deadening effects of iconographical conformity. Further inspiration is the result of Guzman’s earliest experiences of image making and the craft that he encountered working in his father’s print workshop. The subsequent trajectory of his path from shop worker\, street-smart skate punk\, busboy\, and valet\, to the art gallery and international art scene 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 are deeply rooted secondhand imagery that characterizes 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…which happen in Texas also. 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 base-metal street artist to the gold of the accomplished work centers his attention in a stylish\, contemporary urban idiom. \n  \nHarif Guzman has made a major impact in cities throughout the world with his street art and massive\, creative installations. His works are in hundreds of private and public collections. Guzman currently works in Berlin and also has a studio in Miami. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is an international contemporary art gallery\, based in Houston\, Texas since 2004 and initiates projects throughout the United States. Deborah Colton Gallery also has OUTPOST NYC DCG\, an east coast-based arts initiative\, which includes Harif Guzman.
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SUMMARY:Frozen Film Frames: Portraits of Film Makers
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Frozen Film Frames: Portraits of Film Makers\, which will highlight a variety of Jonas Mekas’ still-framed photographs. There is a public opening reception on Saturday\, May 18th from 2:00 to 4:30 pm. \nJonas Mekas\, known as the Godfather of avant-garde films\, contributed greatly to the international art world and the American art scene throughout his lifetime. The Founder of Anthology Films in New York…\, the filmmaker\, poet\, writer\, curator\, and artist. Jonas Mekas captured moments that we all cherish in art history\, in American history\, in life…  from film producers\, Salvador Dali\, the Kennedy’s\, Warhol\, Yoko Ono and John Lennon\, Elvis Presley\, the World Trade Center… to then more personal\, special moments of nature\, his family\, being human\, celebrating life and cherishing each experience to the fullest. Jonas made a major contribution to the art world and has been greatly missed since he passed away on January 23\, 2019\, at 96 years old. There were many events celebrating his life since then\, including “Homage to a Happy Man: Celebrating Jonas Mekas (1922 – 2019)” at St Mark’s Church\, exhibitions throughout New York and Jonas Mekas 100 which was the international program of exhibitions and events celebrating the 100th anniversary last year. \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 New York film institution\, Filmmakers’ Cooperative (FMC) and in 1964 the Filmmakers’ 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 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 prize for extraordinary presentation of contemporary classic art. Mekas has received many awards worldwide and has had countless museum exhibitions in almost all continents. \nDeborah Colton Gallery first debuted Jonas Mekas in the solo exhibition Film Framed in 2005. In 2007\, Jonas Mekas was also included in the group exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Chemical City. Since then\, Deborah Colton Gallery has continued to exhibit and represent Jonas Mekas\, including with her projects with OUTPOST NYC DCG that she co-founded in 2009. Additionally\, Deborah Colton has served on the Anthology Film Archives Advisory Board for over a decade now. Colton co-curated a similar exhibition to this current Portraits of Film Makers exhibit with Richard Herskowitz at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in 2015\, and she has helped with several other Mekas projects nationally and internationally.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/frozen-film-frames-portraits-of-film-makers/
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SUMMARY:Daniel Johnston: Duck Wars
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Johnston: Duck Wars \nFebruary 24 to April 27\, 2024 \nOpening Reception: February 24th\, 3:00 – 4:30 pm \n   Deborah Colton Gallery will be presenting Daniel Johnston’s “Duck Wars” at their new annex location at 2442 Bartlett Street\, Building B\, Houston\, 77098 from February 24 to April 27\, 2024. The gallery space is open Tuesday through Friday\, from 1:00 to 5:30 pm. There will be an opening reception on Saturday\, February 24th\, from 3:00 to 4:30 pm. \nArtist and songwriter Daniel Johnston created his own imaginary cartoon universe in drawings\, which were complete with dialog bubbles and his own uniquely honest and insightful philosophy. \nAmong his cast of created characters are the ever-present ducks. They are the fun-loving good guys who are on the look-out for adventure and ways to help the world. They are always ready to help humanity by challenging the forces of evil and thus protecting love\, peace\, and especially hope. \nThe ducks in Johnston’s earliest drawings had wings and webbed feet. As he created more adventures for the ducks they evolved human-like arms and legs. The ducks found their way into Johnston’s drawings as cowboys\, ancient warriors\, superheroes and even space travelers. The role that was Johnston’s favorite (by far) was ducks as military personnel\, complete with uniforms\, weapons\, and war vehicles of all types. Johnston’s love of all things related to World War II reflects his admiration for his father\, William Johnston\, who was a Flying Tiger pilot in the war. \nThe “Ducks Wars” exhibit is a celebration of the military adventures of the ducks\, but it also rings with uncanny relevance considering current world events. Daniel infuses the drawings with quirky humor\, but also with thought provoking insights into the nature of war…. its horror\, its origins in greed\, and its sad results. \nThere will be “Duck Wars” T-shirts available at the opening\, as well as other Daniel Johnston memorabilia. Daniel’s sister\, Marjory\, will be available for questions and/or information about her brother. Deborah Colton will also be in attendance. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is an international contemporary arts gallery\, based in Houston\, Texas\, and initiates projects throughout the United States. Deborah Colton Gallery also has OUTPOST NYC DCG\, an east coast based virtual arts initiative.
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SUMMARY:Daniel Johnston: I am a Baby in My Universe
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Johnston: I am a Baby in My Universe \nFebruary 17 to March 16\, 2024 \nOpening Reception with Band: Saturday February 17\, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm \nOpen House at Deborah Colton Gallery Annex: Saturday\, February 24th at 3:00 to 4:30 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery will be presenting Daniel Johnston: I am a Baby in My Universe at their main gallery space of 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, Texas 77098. The exhibition runs from February 17 to March 16\, 2024. To start the celebration of the gallery’s 20th year as an exhibition space in Houston\, there will be a grand opening reception on Saturday\, February 17th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm\, including the band “Kathy McCarty and Speeding Motorcycle”. Kathy and many members of the band were friends and fellow musicians with Daniel Johnston\, known to have played with him in the past. Daniel Johnston’s sister\, Marjory Johnston\, will also be in attendance. Special T-shirts\, posters\, CD’s and books will be available. \nThis is an exceptional exhibition of Daniel’s work\, in that it reveals all the characters that he repeatedly created in his drawings. Never has there been a comprehensive exhibition like this! \nDue to the immense volume of artworks featured in this show\, we are unable to include and publish these works on Artnet. Please contact Deborah Colton Gallery directly for a comprehensive exhibition list and images. \nOn Saturday\, February 24th from 2:00 pm there will be a Panel Discussion with Marjory Johnston\, Joachim West\, and Avalon Stevens. The history of Daniel Johnston’s artistic career\, and the meaning of his work will be highlighted. Joachim West is a collector and fan of Daniel Johnston. Avalon Stevens is an interdisciplinary artist that will give a young perspective of why Daniel Johnston’s works resonate with all generations. Deborah Colton will be the moderator. Following this\, the opening of Daniel Johnston: Duck Wars at the Deborah Colton Gallery Annex on the same campus. The Open House at the Annex will be from 3:00 to 4:30 pm. Special T-shirts designed for this exhibition will also be available. \nDaniel Johnston\, at a very young age\, decided that he wanted to be a comic book artist like Jack Kirby\, whose work he admired. He drew constantly\, which often caused his teachers to reprimand him for not paying attention. By the time he reached Junior High\, his drawing skills were quite advanced… but during those years mental illness appeared in the form of depression. \nWhile he still dreamed of becoming a cartoonist for Marvel Comics\, his drawing time became something more. It was a form of self-therapy to help him cope with his depression. It was an escape. In his early twenties his mental illness blossomed into schizophrenia. In spite of this\, he continued his daily drawing\, producing pieces that give the viewer a glimpse into his journey with mental illness.  He created an entire universe of his own\, complete with a cast of characters caught up in the eternal battle of good and evil.  Some characters were original creations. Others were borrowed from pop culture. \nThis art exhibit\, “I am a Baby in my Universe” is an introduction to the major characters (and some of the minor ones) that inhabit his imagined world. It will display nearly 200 works of art in groupings that will introduce 45 characters showing examples of art pieces in which they are featured. Daniel’s drawings have an undeniable appeal\, saturated in a childlike wisdom that has won him fans and followers around the world. The show will also feature a screening room playing the documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” as well as a display about the effects of mental illness in Dan’s art. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is an international contemporary art gallery\, based in Houston\, Texas\, and initiates projects throughout the United States. Deborah Colton Gallery also has OUTPOST NYC DCG\, an east coast based virtual arts initiative. Daniel Johnston: Duck Wars will be exhibiting at the Deborah Colton Gallery Annex on the same campus from February 24 to April 27th. Images from these two Daniel Johnston exhibitions can be viewed on both websites. www.deborahcoltongallery.com\, www.outpostnycdcg.
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SUMMARY:Dick Wray: Paintings
DESCRIPTION:Dick Wray: Paintings \nMay 6 through August 5\, 2023 \nPreview Reception and Panel Discussion: Thursday\, May 4\, 6:00 to 7:30 pm. \nOpening Reception: Saturday May 6\, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Dick Wray: Paintings. This vibrant and bold exhibition of paintings and mixed media collage paintings encompasses most of the gallery and is on view from May 4 to August 5\, 2023. A preview party and panel discussion\, including Catherine Anspon\, Pete Gershon\, Earl Weed and Deborah Colton\, will take place on Thursday\, May 4th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. There will also be a public reception on Saturday\, May 6th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \nA native Houstonian born in 1933\, Dick Wray\, was an artist of incomparable talent and personality who played a critical role in the development of Houston’s contemporary art scene since the late 1950s. Often categorized as an Abstract Expressionist\, Wray is best known for his explosive and dynamic paintings that have received numerous accolades from Houston’s critical community as well as notable arts figures across the United States throughout his career. \nWray attended the University of Houston’s School of Architecture\, followed by being educated at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf Arts Academy in Germany. Returning to Houston in 1959\, he began seriously working as an artist with zest and vigor.  Over the next fifty years\, he participated in a large number of important exhibitions nationally and internationally\, while locally Wray had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1975\, was included in the Fresh Paint: The Houston School at the Museum of Fine Arts in 1985 and many other prestigious exhibitions.  Wray was an instructor at the Glassell School of Art from 1968 until 1982 and also taught seminars in other art institutions throughout the years.  Wray was awarded the Ford Foundation Award in 1962\, received a prestigious Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and was named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston in 2000.  His work is in major collections\, including the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo\, National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C.\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth\, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts\, the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. \n“A dynamic and passionate artist who never followed the crowd and thought of himself as different from the more regional Texas artist\, Wray was greatly influenced by his time living and studying in Europe. Dick Wray has revealed his strength as a world-class artist through his bold\, well executed creations of forms\, rich colors\, textures and expression. It is our honor to show a sampling of this artist’s paintings and mixed media collage paintings to a national and international audience through this important exhibition”. Deborah M. Colton \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.
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SUMMARY:Keeping Vigil: Select Works from the Estate of Virgil Grotfeldt
DESCRIPTION:Keeping Vigil: Select Works from the Estate of Virgil Grotfeldt \nMarch 18 through April 22\, 2023 \nPublic Opening Reception: Saturday\, March 18th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nKeeping Vigil Together: Saturday\, March 25th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Keeping Vigil: Select Works from the Estate of Virgil Grotfeldt.  The public opening reception will be on Saturday\, March 18th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. On Saturday\, March 25th\, artists Wei Hong and Terrell James will discuss Virgil and his works\, followed by a sound meditation experience with Alex Mora of Ethereal Healing Houston. This special program\, Keeping Vigil Together will be from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. \nThis exhibition was inspired by the inclusion of Grotfeldt works in The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps at the Menil Collection\, an exhibition that opens on March 25\, as well as the upcoming book\, Artists We’ve Known\, Selected Works from the Walter Hopps and Caroline Huber Collection\, published by Yale University Press. \nHopps and Grotfeldt met in Houston\, Texas in the late 1980’s\, an exciting and foundational time for the emerging contemporary art scene that helped establish the city as an international arts destination. Through the years the two forged an inspiring professional bond\, as well as a deep and abiding personal friendship. By the 1990’s\, with the support of Walter Hopps and a robust community of fellow artists\, Grotfeldt began to achieve the respect and attention of major art institutions and collectors both nationally and internationally. It was during this time that Grotfeldt met Dutch artist Waldo Bien\, (FIUWAC Collection Amsterdam) and made his first works using coal dust and found documents recovered in the rubble of the Berlin Wall. These years mark a time of tremendous inspiration and artistic evolution for Grotfeldt. The works in this show have been chosen to reflect this classic era and capture the mastery of Grotfeldt’s immense talent as an artist. \nVirgil Grotfeldt was born in 1948 in Decatur\, Illinois. He earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from Eastern Illinois University in 1971 and a master’s degree at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1974. He moved to Houston in 1977\, where he lived and worked until his passing in 2009. As an established working artist\, Virgil Grotfeldt holds an impressive exhibition history with over one hundred and fifty solo and group shows world-wide. Grotfeldt’s works are included in the permanent collection of the Menil Collection\, Houston\, Texas; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, New York; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art\, Dallas\, Texas; El Paso Museum of Art\, El Paso\, Texas; Tyler Museum of Art\, Tyler\, Texas; Upriver Gallery Collection\, Chengdu\, China; NOG Insurance Company\, Amsterdam\, The Netherlands; and Free International University World Art Collection\, Zeist\, The Netherlands among many others. \nTwo major hardcover books have been published on Virgil Grotfeldt: A comprehensive examination of Grotfeldt’s career and works since the 1970s\, Virgil Grotfeldt: Including the Series with Waldo Bien\, written by Patrick Healy\, published by Wienand Verlag Frankfurt\, 2003. Grotfeldt is also featured in Waldo Bien: Including the Series with Virgil Grotfeldt written by Patrick Healy\, published by Wienand Verlag Frankfurt\, 2000. \nWalter Hopps described the art of Virgil Grotfeldt as a “personal meditation on essential life forces.” In Keeping Vigil\, the viewer is invited to join Virgil Grotfeldt as he explores the mysterious forces we see and sense all around us. To enter the liminal space between the external world around us and the interior landscape of the mind; to encounter potent imagery of both the familiar and ethereal. Here we find the shadowy figures of man\, of nature and of spirit blending\, fading\, and transforming into one another as if in a dream. As a society in economic\, environmental\, and cultural flux\, many are searching for meaning in the more esoteric realms of healing energy\, spiritual practices\, shamanism or the exploration of consciousness itself. The work of Virgil Grotfeldt offers a road map for this universal journey; and reminds us that someone walks alongside us keeping vigil along the way.
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SUMMARY:Bert L. Long\, Jr.: The Power of Positivity
DESCRIPTION:Bert L. Long\, Jr.: The Power of Positivity \nFebruary 11 through April 22\, 2023 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 11th\, 1:30 to 4:30 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present The Power of Positivity\, an exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings\, and wall sculptures by Bert L. Long\, Jr.  The exhibition can be seen during our Public Viewing Hours or by appointment at any time and also online through our gallery’s website. Public Viewing Hours are Friday and Saturday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. There will be an Opening Reception from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm on Saturday February 11th. \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 successful master chef\, Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. 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.” \n– Bert L. Long\, Jr. \nThe late Peter Marzio\, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, said of Bert Long during the major retrospective of Long’s work at the museum: \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 had several solo exhibitions at respected museums and was awarded many significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious international 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 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\, New York\, the Dallas Museum of Art\, the Houston Museum of Fine Art\, the Blanton Museum of Art\, Austin\, the El Paso Museum of Art\, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain. \nWith interest from museums nationwide and an exhibition overseas which is pending featuring his work\, Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas\, nationally and internationally. \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.
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SUMMARY:Grayson Chandler: IN VIA
DESCRIPTION:Grayson Chandler \nIN VIA \nJuly 16 to September 10\, 2022 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, July 16th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present IN VIA\, an exhibition featuring works on paper by \nGrayson Chandler. There will be an Opening Reception on Saturday\, July 16th from 6:00 to 8:00 \npm. \nVia\, borrowing from the Latin ablative for road\, is an English preposition meaning “by way of; \nthrough.” The guiding ethos of IN VIA is one which echoes a compulsion for motion. \nComplimented by its phonetic proximity to words such as viva\, vida\, and vive\, IN VIA encourages \nconnotations of living\, passing\, and connecting. Within this vein\, Chandler’s latest exhibit serves to \ncircumscribe the ways through which he channels his creative spirit into otherworldly artworks. As \na special feature\, Chandler invites viewers to get a closer glimpse into his artistic practice. By \nassembling his studio as a fixture of the exhibit\, IN VIA aims to reproduce a more comprehensive \nshowcase for the manifold of means\, methods\, and measurements by which Chandler finds vitality \nin his vision. Running in conjunction with Deborah Colton Gallery’s 2022 “Artist Solo & Studio \nProject”\, IN VIA is an opportunity for both the artist and audience to glean and visualize what \noccurs between studio and gallery. \nBorn in Houston\, Texas\, Grayson Chandler graduated with a BFA in Art Studio at the University of \nNorth Texas\, Denton\, Texas. Chandler’s first solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2017 \ncaptivated the viewers and was a “sell-out” show. Chandler’s second solo exhibition\, Cocoon\, at \nDeborah Colton Gallery in May 2019 attracted much attention\, with many major collectors \nacquiring his works. His solo exhibition in 2020\, Telos: After Thought was equally successful. \nGrayson Chandler has been selected for a major exhibition which highlights five artists from Texas \nand five from The State of Qatar. This exhibition is tentatively scheduled to open in Doha\, Qatar in \n2023 and will then come to Houston. Grayson Chandler has recently had a solo exhibition at the \nPearl Fincher Museum in Spring\, Texas\, titled Apophenia\, and has been included in several Texas \nand national exhibitions. \nPublic gallery hours during this exhibition are Thursday through Saturday\, 1:00 to 6:00 pm. \nPrivate appointments during other times can be arranged by contacting the gallery at \ninfo@deborahcoltongallery.com or at 713-869-5151. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation \nand promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse \npractices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, \nconceptual future media and public space installations.
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SUMMARY:Bert L. Long\, Jr.: The Strength is from Within
DESCRIPTION:Bert L. Long\, Jr.: The Strength is from Within \nSeptember 18th through November 20th\, 2021\nOpen House: Saturday September 18th from noon to 5:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present The Strength is from Within\, an exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings\, and sculptures by Bert L. Long\, Jr. The exhibition can be seen online through the gallery’s Viewing Room. Installation and artwork images can be seen through the gallery’s Virtual Slide Show and website. Questions or interest in specific artworks can be addressed by email\, phone or “By Appointment” at Deborah Colton Gallery. There will be an Open house from noon to 5:00 pm on Saturday September 18th. \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 successful master chef\, Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. 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” \n– Bert L. Long\, Jr. \nThe late Peter Marzio\, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, said of Bert Long during the major retrospective of Long’s work at the museum: \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 had several solo exhibitions at respected museums and was awarded many significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious international 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 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\, New York\, the Dallas Museum of Art\, the Houston Museum of Fine Art\, the Blanton Museum of Art\, Austin\, the El Paso Museum of Art\, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain. \nWith a recent solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and an exhibition overseas which is pending featuring his work\, plus interest from several national museums\, Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas\, nationally and internationally. \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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/bert-l-long-jr-the-strength-is-from-within/
LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lindy Chambers: Living the Dream
DESCRIPTION:Lindy Chambers: Living the Dream \nJune 12th through August 21st\, 2021 \nOpen House: Saturday June 12th from noon to 5:00pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Living the Dream\, an exhibition featuring paintings by Lindy Chambers. The exhibition can be seen online through the gallery’s Viewing Room. Installation and artwork images can be seen through the gallery’s Virtual Slide Show and website. Questions or interest in specific artworks can be addressed by email\, phone or “By Appointment” anytime at Deborah Colton Gallery. Gallery hours remain Tuesday through Saturday\, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm. There will be an Open House from noon to 5:00 pm on Saturday June 12th. \n  \nLong before she puts paint to a canvas\, Lindy Chambers’ artistic process begins with the simple act of paying attention. From the outside looking in\, she observes often overlooked aspects of life. Rural Texas inspires her work. Leaving the pavement for the dirt and gravel dust\, she crosses a line into an awkwardly displaced universe of mobile homes and abandoned vehicles\, where stray dogs wander yards and goats are raised for food. Existence is tenuous here. Migrants leave cultural influences in their wake. Brightly colored mobile homes of acid gold and maroon\, cerulean blue and rose are abundant. Resilience and optimism conquer meager incomes\, happiness and peace replace the uncertainty of a former life. She uses these bright colors to introduce a look into their lives. To see\, learn and appreciate this dream in their diverse habitat. \n  \nHer paintings are vibrant compositions of color. She works in two distinct palettes\, one bright the other subdued\, each containing an incredible diversity of hue and value. Her insistence on variety furthers the idea that everything contains its own unique inspiration\, if only you stop to notice. Chambers skillfully uses lines and shapes to both break up the vibrancy of the canvas and to imbue her compositions with a narrative power. The line work introduces a tension to the color as the objects of her focus appear to pop and the details of each scene defiantly catch the viewer’s impatient eye. It is in this way that her paintings elevate above mere depiction to offer a lesson in the observation and the message of positivity and hope for a better future. \n  \nEach painting has strong elements of abstract and impressionist techniques\, as well as drawn forms that are cartoon like in character. The blend of the two adds dimension to the flat surface and provides visual anchors in the midst of the cacophony of color. \n  \nBased in Belleville\, Texas\, Chambers is a “Texas Big 10 for Art” prize winner at KCAM\, a recipient of the “Silver Award” from Art Forward\, and the “Alexander Rutsch Painting Award” from the Pelham Art Center. Chambers’ art has been featured in numerous shows in galleries across the United States\, including Houston\, Lexington\, Palm Beach\, and New York. Select exhibitions include The Grace Museum in Abilene\, the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder\, Colorado\, the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas\, Texas\, the Lawndale Art Center in Houston\, Texas and the Pelham Art Center in New York. This spring\, Chambers has a solo exhibition at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center. \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.
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SUMMARY:Alfredo Gisholt: Rituals of Perception
DESCRIPTION:Alfredo Gisholt: Rituals of Perception \nFebruary 20 through May 15\, 2021 \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Rituals of Perception\, an exhibition featuring paintings and works on paper by Alfredo Gisholt. This grand solo exhibition encompasses the entire gallery. The exhibition can be seen online through the gallery’s Viewing Room. Installation and artwork images can be seen through the gallery’s Virtual Slide Show and website. A Virtual Artist Talk and Walking Tour will take place during the exhibition. Questions or interest in specific artworks can be addressed by email\, phone or “By Appointment” at Deborah Colton Gallery. The Gallery hours remain Tuesday through Saturday\, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm. The exhibition is in conjunction with Forma 110 – Mariana Valdes Art Promotion. \nThe paintings and works on paper in the exhibition\, Rituals of Perception\, are Alfredo Gisholt’s response to two places: the studio and the landscape in the seacoast of Maine where he has spent much time. These two places provide Gisholt with the subject and the structure from which he builds\, configures and reconfigures spaces into new pictorial realities. The transformation occurs through the accumulation of visual experiences: the light moving across the room\, the clouds shifting in the sky\, the pile of objects in a corner\, the ebb and flow of the tide. \nWith his studio being an interior space\, and the landscape being an exterior one\, the duality of interior and exterior space is an allusion to internal and external personal experience. The dialogue between both\, through the act of seeing and responding\, becomes a metaphor from which imagination can transform the subject. \nGoya has for many years been an important influence on Gisholt’s work due to Goya’s willingness to take on and speak of all aspects of the human experience. Since Goya titled one of the etchings from the series The Disasters of War\, “I saw it” (Yo lo ví)\, his claim to have seen it has made a lasting impression on Gisholt. The importance of seeing “it\,“ whether it be the landscape or a corner in the studio\, Gisholt becomes fully engaged in this ritual of perception. Seeing and looking at the world\, using paint and material to be the evidence of the experience allows Gisholt to imbue each painting with a physical and emotional reality that contain its meaning. \nAlfredo Gisholt was born in Mexico City. He attended the Academia de San Carlos\, has a BFA from Florida International University and an MFA from Boston University. Gisholt has had solo exhibitions at CUE Foundation\, NYC; Forma110 Gallery and Deborah Colton Gallery\, Houston; University of Maine Museum of Art\, Bangor; and Recinto Project Room\, Mexico City. Alfredo Gisholt’s debut at Deborah Colton Gallery was in 2015\, with his powerful solo exhibition that also encompassed the entire gallery\, Alfredo Gisholt: Canto y Calvera. \nGisholt has been featured in Beer with a Painter\, Hyperallergic\, Painter’s Table and The Brooklyn Rail. He has exhibited in group shows at Park Place Gallery\, NYC; Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporaneo Juan Soriano\, Cuernavaca; Museo de Arte Popular\, Mexico City; Rose Art Museum\, Waltham\, among others. Gisholt teaches at Brandeis University and RISD and has been a visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Center\, University of Houston\, Fashion Institute of Technology and Boston University. He lives and works in Boston. \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.
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SUMMARY:20 in 2020 – Part 3: Houston Foundations
DESCRIPTION:20 in 2020 – Part 3: Houston Foundations  \n  \nJanuary 16 through February 13\, 2021 \n  \nJOHN ALEXANDER         BOB CAMBLIN         VIRGIL GROTFELDT         ANN HARITHAS         DOROTHY HOOD  \n PERRY HOUSE         SHARON KOPRIVA         BERT L. LONG\, JR.         JESSE LOTT           \nSUZANNE PAUL         DICK WRAY \n  \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present 20 in 2020 – Part 3\, a group exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings\, mixed media\, photography and sculpture that reflect on highlights of Colton’s twenty years in Houston serving the community with exhibitions from around the world and supporting our Houston art history.  20 in 2020 – Part 3 continues to celebrate Colton’s 20th anniversary for exhibitions in Houston and focuses on the gallery establishing the Houston Foundations Series of exhibitions\, panels and lectures during this past decade. All works are available for acquisition and can be viewed on our website and Viewing Room. The Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday\, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm\, and private appointments can also be arranged when requested. \n  \nIn addition to Colton’s international and national programing that was emphasized in 20 in 2020 Part 1 and Part 2\, this past decade especially\, Deborah Colton Gallery has had a strong focus on establishing HOUSTON FOUNDATIONS\, which reveres our city’s artistic roots. By understanding where we came from\, we can build on this foundation to become an even more dynamic and empowered “City of the Future” within the national and international art world. \n  \nHouston’s internationally and museum-shown artist\, Sharon Kopriva has been represented by Deborah Colton Gallery for most of this past decade. The first major solo exhibition of Kopriva’s work that the gallery had was in 2011\, Sharon Kopriva: Cathedrals\, Phantoms and Naked Dogs. Since then Deborah Colton Gallery has had two other solo exhibitions of Kopriva’s works\, Sharon Kopriva: Illuminations in 2014 and Meditations\, Migrations and Muses in 2019\, and has included her work in Art Fairs and many group exhibitions. \n  \nExactly a year after his passing\, Deborah Colton Gallery had the major exhibition of Bert L. Long Jr.’s works in the grand solo exhibition Bert Back and Beyond. During this exhibition the film BERT that John Guess produced was shown along with a Q & A discussion. In November 2016 through January 2017\, Deborah Colton Gallery had another solo exhibition of Bert L. Long’s work\, Looking for the Right Time\, with an accompanying catalogue. In 2019 Deborah Colton and John Guess Co-Curated the solo exhibition Riding The Tiger at the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC). Shortly thereafter\, Long’s magnificent painting\, Riding the Tiger\, was placed into a major collection where the collector has agreed to let the artwork museum-tour. The gallery has been representing the Art Estate of Bert L. Long Jr. for over six years and has great things planned for his artistic career. \n  \nIn 2016\, Deborah Colton Gallery had relaunched Dorothy Hood with a solo exhibition of Hood’s paintings in the main front gallery\, Dorothy Hood: Select Paintings. This magnificent exhibition of Dorothy Hood’s paintings was the very first solo of her works in Houston since the 1990’s\, which inspired Hood’s patrons near and far. Since then\, Deborah Colton Gallery has placed Hood’s work in major collections nationally and internationally and was instrumental in getting the archives of Dorothy Hood back to Houston where they are now permanently housed at the University of Houston’s School of the Libraries “Special Collection”. Other exhibitions Dorothy Hood exhibitions that Deborah Colton Gallery has had are Cosmic Attraction: Works by Dorothy Hood & Don Redman in 2018 and Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood & Daniel Kayne 2020\, along with many group exhibitions. \n  \nSeptember – October of 2017\, Deborah Colton Gallery organized and exhibited Foundations II: Focus on the 70’s & 80’s which featured 26 of the most significant artists of that time-period who have made a major impact on Houston becoming the dynamic art city that it is today. The Foundations Symposium Series of panels and lectures each weekend of this exhibition attracted a Who’s Who of the Houston art community with often “standing room only”. Artists that will be featured from this exhibition include work from John Alexander\, Bob Camblin\, Virgil Grotfeldt\, Ann Harathis\, Dorothy Hood\, Perry House\, Sharon Kopriva\, Bert L. Long Jr.\, Jesse Lott and Dick Wray. \n  \nArtist’s Biographies: \n  \nBorn on the bayou in east Texas\, John Alexander has made an international career as a skilled draftsman\, a painter of lush landscapes\, and as a satirist creating allegorical tableaus. Alexander (b. 1945) began studying art at Lamar University in his hometown of Beaumont. After earning an MFA in 1970 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas\, Alexander took a teaching position at the University of Houston\, where he became a key figure in the city’s nascent art scene. Alexander moved to New York City in 1979\, taking a SoHo loft he still calls home. In addition to his continuing fascination with the surreal and humankind at its worst\, Alexander gravitates toward depicting marshy landscapes\, and studied portraits of flora and fauna\, particularly the birds flocking to his part-time home on Long Island’s East End. Naturalism and conservation remain hallmarks of his work\, and he says the Beaumont bayou of his youth is never far from his mind. Alexander has been widely exhibited\, with major shows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington\, D.C.\, and the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. His work can be found in public collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; and many others. \n  \nBob Camblin was born in Oklahoma in 1928 and studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute\, earning an MFA in 1955. He taught at Rice University from 1967 to 1973 with Joe Tate and Earl Staley\, with whom he shared a studio space. His influence and art was a constant undercurrent in the Houston art scene\, revealing much about the environment and those that surrounded him. He left Houston in the early 80s. Known for his drawings\, watercolors\, paintings and his gregarious\, direct personality\, Camblin was included in the Fresh Paint\, The Houston School Museum of Fine Arts exhibition in 1985 and lead an active art life.. \n  \n  \nVirgil Grotfeldt was born in 1948 in Decatur\, Illinois. He earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from Eastern Illinois University in 1971 and a master’s degree at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1974. He moved to Houston in 1977\, where he lived and worked until his passing in 2009. As an established working artist\, Virgil Grotfeldt holds an impressive exhibition history with over one hundred and fifty solo and group shows world-wide. Grotfeldt’s works are included in the permanent collection of the Menil Collection\, Houston\, Texas; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, New York; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art\, Dallas\, Texas; El Paso Museum of Art\, El Paso\, Texas; Tyler Museum of Art\, Tyler\, Texas; Upriver Gallery Collection\, Chengdu\, China; NOG Insurance Company\, Amsterdam\, The Netherlands; and Free International University World Art Collection\, Zeist\, The Netherlands among many others. Two major hardcover books have been published on Virgil Grotfeldt: A comprehensive examination of Grotfeldt’s career and works since the 1970s\, Virgil Grotfeldt: Including the Series with Waldo Bien\, written by Patrick Healy\, published by Wienand Verlag Frankfurt\, 2003. Grotfeldt is also featured in Waldo Bien: Including the Series with Virgil Grotfeldt written by Patrick Healy\, published by Wienand Verlag Frankfurt\, 2000. \n  \nAnn Harithas draws from a well of classic Texas culture\, education\, and personal history to create her art. Born in Houston 1943\, Ann Harithas spent her childhood between school in Victoria\, Texas and her parents’ nearby cattle ranch where her interests in collage were recognized and nurtured from an early age. As an instrument for learning\, collage would not only be a fundamental component of her adolescent development\, but consequently has evolved to become the predominant medium in which she expresses herself as an adult. After graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in English\, she received her MFA from Rice University. As the early founder and proponent of the Art Car movement in Houston in the 1980s\, Ann continued to diversify her methods and application of collage and assemblage\, including the creation of her own art cars. This marked an evolution of her techniques\, employing technological advancements in color printing\, construction\, and materials. Summoning her personal history to capture and catalog her experience\, Ann assembles her past and present to express a notion of time that invariably oscillates between ‘what has been’ and ‘what can be. \n  \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, Dorothy Hood was born in 1918 and was raised in Houston. Hood was known nationwide for creating epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Capturing the earth’s natural beauty through her worldwide travels\, with vast horizons looking far into the universe\, was always a signature of Dorothy Hood magnificent artworks. Over the next four decades\, before her passing in 2000\, Dorothy Hood became a renowned Texas painter whose works were collected across the United States\, including over 30 major museums. Deborah Colton Gallery re-introduced Hood’s work to Houston in September of 2016 with a magnificent booth featuring Hood’s work at the Houston Fine Arts Fair\, and then major exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery in November 2016 and in 2018. Dorothy Hood’s artworks were recently featured in the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston exhibition\, Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood. Deborah Colton Gallery has continued to support Dorothy Hood’s legacy by assisting with attaining all of Hood’s precious archives and journals for the University of Houston Special Collection of the School of the Libraries. Deborah Colton Gallery also continues to promote Hood’s work\, with both national and international exhibitions pending. \n  \nPerry House was born in Orange\, Texas. He pursued art as a vocation at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts. Upon his return to Texas\, House settled in Houston and began his lifelong career as an artist and a teacher of artists. His work often strips away decoration\, narrative\, sex\, politics\, and traditional perspective\, while at the same time evoking the passage of time\, weight\, depth\, and our mortal coil. As Houston’s art scene was coming of age\, House was one of the early pioneers of abstraction\, showing with some of the most historically notable galleries in Houston. In the collection of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts\, the artist received an NEA fellowship award in 1990 and mounted solo efforts at Diverse Works in 2000\, curated by Susie Kalil\, and 2004 at the Galveston Arts Center curated by Clint Willour. On his work House comments “My art has always been about some particular opposites; elegance and violence\, humor and horror\, the sacred and the profane. Things are sectioned\, distorted and exploded.” Perry House retired from Houston Community College – Central after 30 years of teaching\, and painted full time up until his passing. House was a Houston fixture for decades\, not only as an artist but also as a teacher. He touched nearly every corner of Houston’s art scene and influenced many young artists in Houston and beyond. \n  \nBert L. Long\, Jr.\, a self-taught artist\, was born in 1940 in Texas\, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a master chef Long\, decided to devote himself entirely to art in 1979. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work\, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas\, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, and artists John Alexander\, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate\, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work. Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history\, along with complex philosophical and social issues. Long describes the philosophy behind his work as “a quest to help people diagnose their inner self\,” believing his art to be “the vehicle to help facilitate [such a] process.” The late Peter Marzio\, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, said of Bert Long: “Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful\, but as [his artworks] testify\, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.” Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter\, sculptor\, and photographer he was awarded several significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. \n  \nJesse Lott is an African-American sculptor of great distinction and a long time 5th Ward\, Houston resident\, who began his artistic career creating and selling his works as a student at E.O. Smith Elementary School in 1957. Jesse Lott works in paper\, metal\, and wood as well as working with armatures and wire\, all the while building with his artistry a capacity for emotional power. His technique is derived from collecting and recycling discarded materials\, as a type of urban archeology fused with scientific methodology. He has influenced many artists\, including Texans as well known as James Surls\, Bert Long Jr. and Angelbert Metoyer. The all-ages workshops that he has held over the years in his studio as a community service have inspired many students who would otherwise have no exposure to art. Lott’s community oriented philosophy and his Artists in Action program helped spark the creation of the now famous Project Row Houses. \n  \nBorn in Houston\, Texas in 1945\, Suzanne Paul received her BFA from the University of Houston in 1968 and completed 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. Suzanne Paul has over 15 works in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts: Houston and has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum: 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 among many others nationwide. In 1981 Suzanne Paul received a National Endowment for the Arts Photo Survey Grant and has been listed as one of the top national female photographers over the years. Her photographic works have been featured in both solo and group exhibitions by FotoFest International since their founding in 1983. Suzanne Paul’s work has been shown in many of exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery\, including the gallery’s 2016 FotoFest solo exhibition of Paul’s work Proof\, and going as far back as at the Memorial exhibition and reception at the time of her passing in 2005 at Colton’s first gallery space on Summer Street. Suzanne Paul’s work is now permanently featured in Deborah Colton Gallery’s “Houston Foundations Room.” \n  \nA native Houstonian born in 1933\, Dick Wray\, was an artist of incomparable talent and personality who played a critical role in the development of Houston’s contemporary art scene since the late 1950s. Often categorized as an Abstract Expressionist\, Wray is best known for his explosive and dynamic paintings that have received numerous accolades from Houston’s critical community as well as notable arts figures across the United States throughout his career. Wray attended the University of Houston’s School of Architecture\, followed by being educated at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf Arts Academy in Germany. Returning to Houston in 1959\, he began seriously working as an artist with zest and vigor. Over the next fifty years\, he participated in a large number of important exhibitions nationally and internationally\, while locally Wray had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1975\, was included in the Fresh Paint: The Houston School at the Museum of Fine Arts in 1985 and many other prestigious exhibitions. Wray was an instructor at the Glassell School of Art from 1968 until 1982 and also taught seminars in other art institutions throughout the years. Wray was awarded the Ford Foundation Award in 1962\, received a prestigious Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and was named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston in 2000. His work is in major collections\, including the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo\, National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C.\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth\, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts\, the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery has a permanent Foundations Room in the back of the gallery that highlights Suzanne Paul’s photographs of the Houston art scene plus a video excerpt of our Foundations Symposium Series from 2017. The video was created by Lee Benner. There also is a library of publications on Houston artists. \n  \nPlease view the Deborah Colton Gallery website for more details and installation images of our past exhibitions. Select videos that relate to many of the exhibitions highlighted 20 in 2020 Part 3 are on our Video Library section. \n  \nRespecting our past\, being aware of our current environment\, and looking far beyond into the future has always been part of the vision of Deborah Colton Gallery. The mission statement has been the same since our first exhibitions. Deborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:20 in 2020 – Part 2: 2011 to 2020 International Focus
DESCRIPTION:20 in 2020 – Part 2: 2011 to 2020 International Focus  \n  \nDecember 5\, 2020 to January 9\, 2021 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, December 5th\, Noon to 5:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present 20 in 2020 – Part 2\, a group exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings\, mixed media\, photography\, sculpture and video that reflect on highlights of Colton’s twenty years in Houston serving the community with exhibitions from around the world and supporting our Houston art history.  20 in 2020 – Part 2 continues to celebrate Colton’s 20th anniversary for exhibitions in Houston and focuses on the internationally and humanitarian-conscious programing that Deborah Colton Gallery has always been known for\, featuring the years 2011 to 2020. All works are available for acquisition and can be viewed on our website and Viewing Room after the exhibition opens. The Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday\, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm\, and private appointments can also be arranged when requested. \n  \nIn late 2011\, Art & Culture Magazine summed up how most viewers perceived Deborah Colton Gallery\, with the title of a feature story they did on the Gallery\, “An Artful Life – Deborah Colton & Her Texas Home for International Contemporary Art.” Certainly\, the international programing that Colton created has always been a focus\, starting with the first exhibitions in 2000 through the first decade of the millennium\, as was featured in 20 in 2020 – Part 1. This focus has been the unique trademark of Deborah Colton Gallery in Texas and with their artists\, clients and supporters world-wide. \n  \n20 in 2020 – Part 2 starts in 2011\, when Deborah Colton Gallery featured a powerful solo exhibition of Rania Daniel’s Urban Illusion where her paintings and photography reflected the changes taking place in Beirut at the time. Rania Daniel’s thought-provoking art has been shown in several solo and group exhibitions since then\, as have many other exhibitions relating to the Middle East – Arab World throughout Deborah Colton Gallery’s history. \n  \nWith rapid changes taking place in Eastern Europe at this time also\, Deborah Colton Gallery focused on Russia\, introducing at the first commercial gallery in the United States\, Olga Tobreluts and Oleg Dou during FotoFest’s 2012 Focus on Russia. Since then\, both Olga Tobreluts and Oleg Dou have introduced many important new bodies of work at Deborah Colton Gallery and have had exhibitions world-wide after our gallery’s international debuts. A few years later\, another artist from Russia\, Ivan Plusch\, was introduced in the United States at Deborah Colton Gallery\, and since then has been included in several solo and group exhibitions\, including the solo exhibition\, The Promise of Eternal Life at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2019. A recent group exhibition of these three artists\, Awakening: Contemporary Artists from Eastern Europe\, focused on how Tobreluts’\, Dou’s and Plusch’s works reveal their experiences due to this rapid period of change after the dissolving of the Soviet Union\, and how their artistic careers have all taken a fast pace to achieve much acclaim throughout Europe and world-wide at young ages. \n  \nContinuing to build on the projects that Colton was involved since 2006 in the Middle East – Arab World\, in May of 2012\, Deborah Colton Gallery hosted the exhibition\, The Rule and its Exception that focused on contemporary Middle Eastern art. Soody Sharifi was also featured in this provocative exhibition and Sharifi had several solo exhibitions thereafter at Deborah Colton Gallery\, including The Desert Belongs to Me in 2013 and her outstanding solo exhibition during FotoFest 2014\, The Space Within. In late 2014\, Deborah Colton Gallery introduced the major solo exhibition\, Mapping Strife: Perceptions and Reality\, featuring artist from Egypt\, Khaled Hafez\, Baghdad-born/Iranian- Canadian\, Mahmoud Obaidi and Ferhat Ozgur from Istanbul. Thereafter\, Khaled Hafez had a major solo exhibition in 2015 at Deborah Colton\, Code of Hermes\, and Mahmoud Obaidi’s work has shown in several exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery since then also. At a critical time in the history in this region of nations\, the exhibitions reflected on the artist’s perceptions of the times\, and created an awareness for hopefully more international peace and harmony\, which has always been a mission of Deborah Colton Gallery’s programing. Along that same concept\, Deborah Colton Gallery debuted in the United States a dynamic solo exhibition in 2017 which encompassed the entire gallery of Fadi Yazigi: Still Life…Still Alive…Still A Life\, which dramatically revealed the turbulent times in Yazigi’s homeland of Syria where he lives. This exhibition revealed a promise of hope and the essence of positivity within the human spirit. \n  \nTo expand on the concept further\, after Fadi Yazigi’s exhibition that revealed the positive strength of the human spirit\, Deborah Colton Gallery did a series of exhibitions to further emphasize this. In 2017\, Satish Gupta\, from India\, was introduced at the Gallery in the exhibition\, Visions. Also included in this exhibition was Amita Bhatt\, Sharon Kopriva and Susan Plum. Visions explored the journey of these four artists coming from different backgrounds and how they reveal spirituality in their works. Although Satish Gupta was the main focus of this exhibition\, which introduced his work in the United States for the first time\, all three other artists have had major solo exhibitions that encompassed the entire gallery at Deborah Colton Gallery since then. Susan Plum’s conceptually and physically complex art has been influenced by her time in India\, Nepal\, Thailand and Mexico. With an expansive cosmic\, universal vision\, her solo exhibition\, Soul Retrieval\, was based on our reconnecting\, healing and bringing harmony and balance to the earth on micro and macro levels of existence. Native Houstonian\, Sharon Kopriva\, has been showing at Deborah Colton Gallery since 2010 and has also had exhibitions world-wide during the past many decades. Kopriva’s solos at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Illuminations in 2014 and Mediations\, Migrations and Muses in 2019\, both focused on the search for spirituality and light in the forest and fields where Kopriva finds her inspiration. In an earlier solo exhibition at our gallery in 2011\, Cathedrals\, Phantoms and Naked Dogs\, Kopriva also addressed tragic events that have happened throughout history to the human race\, but always revealed a hope for more light and better times to come in the future. Amita Bhatt’s first solo at Deborah Colton Gallery was in 2019\, Between Light and Shadow\, where Bhatt dug into world philosophies and mythologies to answer questions pertaining to our political as well as personal belief systems. Armed with humor\, paradox\, symbolism and mythology\, Bhatt’s work has always created complex worlds that implode and explode as she encouraged her audience to reflect on the endless cycles of conception and annihilation\, highlighting the impermanence of all things. \n  \nInternationally accomplished artist\, Angelbert Metoyer has been shown at Deborah Colton Gallery since 2008 and has had several solo exhibitions including at the gallery\, including Babies: Walk on Water in 2013\, Seasons of Heaven in 2015 and Real Eyes (Realize) – An Artist Survey in 2018. Metoyer’s work constantly looks at a universal vison based on the past\, present and far into the future. His work turns the attention beyond ideas of self-identity and personal experiences to notions of universal truths\, metaphysics and questions about the human soul. \n  \nLowell Boyers\, who has shown with the gallery since 2004 with several solo exhibitions\, also reveals a type of universal spirituality and internal self-actualization that exists in all humans\, as we connect and live within nature on earth together at this moment in time. Works from Boyer’s most recent 2019 solo exhibition\, Inscapes\, beautifully emphasized this\, as his art continues to transcend. Daniel Kayne’s work also reveals a pure\, universal spirituality and kindness towards humanity. \n  \nFascinated by the intrinsic order and beauty of nature\, Grayson Chandler’s work attempts to capture and abstract its character in a manner that is recognizable\, yet unfamiliar. Deeply curious about the forces that govern human reason and faith\, his work probes the amphibious network linking logic\, intuition\, consciousness\, and emotion. Introduced by Deborah Colton Gallery in 2017 with his solo exhibition\, Tautologies & Memoir\, Chandler has been included in several group exhibitions and has had two other solos\, Cocoon in 2019 and Telos: After Thought in 2020. \n  \nDorothy Hood has always been known for creating epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Hood captured the earth’s natural beauty through her worldwide travels\, with vast horizons looking far into the universe. Deborah Colton Gallery hosted the first solo exhibition of Hood’s works in Houston since 1990’s\, Select Paintings by Dorothy Hood in 2016. Since then\, Hood’s work has been exhibited at Deborah Colton Gallery close to a dozen times\, including Cosmic Attraction: Dorothy Hood & Don Redman in 2018\, and Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood & Daniel Kayne in 2020. \n  \nMolly Gochman\, an interdisciplinary\, conceptual artist and activist based in New York City\, has been showing at Deborah Colton Gallery for over a decade. Gochman’s Lullabies that was exhibited as a solo exhibition both at Deborah Colton Gallery and the MAC in Dallas in 2011\, interweaved photography\, sculpture\, video and audio into an introspective and thought-producing installation. Gochman’s solo exhibition Drenched during FotoFest 2018\, explored through the contexts of Houston after Hurricane Harvey and India after the monsoon rains\, the myriad of ways that water works to build\, destroy\, connect\, devour\, and grow. Looking at damaged photography from storms of homes created on aluminum and sculptures of fabric that reminded Gochman of India revealed the story. Gochman created a series of Panels discussing the negative effects this damage did to the human condition and offered healing events also during the length of the exhibition. \n  \nJapanese born\, Noriko Shinohara\, moved to the United States in 1972 and has revealed her journey with her artist husband\, Ushio Shinohara\, with humor\, in her “Cutie and the Bullie” Series. Born in Tokyo\, Japan\, Ushio Shinohara is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist and International Pop painter\, who has lived and worked in the United States since 1969. Ushio and Noriko were first introduced at Deborah Colton Galley in 2015 with their exhibition\, Noriko and Ushio Shinohara: Love is a Roar-r–r! Since then\, they have both had solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, including Ushio Shinohara: ACTION! Boxing Paintings and Sculptures in 2016\, and Ushio Shinohara: Maltese Falcon\, Noriko Shinohara: Cuties Love Letters from Malta Island in 2020. Both Ushio and Noriko have created live art performances for Deborah Colton Gallery in various locations. \n  \nVenezuelan born – NYC based artist\, Harif Guzman\, had a grand solo exhibition encompassing the entire spaces at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2012\, Dying to Live. Since then Guzman’s work has been included in many exhibitions that the gallery has hosted throughout Texas. Guzman’s work was created for this Texas debut and reveals his Venezuelan childhood in a petroleum-based region and his perceptions of Texas and Urban culture. Alfredo Scaronia\, originally from the Dominican Republic and Roberto Del Rio from Mexico\, were both shown often at Deborah Colton Gallery and our Art Fair booth in several cities around 2011 for many years. Mexican born artist\, who is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Brandeis University\, Alfredo Grisholt had the powerful solo exhibition Canto y Calavera in 2015 which encompassed the entire Deborah Colton Gallery. In this impactful solo exhibition of paintings and drawings\, Grisholt created familiar motifs into more liminal forms that reflect on our current times and occupy a space between the real and imaginary. A new solo exhibition of Grisholt’s work will be featured at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Rituals of Perception\, opening February 20\, 2021 and will be exhibited through April 30th. \nDeborah Colton Gallery also addressed concerns that relate to inequality and race within our own country through featuring many African American artists. Nathaniel Donnett was introduced at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2008 in a group show A Time for Change\, and then had the solo exhibition Black Plastic and the Paper Bag Kids in the Soulecistic Playground. The work of the iconic Houston artist\, Bert L. Long Jr.\, was introduced to Deborah Colton Gallery in the solo exhibition Bert Back and Beyond\, which was exactly one year after his passing\, February 2014. Since then Deborah Colton Gallery has included Long’s work in group exhibitions and art fairs and had the solo exhibition of his works\, Looking for the Right Time in 2017. In 2019\, Deborah Colton co-curated the Bert L. Long Jr. solo exhibition Riding the Tiger at the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC). In 2016\, Deborah Colton Gallery curated the exhibition\, in conjunction with Community Artist Collective\, Tribute: Women Artists of African Diaspora\, which included artists Anna Johnson\, Jean Lacy\, Annette Lawrence\, Delita Pinchback Martin\, Sondra Perry\, Alison Saar\, Kaneem Smith\, Renee Stout\, Colette Veasey-Cullors and Erika Walker. This exhibition was a pre-promotion for the 30th Anniversary celebration and fundraiser for Community Artist Collective\, which was hosted at Deborah Colton Gallery. \n  \nPlease view the Deborah Colton Gallery website for more details and installation images of our past exhibitions. Select videos that relate to many of the exhibitions highlighted 20 in 2020 Part 2 are on our Video Library section. \n  \n20 in 2020 Part 3 – Houston Foundations will open on January 16\, 2021 and will be the last of this series. Part 3 will focus on Colton’s emphasis to create an awareness this past decade of Houston’s artistic roots. With the establishment of Houston Foundations and the gallery’s series of exhibitions\, panels and lectures\, 20 in 2020 – Part 3 will focus on many of the artists who have contributed to Houston being the vibrant and dynamic art city that it is today. \nRespecting our past\, being aware of our current environment\, and looking far beyond into the future has always been part of the vision of Deborah Colton Gallery. The mission statement has been the same since our first exhibitions. Deborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  \nThere will be many magazines and memorabilia available to take from this exhibition. Also there are specially reduced prices to celebrate this 20th anniversary! \n  \nOn Saturday\, December 5th\, there will be an Open House and a Paul Horn – Jeff Wheeler curated Holiday event and yard sale\, titled “Camp Lucky 3” at Deborah in the back gardens from noon to 5:00 pm. Limited admission and facemasks are required.
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SUMMARY:20 in 2020 – Part 1: 2000 to 2009
DESCRIPTION:20 in 2020 – Part I \n  \nOctober 24 to November 28\, 2020 \nOpening Reception and Paul Horn – Jeff Wheeler curated Camp Lucky 2 Quantum Entangled Blue Yard Sale: Saturday\, October 24th\, Noon to 6:00 pm \n  \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present 20 in 2020 – Part I\, a group exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings\, mixed media\, photography\, sculpture and video that reflect on highlights of Colton’s twenty years in Houston serving the community with exhibitions from around the world and supporting our Houston art history. Part I reflects on the first decade\, starting in 2000. All works are available for acquisition and can be viewed our website and Viewing Room after the exhibition opens. There will be an Open House and a Paul Horn – Jeff Wheeler curated event and yard sale in the back gardens from noon to 6:00 pm on Saturday\, October 24th. Limited admission and face masks are required. The Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday\, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm and private appointments can also be arranged when requested. \n  \nJoin Deborah Colton in celebrating twenty years since the first Houston exhibition that she curated in October 2000\, just a few months after she and her family moved back to Houston from Asia! The first exhibition\, Thai Expressions in the City\, Colton had curated while still living in Bangkok and included many major works by sixteen top artists in Thailand at the grand Two Allen Center in conjunction with the Asia Society. These first Houston exhibitions in Two Allen Center supported the Asia Society’s vision of creating their new building and exhibition space\, and their Asia Society logos and materials where placed throughout the exhibition space so thousands of people who walked through a day and came to the Asia Society’s exhibition receptions there could start to envision what a Asian Art Museum would be like! Colton sponsored major contemporary Asian art exhibitions\, from Thailand in 2000\, China in October 2001 and Japan in October of 2003\, all in conjunction with the Asia Society and The Consulate Offices of each of their counties. The exhibition from Japan also was in conjunction with the Asian Cultural Exchange of Japan and excerpts from this exhibition also toured to Seattle\, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Select works from these exhibitions and artists will be on view at the gallery! \n  \nDuring this same time in the early millennium\, Colton was planning to open a private gallery but wanted to take her time to access what Houston had already in terms of the arts. She also wanted a unique type of gallery space. Due to Colton’s support of a Swiss Italian Artist\, Pierre Poretti while she lived in Bangkok\, she was connected Pierre’s dear friend Edo Bertoglio\, who was the Film Director of “Downtown 81\,” which featured Jean Michel Basquiat. Edo invited Colton to the United States debut of the film in NYC\, where the accompanying exhibition was debuted at Jeffery Dietch’s gallery. For FotoFest of 2002\, Colton brought “Downtown 81” to the Houston Angelika Film Center and the accompanying exhibition to a funky art space restaurant in Montrose\, and then to Dallas at the Angelika Film Center also. This 2002 exhibition that Colton organized brought in many key curators and contemporary art collectors\, which then started the momentum for Colton to open a permanent space starting in 2003 for Deborah Colton Gallery at 2500 Summer Street in the Washington quarter as a cool warehouse gallery with a downtown skyline view. This area was then a very dilapidated and neglected part of town then. Colton’s exhibitions and openings help revitalize the area where she helped establish the area as a First Ward Arts Districts and organize the first grand city wide exhibition at Winter Street after John Deal bought and restored the building in 2005. \n  \nThe famous Paul Horn curated Camp Lucky – Summer of Carnage in September of 2004\, which included interactive performances by the Art Guys and I Love You Baby and included artists like Bill Davenport\, Sharon Engelstein\, Mark Flood\, Francesca Fuchs\, Rachel Hecker and Arron Parazette attracted over 1\,200 people that night with cars going all the way to Washington Avenue. Camp Lucky 2 Quantum Entangled Blue\, curated by Paul Horn and Jeffrey Wheeler will include works by Mark Flood\, Jack Massing\, Art Guys\, Banksy\, Daniel Johnston\, Thedra Cullar-Ledford\, Bill Davenport\, Paul Horn\, Jeffry Wheeler and others will be great fun also! Due to Covid\, though\, masks and a limit on guests at one time is required. \n  \nEarlier shows brought video and futuristic Sci-Artists like Suzanne Anker and Michael Rees to Houston in 2004\, at a time when the city was not showing much video or digital interactive works yet\, like in the Deborah Colton Gallery shows Integrating Digital Consciousness and Touch & Temperature: Art in the Cybernetic Totalism that included pioneers in digital art like Manfred Mohr from Germany and Yael Kanarek and Matthew Barney from New York. Lowell Boyers’ work was introduced at Deborah Colton Gallery in Touch & Temperature also and he has been with the gallery since then. In 2005\, Deborah Colton Gallery debuted in Houston “The Godfather of American avant-garde cinema\,” Jonas Mekas\, in the solo exhibition Film Framed\, and at the same time started the movement to revere Houston art history through representing the Estate of Suzanne Paul. In 2005 also\, Deborah Colton Gallery debuted the Warhol Factory’s Ultra Violet to Houston in the New Cartoon exhibition and then gave Ultra Violet a solo exhibition in 2006. September of 2006\, Deborah Colton Gallery organized and sponsored the historical WORD exhibition which was a fusion of the original conceptual and fluxus artists\, including Jenny Holzer\, Joseph Kosuth\, John Baldessari\, Robert Barry\, Douglas Huebler\, Ed Ruscha\, Mickey Smith\, Lawrence Weiner\, Ben Vautier\, The Art Guys and 19 others. As part of this exhibition\, Colton sponsored the public space installation of Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE billboard that was displayed on I-45 South going into downtown\, which made the statement worldwide that not all of Texas was for war. Shortly thereafter\, Colton helped organized Michael Somoroff’s Illuminations sculpture to be placed on the Rothko Chapel grounds for several months\, to further support international peace. Deborah Colton Gallery was the only USA gallery to exhibit at the first Abu Dhabi Art Fair\, this message of promoting international peace through Somoroff’s work and other prevailed in 2007\, and this mission still continues. \n  \nBy 2007\, China was expanding rapidly and was in the forefront of international contemporary art. Deborah Colton Gallery debuted exhibitions and performances from Chinese internationally acclaimed artists like Han Bing\, the Gao Brothers\, XU Yong & YU Na and had major shows in the heat of the Chinese contemporary art movement like China Under Construction. When the Middle East contemporary art scene broke open\, Deborah Colton Gallery brought exhibitions from this region to Houston\, like Qatar Narratives in 2008 and many exhibitions of cutting-edge work from the Middle East and Arab world thereafter. Angelbert Metoyer was first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery during the Qatar Narratives exhibition since he was selected as the American Artist to reflect on the Qatari culture. Since then Angelbert has had several solo exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery. \n  \nQatar Narratives marked the last exhibition that Deborah Colton Gallery had at 2500 Summer Street. Molly Gochman’s Release exhibition partially transitioned 2445 North Boulevard from her artist studio/exhibition space to Deborah Colton Gallery. The 2008 exhibition\, Time for Change\, curated by Catherine D. Anspon marked the full conversion of the gallery move\, in addition to being a thoughtful group exhibition around the time of an important election year. \n  \nExhibiting early feminist artists like Mary Beth Edelson and then provocative work that addresses social issues like Jay Rusovich and Frank Rodick has been part of the gallery programming starting in this first decade of the gallery’s history. Deborah Colton Gallery founded OUTPOST NYC – DCG during this time also\, which hosted exhibitions at non- profit spaces at the Emily Harvey Foundation\, the MAC in Dallas and NADA during Miami Basel. Such exhibitions included solo exhibitions of Molly Gochman\, Mary Beth Edelson\, Frank Rodick\, Suzanne Anker\, Marianne Vitale\, Jonas Mekas and Christian Tomaszewski. \n  \nRespecting our past\, being aware of our current environment\, and looking far beyond into the future has always been part of the vision of Deborah Colton Gallery. The mission statement has been the same since our first exhibitions. Deborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change. \n  \nThere will be many magazines and memorabilia available to take from this exhibition. Also specially reduced prices to celebrate the first decade of our shows in Houston!
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SUMMARY:Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne II
DESCRIPTION:Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne II \n  \nSeptember 19 to October 17\, 2020 \n  \nDue to the vast popular demand\, Deborah Colton Gallery has extended Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne\, as a Part II version! This continuation of the original exhibition features more works from two Texas natives\, Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne. The exhibition\, which is from September 19 to October 17\, can be seen online through the gallery’s Viewing Room. Installation and artwork images can be seen through the gallery’s Virtual Slide Show and website. All works are available for acquisition. Interest in specific artworks can be addressed by email\, phone or “By Appointment” at Deborah Colton Gallery during normal gallery hours\, which are Tuesday through Saturday\, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm. \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, Dorothy Hood was born in 1918 and was raised in Houston. Hood was known nation-wide for creating epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Capturing the earth’s natural beauty through her worldwide travels\, with vast horizons looking far into the universe\, was always a signature of Dorothy Hood magnificent artworks. Over the next four decades\, before her passing in 2000\, Dorothy Hood became a renowned Texas painter whose works were collected across the United States\, including over 30 major museums. \nDeborah Colton Gallery re-introduced Hood’s work to Houston in September of 2016 with a magnificent booth featuring Hood’s work at the Houston Fine Arts Fair\, and then major exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery in November 2016 and in 2018. Dorothy Hood’s artworks were recently featured in the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston exhibition\, Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood. Deborah Colton Gallery has continued to support Dorothy Hood’s legacy by assisting with attaining all of Hood’s precious archives and journals for the University of Houston Special Collection of the School of the Libraries. Deborah Colton Gallery also continues to promote Hood’s work\, with both national and international exhibitions pending. \n  \nAn award winning painter\, sculptor and performance artist\, Daniel Kayne was born in 1968 in Dayton\, Texas. His fascination at an early age with the universe and the world around him ignited an insatiable passion for what was to become his career as an artist. Daniel Kayne’s work was first seen at Deborah Colton Gallery in a 2006 solo exhibition Urban Mix. Kayne used both his Houston and New York studios to create his sublime solo exhibition\, Dividing God which was shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2008. Daniel Kayne was honored 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 in 2008 also. These awards allowed him to receive an art residency in Paris as well as an exhibit in Shenyang\, China\, where he was involved in many major art related projects to help humanity. Daniel Kayne had a zest for exploring and understanding the world where he worked towards trying to bridge cultural gaps to create more world-wide peace and understanding. 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 humans living in the world today\, all as one within the universe. \n  \nLike Dorothy Hood\, Daniel Kayne’s vision expanded far beyond himself and his immediate surroundings. Both artists were visionary thinkers who had the talent to see their lives from a universal perspective\, looking at Space from the Earth… and looking at the Earth from Space. This higher-level thinking\, looking at the Earth within the greater Universe… the world as one\, is a view that can evoke much thought towards a positive the future. \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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/earth-space-dorothy-hood-and-daniel-kayne-ii/
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SUMMARY:Grayson Chandler: Telos: After Thought
DESCRIPTION:Grayson Chandler \nTelos: After Thought \n  \nJuly 25 to September 12\, 2020 \n  \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present a fresh body of work on paper by Houston artist\, Grayson Chandler. The exhibition is from July 25 to September 12\, 2020. The exhibition can be seen in advance through our Virtual Slide Show. Once the exhibition opens\, the works can be viewed “By Appointment” at the gallery or through our Viewing Room and Installation Images on our website. \n  \nTelos: After Thought materializes a burgeoning philosophy taking root in Grayson’s studio practice. Telos\, from the Greek τέλος\, translates to “end\,” “object\,” “purpose\,” signifying finality to be the ultimate pursuit of any action. While purpose is concerned with acquisition — a solution for measuring up to preeminent judgment — the alternative is a suspension of judgment in the interest of furthering observation. Ontologically speaking\, these sensibilities are diametrically opposed\, but where these temperaments collide is a space that invites opportunity to explore. Possibility prevails where purpose is not a means to an end. \n  \nBorn in Houston\, Texas\, Grayson Chandler graduated with a BFA in Studio at the University of North Texas\, Denton\, Texas and has had numerous exhibitions since then. Chandler’s first solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2017 captivated the viewers and was a “sell-out” show. Chandler’s second solo exhibition\, Cocoon\, at Deborah Colton Gallery in May 2019 attracted much attention\, with many major collectors acquiring his works. Grayson Chandler has been selected for the major exhibition\, AKIN\, which highlights five artists from Texas and five from The State of Qatar. This exhibition is tentatively scheduled to open in Doha\, Qatar in October – November 2020 and will then be exhibited at Deborah Colton Gallery January – February 2021. Details will be confirmed this summer. \n  \nFascinated by the intrinsic order and beauty of nature\, Grayson’s work attempts to capture and abstract it’s character in a manner that is recognizable\, yet unfamiliar. Deeply curious about the forces that govern human reason and faith\, his work probes the amphibious network linking logic\, intuition\, consciousness\, and emotion. Through this perspective\, we are encouraged to draw upon our own experience and sensation as a means of illuminating the border between real and imaginary—exposing their dichotomy—to explore our desire to identify with imagery that resembles things we already know\, and draw from that tendency as an aperture to view something empirically new. \n  \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.
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SUMMARY:Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne
DESCRIPTION:Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne \n  \nJuly 25 through September 12\, 2020 \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne\, an exhibition featuring works from two Texas natives\, Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne. The exhibition\, which is from July 25 to September 12\, can be seen online through the gallery’s Viewing Room. Installation and artwork images can be seen through the gallery’s Virtual Slide Show and website. All works are available for acquisition. Interest in specific artworks can be addressed by email\, phone or “By Appointment” at Deborah Colton Gallery during normal gallery hours\, which are Tuesday through Saturday\, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm. \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, Dorothy Hood was born in 1918 and was raised in Houston. Hood was known nation-wide for creating epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Capturing the earth’s natural beauty through her worldwide travels\, with vast horizons looking far into the universe\, was always a signature of Dorothy Hood magnificent artworks. Over the next four decades\, before her passing in 2000\, Dorothy Hood became a renowned Texas painter whose works were collected across the United States\, including over 30 major museums. \nDeborah Colton Gallery re-introduced Hood’s work to Houston in September of 2016 with a magnificent booth featuring Hood’s work at the Houston Fine Arts Fair\, and then major exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery in November 2016 and in 2018. Dorothy Hood’s artworks were recently featured in the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston exhibition\, Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood. Deborah Colton Gallery has continued to support Dorothy Hood’s legacy by assisting with attaining all of Hood’s precious archives and journals for the University of Houston Special Collection of the School of the Libraries. Deborah Colton Gallery also continues to promote Hood’s work\, with both national and international exhibitions pending. \n  \nAn award winning painter\, sculptor and performance artist\, Daniel Kayne was born in 1968 in Dayton\, Texas. His fascination at an early age with the universe and the world around him ignited an insatiable passion for what was to become his career as an artist. Daniel Kayne’s work was first seen at Deborah Colton Gallery in a 2006 solo exhibition Urban Mix. Kayne used both his Houston and New York studios to create his sublime solo exhibition\, Dividing God which was shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2008. Daniel Kayne was honored 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 in 2008 also. These awards allowed him to receive an art residency in Paris as well as an exhibit in Shenyang\, China\, where he was involved in many major art related projects to help humanity. Daniel Kayne had a zest for exploring and understanding the world where he worked towards trying to bridge cultural gaps to create more world-wide peace and understanding. 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 humans living in the world today\, all as one within the universe. \n  \nLike Dorothy Hood\, Daniel Kayne’s vision expanded far beyond himself and his immediate surroundings. Both artists were visionary thinkers who had the talent to see their lives from a universal perspective\, looking at Space from the Earth… and looking at the Earth from Space. This higher-level thinking\, looking at the Earth within the greater Universe… the world as one\, is a view that can evoke much thought towards a positive the future. \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.
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SUMMARY:Felipe Lopez: Precautionary Principles of the New World
DESCRIPTION:Felipe Lopez \nPrecautionary Principles of the New World \n  \nMay 16 through July 11\, 2020 \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Precautionary Principles of the New World\, featuring works by Houston artist\, Felipe Lopez. With this international debut of four new and relevant bodies of works\, Lopez encapsulates on nature and the current human condition through drawings\, paintings\, video\, sculptures\, and installation. The exhibition\, which is from May 16 to July 11\, can be seen online through the gallery’s Viewing Room. Installation and artwork images can be seen through the gallery’s Virtual Slide Show and website. All works are available for acquisition. Interest in specific artworks can be addressed by email\, phone or “By Appointment” at Deborah Colton Gallery. \n  \nFelipe Lopez\, who mixes art with science in relation to the human condition\, has been breaking new ground this past year with record speed. Lopez was featured in the 2019 Houston Sculpture Month\, Outta Space with two major installations\, Spatio Aquarum and Perseus in Andromeda’s Galaxy. A 90-minute film series\, Visual Voyage: Videos and Music by Felipe Lopez and Meghan Hendley of Chapel in the Sky is tentatively set to debut in early June at Anthology Film Archives in NYC. Lopez also plans to participate in the School of Visual Arts Bio Art Lab Residency Program when their dates are finalized. A well-read artist of intellect\, Lopez’s work reflects on issues that we as a human race must address. \n  \nWithin the complexities of modern society\, there are now more than ever precautionary principles that require much thought. In one of Lopez’s new series\, For the Greater Hive\, honeycomb shapes symbolize the infrastructure of our economy and the industries that carry the weight of what makes our society able to function. The arrows\, once again symbols of man-made detriments\, disrupt the hive\, but have a symbol of hope sprouting. Seeing that flowers are a perfect replica of human life\, they help mirror the resilience\, innovation\, and shift the viewer to what is beautiful in moments of pure humanity. \n  \nIn Natural Tendencies\, Lopez shapes an ensnarement of dirt and flowers within a fabricated mold. These artworks reveal the essence of nature within a symbolic blockade that mimic both beauty and the confinement of biology in its most basic state. \n  \nThe sculptural work in Purification Systems layer nature’s identity and method of purifying water. The amount of water filling the tubes is equivalent to the average amount of water in a human’s body. Visualizing the strength in these natural materials and their processes can help identify them as creative life forms. \n  \nTo Create A Diamond centers around the pressure it takes to make a diamond and the repetition of said pressure. The repetitive changes and forces of that pressure are revealed in the artworks\, with the harmonious video further helping the viewer to contemplate about a sense of self in relation to the world and to the future. This steadfast pressure that it takes to create a diamond can symbolize a daily\, meditative process which can help humans build resiliency\, balance\, and strength inorder to endure the challenges within the current world. \n  \nThe works presented in Precautionary Principles of The New World address the delicate relationship between our economy\, environment\, and ethos. Each series offers a step outside a field of thought and opens new dialogues. \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.
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LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Suzanne Paul
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Paul  \nA Tribute to Suzanne Paul \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present A Tribute to Suzanne Paul\, an exhibition that features work from the archive of Houston-born artist\, Suzanne Paul. A Tribute to Suzanne Paul highlights influential figures in Houston’s art history and reveals a reflection of Paul’s time in New York. The exhibition examines Suzanne’s unique approach to creating photography. Please come to view this exhibition during our normal gallery hours. All works are available for acquisition. \n  \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 from the 1970s until 2005. Her introduction to the Houston arts and launch of her fine arts 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\, Shortly thereafter\, she was offered the first solo photography exhibition by a woman at the museum. From there\, Paul was seen at every major art event in Houston\, capturing the finest moments of significant art events in our city. “If Paul was there\, it was an important happening\,” states Deborah Colton. \n  \nSoon it was realized that Paul’s work was much more than just capturing images of the art scene though. Clearly\, Suzanne Paul captured the essence of each person in a way that Houston had never seen before. As Clint Wilour\, curator of the FotoFest solo exhibition of Suzanne Paul’s work\, Being Human wrote in 2001\, “There is a belief in many cultures that the camera is capable of stealing the human soul or spirit. [Suzanne] Paul’s camera may not steal the soul\, but it certainly captures it and the spirit within… These are personal\, intimate\, compelling excursions into the humanity of her subjects…” \n  \nBorn in Houston\, Texas in 1945\, Paul received her BFA from the University of Houston in 1968 and completed 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. \n  \nSuzanne Paul has over 15 works in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts: Houston and has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum: 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 among many others nationwide. \n  \nIn 1981 Suzanne Paul received a National Endowment for the Arts Photo Survey Grant and has been listed as one of the top national female photographers over the years. Her photographic works have been featured in both solo and group exhibitions by FotoFest International since their founding in 1983. Suzanne Paul’s work has been shown in many of exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery\, including the gallery’s 2016 FotoFest solo exhibition of Paul’s work Proof\, and going as far back as at the Memorial exhibition and reception at the time of her passing in 2005 at Colton’s first gallery space on Summer Street. Suzanne Paul’s work is now permanently featured in Deborah Colton Gallery’s “Houston Foundations Room.” \n  \nAs Catherine D. Anspon wrote about Suzanne Paul in her essay\, The Legacy of the Lady with the Leica in the Deborah Colton Gallery Proof catalogue\, “It is sincerely hoped that this exhibition will be the beginning of the rediscovery of Paul\, as well as propelling her authentic images to achieve the renown they deserve both in Texas and beyond. She surely was our Jonas Mekas.” \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.
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SUMMARY:Jonas Mekas: A Tribute to Jonas Mekas
DESCRIPTION:Jonas Mekas \n  \nA Tribute to Jonas Mekas \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present A Tribute to Jonas Mekas\, which will highlight a variety of Jonas Mekas’ still-framed photographs\, his films\, and his life and accomplishments. Please come to view this exhibition during our normal gallery hours. All works are available for acquisition. \nJonas Mekas: the Founder of Anthology Films in New York..\, the filmmaker\, poet\, writer\, curator and artist. Jonas Mekas captured moments that we all cherish in art history\, in American history\, in life… from film producers\, Salvador Dali\, the Kennedy’s\, Warhol\, Yoko Ono and John Lennon\, Elvis Presley\, the World Trade Center… to more personal\, special moments of nature\, his family\, being human\, celebrating life and cherishing each experience to the fullest. Jonas made a major contribution to the art world and is greatly missed. He passed away on January 23\, 2019 at 96 years old. Since then\, there have been many events celebrating his life last year\, including “Homage to a Happy Man: Celebrating Jonas Mekas (1922 – 2019)” at St Mark’s Church last May. This is the first solo art exhibition paying Tribute to his artistic career since his passing. \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\, Mekas began writing his “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice; in 1962 he co-founded the Film-Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) and in 1964 the Film-makers’ Cinematheque\, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives. His own artistic creations vary 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 I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)\, Sleepless Night Stories (2011) and The Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012). Known as an icon of contemporary American culture\, Mekas documented the era that promoted peace through his acclaimed independent film and still-frame photography\, which feature 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 for extraordinary presentation of contemporary classic art. Mekas was invited again in 2015 to exhibit at the Venice Biennale\, where his installation The Internet Saga was on view in the sixteenth century Palazzo Foscari Contarini. \nThrough his accomplished career Jonas Mekas has received awards from New York State Council on the Arts; Rockefeller Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; the Long Wharf Theater Foundation; and has been a member of the American Center of P.E.N and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts. He also received a Golden Medal from Philadelphia College of 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\, among many others. \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. In December of 2012 Mekas participated in an extensive presentation at Serpentine Gallery\, London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2013 an exhibition of his works opened at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg\, Russia\, at the Cinémathèque Royale and the Bozar Center for Fine Arts\, both in Brussels\, Belgium. In 2014 he showed at the Centre Pompidou\, the Cesis Art Festival in Latvia\, and at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe\, Germany. Since then Jonas Mekas participated in many creative projects and exhibitions worldwide. \n  \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery first debuted Jonas Mekas in Houston in the solo exhibition Film Framed in 2005. In 2007\, Jonas Mekas was also included in the group exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Chemical City. Since then Deborah Colton Gallery has continued to represent Jonas Mekas\, including with her projects with OUTPOST NYC DCG that she co-founded. Additionally\, Deborah Colton has served on the Anthology Film Archives Advisor Board for many years now. \n“It has been my great honor to support Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives over the years due to my deep respect for Jonas and everything that he believed in… with Anthology being the most highly regarded institution in preserving\, exhibiting and promoting avant-garde\, independent film and video\, dating from its origins up to the present and beyond” states Deborah Colton. \nJonas Mekas was a featured artist and special guest of the 2013 Houston Cinema Arts Festival\, which presented 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. Having made this project happen for Cinema Arts Festival with Mekas\, Deborah Colton Gallery at the same time had the solo exhibition\, “LIFE GOES ON….I KEEP SINGING”\, curated by Deborah Colton and Jonas Mekas. In 2015\, Deborah Colton Gallery supported an exhibition of still-framed photographs and screenings of Mekas films\, entitled Frozen Film Frames: Portraits of Filmmakers by Jonas Mekas at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene\, Oregon which was an excerpt of the exhibition Deborah Colton Gallery debuted at Paris Photo LA 2013 and then at Deborah Colton Gallery’s solo in 2013 at the time of the Houston Cinema Film Festival. Deborah Colton was invited by the museum to be guest Co-Curator and to attend and moderate at Skype Interview with Jonas. \nA Tribute to Jonas Mekas will focus on a body of work that Jonas and Deborah Colton selected together that he was very pleased with. The exhibition will include his family\, his friends\, his colleagues in the art world and in an American dream that he believed in. In addition to the video created by Jonas for our original exhibition\, “FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE”\, Deborah Colton Gallery will be featuring the video WTC HAIKUS\, video 14 min. 2010. As Colton states\, “This video was always dear to Jonas…. and he said when he watched it\, he would get teary.” \n  \nAs Jonas describes this beautiful film: \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. \nColton states: \nThis exhibition is very personal to me. Jonas was like a big brother or father to me in many ways. We didn’t really spend that much time together\, but we had a mutual respect and trust in each other. He checked on me by email whenever there was a bad storm or a hurricane in Houston. I always kept him in my best thoughts and prayers too. I loved his happy\, positive and kind spirit. He had the energy of a 30 year old and never tired or complained. I liked his love for his children\, his high character and his humbleness…. in addition to his being so talented. I liked his determination to achieve his dreams\, yet he did this in such an harmonious way with such ease. Jonas loved living and lived his life to the fullest… I feel this is what Jonas would want me to feature for his “Tribute Exhibition” during FotoFest 2020. For it’s a time now where peace and harmony is more important than ever… which is the meaning of WTC HAIKUS plus much of the content of the exhibition. I will have a room dedicated to Jonas also\, his books and poems he wrote\, photos of him and his family and other materials and published articles that were dedicated to Jonas.” \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.
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SUMMARY:Ushio Shinohara: Maltese Falcon
DESCRIPTION:Ushio Shinohara \nMaltese Falcon \n  \nJanuary 11\, 2020 through February 29\, 2020 \nPublic Opening Reception: Saturday\, January 11th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Ushio Shinohara: Maltese Falcon. 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 works that comprise the show. There is a public opening reception on Saturday\, January 11th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nBorn in Tokyo in 1932\, Ushio Shinohara (nicknamed “Gyu-chan”) is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist and \nInternational 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 first featured 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 Oscar and Academy Award nominated documentary\, Cutie and the Boxer\, which depicts their more than 40-year relationship as a couple and as artists. In 2016 Deborah Colton Gallery also hosted the exhibition ACTION! Boxing Paintings and Sculptures\, which then attained his boxing performance on national television with Mountain Dew\, along with more successful exhibits worldwide. \n  \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  \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 
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SUMMARY:Noriko Shinohara: Cutie’s Love Letter from Malta Island
DESCRIPTION:Noriko Shinohara \nCutie’s Love Letter From Malta Island \nJanuary 11\, 2020 through February 29\, 2020 \nPublic Opening Reception: Saturday\, January 11th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Noriko Shinohara: Cutie’s Love Letter From Malta Island. There is a public opening reception on Saturday\, January 11th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nNoriko Shinohara was born in 1953 in Takaoka City\, Japan. In 1972\, she moved to New York to study art\, where she soon met Ushio a year later. Establishing her artistic career while rearing her and Ushio’s son\, Noriko debuted her first solo exhibit at New York’s Cats Club in 1986. \n  \nHaving worked as an artist for many years\, she is best known for her humorous series Cutie and Bullie. Beginning in 2006\, this series has been composed of drawings\, paintings\, and prints that feature her characters Cutie and Bullie\, and are based on Ushio and herself. Truthful to the point of discomfort\, her Cutie and Bullie series chronicles Cutie’s early trials of being married to an older man\, and the difficulty of being an artist in New York. The scenes\, inspired by recent events\, show Cutie’s triumphs as both herself and the world outside are finally realizing her work and value. \n  \nNoriko’s work has been exhibited frequently in New York and Japan. Her prints have been selected twice for the juried exhibition New Prints at the International Print Center in New York in 2003 and 2005. In 2007\, she was featured in Japan Society Gallery’s centennial celebration Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York\, a large-scale group exhibition demonstrating the confluent cultures of New York and Japan. She had her first solo museum exhibition at Carlton University Art Gallery in Ottawa       Canada\, and is part of the permanent collections of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College. In 2015\, Deborah Colton Gallery first exhibited Noriko’s work in Love is a Roar-r-r! and has been representing her artistic creations since then. \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.
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SUMMARY:Virgil Grotfeldt: All That Is
DESCRIPTION:Virgil Grotfeldt \nAll That Is \nNovember 8\, 2019 through January 4\, 2020 \nPublic Opening Reception: Friday\, November 8th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Virgil Grotfeldt: All That Is. This dynamic and powerful exhibition of paintings and mixed media works encompasses the entire gallery and is on view through January 4th\, 2020. There is a public opening reception on Friday\, November 8th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \nVirgil Grotfeldt was born in 1948 in Decatur\, Illinois. He earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from Eastern Illinois University in 1971 and a master’s degree at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1974. He moved to Houston in 1977\, where he lived and worked until his passing in 2009. \nAs an established working artist\, Virgil Grotfeldt holds an impressive exhibition history with over one hundred and fifty solo and group shows world-wide. Grotfeldt’s works are included in the permanent collection of the Menil Collection\, Houston\, Texas; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, New York; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art\, Dallas\, Texas; El Paso Museum of Art\, El Paso\, Texas; Tyler Museum of Art\, Tyler\, Texas; Upriver Gallery Collection\, Chengdu\, China; NOG Insurance Company\, Amsterdam\, The Netherlands; and Free International University World Art Collection\, Zeist\, The Netherlands among many others. \nTwo major hardcover books have been published on Virgil Grotfeldt: A comprehensive examination of Grotfeldt’s career and works since the 1970s\, Virgil Grotfeldt: Including the Series with Waldo Bien\, written by Patrick Healy\, published by Wienand Verlag Frankfurt\, 2003. Grotfeldt is also featured in Waldo Bien: Including the Series with Virgil Grotfeldt written by Patrick Healy\, published by Wienand Verlag Frankfurt\, 2000. \nThe upcoming exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, All That Is\, displays his dimensionally modeled forms of biomorphic abstraction. Nature and abstract form define the art as well as sustain its value as a personal meditation upon essential life forces. The exhibit includes a rare opportunity to view his last body of work\, oil painting on his own brain scans titled “274296” (his M.D. Anderson patient number) that opened January 15\, 2009 at the Houston Baptist University Art Museum — three weeks before he died. \nWhat has been achieved in Grotfeldt’s art of the abstract sublime is a condition by which his paintings have created a life of their own. They represent\, in the truest sense\, the power of the human spirit. \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.
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SUMMARY:Dick Wray: A Revelation
DESCRIPTION:Dick Wray \nA Revelation \n  \nSeptember 7 through November 2\, 2019 \nOpening Reception: Saturday September 7th 6:00 – 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Dick Wray: A Revelation. This vibrant and bold exhibition of paintings and mixed media works encompasses the entire gallery and is on view from September 7th to November 2nd. A public reception will take place on Saturday\, September 7th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nA native Houstonian born in 1933\, Dick Wray\, was an artist of incomparable talent and personality who played a critical role in the development of Houston’s contemporary art scene since the late 1950s. Often categorized as an Abstract Expressionist\, Wray is best known for his explosive and dynamic paintings that have received numerous accolades from Houston’s critical community as well as notable arts figures across the United States throughout his career. \n  \nWray attended the University of Houston’s School of Architecture\, followed by being educated at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf Arts Academy in Germany. Returning to Houston in 1959\, he began seriously working as an artist with zest and vigor.  Over the next fifty years\, he participated in a large number of important exhibitions nationally and internationally\, while locally Wray had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1975\, was included in the Fresh Paint: The Houston School at the Museum of Fine Arts in 1985 and many other prestigious exhibitions.  Wray was an instructor at the Glassell School of Art from 1968 until 1982 and also taught seminars in other art institutions throughout the years.  Wray was awarded the Ford Foundation Award in 1962\, received a prestigious Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and was named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston in 2000.  His work is in major collections\, including the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo\, National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C.\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth\, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts\, the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. \n  \n“A dynamic and passionate artist who never followed the crowd and thought of himself as different from the more regional Texas Artist\, Wray was greatly influenced by his time living and studying in Europe. Dick Wray has revealed his strength as a world-class artist through his bold\, well executed creations of forms\, rich colors\, textures and expression. It is our honor to show a sampling of this artist’s paintings and mixed media collage paintings to a national and international audience through this important exhibition now with our accompanying catalogue. For this statement truly is a revelation which emphasizes the remarkable quality and level of Dick Wray’s exceptional works”. Deborah M. Colton \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.
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LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amita Bhatt: Between Light and Shadow
DESCRIPTION:Amita Bhatt \nBetween Light and Shadow \nJune 22 through August 10\, 2019 \nOpening Reception: Saturday June 22nd 6:00 – 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present the dynamic multi-media exhibition\, Between Light and Shadow\, featuring a new series of work by international artist\, Amita Bhatt. The exhibition encompasses the entire gallery and is on view from June 22nd to August 10th. A public reception with the artist will take place on Saturday\, June 22nd from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \nIn this first solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Bhatt digs deep into world philosophies and mythologies to answer questions pertaining to our political as well as personal belief systems. Unafraid to explore uncomfortable territories\, the artist mines from a range of sources to create hybrid creatures that are often symbolic of man’s psychological condition in an angst ridden zeitgeist. Amita’s work is derived from a variety of sources including popular fiction\, children’s fables\, world mythologies\, as well as current political events. \nPacked with irony\, humor and indifference\, Bhatt’s characters traverse her canvases and are ready to spill out of them as they fight for space\, yet her lines continue to remain simple. \nAmita Bhatt received her BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University\, Vadodara\, India and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art\, Baltimore\, Maryland. Her work is anchored in the historic and global phenomenon of geographic and identity politics and seeks to analyze the drama of life\, desire\, loss\, hope\, death\, violence\, heroism\, conflict\, dislocation and eventual transcendence as she combines mythology and happenstance to create a hyper real stage. \nBhatt’s work has been exhibited at noteworthy venues such as the Bluestar Contemporary Art Center\, Walters Art Museum\, The Station Museum of Contemporary Art\, and The Project Row Houses\, all in the United States as well as Museo Pedro de Osma in Peru. She has also been the recipient of several prestigious awards and more recently served as a grants panelist on the National Endowment for the Arts.  Her works are included in many important private and public collections. \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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/amita-bhatt-between-light-and-shadow/
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SUMMARY:A Weekend of Transformation through Art & Music
DESCRIPTION:A Weekend of Transformation through Art & Music \n  \nPlease join us for our events on Friday\, May 31st and June 1st! \n  \nFriday May 31st – 7:00 to 9:00 pm \n  \nJoin Deborah Colton\, Lowell Boyers and Julia Robinson for an energizing evening of art and music!  Lowell Boyer’s current exhibition\, Inscapes\, are portraits of inner landscapes and imaginary worlds that we actually live in.  Julia Robinson (Julia & the Standards) will perform\, along with her accomplished Saxophone player\, Cory Wilson and extraordinary pianist\, Jeremy Nuncio. \n  \nThis evening will enhance your senses and will evoke the essence and soulful spirit that is within! \n  \nBeverages and valet are complimentary \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSaturday\, June 1st:  2:00 to 5:00 pm Open House and Walking Tour with our Artists of our Current Exhibitions. \n  \n2:30 to 3:00 pm – A Moment with Lowell Boyers. Exhibition: Inscapes \n  \n“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.” states Lowell. \n  \nLowell Boyers lives and works in Chelsea New York and is a graduate of the Yale University MFA program and the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA). For 30 years his work has been included in both private and institutional exhibitions in Abu Dhabi\, Dallas\, Germany\, Houston\, India\, London\, Los Angeles\, New York\, and St. Louis. With Inscapes being Boyer’s forth solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, since 2004 Colton has presented Boyer’s art in many national locations\, including several times in Dallas and as far reaching as the Abu Dhabi Art Fair. \n  \n3:00 to 3:30 pm – A Conversation with Grayson Chandler. Exhibition: Cocoon \n  \nGrayson explores concepts of metamorphosis\, emergence\, and notions of self\, in relation to the human psyche. Drawing from aspects of these concepts\, this body of work attempts to transcend a sense of duality – the perception of self and other as separate – instead instilling in viewers a state of awareness that begins and ends with the self.  Born in Houston\, Grayson is a recent BFA Art Studio graduate from the University of North Texas.  This is his second solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, with his first being a huge success in 2016. \n  \n  \n3:30 to 4:00 pm – Presentation with Felipe Lopez. Exhibition: The Want In My Nature \n  \nWith a focus on water\, Lopez creates a conversation around how this precious resource is a part of our daily lives and our actions regarding its preservation. Our culture expresses a want to protect nature but often falls short when it comes to delivery. Other works within the show are constructed to delve into our connection to water: from lasting impressions of how the ocean meets the land within the Ambient Horizon series along with Ab Aqua Libertas – from water comes freedom\, a video piece which shows the strength\, wisdom\, and beauty of four women through a natural common process (for mature audiences only). \n  \nBorn in New York\, a first generation Cuban American\, Felipe Lopez has acquired an impressive resume and exhibition history as a multifaceted artist. Exhibitions include those in Houston\, Miami\, New York\, Spain and Greece. Focusing on the natural\, Lopez’s work has been noted in multiple publications including an essay entitled Felipe Lopez: The Allure of Water by Raphael Rubinstein and an article by Houston Chronicle’s Molly Glentzer as a review for his recent exhibition: The Liquidity of a Right. Lopez continues to break boundaries within the concept of contemporary sculpture along with multi-faceted installation including video\, while still remaining true to the essence of painting and presentation. Although Lopez has been mentored by Colton for many years\, this is his very first solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery… with a bright future ahead of him. \n  \nArtwork featured: \nLowell Boyers\, Skyscapes\, 2018\, Acrylic\, Resin\, Watercolor\, & Ink on Canvas\, 48 x 58 inches \n  \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 artist s to make positive change.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/a-weekend-of-transformation-through-art-music/2019-05-31/
LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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