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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.
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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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/alfredo-gisholt-rituals-of-perception/
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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.
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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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/grayson-chandler-telos-after-thought/
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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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/earth-space-dorothy-hood-and-daniel-kayne/
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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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/felipe-lopez-precautionary-principles-of-the-new-world/
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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/opening-reception-for-a-tribute-to-suzanne-paul/
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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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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.
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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.
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SUMMARY:Grayson Chandler: Cocoon
DESCRIPTION:Grayson Chandler \nCocoon \nMay 4 through June 15\, 2019 \nOpening Reception: Saturday May 4th 6:00 – 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Cocoon\, featuring a new series of work by Houston artist\, Grayson Chandler. In his latest solo installment\, Grayson 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. \nJust as an arthropod’s chrysalis involves a state of being in which both caterpillar and butterfly exist in utero\, Cocoon suggests the same comparison in terms of the human experience. Although both caterpillar and butterfly are implied in the process\, the cocoon exists as neither\, but rather as a medium through which change is experienced. In the same vein\, notions of self and other are both conceived in the mind before either can be perceived as reality. As our perceptions become realized\, so do the means by which we experience subsequent notions of ourselves and others; and ourselves in others. In this manner\, the mind – like a cocoon – is a medium through which we shape ourselves\, and experience the world around us. \nBorn in Houston\, Texas 1994\, Grayson Chandler has been exposed to the visual arts from a young age. He began practicing drawing and painting in junior high at Lanier Middle School\, and continued to practice at Lamar High School where he was awarded most artistic in his graduating class. Recently completing his BFA in Studio at the University of North Texas\, Grayson’s aim is to continue to advance his artistic career. Chandler’s first solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2017 captivated the viewers and was a “sell-out” show. \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.
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SUMMARY:Lowell Boyers: Inscapes
DESCRIPTION:Lowell Boyers \nInscapes \nMay 4 through June 15\, 2019 \nPublic Opening Reception: Saturday\, May 4\, 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Inscapes\, a solo-exhibition of paintings by artist Lowell Boyers. Inscapes presents a selection of recent works from the artist that investigate and demonstrate parallels between his creative and philosophical practices. The exhibition opens Saturday\, May 4th and runs through June 15th\, 2019\, with a public opening reception on Saturday\, May 4th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \nLowell states\, “I see the creative imagination as a birthright belonging to every being\, and my work is fundamentally a textural portrayal of the unfolding blossoming of various stages of awakening to that active nature.” His new work of “Landscapes and Inner Scapes” paintings engages an experimental process of painted discovery that also draws on the artist’s long-term engagement with Buddhist philosophy and practice. \nTom Healy\, writer and former Chairman of the Fulbright Board and President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, has written that “Boyers’ paintings radiate outward. It’s as if we were witness to the moments following internal combustions\, as if Boyers had just broken a barrier between us and some inner world. The surfaces are so liquid that color stains that world\, saturates it with brilliance\, but never seems to fix it into a rigid image. There is no ground\, no sky\, no horizon in these paintings. We look through cloud color\, breath\, vapor toward the glow of some inner space.” \nBoyers is a graduate of the prestigious 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. Lowell Boyers lives and works in New York City. \nDeborah Colton Gallery first exhibited Lowell Boyers’ works in 2004\, and since then has  shown his works in many venues in the United States and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi.  This solo exhibit marks the fifth solo exhibition that Deborah Colton Galley has sponsored for Boyers\, and the gallery has been successful in placing his work in many important 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.
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SUMMARY:Ivan Plusch: The Promise of Eternal Life
DESCRIPTION:Ivan Plusch \nThe Promise of Eternal Life \nMarch 9 to April 27\, 2019 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, March 9th\, 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Ivan Plusch: The Promise of Eternal Life\, a solo exhibition featuring accomplished\, young Russian artist\, Ivan Plusch. This exhibition is the first solo exhibition of Ivan Plusch’s work in the United States. The exhibition opens Saturday\, March 9th\, with a public reception from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Ivan Plusch will be attending the reception and greeting our guests. \nIvan Plusch\, born in 1981\, is a young Russian artist on the rise and is part of the Nepokorionnye Group. He is based in St. Petersburg and has studied in various art schools including the State Academy of Art and Design\, the Roerich Art School and the PRO ARTE Institute. Ivan Plusch’s work has been exhibited throughout Russia and worldwide including in France\, Italy\, the Netherlands\, South Korea\, the United Kingdom and the Balkans. His work is in prestigious private and public collections world-wide. \nIvan Plusch finds the visual interpretation of eternal life as a phenomenon in his works. His characters appear to be in the ordinary reality\, which is depicted mechanically through the creation of sponge pattern or monotonous destruction of the background. These characters become the flow of paintings which is symbolizing the moving of time and impossibility to stay in one place or in one moment forever. He suggests that humans who are able to create around them their own\, imaginary protective world that takes them from the ordinary reality to the virtual space have the hope to live in this vision forever\, whereby they can remain in one point in time and may they may feel the promise of eternal life. \nStruggling with mild autism since childhood\, Plusch has a special perception on life that is original and inspiring. His success as an artist reveals that we all can identify with how important it is to slow down and appreciate each interaction\, each moment and cherish our best memories in our hearts forever. \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:Oleg Dou: Select Works
DESCRIPTION:Oleg Dou \nSelect Works \nMarch 9th through April 20th\, 2019 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, March 9th\, 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to announce Oleg Dou: Select Works\, an exhibition of contemporary multimedia artworks by Russian artist Oleg Dou. The exhibition opens Saturday\, March 9th\, with a public reception from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. \nOleg Dou was first shown in Houston during FotoFest 2012’s Focus on Russia\, where his work was featured in exhibitions both at FotoFest and Deborah Colton Gallery. Since this Texas debut\, Deborah Colton Gallery has brought Dou’s work nation-wide\, placing his work in prestigious collections throughout the United States. \nOleg Dou was born in 1983 in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys in 2006. Since then\, he has worked as an artist in cooperation with art institutions and curators around the world. Dou has won many international awards and has been represented at the photographic festivals\, including the Pingyao International Photography Festival\, China; the Seoul Photo Festival\, Republic of Korea; the FotoFestival Naarden\, Netherlands and the International Photography Awards Festival. His works were exhibited twice at the Kandinsky Prize\, which is the main contemporary art exhibition award in Moscow. Dou had a solo exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow\, titled Another Face and has also shown his works internationally throughout Russia\, France\, Istanbul\, Belgium\, China\, Republic of Korea\, Poland\, Turkey\, Spain and the United States. Dou’s work is in the collections of the Arts Santa Monica\, Barcelona; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona\, Barcelona; JeJu Museum of Art\, Republic of Korea; Ekaterina Cultural Foundation\, Moscow; the Moscow Museum of Art and the Samawi Collection – The Royal Family of Dubai\, among many others which also include a number of prominent New York and Texas collections. \nAccording to the July 2012 article in Artprice\, which is one of the leaders in art market information\, Oleg Dou was one of the top three artists under thirty years old world-wide in relation to auction prices of his work. His work has been published in art magazines worldwide and he has released a book with distribution in Europe\, “28. Oleg Dou”. \nDou’s work is continuously inspired by his interest in human individuality and self-expression and the attempts to solve the problem of identity in our times. Visually inspired by the culture of fashion and surrealists\, many of his projects are devoted to the relationship between human’s inner self and their behavior in society and suggest that the expectations of society set the standards of behavior and thought\, in terms of what is appropriate and acceptable. In Dou’s solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery during FotoFest 2016\, titled Broken Mirror\, Oleg Dou reflected on the instability of world order and the clashing of civilizations. Civilizations that are all losing their individual identity\, which will create a world where in some ways all people will be closer and in other ways everyone will be further away from their true human nature. Through this exhibition he also explored his own identity and personal journey. \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.
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SUMMARY:Sharon Kopriva: Meditations\, Migrations and Muses
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Kopriva \nMeditations\, Migrations and Muses \nJanuary 12 through February 23\, 2019 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, January 12\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Meditations\, Migrations and Muses\, the third solo-exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery of internationally recognized artist from Houston\, Sharon Kopriva. This brilliant multi-media exhibition\, which encompasses most of Deborah Colton Gallery\, opens Saturday\, January 12th and runs through February 23rd\, 2019. \nIn this exhibition\, Sharon Kopriva searches for spirituality and light in her forests and fields. A Texas native\, she currently works in Houston\, Texas and Hope\, Idaho. Since her inauguration with the Fresh Paint exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston in 1985\, Kopriva has exhibited nationally and internationally\, including solo exhibitions at The Menil Collection\, The Ogden Museum and national museums in Lima\, Peru and Monterrey\, Mexico. Sharon Kopriva works in both two and three-dimensional media. Her career has taken her through investigations of Pre-Columbian cultures in Peru\, exclamations of her Catholic faith\, inspirations from the spiritual forest of the Pacific Northwest\, and most recently an exploration of Muses of the Visual Arts. \nSharon Kopriva was first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2009\, and in 2011 had her first solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, titled Cathedrals\, Phantoms and Naked Dogs. Since then\, Kopriva has been featured at Deborah Colton Gallery in many group exhibitions including Visions\, DCG Looking Back and Beyond\, Houston Foundations exhibitions and at many local and national art fairs.  Sharon’s last solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Galley was Illuminations in 2014\, which then toured to Kirk Hopper Gallery in Dallas as Tubers* Tablets* Turfs* Tails in 2016. \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:Cosmic Attraction: Works by Dorothy Hood and Don Redman
DESCRIPTION:Foundations III: Part 2 \nCosmic Attraction: Works by Dorothy Hood and Don Redman \nBasilios Poulos: A Moment in Time \nDick Wray: Select Works \nNovember 10\, 2018 to January 5\, 2019 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 10\, 2018  5:00 to 8:00 pm \nPlease join us for the second part of our Foundations Series exhibitions this fall season! \n  \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, Dorothy Hood was born in Bryan\, Texas in 1918. Hood was raised in Houston and won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design and then studied at the Art Students League in New York. Moving to Mexico\, Dorothy Hood was front and center in the cultural\, political\, and social activity of Mexico and Latin America during a period of intense creative ferment. She developed close friendships with all the European exiles\, Latin American surrealists\, and Mexican social realists of the time — artists\, composers\, poets\, playwrights\, and revolutionary writers that influenced her art. Upon returning to Houston in 1961\, Hood started to create the epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Over the next four decades\, she became a renowned and highly collected Texas painter whose works were collected across the United States. Her works are included in over 30 major museums throughout the United States\, as well as the collections of many individuals\, corporations and foundations. \nA large-scale exhibition of Hood’s opened in 2016 at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi\, which marked the first major retrospective of her artwork and included paintings\, drawings and collages from the 1930s to 2000.  Dorothy Hood’s work is currently being featured in the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston exhibition\, Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood. Deborah Colton Gallery re-introduced Hood’s work to Houston in September of 2016 with a magnificent booth featuring Hoods work at the Houston Fine Arts Fair\, then in a solo exhibition of her work at Deborah Colton Gallery in November 2016 to January 2017. Dorothy Hood’s work has also been exhibited in major group exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery including Focus on the 70’s and 80’s Houston Foundations II in 2017\, which included 26 well-known artists who contributed to the vibrant Houston art scene during this era.  Hood was also included in the 20th anniversary exhibition of Deborah Colton Galley\, DCG Looking Back and Beyond earlier this year. \n  \nDon Redman was born in Houston and spent much of his childhood near the Gulf of Mexico. His father was a ship builder and provided him his first opportunities to work with steel\, while his mother supplied him with stockpiles of wood with which he could carve\, saw and paint. After attending the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Art Institute of San Francisco\, he was fortunate to become the apprentice to several internationally recognized artists; among them Luis Jimenez\, James Surls\, and Salvatore Scarpitta. Over his forty plus years as a sculptor\, his work has grown from a fascination with kinetics to a more subtle utilization of movement created by light. His sculptures are in public\, private\, and corporate art collections throughout the United States and around the world. \nDon Redman was first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery during Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations II. Since then Redman has also been featured in the 20th anniversary exhibition of Deborah Colton Gallery\, Looking Back and Beyond in February 2018. \n  \nBasilios Poulos came to Houston in 1975 from New York to be Artist-in-Residence at Rice University. He was born in South Carolina and went to the Atlanta School of Art for his BFA and Tulane University for his MFA. His many art career honors include French Government Grant from 1965-1966\, Guggenheim Fellowship 1974\, Artist Residency at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts\, Paris 1983\, and Visiting Professor for the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program\, Cortona\, Italy 1997. His solo exhibitions in Paris\, Athens\, New York City\, Atlanta\, San Francisco\, New Orleans\, Houston and others comprise forty-eight years of painting. Retiring from teaching at Rice University in 2008\, Poulos has continued to paint in his Houston studio. \nBasilios Poulos first exhibited at Deborah Colton Gallery during September – October 2017 in Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations II. A Moment in Time is Basilios Poulos’ first solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery and features his works from the 80’s.  These paintings are about mark-making\, whereby Poulos creates singular pictorial imagery that is not about storytelling. The beautiful colors are the carrier of emotion with the acrylic paint applied by brush and squeegee. The painting is the image.  Now and in the past\, Basilios Poulos has always strived to make beautiful and provocative paintings that are open and accessible. \n  \nA native Houstonian born in 1933\, Dick Wray\, was an artist of incomparable talent and personality who played a critical role in the development of Houston’s contemporary art scene since the 1950s.  Often categorized as an Abstract Expressionist\, Wray is best known for his explosive and dynamic abstractions that received numerous accolades from Houston’s critical community as well as notable arts figures across the United States throughout his career.  Wray attended the University of Houston’s School of Architecture followed by the Kunstakademie\, Dusseldorf\, Germany. Returning to Houston in 1959\, he began seriously working as an artist.  Over the next fifty years\, he participated in a large number of important exhibitions nationally\, including his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1975.  Dick Wray was an instructor at the Glassell School of Art from 1968 until 1982.  Wray was awarded the Ford Foundation purchase prize in 1962\, a prestigious Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston in 2000.  His work is in major collections\, including the Albright Knox Museum\, Buffalo\, National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C.\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth\, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. \nThe works of Dick Wray were first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery during Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations II. Dick Wray’s work was also featured in DCG Looking Back and Beyond in 2018.  A comprehensive solo exhibition of Dick Wray’s work will take place at Deborah Colton Gallery in September – October 2019. \n  \nThese three exhibitions are the second part of Deborah Colton Gallery’s Foundation III exhibition\, with the recent Identifiably Houston being the first part. 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\, 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 and to help Houston become a leading destination city of the arts. \nSince 2013 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” in the national and international art world. Deborah Colton Gallery’s Foundations I was Suzanne Paul’s PROOF exhibition in 2016\, which the gallery actually started researching over a decade earlier when it started to house this important archive after Suzanne Paul’s passing. Suzanne Paul’s archives are the most comprehensive photographic documentation of Houston art scene from the 1970’s to 2005.  September – 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 who we are as an art city today. The Foundations Symposium Series of panels and lectures was part of this exhibition. Deborah 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  \nFor more information on our Foundations Projects\, please access our website.
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SUMMARY:Basilios Poulos: A Moment in Time
DESCRIPTION:Foundations III: Part 2 \nCosmic Attraction: Works by Dorothy Hood and Don Redman \nBasilios Poulos: A Moment in Time \nDick Wray: Select Works \nNovember 10\, 2018 to January 5\, 2019 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 10\, 2018  5:00 to 8:00 pm \nPlease join us for the second part of our Foundations Series exhibitions this fall season! \n  \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, Dorothy Hood was born in Bryan\, Texas in 1918. Hood was raised in Houston and won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design and then studied at the Art Students League in New York. Moving to Mexico\, Dorothy Hood was front and center in the cultural\, political\, and social activity of Mexico and Latin America during a period of intense creative ferment. She developed close friendships with all the European exiles\, Latin American surrealists\, and Mexican social realists of the time — artists\, composers\, poets\, playwrights\, and revolutionary writers that influenced her art. Upon returning to Houston in 1961\, Hood started to create the epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Over the next four decades\, she became a renowned and highly collected Texas painter whose works were collected across the United States. Her works are included in over 30 major museums throughout the United States\, as well as the collections of many individuals\, corporations and foundations. \nA large-scale exhibition of Hood’s opened in 2016 at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi\, which marked the first major retrospective of her artwork and included paintings\, drawings and collages from the 1930s to 2000.  Dorothy Hood’s work is currently being featured in the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston exhibition\, Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood. Deborah Colton Gallery re-introduced Hood’s work to Houston in September of 2016 with a magnificent booth featuring Hoods work at the Houston Fine Arts Fair\, then in a solo exhibition of her work at Deborah Colton Gallery in November 2016 to January 2017. Dorothy Hood’s work has also been exhibited in major group exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery including Focus on the 70’s and 80’s Houston Foundations II in 2017\, which included 26 well-known artists who contributed to the vibrant Houston art scene during this era.  Hood was also included in the 20th anniversary exhibition of Deborah Colton Galley\, DCG Looking Back and Beyond earlier this year. \n  \nDon Redman was born in Houston and spent much of his childhood near the Gulf of Mexico. His father was a ship builder and provided him his first opportunities to work with steel\, while his mother supplied him with stockpiles of wood with which he could carve\, saw and paint. After attending the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Art Institute of San Francisco\, he was fortunate to become the apprentice to several internationally recognized artists; among them Luis Jimenez\, James Surls\, and Salvatore Scarpitta. Over his forty plus years as a sculptor\, his work has grown from a fascination with kinetics to a more subtle utilization of movement created by light. His sculptures are in public\, private\, and corporate art collections throughout the United States and around the world. \nDon Redman was first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery during Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations II. Since then Redman has also been featured in the 20th anniversary exhibition of Deborah Colton Gallery\, Looking Back and Beyond in February 2018. \n  \nBasilios Poulos came to Houston in 1975 from New York to be Artist-in-Residence at Rice University. He was born in South Carolina and went to the Atlanta School of Art for his BFA and Tulane University for his MFA. His many art career honors include French Government Grant from 1965-1966\, Guggenheim Fellowship 1974\, Artist Residency at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts\, Paris 1983\, and Visiting Professor for the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program\, Cortona\, Italy 1997. His solo exhibitions in Paris\, Athens\, New York City\, Atlanta\, San Francisco\, New Orleans\, Houston and others comprise forty-eight years of painting. Retiring from teaching at Rice University in 2008\, Poulos has continued to paint in his Houston studio. \nBasilios Poulos first exhibited at Deborah Colton Gallery during September – October 2017 in Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations II. A Moment in Time is Basilios Poulos’ first solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery and features his works from the 80’s.  These paintings are about mark-making\, whereby Poulos creates singular pictorial imagery that is not about storytelling. The beautiful colors are the carrier of emotion with the acrylic paint applied by brush and squeegee. The painting is the image.  Now and in the past\, Basilios Poulos has always strived to make beautiful and provocative paintings that are open and accessible. \n  \nA native Houstonian born in 1933\, Dick Wray\, was an artist of incomparable talent and personality who played a critical role in the development of Houston’s contemporary art scene since the 1950s.  Often categorized as an Abstract Expressionist\, Wray is best known for his explosive and dynamic abstractions that received numerous accolades from Houston’s critical community as well as notable arts figures across the United States throughout his career.  Wray attended the University of Houston’s School of Architecture followed by the Kunstakademie\, Dusseldorf\, Germany. Returning to Houston in 1959\, he began seriously working as an artist.  Over the next fifty years\, he participated in a large number of important exhibitions nationally\, including his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1975.  Dick Wray was an instructor at the Glassell School of Art from 1968 until 1982.  Wray was awarded the Ford Foundation purchase prize in 1962\, a prestigious Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston in 2000.  His work is in major collections\, including the Albright Knox Museum\, Buffalo\, National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C.\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth\, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. \nThe works of Dick Wray were first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery during Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations II. Dick Wray’s work was also featured in DCG Looking Back and Beyond in 2018.  A comprehensive solo exhibition of Dick Wray’s work will take place at Deborah Colton Gallery in September – October 2019. \n  \nThese three exhibitions are the second part of Deborah Colton Gallery’s Foundation III exhibition\, with the recent Identifiably Houston being the first part. 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\, 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 and to help Houston become a leading destination city of the arts. \nSince 2013 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” in the national and international art world. Deborah Colton Gallery’s Foundations I was Suzanne Paul’s PROOF exhibition in 2016\, which the gallery actually started researching over a decade earlier when it started to house this important archive after Suzanne Paul’s passing. Suzanne Paul’s archives are the most comprehensive photographic documentation of Houston art scene from the 1970’s to 2005.  September – 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 who we are as an art city today. The Foundations Symposium Series of panels and lectures was part of this exhibition. Deborah 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  \nFor more information on our Foundations Projects\, please access our website.
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SUMMARY:Dick Wray: Select Works
DESCRIPTION:Foundations III: Part 2 \nCosmic Attraction: Works by Dorothy Hood and Don Redman \nBasilios Poulos: A Moment in Time \nDick Wray: Select Works \nNovember 10\, 2018 to January 5\, 2019 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 10\, 2018  5:00 to 8:00 pm \nPlease join us for the second part of our Foundations Series exhibitions this fall season! \n  \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, Dorothy Hood was born in Bryan\, Texas in 1918. Hood was raised in Houston and won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design and then studied at the Art Students League in New York. Moving to Mexico\, Dorothy Hood was front and center in the cultural\, political\, and social activity of Mexico and Latin America during a period of intense creative ferment. She developed close friendships with all the European exiles\, Latin American surrealists\, and Mexican social realists of the time — artists\, composers\, poets\, playwrights\, and revolutionary writers that influenced her art. Upon returning to Houston in 1961\, Hood started to create the epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Over the next four decades\, she became a renowned and highly collected Texas painter whose works were collected across the United States. Her works are included in over 30 major museums throughout the United States\, as well as the collections of many individuals\, corporations and foundations. \nA large-scale exhibition of Hood’s opened in 2016 at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi\, which marked the first major retrospective of her artwork and included paintings\, drawings and collages from the 1930s to 2000.  Dorothy Hood’s work is currently being featured in the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston exhibition\, Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood. Deborah Colton Gallery re-introduced Hood’s work to Houston in September of 2016 with a magnificent booth featuring Hoods work at the Houston Fine Arts Fair\, then in a solo exhibition of her work at Deborah Colton Gallery in November 2016 to January 2017. Dorothy Hood’s work has also been exhibited in major group exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery including Focus on the 70’s and 80’s Houston Foundations II in 2017\, which included 26 well-known artists who contributed to the vibrant Houston art scene during this era.  Hood was also included in the 20th anniversary exhibition of Deborah Colton Galley\, DCG Looking Back and Beyond earlier this year. \n  \nDon Redman was born in Houston and spent much of his childhood near the Gulf of Mexico. His father was a ship builder and provided him his first opportunities to work with steel\, while his mother supplied him with stockpiles of wood with which he could carve\, saw and paint. After attending the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Art Institute of San Francisco\, he was fortunate to become the apprentice to several internationally recognized artists; among them Luis Jimenez\, James Surls\, and Salvatore Scarpitta. Over his forty plus years as a sculptor\, his work has grown from a fascination with kinetics to a more subtle utilization of movement created by light. His sculptures are in public\, private\, and corporate art collections throughout the United States and around the world. \nDon Redman was first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery during Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations II. Since then Redman has also been featured in the 20th anniversary exhibition of Deborah Colton Gallery\, Looking Back and Beyond in February 2018. \n  \nBasilios Poulos came to Houston in 1975 from New York to be Artist-in-Residence at Rice University. He was born in South Carolina and went to the Atlanta School of Art for his BFA and Tulane University for his MFA. His many art career honors include French Government Grant from 1965-1966\, Guggenheim Fellowship 1974\, Artist Residency at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts\, Paris 1983\, and Visiting Professor for the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program\, Cortona\, Italy 1997. His solo exhibitions in Paris\, Athens\, New York City\, Atlanta\, San Francisco\, New Orleans\, Houston and others comprise forty-eight years of painting. Retiring from teaching at Rice University in 2008\, Poulos has continued to paint in his Houston studio. \nBasilios Poulos first exhibited at Deborah Colton Gallery during September – October 2017 in Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations II. A Moment in Time is Basilios Poulos’ first solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery and features his works from the 80’s.  These paintings are about mark-making\, whereby Poulos creates singular pictorial imagery that is not about storytelling. The beautiful colors are the carrier of emotion with the acrylic paint applied by brush and squeegee. The painting is the image.  Now and in the past\, Basilios Poulos has always strived to make beautiful and provocative paintings that are open and accessible. \n  \nA native Houstonian born in 1933\, Dick Wray\, was an artist of incomparable talent and personality who played a critical role in the development of Houston’s contemporary art scene since the 1950s.  Often categorized as an Abstract Expressionist\, Wray is best known for his explosive and dynamic abstractions that received numerous accolades from Houston’s critical community as well as notable arts figures across the United States throughout his career.  Wray attended the University of Houston’s School of Architecture followed by the Kunstakademie\, Dusseldorf\, Germany. Returning to Houston in 1959\, he began seriously working as an artist.  Over the next fifty years\, he participated in a large number of important exhibitions nationally\, including his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1975.  Dick Wray was an instructor at the Glassell School of Art from 1968 until 1982.  Wray was awarded the Ford Foundation purchase prize in 1962\, a prestigious Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston in 2000.  His work is in major collections\, including the Albright Knox Museum\, Buffalo\, National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C.\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth\, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. \nThe works of Dick Wray were first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery during Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations II. Dick Wray’s work was also featured in DCG Looking Back and Beyond in 2018.  A comprehensive solo exhibition of Dick Wray’s work will take place at Deborah Colton Gallery in September – October 2019. \n  \nThese three exhibitions are the second part of Deborah Colton Gallery’s Foundation III exhibition\, with the recent Identifiably Houston being the first part. 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\, 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 and to help Houston become a leading destination city of the arts. \nSince 2013 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” in the national and international art world. Deborah Colton Gallery’s Foundations I was Suzanne Paul’s PROOF exhibition in 2016\, which the gallery actually started researching over a decade earlier when it started to house this important archive after Suzanne Paul’s passing. Suzanne Paul’s archives are the most comprehensive photographic documentation of Houston art scene from the 1970’s to 2005.  September – 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 who we are as an art city today. The Foundations Symposium Series of panels and lectures was part of this exhibition. Deborah 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  \nFor more information on our Foundations Projects\, please access our website.
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SUMMARY:Identifiably Houston – Foundations III
DESCRIPTION:Identifiably Houston: Foundations III  \nSeptember 15 through October 27\, 2018 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, September 15\, 2018\, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm \nPanel Discussion and Open House: Saturday\, October 20th\, 2:00 to 6:00 pm (Panel at 2:30) \n  \nJOHN ALEXANDER      BOB CAMBLIN             MICHAEL COLLINS      VIRGIL GROTFELDT \nLUCAS JOHNSON       BERT L. LONG JR.       JESSE LOTT               SHARON KOPRIVA \nKERMIT OLIVER          FORREST PRINCE       EARL STALEY                     RICHARD STOUT \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Identifiably Houston: Foundations III\, a group exhibition of courageous and spirited artists who have made a major impact and have conveyed the pioneering spirit that Houston was founded with over 180 years ago. The exhibition is also paying tribute to Houston’s Heritage Society and their related events this season. \nAlthough this is just a small sampling of Houston artists who reveal their strong individualism and brave representational type art that has a narrative — often with an aspect of abstraction\, as viewers enter Deborah Colton Gallery during this exhibition\, they will instantly feel and see the connection within this genre or “School” that is something special and unique to Houston! \nSharon Kopriva\, Forrest Prince and Kermit Oliver\, though working with dissimilar processes\, are all sensitive to religious influences where narratives are commingled with their powerful personal visions\, spiritual traditions\, and attraction to global events and mythologies\, all which further energize their strong creative voices. The works of John Alexander\, Bert L. Long Jr. and Earl Staley have long represented the rich traditions and highest qualities of story-telling and their works continue to inspire and connect us with a splenetic era. A pioneer and leader in his own right\, Jesse Lott has never been afraid to create awareness of serious human rights and humanitarian issues through his art. Lott’s important sculpture from 1980\, titled Big Girl –A Tribute to Eula Love that is featured in this exhibition reveals this clearly. Richard Stout and Michael Collins share inspiration from places remembered and imagined that posses a certain evanescence and soulfully verdant energy. Virgil Grotfeldt has used bold materials and imagery that evoke a sense of mystery that take us to a higher level of consciousness. Both Lucas Johnson and Bob Camblin have used the figurative and the landscape to express bold statements about society and the human condition. The tragic and joyous may be found in all of these masterful creations.  All of these artists have not been afraid to tackle tough issues and are as courageous as the first settlers founding Houston\, the first artists coming out of Houston\, and have been affected by our geography\, neighboring boarders\, their travels and those artists making a strong statement in Houston before them. \nOn Saturday\, October 20th\, at 2:30 pm\, Deborah Colton Gallery will host a panel discussion addressing the question\, is there a type of art\, a spirit of art that is “Identifiably Houston”? Does this go back as far as Emma Richardson Cherry and the first artists who organized as a Gallery Guild around the time Houston was founded? What were they influenced by? What artists in the 20’s\, 30’s and 40’s were “setting the stage” for this type of art in Houston? Who were the mentors of these artists and who are the other artists whose work displays these qualities? There are certainly many. Is this a “Houston School”? How do the historical roots of our artists in Houston differ from other cities in Texas? What were the outside influences geographically and through artist who came to the city and formed a community with others? Has there been more of a community of artists in the past and where are we now as a community of artists?   Panel Members will include Pete Gershon\, Randy Tibbits and Michael Collins. Moderator will be Deborah Colton. \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. He has received many awards in the arts nation-wide. \n  \nBob Camblin was born in Oklahoma in 1928 and studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute\, earning an MFA in 1955. He taught at Rice University from 1967 to 1973 with Joe Tate and Earl Staley\, with whom he shared a studio space. His influence and art was a constant undercurrent in the Houston art scene\, revealing much about the environment and those that surrounded him. He left Houston in the early 80s. Known for his drawings\, watercolors\, paintings and his gregarious\, direct personality\, Camblin was included in the Fresh Paint\, The Houston School Museum of Fine Arts exhibition in 1985 and was the only artist without a written statement in the catalogue…. \n  \nMichael Roque Collins is an artist recognized for producing some of the most profoundly affecting figurative Post Symbolist painting seen today in Contemporary art. He was born in Houston\, Texas\, in 1955 and maintains his primary studio in this Gulf Coast city. His works have been favorably reviewed in a variety of international arts publications\, such as Art News Magazine\, Art In America\, Art Lies\, and Art World Magazine. His art has been curated in more than 250 group exhibitions in the U.S.\, Cuba\, Peru\, Germany\, China\, Mexico\, France\, Denmark\, Greece\, and Istanbul. His paintings have received more than 50 juried awards\, including a National Endowment for the Arts-Middle American Arts Alliance grant for excellence in painting and works on paper\, as well as three Cultural Arts Council of Houston grant awards for excellence in painting. Collins has held many university teaching positions and is currently the Senior Director of the Visual Arts Department\, at Houston Baptist University\, where he is also Artist-in-Residence in Painting\, Professor of Art and focuses on teaching in the MFA program. \n  \nBorn in 1948 in Decatur\, Illinois\, Virgil Grotfeldt earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from Eastern Illinois University in 1971 and a master’s degree at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1974. He moved to Houston in 1977. He began teaching painting and drawing at HBU in 2002\, where he was also widely considered instrumental in the concept and construction of the University Academic Center’s new building\, of which the art department occupies about 70 percent. Grotfeldt’s work is included in many private and public collections\, including The Menil Collection\, Houston\, Texas; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, New York; NOG Insurance Company\, Amsterdam\, The Netherlands; Free International University World Art Collection\, Zeist\, The Netherlands; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art; El Paso Museum of Art; Tyler Museum of Art\, Tyler\, Texas; and Upriver Gallery Collection\, Chengdu\, China. \n  \nLucas Johnson was a self-taught\, multi-disciplinary artist immersed in the creative community in Houston from the time of his settling here in 1973 until his passing in 2002. He lived for an extended time in Mexico City\, where he was embraced and influenced by artist contemporaries who followed the great Mexican muralists. Self-taught in drawing\, paintings\, printmaking and bronze casting\, he debuted paintings for the first time in 1967. Johnson was a guest instructor in the arts at the Glassell School of Art and at Houston’s Rice University. His work is represented in the permanent collections of museums in Mexico City\, the Menil and Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, and the Modern Art Museum in Tel Aviv. In 1993 Johnson was a founding board member of the Houston Artists Fund with two associates\, effectively establishing a charitable organization\, still active\, that serves as a fiscal sponsor for nonprofit art-related projects and provides administrative support and budgets monitoring for funds raised from the art community. \n  \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  \nSharon Kopriva is a Houston native. Her career launched in 1985 with the exhibition Fresh Paint at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. In the past 25 years she has exhibited her art in major cities in the United States\, Mexico\, Peru\, India\, Cuba\, China\, and Europe. In addition to her participation in Fresh Paint – The Houston School\, her most notable exhibitions include a solo show curated by the legendary Walter Hopps at The Menil Collection in 2001 and a retrospective of her work shown at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, curated by Bradley Sumrall in 2012\, entitled From Terra to Verde. Kopriva is deeply influenced by a varied set of inspirations\, including her Catholic upbringing\, the wonders of nature\, and her continued spiritual journey. \n  \nKermit Oliver was born in Refugio\, Texas\, the son and grandson of African American working cowboys. He majored in art and education at Texas Southern University and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and teaching certificate. Throughout college\, Kermit was mentored by professor and artist\, John Bigger who recognized strength and individual spirit. Over the years\, Kermit Oliver’s masterfully executed paintings and drawings have earned him worldwide recognition as one of the finest contemporary American artists of our time. Oliver’s work was included in the inaugural exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and recently also\, The Nave Museum held a solo exhibition of selected works by Oliver. In 2013\, Oliver received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art League Houston. Oliver’s work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in 2005. His work was included in the 2001 international SITE SANTA FE biennial\, curated by art historian/critic Dave Hickey. His works have a sense of spirit and mystery that reflect his unique and personal vision. \n  \nForrest Prince was born in Houston\, Texas in 1935. With no formal art education\, he began making art in 1969\, and in 1976 was given his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum\, Houston. In 1983 Prince founded the Praise God Foundation. His body of work is unusual in its’ freedom from the machinations and impurities of the art world and represents man’s higher spiritual aspirations. In addition to his Christian religious work\, Prince’s artwork is also concerned with political and social issues. Some of his artworks involve the artist’s investigations into food consumption other works severely question the satanic practices of the US Government. He has participated in many group exhibitions in museums and galleries including: Diverse Works\, Hooks-Epstein Gallery\, San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts\, Lawndale Art Center\, Art Car Museum\, Station Museum\, and The Menil Collection. \n  \nEarl Staley was born in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park\, received his BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and his MFA from the University of Arkansas. His first teaching position was at Washington University\, Saint Louis\, Mo. Earl arrived in Houston in 1966 to teach at Rice University. In 1969 he became the chairperson at the new studio art American Academy in Rome. He remained there four years studying the old masters and painting from the Classics. His major influences are Texas/Mexico and Classical Art. Earl showed at the 1973 Whitney Biennale\, and then in 1979 in the landmark show\, Bad Painting\, at the New Museum\, in New York. He has had two exhibits at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; one was a 10-year survey 1974-1984 which traveled to the New Museum\, New York. Earl was included in Fresh Paint – Houston School Museum of Fine Arts exhibition\, the Venice Biennale 1984 and numerous exhibits across the USA and Europe. Since 1992 He teaches at Lonestar College/Tomball. \n  \nRichard Stout was born in 1934 in Beaumont\, Texas. He quickly discovered his interest in art and\, while still in high school\, studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati during summer visits with family in Ohio. Stout received a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Art Institute of Chicago\, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). He completed graduate studies and earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1959 to 1967\, Stout was an instructor at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. After completing his MFA\, he began teaching art at the University of Houston\, a career he maintained until his retirement in 1996. Stout was named Texas Artist of the Year in 2004 by the Art League of Houston and\, in 2010\, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA). Currently\, Richard Stout has the exhibition “A Sense of Home” at the O’Kane Gallery at the University of Houston – Downtown. This exhibition debuted at the Art Museum of South East Texas in Beaumont and then traveled to the Art Museum of South Texas. Richard Stout resides in Houston\, Texas. \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 and to help Houston become a leading destination city of the arts. \nSince 2013 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” in the national and international art world. Deborah Colton Gallery’s Foundations I was Suzanne Paul’s PROOF exhibition in 2016\, which the gallery actually started researching over a decade earlier when it started to house this important archive after Suzanne Paul’s passing. Suzanne Paul’s archives are the most comprehensive photographic documentation of Houston art scene from the 1970’s to 2005.  September – 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 who we are as an art city today. The Foundations Symposium Series of panels and lectures was part of this exhibition. Deborah Colton Gallery has a permanent Foundations Room in the back of the gallery which 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. For more information on our Foundations Projects\, please access our website.
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SUMMARY:Olga Tobreluts: Pieta and Resurrection
DESCRIPTION:Olga Tobreluts \nPieta and Resurrection \nMay 5 through June 30\, 2018 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, May 5th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nArtist Talk and Reception with the Artist: Thursday\, May 24th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Pieta and Resurrection\, the third solo-exhibition of multimedia works by internationally acclaimed artist from Russian\, Olga Tobreluts. Pieta and Resurrection was part of her recent solo exhibition at MODEM Museum in Debrecen\, Hungary. The exhibition explores the theories and principles of abstraction and imagery in both historical and 21st century times. The exhibition opens Saturday\, May 5th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. On Thursday\, May 24th\, Olga Tobreluts will be present to giving a walking tour of her exhibition and to greet everyone at the reception. \nBorn in 1970 in Murino\, Leningrad Oblast\, Russia\, Olga Tobreluts now lives and works in Budapest and St. Petersburg. An accomplished artist who works with photography\, video\, painting and sculpture\, Olga is a pioneer of digital art movement in Russia and has belonged to the Neo-Academism group of artists\, The New Academy\, in St. Petersburg since 1994. This movement\, through traditionally pleasant and refined aesthetics\, addresses ideas of the “beautiful” the acquiescent-recreative and hedonism. Olga uses new media as a means of expressing her own system of poetics based on the dialectics of high and low academism: where the artist endeavors to strike a balance between high-style classical models and low-brow\, kitschy\, and crude models. \nOlga has had numerous solo museum exhibitions throughout the world\, including in Belgium\, Germany\, France\, United Kingdom\, Spain\, Italy\, Netherlands\, Norway\, Sweden and Finland and has shown with American favorites like Tony Oursler and Cindy Sherman at the Tate Modern\, as well as countless other well known international artists. Her works have been exhibited at such prestigious institutions as the Tate Modern in London\, the Museum of Modern Art in New York\, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg\, the Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow\, the Ostende Museum in Belgium\, the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm\, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest and numerous others. Her works have been acquired by significant collections including at the MoMA\, New York\, the State Russian Museum\, the Ludwig Museum\, Budapest\, the Bornholm Museum of Contemporary Art\, Denmark\, the Baron von Stieglitz Museum\, St. Petersburg\, Groningen Museum\, the Netherlands\, the Ibsen Foundation\, Oslo\, Germany Women Art Museum\, Bonn\, V & A Museum\, London. \n.Olga Tobreluts’ work was exhibited for the first time at Deborah Colton Gallery during the 2012 FotoFest Biennial in a solo exhibition\, Focus on Russia I. In 2015 Tobreluts debuted new work at Deborah Colton Gallery in her solo exhibition\, New Abilities. Pieta and Resurrection represents Tobreluts’ third solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery. \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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