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SUMMARY:Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne
DESCRIPTION:Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne \n  \nJuly 25 through September 12\, 2020 \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne\, an exhibition featuring works from two Texas natives\, Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne. The exhibition\, which is from July 25 to September 12\, can be seen online through the gallery’s Viewing Room. Installation and artwork images can be seen through the gallery’s Virtual Slide Show and website. All works are available for acquisition. Interest in specific artworks can be addressed by email\, phone or “By Appointment” at Deborah Colton Gallery during normal gallery hours\, which are Tuesday through Saturday\, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm. \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, Dorothy Hood was born in 1918 and was raised in Houston. Hood was known nation-wide for creating epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Capturing the earth’s natural beauty through her worldwide travels\, with vast horizons looking far into the universe\, was always a signature of Dorothy Hood magnificent artworks. Over the next four decades\, before her passing in 2000\, Dorothy Hood became a renowned Texas painter whose works were collected across the United States\, including over 30 major museums. \nDeborah Colton Gallery re-introduced Hood’s work to Houston in September of 2016 with a magnificent booth featuring Hood’s work at the Houston Fine Arts Fair\, and then major exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery in November 2016 and in 2018. Dorothy Hood’s artworks were recently featured in the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston exhibition\, Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood. Deborah Colton Gallery has continued to support Dorothy Hood’s legacy by assisting with attaining all of Hood’s precious archives and journals for the University of Houston Special Collection of the School of the Libraries. Deborah Colton Gallery also continues to promote Hood’s work\, with both national and international exhibitions pending. \n  \nAn award winning painter\, sculptor and performance artist\, Daniel Kayne was born in 1968 in Dayton\, Texas. His fascination at an early age with the universe and the world around him ignited an insatiable passion for what was to become his career as an artist. Daniel Kayne’s work was first seen at Deborah Colton Gallery in a 2006 solo exhibition Urban Mix. Kayne used both his Houston and New York studios to create his sublime solo exhibition\, Dividing God which was shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2008. Daniel Kayne was honored as the first-place winner of Lawndale Art Center’s Big Show in Houston\, Texas\, and then by the Texas French Alliance for the Arts in 2008 also. These awards allowed him to receive an art residency in Paris as well as an exhibit in Shenyang\, China\, where he was involved in many major art related projects to help humanity. Daniel Kayne had a zest for exploring and understanding the world where he worked towards trying to bridge cultural gaps to create more world-wide peace and understanding. Through this exploration\, Kayne developed a higher level of thinking and attained a truly global and universal perspective. This self actualization brought him to create a studio in Houston called The Temple where he spent much time meditating and thinking about the humans living in the world today\, all as one within the universe. \n  \nLike Dorothy Hood\, Daniel Kayne’s vision expanded far beyond himself and his immediate surroundings. Both artists were visionary thinkers who had the talent to see their lives from a universal perspective\, looking at Space from the Earth… and looking at the Earth from Space. This higher-level thinking\, looking at the Earth within the greater Universe… the world as one\, is a view that can evoke much thought towards a positive the future. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Felipe Lopez: Precautionary Principles of the New World
DESCRIPTION:Felipe Lopez \nPrecautionary Principles of the New World \n  \nMay 16 through July 11\, 2020 \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Precautionary Principles of the New World\, featuring works by Houston artist\, Felipe Lopez. With this international debut of four new and relevant bodies of works\, Lopez encapsulates on nature and the current human condition through drawings\, paintings\, video\, sculptures\, and installation. The exhibition\, which is from May 16 to July 11\, can be seen online through the gallery’s Viewing Room. Installation and artwork images can be seen through the gallery’s Virtual Slide Show and website. All works are available for acquisition. Interest in specific artworks can be addressed by email\, phone or “By Appointment” at Deborah Colton Gallery. \n  \nFelipe Lopez\, who mixes art with science in relation to the human condition\, has been breaking new ground this past year with record speed. Lopez was featured in the 2019 Houston Sculpture Month\, Outta Space with two major installations\, Spatio Aquarum and Perseus in Andromeda’s Galaxy. A 90-minute film series\, Visual Voyage: Videos and Music by Felipe Lopez and Meghan Hendley of Chapel in the Sky is tentatively set to debut in early June at Anthology Film Archives in NYC. Lopez also plans to participate in the School of Visual Arts Bio Art Lab Residency Program when their dates are finalized. A well-read artist of intellect\, Lopez’s work reflects on issues that we as a human race must address. \n  \nWithin the complexities of modern society\, there are now more than ever precautionary principles that require much thought. In one of Lopez’s new series\, For the Greater Hive\, honeycomb shapes symbolize the infrastructure of our economy and the industries that carry the weight of what makes our society able to function. The arrows\, once again symbols of man-made detriments\, disrupt the hive\, but have a symbol of hope sprouting. Seeing that flowers are a perfect replica of human life\, they help mirror the resilience\, innovation\, and shift the viewer to what is beautiful in moments of pure humanity. \n  \nIn Natural Tendencies\, Lopez shapes an ensnarement of dirt and flowers within a fabricated mold. These artworks reveal the essence of nature within a symbolic blockade that mimic both beauty and the confinement of biology in its most basic state. \n  \nThe sculptural work in Purification Systems layer nature’s identity and method of purifying water. The amount of water filling the tubes is equivalent to the average amount of water in a human’s body. Visualizing the strength in these natural materials and their processes can help identify them as creative life forms. \n  \nTo Create A Diamond centers around the pressure it takes to make a diamond and the repetition of said pressure. The repetitive changes and forces of that pressure are revealed in the artworks\, with the harmonious video further helping the viewer to contemplate about a sense of self in relation to the world and to the future. This steadfast pressure that it takes to create a diamond can symbolize a daily\, meditative process which can help humans build resiliency\, balance\, and strength inorder to endure the challenges within the current world. \n  \nThe works presented in Precautionary Principles of The New World address the delicate relationship between our economy\, environment\, and ethos. Each series offers a step outside a field of thought and opens new dialogues. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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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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LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/dick-wray-a-revelation/
LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/a-weekend-of-transformation-through-art-music/2019-05-31/
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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.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/the-promise-of-eternal-life/
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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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SUMMARY:Molly Gochman: Drenched
DESCRIPTION:Molly Gochman \nDrenched  \nMarch 8th through April 21th\, 2018 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, March 8th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm with Artist Talk at 7:00 pm. \nSound Bath lead by Sara Auster: Saturday\, March 10th at 2:30 pm and 6:30 pm. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Molly Gochman’s Drenched which is in conjunction with the FotoFest 2018. This 17th Biennial FotoFest 2018 will run from March 10 to April 22\, 2018 with participating art spaces across the city. Molly Gochman’s Drenched will be on view at Deborah Colton Gallery from March 8 to April 21 with an Opening Reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm on Thursday March 8th\, that includes an Artist Talk and Walk Through the exhibition from 7:00 to 8:00 pm. On Saturday\, March 10th\, at 2:30 pm Sara Auster will lead a sound bath meditation as an enhancement to the exhibition. \nDrenched will combine three bodies of works: Before\, Waterfalls Wept and Surrogates. Alone\, these works represent many different things. Together\, they seek to explore\, in the context of both Houston and India\, the myriad ways water works to build\, destroy\, connect\, devour and grow. \nBefore\, specifically\, is an examination of life in Houston after Hurricane Harvey and in India after the extreme flooding. Harvey was the costliest tropical cyclone on record\, inflicting nearly $200 billion in damage all over Houston. In a four-day period\, it became the wettest storm on record in the country. And the resulting floods inundated hundreds of thousands of homes\, displaced more than 30\,000 people and resulted in 100 deaths. \nMeanwhile\, as a result of heavy monsoon rains that led to flooding in South Asia\, more than 1\,200 people died across India\, Bangladesh and Nepal. Over 40 million people were immediately affected by the devastation\, and 1.8 million children were left out of school — but the numbers continued to grow with time. \nThe images Gochman created for Before are memorials to the emotional loss caused by flooding. She combined images of flood-damaged personal items and parts of homes that became piles of trash with images of fabric\, and transferred them onto aluminum.. \n“All of the images I saw of flooded towns and cities in India depicted brown water — the same color as the water in Houston\, Port Arthur\, Galveston and Rockport. The fabric you see reminds me of the colors of India\, these disasters and of water\,” Gochman said. \nMolly Gochman is an interdisciplinary\, conceptual artist and activist based in New York City. Gochman has exhibited her work at Lincoln Center\, New York; Emily Harvey Foundation/Performa 09\, New York; Deborah Colton Gallery\, Houston; Diverse Works\, Houston; Chashama\, New York; Sara Roney Gallery\, Sydney; Grace Farms\, New Canaan; Barbara Davis Gallery\, Houston; Zilkha Hall\, Houston; Elsewhere\, Greensboro; and other traditional and non-traditional exhibition spaces. Gochman is known for activating public spaces and creating participatory experiences through large and small scale installations. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:DCG: Looking Back and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:DCG: Looking Back and Beyond \nFebruary 3rd through February 24th \, 2018 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 3rd from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present DCG: Looking Back and Beyond\, a group exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings\, mixed media\, photography\, sculpture and video. As Deborah Colton reaches twenty years of being incorporated in the art business\, she reflects on select exhibitions and highlights since moving back to Houston from Asia in 2000\, including what is important to her today. The exhibition opens Saturday\, February 3rd\, with an Opening Reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \nFrom her first Houston exhibitions in public spaces\, like Two Allen Center supporting the Asia Society’s vision of creating their new building where Colton sponsored major contemporary Asian art exhibitions from Thailand\, China and Japan in October of 2000\, 2001 and 2002…to supporting FotoFest in 2002 by bringing the film Downtown 81 featuring Jean Michel Basquiat to the Angelika Film Center and the accompanying exhibition to a funky art space restaurant in Montrose…\, then going to Summer Street and opening Deborah Colton Gallery in 2004\, which started the revitalization of that area…Colton has always paved the way to help positive things happen for Houston in the future. \nEarlier shows brought video and futuristic Sci-Artists like Suzanne Anker and Michael Rees to Houston in 2004\, at a time when the city was not showing much video or digital interactive works yet\, like in the DCG shows Integrating Digital Consciousness and Touch & Temperature: Art in the Cybernetic Totalism that included pioneers in digital art like Manfred Mohr from Germany and Yael Kanarek and Matthew Barney from New York. In 2005 Colton debuted in Houston “The godfather of American avant-garde cinema”\, Jonas Mekas\, in the solo exhibition Film Framed\, and at the same time started the movement to revere Houston art history through representing the Estate of Suzanne Paul. In 2005 also\, Colton introduced the Warhol Factory’s Ultra Violet to Houston in the New Cartoon exhibition and then gave Ultra Violet a solo exhibition in 2006. September of 2006\, DCG organized and sponsored the historical WORD exhibition which was a fusion of the original conceptual and fluxus artists\, including Jenny Holzer\, Jospeh Kosuth\, John Baldessari\, Lawrence Weiner\, Ben Vautier\, The Art Guys and 22 others. As part of this exhibition\, Colton sponsored the public space installation of Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE billboard that was displayed on I-45 South going into downtown\, which made the statement worldwide that not all of Texas was for war. Shortly thereafter\, Colton helped organized Michael Somoroff’s  Illuminations sculpture to be placed on the Rothko Chapel grounds for several months\, to further support international peace. Being the only gallery in the United States to exhibit at the first Abu Dhabi Art Fair\, this message of promoting international peace prevailed in 2007 and still continues. \nBy 2007 China was expanding rapidly and was in the forefront of international contemporary art. DCG debuted exhibitions and performances from Chinese internationally acclaimed artists like Han Bing\, the Gao Brothers\, XU Yong & YU Na and had major shows in the heat of the Chinese contemporary art movement like China Under Construction. When the Middle East contemporary art scene broke open \, DCG brought exhibitions from this region to Houston\, like Qatar Narratives in 2008 and many exhibitions of cutting edge work from the Middle East and Arab world thereafter. DCG continues to work with many of these artists\, like Houston-based Soody Sharifi and Rania Daniel. Russia’s strong presence in the art scene has been a focus of DCG also\, with the gallery representing top artists Oleg Dou\, Olga Tobreluts and Ivan Plusch. \nTouching on universal spirituality with exhibitions like Visions in the spring of 2017 brought artists like Satish Gupta and Amita Bhatt from India to the gallery. Revering the past\, yet reaching far beyond of us is exemplified by artist like Lowell Boyers\, Angelbert Metoyer and Susan Plum. Exhibiting early feminist artists like Mary Beth Edelson and then provocative work that addresses social issues like Jay Rusovich and Frank Rodick has been part of the gallery programming also. Showing young talent has also always been a priority of the gallery all the way back to the beginnings of artists like Paul Horn\, Jason Villegas and Molly Gochman. Young “Texas talent” like Grayson Chandler debuted this past summer with a “sell out” exhibition. David Frischkorn’s cartoonist Pop super hero art… along with the iconic Daniel Johnston’s work is included in this exhibition also. Noriko & Ushio Shinohara (Cutie & the Boxer) are also part of DCG and have had several exhibitions.. \nSince 2013 especially\, DCG has had a strong focus on Houston establishing Foundations which reveres our city’s artistic roots. The Gallery’s Foundations I which was Suzanne Paul’s PROOF exhibition and Foundations II\, Focus on the 70’s & 80’s this past fall\, including the Foundations Symposium Series exemplifies this. Many of these artists which Deborah Colton Gallery represents are featured in this exhibition\, including Ann Harithis\, Forrest Prince\, Dick Wray\, Jesse Lott\, Sharon Kopriva\, Earl Staley\, Bert Long\, Don Redman\, Virgil Grotfield and Bert L. Long Jr. DCG has the permanent Houston Foundations Room which highlights Suzanne Paul’s photography of the Houston art scene plus excerpts of the video’s Lee Benner captured from the DCG Foundations Symposium Series. Lee Benner’s film Yelling Underwater will be shown on Sunday\, February 18th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. \nRespecting our past\, being aware of our current environment and looking far beyond into the future has always been part of the vision of Deborah Colton Gallery.. The mission statement has been the same since our first exhibitions. Deborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Angelbert Metoyer: Real Eyes (Realize)- An Artist’s Survey: 1987 – 2017
DESCRIPTION:Angelbert Metoyer \nRealize: Studio Survey \nNovember 16\, 2017 through January 27\, 2018 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, November 16 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Realize: Studio Survey\, an exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings\, mixed media and sculpture by internationally recognized artist\, Angelbert Metoyer. The exhibition opens Thursday\, November 16th\, with an Opening Reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nEven before studying at the Savannah College of Arts and Design\, Angelbert started as a draftsman\, then transitioned into painting\, mixed media\, sculpture\, textiles and fashion\, as well as sound and film. \n  \nThis exhibition is the culmination of Angelbert’s artistic journey and career thus far\, including drawings\, paintings\, mixed media\, sculpture\, works on paper\, works on canvas\, works on wood\, and textiles. This is a studio survey for which the installed works serve as the fully immersive language of an exposition; a comprehensive description and explanation of the thoughts behind life’s ritual and spiritual focus as well as the after life. \n  \nAngelbert’s work goes beyond painting and traditional fine arts mediums. His work spans across all mediums to contribute to the visual expression that is fashion; motions and performances captured on the frames of a film; as well as sonic elements and sounds used to compose music. The exhibition is installed Salon Style and represents the influence of Metoyer dividing his life between the United States and Europe as well as his connection to history.  \n  \nAngelbert’s work is very autobiographical and his entire family history is a prominent theme. In his artist statement he mentions that he is interested in “concepts of memory\, moment and social changes in human history\, examining scientific and philosophical questions about multi-dimensionality\, teleportation and M theory (quantum concepts)”. This is another prominent feature in his work as you can see that the abstract expressionist technique creates an intergalactic travel for the viewer. This exciting studio survey of almost 90 works will transport the viewer through time and space… and will also crystalize de oeuvre of a restless and talented artist whose work is energetic and visionary. \n  \nPublic collections include The British Museum (London)\, The Delfina Foundation (London)\, Kaleemat Foundation (Istanbul)\, A.M. Qattan Foundation (London) and Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (UAE)\, as well as private collections throughout the Middle East\, Europe\, Asia and the United States. Solo exhibitions include Art Paris Art Fair (Paris 2016)\, Yallay Art Gallery (Hong Kong 2015)\, The City Hall (Thessaloniki\, Greece\, 2015)\, Galerie Tanit (Beirut 2015)\, Darat AL Funun (Kuwait 2014)\, The Mosaic Rooms (London 2011)\, Ayyam Gallery (Damascus 2009) and Al Bareh Art Fallery (Bahrain 2006). Group Exhibitions include Galeries de Verre L’Art en Marche (Bordeaux 2015)\, Institut des Cultures d’Islam (Paris 2014)\, Meem Gallery (Dubai 2013)\, BIEL Center\, (Beirut 2013)\, Athr Gallery (Jeddah 2013)\, Europe Art Expo (Geneva 2006) and Gallery Amber (Leiden 2003). \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Focus on the 70s & 80s: Houston Foundations Part II
DESCRIPTION:Focus on the 70s and 80s: Houston Foundations Part II \n  \nAugust 26 through November 4\, 2017 \nSchedule of events during exhibition to follow \n  \nJOHN ALEXANDER   LEE BENNER     HJ BOTT     BOB CAMBLIN     MEL CHIN     IBSEN ESPADA \nDAVID P. GRAY   VIRGIL GROTFELDT   ANN HARITHAS   ROBERTA HARRIS     MIKE HOLLIS \nDOROTHY HOOD   PERRY HOUSE     LUIS JIMENEZ     LUCAS JOHNSON     SHARON KOPRIVA \nBERT L. LONG JR.   JESSE LOTT     SUZANNE MANNS     BASILIOS POULOS      \nFORREST PRINCE  DON REDMAN   JULIAN SCHNABEL     EARL STALEY   JAMES SURLS    \nDICK WRAY \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present  Focus on the 70’s and 80’s: Houston Foundations Part II\, a group exhibition of multimedia works by artists who contributed to art scene in the 70’s and 80’s\, which greatly influenced the Houston arts today. Focus on the 70’s and 80’s is part of the gallery’s Foundations Projects. Though conceived in 2013\, Houston Foundations was launched during FotoFest 2016 with the Gallery’s Suzanne Paul PROOF exhibition. \n  \nAs Deborah Colton states\, \n  \n“Houston today is a dynamic international city that thrives on its rich diversity and has the potential to become a leading national and international destination city of the arts. Respecting our past in terms of how we became who we are today gives us a strong foundation to continue to build upon. Suzanne Paul’s archives and our PROOF exhibition was an important way to start this process\, and I have been committed to making this investment for the city by perserving and working towards organizing her archives since 2005. Part II of this project is far greater than Suzanne Paul’s work alone\, and includes an exhibition which highlights many of the artists who contributed to the vibrant art scene during a time of rapid and dynamic growth… and then changes.. The series of Panels and Discussions strives to help identify our artistic roots and how this and the city’s changing envinorment over the years have contrubited to what the Houston art community is today\, as we all move forward together to the future.” . \n  \nIn addition to the exhibition\, there will be the Foundations Symposium Series which will consist of a series of seven filmed artist talks\, panels and lectures that will also give the audience a chance to interact and address “where have we been\, what is special and unique about us and where should we go collectively as a city in the future”. The professional videos will be available on line for all to have access to. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to create awareness for positive change.  \n  \nHouston Foundations  is an extension of this mission that was created at the time of Colton’s first Houston exhibition in 2000\, and continues to be the focus today. \n  \nBorn on the bayou in east Texas\, John Alexander has made an international career as a skilled draftsman\, a painter of lush landscapes\, and as a satirist creating allegorical tableaus. Alexander (b. 1945) began studying art at Lamar University in his hometown of Beaumont. After earning an MFA in 1970 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas\, Alexander took a teaching position at the University of Houston\, where he became a key figure in the city’s nascent art scene. Alexander moved to New York City in 1979\, taking a SoHo loft he still calls home. In addition to his continuing fascination with the surreal and humankind at its worst\, Alexander gravitates toward depicting marshy landscapes\, and studied portraits of flora and fauna\, particularly the birds flocking to his part-time home on Long Island’s East End. Naturalism and conservation remain hallmarks of his work\, and he says the Beaumont bayou of his youth is never far from his mind. Alexander has been widely exhibited\, with major shows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington\, D.C.\, and the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. His work can be found in public collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; and many others. \n  \nLee Benner artistic endeavors are as well known as his love for Houston history. What began with a homemade go-cart at the age of ten evolved into multimedia sculptures over his extensive career. Traveling cross-country and into Mexico led to studio photography for Benner. Sculpture was next on his artistic journey as he began Design Concepts\, his first sculpture studio\, and his first commission for Coca-Cola. Through the years Benner cultivated an interest and talent for filmmaking and jewelry\, eventually developing a line of jewelry and even furniture too. Reflecting on his work\, Benner confesses “My hobby is Houston history. Houston is a future city. History is getting revitalized\, and I thought a lot might be missed. I’m interested in true stories of old Houston and Houstonians. I really love history.” \n  \nBorn in 1933\, HJ Bott describes himself as a Baroque Minimalist\, and is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. Inspired by such artists as Joseph Albers and Barnet Newman\, Bott first came to prominence in the mid 1950s in Germany and France while working as a propaganda analyst for the United States Army. Now living and working in Houston\, Texas\, Bott continues to create a prolific body of work more than six decades strong. Bott’s works are included in more than seventy museum and university collections worldwide\, including the Museum of Fine Art\, Houston; the Denver Museum of Art; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and Columbia University\, New York. \n  \nBob Camblin was born in Oklahoma in 1928 and studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute\, earning an MFA in 1955. He taught at Rice University from 1967 to 1973 with Joe Tate and Earl Staley\, with whom he shared a studio space. His influence and art was a constant undercurrent in the Houston art scene\, revealing much about the environment and those that surrounded him. He left Houston in the early 80s. Known for his drawings\, watercolors\, paintings and his gregarious\, direct personality\, Camblin was included in the Fresh Paint\, The Houston School Museum of Fine Arts exhibition in 1985 and was the only artist without a written statement in the catalogue.. . \n  \nMel Chin was born in Houston to Chinese parents\, the first of his family born in the United States. In 1975\, Chin graduated from Peabody College in Nashville\, Tennessee. In 1976\, Chin created See/Saw: The Earthworks for Houston’s Hermann Park\, where the artist manipulated two sections of the park’s surface to create a kinetic\, minimalist earthwork. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, in 1988 and 1990. His work has been documented in the popular PBS series Art:21\, Art of the 21st Century. One of Chin’s most recent artistic feats was presented in Houston in 2015 — a city-wide retrospective\, Mel Chin: Rematch\, which included simultaneous installations across four venues\, including the Asia Society Texas Center\, the Blaffer Art Museum\, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, and the Station Museum of Contemporary Art. \n  \nIbsen Espada was born in Queens\, New York. Espada has been a major force in the history of contemporary gestural abstraction in Houston since the early 80s. He grew up in Puerto Rico and studied under Cuban muralist\, Ronaldo Lopez Dirube. He earned his bachelor of fine arts degree at the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan. After relocating to Houston\, he continued art studies at the Glassell School of Art under Dorothy Hood. Espada worked with Hood as her studio assistant and she encouraged him to develop his first portfolio of work. Since then\, in addition to Puerto Rico\, Colorado\, Shanghai\, Russia\, and all throughout Texas\, Ibsen’s artwork has been exhibited in Houston since 1975. He is also included in permanent Museum collections in Houston\, Corpus Christi\, Beaumont\, Forth Worth\, and Lubbock. Espada’s mixture of formalized and public art\, together with the more spontaneous\, informal gesture of graffiti and street art\, became a moment of genesis for the young artist.  And that\, together with the pervasive influence of Abstract Expressionism\, brought a fusion of influences together where the art of Ibsen Espada could develop\, grow\, and flourish. \n  \nDavid P. Gray\, born in 1952 in Atlanta GA.\, moved to Houston from Mexico in 1960. Gray’s signature style reveals a personal and contemporary expression of beauty and order that pays homage to the Classical Tradition in its craftsmanship. Collectors of David’s work often relate that his painting provoke a sense of peace\, stillness\, or a contemplative mood. His award winning works have been covered by major art publications including Southwest Art\, Art of the West\, and American Art Collector. Gray taught Art and Photography for the University of St. Thomas\, in Houston Texas from 1976 – 1985 and Tomball College 1994 – 1995 In addition to group and solo exhibits across the United States\, Gray has also received a plethora of awards including Oil Painters of America’s “Best of Show\,” and “Award of Excellence\, Best of Show in the 2006 Lawndale Big Show in Houston\, Texas. \n  \nBorn in 1948 in Decatur\, Illinois\, Virgil Grotfeldt earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from Eastern Illinois University in 1971 and a master’s degree at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1974. He moved to Houston in 1977. He began teaching painting and drawing at HBU in 2002\, where he was also widely considered instrumental in the concept and construction of the University Academic Center’s new building\, of which the art department occupies about 70 percent. Grotfeldt’s work is included in many private and public collections\, including The Menil Collection\, Houston\, Texas; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, New York; NOG Insurance Company\, Amsterdam\, The Netherlands; Free International University World Art Collection\, Zeist\, The Netherlands; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art; El Paso Museum of Art; Tyler Museum of Art\, Tyler\, Texas; and Upriver Gallery Collection\, Chengdu\, China. \n  \nBorn in New Jersey\, Roberta Harris grew up in Houston. She was chosen for the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and studied at Parson’s School of Design\, Hunter College\, University of Texas\, and received a B.A. degree from the University of Houston. She has been a visiting lecturer at the Kimbell Art Museum\, Ft. Worth; the Museum of Fine Arts\, Santa Fe\, New Mexico; Brookhaven College\, Dallas; University of Houston and the Menil Collection\, Houston. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in many collections including MTV Corporation\, Chase Manhattan Bank\, Frito-Lay\, Hewlett-Packard and Texas Heart Institute. In 2009\, The Women’s Museum (a Smithsonian Institution) Dallas\, Texas\, honored her with a retrospective of her work\, titled “UP\,” covering the period of 1985-2009. Reflecting on her work\, Harris states\, “Throughout my career\, through a variety of media\, my mission as an artist has been to inspire hope and its corollaries – dialogue\, joy\, encouragement\, strategy\, peace\, kindness and imagination. This approach is not the least bit sentimental. Given the challenges that we face\, hope demands courage\, commitment\, endurance and renewal – the best expressions of the human spirit.” \n  \nAnn Harithas draws from a well of classic Texas culture\, education\, and personal history to create her art. Born in Houston 1943\, Ann Harithas spent her childhood between school in Victoria\, Texas and her parents’ nearby cattle ranch where her interests in collage were recognized and nurtured from an early age. As an instrument for learning\, collage would not only be a fundamental component of her adolescent development\, but consequently has evolved to become the predominant medium in which she expresses herself as an adult. After graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in English\, she received her MFA from Rice University. As the early founder and proponent of the Art Car movement in Houston in the 1980s\, Ann continued to diversify her methods and application of collage and assemblage\, including the creation of her own art cars. This marked an evolution of her techniques\, employing technological advancements in color printing\, construction\, and materials. Summoning her personal history to capture and catalog her experience\, Ann assembles her past and present to express a notion of time that invariably oscillates between ‘what has been’ and ‘what can be. \n  \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, and one of the few female artists working in large scale throughout the decades\, Dorothy Hood led an adventurous life. Born in Bryan\, Texas in 1918 and raised in Houston\, she won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design and went on to study at the Art Students League in New York. Hood was front and center in the cultural\, political\, and social activity of Mexico and Latin America during a period of intense creative ferment. She developed close friendships with all the European exiles\, Latin American surrealists\, and Mexican social realists of the time — artists\, composers\, poets\, playwrights\, and revolutionary writers which influenced her art. Upon returning to Houston in 1961\, Hood began to produce the epic and deeply emotive paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space. This prolific body of work would be the material with which she would be recognized for her outstanding contribution to the visual arts\, not only in Houston\, but all throughout Texas too—earning her the title of Texas Artist of the Year in 1984. Over the next four decades\, she became a renowned and highly collected Texas painter whose works were spread across the United States. \n  \nMike Hollis was born in Houston\, Texas\, in 1953. After receiving his BA in Fine Arts from the University of St. Thomas\, Hollis has built a well-respected and much admired reputation as a favorite among Houston artists. Merging West Coast concepts with geometric abstraction\, Hollis has created an easily recognizable body of work that is both cerebral and emotive. He creates his paintings utilizing various methods\, blending various painting techniques with new technology. Hollis is a decades-long devotee of geometric abstraction\, using techniques and strategies generally attributed to post-minimalism. Having mastered this approach he has also found ways to give each work a radical new meaning while imbuing it with calculated emotions. With works found in major collections including The Museum of Fine Arts: Houston\, the Menil Collection\, Houston\, and The Chase Manhattan Bank\, NY\, Hollis has presented solo exhibitions of his work in Houston and nationwide\, including in Santa Fe\, New Mexico and in New York\, New York. \n  \nPerry House was born in Orange\, Texas. He pursued art as a vocation at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts. Upon his return to Texas\, House settled in Houston and began his lifelong career as an artist and a teacher of artists. His work often strips away decoration\, narrative\, sex\, politics\, and traditional perspective\, while at the same time evoking the passage of time\, weight\, depth\, and our mortal coil. As Houston’s art scene was coming of age\, House was one of the early pioneers of abstraction\, showing with some of the most historically notable galleries in Houston. In the collection of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts\, the artist received an NEA fellowship award in 1990 and mounted solo efforts at Diverse Works in 2000\, curated by Susie Kalil\, and 2004 at the Galveston Arts Center curated by Clint Willour. On his work House comments “My art has always been about some particular opposites; elegance and violence\, humor and horror\, the sacred and the profane. Things are sectioned\, distorted and exploded.” Perry House has since retired from Houston Community College\, Central after 30 years of teaching and is now painting full-time. \n  \nLuis Jimenez is a sculptor whose work marries elements of pop culture and social commentary with allusions to his Mexican-American heritage. Known for his large\, colorful fiberglass sculptures that often incorporate neon and electrical lighting\, Jimenez extended his bold choices of materials to his subject matter\, creating confident and expressive figures while exaggerating cultural stereotypes. Much of his work deals with social and political issues and explores the cultures and legends of both Mexico and the United States.  His work has been shown at museums throughout the United States and his work is part of the permanent collections of the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo\, Mexico\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Texas\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, New York\, Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, New York National\, Collection of Fine Arts\, Smithsonian Institute\, Washington\, D.C.\, and the Hirshhorn Museum\, Washington\, D.C.\, as well as many others. \n  \nLucas Johnson was a self-taught\, multi-disciplinary artist immersed in the creative community in Houston from the time of his settling here in 1973 until his passing in 2002. He lived for an extended time in Mexico City\, where he was embraced and influenced by artist contemporaries who followed the great Mexican muralists. Self-taught in drawing\, paintings\, printmaking and bronze casting\, he debuted paintings for the first time in 1967. Johnson was a guest instructor in the arts at the Glassell School of Art and at Houston’s Rice University. His work is represented in the permanent collections of museums in Mexico City\, the Menil and Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, and the Modern Art Museum in Tel Aviv. In 1993 Johnson was a founding board member of the Houston Artists Fund with two associates\, effectively establishing a charitable organization\, still active\, that serves as a fiscal sponsor for nonprofit art-related projects and provides administrative support and budgets monitoring for funds raised from the art community. \n  \nSharon Kopriva is a Houston native. Her career launched in 1985 with the exhibition Fresh Paint at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. In the past 25 years she has exhibited her art in major cities in the United States\, Mexico\, Peru\, India\, Cuba\, China\, and Europe. In addition to her participation in Fresh Paint\, her most notable exhibitions include a solo show curated by the legendary Walter Hopps at The Menil Collection in 2001 and a retrospective of her work shown at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, curated by Bradley Sumrall in 2012\, entitled From Terra to Verde. Kopriva is deeply influenced by a varied set of inspirations\, including her Catholic upbringing\, the wonders of nature\, and her continued spiritual journey. \n  \nBert L. Long\, Jr.\, a self-taught artist\, was born in 1940 in Texas\, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a master chef Long\, decided to devote himself entirely to art in 1979. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work\, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas\, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, and artists John Alexander\, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate\, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work. Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history\, along with complex philosophical and social issues. Long describes the philosophy behind his work as “a quest to help people diagnose their inner self\,” believing his art to be “the vehicle to help facilitate [such a] process.” The late Peter Marzio\, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, said of Bert Long: “Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful\, but as [his artworks] testify\, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.” Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter\, sculptor\, and photographer he was awarded several significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. \n  \nJesse Lott is an African-American sculptor of great distinction and a long time 5th Ward\, Houston resident\, who began his artistic career creating and selling his works as a student at E.O. Smith Elementary School in 1957. Jesse Lott works in paper\, metal\, and wood as well as working with armatures and wire\, all the while building with his artistry a capacity for emotional power. His technique is derived from collecting and recycling discarded materials\, as a type of urban archeology fused with scientific methodology. He has influenced many artists\, including Texans as well known as James Surls\, Bert Long Jr. and Angelbert Metoyer. The all-ages workshops that he has held over the years in his studio as a community service have inspired many students who would otherwise have no exposure to art. Lott’s community-oriented philosophy and his Artists in Action program helped spark the creation of the now famous Project Row Houses.” \n  \nSuzanne Manns was born in Pittsburg\, PA. in 1950. She received her B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Carnegie-Mellon University and did graduate studies in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design\, after which she studied under master printmaker Dadi Wirz from Atelier 17 in Paris. In 1973\, she moved to Houston and in 1975 began to teach at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts. At Glassell she established a substantial printmaking department. She currently is on faculty at Glassell\, teaching in the Drawing Department. Early works from Houston referenced the burgeoning downtown skyline. Later drawings and prints depicted cities which were important to her personal history such as Paris\, Florence\, and Washington D.C. From the mid 90’s to the present\, her work is inspired by the garden of her Heights bungalow and other personal places/landscapes. The work combines both traditional and innovative print and drawing techniques. Her work is a diary of intimate experience meditating on the fragile\, yet enduring nature of life. She has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions\, nationally and internationally. Her work is included in private and public collections including The J.P. Morgan Chase Collection\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. \n  \nBasilios Poulos came to Houston in 1975 from NYC to be Artist-in-Residence at Rice University. He was born in South Carolina and went to the Atlanta School of Art for his BFA and Tulane University for his MFA. His many art career honors include French Gov Grant from 1965-1966\, Guggenheim Fellowship 1974\, Artist Residency at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts\, Paris 1983\, and Visiting Professor for the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program\, Cortona\, Italy 1997. His solo exhibitions in Paris\, Athens\, NYC\, Atlanta\, San Francisco\, New Orleans\, Houston\, and others comprise forty-eight years of painting. Retiring from teaching at RiceU in 2008\, Poulos has continued to paint in his Houston studio with sojourns to his Greek village studio near Sparta in the Peloponnese. \n  \nForrest Prince was born in Houston\, Texas in 1935. With no formal art education\, he began making art in 1969\, and in 1976 was given his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum\, Houston. In 1983 Prince founded the Praise God Foundation. His body of work is unusual in it’s freedom from the machinations and impurities of the art world and represents man’s higher spiritual aspirations. In addition to his Christian religious work\, Prince’s artwork is also concerned with political and social issues. Some of his artworks involve the artist’s investigations into food consumption other works severely question the satanic practices of the US Government. He has participated in many group exhibitions in museums and galleries including: Diverse Works\, Hooks-Epstein Gallery\, San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts\, Lawndale Art Center\, Art Car Museum\, Station Museum\, and The Menil Collection. . \n  \nDon Redman was born in Houston and spent much of his childhood on the Gulf of Mexico. His father was a ship builder and provided him his first opportunities to work with steel\, while his mother supplied him with stockpiles of wood with which he could carve\, saw\, and paint. After attending the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the Art Institute of San Francisco\, he was fortunate to become the apprentice to several internationally recognized artists; among them Luis Jimenez\, James Surls\, and Salvatore Scarpitta. Over his forty plus years as a sculptor\, his work has grown from a fascination with kinetics to a more subtle utilization of movement created by light. His sculptures are in public\, private\, and corporate art collections throughout the United States and around the world. \n  \nJulian Schnabel is a lauded/ award-winning American painter and filmmaker. Born in 1951\, Schnabel moved with his family to Brownsville\, Texas\, when still young. It was in Brownsville that he spent most of his formative years and where he took up surfing and resolved to be an artist\, graduating from Brownsville High School in the late ‘60s. He entered into his collegiate studies the University of Houston in 1969 and received his B.F.A. in 1973. In 1976\, Schnabel had his first self-titled solo museum exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Though he maintained a studio practice in the Houston Heights for some years after graduating from university\, by 1979 Schnabel found himself in New York City\, eventually establishing himself as one of the leading figures of the art world in the 1980s. \n  \nEarl Staley was born in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park\, received his BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and his MFA from the University of Arkansas. His first teaching position was at Washington University\, Saint Louis\, Mo. Earl arrived in Houston in 1966 to teach at Rice University. In 1969 he became the chairperson at the new studio art department at the University of St. Thomas. He left that position to move to Rome Italy with a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. He remained there 4 years studying the old masters and painting from the Classics. His major influences are Texas/Mexico and Classical Art. Earl showed at the 1973 Whitney Biennale\, and then in 1979 in the landmark show Bad Painting at the New Museum\, NY. He has had two exhibits at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; one was a 10-year survey 1974-1984 which traveled to the New Museum\, NY. Earl was included in Fresh Paint in Houston and the Venice Biennale 1984 and numerous exhibits across the USA and Europe. Since 1992 He teaches at Lonestar College/Tomball. \n  \nJames Surls is one of the most preeminent artists that the state of Texas has produced. Born in East Texas\, James Surls has long been held as a respected artist and dynamic art educator. He earned a B.S. at Sam Houston State College\, and an M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Surls’ artistic output ranges from pencil drawings and prints to monumental steel and bronze sculptures. Early in his career he taught at Southern Methodist University\, and he continues to lecture about art around the country. He has been at the forefront of the contemporary sculpture scene for decades and has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art\, the Walker Art Center and the Art Institute of Chicago\, as well as in numerous international venues and dozens of Texas museums. His works are in the collections of major museums including the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, the Smithsonian American Art Museum\, and the Museum of Modern Art. As a sculpture instructor at the University of Houston\, and with the support of fellow artist John Alexander\, he founded the Lawndale Alternative Space for Art in 1979\, today Houston’s Lawndale Art Center\, and championed alternative and experimental processes and approaches to art-making. He has also founded an artist’s compound where he established his studio in Splendora\, Texas. \n  \nA native Houstonian born in 1933\, Dick Wray\, was an artist of incomparable talent and personality who played a critical role in the development of Houston’s contemporary art scene since the 1950s. Often categorized as an Abstract Expressionist\, Wray is best known for his explosive and dynamic abstractions that received numerous accolades from Houston’s critical community as well as notable arts figures across the United States throughout his career.  Wray attended the University of Houston’s School of Architecture followed by the Kunstakademie\, Dusseldorf\, Germany. Returning to Houston in 1959\, he began seriously working as an artist.  Over the next fifty years\, he participated in a large number of important exhibitions nationally\, landing his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1975.  Wray was an instructor at the Glassell School of Art from 1968 until 1982.  Wray was awarded the Ford Foundation purchase prize in 1962\, a prestigious Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston in 2000.  His work is in major collections\, including the Albright Knox Museum\, Buffalo\, National Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C.\, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth\, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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SUMMARY:Grayson Chandler: Tautologies & Memoirs
DESCRIPTION:Grayson Chandler \nTautologies & Memoirs \nJuly 1\, 2017 – August 19\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday July 1st 6:00 – 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Tautologies & Memoirs\, a solo exhibit featuring a selection of paintings by Grayson Chandler. Tautologies & Memoirs gives a glimpse into the unique perspective of a young artist from Houston\, Texas. The exhibition opens Saturday\, July 1st\, with a reception for the artist from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nBorn in Houston\, Texas 1994\, Grayson Chandler has been exposed to the visual arts from a young age. He began practicing drawing and painting in junior high at Lanier Middle School\, and continued to practice at Lamar High School where he was awarded most artistic in his graduating class. Now studying Fine Arts at the University of North Texas\, Grayson’s aim is to graduate with a BFA in Studio Arts as he continues to advance his artistic career. \n  \nFascinated by the intrinsic order and beauty of nature\, Grayson’s work attempts to capture and abstract it’s character in a manner that is recognizable\, yet unfamiliar. Deeply curious about the forces that govern human reason and faith\, his work probes the amphibious network linking logic\, intuition\, consciousness\, and emotion. Through this perspective\, we are encouraged to draw upon our own experience and sensation as a means of illuminating the border between real and imaginary—exposing their dichotomy—to explore our desire to identify with imagery that resembles things we already know\, and draw from that tendency as an aperture to view something empirically new. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Reflections on the Noughties
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery \nReflections on the Noughties  \nJuly 1\, 2017 – August 19\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday July 1st 6:00 – 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Reflections on the Noughties\, a group exhibit featuring a selection of \n  \nMichael Bise  \nMichael Bise was born in Flagstaff\, Arizona and moved to Dallas\, Texas in 1990. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting at the University of North Texas in 2001 and his Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting at the University of Houston in 2005. His work has been shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum\, Houston; the Art Museum of Southeast Texas; the McKinney Avenue Contemporary\, Dallas; and Fort Worth Contemporary Arts at TCU. He was a recipient of a Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant and an Artadia Finalist in 2014 and was awarded The Hunting Art Prize\, an Artadia Finalist\, and a Nominee for the Texas Contemporary Award in 2012. His work is part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, the Houston Airport System\, City of Houston\, and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas\, Beaumont. \nBise’s work consists of graphite drawings that combine autobiographical narrative with labor-intensive attention to detail\, creating a disorienting relationship between personal psychology and formal picture making concerns. \n  \nJessica Ciocci/PAPER RAD \nWith three primary members – Jacob Ciocci\, Jessica Ciocci\, and Ben Jones – Paper Rad are a collective dividing their time between Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania and Providence\, Rhode Island. At once affirmative and critical\, their pieces posess an exuberantly neo-primitivist digital aesthetic. In keeping with their focus on current pop culture and media\, Paper Rad synthesize popular material from television\, video games\, and advertising\, making comics\, zines\, net art\, video art\, MIDI files\, installations\, paintings\, and music. \n  \nRachel Hecker \nRachel Hecker was born in Provedence\, Rhode Island. She attended Moore College of Art\, and after receiving her BFA in Sculpture\, she returned to RI\, where she got her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently an Associate professor of painting at the University of Houston. Hecker has received considerable critical attention for her solo exhibitions in Texas venues\, such as the Contemporary arts Museum in Houston\, the Dallas Museum of Art\, and ArtPace in San Antonio. Additionally\, she has shown in commercial and university galleries and alternative spaaces throughout the United States. Hecker was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts award in Painting\, and is currently represented in many public and private collections including the Houston\, Dallas\, and New Orleans Museums of Art. \nHecker’s work shares a common lineage rooted in the ancestral history of Pop art\, but in contrast to Warhol and Lichtenstein who’s art operated according to a larger cultural scope\, Hecker’s approach reflects concepts and concerns that express a more temporal intimacy. Most interesting though is how her work and practice transcends the Pop Art impulse. Whereas the common Pop Art canon seeks to expose the margin between consumers of high and mass culture by examining methods implicit of mass production\, Hecker painstakingly recreates the machine-manufactured appearance by hand. In doing so\, Hecker elevates the significance of time spent painting\, adding a deeper conceptual component\, so as to underscore the fleeting permanence between life and time. \n  \nPaul Horn \nPaul Horn is a Houston based artist and curator best known for his three dimensional collages and sculptures that draw from images and motifs found in popular culture. His carefully orchestrated exhibitions often feature artwork in nontraditional exhibition environments as a means of re-contextualizing Pop Art within contemporary sensibilities. His work has been reviewed by the esteemed trifecta of art journals: Artforum\, ARTnews\, and Art in America. He also has had reviews in Houston Press\, The Houston Chronicle\, Artlies\, and Glasstire. \nAmong Paul Horn’s numerous solo and group exhibitions are shows at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita\, Kansas\, and the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida. He began his artistic career during his graduate studies at the University of Houston\, where he also has been exhibited. Using venues from a Holiday Inn to an elevator carriage\, and even a Quick Mart convenience store\, he has not only made the art a focal point\, but engages the viewer as part of the exhibition as well. \n  \nDaniel Johnston \nDaniel Johnston has spent approximately the last 20 years exposing his heartrending tales of unrequited love\, cosmic mishaps\, and existential torment to an ever-growing international cult audience. Daniel was born in 1961 in Sacramento\, California\, and over the years\, Daniel’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited in Los Angeles\, Zurich\, and Berlin. The cover of a recent edition of music writer Richard Meltzer’s “The Aesthetics of Rock” was drawn by Johnston. Throughout his career\, Daniel’s songs and drawings have been informed to some degree by his ongoing struggle with manic depression — lending an added poignancy to his soul-searching times. In January\, 2005\, the feature-length documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” premiered at Sundance Film Festival and at film festivals around the world that year. The movie was distributed in North America by Sony Pictures Classic and by Tartan Films in the United Kingdom on March 31\, 2006. \n  \nOtabenga Jones & Associates \nOtabenga Jones & Associates is a Houston-based artist collective founded in 2002 by artist and educator Otabenga Jones in collaboration with members Dawolu Jabari Anderson\, Jamal Cyrus\, Kenya Evans\, and Robert A. Pruitt. The group’s pedagogical mission is manifested in a myriad of forms\, e.g. actions\, writings\, DJ sets\, and installations. In scope the collective’s mission is three-fold: to underscore the complications of black representation\, to maintain and promote the core principles of the Black radical tradition\, and (in the words of the late Russell Tyrone Jones) “teach the truth to the young black youth”. \nWork by Otabenga Jones & Associates has appeared in exhibitions at the Studio Museum of Harlem and Whitney Museum of American Art (Whitney Biennial)\, in New York City; the High Museum\, Atlanta; and the Menil Collection and Contemporary Art Museum Houston\, Houston\, among others. \n  \nFrancisco Larios \nBorn in Guaymas\, Sonora 1960\, Francisco Larios is a multidisciplinary artist whose work achieved exceptional notoriety in the Nineties\, and has since gained him global acclaim. He has accumulated a plethora of awards and exhibitions recognizing his multidisciplinary abilities in painting\, drawing\, lithography\, photography\, and digital mediums. Included in these are the Biennial of Cuenca in Ecuador for digital idealizations of faith\, science\, and domestic violence\, the Museum of Monterrey Biennial for painting\, solo exhibitions across the globe\, and a residency at the prestigious Polígrafa Gallery in Barcelona working with traditional printing techniques. \nLarios’s competence across various visual mediums result in two and three-dimensional compositions\, manifested from immemorial spiritual references and philosophical motifs\, which reflect a critically poetic exploration of how cultural expressions and relationships have led to contemporary visual languages. \n  \nPatrick Palmer \nPatrick studied at Heatherley’s School of Art in London and The National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He has studied under Michael Clark – a friend of Francis Bacon – and by Bobby Gill – an honourary fellow at The Royal College of Art. Whilst an element of realism is important\, in the artist’s own words: “I move beyond artistic convention and avoid an image that is too predictable. Realism is not enough – what you take away and what you add to what you see are what transforms a picture into art. I believe that the viewer wants to see a degree of draughtsmanship from an artist\, but they deserve more than this. I aspire to make my pictures touch people personally and to be considered simple works of beauty.” \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations.
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SUMMARY:Amita Bhatt\, Satish Gupta\, Sharon Kopriva and Susan Plum: Visions
DESCRIPTION:Visions \nSatish Gupta – Sharon Kopriva – Susan Plum – Amita Bhatt \nApril 29 through June 24\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, April 29th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Visions\, a group exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings and sculptures by Satish Gupta\, Sharon Kopriva\, Susan Plum and Amita Bhatt. Visions explores the journey of four artists coming from different backgrounds and how they reveal spirituality in their work. The exhibition opens Saturday\, April 29th\, with a reception with the artists from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nA versatile artist\, Satish Gupta is India’s celebrated painter\, sculptor\, poet\, writer\, printmaker\, skilled draftsman\, muralist\, designer\, calligrapher and ceramicist whose work is influenced by his Zen philosophy. \n“Sometimes what is left unsaid is more important than what is said. Silence can communicate on a much deeper level than words\, this emphasis on an eternal silence is an essential part of Zen” \nWinning the Sanskriti Award at an early stage in his career\, Gupta’s work honed through a deep engagement with mysticism and Zen spirit and has been exhibited in more than 37 solo shows at important art institutions throughout India and abroad\, including in Delhi\, Mumbai\, Bengaluru\, Kolkotta\, Dubai\, Bahrain\, Antananarivo\, London\, Paris\, Altea\, Murcia\, Amsterdam\, Ljubljana\, Vancouver\, Ottawa\, San Francisco\, New York\, Washington and Melbourne. His works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art\, New Delhi. Recently Satish Gupta’s sculptures and paintings were acquired by The Museum of Sacred Arts\, Brussels and were exhibited in the show “Forms of Devotion” in Thailand and in the Shanghai Museum of Modern Art. \nSatish’s 23 foot sculpture in copper “The Buddhas Within” is currently exhibited at the Prince Of Wales Museum (CMVS)  in Mumbai. In early 2017 he painted live at the National Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana along with a showing of his calligraphic scrolls. His sculpture ‘Mandala’ was exhibited as one of the finalists for the prestigious The Art Laguna Prize 2017 at Arsenal in Venice. Satish’s  large sculpture “The Sun God” can be seen at the International Airport in New Delhi. He has also created a 30 feet long mural for the Bengaluru International Airport. Another monumental 5 piece metal sculpture ranging from 11.5 feet to 35 feet in height and weighing over 22\,000 pounds inspired by the five primal elements\, is located at the Jindal Center in New Delhi. His sculptures\, wall murals and paintings are the signature works at the Leela Palace Hotel in New Delhi and The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Bengaluru. Satish’s “Utsav Murti of the Goddess Linga Bharavi” resides in the main temple at Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation in Coimbatore. His Holiness\, the Dalai Lama wrote a foreword for Satish’s book of short stories and haikus “I am the dewdrop\, I am the ocean.” and Deepak Chopra has written the foreword for his portfolio “Zen Space”. The artist collaborated with India’s Prime Minister\, Narendar Modi on a sculpture-painting “Om Namo Shivaya” for a charitable cause which was auctioned by the Sotheby’s. Known for its special meditative quality\, Satish Gupta’s art is created at his studio Zazen on the outskirts of Delhi\, surrounded by a Zen garden of his own design. \nSharon Kopriva\, a Texas native\, currently works in Houston\, Texas and Hope\, Idaho. She earned her MFA in painting from the University of Houston in 1981. Since her inauguration with the “Fresh Paint” exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston in 1985\, Kopriva has exhibited nationally and internationally including at The Menil Collection\, Houston; The Ogden Museum\, New Orleans; and The National Museum of Peru in Lima. For more than thirty years\, Sharon has combined two and three-dimensional media often with fusions of papier-mâché and found objects. Her career has taken her through investigations of pre-Columbian cultures in Peru\, examinations of her Catholic faith\, and inspirations from the spiritual forests of the beautiful Pacific Northwest United States. \nThe works in this exhibition are from “The Verde Series” which reflect the confluence or coming together of Nature\, Spirituality and formal religion. Among the forest greens and tangled woods one might glimpse parts of cathedral windows or other Gothic architectural features. These represent Kopriva’s base\, a more formal\, Catholic religious foundation that through her life has been strengthened by the Natural world. \n“I feel God’s existence both inside and outside of Church. I appreciate both. But my best conversations with God have taken place while hiking in the woods\, and “The Verde” paintings are an extension of these walks” says Kopriva. \n  \nSusan Plum was born in Houston\, Texas. She spent her early and formative years in Mexico City\, Mexico\, where she began to study art\, embracing surrealism and Magic Realism. Magic Realism became the vehicle for her to explore and transcend cultural and spiritual boundaries. In this context\, Susan envisioned a world that was inclusive\, culturally diverse\, and aesthetically vital\, and she created a visual language that encompassed the mythic\, imaginal world and the real. Her art is deeply informed by nature\, by its diversity and intelligence. Light has also been a strong interest for her. Susan began working with glass in the late 1980s in Seattle\, and more recently with photography. Photographing her glasswork as a means of capturing moving light\, or kinetic light\, began when she moved to Houston in 2009. \n  \nIn this series of paintings and drawings\, Naturaleza Tejida/Woven Nature\, Susan addresses the elements and ancient creation stories that tell us we are made us of stardust–that we come from the cosmos and return to the cosmos.  This act of inhalation and exhalation\, or\, warp and weft\, is a universal experience and nature’s “natural” weaving.  Her paintings allude to simultaneous states of existence between the cosmos and the earth inspired by the modern-day physics which informs us of a multidimensional universe and the Mayan cosmology that universe is made up of lines of light.  For Susan the filaments of light create a web of intelligence\, which acts as a vehicle for consciousness.  The drawings are inspired by the sacred indigenous Huichol symbol of the Eye of God or Ojo de Dios.  Susan sees the geometry of the Eye of God representing the soul of a human or other life forms.  A line is drawn from the center of one “soul” to the to the center of another “soul\,” ultimately creating a connected universe. \n  \n​As Plum states\, “We live in a tremendous time of expansion and discovery while at the same time much violence\, hunger\, and extremism on all fronts\, however\, this extreme polarization hopefully points to an end in sight and that ​there is a glimmer of hope for re-connectedness and compassion to grow and flower for both humanity and the treatment of our beautiful planet.” \n  \nSusan works a sculpture\, a painter\, a mixed media\, installation and performance artist. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass\, New York\, Hunter Art Museum\, Chattanooga\, Tennessee\, University Art Museum\, Arizona State University\, Tempe\, Arizona\, World Bank\, Renwick Gallery\, Smithsonian Institute\, Washington\, D.C.\, Mobile Museum of Art\, Mobile\, Alabama\, the American Embassy in Belize\, and the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York and the Tacoma Museum of Art\, Tacoma\, Washington. Her work has exhibited at museums throughout most continents\, world-wide. \n  \nAmita Bhatt received her BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University\, Vadodara\, India and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art\, Baltimore\, USA. From her earliest days\, Bhatt explored Hindu and Buddhist Tantric philosophy to answer existential questions as she addresses the classic themes of conflict\, ideology\, spirituality and transcendence. \n  \nWhile remaining deeply intrigued by Tantric philosophy\, (which professes salvation through extreme experiences)\, Bhatt also explored other religions and ideologies including ancient Egyptian and Greek mythology. Her research led her to investigate ideas of destruction and creation\, the continual cycles of life and death\, karma and karmic cycles\, the interconnectedness between all elements of nature\, chaos theory etc. \n  \nArmed with humor\, paradox\, symbolism and mythology\, Bhatt creates complex worlds that implode and explode as she encourages her audience to reflect on the endless cycles of conception and annihilation\, highlighting the impermanence of all things\, animate and inanimate. Her protagonists negotiate abundant\, primordial and potent spaces. They oscillate precariously between the ambivalent edges of insatiable desire and aversion; knowledge and catastrophe; monumentality and sacrifice\, passion and destruction.  They experience and exist within suspense filled public/private spaces and are armed with the indefatigable resilience of the human spirit. Her lines continue to remain simple. \n  \nA favorite quote of Amita’s reinforces her vision\, “Everything in the universe is cyclical and must run its course. The dynamics of the universe are dialectical\, apparently in a conflict\, but occurring within a larger context.” (Margot Anand on Tantra.) \n  \nAmita Bhatt’s works have been exhibited at prestigious venues such as the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum (USA\, 2013\,)\, Museo Pedro de Osma (Peru\, 2011)\, The Walters Art Museum (USA\, 2009)\, Die Monchskirche Museum (Germany\, 2010)\, and The Station Museum of Contemporary Art (USA\, 2004). She has also been the recipient of the several prestigious grants. Her works are included in the private collections of Marilyn Oshman\, Sharon and Gus Kopriva\, John and Berthe Ford\, Nancy Kienholz\, Geetan and Tarun Tejpal\, and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art among others. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include paintings\, sculpture\, works on paper\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to create awareness and make help make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Miriam Medrez: Inverted Dresses
DESCRIPTION:Miriam Medrez \n Inverted Dresses  \nCurated by Mariana Valdez Debes \nApril 1 – April 23\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, April 1st \, 5:30 to 7:30 pm \nArtist Talk: Sunday\, April 2nd\, 11:00 am \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Inverted Dresses\, an exhibition featuring sculptural work from Mexican artist Miriam Medrez. The exhibition opens Saturday\, April 1\, with a reception for the artist from 5:30 to 7:30 pm and is accompanied by an artist talk on Sunday\, April 2\, beginning at 11:00 am. \nInverted Dresses invites the viewers to rediscover the female body and delve into its unexplored spaces\, but above all\, to identify common places taking the inner self as point of departure. The series consists of eighteen dresses which combines artisanal techniques such as embroidery and knitting with modern techniques such as the digitalization of images and numerical printing build over metal structures that provide a vertebral appearance to the pieces. \nFor Medrez\, Inverted Dresses deals with the notion of domestic space as a “microcosms” and a place of épanouissement. Under this premise\, she creates the House Dress\, a piece that articulates domestic spaces\, feminine figures and small mirrors. About the purpose\, the artist shares: “I invite you to get a glimpse of that intimacy\, to reflect yourself in the small mirrors\, to inhabit those spaces that are common to all women.” \nThe artworks of the series combine hard structures with soft materials\, inviting the viewers to question the notion of fragility in the representation of the feminine. This can be observed in the Bridal Dress where the metal structure provides contrast with the soft fabric that covers the spools of thread. This dialogue of materials brings a poetic tone to the piece and is a resource frequently used by artists such as Safaa Erruas\, whose mobile Nuage has a special relationship to the Strainer Dress. \nIn the Inverted Dresses series the female figure stands out as the “caretaker” an attribute traditionally associated with women in the domestic environment\, which the artist accentuates with soft hollow spaces\, knitted or embroidered receptacles and structures that open and close. \nThrough this series Medrez offers three significant contributions to the global aesthetic discourse on gender. First\, she shows a verification of the feminine perception of her surroundings in a specific cultural context. Second\, she refreshes questions concerning the construction of gender. What does being human mean? What does being a woman mean? Are the challenges that we as women confront today imposed or self-imposed? Are we the victims of our own mental structure? Finally\, the series awards visibility to the contemporary feminine praxis starting with a specific aesthetic discourse. \nWithin contemporary Mexican art\, Miriam Medrez is an established artist whose interdisciplinary practice has taken place over three decades. Medrez was born in Mexico City in 1958 and studied Plastic Arts at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico)\, and Concordia Univeristy (Montreal\, Canada). She lives and works in Monterrey (N.L\, Mexico). A renowned sculptor\, she received the “Artistic Creator” award in 2010 from the National Systems of Art Creators in Mexico. That triennial stimulus coincides with the repositioning of her sculpture activity\, which causes her to explore and later move her aesthetic discourse from clay to cloth. \nPublic collections include UDPLAP collection (Puebla\, Mexico) \, Modern Art Museum (Mexico City)\, MARCO Museum (Monterrey\, N.L)\, Amparo Museum (Puebla\, Mexico)\, Monterrey Museum (Monterrey\, N.L)\, Casa Candina (Puerto Rico)\, Keramik Museum Grimeerhaus (Denmark)\, FEMSA collection (Monterrey N.L)\, Jingdezhen Ceramic Cultural Center (Jiangxi Province\, China)\, Reyes Meza Museum (Nuevo Laredo\, Tamaulipas). \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Fadi Yazigi: STILL LIFE… STILL ALIVE… STILL A LIFE
DESCRIPTION:Fadi Yazigi \nStill Life….Still Alive…Still a Life \nFebruary 18 through March 25\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February18 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Still Life…Still Alive…Still a Life\, an exhibition featuring paintings\, drawings and sculpture by Syrian artist\, Fadi Yazigi. The exhibition opens Saturday\, February 18\, with an opening reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \n“Irrespective of what’s happening in the world I live in\, I am still alive and still have a life.” Yazigi says. Having arrived at this realization\, Yazigi uses his thoughts and findings as the starting point for a new\, landmark\, mixed-media installation of works that juxtapose still life\, or figures in black ink\, reflecting the artist’s documented observation that there are times when we are all motionless\, be it planned or a random act\, yet we are still breathing\, thinking\, living and even creating art. \n  \nA large installation consisting of squares painted in contrasting colors on rice paper and mounted on canvas\, acts as the platform for one narration on which the artist explores several themes and concepts. Subjects inevitably include the war in Syria and its impact on both the artist himself and others\, but also their desire for a better tomorrow. \n  \nAnother installation includes a collection of ceramic\, mosaic figures in jeweled\, arabesque colors on wooden bases in the shape of a cross. All of the subjects include figurative illustrations\, while some are also upside down. Their thoughts remain a mystery and beg rhetorical questions aplenty; are they feeling pain? Or perhaps they long to be closer to god. \n  \nThe Wall\, a bronze sculpture\, of which\, on each side of this zig-zag wall are confined figures\, their backs cemented to the surface. Each figure appears to be holding a different item that reflects something they are trying to protect. One figure holds a rock\, ready for combat. Another clutches a child to its bosom. \n  \n“The war has had a big effect on me\, but I can’t stop working\,” the artist notes. “It’s part of my survival and a way of looking for a solution.” \n  \nFadi Yazigi is a multi-media\, figurative artist known for his paintings\, ceramic relief carvings and sculptures. Yazigi was born in 1966 and studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts\, Damascus University. He still lives and works in the city today. In his instantly-recognizable pieces\, Yazigi often presents his subjects as underdeveloped creatures or half-human beasts\, capturing their emotions and expressions as they deal with whatever life throws at them\, from the mundane and humorous to the horrors of war. \n  \nPublic collections\, include The British Museum (London)\, The Delfina Foundation (London)\, Kaleemat Foundation (Istanbul)\, A.M. Qattan Foundation (London) and Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (UAE)\, as well as private collections throughout the Middle East\, Europe\, Asia and the United States. Solo exhibitions include Art Paris Art Fair (Paris 2016)\, Yallay Art Gallery (Hong Kong 2015)\, The City Hall (Thessaloniki\, Greece\, 2015)\, Galerie Tanit (Beirut 2015)\, Darat AL Funun (Kuwait 2014)\, The Mosaic Rooms (London 2011)\, Ayyam Gallery (Damascus 2009) and Al Bareh Art Fallery (Bahrain 2006). Group Exhibitions include Galeries de Verre L’Art en Marche (Bordeaux 2015)\, Institut des Cultures d’Islam (Paris 2014)\, Meem Gallery (Dubai 2013)\, BIEL Center\, (Beirut 2013)\, Athr Gallery (Jeddah 2013)\, Europe Art Expo (Geneva 2006) and Gallery Amber (Leiden 2003). \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bert L. Long\, Jr.: Looking for the Right Time
DESCRIPTION:Bert L. Long\, Jr.  \nLooking for the Right Time \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Looking for the Right Time\, a solo exhibition of the works of Bert L. Long\, Jr. (1940-2013)\, one of the most talented\, versatile\, and prolific artists ever to hail from the state of Texas. With his paintings\, sculptures\, drawings\, prints\, and photographs\, he sought above all else to communicate with the viewer. As Bert once put it\, “I paint in order to help people understand their ills so that they might cure them.” The exhibition opens with a public reception on Saturday\, November 19\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition will be on view through January 28\, 2017. \nBorn and raised in the city’s Fifth Ward\, Bert’s biography is a story of gumption\, ingenuity\, and stubborn perseverance. He first developed a successful career as an executive chef in the kitchens of major hotels in Las Vegas\, Chicago\, and Houston and\, for a few years\, at his own gourmet eatery in Klamath Falls\, Oregon. After he picked up the paintbrush in 1975 he rarely put it down\, becoming consumed by the spirit of art and devoting himself to full-time art making by the end of the decade. After a few years of driving his canvases (and his family) to art shows in malls and parking lots across the American West\, he broke through in 1979 with a solo show at the O’Kane Gallery at the University of Houston’s downtown campus. \nThroughout the ‘80s\, Long’s paintings became larger and more elaborate\, and eventually it became difficult to tell if they were decorated paintings or painted sculptures. He placed many of them in heavy Hydrostone frames of his own making\, embedded with found materials such as mirror shards\, empty paint tubes\, bones\, glass eyes\, even shellacked fish heads. Often\, they were self-referential works dealing with the struggles faced by the working artist. \nIn April 1990\, the American Academy in Rome announced that he was among the twenty-five winners of the Prix de Rome. During this prestigious yearlong residency\, he was celebrated at home as the Art League of Houston’s “Texas Artist of the Year” and just after his return\, he displayed the results of his Italian sojourn in an expansive solo show at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. \nThe new millennium inspired an explosion of artistic activity including a city-sponsored “Spark” park at the E.O. Smith Education Center and “Field of Vision\,” a site-specific work of fifty painted concrete eyes on fifty pedestals\, dedicated at its original site on Lyons Avenue in the Fifth Ward in 2000\, and later relocated to the Project Row Houses campus. \nBy now\, Long had become acknowledged and cherished as one of Houston’s true master artists. The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston celebrated his career with a retrospective in 2006\, and a year later\, Long was commissioned by the Houston Arts Alliance to produce a 30-foot mural for the Looscan Public Library. Long’s friend John Guess produced a biography film about him\, and Mayor Bill White declared July 6\, 2009\, “Bert L. Long\, Jr. Day” in Houston. \nIt’s been close to three years since Bert Long’s passing\, and his departure leaves a gap in Houston’s art scene that can never be filled. We still have his art\, however\, and a newly- published tribute book by his friend\, the esteemed art critic Thomas McEvilley. Deborah Colton Gallery celebrates both with this exhibition. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national\, and international artists to make positive change.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/bert-l-long-jr-looking-for-the-right-time/
LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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