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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.
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Hood: Select Paintings
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Hood: Select Paintings  \nDeborah Colton Gallery  \nNovember 19\, 2016 through January 28\, 2017 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 19\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Dorothy Hood: Select Paintings\, an exhibition featuring abstract paintings from Texas-native Dorothy Hood\, which presents artwork that spans four decades of her artistic career. The exhibition opens Saturday\, November 19\, with an opening reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \nAs one of the early Texas abstract artists\, and one of the few female artists working in large-scale throughout the decades\, Dorothy Hood led an adventurous life. Born in Bryan\, Texas in 1918 and raised in Houston\, she won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design and went on to study at the Art Students League in New York. On a whim\, she drove a roadster to Mexico City with friends in 1941 for a two week tour and ended up staying for almost twenty years. Hood was front and center in the cultural\, political\, and social activity of Mexico and Latin America during a period of intense creative ferment. She developed close friendships with all the European exiles\, Latin American surrealists\, and Mexican social realists of the time — artists\, composers\, poets\, playwrights\, and revolutionary writers which influenced her art. In 1945\, she married the famous Bolivian composer José María Velasco Maidana and they traveled the world. \nIt was upon returning to Houston in 1961\, however\, that Hood produced the epic paintings that evoked the limitless skies and psychic voids of space\, years ahead of NASA images. Over the next four decades\, she became a renowned and highly collected Texas painter whose works were spread across the United States. Her works are included in over 30 major museums throughout the United States\, as well as the collections of many individuals\, corporations and foundations. Upon Hood’s death from cancer in 2000\, a major portion of the artist’s estate\, including 1\,017 works of art as well as her archives and studio contents\, was acquired by the Art Museum of South Texas. \nA large-scale exhibition of Hood’s works is currently on view at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi\, accompanied by an exhibition monograph\, both which share a title: The Color of Being/El Color del Ser: Dorothy Hood (1918-2000). This exhibition marks the first major retrospective of her artwork and the monograph is the first in-depth scholarly analysis of her life and artistic career\, both of which include paintings\, works on paper\, and collages from the 1930s to her death. The Color of Being/El Color del Ser: Dorothy Hood (1918 – 2000) will be available for purchase at Deborah Colton Gallery. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Between: Daniel Kayne - Ivan Plusch
DESCRIPTION:Between: Daniel Kayne – Ivan Plusch \nExhibition Dates: May 7 to July 2\, 2016 \nPreview Opening Reception: Friday\, May 6th\, 6:00 to 8:30 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Between: Daniel Kayne – Ivan Plusch\, an exhibition featuring accomplished young Russian artist\, Ivan Plusch and the late Houston artist\, Daniel Kayne. This unique show includes large scale paintings on canvas and various mixed media works of these two talented and thoughtful artists. Although born into very different political and social environments\, both artists were inspired by a strong desire to create a positive difference through their works which are remarkably cohesive\, though also distinctly different. \n Ivan Plusch\, born in 1981\, is a young Russian artist on the rise and part of the Nepokorionnye Group. He is based in St. Petersburg and has studied in various art schools including the State Academy of Art and Design\, the Roerich Art School and the PRO ARTE Institute. Plusch is among a generation of artists who were still children at the time of the fall of the USSR and was influenced by the consequent sudden sociological and economic changes in his country in the early 90s. His work is heavily influenced by the effects from these changes… from the freedom of speech\, hard fought and regained with difficulties by the people and by their collective relationship with society. Whether influenced by the effects of alienation or of liberation\, the work of Plusch is more sophisticated and evolved than simply representing his sociological observations. \nWorking with a variety of mediums\, Plusch reinterprets the history of art and the norms of social realism\, in particular those of monumental sculpture by integrating them into his paintings. As an artist influenced by the thoughts and trends of Post-Soviet art\, Ivan Plusch plays with the image of a happy future and with elements of the former Communist Regime. Plusch also questions on a larger scale format\, the relationship of men within their environment. \nIvan Plusch’s work has been exhibited throughout Russia and worldwide including in France\, the Netherlands\, South Korea\, the United Kingdom and the Balkans. Most recently his work has been included the 2015 Venice Biennale at Glasstress Gotika which was a collaboration between the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and Venice’s Berengo Sutdio. His work is in prestigious private and public collections world-wide. The works presented at the Deborah Colton Gallery booth at the 2015 Houston Fine Art Fair marked the first presentation of Plusch’s works in the United States. \nDaniel Kayne was an award winning painter\, sculptor and performance artist born in Liberty\, Texas. His fascination at an early age with the act of creating ignited an insatiable passion for what was to become his career as an artist. Kayne’s work was first seen at the Deborah Colton Gallery in a 2006 solo exhibition Urban Mix. He later received a Master’s Degree from the University of Houston. His studies included painting at the Glassell School in Houston and painting and silk-screening at the New York School of Visual Arts. Kayne used both his Houston and New York studios to create his solo exhibition\, Dividing God which was shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2008. In 2008 also\, Kayne was honored twice\, first as the first place winner of Lawndale Art Center’s Big Show in Houston\, Texas and then by the Texas French Alliance for the Arts\, as their first annual art exhibit and competition winner. These awards allowed him to receive an art residency in Paris as well as an exhibit in Shenyang\, China. \nDaniel Kayne had a zest for exploring and understanding the world including spending much time in Iran and the Middle East in 2009 where he worked towards trying to bridge cultural gaps to create more world-wide peace and understanding. The body of works created from his time in Iran was featured at Deborah Colton Gallery during FotoFest of 2010. Through this exploration\, Kayne developed a higher level of thinking and attained a truly global and universal perspective. This self- actualization brought him to create a studio in Houston called The Temple where he spent much time meditating and thinking about the human living in the world today all as one within the universe and presenting his work. \nAs Daniel – Kayne evolved\, he started to donate more of his time to non-profit/ good-will projects\, including A Day With Art\, which benefited the AIDS Foundation Houston Teen Leadership Forum and Notre Soleil a public art installation created for the children of Leon Berard Hospital in Lyon\, France which is was fully dedicated to. In 2011\, Daniel Kayne’s solo exhibition at The MAC in Dallas reflected this change also and was both meditative and inspirational. This exhibition received much attention and continued to reveal his evolved spiritual journey. In 2013 Deborah Colton Gallery hosted a tribute exhibition of Daniel Kayne’s work entitled Reflections on Reality. The exhibition was a celebration of his life through his art and allowed his friends and collectors to reflect on Daniel Kayne’s life and accomplishments. Though the Houston art community suffered a great loss at Kayne’s passing\, his life’s vision and work continues to make a huge impact in the art world today. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make a positive change.
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SUMMARY:Ushio Shinohara: ACTION! Boxing Paintings and Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:Ushio Shinohara  \nACTION! Boxing Paintings and Sculptures  \nMay 7\, 2016 through July 2\, 2016 \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Ushio Shinohara: ACTION! Boxing Paintings and Sculptures. The exhibition features the newest works by the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist\, Ushio Shinohara\, whose performative paintings are created with boxing gloves he uses like paintbrushes. His flashy\, multicolored three-dimensional sculptures are also included in the exhibition\, which nearly vibrates with the energy of the twenty-one works that comprise the show. \nBorn in Tokyo in 1932\, Ushio Shinohara (nicknamed “Gyu-chan”) is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist and international Pop painter who has lived and worked in the United States since 1969. His parents\, a tanka poet and Japanese painter\, instilled in him a love for artists such as Cézanne\, Van Gogh\, and Gauguin. Most recently known for his exuberant boxing paintings\, which are artifacts of his performances\, Ushio Shinohara works in several mediums\, including painting\, printmaking\, drawing and sculpture. His work was featured last year at Deborah Colton Gallery in the grand exhibition Love is a Roar-r-r!\, alongside works of his wife\, artist Noriko Shinohara\, whose series Cutie and the Bullie tells the story of their tumultuous relationship. Both were featured in the Academy Award nominated documentary\, Cutie and the Boxer\, which depicts their more than 40-year relationship as a couple and as artists. \nUshio Shinohara’s bright and frequently oversized work has been exhibited at prestigious international institutions\, including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art; Centre Georges Pompidou; the Guggenheim Museum\, New York; the Japan Society\, New York; the National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Pusa; and is currently exhibiting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Recently\, Ushio was also featured in two group exhibitions\, one entitled International Pop at the Dallas Museum of Art\, and the other The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop at the Tate Modern in London. Earlier last year his work was included in International Pop\, a landmark exhibition at the Walker Art Center that chronicles the global emergence of Pop art from the 1950s through the early 1970s. A recent New York Times article on the exhibition mentions: “Ushio Shinohara… engaged in a practice that might have been called punk if the concept had existed then…” \nUshio Shinohara is represented by Deborah Colton Gallery\, which was founded as an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media\, and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national\, and international artists to make a positive change. \n 
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SUMMARY:Oleg Dou: Broken Mirror
DESCRIPTION:Oleg Dou  \nBroken Mirror  \nMarch 12\, 2016 through April 23\, 2016 \nArtist Reception: Saturday\, March 12th\, from 6:00 to 9:00pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Broken Mirror\, a solo exhibition of multimedia works by Russian artist\, Oleg Dou. This exhibition is the international debut of his newest body of work which\, reminiscent of previous collections\, explores the notion of exposing the inner self that hides behind our “social masks.” Oleg is known for his interest in human individuality and self-expression and attempts to solve the problem of identity in our times. The exhibition will open on Saturday\, March 12th\, with an artist reception from 6:00-9:00 pm that evening. \nIn Broken Mirror\, Oleg Dou reflects on the instability of world order and the clashing of civilizations. Civilizations which are each losing identity or finding alternative identities through the constant breakdown and rebuilding of their structures. Oleg believes these processes directly effect our reality and will create a world where in some ways we will be closer and in other ways further away from our true human nature. Through this exhibition he also explores his own identity and personal journey. \nOleg Dou has won countless International awards and has been exhibited in many major institutions worldwide including the Pingyao International Photography Festival (China)\, the Seoul Photo Festival (Korea)\, the FotoFestival Naarden (Netherlands) and the International Photography Awards. His works have exhibited twice at the Kandinsky Prize (2007 and 2008)\, which is the main contemporary art exhibition award in Moscow. Oleg Dou was also rated number 3 under 30 world wide according to Art Market Insight\, in their “30 under 30.. Up and Coming Photographers.” His artistic career continues to thrive as his work is consistently placed in prestigious public and private collections throughout the world. \nOleg Dou first exhibited at Deborah Colton Gallery during the 2012 FotoFest Biennial in Focus on Russia II and has also been featured by Deborah Colton Gallery at the Dallas Art Fair\, the Houston Fine Art Fair and ArtAspen. He has also shown in countries outside of the United States including France\, Belgium\, Germany\, Republic of Korea\, China\, Spain\, Poland and Turkey. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make a positive change.
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Paul: PROOF
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Paul  \nPROOF  \nCurated by Theresa Escobedo \nMarch 12th to April 23rd\, 2016 \nOpening Reception: March 12th\, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm Walking Tour & Discussion: Tuesday\, March 15th\, 2016\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present PROOF\, an exhibition that features work from the archive of Houstonborn artist Suzanne Paul. PROOF highlights influential characters in Houston’s art history and examines Suzanne’s unique approach to creating photography. With the dedicated and continued support of Founder and Director\, Deborah M. Colton to the well being of this art estate and Paul’s daughter\, Mercedes Mallard Paul since 2005 when Paul passed away\, PROOF has been curated by Theresa Escobedo\, who Colton appointed to carefully review the archives and help uncover these treasures of Houston art history. Viewing these archives from a new perspective coming from a younger generation\, Escobedo has created a fresh approach to Paul’s work which connects the past with the present. \nQuote from Theresa Escobedo: \n“The collection of photographic negatives\, slides\, prints and related memorabilia\, left in the possession and care of Deborah Colton Gallery at the artist’s’ passing in 2005\, now exists as evidence and affirmation of the health\, vitality\, and creative vigor of Houston’s alternative arts community from its early years to its present state. PROOF surveys this body of documentary photography and portraiture\, highlighting the artist’s extraordinary talent in capturing unfiltered impressions of her subjects\, and offers an intimate glimpse into the artist’s creative praxis.” \nSuzanne Paul\, a native Houstonian and avid photographer from a young age\, has made an inestimable contribution to representing the arts in Houston and to recording Houston’s art history. In intimate and revealing ways\, Paul has documented many of the artists\, patrons\, and community leaders who have shaped Houston’s art scene since the 1970s and 80s. Her introduction to the Houston Arts and launch of her career happened in 1976 when she was commissioned by James Harithas\, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, to photograph artists and installations for the museum’s publications and was offered the first solo photography exhibition by a woman at the museum. \nBorn in Houston\, Texas in 1945\, Suzanne Paul practiced photography from the age of nine. Paul received her BFA from the University of Houston in 1968 and did graduate work at the University of California\, Berkeley. In the 1960s Paul became a political activist for anti-war and civil rights causes. In Houston\, she photographed for the feminist magazine Breakthrough in the late 1970s. Paul has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, the Fort Worth Art Museum\, the Galveston Arts Center and the University of California\, San Francisco. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Collaborations: Artists Working Together in Houston at the Glassell School of Art and Texas Artists at the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York. In 1981 Paul received a National Endowment for the Arts Photo Survey Grant. Paul’s photographic works have been featured in both solo and group presentations by FotoFest International since its founding in 1983. Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery\, including at a memorial service in her honor in 2005. \nPROOF opens to the public on Saturday\, March 12th\, 2016\, with a reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and runs through April 23rd\, 2016. There will be a Walking Tour & Discussion of the exhibition with Elizabeth Avedon\, Catherine Anspon\, Mercedes Mallard Paul\, Theresa Escobedo and Deborah M. Colton on March 15th\, 2016\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hafez: Codes of Hermes
DESCRIPTION:Khaled Hafez  \nCodes of Hermes \nNovember 14\, 2015 through January 31\, 2016 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 14th\, from 6:00 to 9:00pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Codes of Hermes\, a solo exhibition of multimedia works from international artist Khaled Hafez. This exhibition is a personal diary in ten mystical chapters and will feature paintings as well as large video installations. Codes of Hermes marks Hafez’s first solo exhibition in the United States! The show opens Saturday\, November 14th\, with an opening reception from 6:00 – 9:00 pm that evening. \nIn Codes of Hermes\, Khaled Hafez proposes a series of mixed media paintings\, installation and video works\, coded with personal experience that continuously explore notions of identity\, the intimate\, migration and the struggle of wealth and power\, all visually coded in pictographs\, ideograms and—at times—déjà vu banal symbols from the consumer goods culture. The project Codes of Hermes is inspired from the merged concepts of the ancient Greek snake God Hermes and the Egyptian wisdom God Thoth. \nSome ancient cultures made Hermes the God of nature\, farmers and shepherds with shamanic attributes linked to divination\, reconciliation\, magic\, sacrifices\, experience-initiation and contact with other planes of existence\, a role of mediator between the worlds of the visible and invisible. Hafez draws on the physical attributes of the God to express hybridized cultures of today’s globalization; Hermes was the teacher of all secret wisdoms available to knowing by the experience of religious ecstasy\, and due to his constant mobility\, Hermes was considered the God of commerce and social intercourse\, the wealth brought in business\, travel\, roads and crossroads\, borders and boundary conditions\, agreements and contracts\, friendship\, hospitality\, sexuality (represented for over a decade in Hafez’s paintings by the symbol of the tulip) and playfulness. Playfulness and irony play a major role in the visual language of Hafez across all the mediums he uses to express; Hafez believes that both artist and viewer must enter a game of coded pleasures while living with the artwork. \nKhaled Hafez is a Cairo-based visual artist and filmmaker. Born in Cairo\, Egypt in 1963\, where he currently lives and works\, Hafez explores through painting\, film/video\, photography\, installation and interdisciplinary work elements of local identity exposed to the global consumer goods culture and uses irony to probe notions of subjugation\, equal rights\, games of wealth and power and changing social politics. His work has been shown at the 56th Venice Biennale (Italy\, 2015) and the 55th Venice Biennale (Italy\, 2014)\, 3rd Mardin Biennale (Turkey\, 2015)\, Manifesta 8 (Spain\, 2010) and in the USA (The Studio Museum in Harlem\, NY)\, France (Centre George Pompidou\, Paris); UK (British Museum)\, Germany (Kunstmuseum Bonn); Belgium (MuHKA Museum of Art)\, Greece (Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art); The Netherlands (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde); Sweden (Uppsala Museum of Art) and Brazil (Instituto Tomie Ohtake\, Sao Paolo) among other places. \nKhaled Hafez has exhibited in Houston during the 2014 FotoFest\, which focused on the Middle East and in the Group Exhibition\, “Mapping Strife” at Deborah Colton Gallery. His work was also featured at the 2014 Houston Fine Arts Fair. Khaled Hafez is represented by Deborah Colton Gallery throughout the Americas. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make a positive change.
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SUMMARY:Noriko and Ushio Shinohara: Love is a Roar-r-r!
DESCRIPTION:Noriko and Ushio Shinohara \n Love is a Roar-r-r!  \nMay 2nd through July 11th\, 2015 \nBoxing Painting Performance: Friday\, May 1st\, 6:30 pm \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, May 2nd\, 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Love is a Roar-r-r!\, an exhibition by internationally-known artists Noriko and Ushio Shinohara\, featured subjects of the Academy Award nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer\, which explores the history of the couple’s often tumultuous marriage and their lives as artists. The exhibition will open on Saturday\, May 2nd 2915\, with a reception for the artists from 6:00 until 8:00 pm\, and will run through June 27th\, 2015. \nBorn in Tokyo in 1932\, Ushio Shinohara (nicknamed “Gyu-chan”)\, is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist who has lived and worked in the United States since 1969. His parents\, a tanka poet and Japanese painter\, instilled in him a love for artists such as Cézanne\, Van Gogh and Gauguin. Known for his boxing paintings\, which are artifacts of his performances\, Ushio works in several mediums including painting\, printmaking\, drawing and sculpture. \nUshio’s bright and frequently oversized work has exhibited at prestigious institutions internationally\, including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art; Centre Georges Pompidou; the Guggenheim Museum\, New York; the Japan Society\, New York; the National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Pusan; and soon at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Tate Modern\, among others. His work is currently included in International Pop\, a landmark exhibition at the Walker Art Center that chronicles the global emergence of Pop art from the 1950s through the early 1970. A recent New York Times article on the exhibition mentions Shinohara: “Ushio Shinohara… engaged in a practice that might have been called punk if the concept had existed then…” \n  \nThe New York Times: When the World Went Pop \nNoriko Shinohara was born in 1953 in Takaoka City\, Japan\, moved to New York in 1972 to study art\, and soon met Ushio in 1973. She has worked as an artist for many years\, but the work she is best known for is her Cutie and Bullie series that began in 2006. This series includes drawings\, paintings\, and prints that feature her characters Cutie and Bullie and are based on herself and Ushio. All of the Cutie and Bullie works are truthful to the point of discomfort and follow Cutie’s early trials of being married to an alcoholic older man and the difficulty of being an artist in New York. The scenes inspired by recent events show Cutie’s triumphs as her work and worth are finally being realized\, by both herself and the outside world. Noriko’s work has been exhibited frequently in New York and Japan\, and is part of the permanent collections of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/noriko-and-ushio-shinohara-love-is-a-roar-r-r/
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SUMMARY:Lowell Boyers: Vibrating\, Beyond All Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Lowell Boyers  \nVibrating\, Beyond All Knowledge  \nFebruary 28th through April 25th\, 2015 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 28th\, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Vibrating\, Beyond All Knowledge\, a solo-exhibition of paintings by artist Lowell Boyers. Vibrating\, Beyond All Knowledge presents a selection of recent works from the artist that both investigate and demonstrate parallels between his creative and philosophical practices. The exhibition opens Saturday\, February 28th\, with a reception for the artist from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. \nA master painter\, Lowell Boyers is a graduate of the prestigious Yale University MFA program and the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA). His work has been included in both private and institutional exhibitions in Cologne\, Germany\, Abu Dhabi\, New York\, Los Angeles\, Houston\, Dallas and St Louis. Boyers lives and works in New York City. \nLowell’s paintings spark the phenomena of the creative imagination. His paintings have a spiritual nature that reflects the world in which we live our daily lives\, unleashed by flesh and bone. His work becomes a passageway that draws us in and plays with the fabric of everyday reality. Through the sweeping palette of acrylic resins\, and spectral colored inks\, Lowell’s paintings shift our view of the narrative activity and dimensions possible in figure painting. In this series of works\, the secret world of the figures blend with the relative physical world to create an experience of two occurrences at the same time. This modern fusing of time\, space\, and perception is a rarity and beautifully realized in Boyer’s contemporary paintings. \nTo quote Lowell\, “The creative impulse can cut through habitual phenomena\, how we see things\, feel things\, our perception of self\, our notion of body\, birth and death\, of appearance.” His creativity has successfully cut through the mundane converging boundaries into springboards for liberation. Lowell states\, “I see the creative imagination as a birthright belonging to every being\, and my work is fundamentally a textural portrayal of the unfolding blossoming of various stages of awakening to that active nature.” \nIn 2012\, Primavera Materia\, marked Boyers’ fourth exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery. The artist’s work was first seen at the Deborah Colton Gallery in the 2004 group exhibition Touch and Temperature: Art in the Age of Cybernetic Totalism\, curated by Michael Rees. Boyers’ artwork has also been featured by Deborah Colton Gallery with his 2006 solo exhibition Awakening\, at the 2007 Abu Dhabi Art Fair\, at many Dallas Art Fairs\, at his 2009 solo exhibition Emerge and in his 2010 solo exhibition Whispers of Becoming. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Olga Tobreluts: New Abilities
DESCRIPTION:Olga Tobreluts \nNew Abilities \nFebruary 28th through April 25th\, 2015 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 28th\, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present New Abilities\, the second solo-exhibition of multimedia works by Russian artist\, Olga Tobreluts. New Abilities explores adaptive evolution in human visual perception in the 21st century and offers new forms of visual expression that discuss the simulation of reality and “realness” in our advanced technological age. The exhibition opens Saturday\, February 28th\, with a reception for the artist from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm. \nTechnological progress and the gradual substitution of innate human ability with artificial intelligence have lead to a change in human perception of environment. The act of absorbing information filtered without discretion and void of meaningful or truly relevant context lends itself to a new condition in which individuals\, on our age of hyperconnectivity\, find themselves over stimulated\, especially visually\, yet in a state of ironic segregation and isolation: unconnected. \nHuman adaptation to this new modern condition suggests that the human brain is quickly evolving\, acquiring new functions in response to a fragmentary perception of reality. An overabundance of status updates\, commercials\, and information bits from the internet and the world of mass media facilitates the emergence of new visual abilities in humankind\, as a new kind of survival tactic\, as we begin to see and internalize the visual and informational worlds differently than those who lived before the 21st century. \nOf the works presented in New Abilities\, Tobreluts writes: \n“My new project is dedicated to the examination of new human abilities of visual perception through well-known works from of the old masters which are based on fantasy and colorful reminiscences. \nWhen the whole image is divided into fragments and then recomposed again\, it does not let our memory reconstruct the image to completion\, but does reward us with the feeling of recognition of the familiar ” \nBorn in 1970 in Murino\, Leningrad Oblast\, Russia\, Olga Tobreluts now lives in St. Petersburg and also has studios in Berlin\, Germany and San Tagliamento\, Italy. An accomplished artist who works with photography\, video\, painting and sculpture\, Olga is a pioneer of digital art movement in Russia and has belonged to the Neo-Academism group of artists\, The New Academy\, in St. Petersburg since 1994. This movement\, through traditionally pleasant and refined aesthetics\, addresses ideas of the “beautiful” the acquiescent-recreative and hedonism. Olga uses new media as a means of expressing her own system of poetics based on the dialectics of high and low academism: where the artist endeavors to strike a balance between high-style classical models and low-brow\, kitschy\, and crude models. \nOlga has had numerous solo museum exhibitions through out the world\, including in Belgium\, Germany\, France\, United Kingdom\, Spain\, Italy\, Netherlands\, Norway\, Sweden and Finland and has shown with American favorites like Tony Oursler and Cindy Sherman at the Tate Modern\, as well as countless other well known international artists. Her works have also been exhibited at such prestigious institutions as the Tate Modern in London\, the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg\, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow\, as well as at the Ostende Museum in Belgium and the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm\, among numerous others. Her works have been acquired by significant collections including at the MoMA\, NY\, the State Russian Museum\, the Ludwig Musuem\, the Baron von Stieglitz Museum\, the Mario Testino Foundation\, and the Wolfgang Joop Foundation. \nTwo comprehensive books written on her work and have also been featured in most major international contemporary arts publications and her work has been included in such publications as Art Actuel\, Flash Art\, ArtReview\, METROPOLISM\, ART\, and FOCUS. Her work as also been featured in premiere fashion publications such as W Magazine\, Vanity Fair\, Vogue Paris\, Vogue Russia\, and Vogue Germany and V Magazine. \nIn 2012 alone Olga had solo exhibitions Paris and St Petersburg\, and in Italy\, in addition to a five floor retrospective called The New Mythology at the MOMA Moscow. In 2013\, The New Mythology toured and was hosted in Yekaterinburg\, Russia; Rome\, Italy; and Berlin\, Germany. Her work was exhibited for the first time at Deborah Colton Gallery during the 2012 FotoFest Biennial in a solo exhibition\, Focus on Russia I and has also been featured in art fairs nationwide. Olga Tobreluts is represented by Deborah Colton Gallery throughout the United States. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Sharon Kopriva: Illuminations
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Kopriva: Illuminations \nMay 17\, 2014 to June 26\, 2014 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, May 17th 6:00 – 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to announce\, Illuminations\, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings and sculpture by Houston artist Sharon Kopriva. Illuminations introduces a new series of self-portraits and surveys Kopriva’s artistic evolution as inspired by her Catholic upbringing and primitive culture\, awe-inspiring nature\, and the spiritual journey within that is marked by her recent foray into self-portraiture. The exhibition opens Saturday\, May 17th with a public reception for the artist from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \nIncluded in Illuminations are examples of Kopriva’s earlier works\, which the artist calls Terra (of the earth). That period involves an exploration of the Catholic religion and primitive culture\, especially Peru. Following this period was a reexamination of the artist’s own religion and a search for spiritual meaning\, which eventually evolved into what the artist calls Verde. Of this greener artistic period inspired by the experience of nature\, Susie Kalil writes: \n“Kopriva’s Verde paintings take their cue from the mountain forests of northern Idaho\, where she has a summer home. These images map the vaulted interiors and stained-glass windows of Gothic cathedrals onto the forest. The monumental Cathedral Green (2012) is loaded with cascades of meticulous brushwork and vertiginous build-outs of actual tree branches. All baroque curves and flickering light\, the work bristles with a newfound energy that is primal and perpetual.” \nSusie Kalil\, Art in America\, March 2013 \nIn 2013\, Kopriva was invited by the Art Museum of Southeast Texas to participate in the exhibition Mirrored and Obscured: Contemporary Texas Self-Portraits\, which prompted her to address her physical image in her art. The results are the first series of self as subject in the artist’s career. \nOf this time Kopriva writes\, “Fate found me emerging from a 30-year survey exhibition. It became a time for reflection. In the same period\, I had become more conscious of my physical condition. In November of 2011\, I hired a physical trainer\, chose a healthier diet and have become more fit. Time Traveling was the first to be completed and Metamorphosis is the most recent.” In this series of self-portraits Kopriva continues her exploration of universal themes from nature\, life and death\, and the human relationship with the spirit and the self. Kopriva\, in life and in art\, is in pursuit of illumination – a spiritual enlightenment achieved only through the exploration and expression of the self and the soul. \nOf this time Kopriva writes\, “Fate found me emerging from a 30-year survey exhibition. It became a time for reflection. In the same period\, I had become more conscious of my physical condition. In November of 2011\, I hired a physical trainer\, chose a healthier diet and have become more fit. Time Traveling was the first to be completed and Metamorphosis is the most recent.” In this series of self-portraits Kopriva continues her exploration of universal themes from nature\, life and death\, and the human relationship with the spirit and the self. Kopriva\, in life and in art\, is in pursuit of illumination – a spiritual enlightenment achieved only through the exploration and expression of the self and the soul. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Anker: Remote Sensing: Micro-landscapes and Untold Stories
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nFotoFest 2014: Suzanne Anker: Remote Sensing: Micro-landscapes and Untold Stories  \nMarch 14\, 2014 – April 26\, 2014 \nOpening Reception: Friday\, March 14\, 2014\, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Artist Talk: with Suzanne Anker\, Sunday\, March 16\, 2014\, 2:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery\, a participating space in the FOTOFEST 2014 Biennale\, is pleased to present Remote Sensing: Micro-landscapes and Untold Stories\, an exhibition of artworks from the accomplished visual artist and theorist Suzanne Anker. This exhibition opens on Friday\, March 14th with a public reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and an Artist Talk with Suzanne Anker on Sunday\, March 16th at 2:00 pm \nFrom microscopic imagery to video animations\, from time-lapse photography to rapid prototyped sculpture\, Remote Sensing\, is an ode to nature’s delicacy and decay. While high technology tools extend our vision to access sites yet unknown\, at the same time such intrusions can be dire. Remote Sensing: Micro-Landscapes and Untold Stories brings together underwater motifs of animals that look like flowers\, “vanitas” in Petrie dishes inspired by art history\, porcelain sponge sculptures that appear as coral or meteorites\, and high tech 3-D extruded sculptures which reference tiny wondrous landscapes. \nContinuing to work at the nexus of art and the biological sciences\, this exhibition brings into focus visions of a “future/natural” in which life’s ebb and flow\, always in flux\, combine with its synthetic other. In Anker’s work nothing is what it appears to be\, yet visual representations abound. Although there are many references to the “still life” as a genre in visual art\, the moving images address the fact that life is not still. \nWorking with images garnered from marine research centers such as Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and MOTE Marine Laboratory\, on Summerland Key in Florida\, the viewer becomes aware of the intricacies of nature and the need to preserve it. Other images are derived from the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico’s research facility in which samples are collected in the wild and housed in drawers and cabinets for further study. Not intended to be a scientific study of nature as data\, these images and objects talk at once to a scientific imaginary fused with cultural necessity. How we perceive the natural world is tantamount to discovery. How we re-imagine the living world as an interconnected network fuses what was once science fiction to the real. \nSuzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography and projected video\, to plants grown by the light of LEDs. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the first International Biennial in Cartagena\, Columbia\, the Walker Art Center\, the Smithsonian Institute\, the Phillips Collection\, P.S.1 Museum\, the JP Getty Museum\, the Mediznhistorisches Museum der Charite in Berlin\, the Center for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin\, the Pera Museum in Istanbul and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. \nThe Huffington Post: Seeing Ourselves: The Science and Art of Diagnostic Medical Imaging \nAnker is also presently the Chair of the Fine Arts Department of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan\, where she initiated and introduced the Nature and Technology Lab\, where students have the opportunity to engage with nature and art making simultaneously through multidisciplinary exploration known today as Bio Art. Anker lectures widely around the world\, including several Max-Planck Institutes\, Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam in the Netherlands\, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin\, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London\, Banff Art Center in Canada\, Yale University\, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico\, Mexico City any most recently at Harvard University. \nNew York Times: Where Art Studio Meets Science Lab  \nNew York Times: Technology: FOOTLIGHTS  \nNYCityWoman: Suzanne Anker: Doyenne of Bio Art \nIn Anker’s role as an educator she has been successful in publishing and contributing to many academic volumes which express an emphasis on the incorporation of scientific and technological influence to explore the ways in which our social\, ethical\, and cultural values are shaped. Publications of Anker’s include\, among many\, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age\, co-authored with the late sociologist Dorothy Nelkin\, published in 2004 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press\, Visual Culture and Bioscience\, co-published by University of Maryland and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington\, D.C. Her writings have appeared in Art and America\, Seed. Nature Reviews Genetics\, Art Journal\, Tema Celeste and M/E/A/N/I/N/G. Her work has been the subject of reviews and articles in the New York Times\, Artforum\, Art in America\, Flash Art\, and Nature. She has been a speaker at Harvard University\, the Royal Society in London\, Cambridge University\, Yale University\, the London School of Economics\, the Max-Planck Institute\, University of Leiden\, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin\, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London\, Banff Art Center and many others. Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005\, Ms. Anker continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s new digital initiative. \nNew York Times: ART REVIEW; The Haunting Terrain Between Creation and Science \nSuzanne Anker debuted at Deborah Colton Gallery during the 2004 October – November exhibition\, Touch and Temperature: Art in the Cybernetic Totalism. Curated by Michael Rees\, this group exhibition investigated the ways in which new technologies have been incorporated into the fine arts. Examples presented in the exhibition included computational video and rapid protyped sculptures. In 2005 Anker had an expansive solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, titled Future Natural\, which introduced themes much ahead of their time. This exhibition brought together Suzanne Anker’s work in the areas of neuroscience and genetics and consisted of paintings\, sculptures and prints\, images of chromosomes\, brain scans\, and Rorschach tests combined with scripts and butterflies to create a morphology of symmetry and codes. \nTouch and Temperature: Art in the Cybernetic Totalism Suzanne Anker: Artist Talk from Touch and Temperature: Art in the Cybernetic Totalism Suzanne Anker: Future Natural  \nDuring FotoFest of 2008\, Anker had a solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, titled Bio-Blurbs\, which presented a series of photographic works by Anker\, which were inspired by the transformation of matter through scientific investigation\, namely botanical inquiry. This exhibition showcased Suzanne Anker’s photographic and animation works. Bringing together several motifs such as pictorial representations of animals at markets\, scientific laboratories with overlaid gardens\, and fetuses housed in glass vessels\, this show questioned the differences in values concerning life forms. \nSuzanne Anker currently has an exhibition at the MAC in Dallas\, While Darkness Sleeps\, which debuts a new series of artworks. As in previous exhibitions Anker continues to explore life/death continuums in various forms through her work. An excerpt of this work will also be shown at the Deborah Colton Gallery booth at the 2014 Dallas Art Fair this April. \nPaperCity Magazine: Art Notes \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Soody Sharifi: The Space Within
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nFotoFest 2014: Soody Sharifi: The Space Within  \nMarch 14\, 2014 – April 26\, 2014 \nOpening Reception: Friday\, March 14\, 2014\, 6:00 – 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery\, a participating space in the FOTOFEST 2014 Biennale\, is pleased to present The Space Within\, an exhibition of artworks from Iranian-American artist Soody Sharifi. The Space Within is a photographic exploration of the expansive and contradictory territory that lies between public identity and private self. This exhibition opens on Friday\, March 16th with a public reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \nThe Space Within addresses an internal conflict\, the condition of being at once a part of and apart from one’s culture. Through a series of self-conscious portraits and fantastic desert tableaus\, this exhibition explores the conceptual space where private and public impinge upon one another. \nFocusing on personal side of things\, the portraits develop the theme of public and private as one of internal negotiation. Haunted faces hint at vast inner landscapes\, where conflicted men and women struggle to separate who they really are from what they feel compelled to be. Traditional gender expectations loom large\, but introspective poses and dreamy gazes clue the viewer not to take the conflation of self-identity and public persona at face value. \nWhile a group of oversized photographic collages shifts the perspective from the personal to the political. In these surreal desert landscapes\, populated by figures plucked from the medieval miniature tradition\, the encounter between private and public reads more as clash than collaboration. Playfully exploding the viewer’s sense of time and place\, these works cast their hapless characters into an imaginative arena\, where\, in a series of encounters both humorous and violent\, they are condemned to play out the perennial conflicts between the individual and society. Both genders battle with the forces of authority and tradition\, enacting scenes that are both timeless and timely. \nSoody Sharifi is an Iranian/American artist based in Houston. Her work primarily deals with the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in living between cultures—cultures being broadly and variously conceived. In many of her series\, she has explored the notion of identity and what it means to participate in a particular culture from both an outsider’s and an insider’s perspective. She has investigated this concept as it applies to Moslem youth in Iran and the USA\, and as it applies to women as archetypal insideroutsiders within their respective cultures. \nSharifi\, a 2011 Jameel Prize nominee\, has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including at the Baku Biennial of Contemporary Art\, Azerbaijan\, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London\, L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris\, at the Contemporary Arts Museum\, Houston and in museum group exhibitions in Norway and Finland. Her work has been collected by major patrons worldwide and is included in the collections of such institutions as the Portland Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Art Houston\, among others. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Paul Horn: Ancient Aliens
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nPaul Horn: Ancient Aliens  \nFebruary 1 to March 8\, 2014 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 1st\, 2014\, 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Ancient Aliens\, an exhibition of new artworks from artist Paul Horn. Ancient Aliens\, as with all Paul Horn productions\, is a commentary on the pulse of popular culture in the present. This exhibition opens on Saturday\, February 1st with a public reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm in conjunction with the Bert L. Long Jr. exhibition and fundraiser. \nPaul Horn is an enthusiastic Houston based artist and curator best known for his collaged “pop ups” and assemblages works which incorporate comics\, cartoon characters\, action figures and other plastic toys and his outlandishly curated art exhibitions and events. His exhibits and events are known for their originality and high energy that always attract large crowds. He has curated several exhibitions\, including Paul-Mart for Plastic Fantastic in 2011\, Use Your Illusion in 2011\, and the very successful Camp Lucky for Deborah Colton Gallery in 2004 that attracted over 1\,200 people. This historical Houston evening which helped permanently change the art scene for the positive in the First Ward Artist Studio area. \nHorn’s curatorial projects\, exhibitions\, and unique art events include wide varieties of media from installation to performance controlled by a contorted Pop environment. His curatorial debut at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Camp Lucky\, invited key artists like Scott Burns\, Sharon Engelstein\, Mark Flood\, Jeremy Eilers\, Bill Davenport\, Francessca Fuchs\, Rachel Hecker\, Kyle Hendricks\, Aimee Jones\, Anthony Liberto\, Theresa O’Connor\, Aaron Parazette\, Jenny Schlief and Jason Villegas\, from galleries throughout the city and included interactive performances and collaborations with the Art Guys\, I Love you Baby and others. Taking a pretty dead part of town before Deborah Colton Gallery opened it 6\,500 square foot Gallery on the top floor the artist studio building of 2500 Summer Street a few months earlier\, the impact this exhibition/happening had on the city gave a surge of energy to this district\, causing Winter Street to be bought and restored shortly thereafter and the First Ward eventually becoming an Arts District for artist studios with Deborah Colton Gallery’s impact and continued support in the area through 2008. Paul Horn’s most recent curated collaborative Paul-Mart\, which proclaimed “Stackin’ Em High\, Sellin’ ‘Em Cheap\,” paralleled and parodied the Wal-Mart concept\, commenting on democratic retailing and discount volumes; all art offerings were priced at $99.99 or less at Deborah Colton Gallery’s Plastic Fantastic exhibition\, curated by Catherine D. Anspon. \nHorn carefully orchestrates exhibitions that contextualize artwork in non-traditional exhibition environments meant to enhance the viewing experience. Using venues from a Holiday Inn to an elevator carriage\, he has not only made the art a focal point but questions the way we view the work as well. He continues to question the role of artist as curator and finds new and interesting ways to contextualize work by a range of established and upcoming artists. \nHorn began his art career during his graduate studies at the University of Houston (1999-2001). He was represented by the Texas Gallery until moving to Deborah Colton Gallery and since then has collaborated on four previous exhibitions and performance art installations with the Deborah Colton Gallery. Previous shows were staged in Houston’s Quick Mart Convenience Store and at a Holiday Inn. He has also shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum of South Florida’s University and the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita\, Kansas\, the Dallas Art Fair\, the Houston Art Fair among others. Horn’s work has been reviewed by Art in America and ArtForum and is in many prominent private and institutional collections. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Bert: Back and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nBert: Back and Beyond  \nFebruary 1 to March 8\, 2014 \nOpening Reception and Fundraiser: Deborah Colton Gallery\, Saturday\, February 1st\, 2014\, 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nFebruary 1st\, 2014 marks the anniversary of Bert Long’s passing to Beyond\, but he is still with us always … and his presence will come back in full glory for this joyful event of his works and life! \nA celebration of Bert L. Long Jr. and a fundraiser for his book\, Riding the Tiger: The Art and Life of Bert L. Long Jr. and the Bert Long Foundation. \n Host Committee  \nThe Art Guys John Alexander Blazek & Vetterling LLP Cyndy Allard Catherine D. Anspon George Barnstone Joan Batson Dr. William Camfield Jereann Chaney Deborah M. Colton Sara Balinskas and Jeff Debevec Jim Edwards Dr. Carolyn Farb\, hc Joe Havel Melanie Lawson and John Guess Jr. Kirk Hopper Toby Kamps George O. Jackson de Llano Sharon and Gus Kopriva Rick Lowe Dr. Penelope and Lester Marks Poppi Massey Tatiana and Craig Massey Star and Jack Massing Angelbert Metoyer Robert Morris Valerie Cassel Oliver Marilyn Oshman Erin and Adrian Patterson Diane Rudy Manny Sanchez Linda Shearer Charmain Locke and James Surls Cynthia Toles Dr. Alvia Wardlaw Clint Willour  \n  \nComplimentary valet\, cocktails and delectables. \nMusic: Blues Legends\, Texas Johnny Boy & Milton Hopkins \nMaster of Ceremonies: The Art Guys \n$25 donation at door to Houston Artists Fund to benefit Bert’s book. https://houstonartistsfund.org \nThe Houston Artists Fund is a §501 (c)(3) tax-exempt public charity that serves as an umbrella organization for the Houston arts community. It was created to fiscally sponsor art-related projects and organizations that intend to raise funds from individuals\, foundations\, and corporate donors\, but do not have their own tax-exempt status. During the past twelve years\, the Houston Artists Fund has sponsored projects for publications for Lucas Johnson\, Charles Schorre\, MANUAL\, James Surls\, George O. Jackson and Bernard Brunon. Current projects include a book about Bert L. Long Jr.\, and a biography of John and Dominique de Menil by William Middleto. \nArtwork sales are through Deborah Colton Gallery where a portion of the sales will be used to start the Bert Long Foundation. The exhibition is in conjunction with Kirk Hopper Gallery\, Dallas. \nMore details on Bert: Back & Beyond can be found on www.deborahcoltongallery.com\, under Artists section and Future Exhibitions. \nBert L. Long Jr.\, was self-taught artist\, was born in 1940 in Texas\, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a master chef Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in 1979. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work\, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas\, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, and artists John Alexander\, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate\, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work. \nLong’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history\, along with complex philosophical and social issues. Long describes the philosophy behind his work as “a quest to help people diagnose their inner self\,” believing his art to be “the vehicle to help facilitate the process.” \n“As artists we have the obligation to provide the world with art which communicates as truth. I believe that art has the power to heal our souls of their afflictions. I try to create art which helps to diagnose the prevalent conditions within our societies\, hopefully providing an insightfulness which will help us all become brothers and sisters united in equality and compassion” – Bert L. Long\, Jr. \nThe late Peter Marzio\, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, said of Bert Long: \n“Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful\, but as [his artworks] testify\, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.” \nOver Long’s 33-year career as a painter\, sculptor\, and photographer\, he was awarded several significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. Other notable awards of Long’s include the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award in 2009\, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant in 1997\, The Rome Prize Fellowship\, 1990-91\, the Houston Art League Texas Artist of the Year in 1990\, the NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant\, 1987 and the Bemis Foundation Residency in 1998. His work can be seen in over 100 private and public collections worldwide\, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Dallas Museum of Art\, Houston Museum of Fine Art\, Blanton Museum of Art\, the El Paso Museum of Art and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain. \nThough the Houston art community suffered a great loss at Long’s passing last February\, his life’s vision and work continue to make a huge impact in the art world of today. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Jonas Mekas: LIFE GOES ON…I KEEP SINGING\, Part Two
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery \nLIFE GOES ON… I KEEP SINGING\, Part Two \nJanuary 2 through January 25\, 2014 \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present selected works and video installations by Jonas Mekas in an exhibition entitled “LIFE GOES ON… I KEEP SINGING” which includes still frame photographs produced from material from Mekas’s films. The exhibition opens November 9th and continues through December 28th\, 2013. The Gallery will host an Artist Reception open to the public on Sunday\, November 10th at 2:00 pm\, which will include a Q+A with Jonas Mekas and Deborah M. Colton. \nJonas Mekas is the Founder of Anthology Films in New York\, a filmmaker\, poet\, writer\, and artist. Jonas Mekas captured moments that we all cherish in art history\, in American history\, in life… from filmmakers\, Salvador Dali\, Kennedy’s\, Warhol\, Yoko Ono and John Lennon\, Elvis Presley\, the World Trade Center… to the more personal special moments of nature\, his family\, being human and celebrating life\, cherishing each experience to the fullest. \nJonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai\, Lithuania. In 1949 he emigrated to the U.S. together with his brother\, settling in New York. He has been one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking playing various roles: in 1954 he founded Film Culture magazine; in 1958 began writing his “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice; in 1962 co-founded the Film-Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) and in 1964 the Film-makers’ Cinematheque\, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives. His own output varies from narrative films (Guns of the Frees\, 1961) to documentaries (The Brig\, 1963) and to “diaries” such as Walden (1969)\, Lost\, Lost\, Lost (1975) and As I was Moving Ahead\, and Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001). Known as an artist\, filmmaker\, art critic\, curator and icon of contemporary American Culture\, Mekas documented the era that promoted peace through his acclaimed independent film and still frame photography\, which features Yoko and John in Happy Birthday to John and Bed-In. His films have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world. In 2005 he represented Lithuania at the Venice Biennale\, the exhibition was noted with Special Mention price for extraordinary presentation of contemporary classic art. \nThrough his accomplished career as a filmmaker\, visual artist\, writer and organizer\, Jonas Mekas has received awards from New York State Council on the Arts\, Rockefeller Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Golden Medal from Philadelphia College of Art\, “For the devotion\, passion and selfless dedication to the rediscovery of the newest art\,” Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966\, Creative Arts Award in 1977\, Brandeis University in 1989; Mel Novikoff Award at San Francisco Film Festival\, 1992; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from Ministry of Culture\, France in 1992 and 2000; Lithuanian National Award\, 1995; Doctor of Fine Arts\, Honoris Causa from Kansas City Art Institute in 1996; Special Tribute\, New York Film Critics Circle Awards in 1996; Pier Paolo Pasolini Award\, Paris in 1997; International Documentary Film Association Award\, Los Angeles\, 1997; Governors Award\, Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, 1997; Artium Doctoris Honoris Causa\, Universitatis Vytauti Magni\, Lithuania in 1997. \nIn 2011 Jonas Mekas was honored at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s award ceremony for his significant contribution to American film culture and had a solo exhibition at Ludwig Museum in Cologne\, Germany. Last December Mekas participated in an extensive presentation at Serpentine Gallery\, London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Most recently there opened an exhibitions of his works at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg\, Russia\, at the Cinémathèque Royale and the Bozar Center for Fine Arts\, both in Brussels\, Belgium. \nJonas Mekas is a featured artist and special guest of the 2013 Houston Cinema Arts Festival\, which will present his film Sleepless Night Stories as part of the festival’s “Cinema on the Verge” programming that highlights the most adventurous film and installation work by experimental media artists. Sleepless Night Stories debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011 and continues to enthrall audiences with Mekas’s recording the seemingly mundane happenings in his life. \nDeborah Colton Gallery first debuted Jonas Mekas in Houston in the solo exhibition Film Framed at 2500 Summer Street in 2005. In 2007\,Jonas Mekas was also included in the Group Exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Chemical City. Since then Deborah Colton Gallery continues to represent Jonas Mekas\, including a one-man solo exhibtion at Paris Photo Los Angeles in April of 2013\, and through projects via the Gallery’s OUTPOST NYC DCG. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Jonas Mekas: LIFE GOES ON…I KEEP SINGING
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery  \nLIFE GOES ON… I KEEP SINGING \n November 9 through December 28\, 2013 \nPublic Artist Reception: Sunday\, November 10\, at 2:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present selected works and video installations by Jonas Mekas in an exhibition entitled “LIFE GOES ON… I KEEP SINGING” which includes still frame photographs produced from material from Mekas’s films. The exhibition opens November 9th and continues through December 28th\, 2013. The Gallery will host an Artist Reception open to the public on Sunday\, November 10th at 2:00 pm\, which will include a Q+A with Jonas Mekas and Deborah M. Colton. \nJonas Mekas is the Founder of Anthology Films in New York\, a filmmaker\, poet\, writer\, and artist. Jonas Mekas captured moments that we all cherish in art history\, in American history\, in life… from filmmakers\, Salvador Dali\, Kennedy’s\, Warhol\, Yoko Ono and John Lennon\, Elvis Presley\, the World Trade Center… to the more personal special moments of nature\, his family\, being human and celebrating life\, cherishing each experience to the fullest. \nIn addition to the video created for this exhibition\, FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE that is cohesive with the main gallery room exhibition\, Deborah Colton Gallery will be featuring the video WTC HAIKUS. 2010. As Mekas describes this:\n“‘Looking through my finished and unfinished films\, I was surprised how many glimpses of the World Trade Center I caught during my life in SoHo. I had a feeling I was Hokusai glimpsing Mount Fuji. Only that it was the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center was an inseparable part of my and my family’s life during my SoHo period from 1975-1995. This installation is my love poem to it. My method in constructing this piece was simply to pull out images of the WTC from my original footage\, while including some of the surrounding scenes. The result I felt came close\, albeit indirectly\, to what in poetry is known as the Haiku.” \nJonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai\, Lithuania. In 1949 he emigrated to the U.S. together with his brother\, settling in New York. He has been one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking playing various roles: in 1954 he founded Film Culture magazine; in 1958 began writing his “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice; in 1962 co-founded the Film-Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) and in 1964 the Film-makers’ Cinematheque\, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives. His own output varies from narrative films (Guns of the Frees\, 1961) to documentaries (The Brig\, 1963) and to “diaries” such as Walden (1969)\, Lost\, Lost\, Lost (1975) and As I was Moving Ahead\, and Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001). Known as an artist\, filmmaker\, art critic\, curator and icon of contemporary American Culture\, Mekas documented the era that promoted peace through his acclaimed independent film and still frame photography\, which features Yoko and John in Happy Birthday to John and Bed-In. His films have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world. In 2005 he represented Lithuania at the Venice Biennale\, the exhibition was noted with Special Mention price for extraordinary presentation of contemporary classic art. \nThrough his accomplished career as a filmmaker\, visual artist\, writer and organizer\, Jonas Mekas has received awards from New York State Council on the Arts\, Rockefeller Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Golden Medal from Philadelphia College of Art\, “For the devotion\, passion and selfless dedication to the rediscovery of the newest art\,” Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966\, Creative Arts Award in 1977\, Brandeis University in 1989; Mel Novikoff Award at San Francisco Film Festival\, 1992; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from Ministry of Culture\, France in 1992 and 2000; Lithuanian National Award\, 1995; Doctor of Fine Arts\, Honoris Causa from Kansas City Art Institute in 1996; Special Tribute\, New York Film Critics Circle Awards in 1996; Pier Paolo Pasolini Award\, Paris in 1997; International Documentary Film Association Award\, Los Angeles\, 1997; Governors Award\, Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, 1997; Artium Doctoris Honoris Causa\, Universitatis Vytauti Magni\, Lithuania in 1997. \nIn 2011 Jonas Mekas was honored at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s award ceremony for his significant contribution to American film culture and had a solo exhibition at Ludwig Museum in Cologne\, Germany. Last December Mekas participated in an extensive presentation at Serpentine Gallery\, London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Most recently there opened an exhibitions of his works at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg\, Russia\, at the Cinémathèque Royale and the Bozar Center for Fine Arts\, both in Brussels\, Belgium. \nJonas Mekas is a featured artist and special guest of the 2013 Houston Cinema Arts Festival\, which will present his film Sleepless Night Stories as part of the festival’s “Cinema on the Verge” programming that highlights the most adventurous film and installation work by experimental media artists. Sleepless Night Stories debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011 and continues to enthrall audiences with Mekas’s recording the seemingly mundane happenings in his life. \nDeborah Colton Gallery first debuted Jonas Mekas in Houston in the solo exhibition Film Framed at 2500 Summer Street in 2005. In 2007\,Jonas Mekas was also included in the Group Exhibition at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Chemical City. Since then Deborah Colton Gallery continues to represent Jonas Mekas\, including a one-man solo exhibtion at Paris Photo Los Angeles in April of 2013\, and through projects via the Gallery’s OUTPOST NYC DCG. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Harif Guzman: Dying to Live
DESCRIPTION:Harif Guzman \nDying to Live \nFebruary 23 through April 20\, 2013 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, February 23\, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present the Texas debut of artist Harif Guzman with his solo exhibition Dying to Live. Dying to Live opens Saturday\, February 23\, 2013 with a reception for the artist 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \nHarif Guzman\, born in Venezuela\, spent much of his childhood surrounded by his mother and sisters And was influenced strongly by his father (a printer and typesetter). As a little boy in 1980\, Guzman came New York City. Guzman calls New York not only home\, but his canvas and inspiration. The inspiration of his work derives from mechanical reproduction and the hands-on kill-based technique that refuses the deadening effects of iconographical conformity. Further inspiration is the result of Guzman’s earliest experiences of image making and the honest craft that he encountered working in his father’s print workshop as a boy. The subsequent trajectory of his path from shop worker\, street-smart skate punk\, busboy\, and valet\, to the art gallery\, involves an alchemical shift as humble cast-offs become Fine Art gold in his studio. \nGuzman’s work explores the idea of behavior and human transformation. The reclaimed materials Guzman employs are not just physical elements but deeply rooted second hand imagery that characterizes the contemporary urban existence. At times portraying urban life as simply an assemblage of humanity\, Guzman simultaneously forces the concept of a deeper\, in-depth individuality. This individuality is subtle and purposely consumed within Guzman’s works. \nRelevant themes of power\, death and money become romanticized as Guzman exposes human addictions within culture extremes. He collectively explores the concept of behavior adjacent to obsession yet individually and aggressively exploits it through visually capturing commonality and the elemental functions that drive us. Circumventing the traditionally approved arc that takes an artist from art school to art gallery\, Guzman’s unorthodox route from the basemetal street artist to the gold of the accomplished work centers his attention in a stylish\, contemporary urban idiom. \nHarif Guzman’s works have been included in numerous international exhibitions in London\, Tokyo\, Sydney as well as throughout the United States in New York\, Miami\, San Francisco\, and Los Angeles. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, and conceptual and future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Soody Sharifi: The Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me
DESCRIPTION:Soody Sharifi \nThe Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me \nNovember 17\, 2012 – January 19\, 2012 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 17\, 2012\, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to announce\, The Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me\, a solo exhibition featuring new work by Iranian-American multimedia artist Soody Sharifi. This exhibition opens Saturday\, November 17th with a public reception from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \nThrough the visual juxtaposition of cityscapes and desert landscapes\, the series The Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me tells the story of cultural and political life in 21st century Iran\, in all its rich complexity. Reminiscent of Breughel and Bosch landscapes\, Soody Sharifi’s new series stages a dizzying range of events\, from Peeping Toms in Iran’s segregated beaches to protesters filling the streets of Tehran. Colliding dynamic urban conditions with the ritualistic practices of the remote\, rural Middle East\, The Desert Beyond the City Belongs to Me seamlessly speaks to larger geopolitical issues. An example of such an issue can be found in the protest movement that followed the highly contested 2009 Iranian presidential election. Not only did this public outcry foreshadow the greater region’s “Arab Spring\,” (a term given to the widespread wave of demonstrations\, protests\, and wars occurring during the still ongoing Arab Revolution)\, but it also brought to the surface an underlying tension at the very heart and name of the country itself: between a republic and a theocracy\, between public and private\, between the secular and the sacred\, all as found in Sharifi’s work. By bringing elements of traditional Persian iconography together with contemporary subjects\, The Desert series approaches these complex issues with a compelling collapse of time and space. \nSoody Sharifi is an Iranian/American artist based in Houston. Her work primarily deals with the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in living between two cultures. In many of her series\, she has explored the notion of identity and what it means to participate in two cultures from both an outsider’s and an insider’s perspective. \nA 2011 Jameel Prize nominee\, Soody Sharifi has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including museum exhibitions at the V&A in London\, l’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris\, in Finland and in Norway. Her work has been collected by major patrons worldwide and is included in the collections of such institutions as the Portland Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, among others. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Angelbert Metoyer: Babies: Walk on Water: Present\, Future and Time Travel
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery \nAngelbert Metoyer\, “Babies: Walk on Water\, Present\, Future and Time Travel” \nNovember 17\, 2012 – January 19\, 2013 \nPublic Opening Reception: Saturday\, November 17\, 2012\, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Babies: Walk on Water\, Present\, Future and Time Travel\, an exhibition by Angelbert Metoyer. \nAngelbert Metoyer is one of the most dynamic artistic creators of our time.  Launching his artistic career when he was still in high school in 1994\, Metoyer was given two rooms in the Project Row Houses: a community arts center based in Houston. In 1995\, he was included in exhibitions concurrently at Project Row Houses and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and then moved to Atlanta to study at what is now the Savannah College of Art and Design. Through this time\, Metoyer began thinking about objects as the representation of moments and drawn images as the formalization of memories. This influenced Metoyer’s later artwork that explored his own family history within the context of the narrative of this country and considered the cultural complexity of America’s past. Metoyer’s more recent work investigates the physics and mathematics of the universe\, turning attention beyond ideas of self-identity and personal experience to notions of universal truths\, metaphysics and questions about the human soul. The scope of his wide-reaching exhibition history attests to the fact that his works expresses universal ideas and speaks across boundaries\, beyond words\, to compellingly address a diverse audience. \n  \nAngelbert Metoyer has acquired a devoted following of collectors in Texas\, nationally and abroad. His artwork is included in many museum collections including the African American Museum in Dallas\, the Museum of Fine Arts: Houston\, the Museum of Fine Arts\, Leipzig (Germany) and the Williamsburg Museum of 21st Century Art in Brooklyn\, among others. Metoyer was first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in Qatar Narratives: A Country Expressed By Its Own Voices (2008). In this exhibition\, Metoyer was selected as the only American artist\, where his work reflected on the art of the nine prominent Qatari artists also included and revealed Metoyer’s mystical connections to the Middle East. Since then he has consistently shown his breathtaking work worldwide\, exhibiting in various cities in the United States\, as well as internationally in Italy\, Germany\, Peru\, the United Kingdom\, France\, China\, Cuba and the United Arab Emirates. \nBabies: Walk on Water: Present\, Future and Time Travel is the visual expression of the notion that inherent in new life is untouched wisdom. This intelligent intuition is a divine gift that is imparted upon us through the birth and existence of a pure being – the baby. Present from the first moments of consciousness in the womb\, this universal knowledge lies latent in the physicality of a fragile new being\, protected and preserved as the baby is unable to speak a worldly language. As one ages\, this untouched wisdom is replaced with the knowledge of experience and its external manifestation—communication. Gradually\, the pursuit of knowledge and the experience of chronological time obscures this original unadulterated vision\, however one can forever find this eternal link in life anew\, through the baby’s presence of goodness\, innocence and unconditional love. In doing so\, this can restore the memory of the infinite wisdom of the pure being. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance\, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change
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SUMMARY:Plastic Fantastic with Paul Mart
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery \n Fall 2012 Season Opener  \nSeptember 8th\, 2012 through October 27th\, 2012 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, September 8th\, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nArtist Talk: Sunday\, September 9th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Plastic Fantastic\, an exhibition inspired by plastic pioneer Dr. Harry D. Anspon. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Anspon’s daughter\, Catherine D. Anspon\, the visual arts editor for PaperCity magazine (Houston + Dallas) and is the second curatorial project that Anspon has conceived for Deborah Colton Gallery\, the last being A Time for Change\, which inaugurated the fall 2008 season. Plastic Fantastic opens Saturday\, September 8\, 2012\, with a reception for the artists and scientist from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. \n Plastic Fantastic headlines five principal artists\, alongside a performance by two puppeteers — who have been specially commissioned to devise puppet plays just for this show — as well as featuring a happening organized by one of Texas’ most provocative artists\, who for the seven-week run of the show will realize “a shopping experience” analogous to one of America’s retail giants\, in collaboration with nearly two dozen other Texas talents. These artists and their performing and visual arts elements all share one common thread — they are made from\, or staged from\, one form or another of plastic\, one of the defining materials of modern life. \nPlastic Fantastic is inspired by Dr. Anspon\, who is interviewed for this exhibition by his daughter; their conversation and his contributions to the field of post-war plastics research and development are presented in a 10-minute film segment edited and produced by Shau Lin Hon. As the short documentary reveals\, Dr. Anspon\, who graduated with his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Maryland in 1942\, spent the remainder of the war years in post-doctoral research. He holds more than 70 U.S. patents in the plastics field\, where he produced breakthroughs and conducted research and development on polyethylene\, polystyrene\, polypropylene and polyurethane\, while employed during the booming years following World War II\, first at U.S. Rubber\, then General Aniline and Film (GAF)\, followed by Spencer Chemical\, Gulf Oil\, U. S. Steel (where Anspon headed the plastics division from 1968 into the early 1980s); later ensued a career\, still ongoing\, as a patent agent and independent consultant in the chemical field\, with a plastics specialty. \nAs Plastic Fantastic underscores\, all the “poly” components Anspon worked on are used by contemporary artists today towards a myriad of purposes and practices. These range from urethane resin in the case of Connecticut-based Andrea Morganstern —who makes her Texas debut here with resin-formed sculptures which in turn are then photographed in nature — to the well-stocked polystyrene consumer pleasures of Paul-Mart\, which proclaims “Stackin’ Em High\, Sellin’ ‘Em Cheap” about the wares curated by Paul Horn\, assisted in his commercial endeavor by Solomon Kane\, who collaborated with Horn on the packaging\, store displays and end-caps. (Note\, paralleling the Wal-Mart concept\, Paul-Mart is totally about democratic retailing and discount volumes; all art offerings are priced at $99.99 or less.) \nJoining the ode and exploration of plastic are Selven O’Keef Jarmon\, represented by his intensively laborious button text pieces formed from mass-produced plastic buttons\, which are then painstakingly hand sewn; and again Paul Horn this time working solo\, presenting his signature Cornell-ian pop-up boxes bearing plastic lenticular windows through which the viewer glimpses alternately disquieting or endearing\, but always prescient\, moments of American culture. \nDeborah Colton Gallery’s Plastic Fantastic also marks the Houston debut of two North Texas artists: Billy Zinser of Dallas\, and Karen Arzamendi of Denton. The former is known for his Macrodon series\, droll molded plastic toys that exist at the intersection of childhood and contemporary art\, critiquing current collecting practices; Zinser’s multiples will be stocked at Paul-Mart while his large-scale biomorphic sculptures\, and their accompanying paintings will also be highlighted in another gallery room. Additionally\, watch for Zinser’s gargantuan building-sized\, forced-air Macrodon inflatable to make an appearance. In contrast\, Arzamendi’s practice is not rooted in fantasy\, but in the concept of domesticity and the home. For this exhibit\, the artist\, whose background encompasses fiber arts and a fascination with quilt-making\, will reprise her University of North Texas thesis show with a translucent house formed from quilted plastic zipper bags containing discarded or salvaged moments from everyday life\, mostly featuring a plethora of plastic belongings. In dialogue with the cottage-sized house (with a door for the viewer to enter)\, this sculptor will create a site-specific timeline on the surrounding walls of the main gallery\, documenting via found and treasured plastic objects\, a modern book of hours referencing the moments of the day\, and the cycle of months and years. \nAdding a soupcon of performance energy\, Justin Dunford and Camella Clements — who have both performed with Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre — each debut a new piece for Plastic Fantastic\, employing out-sized plastic puppets concocted from neoprene. The opening night puppet performance is set for Saturday\, September 8\, 2012 at 8:00 pm. \nRounding out the exhibition\, former model and now proprietor of the just launched Laboratoria: The Chemistry of Style\, Tatiana Massey will collaborate with window designer Balushka on creating a Blossom Room busting with giant plastic flowers\, which sprout eyewear by New Zealand designer Karen Walker\, French master Thierry Lasry (whose shades are favored by Lady Gaga) and British talent Holly Fulton whose latest plastic-and-rhinestone necklaces dazzle with their nod to both the Deco period and the future. \nNOTE: A Complete Artist Roster for Plastic Fantastic and the Paul-Mart Store follows. \nFor additional details\, including artists’ bios and statements\, and high-resolution press images\, please contact Deborah Colton Gallery\, 713-869-5151; info@deborahcoltongallery.com. \n  \nPlastic Fantastic Artist Lineup \n  \n Headlining Artists: \nKaren Arzamendi \nPaul Horn \nSelven O’Keef Jarmon \nAndrea Morganstern \nBilly Zinser \nShau Lin Hon\, Filmmaker \nJustin Dunford and Philip Hays\, Puppeteers \nCamella Clements\, Puppeter \n  \nPaul-Mart Participants: \nAmerimou$ \nScott Burns \nAlejandro Castro \nBrent Bruni Comiskey \nBill Davenport \nKelley Devine \nG.P.S. \nNathan Green \nJohn Paul Hartman \nPaul Horn \nDaniel Johnston \nMarjorie Johnston \nSolomon Kane \nFelipe Lopez \nMichael Macedo Meazell \nJonathan Rosenstein \nAlfredo Scaroina \nGian Palacios-Swiatkowski \nDandee Warhol \nDavid Wilhelm \n  \nFashion Installation: \nProduced by Tatiana Massey‘s Laboratoria: The Chemistry of Style \nBlossom Room crafted by Balushka \nCollections highlighted by Karen Walker\, Thierry Lasry\, Holly Fulton and more! \n  \nOther Plastic Fantastic Happenings: \nShop Paul-Mart\, a retail extravaganza shopping party and performance by Paul Horn\, with puppet shows by Justin Dunford and Camella Clements on Thursday\, September 27th\, 6:30 to 8:30 pm Closing Blow Out and Artists Toast on Wednesday\, October 31st\, 6:00 to 9:00 pm \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Lowell Boyers: Primavera Materia
DESCRIPTION:Lowell Boyers  \nPrimavera Materia \nMay 19th – June 30th\, 2012 \nOpening Reception: May 19th\, 2012\, 6:00 to 9:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present\, Primavera Materia\, the latest solo exhibition of paintings by New York based artist\, Lowell Boyers. The artist’s work was first seen at the Deborah Colton Gallery in the 2004 group exhibition Touch and Temperature: Art in the Age of Cybernetic Totalism\, curated by Michael Rees. Since then Lowell has had three solo exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery – in his 2006 solo exhibition Awakening\, his 2009 solo exhibition Emerge\, and in his 2010 solo exhibition Whispers of Becoming. \nIn Lowell Boyers’ new body of work entitled “Primavera Materia” the paintings seem to embody the expression of “Spring.” The heightened color and action of the form and figures appears to courageously burst off the canvas. Each painting suggests there is no distinction between the inside and outside of the figures\, and the expression of the landscape of the paintings appears like a piece or movement of music\, swirling\, exploding\, with diaphanous pours of paint\, eliciting suggestions of inner and outer textures of the figure’s current moment. Rich gardens of flowers\, star stuff\, wind and water\, and figural dimensions remain the culture of Boyers’ creations\, but more and more these works maintain a flourish that harnesses both a expression of boundless symphonic musical texture as well as a rounded meditative stillness. The naked canvas suggests a fertile ground from which each note bursts like seedlings from the soil\, promising and delivering wide swaths of ecstatic painterly joy. The title also references the painting “Venere dinotando la Primavera” by Botticelli. Various interpretations of the painting by Botticelli have been set forth\, but it is generally agreed that at least at one level the painting is\, as characterized by Cunningham and Reich (2009)\, “an elaborate mythological allegory of the burgeoning fertility of the world.” Boyers appears to embrace the heart of this characterization\, but his paintings suggest there is no need for allegory for there is an unending\, flourishing majesty and fertility of the world that stems moment to moment from within. \nTo quote Lowell\, “The creative impulse can cut through habitual phenomena\, how we see things\, feel things\, our perception of self\, our notion of body\, birth and death\, of appearance.” His creativity has successfully cut through the mundane converging boundaries into springboards for liberation. Lowell states\, “I see the creative imagination as a birthright belonging to every being\, and my work is fundamentally a textural portrayal of the unfolding blossoming of various stages of awakening to that active nature.” \nHaving received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from Yale\, Lowell Boyers currently lives and works in New York City and exhibits his work in New York\, nationally and internationally. \nDeborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas\, national and international artists to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:The Rule and its Exception\, Part I
DESCRIPTION:The Rule and its Exception \nMay 9th to May 12th\, 2012\, All Galleries. \nMay 19th to June 30th\, Vignette Galleries. \nOpening Reception: Wednesday\, May 9th\, 2012\, 6:00 to 9:00 pm \n  \nSHIVA AHMADI   SOODY SHARIFI   ROYA AKHAVAN   KHOSROW HASSANZADEH    \nAYAD ALKADHI   REZA DERAKSHANI   KEZBAN ARCA BATIBEKI    POURAN JUNCHI  \nNEGAR AHKAMI  GHASEM HAJIZADEH   AFSOON   FARIDEH LASHAI   SHOJA AZARI  \n  SHAHRAM KARIMI \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery\, in conjunction with New York based Leila Heller Gallery\, is pleased to present The Rule and its Exception. Drawing from traditions of miniature painting\, ornamentation\, figuration and calligraphy\, this group exhibition presents a series of varied practices that speak to the contemporary realities of many individuals stemming from the region of the Middle East. \nIrreverently borrowing from and combining cultures\, which span centuries and continents\, the works presented in this exhibition are complex in the manner in which they seamlessly layer visual queues from politics\, geography\, society and art historical references. \nCollage\, painting\, photography\, video\, digital printmaking come together to form an alternative mapping of social and artistic concerns. This mapping\, through the inherent complexity of its structure\, resists flattening to simplistic stereotypes\, and nor could it be embodied in something as monolithic as a statement or a rule. The selection of artists challenges all categorization\, starting from the geographic and social\, but perhaps most directly\, they challenge the very categorization of artistic mediums. \nShiva Ahmadi’s miniature panoramas develop an intriguing set of symbols and characters\, which reference ancient mythology and religious iconography. The scenes depicted are suggestive narratives on hybrid infrastructural backgrounds floating between Esfahani mosques and nuclear reactors. The faceless dwellers of these non-places are tyrant figures\, subservient minions\, camels and elephants involved in a series of obscure and at times seemingly shady activities. \nSoody Sharifi’s most recent digital collages stage strange encounters in Tehrani public spaces where young men on scooters meet warriors armed with sticks\, stones and daggers transposed from the pages of old manuscripts and miniatures. The work offers a strange layering of gendered violence across histories all through seemingly playful yet eerily offputting digital collages. \nRoya Akhavan works with singular or multiple canvases to present lush compositions\, which make use of symmetry and repetition to create vibrant\, colorful surfaces. The surfaces are then further labored with thread\, highly rendered sections as well as fine line pencil drawing. The resulting imagery is an intriguing array of tattooed guardians\, dagger jugglers and motifs\, which unlock open ended potential for interpretation in viewers’ imaginations. \nKnown for his larger than life paintings\, which incorporate grungily screen printed Pahlavan and Kushti wrestlers\, Khosrow Hassanzadeh now turns his attention to the female figure. The dark streaky prints are replaced with light and loose color pencil work and a layering of paint and imagery is replaced by a focus on lightness and immediacy of gesture. These simple yet captivating nudes are paired with brightly colored repurposed floral wallpaper\, which comprise an ornate backdrop. The entire image is then contained within an ostentatious gold frame reiterating the opulence of the poses. \nAyad Alkadhi’s approach to painting is a physical struggle in mark making where strata upon strata of content get buried under one another. The works typically start with a ground of yellowed newspapers pasted onto the canvas\, upon which the artist frantically sketches in black and sanguine: bodies\, embryos\, faces\, feces\, but also thoughts and scribbled notes. A second layer obscures this phase with a heavy handed a la prima brushwork\, then a third phase overlays controlled and contained bright colored outlines\, delicate calligraphic lettering and so on. An Iraqi exile\, AlKadhi has for several years now been exploring the complexities inherent in negotiating a life in the shadows of conflict. \nReza Derakshani is a painter\, musician and performance artist. Born and raised in the rural Northeast of Iran\, a fascination with the grandeur and beauty of nature has remained a theme in his large-scale colorful abstractions. Often adhering sand directly to the canvas\, Derakshani has a mastery of his materials and is well versed in the language of abstraction. Often very large\, his works can at times even become full fledged murals and frescoes. \nTurkish artist\, Kezban Arca Batibeki creates mixed media paintings which often feature larger than life female figures who range from sexualized nonchalant piles of bodies\, to empowered muscular heroines dynamically swinging from trees. Batibeki’s paintings also sometimes stage more elaborate narratives\, where diabolique-style plots seem to be in mid unraveling. The medium ranges from paintings incorporating sequins\, carpet\, embroidery and acrylics\, as well as elaborately composed digital photography. \nPouran Jinchi’s densely cluttered calligraphic compositions are exercises in composition and entropy\, of taking and shedding shape and of breath and suffocation. Often repeating a singular letter\, using a minimal palette of up to 3 or 4 colors and employing repetition and rotation; the works have extraordinary movement\, rhythm and charge despite their reductive nature. The work can also be traced back to the traditional Siah-Masq technique of perfecting calligraphy\, which consists in the repetition of a letter to the extent of completely saturating the paper with ink. \nThrough painting and sculpture\, Negar Ahkami presents a criticality towards and a fascination with her native Iran and its culture. Melting and softening rigid and erect patriarchal architectures from mosques\, nuclear reactors and discombobulated tile work\, Ahkami’s world is not dissimilar to a surrealist landscape. Indeed this surrealism speaks to a complicated and at times hard to believe geo-politic\, which Ahkami addresses through the employment of Eastern and Western artistic tropes and discourses. \nClearly based on an archive of old photographs\, the paintings of Ghasem Hajizadeh often carry the material damages of the overly handled pictures they reference. Aged\, dog-eared and yellowed\, the works depict characters from an era past and carry within them a sense of loss that is not quite identifiable. \nThese often broad shouldered female figures dwell on the edges of gender\, bending it\, reshaping it and casting doubt on the certainty of its segregation. \nAfsoon is known for her series of portraits of iconic figures in Iranian\, Middle Eastern and international art\, culture and society. These digital photo collages draw from pop art\, and often feature black and white bust portraits on elaborate and colorful backgrounds comprised of repeated product packaging\, album covers and other popular vernacular. The graphically simple portraits range from legendary Iranian singer Googoosh\, to Winston Churchill. \nFarideh Lashai is one of the seminal painters of a generation of Iranian artists. Her more recent work has seen her move away from the abstract expressionism that she had become so well known for\, in order to push the boundaries of her practice into animation. Still serving as the basis of her artistic practice\, her paintings have now become backdrops upon which animated figures are projected. Thus the painted sections actively interact with the content of the video aspect of the work\, in order to elaborate on short and simple stories which stand as complex metaphors for the historical and political realities\, which have plagued Lashai’s native Iran for decades. \nShoja Azari and Shahram Karimi have distinct practices on their own\, the first as a video artist and the latter as a painter. Together they have worked on a series of collaborations which merge their respective sensibilities in order to create layered and rich landscapes. These video projections on painted canvases create kinetically active landscapes which draw inspiration from sources as varied as bustling cities to the shifting of the seasons. \nThe Opening Reception is co-sponsored by the Society of Iranian-American Women for Education (SIAWE)\, a nonprofit charitable and non political organization dedicated to providing educational support through scholarships and promoting Iranian Culture. A portion of all sales throughout this exhibition will also go to this fine organization. \nLeila Heller Gallery\, based in New York City\, has established a worldwide reputation in both the primary and secondary art markets. Known for an active and innovative exhibition schedule\, the gallery’s primary focus is the representation of a group of international contemporary artists\, with a specialization in artists from the Middle East. Our mission is to inspire vital dialogues among artists\, curators\, collectors and critics\, and to provide a forum where these exchanges can take place. \nDeborah Colton Gallery\, based in Houston\, 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:FotoFest 2012 Biennial Exhibition: A Moment in Houston
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Paul\n\n\nMarch 16\, 2012 to April 28\, 2012
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SUMMARY:FotoFest 2012 Biennial Solo Exhibition: Focus on Russia II
DESCRIPTION:Oleg Dou\n\n\nMarch 16\, 2012 to April 28\, 2012
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SUMMARY:FotoFest 2012 Biennial Main Exhibtion: Focus of Russia I
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Colton Gallery \nFotoFest 2012 Exhibitions \n  \nMarch 16\, 2012 – April 28\, 2012 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, March 24\, 2012\, 6:00 – 9:00 pm \nArtist Talk: Oleg Dou\, Saturday\, March 17\, 2012\, 2:00 pm \nArtist Talk: Olga Tobreluts\, Sunday\, March 25\, 2012\, 12:00 pm \nArtist Q&A: Jay Rusovich with Deborah M. Colton\, Sunday\, March 25\, 2012\, 1:00 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery\, a participating space in the FOTOFEST 2012 Biennale\, is pleased to present a series of exhibitions showcasing Russian artists Olga Tobreluts\, the Gallery’s main exhibition\, Focus on Russia I\, and Oleg Dou\, a Vignette Exhibition\, Focus on Russia II. The Gallery will also feature the Solo Exhibition\, Unleashed\, by artist Jay Rusovich\, as well as Vignette Exhibitions by French artist Jean-Daniel Lorieux\, Suzanne Paul\, Jonas Mekas and select Chinese contemporary artists. These exhibitions open on Saturday\, March 16th with a public reception on March 24th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm \n  \nOlga Tobreluts \nFocus on Russia I \nBorn in 1970 in Murino\, Leningrad Oblast\, Russia\, Olga Tobreluts (née Komarova) now lives in St. Petersburg. Trained as an architect\, she graduated from the Architectural Technical Secondary School in 1989. In 1991\, she enrolled in a course in computer graphics at the Art Com Institute in Berlin. Since 1993\, she has actively worked with video and computer art. Since 1998\, she has worked as a curator for a number of photography exhibitions at the photography center of the club “Mama.” \nAn artist who works with photography\, video\, painting\, and design\, she is a pioneer of digital art in Russia and has belonged to the Neo-Academism group of artists in St. Petersburg since 1994. In her work\, 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. \nFrom 1997 to 1998\, she experimented with the adaptation of characters (primarily in the three-dimensional form of sculptures) within a digital virtual space. These experiments provided the basis for her most famous work—a series of paintings based on the play Emperor and Galilean by Henrik Ibsen\, where she keenly creates commentary on historically established conceptions of beauty\, as well as a variety of other works. Her work\, Emperor and Galilean\, was shown at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo\, leading to the publication of a book. From 1991 to 2005\, she participated in over a hundred group exhibitions and had many solo exhibitions. In 2005\, she stopped taking part in group exhibitions so she could work on a new series of paintings. Olga’s works are in such collections as the State Russian Museum\, St. Petersburg; State Tretyakov Gallery\, Moscow; Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum\, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City\, New York\, United States\, and she has been featured in most major international contemporary arts and fashion magazines such as\, W Magazine\, Vogue\, Vogue Paris\, Vogue Russia\, Vogue Germany\, Art Actuel\, Flash Art\, and ArtReview\, among others. \n  \n\nOleg DOU \nFocus on Russia II \nAlso on exhibition during the FotoFest 2012 Biennale\, the Gallery presents FOCUS ON RUSSIA II\, a Vignette Exhibition of photographic works from Oleg Dou. \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 galleries and curators around the world. \nOleg’s work is continuously inspired by this interest in human individuality and self-expression and the attempts to solve the problem of identity in our age. Visually inspired by the culture of fashion and surrealists\, his Naked Faces project is devoted to the relationship between a human’s inner self and his behavior in society and proposes that the expectations of society set the standards of behavior and thought in terms of what is appropriate and acceptable. \nHis Toystory series features children in the character of cartoons or animations popularized and favored by children around the world. In this case\, however\, there’s a hint to be detected of something calm\, cool\, and strangely dreadful. The faces themselves become the canvases by which Oleg expresses his interest in the human condition\, adding graphic expression to photographic reality. These images\, which look cute but wicked\, poker-faced but subtly appealing\, are yet another iteration of his creative consideration as he maintains his journey to explore the depths of human nature. \nSince 2007 Oleg has won several International awards and his photographs were represented at the photographic festivals around the world including the Pingyao International Photography Festival (China)\, the Seoul Photo Festival (Korea)\, the FotoFestival Naarden (Netherlands)\, and the International Photography Awards. His works were exhibited twice at the Kandinsky Prize (2007 and 2008)\, the main contemporary art exhibition award in Moscow. His work is scheduled to be exhibited internationally in solo and group shows throughout this year. His work has also been featured in publications worldwide. \n  \n  \nJay Rusovich \nUnleashed \nJay Rusovich is known for his conceptual\, controversial style which can be described as intuitive\, engaging\, intense\, direct\, quick-witted…and tinged with irony. Jay Rusovich debuted at the Deborah Colton Gallery in the spring of 2005 with the visually provocative solo exhibition\, Inside Out. Since then Jay has had numerous solo exhibitions\, including a collaborative exhibition with the Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre last year. Jay Rusovich was born in New Orleans and has received degrees from Tulane University in English and Theater\, and also attended Oxford University in England\, The University of Arizona and Loyola University in New Orleans. After graduating\, he moved to New York City where he studied Method Acting at The Lee Strasberg Institute. Rusovich also attended The Actor’s Institute for Shakespearean Studies and TVI Actors Studio in NYC. \nRusovich’s career began with a used Nikon 35mm camera when he started booking photo sessions with fellow aspiring actors who were always in need of headshots. For the next 20 years\, Rusovich traveled the world\, photographing people for advertising agencies\, Fortune 500 Companies and major publishing houses\, principally in New York and Los Angeles. He is known for his controversial style\, which can be described as “intuitive\, engaging\, intense\, direct\, quick-witted…and sometimes tinged with irony.” \nRusovich hammers traditional paradigms through searing imagery that asks the viewer to suspend all judgment\, as things are rarely what they seem. A woman enjoying a fresh bowl of bullets while surfing the Internet for Prince Charming — to a woman carrying her child her in mouth like a wolf – it becomes obvious that what we see on the outside is rarely a reflection of what’s behind the curtain. \n“I see no reason to photograph anything that doesn’t make a statement of some kind. Beauty for the sake of itself is\, in the end\, dismissive and ugly. And while my work does rely heavily on lighting technique and photographic balance\, which are critical to great photography\, I’m not a fan of anything that doesn’t challenge me in some way…” – Jay Rusovich \n  \nJean-Daniel Lorieux \nThe Master and Margarita \nFrench artist\, Jean-Daniel Lorieux\, is one of the masters of photography of his generation. His high-contrast style connects the models with fashion\, with a subtle and distinguished eroticism. Jean-Daniel is sought after for his celebrity photographs and portraits ranging from former President of France Jacques Chirac\, Actress Isabelle Adjani\, International Models Karen Mudler and Claudia Schiffer\, Prince Albert of Monaco\, Fashion Designer Kenzo\, and other iconic individuals. In 2011\, Jean-Daniel had exhibitions in New York\, Brussels\, Paris\, Dubai and Cannes. He is also releasing a book of photographs\, published by Michel Lafon\, and a documentary movie\, retracing the atypical path of the artist \nThe exhibited series is based on the famous book\, The Master and Margarita. It is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov\, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century\, as well as one of the foremost Soviet satires\, directed against a suffocating bureaucratic social order. \nSuzanne Paul \nA Moment in Houston \n Suzanne Paul\, who passed away on March 14\, 2005\, was an important part of the Houston art world. Suzanne documented many of the artists\, curators\, collectors\, gallery owners who shaped the Houston art scene since the 1970’s through the millennium. A BFA from the University of Houston and then did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley\, Paul became active in the Houston art world when the Contemporary Arts Museum Director\, Jim Harithas hired her to document artists and exhibitions for museum catalogues. Among her first artists she photographed were Dick Wray\, Julian Schnabel\, Terry Allen and Norman Bloom. Later she photographed artists such as Lucas Johnson\, Richard Stout\, The Art Guys\, David McGee\, Michael Tracy\, Mel Chin\, Edward Albee and Angelbert Metoyer\, many of whom were featured in her FotoFest exhibit\, Being There\, in 2001. In addition she photographed Houston curators and patrons such as Jim Harithas\, Walter Hopps\, Anne Tucker\, Alison De Lima Greene\, Alfred Glassell and Edward Mayo. \nSuzy Paul has a remarkable way of capturing the spirit and soul of people with her camera” said Being There curator and Director of the Galveston Arts Center\, Clint Willour. “Throughout her career\, it was her black and white portraiture work that I think has always been her greatest strength as an artist” Suzy continued her to photograph artists throughout her life. “They are people that I know and love”\, she said. “I am drawn to creative people because they are more on the edge….” Her feelings about artists were almost \nalways reciprocated. She once asked Lucas Johnson why artists let her photograph them\, and he responded ‘because you are an artist”. \nBefore he passed away\, Walter Hopps was quoted in the 2001 FotoFest Being There Catalogue\, “Suzanne Paul should now be recognized as one of the finest photographers to come out of Houston. Her essential medium is black & white photography\, and her most important subject matter is portraiture. The portraits in this exhibition largely focus on people associated with the arts of Houston or those who pass through. Not all photographers are skilled printers of their work. Paul is a superb printer achieving areas of deep black in lines with her instinct for the chiaroscuro lighting of the subject. Having been the subject of one of Paul’s portraits\, I have experienced the directness and honesty of her work. She has caught an unidealized view of who I am.” \nSuzanne Paul exhibited extensively for over 35 years before her passing in March of 2005. She was in numerous group and solo exhibitions in gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the United States and her work is many important private and public collections. \nSuzanne Paul’s Memorial Reception was on March 25th\, 2005 at sunset on Good Friday at the Deborah Colton Gallery’s original Gallery space at 2500 Summer Street. “This was the way Suzy had wanted it. We hosted an exhibition highlighting her work along with a Memorial Room where we had beautiful light shining through our large industrial windows looking out at the Houston downtown skyline. Suzy used to spend the most time in this room when she was visiting me and she came often. Hundreds of people came that day to pay their respects to someone we all loved”\, says Deborah M. Colton. Suzanne Paul left us with a compelling visual documentation of our City’s art history and in doing so\, of humanity itself. \n  \n\nJonas Mekas \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 became editor-in-chief of Film Culture; in 1958 began writing his “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice; in 1962 co-founded the Film-Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) and in 1964 the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque\, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives. His own output includes\, among other films\, narrative films (Guns of the Frees\, 1961) to documentaries (The Brig\, 1963) and to “diaries” such as Walden (1969)\, Lost\, Lost\, Lost (1975) and As I was Moving Ahead\, and Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001). Known as an artist\, filmmaker\, art critic\, curator and icon of contemporary American Culture\, Mekas documented the era that promoted peace through his acclaimed independent film and still frame photography\, which features Yoko and John in Happy Birthday John and Bed-In for PEACE. His films have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world. In 2005 he represented Lithuania at the Venice Biennale\, the exhibition was noted with Special Mention price for extraordinary presentation of contemporary classic artist. \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. His previous projects include extensive presentation at Serpentine Gallery\, London in 2010. This year in Mekas\, now about 90 years old\, is exhibiting portrait works with his longtime friend\, photographer Robert Polidor at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York. \nThrough his accomplished career as a filmmaker\, visual artist\, writer and organizer\, Jonas Mekas has received awards from New York State Council on the Arts\, Rockefeller Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as the Golden Medal from Philadelphia College of Art\, “For the devotion\, passion and selfless dedication to the rediscovery of the newest art.” \nMekas is also the honored recipient of the following awards: 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. \n  \nContemporary Photographers from China:\nQing Qing\, Xu Yong & Yu Na\, and the Gao Brothers \nChinese contemporary art reached a turning point in the early 21st Century. FotoFest 2008 highlighted these revolutionary changes that were revealed so clearly in the artist’s photographic expression. During this time\, Deborah Colton Gallery presented\, China Under Construction\, Contemporary Artists from the People’s Republic. This exhibition was featured in Houston during same time as the MFAH’s Chaney Family’s Collection Red Hot China Exhibition in the summer of 2007 and was revealed in even a stronger representation during FotoFest 2008 at Deborah Colton Gallery as China Under Construction II: China’s Contemporary Art of the Everyday Comes of Age. The curator of both exhibitions was art critic\, curator and writer\, Maya Kavskaya. Both exhibitions gained a great deal of local\, national and international press and attention which is revealed under Past Exhibitions of the www.deborahcoltongallery.com website\, Reviews for these exhibitions. A catalogue was also published. \nBoth exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery were at the forefront of the new trajectory. Though after the 2008 FotoFest exhibition\, most of the work in these shows were either sold or sent back to China\, there were select works that could not be sent back due to their content. In FotoFest 2012\, the Deborah Colton Gallery presents these provocative and challenging visually and conceptually photographic expressions that address the artist’s view of the current issues in China and reveal now also a bit of history. \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:Sharon Kopriva: Cathedrals\, Phantoms and Naked Dogs
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Kopriva \nCathedrals\, Phantoms and Naked Dogs \nMay 14th to June 25th\, 2011 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, May 14th from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. \n  \nDeborah Colton are pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by Sharon Kopriva at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Houston. \nIn “Cathedrals Phantoms and Naked Dogs\,” Kopriva’s past religious imagery becomes a backdrop to address social issues and political events. The underlying foundations of the larger two dimensional works are from found\, altered and enlarged images of cathedrals which become backgrounds for imaginary\, mystical and sometimes whimsical works on canvas. The few remnants of past Kopriva popes and ghosts have been all but replaced by phantom dogs running amuck amid “hallowed halls” and serene woodland scenes where the forest itself becomes a palace. Rich and gestured lines are fused with relief elements and build outs. \nIn some of the paintings\, hairless hounds become metaphors for basic human social qualities. These canines mirror our inner\, secret feelings as they irreverently traipse\, dance and fly across columns and arches of spacious\, once holy cathedrals. The dogs symbolize both the anxiety and curiosity of life in these chaotic times. Three-dimensional hounds\, both plaster and bronze\, accompany the wall works\, exhibiting human expressions of pride\, avarice\, gluttony\, envy and lust\, basic human frailties that continue to feed war\, political turmoil\, hunger and religious unrest. \nSharon Ortman Kopriva is a Houston native. Her career was kicked off in 1985 in the “Fresh Paint” exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. In the past twenty-five years she has shown her art in major cities of the United States\, Mexico\, Peru\, India\, Cuba\, China and parts of Europe. Her most noted exhibition was a solo curated by the legendary Walter Hopps at the Menil Collection in 2000. Her most remembered might be an accidental group exhibit at the Harris County Morgue. Her works are included in ten 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 artist s to make positive change.
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SUMMARY:Marianne Vitale: Presser
DESCRIPTION:Marianne Vitale \nNew Work \nMay 8th\, 2010 to June 26th\, 2010 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, May 8th\,  6:00 to 8:00 pm. \n  \nDeborah Colton is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the quixotic New York artist Marianne Vitale at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Houston. In a vibrant series of large paintings\, dense and thick with pigment\, Vitale hypertrophies the intricate intimacy of her pen and ink drawings into a churning no-fly zone over the contemporary. Accompanying these canvases\, Vitale has constructed one of her hybrid sculptures out of found material and debris reclaimed from the neighborhoods surrounding the gallery. \nAlso on view are two series of drawings: five colorful and riddling pen and ink compositions (2008)\, and nine fast and forcible sequential graphite drawings on copper-coated paper (2009). \nThis is Vitale’s third exhibition with Deborah Colton: Chemical City (2007)\, a group show in which Vitale presented Crude Oil on Silk and Flipper Baritone\, among other works\, and later that year a solo production entitled Tryst at Urn Stye. \nMarianne Vitale is a New York artist working in various mediums.  Her sculptural practice often evokes an idea of the natural world remade from what has been discarded and abandoned.  Recently brought together with metal and made permanent\, Vitale freezes these forms into make-shift structures\, fantastic creatures\, hybrid animals and contorted beasts that can appear both fragile and menacing.   Sometimes sympathetic\, often uneasy\, Vitale’s sculptures pull the tension between figure and abstraction\, mid-process of either melting or forming\, with skin dripping from their frames. These extracts stretch\, move\, coil\, hide\, and invite to mark an encounter of sinister illusoriness. When using performance and video\, Vitale draws on the instinctive yet carefully sculpted absurdity apparent in her drawings and sculptures\, with an added personal physicality that creates a visceral\, even combative relationship between artist and audience. Vitale’s work has been exhibited internationally\, including the 2010 Whitney Biennial\, SculptureCenter\, White Columns\, Kunstverein NY\, all in New York; Kling & Bang\, Reykjavik\, Iceland; Deborah Colton Gallery\, Houston\, Texas; IBID Projects\, London\, UK; and the Cass Sculpture Foundation\, Sussex\, England. \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:Nathaniel Donnett: Black Plastic and tha Paper Bag Kids in tha Soulecistic Playground
DESCRIPTION:Nathaniel Donnett \nBlack Plastic and tha Paper Bag Kids in tha Soulecistic Playground \nMay 8th\, 2010 to June 26th\, 2010 \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, May 8th 6 – 8p.m. \n  \nDeborah Colton is pleased to announce an exhibition of new mixed media drawings\, sculptures and installations by Nathaniel Donnett at Deborah Colton Gallery\, Houston. \nBlack Plastic and tha Paper Bag Kids in tha Soulecistic Playground by Nathaniel Donnett explores the psychology of social interaction and the development of social patterns from early life to the present. Donnett follows patterns in seemingly innocent places like childhood playgrounds\, depicting the influence on an individual\, specifically those in African American communities\, and how that influence impacts the evolution of society as a whole. \nInfluential to the pieces created for this exhibition is Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids show – a cartoon that aired in the seventies. In creating the series\, Bill Cosby sought the advice of several psychiatrists to assure that there were no negative stereotypes that could result from children watching the program. The children in the show came from a working class neighborhood where they faced everyday challenges and societal issues such as honesty\, identity\, education\, and being different. The children utilized their imagination creating functional objects from discarded materials or “junk”. They created their own world from the materials available to them. \nAs African Americans attempt to articulate their unique situation\, they developed a coded language for their survival – ebonics\, slang\, and signifyin’. Nathaniel incorporates this method of articulation in titling his pieces by combining words that reflect the spirit of the piece with a “shout out” to particular artists. \nTalking about his work Nathaniel Donnett says: “I use the playground\, The Fat Albert show\, along with music\, memories\, reclaimed materials and objects\, traditional art materials\, and traditions both African and African American. Language also helps me investigate the definitions and psychology of blackness and color-ism.” Nathaniel queries\, “As adults\, are the roles we play a memory that was formulated from our playground experience? How can being dark or light\, being called black or Black\, nappy headed or good haired affect a child who becomes an adult? How does one define blackness? How do these things play in other cultures\, races\, and ethnic groups if at all?”  Black Plastic and tha Paper Bag Kids in tha Soulecistic Playground by Nathaniel Donnett is a “collage” of all those questions and ideas. \nNathaniel Donnett is a 2010 Artadia Award recipient and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in 2009. His works have been shown at the 2010 Armory\, Deborah Colton Gallery\, Texas Southern University Museum and Lawndale Art Center. He was invited to participate in Project Row Houses. \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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LOCATION:Deborah Colton Gallery\, 2445 North Boulevard\, Houston\, 77098\, United States
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SUMMARY:FotoFest 2010 Biennial Exhibition: Labyrinth of Desire
DESCRIPTION:Frank Rodick \nLabyrinth of Desire:  Work by Frank Rodick \nMarch 13th\, 2010 to April 24th\, 2010 \nArtist and Curator in Conversation: Sunday\, March 14th at 1 pm \n  \nDeborah Colton Gallery is pleased to announce a mid-career exhibition and book surveying the photo-based work of Canadian artist Frank Rodick at Colton & Farb Gallery\, Houston. Labyrinth of Desire:  Work by Frank Rodick\, offers an extraordinary look into the creative process of one of the field’s most interesting artists and will feature selections from his several bodies of work\, from the early black-and-white images in Liquid City and sub rosa to the multiple\, toned images of Arena and Faithless Grottoes. The artist’s most recent multi-media work will be shown here for the first time in a special installation within the exhibition. The exhibition is timed to coincide with the Houston-based FotoFest\, founded in 1983 as the first international biennial of photography and photo-based art in the United States. \nRodick\, an internationally recognized artist whose work was last seen in the United States at the Deborah Colton Gallery – in the 2008 group show Reflections and the 2007 solo show The Longest Night — creates powerful\, evocative\, and sometimes controversial pictures that integrate elements of traditional photography\, alternative darkroom techniques\, video\, and digital imaging. \nIn his more recent work\, Rodick alters and combines images into sequenced compositions that explore the complex realm of the human psyche\, probing the ambiguity of our inner lives. His juxtaposition of images mimics the imprecise and non-linear workings of our private thoughts\, memories\, and desires. “Hallucinatory as they might sometimes seem\,” Rodick says of his work\, “what I’m looking for are images that feel more intimately real than our cursory experience of everyday life\, images that give a voice to the worlds that live inside us and which somehow demand witness.” \nRodick’s work has been exhibited widely throughout North America\, Latin America\, and Europe. His work is in the collections of numerous institutions in the United States\, including the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum\, and the Kinsey Institute. Internationally\, his work is in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa; the Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi in Belgium; the Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark; and the Museo Nacional de Bella Artes de Buenos Aires in Argentina. \nThe curator for the exhibition is Katherine Ware\, formerly a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles\, who is now Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. She has organized exhibitions of work by contemporary photographers as well as by masters such as Harry Callahan\, Man Ray\, and László Moholy-Nagy. Ware’s publications include Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery\, Elemental Landscapes: The Photographs of Harry Callahan; In Focus: Man Ray; In Focus: László Moholy-Nagy; and essays on Man Ray\, Bauhaus photography\, and contemporary photography. She first encountered Rodick’s work at FotoFest in Houston and subsequently chose his work for the 2006 exhibition Discoveries of the Meeting Place. “Rodick’s relentless examination of the inner workings of the human animal never ceases to intrigue me\,” Ware said. “Despite the valiant work of Dr. Freud and some of his successors\, our emotional landscapes remain relatively mysterious and uncharted.” \nA publication surveying Rodick’s career\, with an essay by the curator\, will be published by the gallery in conjunction with the exhibition. \n  \nColton & Farb Gallery is part of Deborah Colton Gallery\, which is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide\, whose diverse practices include painting\, works on paper\, sculpture\, video\, photography\, performance and conceptual future media installations.
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