Please join us Saturday December 5th from 11 am to 1 pm
above: Matthew Sontheimer Welcome Back Foreigner
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Please join us Saturday December 5th from 11 am to 1 pm for a new exhibition:
Will Henry Southwestern Painting
Above: Will Henry A Burning Man 2009
Below: Will Henry Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest 2009
New Editions from ULAE
November 2009
Join us for special presentations by Bill Goldston from ULAE:
Friday November 13th 11 am and 3 pm
Saturday November 14th 11 am and 3 pm
Pictured above: Richard Tuttle Other 2009
Picture below: Kiki Smith Untitled 2009
Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of paper works by Kate Shepherd. Born in 1961, the artist lives and works in New York and has had solo exhibitions at the Chinati Foundation (Marfa, Texas) and Lannan Foundation (Santa Fe). She is in the collection of MFA Boston, The LA County Museum of Art and numerous public and private collections worldwide.
The current exhibition is drawn from a body of work produced at Dieu Donne Lab Grant Program, which provides mid-career artists with a twelve-day residency to collaborate in hand papermaking. Dieu Donne, located in New York, is a nonprofit workspace founded in 1976 and dedicated to the “creation, promtion, and preservation of contemporary art in the hand-papermaking process.”
An opening reception for the exhibition will be on Saturday November 7th from 11 am to 1 pm.
The exhibition will be on view through December 3rd.
Joseph Havel I am your fiction
A native of Minneapolis, Joseph Havel attended the University of Minnesota (BFA) and Pennsylvania State University (MFA). Solo exhibitions of his work have recently been organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Laumeier Sculpture Park and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England. Please join us Saturday 3 October 2009 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm for an artist’s reception.
Todd Hebert was born in Valley City, North Dakota in 1972. After attending the University of North Dakota (BFA 1996), he received a Masters in Fine Art from the Rhode Island School of Design (1998) followed by fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Core Program at the Glassell School of Art in Houston. In 2005 he was the recipient of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum’s Emerging Artist Award. Please join us Saturday 3 October 2009 11 am to 1 pm for an artist’s reception.
About the image of the snowman, Hebert has said
“The snowman is just an absurd, ridiculous image of a “man” (3 round balls of snow…a man?) crudely, and whimsically built from the immediate surroundings. This started as a culture/nature thing, and for some people that is interesting. But, I like that the snowman is a personage and an object at the same time. I hope that the smile is a welcoming gesture: a parallel to what I want the viewer to bring in seeing it. But the smile can either be scary or warm.”From an interview with Lupe Nunez-Ferndandez, 2005
***Todd Hebert will be speaking Thursday 1 October 2009 1:00 pm at the University of Houston Fine Arts Building 110. Use free parking across from the Blaffer, metered parking row 16 or for easiest access visitor parking Lot 16F ($4.00).
Interview with Dean Ruck and Dan Havel: GIVE AND TAKE
September 2009
A central part of this summer’s No Zoning exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum is the monumental work Give and Take, a collaboration between Dean Ruck and Dan Havel. Read the interview with the artists here at Glasstire. The exhibition is on view through October 4th.
Hana Hillerova CONSCIOUS SPACE through October 1
August 2009
Hana Hillerova grew up in Prague, the Czech Republic and lives in Houston. She pursued her education in the arts at the Charles University in Prague, Humboldt State University in California, the University of Texas at Austin and the The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Her work has been exhibited at the Austin Museum of Art, Dallas Contemporary, Lawndale ArtCenter and Sala Diaz Gallery in San Antonio. Her current exhibition Conscious Space runs from August 15th to October 1st, 2009 and is her second solo exhibition at Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery. The public is invited to an artist’s reception Saturday September 19th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Matt Magee IDEOGRAMS Through October 1
August 2009
Matt Magee has been exploring geometric abstraction and paying homage to mid-twentieth century American modernism. Magee is a scavenger and archivist and his work has to do with cataloguing and organizing form. Repetition and precision are paramount in the paintings and form becomes a template that stands for something else. He works in a pattern and submerged in the motifs, whether circles, squares, or abstract shapes, is a sense of mystery and quiet and this internalized personal language ultimately becomes the subject. As the paintings develop he pushes towards a metaphysical quality and the language of form and rhythms become diagrams of the unconscious. The Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spoke about the importance of porosity and resonance in his work and how these qualities lead to a transcendent universality. Magee is very interested in this transcendence. As a contemporary artist his goal is to link the time line of references from ancient marks and shapes to present day abstraction.
The public is invited to an artist’s reception Saturday Sept 19th 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Brooke Stroud
June 2009
On view through July 31st: Brooke Stroud New Works on Paper
Brooke Stroud installation view
Brooke Stroud "The Wreckage" 2009
