Posted by Monica Danna on Dec 13, 2008 in
arts + events If you do one thing in Houston tonight, (besides drive all over town for 7 Holiday + Christmas + Album Release parties), do this.
My fav Houston art blogger, Sean Carroll, is curating a fascinating exhibit, that opens tonight at the joanna gallery. I’ve been looking forward to this for awhile, hope you can make some time to stop by and see it.
The American Wandering Club is pleased to present a new exhibition of technologically complex artwork by Mike Field and Frank Olson at The Joanna Gallery.
Coming from radically different philosophies, both artists have advanced fractal computer-based art by applying aestheticism and shamanism to an impersonal medium. Their surreal landscapes and textural abstractions hum with energy, echoing the building blocks of science and the structures of microscopic organisms.
Conversely, Field and Olson exude passion through color, form and composition in much the same way that early Modernists like Wassily Kandinsky explored emotion through abstraction.
Join us this winter for an exhibit of 21st century technology and timeless compassion bringing together academic and intuitive inspiration.
There will be lectures by both Field and Olson at 6 pm on December 13th in conjunction with the opening. Refreshments will be provided.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Artist Lectures @ 6pm
the joanna gallery | 4014 Graustark (near the Menil)
direction to the gallery here.
Tags: art, art opening, arts + events, bs artblog, frank olson, houston arts, mike field, sean carroll, the joanna
Posted by Monica Danna on Sep 4, 2008 in
arts + events My buddy Lance Flowers MUST be the first person to ever pair up late great,1/2 of UGK, Pimp C + Robert Rauschenberg. Seriously. This stuff is sick. See his piece, Port Arthur, below. ( I, for one, think the piece would be better titled “Uh, so whatchall know about dem Texas boyz?!” be he didn’t ask me.)
Check out more of this talented Houston artists’ work along with Robert Hodge and other local artists’ latest exhibit at Houston Art Alliance’s Space125 Gallery , Heroes Alter Egos, now through October 2nd.
image: Crystal Benevides
Thanks to b.s. artblog for the ever inspiration.
Also, view Tammy Portnoy’s review of the show here.
Tags: art, houston, houston arts alliance, lance flowers, robert hodge, space125
Posted by Monica Danna on Jul 15, 2008 in
arts + events,
video Houston graffiti artist Give Up interviewed on current.com.
Also profiled, the new-ish Aerosol Warfare Gallery in “E.D.O.”, as Gonzo dubs it. 
You’ll see a quick shot of the DIverseworks’ This Old House, that A.W. did last spring, where Ad Hoc dinner were taking place at the beginning of this summer.
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Tags: aerosol warfare, art, give up, graffiti
Posted by Monica Danna on Jul 9, 2008 in
arts + events ArtStorm’s newest board member Eli Sebastian Brumbaugh presents the Houston premiere of Toronto-based artist Deforgeo and fresh and imaginative work by a new generation of Houston artists in this summer’s Creature Comforts. The exhibition features the contemporary stylings of Deforgeo, Lisa Marie Godfrey, Rene Cruz, Shane Hillman, Jacob Calle and Brumbaugh himself in ArtStorm’s second show in its new location. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 12, 2008 from 7 – 10 PM, and the work will be on view through August 9, 2008. The reception will feature live music from Los Angeles’s art rockers Hard Place, and the local sounds of The Young Mammals, Wicked Poseur and News on the March.
Caroline Collective
4820 Caroline
www.carolinecollective.cc
Tags: art, art opening, artstorm, caroline collective
