CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Art League Houston, in partnership with JPMorgan Chase, is pleased to announce the opening of Return to the River, which takes place at Heritage Hall in the JPMorgan Chase Building in Downtown Houston, and runs from February 4 - March 18, 2010 as a celebration of Black History Month. This exhibition is curated by Beth Secor, and features the work of Lenard Brown, Shannon Duckworth, Michella Fanini, and Stephanie Toppin. The opening reception for the exhibition is Thursday, February 4, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Heritage Hall in the JPMorgan Chase building located at 712 Main Street in downtown Houston. Return to the River is the second in a series of four visual art exhibitions that focus on cultural heritage month celebrations. In its second year, Celebrating Diversity Through Art is a unique collaboration of JPMorgan Chase and Art League Houston, which highlights established and emerging artists representative of diverse communities. This program is supported in full by JPMorgan Chase.
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Art League Houston and the FotoFest 2010 Biennial are pleased to partner in presenting Medianation: Performing for the Screen, curated by Gilbert Vicario, and featuring the work of media and performance artists Leslie Hall and Laurel Nakadate, March 12 through April 24, 2010. The Medianation: Performing for the Screen exhibition presents eight artists at three separate venues: Art League Houston, New World Museum, and 3917 Main Street (Isabella Court), as part of the FotoFest 2010 Biennial, The nation's oldest and longest running international Photographic arts event, focused in 2010 on Contemporary U.S. Photography. The opening reception for Medianation: Performing for the Screen takes place at the Art League on Monday, March 29 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., with a talk by the curator Gilbert Vicario. One of five curators invited to curate programs for the FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Gilbert Vicario is the Curator at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, and is the former Assistant Curator of Latin American Art and Latino Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. As a curator of contemporary art, Mr. Vicario, explores the interrelationship between the digital image and notions of process and performance in contemporary art. Taking the media as a starting point and as an undeniable (though not unique) American phenomenon, artists in Medianation explore political, sexual, and cultural issues in a moment when the demise of traditional forms of communication - radio, television, film, and photography give way to an explosion of digitally-based forms of social interaction, [from] Facebook and Twitter to file and video sharing sites such as Youtube, Xtube, [and] MySpace. |
