CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Art League Houston is excited to present ShadeCloud, an outdoor installation by Houston-based artist Emily Sloan in the Art League Sculpture Garden, which weaves together a diverse selection of new and recycled lampshades into three cloud-like structures that suspend from the surrounding trees. The installation not only references the dynamic weather patterns characteristic of the Houston area, but also provides a unique source of shade for the local community, especially with the extreme heat waves we are currently experiencing within our city. Art League would like to say a big thank you to Boheme and Spacetaker for their support and generosity through the Cultured Cocktails program, along with Sunbelt Rentals, Inc., as well as the local community for their generous donations. Special thanks to Jason Ash, Rob Greenstein, Matt Jackson, Jill Nepomnick, Crystal Owens, Linda Phenix, Helena Gijsbers van Wijk, and Jim and Vanessa Wodehouse. ABOUT EMILY SLOAN Emily Sloan is a Houston-based artist who received an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Houston (2009), a M.A. in Painting and Sculpture from Stephen F. Austin University, and a B.S. in Sociology and Social Work from Abilene Christian University. She also attended the New York Studio School and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her site specific installations include Burning House located on Highway 59 in Polk County, Texas; Sabine Street Bridge Lamp at Buffalo Bayou Art Park in Houston, and To Whom It May Concern, located on a private lot next to Lawndale Art Center. She has completed residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, and Labotanica and The Many Mini Residency at SKYDIVE in Houston, and is currently the Artist-in Residence at 14 Pews in Houston. Emily performance art includes Napping Affects Performance (NAP), a participation and performance project, which is ongoing in Houston, as well as her Alta Ego performances as Zarvin Mindler. She has exhibited at venues including the Texas State Fair, the Cotton Bowl, the Dallas Contemporary, Lawndale Art Center, Redbud Gallery, Gallery 1724, and the Vermont Studio Center, and is currently the Curatorial Director of The Kenmore, a small, cold exhibition object measuring 36 x 24 x 24, which is located at BOX13 ARTSPACE in Houston. |
Art League Houston is excited to present Wall Paper as Art: If You Sprinkle When You Tinkle, a hand-painted wallpaper installation by Houston artist Heather Bause in the Art League Houston main gallery restroom. The installation will debut alongside Mary McCleary: A Survey 1996-2011 on Friday, September 9 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Wall Paper as Art: If You Sprinkle When You Tinkle features a series of delicately hand-painted Damask patterns on paper, which elegantly cover the walls of the Art League Houston main gallery restroom, transforming the neglected space into a richly diverse and creative environment that fuses together the delicate qualities of the materials and the elegance of the imagery, with the coarse nature of the restroom environment. This innovative installation references the 1920's tradition adopted by many art museums of displaying hand drawn wallpaper in public restrooms as a way of creating a nontraditional creative environment, as well as the iconic series of custom-made wallpaper art installations known as Room Art created by noted artists such as Andy Warhol, John Baldessari and Sol Lewitt.
Special thanks to DARKE | gallery for generously funding this exciting project. ABOUT HEATHER BAUSE Heather Bause lives and works in Houston, Texas where she received a BFA in Painting from the University of Houston. She has had solo exhibitions at DesignWorks Gallery, Galveston (2007) and Bering & James Gallery, Houston (2010) and is scheduled to show at DARKE | gallery in February 2012. Other exhibitions from this year include the BOX of Curiosities (Portable on Demand Art), in coordination with The American Association of Museums Cultural PODs Program, HAA and Discovery Green, Houston, TX (2011); The BIG Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2011); The Texas National, Nacogdoches, Texas (2011); and 5x7, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX (2011).
Currently a BOX13 ArtSpace board member and participating artist, Heather also teaches Mixed Media for the Art League of Houston, as well as for the Houston Grand Opera outreach organization, HGOco. |
In the galleries at Art League Houston and Texas Art Supply on Montrose Blvd, the public is invited to see the tremendous artistic talent of 345 teen artists living in Harris County. Only once a year for the Scholastic Art Awards of Harris County does the community have the opportunity to see the student artwork produced in the Houston metro-area and celebrate the young artists. These exhibitions are free and open to the public. Art League Houston Scholastic Gold Key Awards Exhibition with 144 Artworks January 13 - February 9, 2012 Reception for Gold Key Winners at Art League Houston Saturday, January 21, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Texas Art Supply Scholastic Silver Key Awards Exhibition with 201 Artworks January 7 - January 29, 2012 Award Ceremony for Silver Key Winners January 22 and 29, 2:30 3:30 p.m. Texas Art Supply
Locations: Adjacent Buildings at Willard St and Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX
Between January 13 and 29, the Gold Key and Silver Key work can be seen in both galleries during regular business hours and during the special events for the winners, their families and the public. The official award ceremonies for the Silver Key winners will take place at Texas Art Supply, 2:30 p.m. on consecutive Sundays, January 22 and 29, 2012. A reception for Gold Key winners will be held at Art League Houston on Saturday, January 21, 2012, between 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. The official award ceremony for the Gold Key winners will be held on Monday, February 13, 2012, 7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Harris County Department of Education.
Each year over 2,500 students from public, private and home schools in Harris County participate in the competition. Gold Key artworks from Harris County will be forwarded to compete at the national level of The Scholastic Art Awards. National winners are announced March 15, 2012. Last year, 42 Harris County artists received national recognition.
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards celebrates 86 years of presence in classrooms across the nation as it identifies and documents outstanding achievements of young artists and writers. Yearly, 75,000 students in grades 7-12 participate through regional programs. Some of nation's most celebrated writers and artists have been recognized in this competition such as Richard Avedon, Truman Capote, Robert Indiana, Bernard Malamud, Joyce Maynard, Joyce Carol Oates, Phillip Pearlstein, Sylvia Plath, Robert Redford and Andy Warhol. About 25,000 students advance to national competition in New York City. At the national level, Gold Portfolio Award recipients take home $10,000 in scholarships. Harris County Department of Education is a regional sponsor of the Scholastic Art& Writing Awards. Harris County Department of Education Harris County Department of Education provides education services to the general public and 26 school districts throughout Harris County and beyond. Services include adult education, programs to promote safe schools, after-school programs, therapy services, professional development for educators, special schools, alternative certification for principals and teachers, and Head Start programs. We offer purchasing procurement, grant development, program research and evaluation, records management, and school finance support. Since 1889, our services continue to evolve to meet the needs of our education public. Were HCDE: your education connection! Visit us at www.hcde-texas.org. |
Art League Houston presents eState Sale, a video installation by Hillerbrand+Magsamen amid a mass of used consumer products filling the gallery space. All Houston residents and businesses are invited to participate in the artwork by donating used items, attending a discussion with the artists, and then joining the live auction that is both performance and actual auction benefiting the Star of Hope. The exhibition opens with a free public reception between 6:00 - 9:00 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012 and runs through February 24, 2012 in the main Art League Gallery. Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen, a Houston-based collaborative husband and wife team, have created a new multichannel video installation. Hillerbrand+Magsamen's experimental video projects explore their relationship, family and everyday activities reflecting the contradictions of suburban family life. They use their own family and home for the characters and set to playfully and poetically explore perceptions of the contemporary American family's emotions, interactions, consumerism and media. For the Art League the artists have produced video portraits of their family. Each member of their family: Father, Mother, Daughter and Son have a video where they are engaging individually in an action. These actions are given an unexpected twist of surrealism such as the daughter getting sucked up by stuffed animals, the son smashing a stack of plates, the mother walling herself into her closet with bricks and feathers and the father standing idle with a garden hose while the barbeque grill ignites. Surrounding the nearly floor-to-ceiling video projections will be piles of stuff from their home and from the homes of visitors to the gallery who are invited to bring items that will be auctioned off at the end of the exhibition. The artists explore these ideas of excess, emotional and physical connections to material goods and family dynamics. Their video, Accumulation, will also be playing in the reception area. In this video their daughter dangles in a dark void and then they pile up tons of stuff from their garage: lawn mower, toys, tools, Christmas lights, and more into a mountain that they climb up as a means to get to another space. Similar to the auction on February 18, an auctioneer rambles away and the viewer is left to decide if the couple is buying or selling their material; physical and emotional accumulation. Schedule of Events Donation Collection and Filling the Gallery: January 9 - February 10 Exhibition Opens: January 13, 6 PM with Artists Talk at 6:30 PM Artist Conversation with the Public, February 4, 1 PM Auction Preview: February 13-17 Performance and Live Auction of Donations: February 18, 11 AM Exhibition Closes and Delivery of Check to Star of Hope: February 24, 5 PM. Hillerbrand+Magsamen Hillerbrand+Magsamens live and work in Houston, Texas, where Mary Magsamen is the curator for the mirco-cinema Aurora Picture Show and Stephan Hillerbrand teaches in the University of Houston Photo/Digital Media Program. Hillerbrand+Magsamen are represented by Linda Darke Gallery, Houston, TX. Hillerbrand+Magsamens work has been included in film festivals, galleries and museums internationally including Ann Arbor Film Festival (2009 & 2006), Boston Underground Film Festival (2010 & 2009), Stuttgarter Filmwinter (2008), Center for Photography at Woodstock (2005), Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film (2008), Butler Institute of American Art (2005), Houston Center for Photography (2008 & 2007) and Dallas Contemporary (2007). They have been awarded residencies with Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX (2010), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York (2003) and Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY (2004 & 2005) as well grants from Austin Film Societys Texas Filmmakers Production Fund (2010), Ohio Arts Council (2005), Houston Arts Alliance (2009) and a Carol Crow Fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography (2008). Star of Hope Mission Star of Hope is a Christ-centered community dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless men, women and their children. Positive life changes are encouraged through structured programs which focus on spiritual growth, education, employment, life management and recovery from substance abuse. More information at http://www.sohmission.org |
