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SUMMARY:'Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu  Heat Silhouette'
DESCRIPTION:Asia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu  Heat Silhouette\, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages\, occupying AST’s 13\,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu  Heat Silhouette is commissioned in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.\nDescribed by the artists as a form of “urban acupuncture\,” Heat Silhouette is a physical structure designed to welcome the spontaneous circulation of people\, energy\, and events. The outdoor pavilion takes cues from college campuses\, popular culture\, and experimental magazines. Made of wood\, aluminum framing\, and laser-cut construction mesh — the very materials used to build the city of Houston — the pavilion becomes an extension of the museum and a public programming space. The title itself references the most omnipresent weather condition of Houston  the summer’s intense heat\, a heat so palpable that it feels as if it occupies actual space\, creating a silhouette or edge.\nFor the artists\, the pavilion resists merely being a form of architecture. Instead\, the pavilion physically operates as an experimental magazine\, referencing the graphic processes seen in radical publications from the 1960s and 1970s like Kontexts\, an important catalyst of avant-garde poetry. Readers do not flip Heat Silhouette’s pages; instead\, they become viewers that are invited to walk in\, around\, and through the publication. Laser-cut texts appropriated from popular science-fiction films\, poetry\, and other sources intermingle to form multiple layers and viewpoints that shift with the sunlight. Heat Silhouette is a space of active production filled with theater-like compartments — a site where text\, image\, and pattern coalesce into a kind of urban camouflage.
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-24/
LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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SUMMARY:ECHOes in the Park | Free Community Chamber Concert and Festival
DESCRIPTION:ECHO’s very first FREE community chamber concert at the park sponsored by CTIGO and The Energy Corridor District. Bring your picnics\, blankets\, and lawn chairs and enjoy an afternoon at the park with your family while enjoying a great classical concert\, kids craft booth and artisan vendors by The Art Cellar of Houston\, food trucks\, and more! Featured groups will include The Houston Brass Quintet\, Scirocco Winds\, and 2 ECHO String Quartets.\nVendors 11am-2pm\nOpening Remarks at 11:30am\nConcert 11:45am\nParking is free at Ray Miller Park and at surrounding retail centers.
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/echoes-in-the-park-free-community-chamber-concert-and-festival/
LOCATION:Ray Miller Park\, 1800 Eldridge Pkwy\, Houston\, TX\, 77077\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classical,Festivals,Free Events,Kids + Families
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ORGANIZER;CN="Energy Corridor of Houston Orchestra (ECHO)":MAILTO:info@ECHOrchestra.org
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SUMMARY:Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024
DESCRIPTION:The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition\, “Critical Geography”\, reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures\, inequality\, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space\, Critical Geography explores how space\, place\, and communities are influenced by social\, economic\, ecological\, and political forces. By critically analyzing these dynamics\, the works in the exhibition provoke conversations around social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and transformative change.\n“Our intent is that the 2024 Biennial\, featuring both existing and newly commissioned works from local and international artists\, will allow viewers to engage in important dialogues around the social dimensions of space and our shared planet\,” says Steven Evans\, Executive Director of FotoFest. “We look forward to once again celebrating Houston’s vibrant art and photo community while embracing these new perspectives around place-making\, the image\, and geography.”\n“Critical Geography” features a diverse range of image-based practices\, representing artists from photographers and storytellers whose works shed light on systemic oppression\, violence\, and urgent environmental concerns to image-makers who appropriate mapping\, social media\, and technology in order to explore inequality in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The exhibition highlights a range of unorthodox strategies employed to construct new narratives around place and community while imagining alternative organizations of social space. The Biennial exhibition includes several site-specific works and new commissions by FotoFest.
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/critical-geography-fotofest-biennial-2024-9/
LOCATION:FotoFest at Silver Street Studios\, 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C\, Suite 2)\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="FotoFest International":MAILTO:info@fotofest.org
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SUMMARY:Janet Sobel: All-Over
DESCRIPTION:The Menil Collection will open “Janet Sobel: All-Over” on February 23\, 2024\, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition\, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings\, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern abstraction known as “all-over” painting.
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/janet-sobel-all-over-15/
LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org
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SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa Through Line
DESCRIPTION:Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings\, collages\, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints\, paperfolds\, & more\, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice.
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/ruth-asawa-through-line-8/
LOCATION:The Menil Drawing Institute\, 1412 W. Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception of Lorena Morales’ “Topographies of a Place to Know”
DESCRIPTION:Hooks-Epstein Galleries proudly presents an exhibition of mixed media work by Venezuelan American artist\, Lorena Morales. “Topographies of a Place to Know” will open on Saturday\, April 13\, 2024; a Reception for the Artist will take place from 5:00-7:00PM. The exhibition will continue through Saturday\, May 11\, 2024.\nLorena Morales presents new works that belong to the series “Topographies of a Place to Know”\, which she started in 2019 while living as an expat in Soyo\, Angola. To better understand her surroundings and the context of her location\, she searched for detailed city and area maps\, to no avail. As a result of her frustration\, Morales began creating her own maps\, and the series was born. “Topographies of a Place to Know” is a series of imaginary\, emotional\, and psychological maps that relate to the perception of home and the persistence of memory; these concepts are an overarching theme throughout her current work. Morales continues her cogitation over identity and the evolving nature of home as memories\, circumstances\, spaces\, and perceptions change.
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/opening-reception-of-lorena-morales-topographies-of-a-place-to-know/
LOCATION:Hooks-Epstein Galleries\, 2631 Colquitt\, Houston\, Tx\, 77098
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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