Coming Up



	On View
On View Coming Up 20th Century Modern Market The Big Show Day of the Dead Día de los Muertos Archives	November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Opening Reception Friday, November 21, 2008, 6:30-8:30 PM Artist talks at 6:00 PM Pleasing Punch \| AJ Liberto and Jesse Robinson November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 John M. O'Quinn Gallery They discovered that a smaller diameter cyclone gives greater centrifugal force. So they developed a way of getting 45% more suction than a Dual Cyclone vacuum and removing more dust, by dividing the air into 8 smaller cyclones. Cyclones appear, sealed within the vacuum. Something contained and yet terrifying, a collection of stuff thrust into this space. Pleasing Punch is just such a space. Celebration and violence are hard to tell apart in both Liberto and Robinson's endeavors. Their work realizes the gravitational force of objects, that link that holds together and creates disastrous collisions, despair, and ultimately a drifting blissful calm. [ back to top ]
	Personal Panopticon \| Cory Wagner November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Mezzanine Gallery Using the concept of the panopticon, Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century prison design, the artist investigates how we are socially trained to look at ourselves with an ever gazing hyper-critical eye. Wagner transforms the gallery into a winding passageway populated with mirrors, sounds and activity producing a distorted sense of reflection. [ back to top ]
	Once Removed \| Ann Marie Nafziger November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Once Removed presents an artificially skewed version of the natural environment, captured in the midst of chaotic expansion and collapse. Replacing any sense of direct apprehension of the natural world in favor of a messy abundance of representations, the installation reflects the predicament of being disconnected physically from the world while being bombarded with mediated information about it. Executed on a variety of surfaces, including the gallery walls, and exploiting a range of materials and tools, the installation imagines phenomena and field samples from a constructed, one-off manifestation of a world in a state of flux. [ back to top ]
	Flowback \| Mequitta Ahuja November 8, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Project Space Mequitta Ahuja is of mixed ethnic origin, South Asian and African American. Her works are self-portraits. Mequitta’s visual explorations include the interplay of figure and ground, the symbolic significance of blackness, and the social implications of Black hair. In response to the history of Black hair as a barometer of social and personal consciousness, she makes the image of hair both corporeal and conceptual, giving it psychic proportions. With medium and image, Mequitta proposes that identity, including racial and sexual identities, although narrowly defined by social norms, is both fluid and plural. Mequitta’s works demonstrate female self-invention through the deployment of her own tools, including, her creative imagination. [ back to top ]
	To Whom It May Concern \| Emily Sloan November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Studio Residency A recent focus of Emily Sloan's work is the idea of making a thing, phrase or place "special." For the Mitchell Center's Fall 2008 Lawndale Studio Residency, Sloan compiled a list of words and phrases that will be created in site-appropriate places throughout the city of Houston. Selected words and phrases will be stenciled in locations with materials collected from the area thus serving as enviromental interventions and messages for those who stumble across them. [ back to top ]
	NIMBY \| Kevin Curry November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Lawndale Studio Artist, 300A Mary E. Bawden Sculpture Garden NIMBY is constructed from discarded fence boards, posts and rails that previously recorded boundaries of ownership as well as an ability to shut out the outside world. This structure uses the detritus of post -Ike Houston to address the fragility of safety and comfort in an era of increased homelessness, foreclosures and personal calamity. [ back to top ]



	On View
On View Coming Up 20th Century Modern Market The Big Show Day of the Dead Día de los Muertos Archives	November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Opening Reception Friday, November 21, 2008, 6:30-8:30 PM Artist talks at 6:00 PM Pleasing Punch \| AJ Liberto and Jesse Robinson November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 John M. O'Quinn Gallery They discovered that a smaller diameter cyclone gives greater centrifugal force. So they developed a way of getting 45% more suction than a Dual Cyclone vacuum and removing more dust, by dividing the air into 8 smaller cyclones. Cyclones appear, sealed within the vacuum. Something contained and yet terrifying, a collection of stuff thrust into this space. Pleasing Punch is just such a space. Celebration and violence are hard to tell apart in both Liberto and Robinson's endeavors. Their work realizes the gravitational force of objects, that link that holds together and creates disastrous collisions, despair, and ultimately a drifting blissful calm. [ back to top ]
	Personal Panopticon \| Cory Wagner November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Mezzanine Gallery Using the concept of the panopticon, Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century prison design, the artist investigates how we are socially trained to look at ourselves with an ever gazing hyper-critical eye. Wagner transforms the gallery into a winding passageway populated with mirrors, sounds and activity producing a distorted sense of reflection. [ back to top ]
	Once Removed \| Ann Marie Nafziger November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Once Removed presents an artificially skewed version of the natural environment, captured in the midst of chaotic expansion and collapse. Replacing any sense of direct apprehension of the natural world in favor of a messy abundance of representations, the installation reflects the predicament of being disconnected physically from the world while being bombarded with mediated information about it. Executed on a variety of surfaces, including the gallery walls, and exploiting a range of materials and tools, the installation imagines phenomena and field samples from a constructed, one-off manifestation of a world in a state of flux. [ back to top ]
	Flowback \| Mequitta Ahuja November 8, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Project Space Mequitta Ahuja is of mixed ethnic origin, South Asian and African American. Her works are self-portraits. Mequitta’s visual explorations include the interplay of figure and ground, the symbolic significance of blackness, and the social implications of Black hair. In response to the history of Black hair as a barometer of social and personal consciousness, she makes the image of hair both corporeal and conceptual, giving it psychic proportions. With medium and image, Mequitta proposes that identity, including racial and sexual identities, although narrowly defined by social norms, is both fluid and plural. Mequitta’s works demonstrate female self-invention through the deployment of her own tools, including, her creative imagination. [ back to top ]
	To Whom It May Concern \| Emily Sloan November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Studio Residency A recent focus of Emily Sloan's work is the idea of making a thing, phrase or place "special." For the Mitchell Center's Fall 2008 Lawndale Studio Residency, Sloan compiled a list of words and phrases that will be created in site-appropriate places throughout the city of Houston. Selected words and phrases will be stenciled in locations with materials collected from the area thus serving as enviromental interventions and messages for those who stumble across them. [ back to top ]
	NIMBY \| Kevin Curry November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Lawndale Studio Artist, 300A Mary E. Bawden Sculpture Garden NIMBY is constructed from discarded fence boards, posts and rails that previously recorded boundaries of ownership as well as an ability to shut out the outside world. This structure uses the detritus of post -Ike Houston to address the fragility of safety and comfort in an era of increased homelessness, foreclosures and personal calamity. [ back to top ]