Past Exhibitions | 2018
November 24, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Strand Gallery
November 24, 2018 - January 13, 2019
Opening Reception Saturday, November 24, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Kaneem Smith
Captive Sojourn and the Indefinite
Kaneem Smith’s exhibition, Captive Sojourn and the Indefinite, explores the tumultuous relationship between trade, consumption, and commodities. Referencing Galveston’s location on a natural port in the Gulf of Mexico, and its historical and contemporary ties to the exchange of goods and labor, her installation contemplates the trade of natural materials, specifically cotton and coffee through textiles, such as burlap used for import/export purposes. Smith draws inspiration from a familial and historical standpoint of personal experience and the human condition. Her exploration of three-dimensional form incorporates subtle psychological ideas of corruption and its lingering effects on human anthropology and American history. As a mixed media artist and sculptor with a background in fibers, these concepts run a complex thread throughout her body of work. Smith’s exhibition challenges viewers to contemplate global concerns of ethical trade, the West’s over-consumption of natural resources, and colonialist commodification of underprivileged producers and their products.
Kaneem Smith is an artist and educator based in Houston, TX. During her undergraduate art education, she studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and at Rice University before receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University. Among her many accomplishments, exhibitions, awards, and residencies, Smith was the recipient of a visual arts fellowship through The Hungarian Multicultural Center Artists and Writers Residency Program in Hungary (2003), an Edward F. Albee Residency Grant (2005), Vermont Studio Center Fellowships (2006) (2008), and a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Creative Capital Foundation in New York (2008). Smith also received studio fellowships for the Atelierhaus Hilmsen Residency for Artists and Professionals in Germany (2010) (2012). In 2015 Smith co-organized the 2015 Texas Sculpture Symposium in Lubbock, TX, with featured Keynote speaker and distinguished visual artist Judy Pfaff and San Antonio sculptor Ken Little. In 2017, she received a visual artist grant award in sculpture from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and received a Houston Artadia Award through Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue. Smith exhibits with Devin Borden Gallery in Houston.
artadia.org/artist/kaneem-smith
1878 Gallery
November 24, 2018 - January 13, 2019
Opening Reception Saturday, November 24, 2018 |6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Renata Lucia
News vs. Nature (Gulf)
For the exhibition News vs. Nature (Gulf), Renata Lucia’s paintings reflect on the widening social divides that unfold in the current news cycle. Her works incorporate national and local newspapers, including works created specifically for this exhibition that use pages from The Galveston Daily News. Acrylic paint and drawing media are applied to crumpled newspaper pages that are selected for composition and content, resulting in a textured topographical illusion. The intimacy of reading a physical newspaper is contrasted with a detached aerial view. Lucia began the News vs. Nature series considering the organized chaos of nature reigning supreme against the psychological toll of bad news. The series shifted and took on new importance in late 2017 as an epic battle began to rage in our perception and discussion of the news. Lucia’s works consider the questions “Is the news fake or, more likely, a last bastion of truth? Is nature sublime, or does it represent the most disturbing aspects of human nature?”
Native Texan Renata Lucia is influenced by her familial heritage of outsider artists, writers, quilters, embroiderers, miniaturists, and a research scientist. She explores memory, craft, domesticity, and the current socio-political climate through multiple mediums and processes. Her subjects range from traditional quilt patterns in encaustic interlaced with photographic images of unknown persons, to newspapers that have been manipulated to resemble our natural, organic surroundings, to photographs referencing the connectivity between consumerism, advertising, graffiti.
Lucia worked as a classically-trained, professional violist in the 1980’s and ‘90s, followed by a career in technical writing. After a chondrosarcoma diagnosis in 2000, she took her first art class when she joined the Glassell School of Art, MFAH. She became the first trained artist in her family when she graduated there with a Painting specialization.
Her work has been featured twice in the periodical New American Paintings and is part of the public collection of the International Women’s Museum in Marfa, TX. Additionally, she was a resident artist at Houston’s Project Row Houses, and a recent award winner at the 2017 Lawndale Big Show and the 2018 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art exhibition. Lucia lives in Houston, TX and works out of her home studio.
www.renatalucia.com
Brown Foundation Gallery
November 24, 2018 - January 13, 2019
Opening Reception Saturday, November 24, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Lina Dib
Threshold
Threshold is an interactive video installation by Houston-based artist Lina Dib that incorporates video of waves breaking on the Galveston shore just before sunset. The shore’s infinite poetic qualities, constant ebb and flow, and collision of bodies (land and sea) features largely in Dib’s work. Threshold is a kind of homage to Thierry Kuntzel’s The Waves and to Andy Warhol’s Sunset. It is a tribute and meditation on the specificities of place and our relationship to natural systems. Post Hurricane Harvey, this piece is part of a larger series of toxic and luring landscapes. Activating 3D space, the video slows down, the audio slows to a deep rumble, and the color desaturates as viewers get closer to the screen. When the video is at a near standstill, viewers can “liquify” the image with their bodies. In a sense, the piece gestures to our clumsy attempts to push back nature and to presume we can control things so large they border on the unfathomable.
Programming: Taylor Knapps
Lina Dib was born in Montreal, Canada and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. Dib is a multidisciplinary artist and anthropologist. Her installations and compositions range from the experimental to the ethnographic and investigate socio-technical and ecological change. Dib is an affiliate artist at the Topological Media Lab at Concordia University in Montreal and TX/RX Labs in Houston, and a research fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Rice University where she also teaches. She is co-founder of Fossilized Houston and the Solar Studios. Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council, AMIDA’s European training program, the Moody Center for the Arts, and the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance among others. Recent publications include Audible Observatories: Notes on Performances (Bloomsbury); Sonic Breakdown, Extinction and Memory (continent.), The Forgetting Dis-ease: Making Time Matter (differences), and Of Promises and Prototypes: The Archeology of the Future (LIMN). Her work has been presented at venues including, Hierarchy Gallery Washington, DC; Lawndale Art Center, Houston; Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco; MOP Projects, Sydney; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Day For Night, Houston; the Whitney Biennial 2017; and at Johnson Space Center NASA.
www.linadib.com
October 13 – November 18, 2018
Strand Gallery
October 3 - November 18, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, October 3, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Buster Graybill
Leisurely
Leisurely is a culmination of 3 years of sculptures and lawn chair strap “paintings” from Buster Graybill’s ongoing Recreational Modernism series. This work celebrates the formal nuances and conceptual potential of objects and materials often associated with outdoor leisure and hobbies. Graybill incorporates materials that might be found at a backyard BBQ, on a fishing trip, or in the garage while tinkering on a hotrod. Exploring Modernist tendencies through a rural working-class perspective, Graybill’s works challenge perceived notions of value and the hierarchies imposed on objects of “high” and “low” culture. Like a miner panning for gold, Graybill sifts through his own environment with a playful yet discerning eye, finding beauty, humor, poetry, and value in the sediment of everyday life.
Buster Graybill is an Assistant Professor at University of Texas at San Antonio in the Department of Art and Art History. He utilizes sculpture, installation, video, and photography to traverse cultural boundaries and reconnect with often overlooked objects, materials and places found in the rural landscape. Graybill has exhibited throughout Texas, as well as in Boston, Miami, New York, and Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan Artist Residency and the Artpace International Artist-In-Residence program, as well as a recipient of grants from the San Antonio Artist Foundation and the Idea Fund, a program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
bustergraybill.com
1878 Gallery
October 3 - November 18, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, October 3, 2018 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Jasmyne Graybill
Cultivate
Cultivate is an exhibition of intricate, small-scale sculptures by Jasmyne Graybill. Using dental tools, the artist meticulously sculpts polymer clay into fictional organisms grafted onto domestic objects. Inspired by nature's uncanny ability to flourish in synthetic environments, Graybill’s work visually references barnacles that encrust coastal piers and colonies of mold that fester in the dark voids within our homes. Everyday household objects like spoons, plates, or garden tools become transformed, as these fictional cultures visually adapt to the texture, color, and patterns of the host object. Scrutinizing the processes of adaptation, each work celebrates nature’s resiliency, finding wonder and beauty in the most denigrated elements of our environment.
Jasmyne Graybill is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Northeast Lakeview College in San Antonio, TX. She received her Master in Fine Arts at University of Texas in San Antonio in 2008 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts at University of North Texas in 2003. Graybill uses sculpture and installation to pose questions about our relationship with nature and our constructed environments. Her work has been featured regionally and nationally, including group exhibitions such as “Reclaimed by Nature” at the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio, TX), “(in)Organic” at the Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI), as well as solo exhibitions at Women and Their Work (Austin, TX), The McKinney Avenue Contemporary Gallery (Dallas, TX), The Dishman Museum of Art (Beaumont, TX) and Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX). In 2009 she was awarded “Best in Show” by Juror Mel Chin at the Texas National 2009 at the Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX and in 2010 she was awarded the Dallas Museum of Art’s Kimbrough Artist Grant.
jasmynegrabill.com
Brown Foundation Gallery
October 3 - November 18, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, October 3, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Bill Willis
Totally Okay
Bill Willis’ exhibition, Totally Okay, includes genre paintings whose sources include vintage cook books and images taken from his friend’s social media feeds to assemble an aggregate social and lifestyle fantasy. Willis’ works often embed a sly sense of humor into depictions of mundane subjects, resulting in sincere works that contemplate scenes from his internet searches and everyday life.
Bill Willis lives and works in Houston, TX. He received his MFA in Painting from the University of Houston and BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. His work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at Art Palace, Houston; Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas; Hello Project, Houston; The Joanna, Houston; and Peter Makebish Gallery, New York. He is represented by DEASIL.
Throughout Downtown Galveston
October 3, 2018
One night only!
6:00 – 9:00 PM
The Museum of Pocket Art
featuring Elaine Bradford and Ernesto Walker
The Galveston Arts Center welcomes the Museum of Pocket Art (MoPA) for a special one-night only visit during ArtWalk on October 13, 2018 from 6 to 9 PM. MoPA presents two exhibitions by artists Elaine Bradford (Houston, TX) and Ernesto Walker (Monterrey, Mexico).
The Museum of Pocket Art began fifteen years ago with an idea that everyone should carry with them a small artwork in a pocket to enrich their day and share with others. MoPA developed this idea and organized it into a formal venue for contemporary artists and patrons.
MoPA introduces artwork from contemporary artists in an intimate and personal way. The Museum displays works of art created to fit in the pocket, usually around the size of a business card, in galleries selected to best frame the work, which range from wallets to mobile devices. MoPA shows at the opening of other art exhibits, or “leaches” the reception. At the reception, a MoPA representative approaches people individually and asks if he or she would like to visit the museum, and then shares the works on display. Currently MoPA hosts two shows a year.
Robert Jackson Harrington currently directs the Museum of Pocket Art and is a member of the Center for Experimental Practice and the curatorial collective, Los Outsiders, based in Austin, TX. Harrington creates drawings and sculptural installations from everyday materials that center on the concept of potential. Recent exhibitions include All on the Line at The Backdoor Biennial 2018, Kyle, TX and C wut stix, at Bill’s Junk, Houston, TX.
www.mopaonline.com
About the exhibitions:
Elaine Bradford
Ties that Bind
“I am a collector. I mine thrift and antique stores to find discarded pieces of people’s lives. The collectibles, which have personal histories that have long been forgotten, are transformed. The pieces in this exhibition are representations of relationships. Found family photos have been repurposed. The extensions of embroidery represent hopes, thoughts and fears that can bind people together, or tear them apart. The added fibers are portrayals of being wrapped up in another person, and the distance or closeness that can be created between one another. They talk about longing and unrequited love. I am taking strangers discarded objects, connecting them with craftwork, and creating personal portraits. I see some of myself in each of these objects. I also see some of everyone else.” – Elaine Bradford
Elaine Bradford lives and works in Houston, TX. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2003) and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2000). Her work has been included in shows at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL; Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY; Handmade in America Gallery in Asheville, NC; and Centre Culturel Aragon in Oyonnax, France. Select solo shows have been at The Picture Gallery at Saint Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, NH; ArtLeague Houston, Houston; and Hunt Gallery at Webster University, St. Louis, MO. She is a founding member BOX 13 ArtSpace, an innovative artist run studio and gallery space in Houston. She was a resident artist at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in 2010. In 2011, Bradford completed a permanent civic art commission for the City of Houston at Vinson Neighborhood Library. In 2017, she worked with Houston poet Sara Cress on a project called Routine Fables, where they create a “sculpture poem” every week of the year.
Ernesto Walker
Antigravity
This project consists of a series of video-holograms entitled Antigravity that are projected from gadget screens through an accessory that creates the effect of a floating object and helps the image emerge from the screen. The general idea has been developed for its exhibition at The Museum of Pocket Art, a disruptive exhibition space that’s contained on the inside of an Ipod. In these regards, Antigravity is directly related to the nature of MoPA and intends to generate reflections not only about the artwork, but about the platform itself. The holograms are played with the help of an accessory that’s attached to the screen and provokes the effect of three-dimensional objects floating outside the device. Having the image emerging from the screen seeks for an experience that expands the visual possibilities of the screen and generates more ephemeral content. These gestures are combined with the fact that the artwork is played online from a controlled server, so that video presented does not reside in the device nor the server but can only exist by the combination of the played file and the screen accessory. In this regard, the technology only serves as a conduit for the contemplation of an image that poetically just travels through the system but does not touch it.
Based in Monterrey, Mexico, Ernesto Walker’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including exhibitions in London, Brussels, Luxemburg, Athens, Switzerland, Argentina, United States, Colombia, Italy, and Spain. His work is included in collections in Italy, England, United States, Canada, Argentina, and Mexico. Among other distinctions, he was award first place in the Saatchi Gallery Drawing Showdown 2011; obtained the FONCA Young Creators Fellowship from the National Arts Fund (2016); is recipient of the PACMyC fellowship given by the Arts and Culture National Council of Mexico (CONACULTA); as well as the FINANCIARTE production fellowship given by the State Arts Council (CONARTE). Since January 2011, he is professor for the School of Art, Architecture and Design at Tec de Monterrey College.
August 25 – October 7, 2018
Strand Gallery
August 25 - October 7, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, August 25, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Jesse Morgan Barnett
LOW MAGIC
Jesse Morgan Barnett is a Fort Worth-based artist known for his consideration of appropriated images, objects, and events based on an aging interest in proposal and drift. LOW MAGIC builds off Barnett’s previous work dealing with compensation, agnostic confidence, and permutations between schadenfreude (pleasure derived from another person’s misfortune) and mudtia (pure joy unadulterated by self-interest). During the summer of 2016, Barnett began corresponding with Valery Spiridonov. At that time, Spiridonov, who lives with a degenerative muscle disease, was the first confirmed head/body transplantation patient, with an operation planned for December of 2017 in Harbin, China. Unexpectedly, in the summer of 2017, Spiridonov’s operation was cancelled and his campaign ended abruptly. Spiridonov would not be made in China, after all. Mulling over ideas to arrive at some compensatory relief, LOW MAGIC ’s amalgamation of images, objects, and language hopes to work through questions about conditionality, perseverance, and naturalistic interpretations of luck.
Jesse Morgan Barnett (South Korea) is a Fort Worth-based artist who received his M.F.A. (Intermedia) from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2011. His work has been exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas), Dallas Contemporary, INTERSTATE (Brooklyn), Lawndale Art Center (Houston), FQ projects (Shanghai), Gallery Rostrum (Malmö), and Pushkin & Gogol (Berlin). His work has also been featured in publications such as Adbusters, Flash Forward, and Semigloss. magazine. Barnett co-curates the Dallas Biennial and is an assistant curator of education at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. His work attempts to reassess browsing, proposition, agnosticism, and anniversaries.
1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries
August 25 - October 7, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, August 25, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
This project was generously funded by the L. Clarke Stout, Jr. Professorship in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Marie Leterme and Rolf Pessier. Additional thanks to Judith F. Aronson, M.D. for supporting Visual Pathology.
Visual Pathology
A collaboration between Galveston Arts Center and the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Participating artists: Steve Fisher, Mark Greenwalt, Colleen Maynard, Sarah Sudhoff, and Kamila Szczesna
Through a collaboration between Galveston Arts Center and the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) the exhibition Visual Pathology aims to explore and shed light on the relationship between the visual and the pathological. UTMB’s museums of anatomy and pathology were founded in 1891 with the opening of the medical department of the University of Texas. Collectively, the museums helped UTMB gain a national reputation for excellence in practical medical education. By the 1950s, like many other medical museums across the United States and Europe, UTMB’s museums were dismantled, due to complex changes in the medical curriculum.
In collaboration with six pathologists from UTMB, five artists were given access to the remnants of UTMB’s historical pathological and surgical pathology collections as an inspirational starting point. Both artists and pathologists worked in teams to consider the history of the collection and present research undertaken at UTMB. The resulting exhibition explores the intersections between pathological and creative practices.
Steve Fisher is a photographer who specializes in large format black and white images of the Texas Gulf Coast. His work combines the classic craftsmanship of photography and print making with contemporary processes to create art that reflects the spare, uncomplicated beauty of our coastal landscape. Fisher’s photographs have received local, regional, and international recognition, including the Houston Center for Photography, Beth Block Juried Membership Honoraria; a 2018 honorable mention in the Monochrome Photography Awards, features in Adore Noire and Galveston Monthly magazines, and 1st Place in the 2015 International Neutral Density Photography Awards. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography; Lawndale Art Center, Houston; The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston; Artspace III, Fort Worth; and Galveston Arts Center. A Houston native, he currently lives in Pearland, TX. Fisher received a Master of Physical Therapy degree from Texas Tech University and a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where he currently teaches.
www.steverossfisher.com
Image: Steve Fisher, The Chrysalis, 2018, Archival pigment print, 35” x 28”, Courtesy of the artist
Mark Greenwalt is interested in how synthetic figuration operates within personal and collective ideas of myth-making, and how figures, isolated from context or purpose, unpredictably attach to fresh notions about self and society. His drawings form, deform, and reform figurative imagery. Greenwalt received an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and an MA and BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including recent presentations at Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX; Sul Ross University Gallery, Alpine, TX; Greasewood Gallery, Marfa, TX; and O’Kane Gallery at the University of Houston Downtown. Greenwalt is a tenured professor at College of the Mainland, Texas City, and is represented by Hooks-Epstein Gallery in Houston.
www.markgreenwalt.com
Image: Mark Greenwalt, Portrait of Vector Pallidum, 2018, Graphite and acrylic on panel, 12" x 12", Courtesy of the artist
Colleen Maynard makes graphite and charcoal portraits of faceless fossilized marine invertebrates. Using drafting pencils, French curves, and patience, coral and other pre-Dinosaur life forms become royal subjects. Maynard studied painting and writing at the Kansas City Art Institute and botanical illustration at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Her work has been exhibited at the Appleton Biennale at the College of Central Florida; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston, and her writing has appeared in such journals as Nano Fiction, Monkeybicycle, and SAND Berlin.
www.colleenmaynard.com
Image: Colleen Maynard, Visualizing Melanoma, 2018, Mixed media: Charcoal and graphite on paper with ink on Plexiglas and aluminium mounts, 50” x 76” x 4”, Courtesy of the artist
Sarah Sudhoff is an artist, photographer, educator, and former photo editor for Texas Monthly and Time magazines. She is the former Executive Director of Houston Center for Photography and owner of Capsule Gallery in Houston. Sudhoff’s work interweaves themes of gender, science, and personal experience through photographs--staged and found--as well as through performance, installation, and small-scale sculpture. Sudhoff has been awarded artist grants from the Houston Arts Alliance (2017) and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2013). Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout the US and abroad, including recent exhibitions at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; Gray Duck Gallery, Austin; Filter Photo Festival and Roots & Culture, Chicago; and the DongGang International Photo Festival in South Korea. She has participated in artist residencies at Artpace, San Antonio, and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Bloomington, IN. Sudhoff holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons the New School for Design, NY, and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.
www.sarahsudhoff.com
Image: Sarah Sudhoff, Index of Refraction (Ruby), 2018, Glass, 5” x 7” x 2”, Courtesy of the artist
Kamila Szczesna is an interdisciplinary artist working in various media and formats, including sculpture, drawing, and installation. In her work, she explores the complex interactions between the human body and the human mind. Szczesna was born in Poland, where she earned an MFA at the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. Her work has been exhibited and is held in public collections in United States, Poland, Japan, Spain, Korea, Germany, and Denmark. She has lived and lived and worked in Galveston, TX, since 2002.
www.kamilaszczesna.com
Image: Kamila Szczesna, Little Daily Discomforts No. 11, 2018, Steel, fabric, resin, plastic, and flocking fiber, 10 ½” x 5” x 5”, Courtesy of the artist
July 14 – August 19, 2018
Strand Gallery
July 14 - August 19, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, July 14, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Timothy Harding
Unfurled
Timothy Harding’s exhibition Unfurled includes works that explore the fluid relationship between pictorial space and the three-dimensional realm through hardedge geometric patterns and manipulated surfaces. Harding’s work navigates spatial relationships between drawing, painting, and sculpture, through dimensional paintings and sculptural installations. His work engages the viewer through the familiarity of controlled line and shape, while containing gestural and physical distortions that evoke a sense of something gone awry.
Timothy Harding received his MFA from Texas Christian University and BFA from Texas Woman’s University. His work has appeared at venues including Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; The Power Station, Dallas; Florida State University Museum of Art, Tallahassee; SCENE Metrospace, East Lansing, MI; The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX, Box 13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX; And Gallery, Jackson, MS; and 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. He was a founding member of the collective Homecoming! Committee and has participated in residencies at the Center for Creative Connections at the Dallas Museum of Art; the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, where he received an education fellowship. Harding was a 2009 recipient of Kimbrough Fund Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art and 2016 Artist Microgrant from the Nasher Sculpture Center. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, TX. He is represented by Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas.
1878 Gallery
July 14 - August 19, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, July 14, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Susannah Mira
Lighter Than Air
Susannah Mira uses commercial side-stream as her starting point, transforming piles of excess material into sculpture. In manipulating repetitive, geometric units into organic shapes, Mira reinstates the logic of nature into a production cycle that emphasizes profits over planetary stewardship. Her installation, Lighter than Air, employs the metal mesh of used air filters in pieces that appear to float exuberantly in space. The artist adds depth to these delicate forms by employing the brash palette used to designate various workplace hazards. For Mira, these elements serve as a signal to remain conscious of environmental issues, particularly in a political landscape that diminishes their importance.
Susannah Mira earned a Master’s degree in Environmental Art at the University of Art & Design Helsinki (now Aalto University) in 2008, however, she considers her experiential education, gained by living and working at Arcosanti, the Chinati Foundation, Earthship Biotecture, and other aesthetic outposts equally important. Mira has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has been awarded close to two dozen artist residencies throughout North America, including opportunities at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and with Signal Fire. Born in San Francisco and raised in a nondescript Philadelphia suburb, she has been based in Houston since 2013, where she maintains a studio at BOX 13 ArtSpace.
Brown Foundation Gallery
July 14 - August 19, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, July 14, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Kalee Appleton
Supplementary Scenes
Kalee Appleton’s work deals with the nature and materiality of photography through the enduring tradition of landscape photography. Supplementary Scenes explores the objectivity of idealized landscapes and utopian worlds depicted in the photographic backdrops commonly used in mainstream photography studios. Like many photographs throughout history, these objects force viewers to question truth and contemplate the mechanical nature of photography, as the pure purpose of these backdrops is to exist as a false contextual object in the aid of transporting a sitter to an idealized world. The imagery produced not only acts as a supplemental scene to a portrait, but also exists to fulfill the desires of the commissioners and sitters of the portrait. Appleton skews and distorts perceptions of space, transforming these backdrops into the sculptural subjects of her photographs. The medium is further pushed into the sculptural realm with irregularly shaped frames. Imagery either responds to the grain of the wood frame or follows the perimeter of the folded landscape, pulling the photograph from the gallery wall while depicting the 3D altered landscape on a 2D surface.
Kalee Appleton is a photography-based artist and educator living in Dallas, TX. Originally from Hobbs, NM, she attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX and received a BFA in Photography in 2005. After graduation she worked as a corporate and aviation photographer, and she later attended Texas Woman’s University in Denton, where she received an MFA in 2014. Appleton exhibits her work regionally at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas and has exhibited nationally at Filter Photo, Chicago, IL; Houston Center for Photography; and Fotofest International, Houston, TX.
June 2 – July 8, 2018
Strand Gallery
June 2 – July 8, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, June 8, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Other Edens
Rebecca Braziel, Dylan Conner, Hallie Gluk, Erin Stafford, Patrick Turk, & Rachelle Vasquez
Other Edens features works referencing patterns in the natural world and those imposed through human interference. These works juxtapose cycles of growth and decay, in a reflection on the evolving cycle of life. The exhibition includes works by Rebecca Braziel, Dylan Conner, Hallie Gluk, Erin Stafford, Patrick Turk, and Rachelle Vasquez.
Rebecca Braziel was born in Savannah, GA. She received a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. Since graduating, she has gained experience as an artist assistant, workshop instructor, middle school art teacher, and co-op member. She has stayed involved with SCAD by returning to the fibers department as a guest critic and senior mentor. Braziel moved to Houston in 2013 and has since shown her work at the Galveston Art Center; Mountain View College, Dallas; Hunter Gather Project, Houston; and The Tank Project Space at Sawyer Yards, Houston. She recently completely a six-month artist residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. In 2017, she received an Individual Artist Grant from the City of Houston and the Houston Arts Alliance for The Creeping Vine Project.
www.rebeccabraziel.com
Dylan Conner is an artist from Houston, TX. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, studied art history at the University of Houston Downtown, and is currently working towards his MFA at the University of Houston. He has worked with the artists of “Itchy Acres” in Houston, Tim Glover and Ed Wilson, over the past decade to hone his craft. He was instrumental in the creation of a number of large-scale public works, including Wilson’s Soaring in the Clouds at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Conner recently completed the fabrication of his first major public commission entitled Firefly Field, which will be permanently installed as the gateway to Houston’s second oldest park, Woodland Park. Conner currently works in Houston among a tightly knit community of artists in a studio space called El Rincón Social.
dconnersculpture.com
Hallie Gluk received her BA in Art History from Tufts University and her BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is currently based in Houston and works as the Education Assistant for the Houston Center for Photography. Her work was recently featured in the exhibition Relief at Flatlands Gallery.
www.halliegluk.com
Erin Stafford received her BFA from the University of North Texas, Denton, and MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Erin Stafford's aesthetic tendencies are reflected in her studio practice as a result of her upbringing in Dallas, TX where she found upper-middle class expectations full of irony and contradiction. This sense of cultural refinement, which included various forms of ritual and tradition, shaped her aesthetic along with her art education, inspiring her to challenge established social conventions. Following graduation from UTSA, she returned to Dallas where she continued her studio practice along with teaching and curatorial endeavors at Red Arrow Contemporary. Her work was recently featured in the 2017 Texas Biennial, as well as in solo exhibitions at Art League Houston, The Carillon Gallery in Ft. Worth and the Caetani Cultural Centre in Vernon, British Columbia. She is represented by Kirk Hooper Fine Art in Dallas.
erinlouisestafford.com
Patrick Turk was born in Galveston, TX and lives and works in Houston. His assemblages have been exhibited throughout Houston in galleries including Mystic Lyon, Art Storm, Lawndale Art Center, and Rudolph Blume Fine Art/Art Scan Gallery, as well as galleries in Dallas, Galveston and Los Angeles, CA. In 2013, he was a resident artist in Lawndale Art Center’s Artist Studio Program. His works have been published in Mung Being Magazine and include commissions for the 2009 Houston Art Car Parade Poster, as well as the Philokalia album cover by Golden Cities. Turk is one of 60 artists included in the book, The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists (Texas A&M Press), authored by Robert Craig Bunch, released in 2016. He was also featured in the concurrent exhibition, The Art of Found Objects, held at Lone Star College – Kingwood in November 2016. Turk is represented by Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas.
www.patrickturk.net
Rachelle Vasquez is a Houston-native and art educator, who received her BA in Art Education with a minor in Art History from the University of Houston. She participated in artist residencies at DiverseWorks and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout Houston, including solo exhibitions at Lawndale Art Center and Box 13 ArtSpace. Vasquez was an original member of Knitta, a group of artists known for starting the “knit graffiti” movement in Houston, TX in 2005. Her work has been reviewed in the Houston Press, Arts Houston magazine and Glasstire. In 2016, she received and Individual Artist Grant from the City of Houston and the Houston Arts Alliance.
www.rachellevasquez.com
1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries
June 2 – July 8, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, June 8, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
This exhibition, and accompanying catalog, was organized by the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont.
Ellen Tanner
Fables, Families & Myths
Ellen Tanner’s paintings tell intricate stories that unfold through layers of fine detail, carefully rendered textures, and rich color. Her sources of inspiration for the exhibition Families, Fables and Myths include ancient tales exposing human nature, the secret lives of animals, creatures, and characters in myths. These stories provide the framework that Tanner fills with her own unique cast of characters. Each microscopic element plays a part in the larger picture, and when woven together all the details create an intimate world to explore.
Ellen Tanner earned a BFA in Graphic Design at the University of North Texas in 1998 and worked as an illustrator and graphic designer at Fossil Watch Company for 5 years. She moved to Austin in 2003 where she earned a degree in Art Education from the University of Texas. It was during a mandatory studio art class that she fell in love with oil painting. Since that class, Ellen has devoted as much time as possible to working in the studio and teaching herself to paint. Inspired by the fine detail and luminous colors of the Flemish masters, she has sought out information on their techniques and has cobbled together a personal approach to painting with thin glazes of color over a grisaille. She applies these skills with a microscopic focus that makes each painting a tiny yet fully realized world, rich with detail and color. She is represented by Moody Gallery in Houston, TX.
April 21- May 27, 2018
Strand Gallery
April 21- May 27, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, April 21, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Stratiforms
Robin Dru Germany, Jason Makepeace, and Page Piland
Stratiforms features the work of three artists who examine layers in the natural environment through photography, sculpture, and painting. These artists demonstrate acute observations of place, process, and materials, specifically in reference to wood and water. Robin Dru Germany portrays waterways in her recent series, titled Surface Tension, through photographs that reveal the parallel systems between water and air. Navigating the creeks, rivers and lakes from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast, Germany reveals these intertwined environments that are laden with implications for our future. Jason Makepeace excavates miniature kayaks and oars from whole logs in his Moldable Subtractions series. As an avid kayaker, these works honor the shape and form of the vessels he often uses to navigate our coastal waterways. Page Piland’s trompe l’oeil paintings reveal mirrored surfaces painted from the cross sections of reclaimed wood taken from sites he encounters in his daily life. These works examine our place in the natural environment and the origins of their materials and subjects, while excavating divisions between what is seen and imagined.
Robin Dru Germany (BA Tulane, Philosophy, MFA University of North Texas) was born in Houston, TX, and grew up further south in the small town of Friendswood. She has taught photography at Texas Tech University in Lubbock since 1996. Her work has been exhibited at the Society for Contemporary Photography in Kansas City, MO; at the New York Hall of Science; at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; and at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi. She has photographs in the collections of the Center for Photography Woodstock, The Boise Art Museum, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ.
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Jason Makepeace is a sculptor living and working in League City, TX. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout Texas, including pubic art projects at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and Discovery Green, Houston. He received his BA from Charleston College, Charleston, SC, and MFA from the University of Houston. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Sculpture and Program Director for the Art & Design Program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
www.jasonmakepeace.com
Page Piland lives and works in Houston, TX. He was born in Austin, TX, and received a BFA from the University of Texas. While at UT, he was art editor of student publications and worked at the Harry Ransom Center. Piland’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout Texas. His 2016 public art commission, Houston’s Tall Forest, is installed at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston.
pagepiland.com
1878 Gallery
April 21- May 27, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, April 21, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Chance Dunlap
Best Chance
Trained as a sculptor and painter, Chance Dunlap’s recent practice has focused on his passion for handmade fishing lures. Best Chance features a selection of Dunlap’s hand-crafted lures, along with examples of folk art lures from the artist’s personal collection. These works mirror Dunlap's own experience and interests as a fisherman, collector, and maker of lures. Created with the utilitarian and hopeful gesture of attracting something you can’t see from the surface, Dunlap’s tackle making possesses the formal qualities of form, texture, and color, while also harboring a relationship to place. In conjunction with the exhibition, visitors are invited to participate in an ongoing lure swap. Bring a lure and trade it for a selection of bait made by the artist.
Chance Dunlap was born and raised near Lubbock, TX, where big skies, cotton fields, and rural experiences have shaped his life and work. While in high school, his family moved to Sherman, TX, where, in the summer of 2003, he made his first sculpture in the backyard of his parents' house – deciding instantly to become a practicing artist. Dunlap completed his undergraduate work at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, just north of the Texas/Oklahoma border, and received an MFA in sculpture at the University of North Texas in Denton. His work continues to take clues from his rural roots, experiences, and personal interests. Dunlap is a proud member of the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club (NFLCC) and regularly attends trade shows to educate others on the subject. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Tyler Museum of Art, the Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, TX; and Fort Worth Community Arts Center. He is represented by Ro2 Art Gallery in Dallas, TX.
1878 Gallery
April 21- May 27, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, April 21, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Laray Polk & Marcos Lutyens
The Trinity River Project
The Trinity River Project is a collaborative exhibition by Marcos Lutyens and Laray Polk, seeking to provide an opportunity for viewers (as readers and contemplators) to become uprooted in their perceptions of the Trinity River, then re-rooted in the spirit of new possibilities. This project began with a series of ten essays, recounting the complex history and relationship between Dallas and the Trinity River from pre-colonial times to date. The essays, published by D Magazine, were followed by a weekend of guided meditations conducted by Marcos Lutyens, and a physical exhibition at the Liliana Bloch Gallery in December, 2016. The presentation of this project at GAC traces the river from Dallas to the mouth of the Trinity River at Galveston Bay.
Marcos Lutyens’ practice has centered on the investigation of consciousness to engage the visitor’s embodied experience of art. Exhibitions of infinite scale and nature have been installed in the minds of visitors. His investigations have included research with social groups such as the third-gender Muxhe, Raeilians, synaesthetes, border migrants, space engineers, and mental architects to explore how unconscious mindsets shift across cultures and backgrounds. Lutyens has developed projects that involve our external surroundings. Works include interactions with pedestrian flows, social media dialogue, air quality levels, animal and biological intercommunication.
Lutyens has exhibited internationally, such as at DOCUMENTA(13), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Royal Academy, the National Art Museum of China, and MoMA PS1. He worked in alliance with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on the 14th Istanbul Biennial, where he also created a large-scale installation on a ship, as well as preparing the public program Thought Forms and Brain Waves: Neuro-Aesthetics and Art, which included some of the world’s leading neuroscientists. Lutyens recently launched his book Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days. Present and recent work includes projects at the Guggenheim Museum, NY, the Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, the Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, the Armory, NY.
www.mlutyens.com
Laray Polk is a multimedia artist and writer. Her interests include politics, media analysis, nuclear nonproliferation, and climate change. Her articles have appeared in print in The Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, In These Times, and online at Rural America In These Times, Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Pacific Free Press, Sri Lanka Guardian, and Znet. Her multimedia exhibitions include Gaza Zoo (a project centered around the politics of captivity); and The Beautiful Obstacle (a history of the military-industrial complex at MIT). Research projects include the study of Cambodian palm-leaf manuscripts at Cornell University, interviews with Navajo Code Talkers in New Mexico, and travel to living Mayan communities and archeological sites in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.
Polk and Noam Chomsky co-authored the book Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe in 2013. A second book on sea-level rise is forthcoming.
March 3 – April 15, 2018
Strand Gallery
March 3 – April 15, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, March 3, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
AnnieLaurie Erickson
Into the Digital Mesh
AnnieLaurie Erickson’s work investigates the physical apparatus of the Internet and digital surveillance. Into the Digital Mesh includes photographic works from her ongoing Data Shadows series, which examines the traces of information we leave behind as we traverse the digital sea of the Internet. Traveling to every Google Data Center in the United States and Europe, and visiting the largest data facilities of Apple and Facebook, Erickson documents the massive infrastructure that houses our data, juxtaposing their unremarkable exteriors with their brightly colored and tangled interiors. The project calls to attention to the physical scale of information collected by these institutions and considers its impact on our daily experience. Erickson’s work offers a symbolic gesture of “counterveillence,” illuminating the locations holding our data through photographs that peer back into to the global scale of technology that surveils our digital lives.
AnnieLaurie Erickson is a lens-based artist and educator residing in New Orleans, LA. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Erickson is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of Photography at Tulane University, as well as a collective member at Antenna in the St. Claude Arts District in New Orleans. Erickson has exhibited her work at Higher Pictures, NYC; the Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC; the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans; the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; the Boston Center for the Arts; and CentrePasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland, among others. Notable press includes The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, Oxford American, Daily Serving, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, Paper Magazine, Afterimage, and Foam Magazine. In 2016 Erickson received an ATLAS (Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) grant to develop her project Data Shadows.
1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries
March 3 – April 15, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, March 3, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Paho Mann and Leigh Merril
Collections, Keepsakes, Souvenirs
In Collections, Keepsakes, Souvenirs, Paho Mann and Leigh Merrill investigate our personal and cultural relationships to the objects we collect and environments we inhabit, while addressing ideas of value, memory, and desire. Observation, photographic representation, and the role of contemporary photographic technologies are central to their individual practices. Mann considers the role of technology and photography in the ways we observe and make meaning from mass-produced objects and personal collections. Through photography, video, and 3D imaging technologies, he examines the objects we own and consume to find evidence of our identity and culture. Merrill seamlessly combines thousands of images taken of the urban landscape to create digitally simulated environments that occupy the fine border between the real and the imagined. Her images explore the construction of desire, fiction, and beauty in our urban landscapes, and what she describes as “a culture of perpetual longing.”
Leigh Merrill received a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Mills College, Oakland, CA. Merrill’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum, the diRosa Art Preserve, Lawndale Art Center, FotoFest International, and the Museum of Texas Tech University. Her work is part of the collections of the Museum of Texas Tech University, the City of Phoenix, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Merrill lives and works in Dallas, TX where she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Texas A&M University-Commerce. She is represented by Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas.
www.leighmerrill.com
Paho Mann’s work has been included in exhibitions at Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, among others. His work is included in the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, the Museum at Texas Tech University, Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS, and the City of Phoenix Public Art Program. Mann received a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Arizona State University. Currently, Mann lives and works in Dallas, TX, where he is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of North Texas in Denton.
www.pahomann.com
January 13 – February 25, 2018
Strand Gallery
January 13 – February 25, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, January 13, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
The Color Condition
Premium Quality
Known for their playful and immersive environments created from a variety of plastic and light weight fabrics, The Color Condition aims to make work that calls attention to the sites where they are installed. Drawn to repetition, patterns, color, and the natural motion of wind, the Color Condition transforms synthetic materials into installations that mimic objects found in the natural environment. Their exhibition, Premium Quality, explores a symbolic collision of the internal and external components of their installations, done and undone, to reveal their hidden woven structures.
The Color Condition is an ongoing collaboration and experiment established in 2010 between Dallas-based artists Marianne Newsom and Sunny Sliger. Their installations and environments have been featured across the US, including public art installations at Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL (2015 & 2016); Austin City Limits; The Pilgrimage Festival, Franklin, TN; as well as exhibitions at Umbrella Gallery and Beefhaus Gallery, Dallas, TX. Their most recent site-specific temporary public art installation for Discovery Green and Houston First Corporation was their largest to date and encompassed the park and Avenida de las Americas in downtown Houston in the fall of 2016.
1878 Gallery
January 13 – February 25, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, January 13, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Cary Reeder
Impermanence
Impermanence is an exhibition from a new series of paintings and cut-paper works by Houston artist Cary Reeder. Feeling unmoored by a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in 2014, Reeder began this series as a means to explore themes of loss and renewal using nature-based imagery as her muse. With Impermanence, Reeder interprets trees, hands, paths, and portals through bright, highly-saturated paintings and cut-paper painted collage works. Reeder describes her personal relationship with the subject of these works as “a metaphor for my hands and fingers, their craggy knots resembling my joints and veiny lines mimicking mine, and the paths that they shade, symbolic of a journey with an unknown end.” Having primarily exhibited paintings in her past, these new cut-paper works mark a new direction in her practice.
Cary Reeder, a Miami, Florida native, has made Houston, Texas her home since 1998. She worked for more than a decade as a graphic artist and typesetter in the early 80s and received her fine art training at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Glassell School of Art. In between her stint as a graphic artist and returning to art school, she had a 20+ year career as a grant writer and fundraiser for nonprofit organizations. Her work has been included in numerous local, regional, and national juried exhibitions, along with solos shows at the Optical Project (2016) and Lawndale Art Center (2013) in Houston. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance (2013), was twice featured in New American Paintings (Issues #108 and #120), and was a Hunting Prize Finalist (2014). Reeder currently teaches at the Art League Houston.
Brown Foundation Gallery
January 13 – February 25, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, January 13, 2018 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Michael Golden
0 – Connected
Michael Golden’s exhibition, 0 - Connected, includes collages created from images he has collected over the past 30 years of his studio practice. After retiring from teaching in 2016, Golden began sorting through his archive of images. The resulting works document his life experiences, personal associations, and play with visual metaphor through imagery pulled from science, nature and geometry. Golden’s life experiences of coming out, his varied medical history, travels, and teaching are clipped and juxtaposed with representations of forgiveness, oneness, family, and gender identity. Golden’s perception of space is altered by blindness in his right eye, with these collages offering viewers insight into his two-dimensional world.
Michael Golden was born in Chicago, IL and lives and works in Houston, TX. He received his MFA in printmaking and drawing from the University of Illinois, Champaign in 1989. For 25 years he taught in the Art Department at Houston Community College-Central, where he served as Department Chair and Gallery Director. His work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including “The Abstract Impulse” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Rudolf Blume Fine Art/Art Scan Gallery, Houston; Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL; Project Row Houses, Houston; and Artists Space and the Painting Center, New York. Golden’s work is in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN; University of California, Palo Alto; and University of Texas at Austin, as well as corporate and private collections. He has received Individual Artists Grants from HAA for both his own work and for curating.