Over 150 artists interpret the concept of bones as a vehicle of expression. Included in the show are three feature installations. CHRIS HEDRICK examines the atrocities of mans inhumanity, TIM JOHNSON explores the spiritual and social experiences of our sub-conscious and HUNTER ROTH collaberates with CHARLES BARBIER and CLARK DERBES to present a single concept through collaborative process.
>> Saturday, July 2, 2005
FACE
Opening: Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
7-10 pm, music & refreshments
The Artcar Museum invites artists to participate in the exhibition Face. The purpose of this exhibition is to give artists an opportunity to exhibit their self-portraits and also to provide the community with a deeper sense of their identity.
>> April 23 - June 25, 2005
Western Eyes - a photography exhibition in conjunction with FotoFest
This is the second half of a two-part exhibit entitled Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World which was originated and organized by curator Wim Melis at the Noorderlicht Photofestival in the Netherlands. The first half of the exhibit Arab Eyes will open at FotoFest on April 8th. For details, please visit www.fotofest.org.
>> November 19, 2004 - February 2005
Rust Bucket is an exhibition of the sculpture of several generations of Houston artists who have either purposely used rust as an element of expression or accepted it as part of a natural process -- the oxidation of iron. Rust in the hands of an artist is not only potentially beautiful but it also can make an artist’s work more meaningful. Rust implies age or the aging process; it gives the work of art integrity and a rustic sense of survival.
Most significant is the fact that this exhibition presents important but little known works by some of Houston’s most gifted and serious artists: Kenny Browning, W.T. Burge, Noah Edmundson, Roy Fridge, Tim Glover, Eric Kolflat, Jesse Lott, Cesar Martinez, Koral Pior, Forrest Prince, Jim Robertson, Mike Scranton, Ed Wilson, and Richard Wood. Each of the artists listed above is a significant figure in the Houston art world. The ‘down-home’ look of their work is pure Texas, a look that is fundamental to its meaning -- the transformation of humble materials into meaningful form.
Two one-person exhibitions are also being formally opened on this date. The first, an exhibition of collages by Ann Harithas, presents the artist’s most recent work. Her work is a kind of Texas-based Surrealism. Her frequent references to Native American culture and her use of Christian religious symbolism imply a profound sense of morality. The paintings of Dion Laurent are also featured in a one-person exhibition. His images of gas pumps from all over the world are symbols of the global power of the oil industry.
>> September 17 - November 14, 2004
Fronteras
Featured ArtCars on display are: Cig-Kills by Alex Harrah, Big Splinter and Little Splinter by Isaac Cohen, Faith by David Best, Xyloto Bot by Jim Robertson, Spoonozoid by Mark Bradford, Thorny Rock & Roll by Alex Coward, Pink Cadillac and Swamp Mutha by Ann Harithas.
A group exhibition: Fronteras features Mel Casas, Luis Jimenez, Cesar Martinez, Frank Fajardo, Jesse Lott, John Alexander and several members of the California Street Scapers.
Dion Laurent's Travel Series is an ongoing series of paintings of international gas pumps.
The Armory, is a steel sculptural installation by Noah Edmundson that features a diverse selection of weapons and other elements made of steel.
Ann Harithas new collages are rigorously composed expressions of a kind of surrealism that is Texas based.
>> March - August 2002
EXPATRIA
Phillipe Diederich, Amalia Harithas, Paul Ryan, Jenny Stark, Avdey Ter Oganyan / The Non - Governmental Control Commission, Kathy Vargas, Martin Zet, Manabu Yamanaka
>> September 21 - December 21, 2001
Eric Avery, Warren Cullar, Gabriel Delgado, Sam Durant, Tim Glover
David Graeve, Tish Stringer, Leamon Green, Ann Harithas, Amalia Harithas, Scott Prescott, Forrest Prince, Lynn Randolph, Bert Samples, Matt Slimmer, Jenny Stark, Stephanie Swartz, Ed Wilson
>> May 18 - September 2001
The Boom - Bennie Flores-Ansell, Gabriel Delgado, E. Michael Hollis, Richard Mock, George Smith, Kaneem Smith
>> February 17 - May 1, 2001
SALVATORE SCARPITTA - OUTLAW ART AT RACING SPEEDS
>> September - December 2000
David Krueger: Parallel Lives, Frank X Tolbert 2: M.L 2000
>> May - December 2000
Ron Hoover: Mr.WTO, Jim Hatchett: Dirt Painting; Jesse Lott: Spartacus, Mike Scranton: Motorhead
>> April - November 2000
Know-Mad, Mel Chin The Ayate Car, Betsabee Romero
>> March 3 - September 2000
Shudder Speed, essay by Susie Kalil, Ann Harithas: Collage, Amalia Harithas: Regaining Paradise, George Hixson: the Houston Underground, Bert Long: Photographs, Irvin Tepper: Sleeping Homeless, NYC, Suzanne Paul: Triptych, Andy Mann: Octo Quad Ring, Antonio Turok: Quien Es Marcos?, Manuel Pellicer: Ya Basta!
>> December 3, 1999 - February 2000
Mania: Wanda Alexander, Cynthia Morgan Batmanis, Gabriel Delgado, Raul Lemesoff, John Long, Angelbert Metoyer, Suzanne Paul, Jonathan Rosenstein, Abe Royster, Kari Steele
