A variety of techniques are represented this season in ''In-DEPTH Texas Sculpture Group Member Exhibition'' at the Art Car Museum. Houston's own James Ciosek has a rather explosive one: He fires guns at a piece of metal until the unassuming bulls' eye becomes something he calls art. ''It's a lot...
Perry House is all about opposites -- he strives to create images that are beautiful and disturbing, about construction and destruction, that walk the line between "horror and humor," as he says, border realism and abstraction, and are elegant and violent. The latter, apparently, is the main dynamic in a...
Getting your art shown in a museum is never easier than at the Art Car Museum’s annual open-call show. The museum sets a theme (this year it’s God) and selects a featured artist. Then the first 125 people offering pieces following the theme get to have their work presented in...
Artists working with repurposed materials take things some would consider to be at the end of their usefulness and create something new. That's the premise behind the ''full circle'' exhibit at the Art Car Museum, which features new works created from recycled and reappropriated items, from newspapers to garbage, by...
Personal issues become political ones in Pat Johnson's exhibition "Artist Tries to Save the World," now on view at the Art Car Museum. With ceramic sculpture and satire, Johnson brings to the viewer's attention some of the most polarizing sociopolitical matters of our time: racism, greed, international poverty and hunger...
Putting together a quarter-century’s worth of work by a single artist on a gallery wall allows viewers to see the way that artist has grown over the years, the way his style has changed, his focus shifted. That’s true for “Perry House: Elegance/Violence,” currently at the Art Car Museum. In...
It's not often that an artist gets an opportunity to collect his or her work of the past quarter-century and hang the output on a gallery wall. Along with an art exhibit, there's another reward that happens before the pieces are hung just right on a freshly hammered nail. Specifically,...
Dennis McNett, one of the nation's renowned printmakers, practices the tedious, time-consuming art of carving. Most of his works are huge and have a graphic basis in '80s skateboard and punk rock culture; they are frequently described as "surly." He also specializes in large, mobile pieces such as the Wolfbats...
On Friday, catch the latest screening and performance in the Houston Public Media Silent Film Concerts. A comedy in four acts, The Oyster Princess is a 1919 film by German director Ernst Lubitsch. It chronicles the story of a spoiled rich girl whose marriage isn't everything she thought it would...
The rules were simple for the show Seventh Annual Open Call Exhibition: Reconstruction (Featuring Artist Sherry Sullivan). One piece per artist would be accepted, and only the first 125 pieces would be shown. The concept meant that, for this show at least, timing was almost as important as talent. The...
