Even if Libbie Masterson's name doesn't ring a bell, you still might be familiar with her work: She's got a large panoramic public art piece at William P. Hobby Airport in the international concourse area. The seven-panel glass mosaic is the perfect respite for harried travelers, delivering a calming water and sky...
Psophonia Dance Company’s newest production, The Between Space, marks the beginning of a new era for the troupe, now in its 17th year. The performance is our choice for Friday. Founder and Artistic Director Sophia L. Torres has paired up with Houston performer and dance-maker Leslie Scates. “In the past,...
The world of photography has many mansions. Some photographers seek to capture a fleeting moment of action frozen in time. Others await the moment when the sun bursts through the clouds or when the bud opens. Jerry Uelsmann is a photographer of a very different stripe, creating composite photographs that...
Martin Elkort changed the world of photography. Best known for his work capturing New York City street scenes during the 1940s and ’50s, Elkort would shoot unsuspecting subjects in natural settings — families enjoying a day at Coney Island, Hasidic Jewish children playing, sidewalk performers, lovers kissing in front of...
When you think art galleries, does an image of fancy-pants folk, sipping wine and using words like "post-modernism" come to mind? If you have shied away from the gallery scene because it felt a little too stuffy for you, then perhaps this Thursday's Arts and Crafts Crawl, hosted by Bayou...
In the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement, mizugiwa means the point where the water and plant meet. In English, that's better known as the shore or bank, but it doesn't seem nearly as poetic. In "Water's Edge (Mizugiwa)" at Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston artist Libbie J. Masterson explores this...
Maggie Taylor's brand of photomontage is a fascinating mix of old and new forms of photography that results in even more fascinating images. Since 1996, the Florida artist has been working with Photoshop, taking advantage of its imaging magic to create pictures that are truly surreal, strange and, yes, magical...
Vivian Maier's is a fascinating story -- the "nanny photographer" who took hundreds of thousands of photographs from the 1950s-'70s, many of them going undeveloped until discovered in an Indiana storage auction in 2007. It's romantic stuff that's been eaten up by press the world over, but the story wouldn't...
Painterly photographs never seem to lose their appeal -- there's a reason there are multiple apps that specialize in turning your boring old photographs into neatly framed, beautiful works of art. Rita Bernstein achieves a similar effect in her work, but rather than pushing a button, the Philadelphia photographer spends...
Rita Bernstein gave up a career as a civil rights lawyer to spend time with her family. Somewhere along the way, she picked up a camera and began photographing domestic life. It seems the change was a good move, because some of her images have become part of the permanent...
