BAYOU CITY ART FESTIVAL DOWNTOWN
2018 featured artist is Chris Vance

Saturday, October 13 & Sunday, October 14, 2018: 10am-6pm

This fall’s Bayou City Art Festival Downtown features artist Chris Vance, a Mixed Media 2D artist from Bondurant, IA. The Art Colony Association, Inc., presents event on Saturday and Sunday, October 13 -14, 2018. Vance along with 300 artists from around the world representing 19 different disciplines will showcase their art, benefiting non-profits. Vance is fueled by daily experiences, emotions, and ideas to transform a blank canvas into an expression of himself. Art is his medium of expression and he refers to art as his diary. Each piece represents a specific moment or experience in his life. Exclusively for Bayou City Art Festival, Vance unveiled his new piece inspired by Houston that will be the featured artwork for the 2018 Downtown festival. The colorful piece titled “All Spaced Out” showcases Houston’s vibrant atmosphere and diverse communities. He was influenced by the fun and inclusive city that is Houston. The featured artwork is inspired by graffiti, cartoons, the skateboarding culture, and trains.

Celebrating 47 years since the founding of the Westheimer Art Festival, now known as Bayou City Art Festival, ACA has provided a venue for over 20,000 artists to showcase their work.

Online tickets at www.artcolonyassociation.org. Tickets online are $12 for adults and $5 for children 6 – 12; children five and under are free. Tickets at the gate are $15 for adults. Also available online are two-day passes for $20 and family passes (two adults, two children tickets) for $30. Discounted tickets for Veterans and Seniors will be available at the gate.

For updates on social media, follow the official event hashtags #HouArtFest and #BCAF, like the Facebook page, or follow on Twitter and Instagram. Also, subscribe to the Art Colony newsletter here

About Bayou City Art Festival:
Entering its 47th year in 2018, the Art Colony Association has raised more than $3.6 million for local non-profit programs through the festivals. A percentage of the proceeds support local art organizations and nonprofits. The Festivals are funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, corporate sponsorships, private contributions, in-kind support and volunteer assistance. Volunteer and sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please visit www.artcolonyassociation.org.

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JONATHAN HOPSON
Now Representing
STEVEN EVANS

 

Jonathan Hopson is excited to continue alongside Steven Evans’ in his long-standing artistic career.

Born in 1964, living and working in Houston, Texas, Evans has been presenting works using disco and pop song titles, painted or hung directly on the wall, since the late 1980s. Evans has worked in a range of media throughout the years, and his work has been shown in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, and Basel, among other cities. The recent exhibitions Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault at Artists Space in New York, LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX I and II – Art Aids Activism 1987-1995 at nGbK in Berlin and Powerful Babies: Keith Haring’s Impact on Artists Today at Spritmuseum, Stockholm have rediscovered and featured these “disco” artworks. In The Number One Song In Heaven, his first artist book publication since 1986, Evans presents song titles from his extensive research files, including only number one disco songs from the late 1970s pre­-AIDS era. The result is a collision of music and memory, revealing classic favorites, forgotten moments, and an unexpected narrative.

Evans is also a curator, writer, and Executive Director of FotoFest International in Houston, Texas. His artist book The Number One Song In Heaven is available at Printed Matter Bookstore in New York City and at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Houston, TX.

Evans first exhibited with Jonathan Hopson under the curation of Creative Director Debra Barrera in her 2017 exhibit Campions. His incendiary neon sign tucked conspicuously above a window called out to every visitor “Don’t You Want Me?”. One of his famous Song Title Works, the red neon glow was a keystone of the exhibition and a necessary backdrop to the new generation of emerging artists shown at the gallery.

Evans’ first major artistic investigations began in his New York City studio in the late 1980’s during the AIDS crisis. His works deconstruct memory and history by collapsing auditory and visual information in elegantly simplistic and poignantly profound ways. Today, these works find new freshness against the ever changing landscape of our digitally reconstructed world. Evans’ work conjures up the buzz of neon lights luring us into a heavy disco beat – honest, brave, and incredibly real.

In June 2019, Evans will have a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and a solo exhibition at Jonathan Hopson in October 2019.

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Edward Lane McCartney
Announces Two Exhibitions and Events in
Houston

BILL’S JUNK
1125 E 11th St, Houston, TX 77009
November 9 – 24, 2018

Exhibit opens Friday November 9, 2018 from 6 to 9 pm, and will be on view for three consecutive Saturdays, through November 24th from 12:00 noon to 5 pm. Free
The trouble with toys is that in the hands of artists they are neither innocent nor benign; these potent symbols of childhood become an undeniably provocative medium for social and political commentary. Instantly recognizable as objects of charm and delight, toys tend to disarm and render us vulnerable, even if only for a moment. Recontextualized in a world of hazards and misdeeds, toys can bluntly expose the dangers we face and the consequences of the decisions we make in the adult world, to jarring effect. The Trouble with toys presents work of 6 Houston artists: Charlotte Cosgrove, Jill Dietrich, Edward Lane McCartney, Suzette Mouchaty, Deasa Turner and Becki Van Compernolle. Through assemblage, these artists use toys as a medium to express ideas that range from slightly uncomfortable to the macabre, and from merely absurd to nothing short of hilarious.

HEArt at AYAM
Houston’ Elite Art Exhibit & Auction
October 20 – November 3, 2018

Exhibit & Auction Grand Opening,
meet the artist and be first to start the bidding, October 20, 2018 6:00-8:00pm
$25 at the door $20 if purchased on line HEArt Ticket Includes annual membership to AYAM
Bringing together more than thirty of Houston’s most renowned artists all under one roof!
Katy Anderson, Patrick Medrano, Sharon Kopriva, Dixie Friend Gay, Patrick Renner, James Phillips, Patrick Palmer, Alicia Duplan, Jackie Liddell, Richard Williams, James Phillips, Carol Wells, Joseph Culotta, Kelly Moran, Tarina Frank, Edward Lane McCartney, Dan Allison, Anat Ronen, Bridgette Mongeon, Bryan Cope, Cheryl Evans, Chris Hedrick, Dan Dunn, Dan Havel, Emily Peacock, Hung Pham, Kelly Moran, Leamon Green, Susan Budge, The Art Guys, Tierney L. Malone and Wayne Gilbert
Each artist will be bringing pieces that will be auctioned with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the museum.
Exhibit and bids continue thru November 3
Gallery hours
M -Th 10:00-4:00, Saturday 10:00-3:00
$5 donation requested

ALTHARETTA YEARGIN ART MUSEUM
901 Yorkchester Dr
Houston, TX 77079

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SEEDS OF ALL THINGS
Houston Film Screening Premiere
Asia Society Texas Center
Sunday, October 28, 2018

3:45pm Registration
4:00pm Film Screening
5:30pm Panel Discussion
6:15pm Reception
TICKETS: $5 Members/Students (ASTC, Firestarter, HOPE Clinic), $10 Nonmembers

Seeds of All Things is a documentary set in a southwest Houston neighborhood that is home to a high concentration of immigrant communities. The local health clinic, supported with philanthropic contributions of Asian-American communities, is run almost entirely by a staff of immigrants. The film follows the families’ journeys in their new Texas home and how they define themselves as immigrants.

Asia Society Texas Center
1370 Southmore Blvd.
Houston, TX 77004