NEW MONUMENTS FOR NEW CITIES:
A Buffalo Bayou Partnership and High Line Network Public Art Project

 

Open to the Public Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Houston’s Buffalo Bayou has been selected as the inaugural site for New Monuments for New Cities, a collaborative public art project organized by the High Line Network, a coalition of visionary North American industrial reuse projects that are transforming underutilized infrastructure into new urban landscapes and redefining what parks can be. Debuting in Houston on February 20, the public art initiative’s theme is meant to stimulate discussion and community discourse on the evolving nature of monuments and ask questions such as “What does it mean to monumentalize a person, an idea or moment in time?” In coordination with High Line Art, each High Line Network participant invited five of its cities’ artists or artist groups to create proposals in the form of posters for new monuments. The resulting proposals span from traditional monuments, to revised historical statues, to newly imagined methods of public commemoration. There are drawings, photographs, renderings, Wikipedia pages, collages, and bold text-based statements.

Following Houston’s presentation, all 25 artworks will travel to Austin, Chicago and Toronto, culminating in New York on the High Line in September 2019. In Houston, the artwork will be displayed in the form of light boxes integrated into benches beckoning visitors to reflect and enter the discourse on the meaning of monuments. The structures will surround the cherished Spindleby Henry Moore in Buffalo Bayou Park’s Fondren Foundation Meadow along Allen Parkway at Gillette Street.

Major underwriting for Houston’s exhibition is provided by East River, a Midway development with additional support from the Susan Vaughan Foundation and TXRX.

“We are honored to be among a select group of cities that are exhibiting these thought-provoking artworks,” says Judy Nyquist, BBP Board Member and Public Art Committee Co-chair. “The theme, New Monuments for New Cities, is so timely as our nation and its citizens are rethinking what form monuments should take today.”

Participating Houston artists are: Regina Agu, Jamal Cyrus, Sin Huellas: Delilah Montoya and Jimmy Castillo, Phillip Pyle, II, and Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin. Artists selected by the other High Line Network participants include:
· Austin: Nicole Awai, Daniela Cavazos Madrigal, Teruko Nimura and Rachel Alex Crist, Denise Prince, Vincent Valdez
· Chicago: Eric J. García, Tonika Johnson, Chris Pappan, Richard Santiago (TIAGO), Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff
· Toronto: Susan Blight, Coco Guzman, Life of a Craphead (Amy Lam and Jon McCurley), An Te Liu, Quentin VerCetty
· New York: Judith Bernstein, Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Xaviera Simmons
In addition to the New Monuments for New Cities exhibition, Buffalo Bayou Partnership is sponsoring the following complimentary programming and events:

Saturday, March 2, 10-11 a.m.
Monuments Monologue: Artists Talks
Buffalo Bayou Park Fondren Foundation Meadow
Allen Parkway at Gillette Street

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 6:30pm
Message and Meaning: Reconsidering Monuments Today
Panel Discussion with New Monuments for New Cities Artists,
Melanie Kress, Associate Curator, High Line Art and
Moderator, Karen Farber, Executive Director, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts University of Houston
Eldorado Ballroom
2310 Elgin Street, Houston, TX 77004

Saturday, April 6, 10-11 a.m.
Monuments Monologue: Artists Talks
Buffalo Bayou Park Fondren Foundation Meadow
Allen Parkway at Gillette Street

Saturday, April 27, 8-10 p.m.
A Monumental Evening: Closing Party
Buffalo Bayou Partnership Silos along Buffalo Bayou’s East Sector
801 N. Nagle Street, off of Navigation, Houston, TX 77003

New Monuments for New Cities Schedule in Other Cities
&midot; Waller Creek, Austin March-May 2019
&midot; The 606, Chicago May-June 2019
&midot; The Bentway, Toronto May-August 2019
&midot; The High Line, New York September-October 2019

About Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Established in 1986, Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) is the Houston nonprofit organization transforming and revitalizing Buffalo Bayou, the city’s most significant natural resource. Thanks to the generous support of foundations, corporations, individuals, and governmental agencies, BBP has raised and leveraged more than $150 million for the redevelopment and stewardship of the waterfront. The organization develops award-winning projects such as the $58 million Buffalo Bayou Park, protects land for future parks, constructs hiking and biking trails, and operates comprehensive clean-up and maintenance programs. BBP also seeks ways to activate Buffalo Bayou through pedestrian, boating, and biking amenities, volunteer activities, permanent and temporary art installations, and wide-ranging tours and events.

About High Line Network
The High Line Network is a group of industrial reuse projects—and the people who help them come to life. As cities become denser and land for traditional parks becomes scarce, citizens are finding creative ways to bring greenspace to their neighborhoods. Projects in the High Line Network transform underutilized infrastructure into new urban landscapes. Redefining what a park can be, these hybrid spaces are also public squares, open-air museums, botanical gardens, social service organizations, walkways, transit corridors, and more. The High Line Network is presented by Friends of the High Line, the nonprofit organization responsible for the High Line, raising nearly 100% of its annual budget. Owned by the City of New York, the High Line is programmed, maintained, and operated by Friends of the High Line, in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. The High Line Network is made possible by the founding support of The JPB Foundation.

Buffalo Bayou Partnership
1019 Commerce Street, Suite 200
Houston, TX 77002
713.752.0314
buffalobayou.org

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The NEW Show
New Year, New Name, New Art, New Vision.

Reaves / Foltz Fine Art

On View through March 9, 2019

Launching in January 2019, the gallery will be officially rebranding as Foltz Fine Art to reflect the slight change in direction for the 13 year old Texas-focused gallery based in Houston. The gallery will continue its efforts to support educational endeavors and projects to help elevate the Art and Art History of Texas, and showcase museum-quality examples of Early Texas Art and Texas Modernism. Additionally, the gallery will turn its exhibition programming to largely reflect the diversity of what Contemporary Texas Art means today. In keeping with its role as a legacy gallery for Texas artists, the gallery will continue to host retrospective, rediscovery, and survey exhibitions highlighting important artists or aspects of the development of the visual arts in Texas.

Kicking off this new era, Foltz Fine Art presents The NEW Show,on view January 26 – March 9, 2019,featuring new works by prominent artists within the gallery’s contemporary stable, including Mary Baxter, David Caton, Margie Crisp, Fidencio Duran, Ibsen Espada, Pat Gabriel, Billy Hassell, Otis Huband, Jonathan Paul Jackson, E. Dan Klepper, Ken Mazzu, William Montgomery, Noe Perez, Jeri Salter, Richard Stout, Frank X. Tolbert II, and William Young. The NEW Show’s Opening Reception will be held Saturday, January 26th from 6-8pm, with many of the artists in attendance.

Coinciding with the opening of this contemporary exhibition, the gallery will also showcase Robert Preusser: Linear Improvisations, turning attention to an incredible group of drawings from the late 1930s by the Houston prodigy artist, where his genius can be observed first hand looking at these nonobject works created when he was not yet 20 years old, and before the true arrival of Modernism in Texas art.

Saturday, February 9, 1-3pm:
Coffee Talk with Houston Art Historian and Curator Randy Tibbits on Robert Preusser & Early Houston Art Scene
In the new year the gallery will be starting new traditions, such as Second Saturday Coffee Talks from 1-3pm at the gallery to visit with artists, scholars, collectors, and other Texas art enthusiasts. The gallery’s first Coffee Talk will be held Saturday, February 9, from 1-3pm as we take a closer look at the works of Robert Preusser and the early Houston Art scene from the 1st half of the 20th century. Coffee Talks will be video recorded to help preserve the importance of oral histories in our community. During these gatherings, the gallery will serve coffee and pastries from local businesses and makers. Supporting local, whether it be Houstonians or Texans in general, is always a good thing in our book. Also in the works, Foltz Fine Art will also be starting a series of Third Thursday Happy Hours at the gallery from 5:30-7:30pm, and vary from events supporting local/Texas based nonprofit organizations, Pop-up/Trunk Shows from Texas Makers/Vendors, and much more. Check back or stop by to see what we’ve got brewing!

Reaves / Foltz Fine Art
2143 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77098
713.521.7500
foltzgallery.com

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“Who Do We Love?”

Jonathan Hopson Gallery

On View through March 3, 2019

Presenting for the first time, a group exhibition of work from each of our four gallery artists: Julie De Vries, Steven Evans, Bradley Kerl, and Emily Peacock

Julie DeVries was born in Houston, Texas, in 1980. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her BFA in painting and Latin American Art History in 2003. For the 2002-2003 academic year she traveled to Argentina through the Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University (IFSA-Butler). On her return to Houston in 2004, she joined the MFA program at the University of Houston, graduating in 2007 in painting and drawing.
Recent exhibitions include: Sculpture Month Houston, Houston City Hall, Houston, TX (2018), Sculpture Month Houston, 1940 Air Terminal Museum, Houston, TX (2018), MaMa: Women in the Arts, The Union, Houston, TX (2018), Letting go of another dirty day, Jonathan Hopson, Houston, TX (2017), Coyote, Jonathan Hopson, Houston, TX (2017), Draped Up & Dripped Out, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (2014), austere measures, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (2013), Part of the Process, Joan Wich & Company, Houston, TX (2008)

Steven Evans was born in 1964 in Key West, Florida and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. He graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1989 with an M.F.A.
He works within a range of cultural practices and has participated in solo and group exhibitions and projects in Houston, New York City, Los Angeles, Basel, Berlin, Lisbon, Paris, Stockholm, and elsewhere. One of his works inspired the title of the recent touring exhibition of the collection of Julie Ault, Tell It To My Heart. He will receive his first solo museum exhibition in summer 2019 at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (CAMH).

Bradley Kerl was born in 1986 in Beaumont, TX., and he currently lives and works in Houston, TX. He received his B.F.A. University of North Texas in 2009. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Houston in 2014.
Recent exhibitions include: Bradley Kerl, Jonathan Hopson, Houston TX. (2018), 10 Years 10 Artists, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA. (2018), 44 Artists from Texas, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX. (2018), The Dangerous Professors curated by Ruslana Lichtzier, Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX. (2018), Coyote, Jonathan Hopson, Houston, TX. (2017), and Greenhouse, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX. (2017).

Emily Peacock was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1984. From 2002 to 2004, she studied photography and journalism at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. In 2008, she was admitted to the University of Houston to study photography and digital media, graduating in 2011 with her Master of Fine Art.
Emily Peacock was awarded the 2013­-2014 Lawndale Artist Studio Program artist­-in-­residence which culminated in and she recently received the Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant for 2016.
Recent exhibitions include: I Swore I Would Change, 215 Orleans Project Space, Beaumont, TX (2017), Home Remedies For Cabin Fever, Big Medium, Austin, TX (2017), August, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX (2017),The Likelihood of Future Improvement, Jonathan Hopson, Houston, TX. (2016), August, Diverseworks, Houston, TX (2016), User’s Guide to Family Business, Beefhaus, Dallas, TX (2016), Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2013, 2014), Deep Ellum Windows, Dallas, TX (2014), Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX (2011).
Peacock’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

 

Jonathan Hopson Gallery
904 Marshall
Houston, TX 77006
713.521.7500
jonathanhopsongallery.com

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Travis K. Schwab
hard to be a god

Cindy Lisica Gallery

February 15 – March 16, 2019
Opening Reception:
Friday, February 15, 6-8:30pm

Cindy Lisica Gallery presents the newest oil on canvas paintings by Travis K. Schwab in his solo exhibition, hard to be a god. The always thought-provoking artist takes on our human drive to attain fame and admiration. His awareness of and commentary on a sense of discontent with the self is a mix of harsh reality with spectral beauty, intensity and satire. Daily life, films and social media are seen through the lens of celebrity-saturated culture. This powerful exhibition reveals the pressure and effects of the super ego, the clash of the public persona with the inner states of the mind, as well as emotional and religious overtones.
Travis K. Schwab (b. 1984, Wichita, KS) currently lives in Pittsburgh, where he has held highly-praised exhibitions at The Andy Warhol Museum, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Point Park University, and Revision Space Gallery. He graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 2005 and has since been included in a number of exciting institutional and juried shows. Schwab’s compelling paintings have been highlighted in a number of prominent publications, including New American Paintings and The New Republic, where his blurred portrait depiction of JFK was a full page feature. His artwork has appeared on the cover of UNSAID Literary Journal, as well as in PaperCity Magazine and as a “Must See Exhibit” in LOCAL Houston (2016). He was selected as one of “30 Under 30 Groundbreaking Artists” in Art Business News (2013), and his work can be found in truly impressive private collections across the country from Los Angeles to Houston to New York and internationally.

Cindy Lisica Gallery
4411 Montriose, Suite F
Houston, TX 77006
713.807.7760
cindylisicagallery.com