Art Update Houston: June 16, 2018
Houston’s Diverse Architecture
Ben Koush
Saturday June 16: 4pm
Explore Houston’s diverse architecture through the boom and bust of its developers and builders with the author Ben Koush who earned a 2018 Gold Brick Award from Preservation Houston. Koush will be at a book signing and talk at Hiram Butler Gallery.
He will discuss his latest title: Constructing Houston’s Future: The Architecture of Arthur Evans Jones & Lloyd Morgan Jones.
Other gallery exhibits include
FOUR ARTISTS FOUR ROOMS FOX, HAVEL, JAMES, SHEPHERD
Ongoing through 28 JULY 2018
Ongoing through 30 JUNE 2018
Hiram Butler Gallery
4520 Blossom
Houston, TX 77006
Joris Laarman Lab:
Design in the Digital Age
Opens Monday June 24
MFAH
From furniture generated by algorithms to designs brought to life by a robot, the work of experimental Dutch designer Joris Laarman challenges the boundaries of art, science, and technology. Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age is the first U.S. museum survey to offer an in-depth look at the designer’s innovative oeuvre.
Showcasing furniture, design experiments, suites of drawings, and videos, the exhibition features a number of works from the MFAH collection. Joris Laarman Lab explores the highly progressive qualities of Laarman’s work, both aesthetically and technologically.
Together with engineers, programmers, and craftspeople at the Joris Laarman Lab in Amsterdam, Laarman creates groundbreaking projects that reimagine traditional forms, many of which are one-of-a-kind and some of which are created only in very limited production. Joris Laarman Labpresents furniture designs and applied projects made throughout Laarman’s career alongside related videos, sketches, and renderings. The exhibition highlights Laarman’s major bodies of work, from projects he created as a student to his most-recent 3-D printing innovations.
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Houston, TX 77005
Kaci Vigil
Pride Week Event
Monday June 18
Urban Eats
Local artist Kaci Vigil will be at Urban Eats to host a PRIDE WEEK inspired art event from 5-9pm. On June 18th. In addition to the art displayed in the two-story live gallery there will be live music, drink specials, live painting, and a live raffle as well as additional PRIDE inspired pieces on sale. A portion of the proceeds will be given to the Montrose Center HATCH youth services.
Urban Eats
3414 Washington
Houston, TX 77007
Branislav Jankic
MILA: A Sculpture and Performance
Wednesday June 20: 1pm-4pm
Santa Maria Hostel
On Wednesday June 20th, Santa Maria will host a 3 hour artistic performance by Artist Branislav Jankic whereby more than 150 women and children from Santa Maria Hostel will help bring a wooden sculpture into being by carving their name, or the name of a loved one into the sculpture surface.
The rhombus diamond shape is an old European symbol of Motherhood and fertility, which was, used in earlier installments of the Letter to my Mother series of artistic works. For Mila, a large wooden table in this shape will be used to create the piece of art while the Santa Maria Hostel women (current and alumni) will be invited to go inside the room by themselves or with their children and carve their name on this wooden diamond shaped table.
Through the ritual of carving, each inscription permanently records this intimate moment as a place for reflection. This sculpture will serve as the next iteration of Letter to My Mother, the literary and photography project Jankic completed in 2016, the first of an ongoing effort toward lifting the stigma facing women in recovery. Following the performance Jankic will donate the sculpture for permanent display at Santa Maria Hostel.
Santa Maria Hostel is one of Texas’ largest multisite residential and outpatient substance use disorder treatment centers for women. The road to recovery can take many different paths and Santa Maria is here to pave the way for women and children. From recovery from addiction to recovering from homelessness, incarceration, abuse and other trauma, Santa Maria has the experience and compassion to offer a hand up, change lives, and heal families.
Branislav Jankic (b. 1983) is a Serbian-American artist, director, and photographer based in Chicago. His work has appeared in Interview (RU, DE), GQ (UK), Vogue Homme (Japan), Elle, and Flaunt. Under the tutelage of Gian Paolo Barbieri and others, Jankic draws deeply from his own past as a child of displacement, of addiction, and of rebirth. His award-winning book and documentary, Letter to My Mother (2015) was inspired by his mother’s battle with cancer and addiction. His collaboration with Gian Paolo Barbieri, Flowers of My Life (2015), debuted at Milan Fashion Week and has been praised in Vanity Fair (IT), I.D., Women’s Wear Daily, and Love Magazine (UK). Jankic is currently pursuing his MFA in Film at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Santa Martia Hostel, Bonita House
2605 Parker
Houston, TX 77093