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Marco Villegas
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Mario Perez,
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Photography. Curated by Beth Secor. Through
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upcoming
EXHIBITIONS
Cockroach
Poems
Joseph
Havel
ALH Main Gallery
2010 Texas Artist
of the Year
Jillian Conrad & Jeff
Forster
ALH Project
Gallery
Nov. 19-Dec.
17
Gambol
Juried Members Exhibition-juror Miranda Lash
ALH Main &
Project Galleries
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Art League Houston presents
Joseph Havel | 2010
Texas Artist of the Year
Cockroach
Poems
On view September 2 - October 15, 2010
Opening Reception
Thursday, September 2, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Art League Houston, Main
Gallery
Art League Houston
1953 Montrose Boulevard
Houston,
Texas 77006
For Immediate Release: For more information contact:
Sarah Schellenberg, 713.523.9530 or sarah@artleaguehouston.org
Photos and complete
biographies available on request
Houston, TX (August 9,
2010) Art League Houston is pleased to announce the opening of Cockroach
Poems, an exhibition of sculpture by 2010 Texas Artist of the Year
Joseph Havel. September 2 through October 15, 2010. The opening
reception for Cockroach Poems is Thursday, September 2, 2010, from 6:00
- 9:00 p.m, with an opening talk by the artist at 6:30 p.m.
An exhibition
catalogue, with essay by art historian and critic, Mary Leclére accompanies the
exhibit. This catalogue was made possible through a generous grant from
the Susan Vaughan Foundation. Design services were donated courtesy of
Axiom.
FROM LEFT:A
Void;,
2009 |
Nothing (detail),
2010 | X, 2010 | St. Joe
Lever, 2010 | Empty Dream Songs, 2008 |
Inside a Void,
2009-2010
Lauded by critics and audience alike, Los Angeles Times art
critic David Pagel says, "The beauty of Havel's art resides in the effectiveness
with which it disentangles wonder from transcendence, simultaneously reuniting
mystery and the ordinary world as it rescues fascination from other worldly
transport." Referring to Havel's 2006 ten year retrospective, A Decade
of Sculpture: at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Michael Odom of
Artforum declared in his review, "the combination of style and subject
were almost perfect."
Among the works in Cockroach Poems are a group of collage
"poems" which Havel created using text cut from the book The Dream
Songs by poet John Berryman. After Havel reorganized the text to form a
kind of associative, personalized poem/drawing, the resulting collages were
inadvertently further edited by cockroaches, who ate glue and bits of text,
randomly altering the work. Rather than giving the project up as a loss,
the artist addressed the act of nature by selecting the poems which worked best
as finished works, and discarding those that didn't. The layering of
actions, histories, and narratives inherent in the Cockroach Poems
reflects the conceptual ground of his other work in the show, of which
deceptively simple forms and gestures lead to a multiplicity of references.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Joseph Havel has exhibited extensively
throughout the United States and Europe, including solo museum exhibitions at
the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead U.K., the Laumeier Sculpture
Park in St. Louis, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Palais de Tokyo, the Center
for Contemporary Art in Kiev, the Huntington Beach Art Center, California, the
Bard Center for Contemporary Arts, New York, and the Dallas Contemporary.
Havel has also had recent solo exhibitions at Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery
in Houston, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie in Paris, Dunn and Brown Contemporary in
Dallas, and William Shearburn Gallery in St. Louis. In 2000, he was
included in the prestigious Whitney Biennial of American Art. His
work is also in numerous public collections including the Whitney Museum, the
Modern Museum of Fort Worth, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Honolulu, the
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Belgium, the Ministry of Culture in Paris
and Houston's Menil Collection and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In
addition to his profession as a sculptor, Joseph Havel is the Director of the
Glassell School of Art, where he has directed the Core Program since 1991.
ABOUT TEXAS ARTIST OF THE YEAR
In 1983, Art
League Houston created the Texas Artist of the Year award as a dynamic
annual project documenting Texas art history. ALH was the first
organization in the state to develop the award. To date, twenty-seven
artists have been honored. Past recipients include Keith
Carter (2009), Melissa Miller (2008), The Art
Guys (2005), Luis Jimenez (1998), Lucas
Johnson (1996), Karin Broker (1994), Bert L.
Long, Jr. (1990), Jesús Moroles (1989), Dr.
John Biggers (1988), and Dorothy Hood (1984), among
others. Art League Houston's 2010 Texas Artist of the Year is
Joseph Havel.
In 1989 Art League Houston expanded the award to include
patrons with its Texas Patron of the Year Award for extraordinary
individuals whose efforts have helped advance the work of Texas artists. Past patron honorees
include Karol Kreymer and Robert Card, M.D. (2009),
Anne and James Harithas (2008), Gus Kopriva
(2007), Clint Willour (2006), and Sue Rowan
Pittman (1989). ALH 2010 honorees are Leslie and Brad
Bucher.
Joseph Havel, along with Leslie
and Brad Bucher will be celebrated at the annual Art League Houston
Gala, White Shirts and Chiffon, which will be held in
their honor on November 5, 2010 at the Omni Houston Hotel.
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Art League Houston presents
Jillian Conrad and Jeff
Forster
On view
September 2 - October 15,
2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00
p.m.
Art League Houston, Project
Gallery
Art League Houston
1953 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77006
For Immediate Release: For more information
contact:
Sarah
Schellenberg, 713.523.9530 orsarah@artleaguehouston.org
Photos and complete
biographies available
on request
Houston, TX (August 9,
2010) Art League Houston is pleased to announce
the opening of Jillian Conrad and Jeff Forster, September 2 through
October 15, 2010. The opening reception for this exhibition is Thursday,
September 2, 2010 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., with an artist talk at 7:00 p.m.
This exhibition runs concurrently with Cockroach Poems, an exhibition
by sculptor Joseph Havel, Art League Houston's 2010 Texas Artist of the
Year.
FROM LEFT: Frailty
(Detail) Jeff Forster, Remnant of Reflecting
Space, Jeff Forster, Still
Life, Jillian Conrad, Picture
Palace, Jillian Conrad
Jillian
Conrad is an artist whose work moves between the boundaries of
sculpture, drawing and architecture. Shaping humble materials (i.e.
plywood, concrete, and cardboard) into shapes and surfaces reflective of our
everyday landscape, she connects viewers both visually and viscerally to the
world around them.
Jeff Forster is a
sculptor who works in clay. Growing up in rural Minnesota, Forster observed the
cyclical changes of seasons, conjuring ideas of life, death, and rebirth,
concepts that are integral to his work. Making sculptures from
reused materials and fired remnants, coupled with photographs of pre-existing
sculptures, Forster's creates narratives that explore the passing of time and
the inevitable process of entropy, in geological and human terms.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jillian
Conrad received an M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and a B.A. from St.
John's College, Santa Fe, NM. Jillian has exhibited her work at Nurture
Art, Brooklyn, NY; Cast Gallery, Hobart, Australia; Clough Hanson Gallery,
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN; Bronx Museum, NY; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT;
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and Bronx River Art Center, NY.
She was recently awarded a Core Fellowship with the MFAH Core Program, Glassell
School of Art (2008-2010), and has participated in numerous residencies
including Lower Eastside Printshop Residency, New York, NY; Marie Walsh Sharpe
Foundation Space Program, New York, NY; and Art Omi International Artists
Residency, Omi, NY, among others. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the
Sculpture Program at the University of Houston.
Jeff Forster received an M.F.A. from Southern
Illinois University in Edwardsville and a B.A. in Studio Art from Saint John's
University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He has shown his work in venues
that include Nore Eccles Harrison Museum of Art in Utah; Northern Arizona
University Art Museum in Flagstaff; Museum of Art, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and a
two person exhibition at Rok Gallery in Naogoka, Japan. Jeff was
artist-in-residence (2009-2010) at The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft,
for which he was awarded a Helen Drutt Studio Fellowship. He has also been
awarded residencies at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach Florida and Lone
Star College-North Harris in Houston. His other awards also include first
place in the Tasimjae Exhibition in Beaumont, Texas, and a Luis Jimenez Award
(Grand Prize) in the 2006 Sculpture on Campus Competition and
Exhibition at Southern Illinois University. Currently he is the
Ceramics Chair at The Glassell School of Art, and President of the Clay Houston
Organization.
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ABOUT
ART LEAGUE HOUSTON
Art League Houston is one of Houston's longest
operating non-profit visual arts organizations and was the first alternative art
space in Texas. Founded in 1948 and incorporated as a non-profit
organization in 1953, Art League Houston (ALH) was created to promote the public
appreciation of and interest in the visual arts. During the past 62 years,
ALH has provided over 785 exhibitions to the Houston community, showcased the
work of nearly 12,000 artists, and instructed over 36,000 students through the
Art League School and outreach programs.
OUR MISSION
The mission of Art League Houston is to
cultivate awareness, appreciation, and accessibility of contemporary visual art
within the community for its cultural
enrichment.
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SUPPORT
 
Art League Houston is funded in
part by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
This project is supported in part by a grant
from the Texas Commission on the
Arts.
Art League Houston acknowledges the
following private foundations, public funders, and corporations for their
support this season: Art Colony Association, Inc., Axiom, CenterPoint Energy,
Inc., ExxonMobil Foundation, Felvis Foundation, Ray C. Fish Foundation,
Houston Endowment, Inc., Krewe of Olympus-Texas, Inc., Lone Star Chapter of the
National Multiple Sclerosis Association, John P. McGovern Foundation, Mrs.
Katherine McGovern, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Oshman Foundation, Alice
Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Target, Susan Vaughan
Foundation, The Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation, and the Wortham
Foundation, Inc.
Art League Houston also wishes to thank its
many generous individual donors for their support.
CONTACT
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