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2012 Texas Artist of the Year
FLYAWAY
New Work by Aaron Parazette
Exhibition on view September 7 - November 2, 2012
Art League Houston, Main Gallery
Art League Houston (ALH) is proud to announce the 2012 Texas Artist of the Year exhibition, FLYAWAY: New Works by Aaron Parazette. The exhibition features a selection of new paintings from the "Color Key" series, which the artist has been developing for the last three years, as well as a large site specific wall painting. This will be the artists first large scale wall painting in Houston since his one person exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston in 2004. FLYAWAY: New Work by Aaron Parazette will be on view in the Main Gallery at Art League Houston. The opening reception is Friday, September 7 from 6 - 9 PM with an artist talk at 6:30 PM.
"We are so thrilled to have Aaron Parazette as our Texas Artist of the Year and Judy and Scott Nyquist as our Patrons of the Year," said Cara Pauloski Rudelson, Art League Houston President. "Recognizing individuals who enhance the art community through their continuous support of the arts in Houston and Texas artists who enrich our culture is a long standing tradition of Art League Houston," she added.
Aaron Parazette has lived and worked in Texas for over 20 years. He was born and raised in California and came to Houston in 1990 to be part of the Core Residency Program at the Glassell School of Art. As a Texas artist Aaron has had an extremely active career, with his work being shown regionally, nationally, and internationally. He is represented by McClain Gallery in Houston. He has had solo exhibitions at McClain Gallery, Texas Gallery, and the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Dallas Contemporary and Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas, the Mark Moore Gallery and the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Fransisco, the ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, and Marlborough Gallery in New York.
Aaron has also been included in over 100 group exhibitions at venues including University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, Florida; Exit Art in New York; The New Orleans Museum of Art; The Chicago Cultural Center; Hall Walls in Buffalo, New York; Art Pace in San Antonio; the Loggia Gallery in Toronto, Canada; The San Francisco Art Institute; the Saintes Museum of Art in Saintes, France, and the Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea. Aaron's work has also been written about and reviewed regularly in publications including Art News,Art in America, Artnet, Afterimage, Art Papers, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Artlies, LA Weekly, and New Art Examiner.
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2012 Texas Patrons of the Year
TEXAS ECLECTIC
A selection of Texas artists from the collection of
Judy and Scott Nyquist.
Exhibition on view September 7 - November 2, 2012
Art League Houston, Project Gallery
Art League Houston (ALH) is proud to announce the 2012 Texas Patrons of the Year exhibition, TEXAS ECLECTIC: A selection of Texas artists from the collection of Judy and Scott Nyquist. This exhibition features over thirty-five engaging artworks in ceramic, drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, print-making, sculpture and textile from thirty-three defining Texas artists including Amy Blakemore, Bill Davenport, The Art Guys, Joseph Havel, Rachel Hecker, Aaron Parazette, Chuck Ramirez and Robin Utterback. TEXAS ECLECTIC will be on view in the Project Gallery at Art League Houston from September 7 - November 2, 2012. The opening reception is Friday, September 7, 6 - 9 PM, 2012.
Judy and Scott Nyquist came to Houston over a decade ago from London with a young family in tow. Admittedly "naive" about Houston's art community and with modest expectations, they gingerly embarked on an exploration of the local landscape. To their delight they discovered a vital, progressive, diverse and compelling atmosphere with more excitement, opportunity and substance than they could have ever predicted.
Their passion for collecting contemporary art grew - particularly fueled by the accessibility of working artists and the satisfaction that they found in significant engagement with the actual "maker" that Houston affords. Not only are they keen collectors, but more significantly they feel most rewarded by helping to enable artists achieve their aspirations through patronage for prospective projects. "Houston is a unique and welcoming art community with no pretense," remarked Judy, "and we are extremely privileged to be a part of it."
Judy, an art historian by training, previously had a career as a curator before starting a family. Since her arrival in Houston she has become deeply involved in the community and serves on boards and committees of a myriad of arts institutions, museums and organizations. Her current activities include raising funds and awareness for emerging and mid-career artists and institutions such as the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, The Glassell School of Art, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, The Menil Collection, The Buffalo Bayou Partnership, Hermann Park Conservancy, Houston Arts Alliance, Rice University Public Art Program and the Blaffer Gallery. She has assumed many leadership roles within these institutions all aimed at bolstering education, exposure and accessibility to wide audiences. Scott shares Judy's fervor for the visual arts and is an avid museum, gallery and studio visitor. He is a strong advocate of the value of arts education and sees it as an essential component of any curriculum. "Our lives are infinitely richer by having the opportunity to invest in the vitality and creativity of the Houston scene," Scott enthuses.
All three awardees will be celebrated at the annual gala titled Carnival of Cool, which will be held in their honor on October 26, 2012 at the Hotel ZaZa.
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