6 - 9 PM May 17, 2013

MAIN GALLERY

Artist talk 6:30 PM

Music performance 7:30 PM

Art League Houston is excited to present Cocomirle, a site-specific audio visual environment by Romanian born and Houston-based artist Adela Andea in collaboration with musicians, composers and performers Markus Cone and Ian Travis from experimental sound group CHIN XAOU TI WON. The exhibition explores the relationship between technology and social interaction through an intricately woven electromechanical installation. Made up of acoustic instruments, mixing boards, electronic keyboards, flex neon, cold cathode fluorescent lights (CCFL) and computer electronics, Cocomirle engages with the visual, spatial, kinetic and phenomenological properties of sound.

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Art League Houston is excited to present Art Criticism and Reporting, a two part exhibition by Devon Britt-Darby that combines fragments of retrieved memories to explore themes of vulnerability, portraiture and "appropriated autobiography." Using a performative painting process, the exhibit will piece together scenes from the artist's past as a sex worker and a former newspaper art critic to evoke ambiguous narratives that it is ultimately up to the viewer to complete.

The first part of the exhibition features a series of text paintings conceived as portraits of the authors whose words are contained therein. Painted against abstract, reflective backgrounds that cause the words to shift in and out of legibility with changes in the light and the viewer's orientation, the texts are appropriated from Internet forum posts and press articles written about Britt-Darby during and two cross-country road trips - one in 2004, another in 2011-2012 - that provoked alarm and public speculation about his mental state. The second installment of the exhibition features a three week residency in the ALH Front Gallery where the artist will complete a mural size painting on upstretched canvas. ALH visitors are welcome to enter the gallery and talk with the artist as he works. The opening reception is 6-9 PM on Friday, May 17, 2013 in the ALH Front Gallery. Artist talk at 7:00 PM.

Art League Houston is pleased to present New Work, an exhibition of new-mixed media paintings by Dallas based artist Giovanni Valderas. The work combines a variety of materials including paper, acrylic paint, wood, drawing and screen print to create complex three dimension paintings that hang awkwardly on the wall and explore themes of decaying traditional structures. The opening reception is 6-9 PM on Friday, May 17, 2013 in the ALH Hallway Gallery. Artist talk at 6:15 PM.

 

The Art League is funded in part by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and 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., Asakura Robinson Company, Axiom, Bank of River Oaks, The Brown Foundation, CenterPoint Energy, Inc., CHEVRON, ExxonMobil Foundation, Felvis Foundation, Gainer Donnelly, Houston Endowment, Inc., Kinder Morgan Foundation, Krewe of Olympus-Texas, Inc., Lone Star Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Association, John P. McGovern Foundation, Mrs. Katherine McGovern, Oshman Foundation, Larissa Poindexter, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Target, Susan Vaughan Foundation, The Vaughn Foundation, The Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation, and the Wortham Foundation, Inc.

Art League Houston also wishes to thank its many generous individual members & donors for their support. Art League Houston also wishes to thank its many generous individual donors for their support.