Art Update Houston: March 16, 2019
Orna Feinstein
The Other Side of the Forest
Anya Tish Gallery
March 22 – April 27, 2019
Artist Reception:
Friday, March 22, 6-8:30pm
Live performance by Green House Art Collective at 7pm & 8pm
A full color, limited edition artist monograph will accompany the exhibition
Anya Tish Gallery is pleased to announce The Other Side of the Forest, an exhibition featuring three-dimensional monoprints, concrete works, and a large-scale installation by Israeli-born, Houston-based artist Orna Feinstein. The Other Side of the Forest marks Feinstein’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery.
As an internationally recognized printmaker, Feinstein is fascinated with nature’s inherent abstractions. Her work gracefully visualizes the geometric complexities of nature on both the micro and macro scale, while expanding the classic two-dimensional format of monoprinting into the realm of sculpture and installation. The elements of line and pattern created by dense layering produce a moiré effect, which causes the work to appear as if it is moving on its own. This mirage beckons us to discover The Other Side of the Forest.
Feinstein’s main installation incorporates a variety of different patterned fabrics, cylindrical shapes, and laser cut Plexiglas to create a vibration between foreground and background. She is known for experimenting with the traditional concept of a monoprint leading her to introduce concrete into her practice. The organic and the geometric become one in a balanced, yet playful composition. The Other Side of the Forest provides a multi-dimensional, eye-catching, dynamic experience.
Orna Feinstein graduated Summa Cum Laude and received a BFA from the University of Houston, as well as getting a diploma from the Glassell School of Art. Feinstein’s retrospective exhibition Now and Zen – Fifteen years of Contemporary Printmaking has traveled to various significant museums such as the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas; Museum of Geometric and Madi Art of Dallas, Texas; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international private and public collections including National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas; Douro Museum, Portugal; Fidelity Investments, Houston, Texas; Keshet Eilon Music Center, Kibbutz Eilon, Israel; Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos, Greece; Pablo Atchugarry Foundation, Uruguay; University of the West England, Bristol, United Kingdom. Her work was published this year in a 150-page hardback monograph featuring an essay by Dena M. Woodall, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Anya Tish Gallery
4411 Montrose, Suite F
Houston, TX 77006
713.524.2299
anyatishgallery.com
SECRET WALLS X
UP Art Studio & Downtown District
Market Square Park
Saturday, April 6, 2019
The Houston Downtown Management District (Downtown District) partners with UP Art Studio to present Secret Walls x Houston at Market Square Park on Saturday, April 6, 2019. In Houston’s third installment of this popular global series, two teams representing ten international, national and regional muralists will go head-to-head in a live art competition. The teams will consist of Chaz from London Police, Dread (Denver), Galo (Italy), Jake Merten (Chicago), JC Rivera (Chicago), Matt Gondek (Los Angeles), Mez Data (Austin), Studio FLOP (Brazil) and Houston artists Coler and w3r3on3.
Founded in London in 2006, Secret Walls is the world’s premier live illustration battle, having produced more than 1,000 shows across the globe. Armed with black markers and black acrylic paint, artists participating in Secret Walls x Houston will have 90 minutes to create murals on two walls, each 8 feet tall and 20 feet wide. In addition to the live art competition, spectators will enjoy a breakdancing battle, an art market, food trucks and live music from DJ BBC. Following the battle, judges and the audience will decide the evening’s winning team of artists.
On Friday, April 5, Secret Walls Founder, Terry Guy, and UP Art Studio will host School Walls—a program that utilizes the structure and rules of Secret Walls to nurture the artistic talent of youth—at Burbank Middle School in Houston’s Northside neighborhood. Through the program, students are informed about the negative impacts of graffiti and vandalism and shown that Secret Walls produces the thrills that graffiti artists seek, in a spectated, legal space.
Please visit www.marketsquarepark.com for additional details and event updates.
Agnès Bourély
The Restless Forgetfulness of What We Exile
Barbara Davis Gallery
March 22 – April 27, 2019
Artist Reception:
Friday, March 22, 6-8:30pm
The Restless Forgetfulness of What We Exile, an exhibition of new drawings and paintings by internationally known French artist Agnès Bourély. The Restless Forgetfulness of What We Exile, opens Friday, March 22, 2019 with an artist reception from 6 – 8:30pm.
Agnès Bourély has entered the sphere of visual practice through a life enriched by a family of musicians. Encroaching from her mother and sister, as pianists and her father, a photographer, her eldest daughter is a violinist and sound engineer – she was occupied by the sounds of French impressionist music in neoclassical concert halls both by the generation that preceded and succeeded her. An acrobat of sorts, growing up in a neoimpressionist environment as a guitarist herself, has transformed Bourély’s abilities to diversify her stylistic analyses of familiar forms of nature into a deputy of visual sounds. Boldness starts to appear in the bulk-ability of the work and the contortionist acting out the story becomes the pathologist of solfège.
With the knowledge of sound, a musician can audiate and mentally listen to the selective scripts prescribed in front of them. Bourély’s journey is infused with every line and every brushstroke, provoking and enforcing the vital signs of movement. Not a single movement, but a shift of collective movements rise out of the two-dimensional sphere like that of sound. Her work is clarity of obeying and selective abeyances, as she uses and suspends from that ‘contortionists’ direction.’ What is performed in a concert hall, is indulged by the intimacy of the musician and their instrument, and then through the movement of sound is what provokes the inspector to their next, most current indulgence.
The solo contortions grow through the stroke of an instrument and its next movement is built from fragments of symphonies. A rise of sound eventually has a fall, but depending on Bourély’s rise and fall, might an incarnation appear. Whether in the form of a cycle, or a turning point of engagement as the work rotates from one movement to another, Bourély’s work has created a sense of selective exile.
Bourély has moved to 7 countries in 12 years. Her commitments to her home and family have also been the director of her interchangeable social environments. Her role as a mother, wife, and self-embodiment welcomes the malleability of her identity to take on the solfège in dictation of pitches and selective movements in degrees. High and low, deep and wide, major and minor scales of engagement rule the concept of domesticity and liberté.
Bourély personalizes the grasp of the materials being used for the work of art in the making, only to revisit and for the contortionist to return. The crayons that draw out definitive lines, and the brushstrokes that also derive the negative and positive spaces as they fall in and out of their respective environments, tend to carry a grounding and a sky-like derivation of space. Everything that occurs in between is what we are left with to use as a playground of unlimited possibilities. Both beautifully pure, and beautifully evolved in the movement of an artist who finds herself in Houston, has re-defined and renewed her approach to her work. Bourély’s picturesque honesty remains the most constant and heightened sensibility and this is a unique glimpse to what Houston derived in her.
Bourély received her BA in painting; Diplôme d’Art Plastique, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Angers, France in 1986. She received a Silver Medal from The Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado 1988. Her solo exhibitions include the French Consulate State Anzoátegui, Venezuela Gallery “Colette Dubois,” 420 Rue Saint Honoré Paris, France in 2015; The Ministry of Finance Bercy in Paris, France Gibert Joseph Library, Boulevard Saint Michel in Paris, France, Gallérie Colette Dubois, 420 Rue Saint Honoré Paris, France in 2014 and Esprit d’Atelie Gallérie in Versailles, France Le Vis-à-Vis Gallérie in Paris, France in 2013.
Barbara Davis Gallery
4411 Montrose
Houston, TX 77006
713.520.9200
barbaradavisgallery.com
Javier Valle Pérez
Earth, Wind & Future
Cindy Lisica Gallery
March 22 – April 26, 2019
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 22, 6-8:30pm
Presenting a solo exhibition of the newest oil on canvas paintings by celebrated Nicaraguan artist Javier Valle Pérez in Earth, Wind & Future. Known for his spectacular and whimsical gestural style, he creates a symphony of real and fantastic machines for human interaction and travels from planet earth to the outer reaches of the atmosphere and space. His colorful storytelling is a satiating blend of technical accomplishments and dreams of the future. The brilliant, energetic canvases bring thoughtful visual poetry about the past and the future with incredibly varied, yet harmonious lines and color combinations. With his direct lived experience of recent unrest in his beautiful home city of Managua, Javier Valle Pérez sharply conceives a series of spectacular journeys of both child-like wonderment and forward-thinking fantasy. His paintings combine truth, nature, and desire in our worlds within worlds.
Javier Valle Pérez (b. 1973) is a crucial figure of contemporary Nicaraguan art and an integral representative of Latin, Central and South American art movements in the 21st century. He graduated in 1998 from the National School of Fine Arts of Nicaragua, where he currently lives and works in the capital city of Managua. He has a luminous résumé of more than 70 international exhibitions in galleries and museums and has won several awards, including 1st Prize in the National Painting Competition of Nicaragua. His work is in a variety of impressive private collections across the United States and all over the world in Germany, China, France, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the Netherlands.
Cindy Lisica Gallery
4411 Montrose, Suite F
Houston, TX 77006
713.807.7760
cindylisicagallery.com