Wild Life
Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves
Brown Foundation Gallery
On View February 24–May 16, 2021
Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves brings together paintings by Elizabeth Murray (b. 1940, Chicago; d. 2007, New York) and the work of New York-based sculptor Jessi Reaves (b. 1986, Portland, OR; lives in New York). Although Murray and Reaves are generations apart, this exhibition highlights each artist’s simultaneously lyrical, playful, and rigorous engagement with the decorative, domestic, and bodily.
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Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses
Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery
On View:
February 24–April 25, 2021
Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses is a two-part interdisciplinary exhibition orbiting around the legacy of the late Houston legend DJ Screw. Until his death in 2000, DJ Screw distorted songs by musical artists, creating “chopped and screwed” versions of the original by slowing tempo, reducing pitch, chopping lyrics, and layering freestyles by Houston-based rappers. Known for his signature stretched sound, he also displayed deft skill evident in his transitions, sampling choices, and beat juggling.
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Feb
27
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Shape and Pattern Mobiles | Dr...
Inspired by the examples of visual language in Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves, create a mobile by exploring repetition and gestural, geometric, and abstract shapes.
Mar
4
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Virtual Performance | long sha...
How are the cultural logics of the internet forecast by participants in Black networks? This performance essay will explore parallels between members of online communities applying wilder and wilder visual and sonic methods for fun and algorithm evasion, and the analog techniques for re-envisioning music and analog technology of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Mar
6
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Scavenger Hunt for Texture | D...
Inspired by the exhibition Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves, explore your surroundings by completing a scavenger hunt of textures.
Mar
9
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Artadia Public Workshop | Bria Lauren and Rebecca Matalon
Artist and 2020 Houston Artadia Awardee Bria Lauren and Rebecca Matalon, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, discuss Lauren’s work in photography and film, the ongoing importance of Houston’s Third Ward on her practice, and the value and urgency of honoring her local community of Black women, artists, and collaborators. This event is free and open the public. The event will be live closed captioned, if any accessibility accommodations are needed please email info@artadia.org.
