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The
Blaffer
Art
Museum
is
honored
to
present
the
first
solo
museum
exhibition
of
work
by
artist
John
Guzman
(b.
1984).
Flesh
and
Bone
focuses
on
works
produced
in
the
artist’s
hometown
of
San
Antonio
and
the
Texas
debut
of
paintings
completed
during,
and
immediately
following,
time
at
the
NXTHVN
Studio
Fellowship
Program
in
New
Haven,
Connecticut.
As
a
spectator
to
claustrophobic
psychological
and
physical
states
growing
up
in
San
Antonio’s
Southside,
Guzman’s
monumental
paintings
are
a
byproduct
of
experiences,
recordings,
and
environmental
reflections.
The
artist
abstracts
the
human
figure
to
reflect
the
harm
endured
by
the
body,
and
the
unrecognizable
transformation
brought
on
by
years
of
punishment,
addiction,
relapse,
and
self-destruction.
Exhibition Info
Tania Candiani: Lifeblood
September 22—November 19, 2023
Histories and lives embedded in the land – and particularly the waterways that have alternately built and destroyed Houston over time – will be the subject of a newly commissioned, multi-disciplinary work by Mexican artist Tania Candiani. In her past work, Candiani has worked across a spectrum of media and practices to explore the intersections between people, place, labor and industry. In so doing, Candiani initiates explorations and collaborations that convene communal meditations on the past via music, architecture, and craft, with an emphasis on early technologies and vernacular practices of record-keeping. Her work in Houston will be developed out of an intermittent eight-month residency generously sponsored and supported by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.
UH Dance faculty professor Toni Valle and her dance company, 6 Degrees, premieres “POP DEMO,” an original evening-length dance performance set in an immersive “Speakeasy” setting, at MATCH, September 2023. “POP DEMO” views the historical use of propaganda through the lens of political cartoons in a live 3-D experience of contemporary dance, aerial dance, theatre, and visual projections. Through 60’s Pop Art costume designs by Judy Masliyah, lighting by Hudson Davis, and music by George Heathco, “Pop Demo” creates the surreal world of political cartoons.
UH Dance faculty professor Toni Valle and her dance company, 6 Degrees, premieres “POP DEMO,” an original evening-length dance performance set in an immersive “Speakeasy” setting, at MATCH, September 2023. “POP DEMO” views the historical use of propaganda through the lens of political cartoons in a live 3-D experience of contemporary dance, aerial dance, theatre, and visual projections. Through 60’s Pop Art costume designs by Judy Masliyah, lighting by Hudson Davis, and music by George Heathco, “Pop Demo” creates the surreal world of political cartoons.