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Events
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Jul 17 10:00 am
Gabriel Lester: Odeon
Exhibition Info
Gabriel Lester: Odeon
May 17, 2024—August 11, 2024
The Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of preeminent Dutch artist Gabriel Lester, who has gained an international standing for his art, performance, and film as well as his dynamic public art installations. Across his now decades-long career, Lester has developed a captivating cinematic lens through which to see and imagine the world – consistently locating wonder in the seemingly stolid and mundane. For this exhibition Lester is most interested in the interplay between light and shadow, as well as the seen and unseen, as he responds to Houston and the fossil fuel industry that so deeply sheathes the region. -
Jul 17 10:00 am
Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken
Exhibition Info
Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken May
May 31, 2024—August 11, 2024
The phrase “counter-cartographies” describes Manila-based artist Cian Dayrit interdisciplinary practice of transforming historic maps into portraits of contemporary social conditions. Employing counter- cartography as an approach, Dayrit charts histories of imperialism, industrialization, and systems of subjugation that shape geographical boundaries and cultural narratives around the world. In Summer 2024, Blaffer will present Dayrit’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States with embroidered tapestries, paintings, and sculpture. The exhibition will be accompanied by Countermapping Workshops in Houston to excavate histories of imperialism, extraction, and displacement among historically marginalized people, while summoning new imaginaries that recognize the overlapping global struggles and resistance. -
Jul 18 10:00 am
Gabriel Lester: Odeon
Exhibition Info
Gabriel Lester: Odeon
May 17, 2024—August 11, 2024
The Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of preeminent Dutch artist Gabriel Lester, who has gained an international standing for his art, performance, and film as well as his dynamic public art installations. Across his now decades-long career, Lester has developed a captivating cinematic lens through which to see and imagine the world – consistently locating wonder in the seemingly stolid and mundane. For this exhibition Lester is most interested in the interplay between light and shadow, as well as the seen and unseen, as he responds to Houston and the fossil fuel industry that so deeply sheathes the region. -
Jul 18 10:00 am
Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken
Exhibition Info
Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken May
May 31, 2024—August 11, 2024
The phrase “counter-cartographies” describes Manila-based artist Cian Dayrit interdisciplinary practice of transforming historic maps into portraits of contemporary social conditions. Employing counter- cartography as an approach, Dayrit charts histories of imperialism, industrialization, and systems of subjugation that shape geographical boundaries and cultural narratives around the world. In Summer 2024, Blaffer will present Dayrit’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States with embroidered tapestries, paintings, and sculpture. The exhibition will be accompanied by Countermapping Workshops in Houston to excavate histories of imperialism, extraction, and displacement among historically marginalized people, while summoning new imaginaries that recognize the overlapping global struggles and resistance. -
Jul 19 10:00 am
Gabriel Lester: Odeon
Exhibition Info
Gabriel Lester: Odeon
May 17, 2024—August 11, 2024
The Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of preeminent Dutch artist Gabriel Lester, who has gained an international standing for his art, performance, and film as well as his dynamic public art installations. Across his now decades-long career, Lester has developed a captivating cinematic lens through which to see and imagine the world – consistently locating wonder in the seemingly stolid and mundane. For this exhibition Lester is most interested in the interplay between light and shadow, as well as the seen and unseen, as he responds to Houston and the fossil fuel industry that so deeply sheathes the region.
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