Pan Recommends for the week of August 29 to September 4

Robert Boyd

Happy Labor Day weekend! If you're not at the beach, here are some art things to do. (And if you are at the beach, swing by GAR and the Galveston Art Center.)

THURSDAY


This 3-D image of a handprint on a mouse will probably make a lot more sense if you see Felipe Lopez's show at the Alliance Gallery

Felipe Lopez: Constructing the Praxis of Interactivity at the Alliance Gallery, 6 to 8 pm. This solo show by Felipe Lopez features thermochromics (paint that changes color when the temperature changes) and 3-D glasses. I'm disappointed by the lack of smellovision, though.



"No Matter How Hard I Try I Can’t Look The Same As I Did Yesterday" by soprano Lisa Harris featuring DJ Fat Tony at Fresh Arts, 6 to 8 pm. A new performative installation including video. I'm not sure if there is any performance at the opening reception (aside from the DJ), but there are two official performance dates scheduled; one on September 13 and one on September 20.



Design Now–Houston: Democratic Design: Envisioning Houston featuring Susan Rogers, Ned Dodington, and Javier Fadul at the CAMH, 6:30 to 7:30 pm. Part of a lecture series to accompany CAMH's current design show, this one is about envisioning Houston on different scales.

FRIDAY

 
I think this one is by Beau Pope

Strictly Stencils! featuring work by 2:12, Zen Full, Cutthroat, Pahnl Whatnow, Bryan Cope, Chad HKs, Stencil Killer Art, Wiley Robertson, Emmanuel Nuño Arámbula, Jessica Pope and Beau Pope at East End Studio Gallery, one night only, 6 to 10 pm. Presented by Popeswithpaint.com. I wish it lasted longer than one night...


Alex Larsen's studio at El Rincón Social

OPEN STUDIOS ¡JUEGOS! at El Rincón Social, 8 pm to 2 am. Come see the artists' studios  an play some games, including mariachi gritos,  monkey dodge ball, marbles, cat rodeo, indoor fishing, ice sliding, checkers, rhino boobs, bobbing for Jalapenos, over-the-top arm wrestling and more.

SATURDAY


Earl Staley, Distant Shore, watercolor on paper, 6 x 12 inches

Earl Staley's Going to Rome Sale at his studio at Art Supply on Main, 10am to 4pm. Earl Staley is heading off to the American Academy in Rome, and wants to sell you a watercolor or two before he goes. Staley is an excellent and highly prolific watercolorist, and these pieces, mostly from 2008 to the present, are being sold at bargain prices ($25 to $500). Not a bad price to pay for work by an artist who represented the U.S. at the 1984 Venice Biennale!



EXTRA ! EXTRA ! A News Media Art Happening featuring Mic McAllister, Yamin Cespedes, William H. Miller, Vincent Fink, Brent Bruni Comiskey, Michael Wooten, Samar Allarakia, Yota Papadopulos, Zoanna Maney, Niole Gavin, Elizabeth Cencini, Eric Harker, John Paul Hartman, Solomon Kane, Gian Palacios-Świątkowski, Kyle Fu, Joe Sioufi, Mandy Peyrani, Catherine Kleinhans, Victoria Lewelling, George Bibb, Dirk Strangely, Moe Profane, Dandee Warhol, Kristen Blakeway, Gordon Greenleaf, Victor Hugo Zambrano Navarro, Paula Hawkins, Chasity Porter, James Hudek, Randall Kallinen, Christian Perkins, Christina Lynn Todaro, Denise St. Clair, Jonathan Rosenstein, Lenora Palacios, Angela Obenhaus, Marsha Glickman, Naz Kaya-Erdal, Charlene Zak and Hope Sanford at Kallinen Contemporary, 7 to 10 pm. The subject is the news media, and this show will include an appearance by Wayne Dolcefino--not the Houston art world's favorite reporter!

Pan Recommends for the week of October 18 to October 24

Robert Boyd

This is a big weekend, what with the art fairs and all. But there are actually other things happening in the Houston art scene, so here are our recommendations.

Thursday through Sunday 

The Pan Art Fair opens tonight at 6 pm in room 307 of the Embassy Suites hotel in Downtown Houston and runs through Sunday. Exhibitors are Lane Hagood, Emily Peacock, Front Gallery, Cardoza Fine Art, Murray Goldfarb Fine Art, Bryan Keith Gardner, Solomon Kane, Jim Nolan, d.m. allison gallery and Devin Borden Gallery. Paul Middendorf is doing a performance at 8 pm, Thursday, and the Kenmore Art Space will be creating a new work over the course of the fair. Personally, this is the only thing on my personal "recommends" list, but I realize that not everyone wants to spend three-and-a-half days in a hotel room with me. (But if you do, call me sometime.) So at Dean Liscum's suggestion, here are some other events this weekend.

The Texas Contemporary Art Fair is going on across the park from the Pan Art Fair at the same time in the Brown Convention Center. Featuring 65 exhibiting galleries, TCAF also has panel discussion and installations, and I heard there will be a live alligator at the Glasstire booth tonight.

Saturday

Skatestock at the Lee and Joe Jamail Skate Park on October 20, 2012 from noon to 9 pm. Lots of music, skating (including a bunch pf physics nerds from Rice doing "velocity experiments"!), and, of course, art: Wiley Robertson, Blue Dozen Collective, Burning Bones Press, Daniel Angullu, Drive By Press, Sketchy Neighbors and Steve Harris.

Project Row Houses: Round 37 at Project Row Houses opening October 20 from 4 pm 7 pm preceded by an artist's talk from 2:30 pm to 4 pm. Four individual artists and two artist groups have installations: Miguel Amat, Jason Griffiths, Autumn Knight, Maurice Roberts, and In Situ from the UK (Paul Hartley, Kerry Morrison and William Titley) and Question Bridge: Black Males (Chris Johnson, Bayeté Ross Smith, Hank Willis Thomas and Kamal Sinclair).

TX/RX Labs hosts Dennis Nance for a night of art crits and pizza at on October 20, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Nance is the Exhibitions and Programming Director at Lawndale, so he knows his stuff. TX/RX Labs combine the worlds of engineering with art--I heartily approve this mission!

And this just scratches the surface--there's actually quite a lot happening. If there's an event you are looking forward to, add it in the comments!