Fashion Meets Craft
Jun 8, 2010 Arts, Fashion, Social Hour
Event: The Paper Runway
Date: June 4, 2010
Venue: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 4848 Main Street, Houston, Texas
I always knew that it took creativity to be fashionable. This actually came true when the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presented The Paper Runway, an exhibition of extraordinary paper clothing and accessories.
At the opening reception held on Friday June 4, 2010 art and fashion enthusiasts experienced this extraordinary exhibition of nearly 50 stunning works of paper clothing and accessories. Featuring everything from handcrafted evening gowns to men’s vests, jewelry made from magazine pages, and a suit made from lottery tickets, each garment-inspired artwork is created from different types of paper.
Materials ranged from recycled cotton rags and coffee filters to various handmade papers, created from fibers like abaca (banana leaf) and kozo (mulberry bark). The featured works encompass a dazzling array of patterns, textures, colors and exquisite detail. Some pieces would look right at home on the couture runways of Paris; others are inspired by the wild beauty of nature. Some pieces are whimsical and innovative, and others have a deeply personal story to tell.
The selected works were created by artists from the United States and from countries around the world, such as England, Chile, Israel, Tibet, Japan, and Canada. Though most work included in the exhibition is for display only, The Paper Runway also presents the work of Deepak Shrestha, a renowned artist from Tibet who makes shifu clothing. Shifu is a craft specific to the Himalayas that involves creating wearable, functional garments out of paper.
A not to be missed free art exhibit. Located in the Museum District at 4848 Main Street, HCCC is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM, and Sunday, Noon – 5 PM. The exhibition is to be ongoing from June 4, 2010 to September 4, 2010.
Synergy | 5th Annual Spacetaker Gala
Mar 1, 2009 Social Hour
Event: The 5th Annual Spacetaker Gala ‘Synergy’
Date: Saturday February 21, 2009
Spacetaker a non-profit artist resource center hosted their 5th Annual Gala ‘Synergy’ in Houston. Several local artists from various fields of art gathered together to have fun. It was a dazzling gestalt of art, libation, food, and fun. The highlight of the evening was sushi on a naked woman. Watch the video to know more about the event.
Art Exhibition | Jimmy Engineer
Event: Art Exhibition
Venue: Shangri La Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Date: Feb 8, 2009
Shangri La Art gallery hosted an art exhibition by famous Pakistani artist Jimmy Engineer. Jimmy’s art has been sought after by museums and private art collectors from around the world including in Italy, France, Switzerland, Russia, India, China, England, USA, and the Middle East.
In Pakistan, his works are on permanent exhibit at the National Gallery, Islamabad and the Alhamra Permanent Gallery, Lahore. Several postage stamps have been issued of his paintings. Jimmy paints a variety of themes and has done landscapes, still life paintings, cultural paintings, religious paintings seascapes, calligraphy, philosophy of colors, miniatures, abstracts, historical paintings, and self-portraits.
The current exhibition features art from his architecture, civilization and abstract series. He has been considered a messenger of peace.
Tags: Art, Jimmy Engineer
Arts of India Gallery | Museum Of Fine Arts
Jan 15, 2009 Fine Arts, Fund Raiser
Event: Museum Of Fine Arts, Arts of India Gallery
Venue: Indika Restaurant, Houston, Texas
Date: Monday, Jan 12, 2009
Peter C. Marzio, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Anita Jaisinghani, Chef and owner of Indika Restaurant invited the elite crowd in Houston, about one hundred plus for a reception celebrating plans for the Arts of India Gallery in MFAH.
They had a great turnout and guests enjoyed scrumptious appetizers prepared by Indika. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is expanding the representation of Asian art at the institution. The Arts of India gallery will open May 15, 2009 displaying Indian painting, sculpture, and photography spanning over 2,500 years of cultural history.
Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington DC, and east of Los Angeles.
Tags: Art, India, Museum Of Fine Arts
Wade Celebrates ‘Color Drawn In Space’
Sep 8, 2008 Fine Arts, Reception
Report: Ruchi M
TV Asia
{Video Courtesy -- TV Asia}
This fall Wade Wilson Art launched the first Houston solo exhibition of work by American abstract painter Danielle Frankenthal. The exhibit, entitled “Color Drawn in Space” opened with a reception celebrating Frankenthal’s innovative and unique artwork on September, 5 2008 and will remain on view through October, 11 2008.
Residing in Hoboken, NJ, Frankenthal is a disciple of the Radical Concrete movement. Based upon an ideology that lines and colors are concrete by themselves and should be represented without any symbolical association, Frankenthal’s marks and strokes are meant to show little or no emotion.
Wade Wilson Art is located at 4411 Montrose Boulevard Suite 200, Houston, TX 77006. and open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. -- 6 p.m. and on Saturday from 11 a.m. -- 5:30 p.m. For more information about the gallery or the Danielle Frankenthal exhibit, visit www.wadewilsonart.com.
Tags: Art, Danielle Frankenthal
