POP-UP ART EVENT: Winter Street Studios Benefit Art Sale

Sesh Coworking 2808 Caroline St., Ste. 100, Houston, TX, United States

ONE DAY ONLY! See and buy artworks by Winter Street Studios artists who lost their workspaces for nine months -- and in many cases, lost their artworks -- due to a fire.

Free

ART OPENING: “Joseph Havel | 451”

Josh Pazda Hiram Butler Gallery 4520 Blossom St., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW: Exhibitions by Joseph Havel, Nestor Topchy, and Heather Day open at Josh Pazda Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston.

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EXHIBITION: “Leonid Furmansky: Beautiful City Empty City”

AIA Architecture Center Houston 902 Commerce St., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU JANUARY 19, 2024: This selection of architectural photography at AIA Architecture Center Houston was shot by Leonid Furmansky in downtown Houston during the pandemic.

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ART OPENING: “Johnny Floyd | GODBODY”

Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) 4807 Caroline St, Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU THRU NOVEMBER 18, 2023: Curated by Christopher Blay, this is the first solo exhibition of Johnny Floyd's paintings created over his brief five-year career.

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ART OPENING: “Laure Prouvost | Above Front Tears Nest in South”

Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University 6100 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU DECEMBER 14, 2023: French artist Laure Prouvost's solo exhibition is a hypnotic and site-specific environment in the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, featuring several large-scale, multimedia installations, assemblages with found objects, glass sculptures, tapestries, and videos.

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ART OPENING: “Angel Dust”

Pablo Cardozo Gallery 803 William St., Unit 3, Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU OCTOBER 29, 2023: Works by Alyssa Kazew, Dylan Roberts, and Doug Welsh at Pablo Cardoza Gallery

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Event Series OUTDOOR EXHIBITION:

OUTDOOR EXHIBITION: “A Gift From The Bower”

Locke Surls Center for Art & Nature in Splendora Gardens 26041 Midline Rd., Cleveland, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU OCTOBER 28, 2023 ON SATURDAYS 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM: Conceived by nationally renowned artist James Surls, “A Gift From The Bower” is an outdoor, multi-disciplinary exhibition on view in the natural galleries at the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature in Southeast Texas.

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OPENING + ARTIST TALK: “Bethany Johnson | Log Book”

Moody Gallery 2815 Colquitt St., Houston, United States

ON VIEW THRU OCTOBER 21, 2023: Composed of discarded materials, Bethany Johnson's works are densely laminated, composite forms that resemble rock strata and that gesture at the anthropogenic geology of landfills.

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ART OPENING: “David Stunts | Bert Long Jr. Prize Exhibition”

Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) 4807 Caroline St, Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU NOVEMBER 18, 2023: This exhibition at HMAAC features works by self-taught artist David Stunts whose lens has long focused on the city he knows and loves, making him the most attuned to the spirit of the prize.

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ART OPENING: “David McGee | The Tarot Cards and The Gloria Paintings”

Inman Gallery 3901 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU NOVEMBER 4, 2023: David McGee's "Tarot Cards" series features portraits of African-American women conceived as an homage to Black women and their strategies for survival, past and present. His vibrant, brightly colored paintings are titled after his mother Gloria; a series he began after her cancer diagnosis.

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ART OPENING: “Minds’ Eye | Lance Letscher”

Koelsch Gallery 1020 Peden St., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU OCTOBER 28, 2023: Critically acclaimed collagist Lance Letscher transforms found and discarded materials into powerfully evocative compositions fueled by a juxtaposition of color and value at Koelsch Gallery.

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ART OPENING: “Garrett Griffin: Relics”

Front Gallery 1412 Bonnie Brae St., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU OCTOBER 15, 2023: At the Front Gallery, Garrett Griffin shares his creations of organisms, portals, mirrors, and vessels influenced by the desert's textures, topography, vernacular, architecture, archaeology, symbology, animal life, and colors.

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ART OPENING: “Bo Joseph | Holding Spaces”

McClain Gallery 2242 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU NOVEMBER 2, 2023: Layered silhouettes in a fragmented abstract field by artist Bo Joseph at the McClain Gallery.

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ART OPENING: “Pavlina Vagioni: Proteus Within”

TANK Space at Spring Street Studios 1824 Spring St., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU NOVEMBER 25, 2023: Multimedia artist Pavlina Vagioni transforms the TANK Space into an illusory sea, echoing the ever-changing forms of the mythical Proteus, the shape-shifting sea deity from Greek mythology, through a dynamic interplay of light, darkness, sound, and three-dimensional forms.

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ART OPENING: “Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits”

Asia Society Center Texas 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU JANUARY 7, 2024: Himalayan artist Tsherin Sherpa tells the stories of loss, struggle, and empowerment in this thought-provoking and participatory art experience at Asia Society Texas Center that features more than 30 paintings, sculptures, and textile works.

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ART OPENING: “Jamie Ho | infinite gestures for finding luck”

Houston Center for Photography 1441 W. Alabama St., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU OCTOBER 19 2023: At Houston Center for Photography, through her work, artist Jamie Ho shares how the commercial language of product photography catalogs historical Chinese and Chinatown objects to challenge the ways that Asian culture is generalized.

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ART OPENING: “Dust to Dust | Christine Elfman, Granville Carroll, Adrienne Simmons, Jonas Yip”

Houston Center for Photography 1441 W. Alabama St., Houston, TX, United States

ON VIEW THRU NOVEMBER 19, 2023: Utilizing alternative photographic processes, the four artists in this exhibition at the Houston Center for Photography examine the substance of the human being from the big bang theory and dust particles, to the nature of light on real and imagined landscapes.

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