Menil Fiesta Paintings

The Inman Gallery will host a special 2-day exhibition of UH School of Art student paintings titled "Menil Fiesta Paintings" on August 23 and 24.

The exhibition will feature a selection of paintings created over the last 10 years by undergraduate Painting majors, working under the supervision of professors Aaron Parazette and Gael Stack. The assignment was to visit both the Menil Collection and a Fiesta supermarket, gather information, images, and objects, and then synthesize their findings into a series of paintings. The project was conceived with the intention of directing the young artists attention to questions of “high” and “low” culture, context, commerce, and visual strategies. The inventive and often surprising paintings that have resulted from the Menil/Fiesta project have been a delight and curiosity for both the young artists and their faculty mentors.

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