The Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the exhibition Standing In by Jamaica-born, New York-based artist Paul Anthony Smith who makes photo-based works that push back against the medium’s inherently predatory dimensions while simultaneously introducing a network of added layers to navigate.
Calendar
The
Blaffer
Art
Museum
at
the
University
of
Houston
is
proud
to
present
the
first
solo
museum
exhibition
of
work
by
the
Dallas-based
artist
Leslie
Martinez.
Martinez
(they/them/their)
creates
immersive,
spellbinding
paintings
that
explore
ideas
of
place,
climate,
landscape,
and
personhood
through
unconventional
methods
of
applying
and
interlaying
various
materials,
textures,
and
hues
on
canvas.
Their
signature
style
of
abstract
painting
features
viscerally
tactile
and
spatial
atmospheres
created
with
physical
ingredients
like
fabric
rags,
recycled
clothing,
and
crushed
stone
that
reveal
discordant
visual
intersections
of
destruction
and
emergence.
For over a decade, Jacolby Satterwhite has used 3D animation, sculpture, performance, painting, and photography to create fantastical, labyrinthine universes. Exploring the themes of public space, the body, ritual, and community, Satterwhite draws from an extensive set of references guided by queer theory, Modernist tropes, and video game languages to challenge conventions of Western art through a personal and political lens. An equally significant influence is his late mother, Patricia Satterwhite, who lived with schizophrenia and made ethereal vocal recordings as well as drawings and diagrams for visionary household products throughout Satterwhite’s childhood. His mother’s work often serves as the source material within a decidedly complex structure of memory and mythology.
Brought to you by the Hurricane Resilience Research Institute (HuRRI), The National Center for Airborne Laser and Mapping (NCALM), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The UH Day of Remembrance is historically held the first Tuesday in March each year to honor our Cougar Family – students, faculty, staff, alumni & friends of the University – that have passed in the previous calendar year.
Natasha Bowdoin’s work pushes the boundaries between drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. Known for her cut paper, collage-based work, and site-responsive installations, she investigates the potential intersections of the visual and the literary, channeling the experience of reading into the activity of drawing, while reimagining our relationship to the natural world.
Several regional and global challenges, such as global food shortages and energy issues, have arisen in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
Ambassador
Khazar
Ibrahim,
Azerbaijan’s
Ambassador
to
the
US,
will
provide
regional
perspectives
on
these
and
related
issues
during
his
visit
to
the
University
of
Houston.
RSVP
here.
Please
RSVP
here:
https://bit.ly/AmbAzerbaijan
An open discussion about faith, values, and spirituality. All UH students are welcomed to attend. Free Dinner provided!
This talk will use Niqula al-Haddad’s 1910 Arabic translation of American author Ignatius Donnelly’s 1890 speculative dystopia Caesar’s Column: a Tale of the Twentieth Century to explore different ways of thinking about the objects and ends of comparative method in relation to the literary archive. I’m especially interested in how scalar inquiry allows the reader to gather the incommensurable geographies and temporalities of (post)colonial historiography into flexible and productive relationships between people, texts and social movements that unsettle dominant liberal/national paradigms of history-making.
Artist Talk with Paul Anthony Smith co-presented by Blaffer Art Museum and the Department of African American Studies. In conjunction with the Blaffer Art Museum exhibition, Paul Anthony Smith: Standing In, on view through March 12.
Dr.
P.
Gabrielle
Foreman
will
be
in
town
to
present
a
lecture
entitled
Why
Didn’t
We
Know?!
–The
Forgotten
History
of
the
Colored
Conventions
and
19th-Century
Black
Political
Organizing.
The
event
will
take
place
on
Tuesday,
March
7th
at
6pm
in
the
Kyle
Morrow
Room
within
the
Fondren
Library
at
Rice
University.
It
is
open
to
the
public.
Co-sponsored
by
UH’s
Department
of
African
American
Studies
and
Rice’s
Department
of
History.
Event
Flyer
Artist
Talk
by
Paul
Anthony
Smith.
5:00pm-6:30pm
Extended
Museum
Hours
6:30pm-7:30pm
Artist
Talk
and
Q&A
Gerald
D.
Hines
Architecture
Auditorium
The Moores School of Music presents a recital from the studio of Anthony Kitai.
Violinist Bernini Chan presents their Doctoral Solo recital.