Emily Peacock: Pure Comedy Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Emily Peacock Is Currently a Professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and Lives in Houston
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Art Museum of Southeast Texas 500 Main Winter 2019 December 14, 2019 - March 1, 2020 Opening Reception Friday, December 13 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Family Arts Day, Saturday, February 22, 2020 | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. emily peacock: pure comedy Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Emily Peacock is currently a professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and lives in Houston. EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy transforms the artist’s personal journeys through loss, motherhood, and family tragedy into photographs, film, and sculpture depicting objects and images that exist in a space between the familiar and the absurd. Using safety suits and common objects seen in her home, Peacock presents a series of oval portraits of herself and her husband that feel all at once alien and very familiar to those who have experienced caring for the safety and well- being of another. This series, titled H.S.A.N.O. (Home Security Apparatuses for Non-desirable Outcomes), also brings postpartum depression to the forefront, a public health issue that affects 10 to 15 percent of mothers. By fantastically documenting her own transition into motherhood, Peacock allows others to open up about their own experiences without fear or shame, in an attempt to de-stigmatize disorders such as this. Peacock earned her degree at Sam Houston State University and her Masters at the University of Houston. Her work has been exhibited in exhibitions at galleries and art Emily Peacock, H.S.A.N.O. 2 (Home Security Apparatuses for Non-desirable Outcomes), spaces including the Houston Center for 2019, archival inkjet print mounted to aluminum, 36 x 24 in., Loan courtesy of the artist Photography, Art League Houston, Lawndale and Jonathan Hopson Gallery Art Center, Jonathan Hopson Gallery in This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by an award from the Houston, Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna, Edaren Foundation, Sheila and Jerry Reese, Anonymous in Memory Austria, the Galveston Arts Center, and Blue of Jim Kennedy, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment Star Lab in San Antonio, among others. Her for the Arts, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund and the C. Homer and work is included in the collection of the Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. CURRENT EXHIBITION DAVID McGEE: Black Paintings December 14, 2019 - March 1, 2020 Opening Reception Friday, December 13 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Family Arts Day, Saturday, February 22, 2020 | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. DAVID MCGEE: Black Born in Lockhart, Paintings is an exhibition Louisiana, David McGee where the ongoing Urban currently resides in Dread series serves as Houston, Texas. McGee a visual and symbolic received his BA from focal point to reconsider Prairie View A&M paintings spanning twenty University, and since six years of the artist’s has become one of career. The series depicts the most prolific and black and white 24” x renowned painters in the 18” paintings that scroll Houston art scene and across the museum walls, beyond. His paintings their stark black and white have been the focus of minimalism softened several solo exhibitions at and complicated by their DiverseWorks and Texas surfaces which consist of Gallery. McGee’s work oil, sand, wax, and mixed is held in the collections medium on burlap. McGee of many prominent addresses “urban dread” institutions including as a conflict between inner The Menil Collection, cities and suburban angst, Art Museum of Southeast depicting abstracted images Texas, Museum of Fine of ropes, cuffs, crosses, Arts Houston, Rhode targets, police vehicle Island School of Design David McGee, Ragnar, 2016, oil, wire and glue on canvas, 60 x 48 in., coloration, hoods, land Museum, Addison Loan courtesy of the artist and Texas Gallery, Houston, TX separation, hospitals, and Gallery, Dallas Museum weapons. These and other of Art, and Harvard paintings present McGee’s University Museums. He This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by an award from the most powerful exhibition- is the recipient of multiple Edaren Foundation, Lee Ann and Terry Garth, Linda and Dr. Charles D. Foutz, the Texas Commission on the Arts to-date, challenging prestigious grants from the and the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Beaumont, viewers to reconsider the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. neighborhoods they live in the Mid-America Arts Endowment Fund and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers and pass through, and how Alliance, Texas Artists and Charitable Foundation. color affects each emotion, Lawyers for the Arts, and memory, and human the Houston Art Alliance. interaction. UPCOMING EXHIBITION PATRICK TURK: MYSTIC SCIENCE AND THE SEARCH FOR INTANGIBLE TRUTHS March 14, 2020 - June 7, 2020 Opening Reception Friday, March 27 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Family Arts Day, Saturday, May 2, 2020 | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. P atrick Turk His assemblages have been explores traditional exhibited at Art Storm, Cris histories and ancient Worley Fine Arts, Lawndale mythologies viewed Art Center and Rudolph/ through a psychedelic lens. Projects/Art Scan as well By combining historical as galleries in Galveston, illustrations with concepts Texas and Los Angeles, from science fiction such as California. In 2013, he was time travel, sentient planets, an Artist in Residence at and hypothetical biology, the Lawndale Art Center. he creates kaleidoscopic His works have been depictions of religious, published several times mythological, and mystical in Mung Being Magazine allegories. and he has completed high The exhibition will profile commissions for feature an immersive the 2009 Houston Art Car site-specific installation Parade Poster as well as the as well as hand-cut paper Philokalia album cover by assemblages which are Golden Cities. often materially sourced Patrick Turk is one of 60 from science-fiction novels, artists included in the book, encyclopedias, history, and The Art of Found Objects: Patrick Turk, The Keeper, 2016, scientific diagrams. Says Interviews with Texas hand-cut paper and mixed media on panel, 35 x 30 x 5 in. Turk, “The intense levels of Artists (Texas A&M Press), Image courtesy of the artist and Cris Worley Fine Arts detail become a microcosm, authored by Robert Craig forming a reflection of the Bunch and released in 2016. human relationship to the He was also featured in plasticity of time and space, the concurrent exhibition, This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by Rob Clark & and to the process of self- The Art of Found Objects, Jerry Thacker, Architectural Alliance, Daniels Construction, the Edaren Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the unfolding.” held at Lone Star College- National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Beaumont, Patrick was born in Kingwood in November the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Galveston, Texas, and lives 2016. Endowment Fund and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers and works in Houston. Charitable Foundation. UPCOMING EXHIBITION KANA HARADA: CELESTIAL GARDEN March 21, 2020 - June 7, 2020 Opening Reception Friday, March 27 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Family Arts Day, Saturday, May 2, 2020 | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by the Garth Family Partnership in memory of Mary Jane Garth and Harriet Garth, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation. Kana Harada, Where We Always Meet, 2017, cut paper on watercolor, 36 x 28 5/8 in., Collection of George Morton & Karol Howard T his exhibition will Mt. Fuji in Japan, near the graphic design, Japanese publications and reviews, feature paintings and artist’s birthplace of Tokyo, fine art, and drawing at including Vitamin D sculptures by Dallas-based Japan. A peace ceremony Ochanomizu School of Magazine, Glasstire, Star artist Kana Harada, who will be held at the opening Fine Arts in Tokyo, Japan. Telegram, Houston Press, works with hand-cut reception, inviting visitors Harada is the recipient of among others. Her work is foam sheets, along with to take part in a spiritual the Beth Lea and John L. included in the collections watercolor, paper, and gathering, aiming to Clardy Memorial Award at of Trammell and Margaret natural materials to create spread peace to all of the 23rd Annual Exhibition, Crow Collection of Asian pieces that embody a earth. Celestial Garden Art in The Metroplex at Art, Dallas, Texas, and wish for peace, a love for will include a site-specific Texas Christian University. the Old Jail Art Center, humanity, mother earth, installation, suspended She has had both national Albany, Texas. and the universe. This sculptures, and two- and international solo artwork evokes the serenity dimensional cut paper and group exhibitions and of the “Fuji Sanctuary,” a and watercolor paintings. her work is featured in gathering site at the foot of Kana Harada studied several print and online CAFÉ ARTS SERIES FOR LOCAL ARTISTS JEROME CABEEN: Window to the World - The People & The Places November 21, 2019 - February 2, 2020 Artist Bio Jerome Cabeen graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas with a Bachelors of Fine Art in 1990. He taught art for many years at the high school, middle school and elementary school levels in Houston, while painting and drawing on the side. In 2004, Cabeen begin an international journey that would lead to his immersion into photography. From 2004 through 2010, he lived in Honduras, Central America and Liberia, Africa, teaching art and directing Catholic missions.