Presented in partnership with: Trip Participants Doris and Alan Burgess Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell Bruce and Cheryl Kiddoo Wanda Kownacki Ann Marie Mix Evelyn Neely Yvonne and Mike Nevens Alyce and Mike Parsons Your Hosts San Jose Museum of Art: S. Sayre Batton, deputy director for curatorial affairs Susan Krane, Oshman Executive Director Kristin Bertrand, major gifts officer Art Horizons International: Leo Costello, art historian Lisa Hahn, president Hotel St. Regis Houston Hotel 1919 Briar Oaks Lane Houston, Texas, 77027 Phone: 713.840.7600 Houston Weather Forecast (as of 10.31.16) Wednesday, 11/2 Isolated Thunderstorms 85˚ high/72˚ low, 30% chance of rain, 71% humidity Thursday, 11/3 Partly Cloudy 86˚ high/69˚ low, 20% chance of rain, 70% humidity Friday, 11/4 Mostly Sunny 84˚ high/63 ˚ low, 10% chance of rain, 60% humidity Saturday, 11/5 Mostly Sunny 81˚ high/61˚ low, 0% chance of rain, 42% humidity Sunday, 11/6 Partly Cloudy 80˚ high/65˚ low, 10% chance of rain, 52% humidity Day One: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 Dress: Casual Independent arrival into George Bush Intercontinental/Houston Airport. Here in “Bayou City,” as the city is known, Houstonians take their art very seriously. The city boasts a large and exciting collection of public art that includes works by Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Michael Heizer, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Albert Paley, and Tony Rosenthal. Airport to hotel transportation: The St. Regis Houston Hotel offers a contracted town car service for airport pickup for $120 that would be billed directly to your hotel room. Alternatively, the average taxi rate is $60 – 75. The commute time from the airport to the St. Regis during the late afternoon is an estimated 45 minutes. 3 PM Check in on your own at the: St. Regis Houston Hotel 1919 Briar Oaks Lane Houston, Texas, 77027 Phone: 713.840.7600 Located between River Oaks and the Uptown Galleria district in Houston, the Hotel St. Regis offers 5-Star luxury and true southern hospitality. 6:30 PM Gather in the hotel lobby to meet study tour leader Leo Costello and Art Horizons International President Lisa Hahn. We will enjoy a welcome cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception in the Ambassador Room, located on the Mezzanine floor of the hotel. Dinner is on your own. A list of suggested restaurants will be provided in the welcome packet, along with the final copy of this itinerary Day Two: Thursday, November 3, 2016 Dress: Casual Day/Business Casual Evening 6:30 – 9 AM Enjoy breakfast at The Remington Restaurant, located on the hotel lobby level, at your leisure. Vouchers will be provided. 9 AM Gather in the hotel lobby to promptly depart by bus. 9:15 AM Depart for private art collection. 9:30 AM Enjoy a visit to a private art collection. This distinctive private collection features exceptional twentieth-century, contemporary, and tribal masterworks. Gallerist and advisor Robert McClain, who will lead the walkthrough, describes the owners’ collecting vision as intensely personal with powerful, visceral works that strike a primal or expressive chord. The majority of the collection falls into two sub-themes: figurative sculpture and portraiture with works by Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, and Chaim Soutine; and abstract expressionist works by Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Jackson Pollock. Also collected are works by living artists such as Berlinde de Bruyckere, Adrian Ghenie, Magdelene Odundo, and Gerhard Richter. 10:45 AM Depart for another private art collection located nearby. Enjoy a visit to a private art collection in Houston’s River Oak’s neighborhood. These two Houston art patrons and their children live with an extensive contemporary collection that includes paintings, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The art leans toward representational work, sometimes conceptual, and usually with an ironic twist. Artists represented include many working in Texas, other important American artists (George Condo, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Barkley Hendricks, Jim Nutt, David Salle, Laurie Simmons, Philp Taafee, Fred Tomaselli, William Wegman), and artists from Japan (Yasumasa Morimura, Yoshitomo Nara, and Hiroshi Sugimoto), Great Britain (Peter Blake, Julian Opie, Richard Patterson, and Yinka Shonibare), Latin America (Monica Costillo, Luis Gonzales Palma, Liliana Porter, and Vik Muniz), and elsewhere in the world (Wim Delvoye and Stephen Balkenhol). The pieces in the home range from a 1930s painting by Francis Picabia (temporally the oldest piece in the collection), to mid-century work (among notable others, a 1956 drawing by Larry Rivers and a 1969 John Wesley work on paper), to pieces made in the last year (such as an amusing outdoor sculpture by artist Ray Smith). 12:30 PM Depart by bus for lunch. 12:45 PM Lunch at Canopy Restaurant. Enjoy seasonal fare in a dining room decorated with murals of trees and other eco-chic touches. 2:30 PM Depart for an artist’s studio. 3 PM Enjoy a visit to the studio of Trenton Doyle Hancock. Influenced equally by the history of painting as by the pulp imagery of pop-culture, the Texas-born artist transforms traditionally formal decisions—such as the use of color, language, and pattern—into opportunities to build narrative, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning. Hancock’s works are suffused with personal mythology presented at an operatic scale. He often reinterprets Biblical stories that he learned as a child from his family and church community. His exuberant and subversive narratives employ a variety of cultural tropes that range in tone from comic-strip superhero battles to medieval morality plays. He is influenced in style by Hieronymus Bosch, R. Crumb, Henry Darger, Max Ernst, and Philip Guston. Text embedded within the paintings and drawings both drives the narrative and acts as a central visual component. Hancock's resulting installations often sprawl beyond the edges of the canvas and onto surrounding gallery walls. Meanwhile, in New York… 291 GRAND ST | OCT 21 – NOV 28, 2016 James Cohan is pleased to present Pandemic Pentameter, Trenton Doyle Hancock’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition, presenting a group of large scale paintings produced this year, opens Friday, October 21, and will be on view through November 27 at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. Click here for full press release For more reading re: Hancock, see Art Ltd Magazine: http://www.artltdmag.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1473465834&archive=&start_fr om=&ucat=28& 4:15 PM Return to the hotel by bus. 4:45 PM Arrival at hotel. 6 PM Depart for Rice University. 6:15 PM Special sunset visit to the James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany skyspace. Located adjacent to the Shepherd School of Music on the Rice University campus is the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion, site of James Turrell's Twilight Epiphany skyspace. Twilight Epiphany (2012) is acoustically engineered to host musical performances and to act as a laboratory for music school students. Constructed of grass, concrete, stone, and composite steel, the structure is equipped with a LED- light sequence that projects onto the ceiling and through an aperture in the 72-foot square knife-edge roof just before sunrise and at sunset. Turrell's composition of light complements the natural light present at twilight and transforms the skyspace into a locale for experiencing beauty and reflective interactions with the surrounding campus and the natural world. (Sunset is at 6:34 PM) 7:15 PM Depart for a private art collection by bus. 7:30 PM Visit a collecting couple’s private gallery residence. Buffet dinner to be served at 8:30 PM. Return to the hotel after dinner. Day Three: Friday, November 4, 2016 Dress: Casual Day 6:30 – 9:15 AM Enjoy breakfast at The Remington Restaurant, located on the hotel lobby level, at your leisure. Vouchers will be provided. 9:15 AM Gather in the hotel lobby to depart by bus. 9:30 AM We will begin our day with a visit to the non-denominational Rothko Chapel, which houses fourteen canvases by Mark Rothko. Architect Philip Johnson collaborated with Rothko on the design of the chapel. 10 AM After our visit to the Rothko Chapel, we will enjoy a before-hours visit to the Menil Campus, located in Houston’s Museum District. The Menil Campus is anchored by Renzo Piano’s first American building, the Menil Collection. We will begin with an exclusive tour, led by modern and contemporary curator Toby Kamps, of the Menil’s “Treasure Rooms”—where great works of art are stored when not on view. To learn the story of the creation of the Treasure Rooms, see this blog from the perspective of Curator Michelle White. http://houston.culturemap.com/news/arts/10-03-11-hidden-treasures- the-menil/#slide=0 11 AM Introduction to the Menil collection by Toby Kamps. The Menil’s permanent collection is one of the most important privately assembled collections of the twentieth century. The museum opened in 1987 to preserve and exhibit the art collection of John and Dominique de Menil. Designed by Renzo Piano, this understated but elegant expanse of gray clapboard features a roof of white louvers, used both in the gallery spaces and on the building’s exterior, to unify the structure. The “leaves” function as a method of controlling light levels and also as a means of returning air flow. The Menil Collection houses approximately 15,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and rare books. Masterpieces from antiquity; the tribal cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the American Pacific Northwest; and the major modern and contemporary art movements are particularly well represented. Highlights of the museum include its surrealist holdings, particularly the works of Max Ernst; it is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost collections of its kind.