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Lamar University is hosting the Department of Art Faculty Show through Sept. 14 in the Dishman Art Museum.
An opening reception is Aug. 31, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
This annual exhibition at the Dishman Art Museum includes creative work by 14 art faculty and staff. The diverse show covers the concentrations that students can elect to study: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, graphic design, and ceramics. It’s an opportunity for students
and the general public to see what members of the department of art have been up to over the summer.
The Dishman Art Museum is located at 1030 E. Lavaca on the Lamar campus.
For more information, call 409-880-8959 or visit www.lamar.edu/dishman.
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The Art Museum of Southeast Texas will present “Deborah Luster-The Passion Play,” Sept. 22 through November 25.
The show will open with a free reception, Sept. 28, 6-8 p.m.
Luster lives and works in New Orleans, La. and Galway, Ireland. She is currently represented by Jack Shainman Gallery and has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Galveston Arts Center (2002).
Luster is recognized for her use of photography and installation work, focusing on the relationship between humanity, violence and its consequences. Her “One Big Self” and “Tooth for an Eye” projects received numerous accolades and were published in book form.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 2013, and a residency in Dublin with the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2014.
Over the last few years, Luster has visited the prisons of Louisiana, including the infamous Angola maximum-security prison, where she has created portraits of inmates that capture the physiognomy of the sitter, focusing on their spirit and humanity often seen as lost due to incarceration. The current exhibition features portraits of inmates in costumes they created for a performance of the Passion Play performed at Angola, as well as a video installation. Author Zachary Lazar, a colleague of the artist and published writer, will write an essay in conjunction with the exhibition.
In AMSET’s Café Arts, “Andre Woodard: I Understand How You Feel,” will be on display Aug. 30 through Nov. 11.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Woodard is a fine art photographer whose photographs typically take a dreamlike and surreal approach to the photographic medium exploring conceptual art and digital manipulation to convey the ideas of sexual, personal, and racial identity through internal conflicts. This is influenced by his experiences he went through while discovering his sexual identity being gay and African-American, both of which are historical subjects of discrimination.
“The voices of the individual deserve to be heard: especially those of the outnumbered,” Woodard says.
Woodard earned his BFA in Photography from Lamar University. He currently resides in Albuquerque, N.M, where he is pursuing his MFA in Photography from The University of New Mexico.
AMSET is located at 500 Main St. inn downtown Beaumont.
For more information, visit www.amset.org.
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Southeast Texas artist Sandy Walker will exhibit her enigmatic and compelling artwork as September’s featured artist at Finder’s Fayre Antiques.
Inspired by textures, colors and nature, Walker’s paintings come to life as expressions of her sensations.
Part of the ongoing C.L.A.S.S. series featuring local artists, the show opens with a “First Thursday at the Mildred” reception Sept. 6 from 5 to 9 p.m. and will be on view through Oct. 4.
Finder’s Fayre is located in the Mildred Building, 1485 Calder Avenue in Beaumont.
For more information, call 409-833-7000.