Southeast Texas artist Sheri Hood Callahan will exhibit her sensitive, and sometimes edgy, abstract paintings as April’s featured artist at Finder’s Fayre Antiques.
The show, titled Finding My Way, will reflect her emotional reactions to her inspirations: the oceans and our cattail marsh.
Part of the ongoing C.L.A.S.S. series featuring local artists, the show opens with a “First Thursday at the Mildred” reception, April 4, from 5-9 p.m., and will be on view through May 2.
Finder’s Fayre is located at 1485 Calder Ave. in the Mildred Building.
For more information, call 409-833-7000.
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The BEAUMONT ART LEAGUE will host the NECHES RIVER FESTIVAL SHOW, April 6-27.
The opening reception is set for April 7, 2-4 p.m.
BAL is located 2675 Gulf St.
For more, call 409-833-4179.
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Marcos Raya, The Anguish of Being and the Nothingness of the Universe, 2000, acrylic on canvas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Roy Cullen in honor of Mary Cullen at “One Great Night in November, 2005.” © Marcos Raya
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Between Play and Grief: Selections from the Latino American Collection, an exhibition featuring a survey of works from the MFAH collection of Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx art. The exhibition will be on view from until Sept. 8.
Timed to coincide with the Latino Art Now! Conference organized by the Inter-University Program for Latino Research at the University of Houston on April 4–6, and with presentations at more than 30 venues across the city, “Between Play and Grief” presents more than three dozen artworks acquired by the MFAH over the past 10 years.
The selection spans six decades of artistic expression, from figures who were actively in dialogue with leading postwar artistic movements such as Nouveau Réalisme, Arte Povera and Pop Art in the 1960s, to contemporary artists whose work speaks to their identities as both insiders and outsiders within an American experience. All of the artists in the exhibition rely on parody and dark wit to express social and political realities.
Cutting across spatial and temporal categories, the exhibition showcases an unexpected selection that brings together artists from different generations and locations from North and South America. The playfulness, however, belies a more somber tone, indirectly referencing or invoking collective suffering while creating a renewed awareness of the social and political realities it addresses. The work of the following artists is represented in “Between Play and Grief”: Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Distéfano, Alberto Heredia, Luis Jiménez, Rómulo Macció, César Augusto Martínez, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Grupo Mondongo, Celia Alvárez Muñoz, Luis Felipe Noé, Marcos Raya, Vincent Valdez and Jorge de la Vega.
The museum will host a series of exhibition-related programs.
Women Transformed through Art and Opera
April 18, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The MFAH and Houston Grand Opera present an interactive recital that reimagines three heroines from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. Three singers will perform arias from the opera in the museum’s galleries. Facilitated dialogue with participants will examine the treatment of female characters in Lorenzo da Ponte’s libretto for Don Giovanni and the representation of women in art, including Amalia Mesa-Bains’s piece “Transparent Migrations” (2002), ultimately exploring women’s empowerment in and through the arts. Free.
Art Encounter: Between Play and Grief
June 13, from 6 to 8 p.m.
This drop-in style studio session guides participants in working with new and different materials, exploring techniques and works on view in the exhibition. Free.
Art + Lit: Poetry Between Play and Grief
Aug. 1, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The MFAH and Tintero Projects host five Houston poets and writers inspired by Between Play and Grief. Join in a “walkabout” reading, and experience the art in a new way: through the words of some of Houston’s most exciting writers. Free.