Many artists travel far to seek inspiration for their works. Whether they are searching for a change of scenery to inspire a landscape or ambiance to resonate the depths of their psyche, artists are constantly challenging themselves to push the limits of their medium. However, one does not have to leave Southeast Texas to find
After a couple of decades of birding and painting, Margo Holst will present “Opening My Eyes,” an exhibition of recent works at the Beaumont Art League, Nov. 14-28, featuring glossy surfaces on wood panels of abstract semi-floral imagines and larger birds in a variety of settings. Some birds invoke pastoral/primitive environments and others are candidates
Artist to explore texture in November solo show Alice Powell dips her brush in paint and washes it over the paper. The watery liquid pools and puddles, forming surface texture. Sometimes she places paper on top of the wetness and pulls it away, exposing the texture. Powell scrutinizes the revealed image for something she recognizes.
‘Mark Rothko: A Retrospective” at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston “Painting is just as natural a language as singing or speaking. It is a method of making a visible record of our experience…colored by our own feelings and reactions and indicated with the same simplicity and directness as singing or speaking.” — Mark Rothko He
We find a common bond in art. Art can be controversial and has divided whole countries with issues about arts acceptance in their culture, and that culture’s attempt to stop the art that is determined to define that culture. Jesse Helms did not want Robert Mapplethorpe’s art to define American culture, even though it was
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas will host The Monster Mash…an AMSET Bash, Oct. 23, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Ticket are $35 for pre-sale and $40 at the door. There will be a costume contest held that evening. Piano Punch, a dueling piano duo from Spring will provide entertainment. A variety of ctivities are
The Dishman Art Museum will host the exhibition “Eliot Dudik: Broken Land | Still Lives,” through Nov. 6. A reception will be held 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Oct. 16. This exhibition of large-scale photographs by Eliot Dudik includes prints from two recent series, “Broken Land” and “Still Lives.” In “Broken Land,” Dudik photographs American
BEAUMONT — The High Street Gallery will host an exhibition of original comic book art by the collective 3C Comics, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Oct. 24. The gallery is located in Victoria House, 2110 Victoria St. in Beaumont. “3C Comics will show something new in a series of stories you can read along the
By the time Sam and Dean Winchester hit the stage, the auditorium in the Plano Center was packed with 2,500 “Supernatural” fans, the majority of whom were women. The roar that accompanied ‘the boys” entrance was loud and high pitched. But it was nothing that hadn’t been heard before during the three-day “Salute to Supernatural”
Local artist Nathan McCray to host festival on other worldly arts Beaumont artist Nathan McCray will host “The Enchanted Village” art festival that will feature local artists and an evening of performances by local musicians. The festival is set for Oct. 24 at noon at 2555 Jirou St. behind McCray Furniture, near the Beaumont Art
