Artist Teresa Baker has spent her life living in different places — from small towns to big cities, stateside and abroad. Now she is making Beaumont her home. “I have been here for three months, fixing up the studio, and I have fallen in love with it and all its eccentricities,” she said. “I wanted
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
Printmaker Abelman discovers inspiration in Estonia Maurice Abelman is quiet. The soft-spoken artist is not the kind of person who one expects to stand on a street corner and rant at the world. Through his detailed woodblock collages, Abelman comments on the world around him, but it was from an increasingly narrow point of view.
Fans of “Supernatural” will gather in Dallas, Sept. 11-13 for a convention celebrating the series. Stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles are scheduled to attend. The CW series, in its 11th season, centers around brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they hunt demons and monsters drawn from American urban legends and classic theology and mythology.
Beaumont artist David Granitz III will present “Mutabulis,” an exhibition of his work at Finder’s Fayre Antiques. The show is part of the Contemporary Local Artist Showcase Series. The exhibition will open Sept. 3, with a reception scheduled for 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and continue through Oct. 1. Finder’s Fayre Antiques is located at
“It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.” — Claude Monet GIVERNEY, France — Claude Monet’s “Nymphéas,” better known as water lilies, are as ubiquitous as Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. Every imaginable item of consumer goods —
BEAUMONT —In the boiling heat of a Southeast Texas summer, a gaggle of unruly artistic types are hatching a plan — no, they are not planning on breaking into a bank and making off with millions, although most of them fit the “starving artist” stereotype — they are planning to launch the new arts season.
