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• BRANDI HAMILTON: No Solid Surface

  • Start
    02 Jul 2020
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    (EDT)
  • End
    15 Nov 2020
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    (EST)
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  Tangential, 2018, C-Print, edition of 15, 12 x 12 inches, image courtesy of the artist  

  Café Arts Presents:
  BRANDI HAMILTON: No Solid Surface

  July 2 - November 15, 2020

  Conversation with the Artist: Brandi Hamilton 7/23/20 @ 5:00 pm

  (Via Facebook Live)
  

  Artist's Reception: Thursday, September 3 @ 5:30-7:30 p.m.
  

  Hamilton attended Lamar University for two years before enlisting in the United States Air Force. After serving for twenty years, she returned to her native Southeast Texas to pursue a BFA in Photography at Lamar University where she is currently studying with acclaimed artists and professors, Keith Carter and Prince Thomas. She uses lens-based media to produce silver gelatin and digitally printed images. Hamilton combines imagery and ideas from her military career in space and satellite technology and an M.A. in Humanities with the inherent influences from her small-town childhood.

  “Once I left my military profession to pursue a creative life and career, I realized the twenty years spent in space and satellite operations for the United States Air Force would not fade from my consciousness so easily,” she said. “All that previous space training in orbital mechanics and radiofrequency communications floods my mind, wanting to be expressed, not as scientific and intelligence data, but as imagery of wonder and awe.

  “In our current society, where the earth has become metaphorically flat again, space and all that it holds remains a frontier only a handful of humans have access to. In what might be the last days of space as unreachable wilderness, it continues to hold a sense of mystery for most of humanity.”

  Hamilton’s exhibition, No Solid Surface, is inspired by her personal background and from space explorations of NASA, SpaceX and global entities.

  “It surveys elements and compounds that are familiar and mundane, like rock samples beneath our feet, and recomposes them is if they are extraterrestrial or unfamiliar heavenly bodies,” she said. “The goal is to reimagine the oldest of materials in unfamiliar scenes to inspire a renewed sense of wonderment in the basic elements that surround us daily.”

  
  

  
  

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• 2020 Annual Meeting

  • When
    06 Oct 2020
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    11:30 AM (EDT)
  • Location
    via Zoom

  
  

  Join us for our Annual Meeting at AMSET where we will review all of our exciting 2020 ventures.

  This meeting will be held through Zoom.

  To join the Zoom Meeting:

  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83976517688?pwd=UDJHTGZRWjdkQUhwK3l3SngyOXhSUT09

  Meeting ID: 839 7651 7688

  Passcode: 934576

  To join via phone:

  +13462487799,,83976517688#,,,,,,0#,,934576# US (Houston)

  
  

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• AMSET Book Club

  • When
    20 Oct 2020
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  
  

  
  

  Our book club will meet on Tuesday, October 13th at 5:30 p.m. at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. We will be discussing The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson.

  Bring your appetite for refreshments and a hearty conversation over the novel! Invite your friends because it’s bound to be a literary success!
  

  To RSVP, please, email ktimberlake@amset.org. 

  
  

  
  

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• Collectors Club presents: Studio Visit & Artist Talk with Billy Hassell

  • When
    21 Oct 2020
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    5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    via Zoom

  
  

  Join the Collectors Club in a Studio Visit and Artist talk with artist Billy Hassell.

  Please RSVP here.

  
  

  This even is FREE for Collectors Club Members.

  A minimum donation of $10 is required for Non-Collectors Club attendees.

  
  

  Native Texan, Billy Hassell has been making nature inspired paintings, lithographs and watercolors for more than 40 years. His colorful and expressive artworks, frequently featuring birds and indigenous plants and animals of Texas and the Gulf Coast region have been exhibited nationwide and are included in the permanent collections of the Houston Museum of Art, the Menil Collection, the Fort Worth Modern, The Dallas Museum of Art and numerous other public and private collections. A traveling survey exhibition of his work was organized by the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi in 2007 and toured the state. More recent selections of work have been featured in solo exhibitions at the Michelson Museum of Art in Marshall, Texas, The Louis Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, Texas (2017), the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee, Oklahoma (2010- 2011), The Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas (2012-2013), The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (2014) and the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas (2013-2014). Future solo exhibitions include a survey of paintings from 2018 -2020 in an exhibition, PNUMBRA, opening in January 2021 at the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, Texas. Articles on his work have appeared in ARTNEWS, SOUTHWEST ARTS, TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE magazine, the NEW YORK TIMES and the NOTRE DAME magazine. He has been commissioned to produce a color etching and two suites of color lithographs for Audubon Texas and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. He currently serves on the board of the Big Bend Conservancy helping raise money and public awareness for Big Bend National Park and furthering his commitment to support conservation efforts in Texas. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas and his art is represented by Conduit Gallery in Dallas and William Campbell Contemporary Art in Ft. Worth as well as galleries in Houston; Austin; San Antonio; Denver, Colorado; New Orleans, Louisiana and Kansas City, Missouri. For more information you may visit his website at www.billyhassell.com

  
  

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