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• JEROME CABEEN Window to the World: The People & the Places

  • Start
    21 Nov 2019
  • End
    02 Feb 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  Café Arts Presents:
  JEROME CABEEN
  Window to the World: The People & the Places
  
  On View November 21, 2019 – February 2, 2020
  Opening Reception: Sunday, December 8, 2019 from 1-3 p.m.
  
  Artist Statement
  
  I have never encountered an insight about traveling that I felt described my experiences as well as this quote from Maya Angelou:
  “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
  We all tell stories with our lives, whether we realize it or not. That in itself is art. When I stepped foot onto the beautiful soil of Honduras for the first time in September of 2004, my story changed, for the better. I truly believe that the human spirit yearns for wholeness; it thirsts for the sacred knowledge that can only come by the uncomfortable expedition of the heart. I never imagined the impact that my travels would have on me. Now I cannot imagine what my life would be if I had not made these, at times, reluctant journeys. For in them, after all of the fears and trepidation subsided, what I found is when I embraced another person, looked into their eyes, what I saw was me.
  
  Window to the World: The People & the Places is a tribute and celebration of all those that blessed my path with their love, kindness and humanity. They have made my own window by which I see and experience the world that much more robust and sublime. This exhibition is for them.
  
  Grab a camera and tell a story!
  -Jerome Cabeen
  Artist Biography
  
  Jerome Cabeen graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas with a Bachelors of Fine Art in 1990. He taught art for many years at the high school, middle school and elementary school levels in Houston, while painting and drawing on the side. In 2004, Cabeen begin an international journey that would lead to his immersion into photography. From 2004 through 2010, he lived in Honduras, Central America and Liberia, Africa, teaching art and directing Catholic missions.
  
  His experiences in these countries, as well as the 30 others that he has visited, gave him a new window/lens/paradigm in which to see the common thread that connects us all, our humanity. The exhibition Window to the World: The People & the Places is a photo journal of his experiences and interactions with peoples and places from all around the globe.
  
  Image: Broken and Beautiful, The Many Faces of the Buddha, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2018, digital photograph on canvas, 24 x 24 in.
  

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• Emily Peacock: Pure Comedy

  • Start
    14 Dec 2019
  • End
    01 Mar 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  Emily Peacock, H.S.A.N.O. 2 (Home Security Apparatuses for Non-desirable Outcomes), 2019, archival inkjet print mounted to aluminum, 36 x 24 in., Loan courtesy of the Artist

  The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) will exhibit EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy and DAVID MCGEE: Black Paintings from December 14, 2019 – March 1, 2020 in the main galleries. On Friday, December 13, 2019, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., AMSET will host a free and open to the public opening reception featuring a gallery talk by artists Emily Peacock and David McGee. Light appetizers and beverages will be provided complimentary of AMSET.
  
  Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Emily Peacock is currently a professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and lives in Houston. EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy transforms the artist’s personal journeys through loss, motherhood, and family tragedy into photographs, film, and sculpture depicting objects and images that exist in a space between the familiar and the absurd. Using safety suits and common objects seen in her home, Peacock presents a series of oval portraits of herself and her husband that feel all at once alien and very familiar to those who have experienced caring for the safety and well-being of another. This series, titled H.S.A.N.O. (Home Security Apparatuses for Non-desirable Outcomes), also brings postpartum depression to the forefront, a public health issue that affects 10 to 15 percent of mothers. By fantastically documenting her own transition into motherhood, Peacock allows others to open up about their own experiences without fear or shame, in an attempt to de-stigmatize disorders such as this.

  For more information, call (409) 832-3432.
  
  Both exhibitions are generously funded, in part, by an award from the Edaren Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation. Funding for EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy provided by Sheila and Jerry Reese.
  

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• David McGee: Black Paintings

  • Start
    14 Dec 2019
  • End
    01 Mar 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  David McGee, Ragnar, 2016, oil, wire and glue on canvas, 60 x 48 in.,

  Loan courtesy of the Artist and Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

  The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) will exhibit EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy and DAVID MCGEE: Black Paintings from December 14, 2019 – March 1, 2020 in the main galleries. On Friday, December 13, 2019, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., AMSET will host a free and open to the public opening reception featuring a gallery talk by artists Emily Peacock and David McGee. Light appetizers and beverages will be provided complimentary of AMSET.
  

  DAVID MCGEE: Black Paintings is an exhibition where the ongoing Urban Dread series serves as a visual and symbolic focal point to reconsider paintings spanning twenty six years of the artist’s career. The series depicts black and white 24” x 18” paintings that scroll across the museum walls, their stark black and white minimalism softened and complicated by their surfaces which consist of oil, sand, wax, and mixed medium on burlap. McGee, who was born in Lockhart, Louisiana and currently resides in Houston, addresses “urban dread” as a conflict between inner cities and suburban angst, depicting abstracted images of ropes, cuffs, crosses, targets, police vehicle coloration, hoods, land separation, hospitals, and weapons. These and other paintings present McGee’s most powerful exhibition-to-date, challenging viewers to consider the neighborhoods they live in and pass through, and how color affects each emotion, memory, and human interaction.
  
  For more information, call (409) 832-3432.
  
  Both exhibitions are generously funded, in part, by an award from the Edaren Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation. Funding for EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy provided by Sheila and Jerry Reese.
  

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• AMSET Book Club

  • When
    04 Feb 2020
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  
  

  
  

  Our next book club will meet on Tuesday, February 4th at 5:30 p.m. at AMSET. We will be discussing The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan. Bring your appetite for refreshments and a hearty conversation over the novel! Invite your friends because it’s bound to be a literary success!
  
  Kindly RSVP by emailing ktimberlake@amset.org or calling 409.832.3432.
  

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• First Thursday at AMSET

  • When
    06 Feb 2020
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  
  

  Joining in on the First Thursday fun downtown, AMSET stays open later and gives the community a chance to see its current exhibitions while enjoying great jazz!

  AMSET's winter exhibits, EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy and DAVID MCGEE: Black Paintings will be on view in the main galleries. In addition, AMSET's new Café Art Series, THOMAS DURAN: Obscurity of a Moment will be on view. An opening reception will be held in conjunction with First Thursday. 

  
  

  This month's featured musician is Rick Condit, director of jazz studies and professor of saxophone at Lamar University. He, along with musical group ReBop, will provide the jazzy soundtrack of the evening.

  
  

  AMSET's First Thursday February Pop-Up artist will be Hannah Marlow, an illustrator and graphic designer. She currently attends Lamar University where she is pursuing a degree in Studio Art: Graphic Design. She creates various types of handmade paper and non-paper goods such as; greeting cards, buttons, stickers, prints, notebooks, & clay pins. Her work consists of lovely colorful illustrations and designs that express her personal sense of fun and creativity.
  
  

  Admission is free and open to the public. Wine and beer will be available for purchase and light refreshments will be offered.
  

  The event will take place Thursday, February 6, 2020, 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the museum’s café and foyer.
  
  For more information, visit amset.org or call (409) 832-3432.

  
  

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• Taste of the Arts Lecture Series

  • When
    12 Feb 2020
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  
  

  Taste of the Arts Lecture Series

  Wednesday, February 12, 2020 @ 11:30 a.m.

  Lamar University art professor and artist Prince Varughese Thomas will give a talk about the Art Museum of Southeast Texas’s winter exhibitions, EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy and DAVID MCGEE: Black Paintings, as part of the Taste of the Arts Lecture Series, Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the galleries with a Dutch treat lunch to follow in the Two Magnolias café.

  Thomas received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his M.F.A. from the University of Houston. He is currently a professor at Lamar University and is a multidisciplinary artist. He is an Art Prize 7 award recipient in time-based media, and is a Texas Biennial Artist. His work has been included in over 200 solo and group exhibitions at museums, galleries and alternative spaces nationally and internationally, including his most recent exhibition held at AMSET, The Legacy of Narcissus. He is currently represented by Hooks-Epstein Galleries in Houston, Texas. 

  EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy transforms the artist’s personal journeys through loss, motherhood, and family tragedy into photographs, film, and sculpture depicting objects and images that exist in a space between the familiar and the absurd. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Emily Peacock is currently a professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and lives in Houston. By fantastically documenting her own transition into motherhood, Peacock allows others to open up about their own experiences without fear or shame, in an attempt to de-stigmatize these.

  DAVID MCGEE: Black Paintings is an exhibition where the ongoing Urban Dread series serves as a visual and symbolic focal point to reconsider paintings spanning twenty six years of the artist’s career. McGee, who was born in Lockhart, Louisiana, and currently resides in Houston, addresses “urban dread” as a conflict between inner cities and suburban angst, depicting abstracted images of ropes, cuffs, crosses, targets, police vehicle coloration, hoods, land separation, hospitals, and weapons. These and other paintings present McGee’s most powerful exhibition-to-date, challenging viewers to consider the neighborhoods they live in and pass through, and how color affects each emotion, memory, and human interaction.

  For more information, call (409) 832-3432.

  
  

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• Valentine Wine & Dine

  • When
    14 Feb 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

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  Join AMSET for its jazzy wine dinner fundraiser, Valentine Wine & Dine, on Friday, February 14 at 7 p.m.!
  
  Chaired by Camille and Chris Ohmstede, this special Valentine's Day event is designed to be a casual gathering with a sit-down dinner paired with wine and soft jazz by Jimmy Simmons.
  
  Bubbly and bites will be served at the beginning of the night and will be followed with a gourmet dinner at 7:30 p.m. with special curated wines and sumptuous tabletop sweets to enhance the dining experience.
  
  There will be an auction, as well as a balloon raffle with mystery prizes, giving patrons the opportunity to win a variety of items. Not just for couples, this fun evening is for friends, family, and romantic partners alike.
  
  Tickets are $85 a person, $150 for two people, $1,000 for a reserved table and $2,500 for a premium table (seating limited).
  
  Proceeds from the dinner will go to AMSET's educational programs, which serve between 18,000-23,000 students a year.
  
  Dress is sport coat casual with a touch of red. For more information or to reserve your seat, visit amset.org or call (409) 832-3432.
  

  
  

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• Winter Family Arts Day

  • When
    22 Feb 2020
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    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  This FREE day of family fun will give children and their families an opportunity to participate in several hands-on art activities that correlate with AMSET’s current exhibitions. Entertainment, face painting, and refreshments will be provided.

  For more info, visit amset.org or www.facebook.com/amsetx.

  
  

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• Protégé 2020

  • Start
    27 Feb 2020
  • End
    28 Mar 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  
  

  In its 34th year, the Protégé Competition and Exhibition was created specifically to encourage graduating high school seniors to begin taking the steps necessary to become part of the world of art.

  This year’s juror is David Cargill. Born in Huntsville, Cargill moved to Beaumont with his family in 1935. Cargill is a historically and regionally important artist that has filled the local area with major large-scale, sacred and secular sculptures that can be seen near the Beaumont Civic Center, at Lamar University, the downtown Public Library, and inside Saint Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. His sculptures have helped define the public image of Beaumont, containing visual elements that juxtapose both the abstract and objective. He works in a variety of materials including wood, marble, terra cotta, stone, lead and bronze.

  This competition allows students to begin learning about the evaluation processes used in the art world. Prizes for winners include scholarships to Lamar University’s Art Department and gift certificates for art supplies. Requirements and materials required for entries can be found at amset.org.

  If you know a budding young artist, counsel him or her to prepare to enter this school year’s annual Protégé Competition and Exhibition. Entries will be accepted from January 6-16, 2020 and students may enter any work created after August 2019. Students need not be part of an organized art class to enter.

  Join us to see what great works of art this year’s students have created at the 2020 Protégé Reception and Awards Ceremony on Thursday, February 27, 2020 from 6-7:30pm. The Protégé Exhibition will be on display in the Conn Take pArt Gallery until March 28, 2020.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Go for the Gold: Walk Like an Egyptian

  • When
    12 Mar 2020
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    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

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  This year, we are doing an Egyptian Gold theme and asking you to Walk Like an Egyptian right down to AMSET! You never know, you may walk out doing the “sand dance” with $10,000 in gold coins in your robes!

  Go for the Gold is a reverse drawing and a great opportunity to win $10,000 in sumptuous, glittering gold coins straight from the Nile. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 12, 2020 at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas next to the Neches River Nile.

  Tickets cost $100 for members and $120 for non-members and admit two people into the art museum for an exciting evening of entertainment, watching the suspenseful reverse drawing and each other dressed as Egyptians. (You can come in 2020 street clothes too if you can’t muster the Nile stuff).

  Go for the Gold has a golden top drawer open bar and fabulous festive food fit for the pharaohs all evening.

  Only 450 tickets will be sold, and a number of prizes are given away throughout the evening, including a $1,500 second prize and a $1,000 third prize also in gold coins. You need not be present to win, but the thrill of winning while in a crowd of Egyptian supporters is unsurpassed.

  Call your favorite Pharaoh Board member today to purchase a ticket, or call the art museum at (409) 832-3432, or purchase a ticket online at amset.org. Tickets sell in a hurry, so don’t delay!

  All proceeds benefit the museum’s spectacular exhibition and education programs.

  
  

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• PATRICK TURK: Mystic Science and the Search for Intangible Truths

  • Start
    14 Mar 2020
  • End
    07 Jun 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  Patrick Turk, The Keeper, 2016, hand-cut paper and mixed media on panel,

  35 x 30 x 5 in., Image courtesy of the artist and Cris Worley Fine Arts

  
  

  On View March 14, 2020 through June 7, 2020
  

  Opening Reception Friday, March 27, 2020 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

  Patrick Turk explores traditional histories and ancient mythologies viewed through a psychedelic lens. By combining historical illustrations with concepts from science fiction such as time travel, sentient planets, and hypothetical biology, he creates kaleidoscopic depictions of religious, mythological, and mystical allegories.

  The exhibition will feature an immersive site-specific installation as well as hand-cut paper assemblages which are often materially sourced from science-fiction novels, encyclopedias, history, and scientific diagrams. Says Turk, “The intense levels of detail become a microcosm, forming a reflection of the human relationship to the plasticity of time and space, and to the process of self-unfolding.”

  Patrick was born in Galveston, Texas, and lives and works in Houston. His assemblages have been exhibited at Art Storm, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Lawndale Art Center and Rudolph/Projects/Art Scan as well as galleries in Galveston, Texas and Los Angeles, California. In 2013, he was an Artist in Residence at the Lawndale Art Center. His works have been published several times in Mung Being Magazine and he has completed high profile commissions for the 2009 Houston Art Car Parade Poster as well as the Philokalia album cover by Golden Cities.

  Patrick Turk is one of 60 artists included in the book, The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists (Texas A&M Press), authored by Robert Craig Bunch and released in 2016. He was also featured in the concurrent exhibition, The Art of Found Objects, held at Lone Star College-Kingwood in November 2016.

  This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by Rob Clark & Jerry Thacker, Architectural Alliance, Daniels Construction, the Edaren Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation.

  
  

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• KANA HARADA: Celestial Garden

  • Start
    21 Mar 2020
  • End
    07 Jun 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  Kana Harada, Where We Always Meet, 2017, cut paper on watercolor,

  36 x 28 5/8 in., Collection of George Morton & Karol Howard

  
  

  On View March 21, 2020 through June 7, 2020
  

  Opening Reception Friday, March 27 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

  This exhibition will feature paintings and sculptures by Dallas-based artist Kana Harada, who works with hand-cut foam sheets, along with watercolor, paper, and natural materials to create pieces that embody a wish for peace, a love for humanity, mother earth, and the universe. This artwork evokes the serenity of the “Fuji Sanctuary,” a gathering site at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Japan, near the artist’s birthplace of Tokyo, Japan. A peace ceremony will be held at the opening reception, inviting visitors to take part in a spiritual gathering, aiming to spread peace to all of the earth. Celestial Garden will include a site-specific installation, suspended sculptures, and two-dimensional cut paper and watercolor paintings.

  Kana Harada studied graphic design, Japanese fine art, and drawing at Ochanomizu School of Fine Arts in Tokyo, Japan. Harada is the recipient of the Beth Lea and John L. Clardy Memorial Award at 23rd Annual Exhibition, Art in The Metroplex at Texas Christian University. She has had both national and international solo and group exhibitions and her work is featured in several print and online publications and reviews, including Vitamin D Magazine, Glasstire, Star Telegram, Houston Press, among others. Her work is included in the collections of Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, and the Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas.

  This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by the Garth Family Partnership in memory of Mary Jane Garth and Harriet Garth, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation.

  
  

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• Spring Exhibitions Opening Reception

  • When
    27 Mar 2020
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  Artists Patrick Turk and Kana Harada will be present. Light refreshments will be served complimentary of AMSET.

  
  

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• Spring Family Arts Day

  • When
    02 May 2020
  •  
    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  This free day of family fun will give children and their families an opportunity to participate in several hands-on art activities that correlate with AMSET’s current exhibitions, EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy and DAVID MCGEE: Black Paintings. Entertainment, face painting, and refreshments will be provided.
  

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