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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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• THOMAS DURAN: Obscurity of a Moment

  • Start
    06 Feb 2020
  • End
    19 Apr 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  Safe Haven, digital photograph, 2019, 18 x 24 in., Loan courtesy of the artist    

  
  

  Café Arts Presents:
  THOMAS DURAN: Obscurity of a Moment
  
  February 6 - April 19, 2020
  Opening Reception: Thursday, February 6 @ 5:30-7:30 p.m.
  
  

  Duran is a lens-based artist working on his degree in Studio Art with a concentration in Photography at Lamar University. Duran is active within the Department of Art and Design through the organizations he is a part of, the art honor society Kappa Pi, and treasurer of Artists Common. After graduating, Thomas plans on pursuing a graduate degree in photography.

  Originally from Houston, Duran credits the architecture and people he interacted with growing up in addition to his college experience for molding his creative process when shooting photos.

  “I was born and raised in the suburbs of Houston,” he said. “I never started making art until I got to Lamar. I owe a lot of the way I create to the faculty they have.”

  Duran’s photography explores the stark contrast of light and dark with portraiture and showcases his love for architecture and the human form.

  “My work is based around harsh lighting,” he said. “Having a bright orange or blue light blast onto a building is just mesmerizing. I want others to see the beauty in the everyday architecture.”

  
  

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• Protégé 2020

  • Start
    27 Feb 2020
  • End
    19 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 19, 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
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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, EMILY PEACOCK: Pure Comedy and DAVID MCGEE: Black Paintings. Entertainment, face painting, and refreshments will be provided.
  

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• AMSET Book Club

  • When
    19 May 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, May 19th at 5:30 p.m. at AMSET. We will be discussing Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland. 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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