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• PATRICK TURK: Higher Planes

  • Start
    14 Mar 2020
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  • End
    13 Sep 2020
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  • 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 September 13, 2020
  

  Opening Reception TBD

  Conversation with the Artist: Patrick Turk 8/6/20 @ 5:00pm

  (Via Facebook Live)

  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
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  • End
    13 Sep 2020
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  • 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 September 13, 2020
  

  Opening Reception TBA

  Conversation with the Artist: Kana Harada, joined by

  Patrick Kelly, Executive Director and Curator of Exhibitions,

  The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX  8/13/20 @ 5 p.m.

  (Via Facebook Live)

  
  

  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 peace 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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• BRANDI HAMILTON: No Solid Surface

  • Start
    02 Jul 2020
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  • End
    06 Sep 2020
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  • 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 - September 6, 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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• Drive-Thru Summer Family Arts Day

  • When
    15 Aug 2020
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    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  
  

  The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) invites children and their families to join in AMSET’s free drive-thru “Don’t Mess with Texas, Mess with ART” Family Arts Day on Saturday, August 15, 2020 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or until supplies last.

  “To continue fulfilling our mission of providing education, inspiration and creative vision throughout Southeast Texas, AMSET has decided to have a drive-thru style Family Arts Day for the safety of our guests due to Covid-19,” Andy Gardner, AMSET’s curator education/outreach, said.

  Bags filled with supplies to create four art activities will be handed out to families while they remain in their vehicles and drive through the AMSET parking lot. Families will learn how to create innovative works of art with repurposed materials to coincide with AMSET’s summer recycling theme, “Don’t Mess with Texas, Mess with ART.” Activities are inspired by AMSET’s current exhibitions, PATRICK TURK: Higher Planes and KANA HARADA: Celestial Garden.

   Joining in on the fun, Beaumont Police Department Cops & Kids with McGruff the Crime Dog and the Fire Museum of Texas with Smokey Bear, who will be celebrating his 76^th birthday, will be giving away handouts and swag throughout the day.

   Art activity supplies will be limited and given out according to the number of children in the vehicle.

  Throughout the day, AMSET will draw winners for backpacks full of school supplies to kick off the new school year.

  Admission to this event is free and open to the public.  For more information, visit amset.org or call (409) 832-3432.

  
  

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• AMSET Book Club

  • When
    13 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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