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No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston

No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston
Library Shelf Location 17.NOZO
Publication Date 2009
Description Free from the land-use and zoning ordinances that shape other large American cities by separating residential, commercial, and industrial areas, Houston allows a mixed-use approach where disparate architectures and functions blend. In this often chaotic, jarring urban topography, many Houston artists have been able to carve out spaces and opportunities for themselves, their work, and their communities. No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston is the first museum exhibition to consider the current and past efforts of regional artists working in the urban environment. The exhibition will feature work by approximately 15 individual and collaborative teams. Participants contributing new projects include The Art Guys (Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing), who will present a performance that involves marrying a tree; Mary Ellen Carroll, who is reconfiguring an abandoned tract house in the southwestern Sharpstown neighborhood; and Rick Lowe, who celebrates residents of the Third Ward in billboards. Also included is work by current and former Houston artists Bill Davenport, Ben Tecumseh DeSoto, Sharon Engelstein, The Flower Man (Cleveland Turner), The Fundred Dollar Bill Project (Mel Chin et al.), Andrea Grover, collaborators Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, George Hixson, Lauren Kelley, KnittaPlease (Magda Sayeg et al.), Eric Leshinsky, Benjy Mason and Zach Moser of Workshop Houston, Jim Pirtle, and Nestor Topchy. No Zoning will include examples and documentation of important city interventions and visionary structures from the 1980s to the present. The exhibition will incorporate a combination performance, lecture, and video screening space that will present special programs during the museums extended Thursday evening hours. In addition, a series of special artistic programs and educational tours will be located throughout the city.
ISBN 9781933619194
Quantity 1
Pages 136
Authors Cameron Armstrong, Meredith Goldsmith, Caroline Huber, Toby Kamps
Format Softcover
Publisher Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Related Artists Rick Lowe, The Art Guys, Mary Ellen Carroll, Bill Davenport, Ben Tecumseh DeSoto, Sharon Engelstein, The Flower Man (Cleveland Turner), The Fundred Dollar Bill Project (Mel Chin et al.), Andrea Grover, Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, George Hixson, Lauren Kelley, KnittaPlease (Magda Sayeg et al.), Eric Leshinsky, Lee Littlefield, Benjy Mason and Zach Moser, Jim Pirtle, Nestor Topchy
Category Group Exhibition/Multiple Artists
Related City/Region Houston
Language English

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