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Dark Ride
Jon Read
Summer 2013
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Annette Palmer
The Rainbow, 2012 Annette Palmer graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a degree in Art and Design in 1989. She went on to work in the Scottish fashion industry as a designer of children’s wear, eventually starting her own label. Her work expanded to Singapore and Dubai where she worked until moving to [...]
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Kelly Alison
Alison is an American artist primarily working in a rural area south of Houston, Texas. Her work has been exhibited in national and international museums, most notably at the Shanghai Art Museum in China and the National Museum of Art in Lima, Peru. She has been published in books, catalogs and magazines such as Art [...]
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Newfangled Notions #53 (The Blue Period)
Jeffrey Wheeler
June 29 & 30, 2013
The “Blue Period” works feature iconic images of a rural past, mixed with art historical references, rendered in thin, often expressive monochromatic oil washes. These are not nostalgic reminiscences but interventions, re-examinations of ideas and ideals that remain powerful and, therefore, in need of critical attention. The large-scale sketches alternately materialize/de-materialize, like the iconic/mythic [...]
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Newfangled Notions #52
Jeffrey Wheeler
June 1-28, 2013
Jeff F. Wheeler returns to Houston on June 1, 2013, for his first solo exhibition at G Gallery since 2008. In those five years, the legendary Lubbock artist has exhibited extensively, nationally and internationally, collaborated with a number of renowned artists, and curated over thirty exhibitions at his studio gallery, Farm 2 Market Arts, as [...]
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Backdrop
Kelly Alison, J Todd Allison, Thedra Culler-Ledford, Nathaniel Donnett, Wayne Gilbert, Maria Cristina Jadick, Rahul Mitra, Bradford Moody, Mark Ponder, Kaneem Smith, Jeffrey Wheeler
May 4 - 24, 2013
To coincide with the Center for Creative Work’s special performance of Ilium, a theatrical adaptation of the Iliad, G Gallery has commissioned a line-up visual artists to create large-scale paintings inspired by Homer’s epic poem. Installed in the gallery where the performance will take place, these paintings serve as a literal backdrop to the theatrical production itself, [...]
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J. Todd Allison
J. Todd Allison received a B.F.A. in Art History and Studio Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, and then he received a M.A. in Painting from the University of Wyoming in Laramie and a M.F.A. in Art and Design from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He then moved to the Houston area [...]
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Debra Broz
Currently residing in Austin, Texas, Debra Broz graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Studio Art from Maryville University in 2003. She found her love for craft, the natural world and odd things while growing up in central Missouri. In 2005, Broz moved to Austin where she continued working as an artist and began [...]
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Dyonesia 2013: Ilium
A special performance by the Center for Creative Work, University of Houston
Saturday, May 4, 8PM
G Gallery welcomes the Center for Creative Work (CCW) at the Honors College, University of Houston, for a special presentation of Dionysia 2013. Dionysia 2013 presents an adaptation of Homer’s classic tale of war and suffering, the Iliad, entitled Ilium. Jen Sommers of the School of Theatre and Dance will choreograph and direct with music composed and conducted [...]