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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Subject to Surviving | Juvana Soliven
DESCRIPTION:Art League Houston is pleased to present “Subject to Surviving\,” the Texas debut solo exhibition of Honolulu-based artist Juvana Soliven. This installation presents a years-long exploration of work that utilizes a pixelated censor motif as a visual language\, which speaks to themes of bodily autonomy\, gender performance\, and survival. \nSoliven’s work has been guided by Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”\, as well as Terri Kapsalis’ “Mastering the Female Pelvis: Race and Tools of Reproduction”\, an essay which articulates the horror of gynecological practices suffered by enslaved Black women\, the mass sterilization by the US of women and girls in Puerto Rico\, the forced sterilization of incarcerated women\, and coercive and “incentivized” contraceptive trials placed on poor women of color around the world by US and European governments. These are systems of control exercised against women under the guise of societal improvement and medical advancement that would contribute to the fulfillment of our duties in society.
URL:https://southwestcontemporary.com/event/opening-reception-subject-to-surviving-juvana-soliven/
LOCATION:Art League Houston\, 1953 Montrose Blvd\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: No Longer\, Not Yet | Marisol Valencia
DESCRIPTION:Art League Houston is pleased to present “No Longer\, Not Yet\,” an installation of new sculptures by Houston-based artist Marisol Valencia. The exhibition arises from a year and a half of sustained volunteer work at a Houston-area shelter serving migrant women and children\, and is grounded in lived experience\, shared making\, and acts of care. \nAs news cycles around immigration continue to speed up and flatten into headlines\, Valencia resists the pressure to resolve or frame the subject through policy or argument. Instead\, she lingers with lived experience and what it means to move through uncertainty\, and the slower\, quieter realities of endurance\, adaptation\, and care that rarely make it into public discourse.
URL:https://southwestcontemporary.com/event/opening-reception-no-longer-not-yet-marisol-valencia/
LOCATION:Art League Houston\, 1953 Montrose Blvd\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening: Poetics of the Mundane
DESCRIPTION:Archway Gallery presents Poetics of the Mundane\, featuring new paintings and collages by Silvia PintoSouza and ceramic works and sculptures by guest artist Jeff Forster\, on view May 2–June 4\, 2026. Join the opening reception Saturday\, May 2\, from 5 to 8 p.m.\, with artist talk at 6:30 p.m. \nArchway Gallery artist\, Silvia PintoSouza\, and Department Head of Ceramics at The Glassell School of Art\, Jeff Forster\, are focusing their dual exhibit on the transitory nature of life and the scenes and objects that fire their imagination\, capturing both a sense of permanence and transition through their artistic media. \nThis compelling dual exhibition explores the fleeting nature of everyday life\, transforming ordinary objects and overlooked materials into works that balance permanence and change. PintoSouza elevates familiar subjects through layered\, translucent acrylics\, simplifying form and color to create luminous\, abstract compositions rich with depth and nuance. Working in intimate formats\, she brings precision and quiet intensity to each piece. \nForster reimagines discarded materials—drawing from agricultural and industrial remnants—to create sculptural forms that highlight texture\, process\, and reinvention. His environmentally conscious approach reveals beauty in what is often ignored\, offering a powerful reflection on memory\, transformation\, and the poetry found in the everyday.
URL:https://southwestcontemporary.com/event/exhibition-opening-poetics-of-the-mundane/
LOCATION:Archway Gallery\, 2305 Dunlavy\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening: LUC SOKOLOWSKI - REMERGER 20260410-11
DESCRIPTION:GARAGE MONTROSE PRESENTS:\nLUC SOKOLOWSKI – REMERGER 20260410-11\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 10 – 5-8 PM\nSATURDAY APRIL 11 – 2-5 PM \nWHAT SOUND COMES FROM BEHIND SCREENS?\nTHIN CHROMATIC CELLS VIBRATE\nHARMONY AND HUM SHARD AND FRACTION.\nI PREFER TO DEEP LOOK AT THESE PAINTINGS\nTO ASK THEM QUESTIONS.\nAS HARD AND CRISP AND DIRECT AS THEY PRESENT IS THERE A SOFT SOUL SOIL UNDERNEATH?\nSO I ASK YOU : PAINTING:\nFUNCTION\nSENSORY EMANATIONS\nBACK LIT\nFRONT\nPLUM\nPLUME\nHUM\nCADMIUM\nCADENCE\nOF CELLS.\nDIVIDED RANDOM INTERVENTIONAL TONAL DIMENSIONS?\nSURROUNDS:\nFRAME AND BODY – HERE\nPRESENT.\nCHAOS CONDUIT CONDUCTOR SHOULDER TO SHOULDER – HERE PULLING RANDOMIZED HARMONY – AHEAD\nATMOSPHERIC NOISE\nSILENT HUM\nATOM PIXEL CELL SHELL\nWINDOWS WITHIN WINDOWS AD INFINITY.\nTHE MORE INFORMATION GATHERED THE QUICKER THE BALANCE\nEVEN AND ODD\nWARM AND COLD\nTHE UNIVERSE BALANCES ITSELF EVER EXPANDING.\nTO TAPE AND TAPE AGAIN. REPEAT.\nTO REMOVE AND TAPE AGAIN. REPEAT.\nPRACTITIONERS – CARTOGRAPHIC BELIEVERS LIKE LUC’S LINES – LINEAGE:\nCARMEN\, ANNI\, AGNES\, ALFRED\, XYLOR\, ETC. LINES SPLIT\nSQUARES AND RECTANGLES RELEASE\nRADIANT REMERGER.\nJSP – 32126. \nLuc Sokolowski\n(b. 1978\, New York City) is an artist and GIS analyst who lives and works in the Houston Area. He earned an MA from UT Dallas and an MFA from the University of Houston. His works have been included in exhibitions in a number of venues in Dallas and Houston\, TX. His recent exhibition Tetrachromacy at the Brazos Gallery of Dallas College\, Richland Campus was subject to a feature in Glasstire in 2025. Remerger 20260410-11 will be his first solo presentation within Houston’s 610 loop.
URL:https://southwestcontemporary.com/event/exhibition-opening-luc-sokolowski-remerger-20260410-11/
LOCATION:Garage Montrose\, DM on IG or email: jamessterlingpitt@gmail.com\, Houston\, 77006
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