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By Ariel Jones
FRESH ARTS SCENE
UMMER HAS FOUND US ONCE AGAIN, AND THE HEAT HAS YOU LAZING AROUND. WHAT WILL YOU DO TO PASS THE TIME? FIND A COOL ESCAPE IN THIS MONTH’S FRESH ARTS SCENE! – XOXO FRESH ARTS
25th ANNUAL CLASSICAL CONCERT SERIES Texas Music Festival June 2–28 Texas Music Festival (TMF) marks its 25th anniversary season with performances by outstanding student musicians, distinguished conductors and faculty artists from all over the world. Most concerts are general admission. Saturday Orchestra Series performances are reserved seating. Concerts take place at Moores Opera House and Dudley Recital Hall (Fine Arts Bldg.), University of Houston Main Campus (I-45 at Cullen Blvd., Entrance #16) or at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands. – Admission for single tickets is $15 and for students and seniors $10. Tickets may be purchased online at www.tmf.uh.edu and through the UH Moores School Ticket Office, 713.743.3313.
PRESERVONS LA CREATION (LET’S PRESERVE THE CREATION): THE BIGGEST MURAL IN HOUSTON | UP ART STUDIO Thursday, June 5, 7–10pm: VIP Mural & Art Show Preview Event Saturday, June 7, 3–11pm: Opening Event & Ceremonies Eyeful Art and UP Art Studio, with community partners Texan-French Alliance for the Arts and Midtown District, proudly present Preservons la Creation. Sebastien “Mr. D” Boileau will paint 8,000sf of surface area (60 feet high and one city block wide) – the largest mural produced in the history of Houston. A portion of the proceeds from the project will benefit a children’s hospital mural,
which will begin production in 2014–2015. The events include the mural unveiling, Mr. D solo gallery art show, Open the Door installation and live auction, as well as live music, food and beverages. $10 general admission, $100 V.I.P. Admission – 2800 San Jacinto www.thebiggestmuralinhouston.com
LECTURE #2: ASTRIA SUPARAK, INDEPENDENT CURATOR | DiverseWorks “Diverse Discourse 2014” Wednesday, June 11, 6:30pm Independent Curator Astria Suparak gives a free talk as part of the Diverse Discourse Visiting Lecturer & Studio Visit Series. Suparak has curated exhibitions, screenings, performance and music events for art spaces, film festivals and academic venues internationally, including PS1, The Kitchen, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and The Liverpool Biennial, as well as for non-art spaces such as rollerskating rinks, elementary schools, sports bars and ferry boats. Suparak’s work has been critically acclaimed by The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Artforum, Rhizome, The Village Voice and LA Weekly for its innovative curatorial approaches. DiverseWorks, 4102 Fannin, Suite 200 – Free! www.diverseworks.org or 713.223.8346
UNMADE/WHOLE Post-Studio Projects Opening reception June 20, 6pm (On view through July 19) Unmade/Whole, a solo exhibition featuring Nathan Sapio, manifests the literal and ideological slippage of painting. Through analytical deconstruction, paintings generate subsequent paintings as reconstructions, simultaneously filtering and expanding ideas of painting and principles by which paint is organized and perceived. Unmade/Whole is ultimately a project that creates paintings to attempt to understand the idea of Painting as a whole. post-studio projects (2315 Commerce St.) – Free! www.post-studio.org june 14 | www.002mag.com .29