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Art Car Museum
140 Heights Blvd
The H Gallery
The New Arcadians: Photographs from Summer Camp
2356 Rice Blvd
4 - 6 pm, Artist talk 5 pm
1724 Gallery
Frances Trotter
1724 Bissonnet
Redbud
Hiraide Suguru: Still Pachinco?
303 East 11th Street
6 to 9 pm
Nine From Pharos
Nau-haus
Scott Woodard: The Land Within
223 E. 11th Street
6 to 9 pm
the joanna
4014 Graustark
SATURDAY SALE
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Tonight is Mad Too
Best of the A/V Swap is next Friday!
Best of The A/V Swap 2009
Houston, Austin, Buffalo and New York
September 18, 2009
Rice Media Center
8 pm
This fall The A/V Swap is back with a bigger and badder group of films, this time from both Texas and New York! 34 films by Houston artists and musicians will screen at 8 pm, Saturday, August 29nd at Rice Media Center in our The Good, the Bad and the Dirty show. For our second screening Friday, September 18th at 8 pm, The A/V Swap presents the Best Of 2009, a selection of collaborations from Houston, Austin, Buffalo, New York and New York City created this summer. Both screenings will start with artist's receptions at 7:30 pm and the Best Of 2009 screening will conclude a Q & A with participating filmmakers and musicians. This is the 6th annual A/V Swap, and we are glad to bring you more of the emerging filmmakers, aspiring composers, established artists and soulful songwriters that have made the swap a success in the past.
The way the A/V Swap works is quite simple and intuitive. A/V Swap projects are collaborations that begin with a film or song that is traded between artists to complete; we hope to provide a forum where artists can showcase their talents by manipulating audio and video they would never otherwise encounter. In this "swap" we anonymously pair composers and filmmakers, hoping to expand their creative horizons. This year's Houston artists include Ahmad Squad, Bexar, Chin Xaou Ti Won, Jody Cochran, David Courtney, Face and Russ Kuhner, Fumblz Fingerz-Nacha, Justin Giardina, Scott Gordon, Philip Hays, Chuck Ivy, Kanude, Travis Kerschen, David Lowy, Shawna Mouser, Ron Ochoa, Sharad Patel and Andrew Edison, Phara, PR!MO, Patrick Renner, Michael Rodriguez, Stephanie Saint Sanchez, Aimey Stinchcomb, Everett Taasevigen, The Art Guys, Thousands, Eric Todd, Vanessa Voss, Ramon West, Able Windham and Ruben Ybarra. Over thirty more artists from New York and Texas participated in this year's swap.
The A/V Swap was born in 2004 to give artists an outlet to create innovative works that enrich Houston's cultural diversity- and the A/V Swap has grown exponentially in the last six years. Inspired by a love of film and desire to form an artistic community, the A/V Swap was born and has now expanded to include four cities. Landmark Theaters hosted the A/V Swap in 2004 and 2005, a bootleg event at the now defunct Landmark Greenway Plaza, with beer and cigarettes in the theater after midnight. The event grew to demand a larger venue and premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in 2006 to a crowd of more than 350 Houstonians, becoming the most successful local film screening in MFAH history. Through the success of the first two years of the swap, an increasing number of artists submitted their work. In 2007, the 4th A/V Swap was held at the Angelika Houston and a midnight viewing at the River Oaks Landmark Theatre. For the A/V Swap 2008, we were invited by the Houston Downtown Alliance to participate in Houston Theater District Day. Many thanks go out to Houston's dedication to support for the arts.
This year the A/V Swap is proud to be screening films at the Rice Media Center, founded in 1969 by Dominique de Menil and an evolving haven for experimental film for 40 years. Many inspired events have happened at Rice Media Center; Andy Warhol premiered Lonesome Cowboys, Dennis Hooper performed the Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act and Spike Lee was hosted for a screening of Do The Right Thing followed by a "spirited debate" with the crowd. The founders' intent was that the Media Center provide a channel through which different peoples of the world could communicate- and for four decades it has lived up to their vision. The A/V Swap is pleased to be working with another exemplary innovator to bring you this event, KTRU, Rice Radio.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Friday, Rainy Friday
Don't let the blues get'cha down! Go out and see some stuff...
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John Sparagana, Sleeping Beauty
John Sparagana, Sasha Pierce, & Katy Heinlein
CTRL gallery
3907 Main Street
6-9 pm
Sept 11 through Oct 31
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Nina Bovasso, Working in the Dark (Please Please Please)
Collected Works
(work by more than 30 artists from private collections)
Inman Gallery
3901 Main Street
6-9 pm
Sept 11 through Oct 31
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CANCELLED
Discovery Green
1500 McKinney
6pm - 9pm
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Joe Mancuso, White Marble Rose, 2007
Paul Fleming and Joe Mancuso
Barbara Davis Gallery (the Big Block)
4411 Montrose
6:30-8:30 pm
Sept. 11 through Oct 17
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Dawolu Jabari Anderson
...tales of new dimensions in time and Black space
Joan Wich & Company (the Big Block)
4411 Montrose
6-8 pm
Sept 11 through Oct 10
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William Cannings: Inflatable Infatuation
Anya Tish Gallery (the Big Block)
4411 Montrose
6-9 pm
Sept 11 through Oct 10
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DF Casa, Orfeo Quagliata, Mauricio Limon, Emilio Chapela, Graciela Fuentes and Iker Ortiz
Peel Gallery
4411 Montrose
6-9pm
Wynne Greenwood, Hot Topic
Now that I’m by myself...
Brian Bress, Wynne Greenwood, Laurel Nakadate, and Yuki Okumura
DiverseWorks
1117 East Freeway
6-8 pm
Sept 11 through Oct 24
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Jim Tozzi & Dave Bryant are Mister Meatball & the Doo-doodler
Domy Books
1709 Westheimer
7-9 pm
Sept 11 through Oct 22
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Jawshing Arthur Liou: Improbable Waves
Poissant Gallery
5102 Center Street (near Washington and Shepherd)
5-9 pm
Sept 11 through Oct 10
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Jon Pylypchuk
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Josephine Meckseper
Blaffer Gallery
University of Houston Art Department
6-8 pm
Sept 11 through Oct 14
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The Trilogy: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Miller Outdoor Theater
100 Concert Drive
8 pm
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Vanina, Vanini
1961, featuring Sandra Milo
MFAH Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet
7 pm
Lawndaly Lawndaleness
From the latest round of shows! Oodles of Nathaniel Donnett, Jabari Anderson, Emily Sloan, Elaine Bradford, Seth Alverson, Chuy Benitez, Mark Schatz, Jahjehan and Joe Ives and Adela Andea :)