Blaffer Gallery
Blaffer Gallery, the Museum of The University of Houston, is located within the School of Art’s Fine Arts Building. Blaffer presents innovative, challenging exhibitions and programs that bring the university and the extended community into closer engagement with important cultural issues of our time. It is an invaluable resource for the study of art, art history, and other related disciplines.
Recent exhibitions include the first major U.S. museum exhibitions of work by Miguel Angel Rios and Urs Fischer; group shows One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now; Contemporary Africa Abroad; and Populence (curated by David Pagel);and ambitious exhibitions of work by Jane and Louise Wilson, Jessica Stockholder and Chuck Close. Blaffer Gallery is home to the School of Art’s Annual Student and Annual MFA exhibitions.
The Fall 2007 season begins with two special exhibitions, Jean-Luc Mylayne and Amy Sillman, in her premiere solo museum exhibition. French conceptualist photographer Jean-Luc Mylayne presents in this inaugural debut the monumentally scaled images he captured over a three-year period in the landscape in and around Fort Davis, Texas . And through her vibrant and expressive compositions, in abstract paintings and delicate drawings that soar with imagination, Sillman shows us why she is considered one of the finest painters working today.
For more information and current exhibitions please visit:
www.class.uh.edu/blaffer
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Center for the Arts
The University of Houston is proud to be a leader in the field of interdisciplinary programming in the arts. The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts promotes collaboration, experimentation, and innovation in the arts. The Center supports the creation and presentation of new works, sponsors visiting artist residencies, and offers courses, scholarships, lectures, and symposia, all in a creative alliance with the School of Art, Creative Writing Program, Moores School of Music, School of Theatre and Dance, and Blaffer Gallery.
The Mitchell Center has an ambitious yearly schedule of visits and presentations by world-renowned artists, performers and writers, from Philip Glass to Dick Hebdige. Glass, one of the world's most compelling and influential living composers, presented an evening of conversation, multi media performance, and selected works performed live at the piano. Dick Hebdige, recent Mitchell Center Visiting Scholar, is a cultural critic who was invited to the campus for a series of three multimedia lecture performances, including the riveting X Syndrome: Vertigo and Autobiography, an intensely "personal" narrative about an ascent into and out of madness. Hebdige has written on popular culture and music, the anthropology of consumption, media, art and critical theory. In addition to his presentations, Hebdidge met with School of Art students for discussion and critique.
For more information and current programming please visit:
www.mitchellcenterforarts.org
