News (Continued)
30 December 2010
Andrea Dezsö’s Rice Gallery Installation Makes Top Ten List on The Huffington Post
An article in The Huffington Post names Andrea Dezsö’s Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly as one of the top ten exhibitions of the Southwest in 2010. Pulled from over 300 exhibitions reviewed in the Visual Art Source Weekly Newsletter, writer Troy Schulze called the exhibition “a mesmerizing piece and a benchmark in Dezsö’s career.”
1 December 2010
Mary Temple To Create a New Installation at Rice Gallery
A new installation by Mary Temple will open at Rice Gallery on Thursday, February 3, 2011 from
5:00 - 7:00. Mary Temple explores the experiential qualities of specific environments through installations in which light and shadows seem to be cast on walls from nearby windows, despite the absence of a natural light source. In 2010 she was the recipient of a Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, and
The Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship.
16 November 2010
Art Directors Club of Houston Awards Rice Gallery Publication Silver Medal
The Rice Gallery catalogue Wayne White: BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP, designed by Antonio Manega, Gazer Design Group, has won a silver medal for catalogue graphic design in the
Art Directors Club of Houston 55th Annual Houston Show.
15 October 2010
Menil and Rice Gallery Prove Installations Have Lasting Impact
An early example of installation art, Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau will be recreated at The Menil Collection and open to the public next week. In an article discussing the exhibition, Houston Chronicle’s Douglas Britt writes, “It’s fitting that this partial re-creation of Schwitters’ seminal work should make its first U.S. appearance in Houston, which is home to the only U.S. university museum [Rice Gallery] devoted solely to the art form the Merzbau anticipated.”
5 October 2010
The Houston Seminar Visits Rice Gallery
Rice Gallery director Kimberly Davenport recently led a tour of Sarah Oppenheimer’s D-17 for
The Houston Seminar, a non-profit organization that seeks to stimulate learning and cultural awareness by sponsoring courses on political and social issues and the arts. For more about The Houston Seminar, visit houstonseminar.org.
24 September 2010
Rice Gallery Named Number One Highlight for Museum District Day
In a Houston Chronicle article promoting the 14th Annual Museum District Day, during which 17 participating museums in the Houston Museum District waive their admission fees, arts writer Douglas Britt lists several exhibitions worth seeing. Mr. Britt picked Sarah Oppenheimer’s D-17 as his number one highlight. (Post-event note: Rice Gallery welcomed 1,039 visitors on Museum District Day.)
31 August 2010
Rice Gallery Named A Favorite Art Venue in Houston
CultureMap writer Joseph Campana recently asked four visual art curators to name their favorite places to see art in Houston. Kristina Van Dyke, curator of collections and research at The Menil Collection, named Rice Gallery as her pick.
6 August 2010
Sarah Oppenheimer’s D-17 on designboom
designboom editor Andrea Chin discusses both the ideas behind Sarah Oppenheimer’s past installations and also Oppenheimer’s upcoming installation D-17 at Rice Gallery. D-17 will be on view 16 September - 5 December 2010.
2 July 2010
Andrea Dezsö on The Front Row
KUHF 88.7 FM’s Meghan Hendley spoke with artist Andrea Dezsö on April 6, 2010 about her installation Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly for KUHF’s The Front Row. Dezsö’s exhibition is on view through
August 8.
25 June 2010
Writers in the Schools Visits Rice Gallery
Nineteen students participating in Writers in the Schools Summer Creative Writing Workshop met at Rice Gallery on June 22 to take inspiration from its current installation, Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly by Andrea Dezsö. The students plunged into the imaginative space, studying Andrea Dezsö’s colorful cast of space characters, and writing their own poems in response.
24 June 2010
Design Workshop for Rice Students with Sarah Oppenheimer
Rice Gallery and the Rice School of Architecture recently collaborated to present the design workshop Wormholes through the Curtain Wall, held at Rice Gallery 16-18 June 2010. Thirteen generous donors made possible a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for eight architecture students to participate in the workshop led by Sarah Oppenheimer.
20 April 2010
American Association of Museums Awards Rice Gallery Publications First Prize
Rice Gallery catalogues Michael A. Salter: too much and Paul Villinski: Emergency Response Studio, designed by Antonio Manega, Gazer Design Group, have won first prize for supplementary materials in the 2010 American Association of Museums Publication Design Competition. Learn more about the American Association of Museums at aam-us.org.
15 April 2010
Upcoming Rice Gallery Artist Sarah Oppenheimer Wins Rome Prize
Known for her innovative architectural installations, Sarah Oppenheimer has won the 2010-2011 Rome Prize. Rice Gallery has commissioned Sarah Oppenheimer to create an installation that will open September 2010. Learn more about Sarah Oppenheimer at sarahoppenheimer.com. Learn more about the Rome Prize at aar.org.