Sculpture Month Houston

Here's a look at this year's Sculpture Month Houston's exhibition at SITE Gallery Houston at The Silos at Sawyer Yards. Thank you all who came by to see it! We are looking forward to next year's exhibition!

"The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure"
October 7 - December 2, 2023.

FEATURED ARTISTS:
Frances Bagley, Rabea Ballin, Jimmy Canales, Elizabeth Chapin, Colette Copeland, Jeff Gibbons, Suguru Hiraide, Allison Hunter, Jessica Kreutter, Yuliya Lanina, Nadin Nassar, Steve Parker, Kris Pierce, Hugo Santana, Sarah Sudhoff, James Sullivan, and Jesse Lott.

For more information, visit our website at www.sculpturemonthhouston.org

Video filmed and edited by 3DSage.

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The Fragmented Figure - Sculpture Month Houston 2023 The Sleep of ReasonThe Fragmented FigureOctober 7, 2023 - December 2, 2023Opening Reception:Saturday, October 7, 6pm - 9pmSite Gallery HoustonThe Silos at Sa...

Today is your last chance to see the “The Sleep of Reason / The Fragmented Figure” exhibit. You are invited to our closing party: Saturday, December 2 from 12pm to 6pm.

Curator Volker Eisele will be giving the final tour of the exhibition at 2pm followed by an artist talk by Colette Copeland and demonstrations of her sonic work.

Participating artists: Frances Bagley, Rabea Ballin, Jimmy Canales, Elizabeth Chapin, Colette Copeland, Jeff Gibbons, Suguru Hiraide, Allison Hunter, Jessica Kreutter, Yuliya Lanina, Nadin Nassar, Steve Parker, Kris Pierce, Hugo Santana, Sarah Sudhoff, James Sullivan, Jesse Lott.

For more information, please visit www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023.

Here is your last chance to see the “The Sleep of Reason / The Fragmented Figure” exhibit. You are invited to our closing party on Saturday, December 2 from 12pm to 6pm.

Curator Volker Eisele will be giving the final tour of the exhibition at 2pm followed by an artist talk by Colette Copeland and demonstrations of her sonic work.

Participating artists: Frances Bagley, Rabea Ballin, Jimmy Canales, Elizabeth Chapin, Colette Copeland, Jeff Gibbons, Suguru Hiraide, Allison Hunter, Jessica Kreutter, Yuliya Lanina, Nadin Nassar, Steve Parker, Kris Pierce, Hugo Santana, Sarah Sudhoff, James Sullivan, Jesse Lott.

Image info (left to right): Mark McCoin with "Roz"; Jimmy Canales "Zuzan"

For more information, please visit www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023.

Please join us this Saturday, November 18th at SITE Gallery Houston at The Silos at Sawyer Yards.

1pm: "SHIFT", a new durational participatory sound performance by Sarah Sudhoff. It's an extension of the artist's "Line of Gravity" series, in which she employs self-reflection through photography, performance, and video on the subject of domestic violence.

2pm-3pm: Tour of the SMH exhibition led by curator Volker Eisele.

3:15pm: Musical performance by the Misha Penton Collective. Experience voice, guitar and electronic ambient, textural and spacious music to accompany the art installations throughout the sonorous Silos at Site Gallery Houston.

These events are free and open to the public.

For more information, please visit our website at www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Please join us this Saturday, November 18 at 3:15pm for a performance by Misha Penton Collective at SITE Gallery Houston. Misha Penton(voice), George Heathco (guitar), and Chris Becker (laptop) making strange and beautiful magic for Sculpture Month Houston. Photos: Dave Nickerson.

For more information about the performance, please visit www.mishapenton.com/silos

For more information about the exhibition and to find out about the rest of our special performances and exhibition tours, please visit our website at www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Sarah Sudhoff: SHIFT
Saturday, November 18 at 1pm at Site Gallery Houston

"SHIFT," is a new durational participatory sound performance and serves as an extension of the artist's "Line of Gravity" series, in which she employs self-reflection through photography, performance and video the subject of domestic violence. Based on a series of personal experiences from the Summer of 2021, the artist seeks to poetically portray through repetition, gesture and actions, both the internal and external struggles one faces on the way to reclaiming a self-lost to abuse.

"SHIFT," intends to invite the audience to share in the burden of these experiences by lending their voices to the artist's story. Shifting the narrative from a first person account to a collective conversation, creating opportunities for empathy, understanding and ultimately, a reclamation of one's own power.

This performance is part of the current Sculpture Month Houston exhibition "The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure". For more information, please visit www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023.

Sculpture Month Houston is proud to present "Roz: An Interactive Sonic Being". Two guest artists, Mark McCoin and Nathan Wheeler will introduce Roz (Robotic Resonance) with several performances today, Saturday, November 11th from 12pm to 6pm at SITE Gallery Houston. These performances are part of the current Sculpture Month Houston exhibition "The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure".

"Roz" debuted this past June at the CURRENTS 2023 Festival in Santa Fe to great acclaim. It is a new kind of audio-visual hybrid instrument that can produce unexpected, novel soundscapes.

The inclusion of an interactive robotic system in the “Fragmented Figure” project points to the vast promises of an exponential rise of human creativity via a mind/machine interface. There is rapidly accelerating research being conducted in linking the human brain and its neural activities with Artificial Intelligence. As recent roll-out events have demonstrated, AI can be unpredictable and even threatening despite tightly controlled parameters.

“Roz” may be part of the initial phase of an evolutionary development, whose endgame is unpredictable and unknowable. Aiming toward a degree of autonomy and latitude in searching for unexpected, creative solutions is one of the main attractions of systems like “Roz”. This demonstration may just be the beginning of the progressive growth and learning process of “Roz” from a more figurative art entity to an eventual self-actualization with the ability to make its own choices.

“Roz” or Robotic Resonance is an interactive and durational sonic art piece that features a piano harp (metal harp and strings of a piano), 2 robotic arms holding spinning felt, and an interactive computer control.

Strings are tuned to the resonant frequencies of the exhibition venue and when activated, create a remarkable soundscape of contrapuntal harmonic relationships.

Visually evoking part sci-fi operating table and part antique instrument, this juxtaposition combines two ages of technology, highlighting the passage of time while still integrating a hybrid audiovisual instrument with possibilities greater than the sum of its individual components.

Sculpture Month Houston is proud to present “Roz”, an interactive sonic being. Two guest artists, Mark McCoin and Nathan Wheeler will introduce Roz (Robotic Resonance) with several performances on Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11 from 12pm to 6pm at SITE Gallery Houston. This performance is part of the current Sculpture Month Houston exhibition "The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure".

"Roz" debuted this past June at the CURRENTS 2023 Festival in Santa Fe to great acclaim. It is a new kind of audio-visual hybrid instrument that can produce unexpected, novel soundscapes.

The inclusion of an interactive robotic system in the “Fragmented Figure” project points to the vast promises of an exponential rise of human creativity via a mind/machine interface. There is rapidly accelerating research being conducted in linking the human brain and its neural activities with Artificial Intelligence. As recent roll-out events have demonstrated, AI can be unpredictable and even threatening despite tightly controlled parameters.

“Roz” may be part of the initial phase of an evolutionary development, whose endgame is unpredictable and unknowable. Aiming toward a degree of autonomy and latitude in searching for unexpected, creative solutions is one of the main attractions of systems like “Roz”. This demonstration may just be the beginning of the progressive growth and learning process of “Roz” from a more figurative art entity to an eventual self-actualization with the ability to make its own choices.

“Roz” or Robotic Resonance is an interactive and durational sonic art piece that features a piano harp (metal harp and strings of a piano), 2 robotic arms holding spinning felt, and an interactive computer control.

Strings are tuned to the resonant frequencies of the exhibition venue and when activated, create a remarkable soundscape of contrapuntal harmonic relationships.

Visually evoking part sci-fi operating table and part antique instrument, this juxtaposition combines two ages of technology, highlighting the passage of time while still integrating a hybrid audiovisual instrument with possibilities greater than the sum of its individual components.

Thank you Catherine Anspon for including Sculpture Month Houston's exhibition "The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure" in your wonderful PaperCity Houston article "6 Houston Art World Shows Worth Seeing Before They’re Gone... The Bayou City Is An Art Playground".

Here are the images and captions that were included in the article and below is what Catherine wrote about the exhibition:

The Sleep of Reason

Dr. Volker Eisele, the force behind fall’s annual Sculpture Month Houston, organizes its seventh round at Site Gallery at The Silos at Sawyer Yards. In "The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure," 18 Texas artists take on the creepy cool agrarian ruin of the former Success Rice silos, seeking to answer this query: "What is the most compelling image of man and the human figure today?” It is on view through December 2.

And just in: Don’t miss at Site Gallery, The Silos at Sawyer Yards, what curator Dr. Eisele promises will be extraordinary, the “Roz (Robotic Resonance).” This performance will take place on two days only: next Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11, from noon to 6 pm each day.

To read the entire article, please visit https://www.papercitymag.com/arts-houston/houston-art-shows-see-art-at-time-like-this-harris-county-jail

For more information about the exhibition, please visit https://www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Our SMH exhibition "The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure" was included in Glasstire's Top Five!
https://glasstire.com/2023/11/02/top-five-november-2-2023/

Come by and check out the exhibition! Exhibition hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm-6pm. On view through December 2, 2023.

SITE Gallery Houston at The Silos at Sawyer Yards
1502 Sawyer Street, Suite 400, Houston, TX 77007

Participating artists:
Frances Bagley, Rabea Ballin, Jimmy Canales, Elizabeth Chapin, Colette Copeland, Jeff Gibbons, Suguru Hiraide, Allison Hunter, Jessica Kreutter, Yuliya Lanina, Nadin Nassar, Steve Parker, Kris Pierce, Hugo Santana, Sarah Sudhoff, James Sullivan, and Jesse Lott.

For more information, please visit www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Top Five: November 2, 2023 | Glasstire Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas, including exhibitions in San Benito, Abilene, Rockport, and beyond.

Please join us today, Saturday, November 4th for an exhibition tour led by curator Volker Eisele from 2pm to 3pm and at 3:15pm for the musical performance by the Misha Penton Collective. These events are free and open to the public.

For more information about the performance, please visit www.mishapenton.com/silos

For more information about the exhibition and to find out about the rest of our special performances and exhibition tours, please visit our website at www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

"The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure". On view through December 2nd.
Exhibition hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm.

Site Gallery Houston
The Silos at Sawyer Yards
1502 Sawyer Street, Suite 400
Houston, TX 77007

Participating artists:
Frances Bagley, Rabea Ballin, Jimmy Canales, Elizabeth Chapin, Colette Copeland, Jeff Gibbons, Suguru Hiraide, Allison Hunter, Jessica Kreutter, Yuliya Lanina, Nadin Nassar, Steve Parker, Kris Pierce, Hugo Santana, Sarah Sudhoff, James Sullivan, and Jesse Lott.

Image info: Kris Pierce "The Reality Show"

For more information about the exhibition and to find out about our special performances and exhibition tours, please visit our website at www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Please join us this Saturday, October 28th from 2pm to 3pm for an exhibition tour led by curator Volker Eisele. This event is free and open to the public.

Image info: Nadin Nassar "Welfare Check (The Three Little Piggies Blew the House Down)"

For more information about the exhibition and to find out about our special performances and exhibition tours, please visit our website at www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Please join us this Saturday, October 21st for an exhibition tour by curator Volker Eisele from 2pm to 3pm and at 3:15pm for the musical performance by the Misha Penton Collective. These events are free and open to the public.

For more information about the performance, please visit www.mishapenton.com/silos

For more information about the exhibition and to find out about the rest of our special performances and exhibition tours, please visit our website at www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Image info: Allison Hunter “Shifting Time”

Please join us tomorrow, Saturday, October 14 for an exhibition tour by curator Volker Eisele from 2pm to 3pm and at 3:15pm for the musical performance by the Misha Penton Collective. These events are free and open to the public.

For more information about the performance, please visit www.mishapenton.com/silos

For more information about the exhibition and to find out about the rest of our special performances and exhibition tours, please visit our website at www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Image info: Rabea Ballin "History Slept on "

Misha Penton Collective is Sculpture Month Houston 2023 music ensemble in residence.

Experience voice, guitar and electronic ambient, textural and spacious music to accompany the art installations throughout the sonorous Silos at Site Gallery Houston at Sawyer Yards (1502 Sawyer Street, Suite 400, Houston, TX 77007).

Misha Penton: Voice; George Heathco: Guitar; Chris Becker: Laptop.

The Misha Penton Collective is a project-based collaborative of musicians, composers, and performing artists spearheaded by Misha Penton.

Performances are at 3:15pm after curator Volker Eisele's exhibition tour from 2pm to 3pm.
Saturday, October 14 & 21
Saturday, November 4 & 18

Free and open to the public. For more information about the performances, please visit https://mishapenton.com/silos

Join us tonight!
"The Sleep of Reason:
The Fragmented Figure"
Saturday, October 7, 6pm-9pm

SITE Gallery Houston
The Silos at Sawyer Yards
1502 Sawyer Street, Suite 400
Houston, TX 77007

Participating artists:
Frances Bagley, Rabea Ballin, Jimmy Canales, Elizabeth Chapin, Colette Copeland, Jeff Gibbons, Suguru Hiraide, Allison Hunter, Jessica Kreutter, Yuliya Lanina, Nadin Nassar, Steve Parker, Kris Pierce, Hugo Santana, Sarah Sudhoff, James Sullivan, and Jesse Lott.

Music by DJ Mikey Drag

For more information, please click on the link in our bio or visit www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Image info: Animatronic by Yuliya Lanina

Join us this Saturday, October 7, 6pm-9pm for the opening reception of "The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure". It's our 7th Silos exhibition and our 4th Biennial Festival! On view through December 2, 2023.

Location: Site Gallery Houston at The Silos at Sawyer Yards (1502 Sawyer Street, Suite 400).

Participating artists:
Frances Bagley, Rabea Ballin, Jimmy Canales, Elizabeth Chapin, Colette Copeland, Jeff Gibbons, Suguru Hiraide, Allison Hunter, Jessica Kreutter, Yuliya Lanina, Nadin Nassar, Steve Parker, Kris Pierce, Hugo Santana, Sarah Sudhoff, James Sullivan, and Jesse Lott.

For more information please visit www.sculpturemonthhouston.org.

Dear Friends of Sculpture Month Houston,

The great countdown to the opening of the “Fragmented Figure” is in full swing. We were busy this past weekend getting our first three silos installed. A lot of sweat and heat, but in the end, the exhibition looks great. The Silos with all its funk and aura of industrial labor allow the artists the freedom to try things out and to open up their creativity.

The “Fragmented Figure” has focused its spotlight on the human figure and this exclusive focus, apparently, has not been encountered in a great while. There may be some interesting discoveries to be made!

Participating artists:
Frances Bagley, Rabea Ballin, Jimmy Canales, Elizabeth Chapin, Colette Copeland, Jeff Gibbons, Suguru Hiraide, Allison Hunter, Jessica Kreutter, Yuliya Lanina, Nadin Nassar, Steve Parker, Kris Pierce, Hugo Santana, Sarah Sudhoff, James Sullivan, and Jesse Lott.

Here are some images of works in progress. For more information, please visit https://www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

Only 5 more weeks until the opening of “The Sleep of Reason/ The Fragmented Figure”, our new Silos exhibition and Festival. We would like to update you on some of the artists' progress and some new developments.

As you may have heard, Jesse Lott has passed away this July and Sculpture Month Houston will honor his legacy, his unique vision, and his important community contributions with a special event on Thursday, October 5 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Silos location.

Participating artists:
Frances Bagley, Rabea Ballin, Jimmy Canales, Elizabeth Chapin, Colette Copeland, Jeff Gibbons, Suguru Hiraide, Allison Hunter, Jessica Kreutter, Yuliya Lanina, Nadin Nassar, Steve Parker, Kris Pierce, Hugo Santana, Sarah Sudhoff, Jay Sullivan, and Jesse Lott.

From the outset, the goal of this exhibition has been to find and exhibit artists within our city and state who are representative of a “new” figuration. Every time and period have its own special image of the human figure, one that responds to its social and cultural mantras. Cubism radically changed the prevailing classical notion of the figure and introduced the “Fragmented Figure”, a body image that is first de-constructed and fragmented and subsequently re-constructed.

The participating artists in this exhibition will provide the viewer with a wide spectrum of viewpoints and installations that are innovative and often surprising. They may refer to and symbolize the anguish, instability and complexity of twenty-first century life and the rise of “disquiet man”, as some authors have named it.

Two guest artists, Mark McCoin and Nathan Wheeler will introduce their latest creation, an interactive sonic art being named “Roz” (for Robotic Resonance) at a special performance on Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11 at the Silos as part of the “Fragmented Figure” show. This groundbreaking concept and work will extend the human element into the sphere of interactive computer control and unconventional sound propagation. More details to come.

Here are some images of works in progress (from first to last): Allison Hunter, Kris Pierce, James Sullivan, Yuliya Lanina (screenshot of video), Steve Parker, and "Roz".

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OPENING THIS FRIDAY

SYNAPTIC:
Sculptural Interpretations of Neural and Psychological Systems

Site Gallery at The Silos at Sawyer Yard
1502 Sawyer Street Suite 400, Houston TX 77007

OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, October 8, 2022 from 6 pm- 9 pm
Exhibition runs October 8, 2022 – December 3, 2022

Also Saturdays: Artist Talk / Tours at 2 pm by
Curator Volker Eisele

Ambient Avenues Performing Arts Series (Select Saturdays)
Performance art TBA

SYNAPTIC FEATURED ARTISTS:
Christie Blizard
Laurie Frick
Jeff Gibbons
Dave Greber
Stephan Hillerbrand / Mary Magsamen
Hillary Holsonback
Ronald L. Jones
Sharon Kopriva / John Berry
Meredith Jack
Dameon Lester
Beili Liu
Virginia L. Montgomery
Chris Sauter
Matthew Steinke
Brad Tucker
Meredith Tucker

Announcing the 2022 Sculpture Month Houston Exhibition: SYNAPTIC coming this October 2022:

Sculpture Month Houston is proud to present its new exhibition “Synaptic” from October 8th, 2022 - December 3rd, 2022 at the Site Gallery at The Silos at Sawyer Yards. Since 2016 Sculpture Month Houston celebrated 3 Dimensional and installation art and the artists who create them.

With the overwhelming success of five previous celebrations, Sculpture Month Houston Festival is becoming a forum to showcase cutting edge art and diverse expressions by local, state and nationally known sculptors and installation artists.

As for this year’s conceptual theme, “Synaptic” refers to the synapses, a vital part of neurons or nerve cells where impulses between neurons are transmitted. It explores how ephemeral brain activities can be interpreted as sculptural metaphors and how neural and psychological systems can be translated into concrete objects.

Find more info here in our latest newsletter:

https://mailchi.mp/644d9e9db03f/2021sculpturemonthhouston-20133354

Join us for our closing week including our final artist talk/tour, performance by The Outspoken Bean, and our closing reception all on Saturday, December 4th! Details below:

Grand Finale Week - Artist Talk/Tour, Houston Poet Laureate, and Closing Reception 2021 SMH: Altamira: The Primal Urge to Create SITE Gallery at The Silos at Sawyer Yards 1502 Sawyer St Suite 400, Houston, TX 77007 Exhibition runs October 9, 2021 - December 4, 2021 FINAL WEEK EXHIBITION HOURS: Thursday: 12pm - 6pm Friday: 12pm - 6pm Saturday 12pm - 7pm Also Saturday: Artist Talk/T...

Coming up this weekend: join us this Saturday for our weekly offering of our Artist Talk/Tour & Ambient Avenues with RJSH and Chapel in the Sky! 2pm talk, 3:15 performance. Altamira runs now through December 4, 2021 and open Wednesday - Saturday 12pm - 6pm.