CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM

Contemporary Arts Museum
5216 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006

PHONE: 713.284.8250
www.camh.org

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a not-for-profit, non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the art of our time to the local, regional, national and international public.

Admission to the Contemporary Arts Museum is free. The Museum is located across the street from the Museum of Fine Arts, near Hermann Park, and is closed Mondays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.

Contemporary Arts Museum Exhibitions

• No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston (May 9 to Oct. 4, 2009)

  • Free from the land-use and zoning ordinances that shape other large American cities by separating residential, commercial, and industrial areas, Houston allows a mixed-use approach where disparate architectures and functions blend. In this often chaotic, jarring urban topography, many Houston artists have been able to carve out spaces and opportunities for themselves.
• Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas (Aug. 15 to Nov. 1, 2009)

  • Jason Villegas’s interdisciplinary projects often combine wall murals tinged with assemblage and soft sculpture made from found fabric, with video and, more recently, performance. For Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas, the artist combines his ongoing investigation of consumerism and the commercialization of poverty to create a site-specific environment made of wall paintings and soft sculptures.
• Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance (Oct. 17, 2009 to Jan. 17, 2010)

  • Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance is a solo exhibition that includes works based on Jackson’s artist’s residency at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Jackson’s complex research, histories, and hagiographies are manifested in sculptures, constructed paintings, objects, books, and videos.
• Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool (Jan. 30 to Apr. 18, 2010)

  • The first career retrospective of this renowned American artist. The exhibition is comprised of 57 paintings, including full-figure portraits and lesser-known early works, as well as the artist’s more recent portal-like paintings of the Jamaican landscape, where he returns annually to do outdoor “en pleine air” painting.
• Perspectives 169: Odili Donald Odita (Feb. 12 to May 2, 2010)

  • Widely recognized for his pulsating hues and meticulously painted wall and canvas works, Odili Donald Odita creates paintings that often function as narratives. Although devoid of any discernable figurative marks, the works tell of the nomadic journey of our ever-shifting global society: shapes and intersecting lines become metaphors for time and place while color evokes mood and impulse.