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
Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion (Jan. 6 to Apr. 1, 2012)
The Houston debut for this Chicago-based, mid-career painter and the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. For this exhibition, Binion has created a new body of work that extends his visual narrative through color and geometric form. Decidedly minimal, Binion’s work embodies a strong intellect rooted in the expressive capabilities of color and abstraction. His luminous hybrid paintings are comprised of wax-based crayons pressed onto shaped wood and aluminum panels. The tactility of the painting as well as the integration of paper collage onto its surface offers a complexity to Binion’s process that is deeply devoted to the narrative of the work’s making.
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 (Jan. 21 to Apr. 15, 2012)
A survey of leading women artists that examines the crucial feminist contribution to the development of deconstructivism in the 1970s and ’80s. As the term suggests, deconstructivism involved taking apart and examining source material, generally borrowed from the mass media, to expose the ways commercial images reveal the mechanisms of power. Women had a particularly high stake in this kind of examination and were disproportionately represented among artists who practiced it.
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