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

• 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.