A Moment in Time: The Art of Basilios Poulos: 1975-2008
An Exhibition celebrating 33 years at Rice University

Opening Reception January 17, 6-8 pm

Exhibition on View: January 17 thru February 15
VADA Main Gallery
Rice Media Center
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 11:00 – 5:00 pm
Closed weekends and University holidays

This exhibition is generously underwritten through funds from the Jerome J. Segal Endowment.

Making Faces: Douglas Huebler and the Voiding of Photographic Portraiture
A Talk by Gordon Hughes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History

Hughes explores conceptual artist Douglas Huebler’s foray into photographic portraiture. Huebler is conventionally understood to use a variety of systems as a means to generate his work and this talk will argue that in the early 1970’s, Huebler turned to photographic portraiture as a strategic means to frustrate and undercut the very systems with which he is most associated.

January 22, 7:00 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center

MAMBO JAMBO: Cabinet of the Cosmos
Installation Exhibition by Charlie Roberts
Rice Art Gallery

Charlie Roberts, who describes himself as “a maximalist at heart and love to pack things to the gills,” creates obsessively detailed paintings each of which is its own universe.

At Rice Gallery, Roberts will combine painting and sculpture to create his first site-specific installation. A take-off on the cabinets in which wealthy 17^th century Europeans displayed their art collections and souvenirs of the natural world, a colossal wooden cabinet will be filled with wooden sculptures built on site. The doors will be covered with 200 of Robert’s paintings. Roberts notes that Cabinet of the Cosmos “will fit many stories and objects into a small area.”

Opening Reception
January 24, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Gallery Talk and Luncheon featuring Charlie Roberts
A complimentary light lunch will be served
January 25, 12:00 noon

Exhibition on view January 24-March 2
Rice Gallery, Sewall Hall

Tuesday – Saturday 11:00 - 5:00 pm

Gallery Hours:
Thursday 11-7 pm
Sunday Noon – 5 pm
Closed Mondays and University Holidays

MAMBO JAMBO: Cabinet of the Cosmos
Gallery talk by Katherine Kuster, Outreach Coordinator, Rice Art Gallery

Feb. 13 Noon
Rice Gallery, Sewall Hall

KATRINA: Evacuation & Inspiration
An exhibition of New Orleans Artists
Opening Reception
February 25, 8-10 pm

In spring, 2008, we are pleased to welcome you to a series of events the last week of February on "Houston and Katrina." This series features speakers who will address the social, cultural, economic, educational, judicial, and demographic impact of the mass migration of New Orleans residents to Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Exhibition on view February 21-March 1
VADA Main Exhibition Gallery
Rice Media Center

Gallery Hours
Monday-Friday 11-5 pm
Closed weekends and University holidays

This exhibition is made possible through a collaboration between the Rice University Humanities Research Center and the Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts.
 

Mambo Jambo: Cabinet of the Cosmos
Gallery talk by Katherine Kuster, Outreach Coordinator, Rice Art Gallery
February 27, 6 pm
Rice Gallery, Sewall Hall

FOTOFEST2008 – China
Liu Ren: Someday, Somewhere
Paradise
Memory
Us

Opening Reception
Mar. 10 6 – 8 p.m.

Liu Ren creates with rich visual language and signs, an imaginary world: a visual world between the real and the surreal, between reality and hyper-reality. Images reflect the worldview of the artist, her expectations, her thirst for realism as well as her respect entangled with fear and illusion of life. Her subtle and clear impressions lead her to use layered images to transmit her perception of her surroundings, her story and her hopes.

Exhibition on view March 7-April 20
VADA Mezzanine Gallery
Rice Media Center

Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday, 11-5 pm
Closed weekends and University holidays

Artist Talk: Chris Sperandio
March 18, 2008, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.(more information)
VADA Film Auditorium, Rice Media Center building 

Christopher Sperandio works in such forms of "distributed media" as television, comic books, and chocolate. He's collaborated with British artist Simon Grennan to author 20 comic books published in conjunction with a variety of museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and London's ICA, and publishers including Fantagraphic Books and DC Comics. Their innovative approach to art making involves projects and painted installations that engage varied communities and address issues of demographics and distribution. Sperandio is also the creator and executive producer of ARTSTAR, the first reality television show set in the New York art world. Lunch provided.

Artist Talk: Matthew Sontheimer
"Reading Pictures & Drawing Words"
March 25, 2008, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. (more information)
VADA Film Auditorium, Rice Media Center building 

Matthew Sontheimer currently lives and works in Denton, Texas. He received his B.F.A. in 1992 from Stephen F. Austin State University and his M.F.A.in 1995 from Montana State University in Bozeman. Sontheimer's work has been included in exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, New Orleans Museum of Art, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, and the Hammer Museum at UCLA. Sontheimer has recently been featured in solo exhibitions at Achim Moeller Fine Art Gallery, New York, Dunn and Brown in Dallas and Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston. His work can be found in the collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His work is represented by Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas and Anthony Meier Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco. Lunch provided.

Artist Talk: Noah Simblast
"Reframing Abstraction - a Circumfession"
April 1, 2008, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. (more information)
VADA Film Auditorium, Rice Media Center building 

Noah Simblist is an artist and writing living in Dallas, Texas. His work involves paintings, drawings, video, wall text, and sound installations that explore the limits of symbolic meaning in political, religious, and quasi-religious modernist iconography. Most recently these images have been placed in the context of texts and images that deal with the political role of the artist, the concept of forgiveness. Christian Zionism, and the idea of home in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lunch provided.

Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition
Opening Reception April 2, 6-8 pm
Remarks by the artists, 7:00 pm

The Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition is a competitive group show that highlights three Visual and Dramatic Arts majors. These students, chosen through proposal and portfolio review, are awarded $1300 to develop a body of work to be shown in a professional exhibition.

Exhibition on view April 2-18
VADA Main Exhibition Gallery
Rice Media Center

Exhibition Hours
Monday-Friday, 11-5 pm
Closed weekends and University holidays

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Mavis C. Pitman Endowment in the Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts.

Exhibition 45 - LAUNCH
45th Annual Student Art Exhibition
Senior Rice Students
Rice Art Gallery

Opening Reception: April 24, 5:30-7:30 pm
Remarks by the guest curator, Nancy Hixon, 6 pm

Annual Rice University senior student art exhibition. This guest-curated show features works by Rice University senior studio arts majors.

Exhibition on view April 24-May 10
Rice Art Gallery, Sewall Hall

Exhibition 45
45th Annual Student Art Exhibition
Undergraduate Rice Students (Non-Seniors)

Opening Reception April 24, 7-9 pm

Annual Rice University undergraduate student art exhibition. This show, curated by the Visual Arts faculty, features works by non-senior students.

Exhibition on view April 24-May 10
VADA Main Exhibition Gallery
Rice Media Center

Summer Window
Rice University Art Gallery

Rice Gallery is closed for summer, but the summer window can be enjoyed throughout the summer through the front glass of the gallery.

Exhibition on view June 1-August 31

Rice Art Gallery
Sewall Hall