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Collectively we are united by a passion to create, but we are each ignited by different forces. Saran Alderson is inspired by the human body, with all of its eccentricities and fabulocities.  Through the lens of portraiture, Sarah Fisher records the human need to be authentically seen. Liz Gates is driven by a desire to create safe spaces for future generations. Visible color and inclusive graphic design practices fuels Ashita Sawhney‘s work. Doug Welsh is ignited by Mitch Pengra, his partner and muse, who is a constant source of love, inspiration and joy. This show is equally about the specific things that motivate us as individual artists, and the shared sense of purpose and urgency we feel in a collective desire to help shape an art world that embraces positivity, inclusivity, service and support – without ego. This is G5.

G5 Collective website: WE ARE G5

G5 Collective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/g5collective/?hl=en

G5 Collective: (left to right) Ashita Sawhney, Saran Alderson, Doug Welsh, Liz Gates, Sarah Fisher. Image: Felipe Harker

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Join us Saturday, May 6th, at 2:00pm for a performance and gallery tour! All are welcome!

The human being from the beginning has always sought belonging. Belonging, identifying with a group, is essential to our survival.  With immigrants, it's no different. One of the many struggles we face as immigrants is not being able to see ourselves in the eyes of the people we live with. Transiting the streets, looking at faces, clothes, small gestures, objects and the like and not recognizing ourselves in them causes us great insecurity. We need a connection, a form of recognition, for the creation of self-confidence and the ability to live. In this series, composed of paintings, installation, and performance, I create a portrait of community that reflects a part of my self, but also a little of this strangeness that is lived as a Brazilian immigrant in the US. This collection plays with all that I have accumulated in my journey for belonging, and that is still revealed daily in my life. The works will have images of Brazilians in their daily gestures, clothes, and peculiarities, revealing a space, a collective, where I find self, and that I call “belonging." I am, we are, reflections of our communities. Website:  https://www.ibraimnascimento.com/" ["post_title"]=> string(11) "Reflections" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(11) "reflections" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2023-04-26 02:04:17" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2023-04-26 02:04:17" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(54) "https://junghouston.org/?post_type=exhibit&p=3335" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(7) "exhibit" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [5]=> object(WP_Post)#3864 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(3236) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "6" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2023-01-17 22:02:41" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2023-01-17 22:02:41" ["post_content"]=> string(1591) "From collector, Jerry Rubenstein: “A rich heritage of Yugoslavia, naïve art brings a message of humanness to the viewer.” The Jung Center Gallery is honored to present this exhibit of Yugoslavian Naïve Art from the collection of Jerry and Linda Rubenstein.  The works on exhibit bring together an impressive group of the best known and respected naïve artists from the Eastern Bloc countries. These colorful, charming and magically expressionistic paintings include paintings on paper, canvas and board, as well as the unique reverse paintings on glass, a popular art form among the naïve artists of Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania.  Any glass that you see in this exhibit is reverse painted, on the glass itself! Inclined strongly towards an image of expressionistic realism, as in all naïve art around the work, the artists represented here each work in their own experiences within the reality of their personal lives.  Subjects from the everyday life of these rural, uneducated artists include family life and roles, religion, work and recreational themes.  Fidelity to architecture, nature, landscape and topographical concerns, costume and facial characteristics is of extreme importance and is carried out in every instance. In this regard, common motifs have developed and are easily identified with the art from this area.  Myths, fairy tales, local legend, motifs and icons from days past, as well as personal dreamscapes, are often represented in a surrealistic or native style akin to Salvador Dali or Henri Rousseau. - From past curator, Martha Terrill" ["post_title"]=> string(22) "Yugoslavian Naïve Art" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(21) "yugoslavian-naive-art" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2023-08-31 21:26:54" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2023-08-31 21:26:54" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(54) "https://junghouston.org/?post_type=exhibit&p=3236" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(7) "exhibit" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [6]=> object(WP_Post)#3863 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(3153) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "6" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2022-10-28 20:49:36" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2022-10-28 20:49:36" ["post_content"]=> string(2403) "

What if you could become a pollinator surrounded by the pleasures of a summer garden?

What if you could see into a multiplicity of dimensions?

What if you could change the seasons of the year; the focal point of a bird; the colors of everyday existence?

What if you could give expression and form to something that does not yet exist, something new and unique?

What if you could visualize your mind’s inner thoughts during a moment of creation?

What if by giving of yourself you could save the life of another person?

What if —— My 2023 photography exhibition at The Jung Center touches on the power of imagery and of imagination.  The imagery, in part, speaks to the work of Carl Jung and his use of art in exploration of the unconscious and in the evolution of specific magic moments of personal growth in the human psyche.  Comprised of several very dissimilar groupings of images, each grouping invites the viewer to become immersed in a variety of situations.  When visitors pause within each segment of the exhibition to look, to really look, in some segments viewers will see details--some straightforward and clear while other groupings of images create a visual environment that is strangely mysterious yet somehow recognizable.  Those images invite a quiet mood and require a pause for the viewer to have the ‘aha moment’ of contemplative understanding. The segment, titled Witnessing Miracles, is dedicated to amazing work of the surgeons and medical professionals at Methodist Hospital Transplant Center. 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Their work focuses on the topics of Grief, Apology, and Healing. (w)Hole fosters reflection on personal subject matter while opening up a visual and audio dialogue that stems from each artist’s rawest human experiences. This project began prior to the pandemic and has only become more relevant and immediate as a result of how many people around the globe have been touched by loss and the arduous task of healing in such a short span of time. The artwork in this exhibition includes an array of personal reflections ranging from the loss of a family pet, saying goodbye for the last time to a best friend, and healing on a beach across the world after witnessing a terrorist attack. The stories included in these artworks are a collective summation of what it means at our core to be human. Process Each artist in the collective approaches art-making in a unique way including oil, acrylic, stained coffee, and sculpture. However, they have devised an approach to create a succinct exhibition based on common themes. The collective, “Drawing From The Wound” gathered together artists who have a history utilizing storytelling in their representational artwork. They were challenged to begin their art-making process by writing flash non-fiction stories, limited to 500-800 words. While writing, artists were asked to step far away from their comfort zones to find the truth of their experiences, digging deep into the recesses and shadows of their minds and forgoing the temptation of irony, which commonly appears in work when the truth is too difficult to bear. The artists agreed to create three works of art each based on grief, apology, and healing. Along with a writing coach and editor and several round table discussions, the artists began their art-making journey with the written word. Each visual artwork starts with the artist writing or attaching their written flash non-fiction story to the first layer of their artwork, commonly referred to as the support. Supports can include canvas, paper, or anything used as the first layer for the artwork. From there, artists created narrative works to illuminate their writing. Some words were purposefully obscured, shadowed, and hidden, while others remain vivid and revealed. Finally, treated as a script, professional performers recorded each piece of the artist’s writing. The audio can stand on its own, yet allows for an intimate experience when listening and simultaneously looking at the accompanying visual artwork. Background and Inspiration The idea of tackling grief, apology and healing began after the group’s organizer, Laura Spector, listened to interviews by the sociologist Brené Brown, author of “The Call to Courage”, and Eve Ensler, author of “The Apology” on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. These themes expanded into an investigation into the study of fragmented thought, which all participating artists have been feeling within their own art-making process. The group was also inspired by artist and author Jenny Odell’s book, “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy”. Together, the collective realized the answer was to go deeper inward and share our personal truths with our community to find connectedness. Learn more about the Drawing from the Wound Collective at their website." 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Leonardo Da Vinci encouraged “observation with imagination”. Hamlet saw a camel in the clouds. In 1866, Karl Kahlbaum named the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation of a visual stimulus pareidolia. In my garden, reality wilts under the macro lens, while shades and shapes transform to surreal storylines evoking the emotion of a long-forgotten past.  The diversity of images elevates photography as fictitious expressions of boundless imagination. Time and distance leave marks in one’s mind which stretches constantly and unconsciously. My conceptually-evolved beings will never return to their original selves. Homecoming to where the stories began is familiar and complementary, yet never the way it was. The human mind, where memory mingles with fantasy and reality converses with emotion, is the center of the ever-expanding universe one sees and believes. While I see a heaven in a flower, I realize how non-universal individual perceptions are for everyone. 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The show is divided into two categories: Category one in the side room will show the beginning work of designing the Archetypal figures of GRIEF, BLAME and HOPE and transitional works, illustrating the pattern work and expanding the image to a fuller canvas. The second category and embodying the main theme of the show, EARTH AT THE EDGE, will be twelve relief paintings which attempt to bring attention to climate change and its devastating effect on our existence on earth. To understand the concept of relief paintings, one must consider the layered process of their creation. Begun in the early 1990’s, developed directly from performance sketches in Tokyo Theatre, the substructures are 3” deep archival paper pulp castings of three-fourths life size kabuki figures: my archetypal representations of GRIEF, BLAME, and HOPE. The over-painting of these castings brings the imagery from eighteenth century traditional storey characters, up to their contemporary equals, where I deal with threats to man’s social and environmental well-being. The archetypal characters from the 1700’s, about whom Chikamatsu wrote in his classic Kabuki plays, were disguised by centuries and names, (or he would have lost his head). My protest, my activism is guised in the visual arts. In the over-painted images, we are witness to crisis after crisis for our water, our air, our energy resources and our earth. These crises call for sustainable solutions. We are GRIEVED by the rapidly declining environment; results of catastrophic events of altered nature. There are known entities of BLAME, (the daily abuse of earth’s resources). There is HOPE, however, in the efforts many are now making to change the direction of human involvement. Learn more about Jo Zider at jozider.com." 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Collectively we are united by a passion to create, but we are each ignited by different forces. Saran Alderson is inspired by the human body, with all of its eccentricities and fabulocities.  Through the lens of portraiture, Sarah Fisher records the human need to be authentically seen. Liz Gates is driven by a desire to create safe spaces for future generations. Visible color and inclusive graphic design practices fuels Ashita Sawhney‘s work. Doug Welsh is ignited by Mitch Pengra, his partner and muse, who is a constant source of love, inspiration and joy. This show is equally about the specific things that motivate us as individual artists, and the shared sense of purpose and urgency we feel in a collective desire to help shape an art world that embraces positivity, inclusivity, service and support – without ego. This is G5.

G5 Collective website: WE ARE G5

G5 Collective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/g5collective/?hl=en

G5 Collective: (left to right) Ashita Sawhney, Saran Alderson, Doug Welsh, Liz Gates, Sarah Fisher. Image: Felipe Harker

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