Gallery
Admission is always free to The Jung Center Gallery, which displays the works of established and emerging artists.
Gallery Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 10:00am-6:00pm
Friday: 10:00am-4:00pm
Saturday: 12:00pm-4:00pm
Our past exhibits
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. The uniqueness and freedom of imagination differentiate us from other living organisms — and advance human civilization. Thus, what is IMAGINATION? What is MAKE-BELIEVE? And what is TRUTH? In the world in which we live, “TRUTH” is only what one chooses to believe. Learn more about Cindy Shung at cindyshung.com. Cindy Lisica is the Guest Curator for this exhibit. cindylisicagallery.com/ This exhibit is a FotoFest Participating Space 2022. fotofest.org/fotofest-biennial-2022
Click here for submission instructions." ["post_title"]=> string(69) "Visions: A Celebration of the Creativity of The Jung Center Community" ["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(70) "visions-a-celebration-of-the-creativity-of-the-jung-center-community-2" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2022-04-26 18:21:32" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2022-04-26 18:21:32" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(54) "https://junghouston.org/?post_type=exhibit&p=2294" ["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)#3558 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(2230) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2022-03-18 15:58:02" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2022-03-18 15:58:02" ["post_content"]=> string(2127) "A personal dream inspired this body of paintings: "It’s very dark at night. I’m on a bicycle and on my lap is the cutest baby girl. Her head is round and full. As I’m passing cars on the road at high speed I saw a very large man running from behind. He's catching up with us. His face looks bruised and beaten up. There's blood and open wounds on his face and chest. He cuts us off and as we stop he yells, ‘Pay me $800! Or just give me the baby!’ He opens his right hand and I see he's holding a very large sharp knife. I know that he's going to stab me. I tell the baby, ‘Don’t worry, nobody will take you from me!’ And I reach for a gun in my pocket and shoot the man in his head. His entire head blows off. And then we keep on biking. And crows fly overhead and lead the way. Hares run in the fields next to us."
"Eating my own Shadow" are paintings in mixed media [acrylic, oil, and graphite] on canvasses prepared with rabbit skin glue. With paintings, I find portals to create a language of colour and forms about the content of the dream. The images are physical forms of human and animal, but done with accident and chance. I shy away from the illustrative, but hold on to irrational mark makings. The painted images are imaginary and invite curiosity. The moods of the paintings are melancholic and eery. The images are dualities and not merely emotions painted out as abstractions. The paintings as a gestalt are a deeply subjective perspective of the dream experience. No logical answers are given to answer what the dream means. Questions remain. The vaguely palpable bodies wish to speak, almost touch, if at all.
The dated psycho-analytic unconscious has made its way with new deconstructions and voicings into the contemporary times. Dreams are only one access of how the unconscious is considered in our times. As a visual artist I examine ideas and speculations currently pertaining to a fresh examination of the unconscious. Visit John Faul's website." 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These works express untamed nature—vivid and sometimes unpredictable—as experienced along Texas’s Gulf Coast. They explore elements of earth, sky, and weather as aspects of the abstract landscape and its dynamic impact on our world. References to gardens and the changing seasons evoke the life cycle—birth, growth, decline, and death and all of its fierce emotions." 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At the time of her death, Mayer’s mother was in the middle of knitting a number of excerpts from Paul Klee paintings—he was one of her favorite artists. Mayer has used her mother’s custom patterns to create latch-hook versions of the Klee fragments. She knows which paintings some of the fragments come from; others she hasn’t yet found. Mayer’s practice as an artist revels in the fact that historically ceramics and fiber processes have been used to create highly functional items as well as wildly symbolic objects. Her work is part of this lineage, with equal concern for the future, and its dramatically shifting climate—ecological and political. The works in Pale Clay (Influence and Contagion) celebrate the rending of patriarchal histories. As she draws thousands of fibers through canvas grids, Mayer’s process suggests how influence may occur between realms and generations—materially, with attention to touch." 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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?
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July 02, 2022 - August 06, 2022
Kinder HSPVA
Students from the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

May 20, 2022 - June 29, 2022
Visions: A Celebration of the Creativity of The Jung Center Community
The Jung Center Community




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