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March 4-30, 2023
Archway Gallery, 2305 Dunlavy, Houston, Tx
Opening reception, Saturday, March 4th, 5-8 pm
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Houston’s Group Acorde to merge dance, visual arts
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Ink and Image 2019, Red... or Not, Archway Gallery
Featuring Printmaking by Cromwell, Gray, Perkins, Riccetti, Slaby, and Spencer
Featuring Printmaking by Cromwell, Gray, Perkins, Riccetti, Slaby, and Spencer
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Ink and Image 2019, Red... or Not Opening Reception, Saturday, June 1st, 2019 Archway Gallery, 2305 Dunlavy, Houston, TX 77006 |
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Welcome to Houston Art Tribe by artist Kay Sarver
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Vignette Art Fair Showcasing the work of women in the arts of Texas April 11 - 15, 2018 My piece, Vulva La Resistance was in this show |
My Touch Series Show at Kam's
April 17th - May 29th, 2018
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My interview on Living Arts, KPFT radio, thank you Bucky Rea and Mike McGuire!
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I was honored to have a photograph in this show.
Thanks Debra Ford for putting together this video of my show.
Becoming Paint donna e perkins
With Performances by jhon r. stronks and Alexandre Farris Soares
The Rørpost Collaboration Project
An international art energy collaboration
The RØRPOST Collaboration at Houston City Hall, 2017
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The Rørpost Collaboration Project
An international art energy collaboration
On view September 10, 2016 - October 30, 2016
Opening reception: Saturday, September 10, 2016, 7 – 10 pm
Art Car Museum • 140 Heights Blvd, Houston Tx. 77007, USA
An international art energy collaboration
On view September 10, 2016 - October 30, 2016
Opening reception: Saturday, September 10, 2016, 7 – 10 pm
Art Car Museum • 140 Heights Blvd, Houston Tx. 77007, USA
Houston, TX) - The Art Car Museum presents "The Rørpost Collaboration Project." This international artistic collaboration serves as a pipeline for the flow of creative energy, the development of international friendships, and the celebration of the freedom of expression. The Danish word "Rørpost" refers to a pneumatic tube. It is a metaphor for sending the paper exchange and art ideas across the Atlantic. The verb "Røre" means "to touch" when translated to English.
2 COUNTRIES - 4 EXHIBITIONS - 42 ARTISTS - 84 WORKS OF ART
Twenty-one artists from Houston, Texas were paired with 21 artists from Esbjerg, Denmark by matching artists’ names drawn from a hat - a Viking helmet in Denmark and a Cowboy hat in Texas. This was our first of many Skype meetings. All 42 artists began a work on paper. These pieces were completed by the artist's partner. Each of the 42 artists also created an individual work in response to the collaboration experience. The response pieces are of any medium, any size, any style.
It is an artistic and emotional risk for an artist to have their work completed by another artist.
Birgit Juhl thought Jennifer Madeley Dunn’s painting looked finished, "…so I didn't know what to do with it. But one day, I started with a lot of energy, and...realized that I had completely covered Jennifer's picture. So I had to try to remove a lot of my own paint. It was not easy and I was afraid I would destroy the paper." Sculptors and photographers were also challenged to complete paintings.
While none of the artists knew one another, many pairs developed relationships through the frequent exchanges of emails. Niels Kongsbak stated that, "Kay [Sarver] and I wanted to make a picture that illustrated the refugee-situation in Europe and immigration to Texas. We talked about walls - the wall in China, the wall in Berlin, the wall in Hungary, walls in Israel and the wall between US and Mexico. Ronald Reagan said 'Tear down this wall' and John F. Kennedy said 'Ich bin ein Berliner'. They were both talking against walls."
Lotte Lambæk said, "Karine [Parker-Lemoyne] mentioned Gandhi - 'Let's be the change.' I wrote her an old slogan from Phillips - 'Let's make things Better'. These words became the basis for our work together."
Several of the Houston artists traveled to Esbjerg for the opening in Denmark. A number of the Danish artists are visiting Houston to experience the Art Car Museum opening.
The Honorable Sylvester Turner, Mayor of Houston and Debbie McNulty of the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs along with Consul Anna Thomsen Holliday of Houston will be present at the Opening Reception to recognize the unique nature of this international collaboration.
THE ARTIST PARTNERS:
Becky Soria + Marianne Skjølstrup; Damon Thomas + Johny Wilslew; Carol McKee + Alf Pedersen; Kay Kemp + Tina Asmussen; Donna E. Perkins + Astrid Hygum; Lisa Marie Hunter + Connie Borgen + Kamila Szczesna; Nicola Parente + Lars Henning Andersen; Tami Merrick + Flemming Rendbo; Brenda Bunten Schloesser + Jette Dümke; Jan Jbeili + Jytte Jespersen; Renata Lucia + Erik Brøndberg; Raymond Saucillo + Per Lenholdt; Andis Applewhite + Lene Hassig Vilslev; Jennifer Madeley Dunn + Birgit Juhl; Kay Sarver + Niels Kongsbak; Joe Aker + Gustav Iwinski; Barbara Tennant + Rich. Dethlefsen; Karine Parker Lemoyne + Lotte Lambæk; John Bernhard + Gitte Hadrup; Tracey Meyer + Sue Reeves; Trudy Askew + Søren Morns
The project currently consists of four exhibitions: two in Esbjerg and two in Houston.
• ESBJERG, DENMARK EXHIBITIONS: City Hall, Esbjerg, Denmark, 04/2016 and Arier Gammeltorv at UCSyd, Esbjerg, 05/2016
• HOUSTON, TEXAS EXHIBITIONS: Art Car Museum, 09/10/2016 and Houston’s City Hall, 01/ 2017
Art Chatter, formed in 2004, is a collective of established mid-career visual artists. This collective offers its members a forum for the exchange of creative ideas, information, and critical responses. For more information on Art Chatter visit http://artchatter.wix.com/artchatterhouston or
https://www.facebook.com/artchatter/?fref=ts
For more information on the Rørpost Collaboration Project, visit http://www.artcollaboration.org/. Rørpost Houston was made possible in part through the Houston City Hall’s City Initiative Grant, Houston Arts Alliance, Royal Danish Embassy, Consul Anna Thomsen Holliday of Houston, Art Car Museum, Fiscal sponsor Fresh Arts, Art Chatter, Blå Døre, Art Friends, Blue Water Shipping, Savage Henry Films, ArtHouston Magazine, Aker Imaging, LOCAL Houston Magazine, Boheme Café Cultured Cocktails, Vikingeskolen - Danish Saturday School of Houston, Danish American Chamber of Commerce Southwest, and Danish Club of Houston.
Download a selection of Rørpost Collaboration Project photos here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/876fjnfz46zp27h/AAC_AOrED6jLVL6r5xuyyOZsa?dl=0
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Danish Artist Talk Sunday, September 11, 2016, 1:00 pm
Art Chatter from Savage Henry Films on Vimeo.
Article in ArtHouston Magazine about the collaboration by Renata Lucia
Issue 3, pages 48, 49 and 50. Publisher John Bernard
Issue 3, pages 48, 49 and 50. Publisher John Bernard
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Archway Gallery presents Shimmer
Featuring donna e perkins
With Guest Artists jhon r. stronks and Kristen Frankiewicz
Touch: Moonlit
Opening Reception
DATE: Saturday, March 7, 2015
TIME: 5 – 8 pm; with Artist Talk at 6:30pm
LOCATION: Archway Gallery, 2305 Dunlavy, Houston, TX 77006
Houston, Texas (January 5, 2015)...Archway Gallery presents Shimmer featuring paintings by donna e perkins with guest artists jhon r. stronks and Kristen Frankiewicz. The exhibition will be on view March 7 – April 2, 2015.
Painter donna e perkins approached her show Shimmer in an experimental manner playing with layers of metallic, phosphorescent and shiny acrylic paints. The world is so scary now that she responded with the bright and the shiny, "Let's celebrate what we can of life.” Many of these paintings come from her Touch Series in which she explores the physicality of paint and the mark of the artist's hand by sculpting a relief surface with thick acrylic. The "lines" are not drawn but shaped by her hands. In a way perkins considers these Touch paintings to be self portraits.
Sweet Nothings: Memory
Perkins will cover one entire wall with 8” x 10” in canvases from her Sweet Nothing Series. While these small canvas flirt with the dangerous territory of the decorative, they are constructed using detritus: leftover paint, dead flowers, and scraps of resin harvested from the drop cloths of sculptor Kamila Szczesna. Perkins is fascinated with the beauty found in the non-precious objects of the ordinary.
Working with dancers been important to the development of perkins' approach to painting. The painting process is, for her, a passionate, wordless dance with the tactile sensuality of paint. During the run of the show, choreographer/dancer jhon r. stronks will present a series of performances involving dance in response to donna's paintings. Choreographer/dancer Kristen Frankiewicz will create and perform a new dance for this celebration.
Perkins and stronks have been collaborating since 2008 when stronks created a performance in conjunction with her 2009 Entanglements show at Archway Gallery. Jhon r. stronks is a maker who is often accused of presenting his audiences with seemingly disobedient work that behaves according to its own sanity. Stronks' passion for giving address to the gaps between what is perceived and what is present, lands his work somewhere between a cry for personal consciousness and a plea for social justice. Stronks dives into alternative dance making systems creating an open space for the dancing to inhabit.
Frankiewicz is creating a new evening length work that will play with the scope of light, shadow, shine, and reflection between dancers and audience. Frankiewicz has performed and choreographed throughout the states, as well as internationally on stages in Austria, Germany, Italy, Greece, Ecuador, Ireland and Mexico. In 2006, she earned a nomination for Dance Magazine's award of Most Outstanding Performer which afforded her the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center. Frankiewicz's work has been presented in several dance festivals including Choreographers X6, Big Range Dance Festival, and American Dance Festival. Additionally, she has set new choreography on Rice Dance Theater Company, McCallum High School Dance Company and Dance Repertory Theatre of The University of Texas at Austin. Frankiewicz also dances freelance on projects with different artists and contemporary dance companies including zoe|juniper Dance (Seattle), American Repertory Ensemble (Austin), Recked Productions, Suchu Dance, Chapman Dance, Frame Dance Productions and VauLt Dance.
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ABOUT ARCHWAY GALLERY
Artist owned and operated since 1976
Archway Gallery, one of Houston’s and the nation’s oldest artist owned and operated galleries, is located at 2305 Dunlavy and is open Monday – Saturday from 10 am – 6 pm and Sunday from 1 – 5 pm. Since 1976, Archway Gallery has been exhibiting the work of the area’s finest artists, providing a great selection of affordable, high quality art including sculpture, pottery and painting in a variety of media and styles. With more than 30 member artists, one is always on site, offering visitors a unique experience to meet the artists who created the work, offering a personal insight about the process behind their creativity. Each month features a special exhibition by a highlighted member artist(s); the public is invited to the monthly opening receptions to celebrate the new installations and work, usually held the first Saturday of each month from 5 – 8 pm. In addition to monthly exhibitions, Archway also hosts a variety of demonstrations and monthly readings for local writers and authors, as well as a “Tea and Tour” program, providing visitors with a free artist-led tour of the current exhibition, followed by tea and refreshments. With 30 artist-members, Archway Gallery is THE destination in the Houston area for affordable art directly from the artist. For more information, visit ArchwayGallery.com or call 713.522.2409. Like Archway Gallery on Facebook.
donna e perkins
Touch
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Please join us for a wine tasting and artist reception for donna e perkins who will show a new body of work in which she explores the physicality of painting and the mark of the artist's hand
Friday, May 23rd
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Nos Caves Vin (Frostwood location)
835 Frostwood (at Kingsride)
Houston, TX 77024
To join the guest list or to schedule a private viewing at your convenience, please contact
Elise Arnoult Miller [email protected] 832.483.5360
©2014 Arnoult Fine Art Consulting | Houston, TX
Friday, May 23rd
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Nos Caves Vin (Frostwood location)
835 Frostwood (at Kingsride)
Houston, TX 77024
To join the guest list or to schedule a private viewing at your convenience, please contact
Elise Arnoult Miller [email protected] 832.483.5360
©2014 Arnoult Fine Art Consulting | Houston, TX
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Video of artist talk Touch show
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Modern Luxury Houston Magazine
Coming Undone, Archway Gallery
Modern Luxury Houston Magazine
September 2013, page 94 |
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My Painting Coming Undone: Explosive Mix was used in the heading for the Houston Press Arts Guide page 40.
University of Houston Magazine
In the fall of 2012 I had the good fortune to be included in Lynne McCabe's Social Sculpture class. McCabe mentions my group and discusses one of our performances In the University of Houston Magazine Fall 2012 Issue.
Art+Culture Houston
Leaving the Silo, Artists on Seeing Other Disciplines
Art + Culture Houston, February 2012,
Art + Culture Houston, February 2012,
Big Show 2012
The sculptures "Changelings: WS2.12:VO6.12 long and short." 07/30/2012
Both my sculpture and my video were included in the Glasstire review of the Big Show. The link to Glasstire Lawndale Big Show Highlights. While my work is abstract and usually lacks a narrative, these paper sculptures have a history. The title references this history. Both were in my February 2012 show at Wagner Sousa Modern Art in Galveston. In that show hey hung from the ceiling. Both were also in the Venturing Out, June 2012, as part of the Big Range Dance Festival, Program C. In Venturing Out these sculptures were stiffened with glue and positioned on the floor. Dancers interacted with them. These sculptures owe a debt to my collaborations with jhon r. stronks choreographer/dancer . These sculptures have a history, they will not last long. While they are only crumpled paper and glue, I find them beautiful. I love the play of light on their uneven surfaces.
My video "Beached Bag" is 3 minutes of surf action on a black plastic bag deeply embedded in the sand at Galveston beach. While this is "trash" I find it to be beautiful as the surf covers, uncovers and changes this shape. There is sound on the video from the surf and from unseen children. This video owes a debt to David Perez who build my computer and walked me through the steps of making two earlier videos.
Lawndale Art Center is located at 4912 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002, 713-528-5858, www.lawndaleartcenter.org. This year's juror was Marco, Antonini, Gallery Director of NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY. This show is on view until August 11th. Lawndale is open Monday-Friday 10-5; Saturday 12-5.