May 28th – July 16, 2022 Exhibitions

Sat Jul 02 2022 at 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm

BOX 13 ArtSpace | Houston

BOX 13 ArtSpace
Publisher/HostBOX 13 ArtSpace
May 28th \u2013 July 16, 2022 Exhibitions
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May 28th – July 16, 2022 Exhibitions
Opening to the public, Saturday, May 28, 2022, 1 - 5PM)
BOX 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present four exhibitions opening to the public May 28th ,2022, 1 - 5 PM.
In the Front BOX the show “Power, Corruption, and Lies” is a three-person exhibition exploring floral motifs through photography, painting, and drawing featuring artist Claire Chauvin, Daniela Koontz, and Elias John Lytton. Our Back BOX gallery exhibition “Southern Gothic” Roslyn M. Dupré ponders the place and the time we inhabit, records her observations, and questions assumptions about the collective. The Window BOX is an installation work entitled “Mistakes Were Made”. Britt Thomas utilizes mass produced materials and lens-based media to reflect on the phenomenon of disingenuous public mea culpas, apologies that are meant to shield the accused from further public scrutiny without addressing or solving the core problem. Finally, the Upstairs BOX “Western Landscapes” by artist Glenn Downing draws inspiration from mesas and red rock country. Old adobes and hogans; wood rotting in the sun. Mustangs, owls, buffalos and javelina hog. Rusted cars up on blocks. Signs and more signs. Cactus, agave and ocotillo blooming. Towns with names that are found in songs. Cowboys and Indians; Hop a Long Cassidy and Crazy Horse. When the Legends Die and House Made Of Dawn. Legends and myths live together with everyday people.

The exhibitions continue through July 16 , 2022. BOX 13 ArtSpace, 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77011.
A special thank you to Houston Arts Alliance , the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs , The Brown Foundation and all who have helped to support our programing.
Power, Corruption, and Lies Claire Chauvin, Daniela Koontz, and Elias John Lytton
Front BOX
Power, Corruption, and Lies is a three person exhibition exploring floral motifs through photography, painting, and drawing.

Claire Chauvin’s still life photographs combine highly stylized floral arrangements with digital fabrications that call into question the nature of our relationship to the natural world.

Daniela Koontz has created narrative scenes in white ink on black gessoed paper that show the interaction between the supernatural, humanity, and the natural world.

Elias John Lytton creates densely woven paintings which form tactile spaces and images where the forms become like bodies which push and pull against one another, producing an internal poetic drama.
Claire Chauvin is a Houston-based artist who currently enjoys making still life photographs, but often finds herself murmuring expletives at inanimate objects when they won’t cooperate. She received her MFA from the University of Houston.
Website: clairechauvin.com
Instagram: @clairechauvin
Daniela Koontz makes illustrations of lists of her own invention, unsentimental flower paintings, and sometimes, images of dandies doing things. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston.
Website: https://www.danielakoontz.net
Instagram: @danielakoontz

Elias John Lytton is a Canadian-American artist, he graduated with an MFA from the University of Florida in 2018 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Website: https://www.eliaslytton.com/
Instagram: @elias.lytton
Southern Gothic| Roslyn M. Dupré
Back BOX
In Southern Gothic, Roslyn M. Dupré ponders the place and the time we inhabit, records her observations, and questions assumptions about the collective. With mixed media works that include unuseful tools, unwearable clothes, and unfamiliar furnishings, she conjures the spirit of a humid, workaday world, where superstition and religion, race and gender, and prayer and labor are the foundation stones upon which the home is built. The work encourages viewers to evaluate the moment for shared experience, climate and geography, and invites them to create narratives and build stories. Spanish moss is coiled into sturdy rope and fashioned into a makeshift, but threatening, weapon. Found denim is cut and folded into bandages, encasing and binding objects in a manner suggestive of mummification and funereal rites. The writers of the American South and their stories are alluded to as she explores themes of inhumanity and mysticism, and opens the door to redemption.
Roslyn M. Dupré is a Gulf Coast native and Houston resident of 17 years. Her work speaks to the turmoil of the moment, by reminding us of where we have been, acknowledging where we are, and pointing to possibilities for where we could go. As a Louisiana Creole woman of color, she has spent her life in the interstitial spaces of an antiquated binary racial system, along with the ghosts of her African and European ancestors. “I simultaneously belong neither here nor there and belong both here and there,” she says. “My work is my response.” In her multidisciplinary practice, Dupré works with natural materials and traditional craftsmanship to fashion woven, welded, or wooden constructions. Her projects vary with concept and her methods often incorporate domestic handicrafts like hand-weaving, embroidery and knitting with fine art fabrication and foundry work. Dupré recently completed the Glassell Studio School Block programs ** and XXI, and the Glassell/MFAH Certificate of Achievement in Sculpture.
Website: www.roslynmdupre.com
Instagram: @roslynmdupre_art
Mistakes Were Made| Britt Thomas
Window BOX
In Box13 ArtSpace’s window installation, Britt Thomas utilizes mass produced materials and lens-based media to reflect on the phenomenon of disingenuous public mea culpas, apologies that are meant to shield the accused from further public scrutiny without addressing or solving the core problem.
The phrase, Mistakes Were Made, seen prominently within Thomas’ installation, is regarded as the king of non-apologies for a reason. It is defined as, “a passive-evasive way of acknowledging error while distancing the speaker from responsibility for it.” Public figures such as politicians, CEOs, celebrities and influencers apologize using careful language and linguistic techniques such as passive voice, nominalization, and shifting blame, while inserting caveats and qualifiers to effectively disassociate themselves from the main point of contention.
Ultimately, these rote public apologies appear to be largely performative, expedient smokescreens for ulterior motives. These swift gestures of regret made for mass consumption fall short of addressing larger issues or creating actionable solutions. Summed up best in author Shaka Senghor’s words, “You can’t fix the things that you are unwilling to acknowledge.” However, people still demand to see the show and judge how worthy or unworthy someone is of forgiveness.

Britt Thomas is an interdisciplinary lens-based artist from Houston, TX. After earning a BFA in studio art with minors in dance and art history from Lamar University in Beaumont, TX, Thomas continued her education at the University of Houston by earning a MFA in photography and digital media. She is currently a Lecturer at Sam Houston State University in the College of Arts & Media. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions at Galveston Arts Center, Aggregate Space Gallery in Oakland, CA, Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and CICA Museum in South Korea. A 1,400 square foot mural by Thomas is on permanent view at the George R. Brown Convention Center through Houston’s public art collection and she recently received an Idea Fund grant and Houston Arts Alliance City Initiative grant to start a neighborhood outdoor cinema with her husband Prince Varughese Thomas that will start programing in Fall 2022.
Website: www.Britt-Thomas.com
Instagram: @britt_thomas_art

Western Landscapes| Glenn Downing
Upstairs BOX
Looking out the windshield of my 59 Ford pickup, driving west on Highway 66. Mesas and red rock country. Old adobes and hogans; wood rotting in the sun. Mustangs, owls, buffalos and javelina hog. Rusted cars up on blocks. Signs and more signs. Cactus, agave and ocotillo blooming. Mexican Hat, Chinle, Pie Town and Gallup, towns with names that are found in songs. Cowboys and Indians; Hop a Long Cassidy and Crazy Horse. When the Legends Die and House Made Of Dawn. Legends and myths live together with everyday people.
I was born and raised in a rural area outside of Waco, Texas. I have taught at McLennan Community College for 18 years. I have a BFA from UT. and a MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. My background is in sculpture and drawing. I have lived in Austin, Los Angeles, and New York City. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in the island nation of Tuvalu. I worked for 15 years for the video artists, Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota. I make art and ride mountain bikes.
Even though I have traveled all over the world I have returned to Waco and live close to where I was bought up. My father was a farmer who started a street paving business so I began my life doing all sorts of manual labor. I worked alongside men with little or no formal education; men who grew up using their hands and got where they were in life by just working themselves to death. These men were a little bit crazy; they approached life on their own terms. They were individuals; not always correct in their talk or their manners but willing to get the job done and get on with life. As I got older I became one of those men.
Website: www.glummonkey.com
Instagram: @glummonkey
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