Category Archives: Exhibitions

Memento Mundi

Artist Kailee Viator muses on mortality, celebrates life A veil of death hangs over Kailee Viator’s art. An awareness of mortality infuses every brush stroke of her paintings, every kneaded piece of clay, every item in her assemblages. That does not, however, mean that Kailee’s work is not brimming with life and vitality. “It’s more

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Finding Enlightenment

Beaumont architect/artist to display work at AMSET beginning Oct. 30 In Rob Clark’s world, “Nothing separates.” The transplanted Beaumonter and local architect, who hails from central Mississippi, will showcase his art in his exhibition, “Finding Light; Works on Paper: Ink, Pencil and Watercolor” in the Café Arts at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. The exhibition

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Finding Home

Artist Nesmith finds inspiration in return to Southeast Texas after travels “You can’t go home again.” The general philosophy behind this quote, the title of the 1940 novel by Thomas Wolfe, is that once we leave a place, it changes, so that what we return to is no longer the home we remember. But what

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‘Acquae Obscurae’

Art show, party explores mythological Neches River critters // March 1 – 29, 2014

In 1894, Sir Randolph Foxton-Twickenbush, the great British adventurer, steered the steamship “Good Queen Bess” into the mouth of the mighty Neches River in search of the broad-mouthed squintabass, a creature so huge and so fearsome that no one who had encountered it had survived to tell the tale.

American Family Dreams

TASI tenant McLaurin to host ‘Blue and Permanent’ in November It is fairly easy to spot Abigail McLaurin at The Art Studio. She is the slim girl with clothes covered in colored blotches with streaks of charcoal and chalk across her face. She resembles a Dickensian urchin most times, but she isn’t begging for change

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The Natural World of Julie Lee

Artist explores objects’ experiences in October show Julie Lee’s world is in balance. Natural objects and man-made castoffs combine their experiences to tell their stories, and to create new stories for the willing viewer. Lee’s constructions will be on display in the exhibition “The Natural World of Julie Lee,” Oct. 5-26, at The Art Studio,

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