AMOA-Arthouse presents Evidence of Houdini’s Return an exhibition on view January 14–March 4, 2012.
Through the creation of complex visual narratives, the international artists in this exhibition present provocative abstract forms that investigate art’s potential to interrupt and/or reconstruct elements of everyday life. Each of the seven artists test the boundaries of working abstractly, with found objects and images, reformed digital technologies, as well as reference traditional techniques. While exploring the potential of objects in space, their ideas coalesce around an opposition to fixed forms. With a wide variety of mediums represented, including painting, photography, sculpture, video, drawing and collage, the artists encourage examinations of context and allow for ambiguous formal and narrative combinations to inform one another. Evidence of Houdini’s Return focuses on the value of abstraction in contemporary art discourse today.
Participating artists: Sterling Allen, Facundo Argañaraz, Strauss Bourque LaFrance, Katja Mater, Christopher Samuels, Justin Swinburne and J. Parker Valentine – www.arthousetexas.org
