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THIS MONTH’S

MUST-SEE EXHIBITS

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1. ANYA TISH GALLERY | 4411 Montrose Blvd. | 713.524.2299
DOBROSTAN, In conjunction with the 2016 FotoFest Biennial, Poland-based artist Natalia
Wiernik’s inaugural solo exhibition in the United States is being featured at the Anya Tish Gallery
through April 16. Dobrostan demonstrates new and recent photographs by multimedia.
www.anyatishgallery.com

2. ART LEAGUE HOUSTON | 1953 Montrose Blvd. | 713.523.9530
Art League Houston is presenting Dallas-based artist Margaret Meehan’s AND SHE WAS through
April 9. Focusing on many hidden histories of female soldiers during the Civil War, this exhibition
features a mixture of photography, small ceramic works, sculptures, sound and tintype collages.
www.artleaguehouston.org

3. GALLERY SONJA ROESCH | 2309 Caroline St. | 713.659.5424
Demonstrating the fruitful results of artist Raimund Girke’s life-long passion for analyzing color layering, movement and structure, Gallery Sonja Roesch is featuring INVESTIGATING WHITE, an
exhibition of Girke’s paintings. His work is about the fundamental structures of color and light, as
contained by the color white. The color white flows in and out of his paintings, present but never
determined.
www.gallerysonjaroesch.com

4. PROJECT ROW HOUSES | 2521 Holman St. | 713.526.7662
Project Row Houses (PRH) is presenting a new commission-based program focused on temporary
public art. Conceived by Public Art Director Ryan N. Dennis, PROJECT/SITE interrogates the landscape of Third Ward by working with artists who explore the history and culture of the neighborhood while expanding their practices beyond the studio, into the streets. Programming will be presented live from the Coupe de Ville sculpture at historic sites on Dowling Street and feature live
musical mixes of rediscovered vinyl, segments on Black political histories, community dialogues,
improvisational jazz performances, artist interviews and experimental sound. Beginning April 1. The opening commission of
PROJECT/SITE will see Houston-based art collective Otabenga Jones & Associates realize OJBKFM Radio, a temporary outdoor community radio station broadcast from the back of a 1959 pink Cadillac Coupe de Ville originally commissioned by
Creative Times in 2014. The mobile station will energize the Dowling Street Corridor.
www.projectrowhouses.org/ojbkfm-third-coast

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