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MUSEUM DISTRICT

HIGHLIGHTS

1. The compelling exhibition SOUL SURVIVORS will be the focus of Holocaust Museum Houston’s newest show highlighting
several Houston-area survivors of the Holocaust. The exhibit is comprised of seven composite art drawings by Lois
Gibson, forensic artist for the Houston Police Department and other area law enforcement agencies. Gibson worked
with five survivors to sketch images of family members, who perished in the Holocaust, strictly from the survivor’s memory. On display in the Central Gallery through September 13, 2015, this exhibition provides an emotional expression
of those lost in the Holocaust through the technique of forensic art.
2. AFFECTING PRESENCE brings together a diverse selection of objects from the Menil’s holdings to explore the convergence
of American anthropologist Robert Plant Armstrong’s object-empowering philosophy with the viewer’s individual pursuit
of the delicious. The exhibition highlights abstraction as an artistic means used across time, place and culture to make
present the ineffable forces that shape human experiences. Within the relational contexts generated by the gallery
space, it surveys the affecting potential of the unrecognizable and exercises the viewer’s desire or reticence to engage
with these disparate approaches to abstraction. The works on view range from antique sculptures to paintings and
works on paper from the recent past that exemplify the reduction of form or the absence of representation.

Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004

www.hmh.org

The Menil Collection
1533 Sul Ross St.
Houston, TX 77006
www.menil.org

3. With the addition of over 150 new pieces, the FABERGE EXHIBITION showcases 500 jeweled treasures from the worldrenowned McFerrin Collection. The exhibition presents a historical overview o