LOCAL Houston | The City Guide NOVEMBER 2015 | Page 40

MUSEUM DISTRICT

HIGHLIGHTS

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CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON
5216 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006
www.camh.org

THE JUNG CENTER
5200 Montrose Boulevard Houston, TX 77006
www.junghouston.org

1. Twenty-two artists, six forms of media and
one location. Island Time: Galveston
Artist Residency – The First Four
Years features works by former residents and
artists who have exhibited at the Galveston
Artist Residency (GAR). Established in 2011,
GAR is an extended-term artist residency that
promotes fellow artists to get to together and
to create, engage and think as a group. The
exhibition includes works by many different
artists and features animation, installation,
painting, sculpture, video and performance,
representing the breadth of work that has originated and been shown in Houston’s neighboring island city of Galveston. The exhibition
is organized by guest curator Eric Schnell,
director and co-founder of GAR.

2. In Kelli Scott Kelley’s Accalia and the
Swamp Monster, she channels our inner
fears and deepest notions by using ordinary
linens and transforming them into paintings
and drawings. Kelley’s exhibition takes visitors
on a surreal journey through a haunted south