Ride-On
is a fusion of disciplines, featuring the works of Amber Eagle, Dion Laurent and Jonathan Rosenstein.
Amber Eagle's exhibition,
Ride
, curated by Ann Harithas in 2014 at the Nave Museum in Victoria, Texas, will feature her most recent art car, Rosebud
, and a series of artwork created in relation to that project.
Eagle is inspired by ancient alien astronauts and outer space, as well as the richness of the Mexican culture. Using ancient aliens as a metaphor, she refers to "the stranger in us all" in addition to "illegal aliens", to guide the viewer to look inward to our own enigmatic inner space. Eagle has collaborated with Mexican craftspeople, her husband Guillermo Rosas, carpenters, electricians, mechanics and seamstresses to produce this body of work.
Dion Laurent's travels are reflected in his multimedia transdisciplinary artworks with an immediacy and provocative attitude, invoking a social and environmental discourse. In
Earth Man
and
AirPlane1
, he references and appropriates techniques from both art and science, Laurent believes we should "wake up and act globally" through the emulation of the conditions of living in outer space here within the extremes of Planet Earth.
Jonathan Rosenstein's assemblages are comprised of found objects carefully selected from store bought items. He chooses objects that are a reflection of current consumer culture in The United States of America. His use of colors and shapes are in the tradition of abstraction.
This exhibit will be opening on the evening of Saturday, May 2nd from 7-10pm.
Ride-On
will continue through the summer.
The Art Car Museum is located at 140 Heights Blvd. and is open Wednesday-Sunday, 11am to 6pm. Admission is always free.
Please call to schedule tour groups: 713-861-5526
*PARKING
for the exhibition will be available in the front
and back parking lots of the West End Multi-Service Center at 170 Heights Blvd. until 4pm.
Parking lot directions:
Heading North on Heights Blvd. towards I-10, turn right at the driveway just past the Art Car Museum. If that lot is full, there is additional parking in the lot behind the Multi-Service Center. To get there, continue North on Heights and turn right on 2nd/ Harvard St. Follow the road around the bend to the lot marked "D" located on the right side about a block down. There is a through walkway from lot D to an open gate at Heights Blvd. so you do not have to walk back down 2nd/Harvard St. to get to the Museum.
