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From May 17 through July 13, 2008, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas is excited to present Climates, two separate and impressive, large-scale installations by internationally-renowned artist Sharon Kopriva. Southeast Texans are invited to come and meet the artist and learn about the exhibit and its political undertones at the opening reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, May 16.
One of the installations in Climates, called Conclave, is a three-dimensional piece referring to a secret gathering. "As a young Catholic I knew the word used in a specific reference to the meeting of Cardinals which elected a Pope," Kopriva said of the piece.
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On view April 19 through July 13, 2008
Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m. Friday, May 16
Texas artist Frank X. Tolbert2 has had a more than 30 year career as an artist, becoming most well-known for basing his art on the "absurdities of life on Earth" as he calls it and using crude depictions of bizarre subjects in his partially autobiographical works.
In 2005, however, Tolbert began a candid and open exploration of his own history and state of being. The result is Frank X. Tolbert2 Meditations on Mortality, an exhibition of 16 life-size portraits of the artist's friends and family and one self-portrait, which will be on view at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) from April 19 through July 13.
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Opens Saturday, August 18
Click here for the complete Felix "Fox" Harris experience
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) presents a new exhibition and interactive experience featuring the life and work of Beaumont self-taught artist Felix "Fox" Harris. Somethin' Out of Nothin': the Works of Felix "Fox" Harris will open on Saturday, Aug. 18, and will coincide with Family Arts Day, which features hands-on art activities relating to the exhibit.
For over 20 years, Harris crafted totem-like sculptures of recycled materials and displayed them in his yard, creating a forest-like environment.
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When most people think of billiards, many things come to mind: smoky pool halls, the clack of the cue ball striking the rack. Very few would think of museums, let alone the Smithsonian Institution. But the Smithsonian has in its collection one of the many pool cues of artist Richard Black.
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) is pleased to offer The Art of Cue by Richard Black for rental by museums. This exhibition is comprised of over 30 intricate, hand crafted cue sticks made by Black, a master craftsman from Humble, Texas. Although Black is well known in the pool cue world, this is his first solo art museum exhibition.
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The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) is pleased to offer Whistler: Realism in Print, a series of 23 prints by revered 19th Century artist James A. McNeill Whistler for rental by museums. The collection was a gift from Beaumont physician and arts philanthropist Dr. Richard L. Shorkey.
Whistler, best known for the painting "Arrangement in Grey and Black" (a.k.a. "Whistler's Mother"), was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834. While he is considered one of the greatest painters of the 19th Century, his etchings and prints are also quite renowned.
The artist spent most of his adult life in Europe.
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The Mission of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas is to provide education, inspiration and creative vision to all people of our culturally diverse region through our collections, exhibitions, public programs and outreach in the visual arts.
AMSET is free and open to the public seven days a week.
AMSET's collection consists of approximately 1,000 works of art (painting, sculpture, prints, photographs, folk art and decorative arts) of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries with an emphasis on American Art with a growing regional collection.
The Main Gallery hosts 8 to 10 changing exhibitions each year.
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