Future Exhibitions
Artwork by Anne Nelson Sweat in Café Arts – Feb. 4 through May 2, 2010
Virgil Grotfeldt 274296 – April 24 through July 11, 2010
Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m., Friday, April 23
This exhibition is the final body of work of one of Houston’s leading artists, Virgil Grotfeldt, who lost his 16-year battle with cancer in February 2009. The number 274296 was Grotfeldt's patient number at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. The exhibition is comprised of 24 oil paintings on MRI scans of Grotfeldt’s brain from the center. It is organized by Houston Baptist University, where he was an assistant professor of art and artist in residence..
Rusty Scruby: Playing in the Sand – April 24 through July 11, 2010
Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m., Friday, April 23
Rusty Scruby defines his work as sculpture, but he exchanges ideas between math, music and art to create a common language to unite the three. He uses a series of repetitious photographs (or drawings or sheets of plastic) that he cuts, folds and weaves to create highly textured wall sculpture. He employs his engineering techniques to render surfaces that represent waves, ripples or bodies of water. Color, pattern and images are used to express musical harmonies, melodies and themes. This exhibit will feature his latest development; totally three-dimensional sculpture that will be suspended from the gallery ceilings.
George Wentz: A Retrospective – July 24 through September 26, 2010
Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m., Friday, July 23
This retrospective exhibition features the colorful and joyful paintings and collages of Beaumont artist and life-long resident George Wentz. He began drawing and painting at age five and continued developing his artistic interests and talents in high school while studying under the highly popular Beaumont artist Herman Hugg. Wentz’s artistic style is defined as gestural and abstract expressionist with colors and vivacity reminiscent of the French post-impressionists. In addition to the hopefulness and joy that emerges in Wentz’s paintings, is the personality of the artist himself that is described by many as jovial and child-like.
Women Artists: Selections from the Permanent Collection – July 24 through September 26, 2010
Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m., Friday, July 23
AMSET dedicates its summer exhibition show to groupings from the permanent collection. This summer visitors can view a range of styles of artwork by women artists.
Artwork by Jackie Stubblefield in Café Arts – Aug. 5 through Nov. 7, 2010
Artwork by Sedrick Huckaby – Oct. 16, 2010 through Jan. 9, 2011
Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 15
Artist Sedrick Huckaby is most inspired by his family, his faith and his African-American heritage. He creates “quilt paintings” as a way to celebrate both his grandmother’s craft as well as the artistic legacy of the African-American quilting tradition. Huckaby reproduces in thick, impasto paint the actual quilts produced by his grandmothers as backdrops for many of his portrait paintings of family and friends. Among many other awards and achievements, Huckaby was the recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
Artwork by Kathleen Boudreaux in Café Arts – Nov. 11, 2010 through Feb. 6, 2011