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Clark Fox

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Clark Fox

South Shoreline Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas, Oil on Canvas

Clark Fox is an artist who always seeks depth and spiritual interaction with his subjects; to view his work is to walk with him in his exploration of a great mystery. His work holds accountable American culture’s acceptance of its formation and the status quo of its ongoing development. His portraits of American presidents, and his cyclical meditations on the details of their expressions, beg a critical consideration of our prevailing historical narrative. These iterative paintings also reveal Fox’s mastery of formal technique, as he approaches and surrounds his subjects with elements of street art, pop art, pointillism, color field, and realism.

A Texas native, Fox spent much of his childhood in Houston and South Texas. Fox is an intensely prolific painter, and this exhibition draws upon select works from pointillist Texas landscapes to confrontational pop art satire. Insurgent: The Paintings of Clark Fox features his paintings of American presidents, especially his panoptic study of George Washington, as well as his assessments of social structures and economics in his ever-growing studies of oranges and Mr. Peanut as avatars of class and racial inequity.

Clark Fox is the first painter to have a solo show at Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art since it opened in 2016. His works are in the public collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Corcoran Gallery, and many more.

Insurgent: The Paintings of Clark Fox is scheduled to open on July 17th and be on view through October 24th, 2021 at Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art in Victoria, Texas.

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Mel Chin

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A new exhibition by world renowned conceptual artist and MacArthur fellow Mel Chin is currently being planned for Five Points Museum. Stay tuned for more information on this extraordinary event.

DANIEL KRAMER: GIDDY UP!! A DECADE OF DOCUMENTING THE HOUSTON RODEO

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Bullfighter, Leon Coffee, photograph by Daniel Kramer, 2019

On March 13, 2021, Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art opens a new exhibition featuring award-winning photographer Daniel Kramer in: “Giddy Up!! A Decade of Documenting the Houston Rodeo.” Originally shown at the Art Car Museum in Houston, and curated by Noah Edmundson, this exhibition will be shown in an expanded form for Five Points Museum.

As a young boy, Kramer was exposed to the culture of the cowboy during summers on his father’s ranch in Idaho. Relatives Bud & Bobby Kramer ran one of the largest ranches in the U.S. and provided stock to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo from the early 1950s until the late 1970s. Bobby Kramer is in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.

When Kramer moved to Houston he was naturally drawn to the Houston Rodeo, which calls itself the world’s largest entertainment event. The 2019 Rodeo had more than 2.5 million attendees. The sprawling 3-week spectacle includes the Rodeo, live music performances, a barbeque cook-off, a carnival, a livestock show, a parade and trail riders. He has documented the various aspects of the Houston Rodeo since 2007.

In 2014, he photographed the event for Smithsonian Magazine’s Instagram account. Later that same year, the project was selected by the American Society of Media Photographers as one of the Best Projects of the Year. Additionally, one photo was included in The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2014 exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

Daniel Kramer: GIDDY UP!! A Decade of Documenting the Houston Rodeo opens Saturday, March 13th, 2021 and runs through June 27th, 2021. Dates are subject to change.

Please note that at this time, we are not planning a reception for the opening, but will post notifications if a reception becomes feasible later in the run of the exhibition.

Travis & Jesse: The Road So Far

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Extended through October 18: Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art presents a new exhibition by Houston artist Jesse Lott and Louisiana artist Travis Whitfield called The Road So Far. The exhibit will feature an installation by Whitfield that includes a full-size “Shotgun House” containing artifacts and photographs from Northern Louisiana, where Whitfield lives and has a studio. Lott’s featured artworks explore how line creates form and utilizes found objects from near his Houston studio to create dynamic sculptures.

“Edgar, Blue & Ward” 1974 by Travis Whitfield

From the smallest detailed figurine to the life-size shotgun house, Lott and Whitfield provide social, historical and political commentary via their respective observations of the world around them. Watch the two artists discuss their work with the Victoria Advocate in the video below.

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The exhibit features video and multimedia that bring visitors into the artists’ process and provide insights to the cultural and fundamental backgrounds that led each artist to their current place.

Men in Overalls by Jesse Lott

This exhibit is curated by Ann Harithas, the museum’s founder and executive director.