Daily-ist: Thursday

Perspectives 158: Preview Reception at the CAM

We've been thoroughy impressed this year with the diverse installations and programs that the CAMH has produced, and the next Perspectives exhibit, opening tonight, is no exception.

Be among the first to see the latest Zilkha Gallery exhibition, Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper, at a preview reception tonight, Sept 20th, with the artist. Kelly Nipper, the Southern California-based photographer and installation artist, will lead a tour of the exhibition at 6:30 p.m.

[About The Exhibit]

Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper, the first solo museum exhibition for the Los Angeles-based artist, will feature a selection of new photographs, sculptures, and video works, addressing themes of chaos and control. Nipper looks for links between the fields of art, dance, psychology, and the natural sciences, and creates multimedia installations to visualize these connections and how they relate to concepts of time and movement.

One example of the wide net cast by Nipper is the two-channel video projection Circle Circle, in which the artist works with dancers, Hollywood film and sound technicians, and other specialists to create a room-scale work comparing the abdominal rotation used in belly dancing to the process of hurricane formation.
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tonight, Sept 20th | 6:30 - artist tour, 7-9pm opening reception
exhibit runs through Dec 9th
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston | 5216 Montrose
Free Event

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image: An Arrangement for the Architect and a Darkroom Timer [detail], 2005
Three-channel video installation, 60 minutes, color, sound. Courtesy francesca kaufmann, Milan.