Gallery Round-up

With so many fun and interesting gallery openings this evening, we thought we would briefly give you a few options and let you, dear readers, decide which one to attend...or maybe gallery hopping is your thing! Eating, drinking, being merry, viewing art and what-not. Either way, there is much interesting work on view this beautiful fall evening in Houston.

First up is the opening of Jack Zajac A Survey: 1967-2007 at Gremillion & Co. Gallery. This is Zajac's first Texas show and the septuagenarian artist will be on hand to speak about a lifetime of creating fascinating sculptures. Jack Zajac is an American artist whose work has been exhibited all over the world, including at such esteemed institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Whitney in NYC. Even more impressive, his work is part of the permanent collections at the Smithsonian's Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, MoMA, and the Walker in Minneapolis.

If anything, come by Gremillion to meet a real live person named Jack Zajac. That's like, the coolest name ever. And by cool, we mean full of intrigue and mystery. Maybe the sculptor thing is all a facade. Maybe he's actually been CIA since its inception and just got really good at sculpting as a clever ruse to throw off his enemies. Maybe he's really in town on a covert mission to stop an international diamond theiving ring from kidnapping a local billionaire's daughter for ransom.

Who knows? We're just saying. Guys named Jack Zajac don't just create art. They also fight crime.

Jack Zajac
A Survery: 1967-2007
Opening Reception - Thursday, October 25, 2007
7-9 p.m.
Gremillion & Co.
2501 Sunset Boulevard
Complimentary Valet
Exhibition runs through November 26th

Moving on to the Blaffer Gallery at U of H and a group of artists just beginning their careers instead of surveying a lifetime's worth of work. Tonight, the Blaffer brings us the opening reception for Young Artist Apprenticeship Program: Green Sixteen, featuring nine talented junior and senior level high school students from Cesar Chaves High School and Eastwood Academy. The Young Artist Apprenticeship Program (YAAP) participants created works encompassing a wide scope of media including painting, collage, prints, and mixed media works. Individually, the artworks reveal the students' high degree of creative potential and viewed together, they present a cohesive body of work embodying a fresh viewpoint of the next generation of artists.

Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, is located in the Fine Arts Building on the University of Houston campus, entrance #16 off Cullen Blvd.

Blaffer Gallery
University of Houston Main Campus
October 26, 2007
5:30-7:30 p.m.

Finally, in the spirit of Halloween, we highly advise you to stop by Art League Houston for Blind Philosophy, a one night only exhibition by famed Houston artist Wayne Gilbert with over 33 works created using HUMAN ASHES. Yes, you read that correctly. We told you it was Halloween-y. The ashes used in his paintings are either unclaimed cremated remains obtained at funeral homes or those willed to Gilbert by others. Creepy! And yet, oddly cool. Click here to read the complete run-down on the show, as we've totally blown our original intention of briefly describing tonight's goings-on. Why does this always happen??? Because, we suppose, we are chatty. Have fun tonight!

Blind Philosophy
ONE NIGHT ONLY! (selections from the exhibit will remain on view through 12/14)
Thursday, October 25, 6-8 p.m.
Art League Houston
1953 Montrose Boulevard
www.artleaguehouston.org