Two exhibitions
dal 21/4/2005 al 5/6/2005
Segnalato da
21/4/2005
Two exhibitions
Houston Center for Photography, Houston
Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental Illness, a documentary of voices, stories and portraits by Michael Nye is an interactive installation that combines black-and-white portraits of people living with varying degrees of mental illness with audio narratives by the subjects. This War between Us by Elizabeth Mellott-Carreon, is an exhibition of three dimensional photo dioramas, created in response to the artist's experience of being in a military marriage during the Afghanistan/Iraq war.
Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental Illness, A documentary of voices, stories, and portraits by Michael Nye and This War Between Us by Elizabeth Mellott-Carreon
Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental Illness, a documentary of voices, stories and portraits by Michael Nye (San Antonio, TX) Main Gallery & Gallery Y
This interactive installation combines black-and-white portraits of people living with varying degrees of mental illness with audio narratives by the subjects. This humanistic exhibition gives a personal face and voice to mental illness and seeks to remove societal stigmas from those who suffer from these diseases. HCP has developed public programming for this exhibition with scholars in the humanities as well as Houston-area mental health professionals.
HCP gratefully acknowledges support for this exhibition from Humanities Texas, Charles Butt, Houston Psychiatric Society Foundation, West Oaks Hospital, GlaxoSmithKline, Texas Foundation for Psychiatric Education and Research/Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, and Drs. George and Cynthia Santos.
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This War between Us by Elizabeth Mellott-Carreón (Denton, TX) in Gallery X. This exhibition of three dimensional photo dioramas was created in response to the artist’s experience of being in a military marriage during the Afghanistan/Iraq war. The thoughtful scenes depict the feelings of loneliness and separation between the artist and her spouse.
HCP gratefully acknowledges support for this exhibition from Texas Commision on the Arts.
Image: Michael Nye, Wind & Child, 1992, gelatin silver print.
Join the artists for the opening reception, Friday April 22, 6-8 pm and and on Saturday, April 23 at 1 pm for Gallery Talks at HCP.
A panel discussion will be held at HCP on Saturday, April 23rd on the representation of mental illness in visual art. Dr. Cynthia Freeland, philosopher; Darryl Lauster, art historian; and Michael Nye, artist will be on the panel.
Opening reception Friday, April 22, 6- 8pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, April 23, 1:00 pm.
Panel Discussion: Saturday, April 23, 1:30 pm.
Houston Center for Photography
1441 West Alabama
Houston, TX 77006-4103
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Friday, 11-6, Saturday-Sunday, 12-5