Tove & Melton & Lisa & Gareth & Charles & &c.
Lisa Lapinski and Gareth Long
Jan 19 – Mar 01, 2020
Jan 19 – Mar 01, 2020
There's a story that Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and lost. Chaplin knew that absurdity is the most wondrous comedy; a realm beyond jokes where our subconscious begins to reveal itself to us. This infamous and apocryphal look-alike contest unearths our collective attachment to singularity, a type of personified thingness that a "Chaplin" is no longer a man but an object imbued with a magic quality we long to obtain.
In Tove & Melton & Lisa & Gareth & Charles & &c. artists Lisa Lapinski and Gareth Long unveil these and other absurdities through their own works alongside a new collaborative project initiated especially for this exhibition: chaplins. Approximately forty chaplins will populate the gallery. Some have been made by Long and Lapinski, while the bulk of the others have been made by the artists’ current and former students from a number of Texas, Southern California, and Toronto Universities. The exhibition will shape-shift over the course of its duration as different iterations of the Chaplin-inspired works move in and out of the space, playing with the notion of object attachment as well as assumptions of the gallery as a reverent and static space.
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Lisa Lapinski, Drunk Hawking at the Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, January 24 – March 6, 2020 & Gareth Long and Kidnapper's Foil at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, November 16, 2019—March 14, 2020 Read about Kidnapper's Foil at Blaffer Art Museum in Art in America |
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2019
Introspective
Steven Evans
Oct 20, 2019 - Nov 24, 2019
Oct 20, 2019 - Nov 24, 2019
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Jonathan Hopson is pleased to present Introspective, Steven Evans' first solo exhibition with the gallery. “Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your life; and for people who went without lovers for years, that was all they had.” -Andrew Holleran, form “Dancer from the Dance,” 1978 The Number One Song in Heaven
Book available on Printed Matter, Inc. "Taking his inspiration in equal parts from Donna Summer, Marcel Duchamp, and Lawrence Weiner, artist, curator and FotoFest Director Steven Evans has been presenting works using disco song titles, painted directly on the wall, since the late 1980s. The recent exhibitions Macho Man Tell It To My Heart, Collected by Julie Ault at Artists Space in New York and Love AIDS Riot Sex at NGBK in Berlin have rediscovered and featured these “disco” artworks." 
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Steven Evans at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
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If it's not mine, it's mine
Marc Horowitz
Sept 08, 2019 - Oct 13, 2019
Sept 08, 2019 - Oct 13, 2019
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By placing the printed and readymade — doctored scans from research manuals, still lives packaged in their shipping containers, an oil study from 1998 — within a serialized and thus in-progress composition, Horowitz likewise questions the value of time, labor, and sincere sincerity in an age when the digital image has become the quintessential found object. Taking its title from Knots, a collection of tautological poems by twentieth-century psychoanalyst R.D. Laing, If it’s not mine, it’s mine suggests inauthenticity, chaos, and tragedy are givens when aesthetics is our foolish science. But our comedic understanding finds its replicas and source material in such a system. Where laughter reigns, Horowitz promises, there will always be something funny to look at, something so funny as to out laugh and outlive us.
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This Paradise
Andrew Brischler, Juliana Huxtable, Two Dykes and a Knife (Lovie Olivia and Preetika Rajgariah)
Jun 23, 2019 - Aug 04, 2019
Jun 23, 2019 - Aug 04, 2019
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Juliana Huxtable interviewed in issue 32.1 the Winter/Spring 2020 print edition of Gulf Coast magazine.
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smother
Emily Peacock
May 05, 2019 - Jun 16, 2019
May 05, 2019 - Jun 16, 2019
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Nuestro Hogar
Francis Almendárez and Ana Fernandez, Curated by Debra Barrera
March 10, 2019 - April 28, 2019
March 10, 2019 - April 28, 2019
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Jonathan Hopson is pleased to present a two person exhibition curated by Debra Barrera, bringing together Francis Almendárez, a 2018 Artadia Houston Award recipient, and Ana Fernandez, a 2018 Artpace artist-in-residence. The exhibition will also be featured as a participating space in the inaugural Latin Art Now biennial which "brings together renowned scholars across the country to discuss groundbreaking ideas, research and scholarship within Latin and Hispanic communities. A note from the curator: "The result of Nuestro Hogar is an intimate and in depth conversation that at once is very personal and universal. The documentation of these two artists' histories are distinctly American and contain immense complexity, validity, and strength. What results is an understanding of the vastness of "American", Latin American, and United States identity in context to Latin American immigration. This exhibit acts as an anthropological doorway to understand histories that are often misunderstood if not completely overlooked. Nuestro Hogar is our home echoing far beyond ourselves.”
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Dinner as I remember from Francis Almendárez on Vimeo. | ||
Who do we love?
Julie DeVries, Steven Evans, Bradley Kerl, Emily Peacock
January 27, 2019 - March 03, 2019
January 27, 2019 - March 03, 2019
Who Do You Love? is an exhibition of gallery artists whose works all touch on the pang of deep resonating love: familial experiences of mother and fatherhood, the rush of all encompassing desire, and the complexity of melancholic yearning. Our curation is both subtle in its aesthetic softness and strikingly unnerving in its conceptual undercurrent. "Who Do You Love?" is proof of a love withstanding, like a candle flickering but refusing to burn out.
| Who Do We Love Artist Bios.pdf |
2018
Bradley Kerl
Oct 21, 2018 - Dec 02, 2018
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Kerl's work is "inspired by the people, places, and things that surround me and that make up my daily experience." Reminiscent of art historical painters like Manet, Morandi, David Hockney and Peter Doig he is also looking at younger painters Torey Thornton, Daniel Heidkamp, Shara Hughes, and Katherine Berhardt.
The flatness, skewed perspectives, and large areas of bright abstract colors force us into an aesthetic confrontation of surface. The works portray without pretense and at first glance can register as aloof or nonchalant. However, Kerl's subject matter is sincere, he paints what he dearly cares for and loves. This pang of vulnerability seeping through these paintings is what makes them so incredibly captivating. 
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Bradley Kerl Interview with Weingarten Group
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Polaris
Emilie Halpern
Sept 09, 2018 - Oct 14, 2018
Sept 09, 2018 - Oct 14, 2018
Jonathan Hopson is proud to introduce Los Angeles based artist Emilie Halpern for her first solo exhibition in Texas. Emilie Halpern's work has been described alongside conceptual artists such as Hiroshi Sugimoto, Joseph Beuys, and Lee Ufan. Her work effortlessly captures those elusive moments between endless dark and brightest light - crystalizing a doubted realm into existence.
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Emilie Halpern Interview by Leigh Patterson, Apiece Apart Woman, Photo by Claire Cottrell
No Turns
B. Anele, Luis Miguel Bendaña, Libby Black, Steven Evans, Lovie Olivia and Robert Raphael
June 10, 2018 - July 29, 2018
June 10, 2018 - July 29, 2018
The exhibition title references a sign restricting traffic on our street - "No Turns 7PM-6AM". The sign and others like it were originally installed in an effort to curb "cruising" through Montrose, historically known as the center of the gay and lesbian community of Houston.
No Turns celebrates Pride - a festival held annually in Houston since 1979. The festival takes place in June celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and their allies. Pride also commemorates the 1969 police raid of Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood, considered to be the beginning of the gay rights movement.
No Turns celebrates Pride - a festival held annually in Houston since 1979. The festival takes place in June celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and their allies. Pride also commemorates the 1969 police raid of Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood, considered to be the beginning of the gay rights movement.
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Paintings for the people of Houston
Brad Phillips
April 29, 2018 - June 03, 2018
April 29, 2018 - June 03, 2018
"I am a nice guy. I really did make (these paintings) so the people of Houston could enjoy looking at them."
-Brad Phillips
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The Toad
Bucky Miller
Mar 11, 2018 - Apr 22, 2018
Mar 11, 2018 - Apr 22, 2018
"I do not know the Toad, even though it has lived in a crack outside my apartment since I moved to Texas. On warm nights it crawls up and sits on a step, completely still, waiting. When I come home in the evening I crouch and say, “hello Toad,” before I go indoors. Sometimes I’ll come back out wearing my flannel slippers and stare at the Toad, or take its picture, or laugh. It usually doesn’t budge, which amazes me. There is no fear. I love the Toad, but I do not know the Toad. I cannot, but this has almost nothing to do with the fact that I am human and the Toad is toad. It has a little to do with gaps in communication, but mostly it has to do with the fact that the Toad is a shapeshifter; it is sometimes brown, sometimes gray, sometimes it is the size of my fist and sometimes it is the size of a key fob. Sometimes it is even two toads, and on one wondrous occasion it was three. How could I ever expect to familiarize myself with such magic?"
- Bucky Miller
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2017
Letting go of another dirty day
Julie DeVries
Oct 22, 2017 - Dec 04, 2017
Oct 22, 2017 - Dec 04, 2017
Letting go of another dirty day features paintings born out of the search for hope and meaning in seemingly bleak surroundings. Litter and weeds become reverent sculptures clinging to neglected spaces.
CAMPIONS
B Anele, Linda Arredondo, Steven Evans, Jamil Hellu, Liz Rodda, Talia Shulze
Sept 10, 2017 – Oct 15, 2017
Sept 10, 2017 – Oct 15, 2017
The American ideology of difference has shifted. A recent change has emerged for acceptance of the marginalized unlike any American history has seen before. This cultural shift creates at once a great awakening and a harsh resistance. What remains is the complexity of contemporary American identity and the rise of once soft voices growing louder.
Campions are flowers found only on the cliffs of Gibraltar. In 1994 they were declared extinct. Only two years later a hiker discovered their existence but the flowers only grow in inhospitable environments. Campions are weak fragrant, evening blooming flowers with a short life span. They are prized for their rarity.
Curated by Debra Barrera
Campions are flowers found only on the cliffs of Gibraltar. In 1994 they were declared extinct. Only two years later a hiker discovered their existence but the flowers only grow in inhospitable environments. Campions are weak fragrant, evening blooming flowers with a short life span. They are prized for their rarity.
Curated by Debra Barrera
| CAMPIONS PR.pdf |
Coyote
Debra Barrera, Julie DeVries, Lauren Moya-Ford, Erin Joyce, Bradley Kerl, Jessica Ninci
Jun 18, 2017 – Jul 30, 2017
Jun 18, 2017 – Jul 30, 2017
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"Well he cursed all the roads and the oil men,
And he cursed the automobile, Said this is no place for an hombre like I am, In this new world of asphalt and steel. Then he'd look off some place in the distance, At something only he could see, He'd say all that's left now of the old days, Those damned old coyotes and me..." Coyotes are tricksters. Not wolf, not dog, but a howling canine often associated with a romanticism of the old west. Coyotes were once revered by the Aztecs as Gods and Native Americans as teachers. Today they often resonate in American consciousness as a nuisance. Coyotes are like Texas artists--somewhere between revered voices and dangerously outspoken pests. The artists in Coyote, all living or born in Texas, imbue their work with the spirit of of this state: a strange breed of vicious independence and quiet perseverance. The works are all tinged with a an almost folklorish romanticism: flowers, lush atmosphere over open fields, and pictorial narrative. Yet, in the lull of romance there is a sharp bite--desert heat, fierce desire, a longingly beautiful howl in the distance.
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HIVE MIND
Michael Pybus
Apr 23, 2017 – Jun 04, 2017
Apr 23, 2017 – Jun 04, 2017
Warhol and Judd meet Pikachu and Mario in these frenetic yet precise paintings. HIVE MIND is a conscious splitting. A room reverent and subversive leads the viewer into a bombastic installation featuring a Koons meets IKEA aesthetic.
Pybus' deft execution of these seemingly paradoxical worlds leads us into a new one best described as his own HIVE MIND.
Pybus' deft execution of these seemingly paradoxical worlds leads us into a new one best described as his own HIVE MIND.
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slow-moving-eyes
Taka Nonaka-Hill & Toby Kamps
Mar 12, 2017 - Apr 16, 2017
Mar 12, 2017 - Apr 16, 2017
In 19th century France a Flâneur was a man who was a connoisseur of the streets. Famous Flâneurs included Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin. Honoré de Balzac described flânerie as "the gastronomy of the eye". Modern street photography takes cue from these predecessors as no other art form can. Kamps and Nonaka-Hill's exhibition slow-moving-eyes reveal two modern day Flâneurs and brings them together through their peculiar and arresting photographs. In these images we see moments caught that emphatically resonate. Nonaka-Hill's photos are incendiary in their poetically quiet nature. Kamps' dynamic and chimerical images draw out palpable compassion. These works in confluence actualize the words of Baudelaire, an "immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude."
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Colorant
Annabelle Arlie
at New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) New York Art Fair 2017, Skylight Clarkson North, Booth #2.09
Mar 02 – Mar 05, 2017
at New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) New York Art Fair 2017, Skylight Clarkson North, Booth #2.09
Mar 02 – Mar 05, 2017
Chlorophylle
Annabelle Arlie
Jan 22, 2017 – Mar 05, 2017
Jan 22, 2017 – Mar 05, 2017
Our lush association with the color green relies on the anatomy of the human eye capable of only seeing wavelengths of red, green, and blue. Imagine first eyes and first green; a landscape two hundred thousand years away from being replicated in your inbox. Yet, replicating nature has been central from the first cave drawings of giant beasts to a 4K television on display at Costco broadcasting a slideshow of the rainforest. Arlie's poignant work bridges archaeology and conceptual practice revealing human propensity with surprise.
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Debra Barrera and Jonathan Hopson, who run Jonathan Hopson Gallery in their home with their current exhibition from French artist, Annabelle Arlie at 904 Marshall, Wednesday, January 25, 2017. Luxe Life story about Houston art couples who host galleries or other events in their living rooms. ( Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle )
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2016
The Likelihood of Future Improvement
Emily Peacock
Oct 16, 2016 – Dec 04, 2016
Oct 16, 2016 – Dec 04, 2016
Can we actually change after a certain age?
It only gets worse from here on, you only get older, less attractive, have less energy, lose people you love, and of course drink more.
I am a realist not a pessimist...but I also have moments where I feel extremely lucky and grateful for my life and if you are aging it means you are living (a luxury some did not have).
I'm trying to be a more improved version of myself.
It doesn't work out most of the time and it is disappointing, but I still try.
It only gets worse from here on, you only get older, less attractive, have less energy, lose people you love, and of course drink more.
I am a realist not a pessimist...but I also have moments where I feel extremely lucky and grateful for my life and if you are aging it means you are living (a luxury some did not have).
I'm trying to be a more improved version of myself.
It doesn't work out most of the time and it is disappointing, but I still try.
-Emily Peacock
| Emily Peacock Press Release.pdf |
Bougainvillea Begonia
Joshua Abelow, Michael Kennedy Costa, Chelsea Culprit, Ryan Hawk, Paul Kremer, Keith J. Varadi, Alison Veit, Yui Yaegashi
Sept 11, 2016 – Oct 09, 2016
Sept 11, 2016 – Oct 09, 2016
Our inaugural exhibition .
is the beginning.
