Convergence: Australian Art Here and Beyond

This spring, a host of Australian-focused arts events are taking place in Houston, then this summer season will be punctuated with Aboriginal art happenings in the Washington, D.C. area, and the opening of the grand new “Musee de Quai Branly” in Paris, which will feature indigenous art from around the world including a domed ceiling painted by eight indigenous artists from Australia.

We thought you might like to know "what's coming up from down under" at Booker•Lowe and elsewhere!

EXHIBITIONS AT BOOKER•LOWE GALLERY:

Friday, 5 May - Friday, 7 July
Locus: 12 Bronzes by Andrew Logan
Contemporary female and abstract forms cast in classic bronze have earned this Australian sculptor accolades at home and in the
New York art scene.
Opening with the artist:
Friday, 5 May, 6-8 pm, at the Gallery
4623 Feagan Street

Saturday, 8 July - Friday, 8 September
ArtHouston and the BLG Affordable Art Fair
New works by highly-collectible and emerging Aboriginal artists, priced from $250-$2500.

AUSTRALIAN ART IN HOUSTON:

Friday, 24 March - Saturday, 22 April
Breathing Space: New Paintings by Janaki Lennie
Janaki is an Australian painter now working in Houston; her minimalist skyscapes are highly-acclaimed.
Rudolph Projects/ArtScan Gallery, 1836 Richmond Avenue
www.janakilennie.com or www.rudolphprojects.com

Saturday, 15 April - Sunday, 1 July
Contemporary Kiln-Glass: A Survey of Works from the Bullseye Connection, 1980 to the Present
The exhibition will feature 19 works by leading Australian glass artists, with a special evening glass-blowing demonstration and Australia night at the Center on Saturday, 22 April.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
4848 Main Street
www.crafthouston.org

Sunday, 23 April at 2 pm
Dreaming the Future: Australian Art Then and Now
The Annual Asian Art lecture co-sponsored by the Asia Society/Texas and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston will be delivered by Ron Ramsey, Director of Cultural Relations at Australia's Embassy in Washington.
Free and open to the public. Reception follows lecture.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1100 Bissonnet
www.AsiaSociety.org or www.mfah.org

EXHIBITIONS OF ABORIGINAL ART IN THE
WASHINGTON, DC, AREA:

Tuesday, 9 May - Saturday, 19 August
Mysterious Beauty: Edward L. Ruhe's Vision of Aboriginal Art
University of Virginia's Kluge-Ruhe Institute of Aboriginal Art
400 Worrell Drive, Charlottesville, VA
www.virginia.edu/kluge-ruhe

Friday, 30 June - Sunday, 24 September
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
www.nmwa.org

Tuesday, 20 June - Friday, 1 September
Aboriginal Women's Art
This exhibition is being held in conjunction with "Dreaming Their Way," at the NMWA, and will include works from Booker•Lowe Gallery.
Australian Embassy, 1601 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
www.austemb.org/calendar.html

EXHIBITIONS OF ABORIGINAL ART IN EUROPE:

Saturday, 11 February - Sunday, 11 June
Dreamtime: Aboriginal Art from the Ebes Collection
Arken Museum of Modern Art
Copenhagen, Denmark

Summer, 2006
The Musee de Quai Branly, France's new indigenous art museum,
is scheduled to open. The museum will feature an eight-panel "Dreamtime" painted by internationally-acclaimed Aboriginal artists
for the domed ceiling.

We hope you'll find time to visit some of the exhibitions or lectures, and that you'll enjoy these opportunities to explore Australian art.

Terry Smith, ArtPapers, July/August 2005
“Aboriginal art is contemporary, and quite properly marketed as such, because these artists are creating Australia’s richest and most diverse art today.”