As 2025 comes to a close we wanted to share a few images of Edwin Smalling : After Goya. We are honored to have opened our door with this installation of paintings that transformed the architectural space with a sensitive and haunting presence. Thank you @esmalling and to our community who showed up to view our innaugural exhibition. We look forward to sharing 24 hours with you in 2026.
Last Day, Best Day. The final 3 hrs. of Edwin Smalling:After Goya. at Garage. Thank you to everyone who made our first opening one for the books. Come thru today 2-5 PM. DM for address. @esmalling@garagemontrose
Come see what we see. @esmalling first exhibition in Houston. @garagemontrose first exhibition in Houston. A night of firsts. Come for the art, stay for the conversation and community.
In 1958, Gerald Herbert Holtom designed the Nuclear Disarmament logo. It has been suggested that Holtom took his inspiration for this soon-to-be ubiquitous symbol from Francisco Goya’s 1814 painting The Third of May 1808, a work intended to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s armies.
This Friday and Saturday, November 21st and 22nd, I’ll be sharing a new body of work at Garage, an artist studio and multi-purpose space in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Texas. The show, titled After Goya, will run for 6 hours, with an opening reception on Friday evening from 5 to 8 p.m. and viewing hours on Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m.
Join Jamie Sterling Pitt and myself for drinks, pizza and conversation. DM for address.
Basket Books & Art is pleased to present 𝐻𝒪𝒯 𝐵𝒪𝒟, a group exhibition of collaborative drawings, facilitated through postal correspondence and featuring the work of well over a hundred artists; the number growing daily as contributions arrive in the post. 𝐻𝒪𝒯 𝐵𝒪𝒟 is on view now through September 1, 2024. Please join us for a reception on Saturday, August 17 from 4-6pm.
The drawings presented in 𝐻𝒪𝒯 𝐵𝒪𝒟 are the result of a months-long correspondence chain using the technique of cadavre exquis, a collaborative surrealist game that uses drawing or text and the element of chance to create a figure, often monstrous or absurd in its final revelation. The name comes from a phrase invented in the first game, played in 1925 by Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, and André Breton: “Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau” (the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine). [Each player draws on a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal what they have drawn, and passes it to the next player] With “HOT BOD” we’ve put a spin on the old form. Participants have ping-ponged their contributions across the country via the United States Postal Service, drawing out a wide network of artists, and opening up what is traditionally an insular, enclosed gathering at a discrete moment in time. In this instance, the exhibition becomes a map of the geographic and artistic network that the drawings have traversed on their way back to Basket Books & Art.
Works from this exhibition are available for $200 each and 50% of each sale will go to Women’s Storybook Project of Texas.
It is a joy and pleasure to realize projects with those you respect and admire.
One Fine Day was conceived many months ago, a conversation among friends. I’m fortunate and thankful to have been wrapped into that conversation and then entrusted to help realize a wholly unique, idiosyncratic, and collaborative vision. Great thanks to Dana Frankfort and Glenn Goldberg for your faith and care.
The show will close at the end of this week, if you’re in Houston or near, please come see. And for those afar, install images to be posted online soon.
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![Basket Books & Art is pleased to present , a group exhibition of collaborative drawings, facilitated through postal correspondence and featuring the work of well over a hundred artists; the number growing daily as contributions arrive in the post. is on view now through September 1, 2024. Please join us for a reception on Saturday, August 17 from 4-6pm. The drawings presented in are the result of a months-long correspondence chain using the technique of cadavre exquis, a collaborative surrealist game that uses drawing or text and the element of chance to create a figure, often monstrous or absurd in its final revelation. The name comes from a phrase invented in the first game, played in 1925 by Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, and André Breton: “Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau” (the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine). [Each player draws on a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal what they have drawn, and passes it to the next player] With “HOT BOD” we’ve put a spin on the old form. Participants have ping-ponged their contributions across the country via the United States Postal Service, drawing out a wide network of artists, and opening up what is traditionally an insular, enclosed gathering at a discrete moment in time. In this instance, the exhibition becomes a map of the geographic and artistic network that the drawings have traversed on their way back to Basket Books & Art. Works from this exhibition are available for $200 each and 50% of each sale will go to Women’s Storybook Project of Texas.](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6870345016442524601472_0_0f026f004c841e079c4f3f4c0327e06a.jpg?o=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&h=064be5b1b3b54648905697f143dc193b)
