Opening: Museum exhibition explores performance and craft materials

A still from Bohyun Yoon's 2004 video Sound of Glass Instrument featuring hand-blown glass helmets.

Opening with a reception this evening and continuing through July 25th, 2010, “Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft“ examines how performance is being brought together with work from craft materials through an exhibition of sculptural objects, site-specific installations, and photographic and video documentation of live performances. A series of live performance events will also be included. Artists in a wide range of media are included, including Rhode Island School of Design MFA grad Bohyun Yoon and the legendary B Team, who were featured in the Spring 2008 edition of GLASS magazine.

“Through the integration of performance, the artists featured in this exhibition have broadened the context of craft in contemporary art,” reads an announcement from the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Among the new works featured in the “Hand+Made” exhibition will be a novel twist on the established mail business called the “Book of the Month Club” series by Conrad Bakker; Soundsuits by Nick Cave; and public interventions by Pro Bono Jeweler Gabriel Craig, in various locations throughout the city.

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