VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Geri Hooks and Hooks-Epstein Galleries are very proud to present the first solo exhibition for Kathryn Dunlevie's Syncopated Spaces, an exhibition of handmade photo collages on panel. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist on Saturday, December 5, 2009, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition continues through Saturday, January 9, 2010.

In the featured exhibition, Syncopated Spaces, Kathryn Dunlevie, "constructs" everyday images that are transformed into compositions that hint at invisible, underlying structures and imperceptible extra dimensions. Familiar scenes have been re-imagined, with rolled back surfaces and jumps in spcae and time. Dunlevie states, "I have always been intrigued by apparent inconsistencies in time and space and our fluid sense of reality. In recent years, my work has been inspired by contemporary physics. Ihave fractured and reassembled individual photographs to symbolize the building blocks of matter and to suggest the intrusion of alternate worlds."

Hooks-Epstein Galleries opened its doors in 1969 on Bissonnet Street in Houston with an exhibition of Pablo Picasso's Saltimbanque suite. It has benn located on Colquitt, better known as "Gallery Row", since 1992. Throughout the 40 years of existence, the gallery has mounted many exhibitions that received national and international acclaim. The gallery has published catalogues which continue to be used as a source of information and has produced exhibtiions which have traveled to museums and other venues. One of Houston's longest running art galleries, Hooks-Epstein Galleries represents established, mid-career, and emerging artists. The gallery specializes in 20th and 21st century representational work with a particular emphasis on works on paper, contemporary studio glass, and sculpture.

Syncopated Spaces will continue through January 9, 2010.