VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Project Row Houses is excited to announce the opening of Artist Installation Round 32: eco, xiang, echo: meditations on the african, andean & asian diasporas. These Artist Installations will be on exhibit from March 27, 2010 through June 20, 2010 and are free and open to the public. There will be an Artist/Community Talk on Thursday, March 25th at 7:00 p.m. in our main building at 2521 Holman Street.

“No longer bound to a sense of having to restrict one’s focus, material, or genre, many contemporary artists of color move back and forth between past and present, between history and fiction, between art and ritual, between high art and popular culture, and between Western and non-Western influences. In doing so they participate in multiple communities. “
-From English Is Broken Here by Coco Fusco, participating artist

Curated by artist William Cordova, this series of installations brings together a multigenerational group of artists from various backgrounds and geographic locations. Working in photography, performance, installation, drawing and sculpture, each artist presents work that addresses the often-overlooked connections between distinct cultures. These connections range from paralleling historical narratives to fantastical freedom dreamscapes. This project is a platform for a continued dialogue around the notions of collective consciousness in the Diasporas represented in this exhibition.

Participating Artists include:

* Crystal Campbell
* Albert Chong
* Coco Fusco
* Marina Gutierrez
* Ayana Jackson
* Minette Mangahas
* Glexis Novoa
* Mendi and Keith Obadike

In conjunction with FOTOFEST & Round 32, Project Row Houses presents a solo exhibition of photography by New York/Philadelphia artist Nsenga Knight at 2320 Elgin in the ground level of the Eldorado Ballroom. Working in photography, installation, film, and performance, Nsenga Knight conceptualizes history as a series of volatile encounters between unstable space and time. Acting as disruptive intervener and ardent preservationist, she constructs photographic archives, re-appropriates historical manuscripts, and performs reenactments that reference the physical impact of historical resistance and survival. In her photographic series she employs the camera as an archiving machine and seeks out the exhaustive limits of language and representation.

Programming at Project Row Houses is generously supported by:

* The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts; The Brown Foundation
* The Bruner Foundation Inc., Chevron Corporation
* Continental Airlines
* Dickson-Allen Foundation; Houston Endowment, Inc.
* The Lewis Family Foundation
* McGovern Foundation
* National Endowment for the Arts
* The Nimoy Foundation
* Texas Commission on the Arts
* William Hill Land & Cattle Co.
* Grant from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance