VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents Perspectives Talk: Peter Lucas, 7:30pm, Thursday, August 12. Join CAMH for a gallery walk-through of Perspectives 171: Jennifer West with Peter Lucas, Education Associate, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and former curator, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Working in film and film installation, Jennifer West makes exciting and visually arresting works that blend filmmaking, painting, and performance art. She treats the celluloid as both a medium to record actions and a surface to be manipulated--often with unconventional and disparate substances. Perspectives 171: Jennifer West is the first US solo museum exhibition for this Los Angeles-based artist. 

Pictured:  Jennifer West, detail Shred the Gnar Full Moon Film Noir, (35mm film print and negative shredded and stomped on by a bunch of Snowboarders and a few Skiers getting ginormous catching air during Aspen Big Air Competition and Fallen Friends Event- marked up with blue course dye - sprayed with Diet Coke, Bud Lite & Whiskey - taken hot tubbing with Epsom salts, rubbed with Arnica, K-Y Jelly, butter and Advil - full moon shot by Peter West), 2010. Running time: 5 minutes 9 seconds. Commission of the Aspen Art Museum. Courtesy the artist, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, and Vilma Gold, London. Photo Credit: Jennifer West.