VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month (except talks held on the second Sunday of April and July, due to the Easter and Independence Day holidays), a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor space) of the artist’s choosing, begin at 3 p.m.

Joan Son on the Byzantine Fresco Chapel
Sunday, August 7, 2011, 3:00 p.m.

Joan Son is best known for her work in paper folding. She debuted her art in the windows of Tiffany & Co. in the spring of 1993. She has created numerous large scale installations for public and private venues as well as small works for museum shops including the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian in Washington DC. She received a grant from the Houston Arts Alliance in 2009 to create an 8ft. patchwork robe. With a current exhibition at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft through August 13 and a featured exhibit at the Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, Tx in September, Joan is in a very active period of her art. Her work seeks the mystical in the simple from a single fold to a thousand folded butterflies.

Photo: Theresa DiMenno Photography.