Opening Exhibit Featuring Photographer Rania Matar
Join DeSantos Gallery on Saturday April 2nd as they host Rania Matar at their gallery from 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm.
Rania Matar will be present at the opening to discuss her latest body of work, “A Girl and her Room”. Her work has won several awards, has been featured in numerous publications, and exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally. Her first book titled Ordinary Lives has just been released, published by the Quantuck Lane Press and distributed by W.W. Norton.
The Tipping Point Houston
The Tipping Point is Houston’s first and only sneaker lifestyle store located in Downtown on the ground floor of the Historic Humble Building. The Tipping Point is building a brand that extends beyond retail by partnering with local non-profit organizations and small businesses to create a springboard for creativity and innovation to flourish through a series of book signings, fund-raisers, product awareness campaigns, art exhibitions, movie screenings and music listening parties.
MFA Houston Presents Lecture on Ancient Egypt
By Brian Bowers
It goes without mention that the world has always been and always will be fascinated with Egyptian culture. From pop culture references, to the endless scholastic endeavors, the Egyptians historically and contemporarily are ever-present in the popular imagination. On November 19th and 20th, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston will be presenting a lecture entitled Why Mummify? Egyptian Religion, Medical Theory and the Funery Arts.
Dr. Robert Ritner, Professor of Egyptology at The Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World in the Department of Classics, and in the College, The University of Chicago will present the fascinating lecture. Exploring classic religious concepts such as Osiris & Anubis, it will highlight ideas about death and the role mummification played in Egyptian mythology. The belief is that the combination of medicine and mythology contributed to the widespread practice of mummification as part of Ancient Egyptian rituals.
The lecture will be free with regular museum admission and is open to the public. You can attend Friday, November 19, at 1:30 p.m. or Saturday, November 20, at 4:00 p.m. in the Caroline Wiess Law Building. To get more information on the lecture, click here.
De Santos Gallery presents: Intimate Archaeology
De Santos Gallery presents: Intimate Archaeology
Photographs by Elaine Duigenan
Artist Statement
Elaine Duigenan (pron. ‘Dygnun’) works with objects; sometimes they are familiar items which have been discarded, other times they are the things which have been kept and valued. She places them in an environment in such a way as to effect transformation or bestow status. She is fascinated by what she has begun to term ‘intimate archaeology’. This arises out of a passion for both ‘sense of place’ and collecting/unearthing treasure. We all keep or preserve things as mementoes and Elaine is able to discover symbolism in the most mundane of objects. Her work invariably has an air of mystery and ambiguity which is often heightened when subjects are placed in a particular light or landscape.
