Art in the Park (photo by J. Vance)
TO QUOTE SPACE City Weather, “It’s Houston, it’s humid, it’s Houmidity!” and outdoors this weekend is going to be intense, but also beautiful, so long as you wear your sunscreen and stay hydrated. With that in mind, Discovery Green has some fun, family-friendly, and mostly free activities on tap for Saturday, June 17, from low-impact meditative exercise for the grown-ups, to hands-on art making for the kids. Here’s what’s happening:
Hatha Yoga, 9am
Hatha yoga (photo by Kirsten Gilliam)
Led by Andria Dugas, this basic vinyasa yoga class is a bit more demanding physically than hatha and designed to improve cardiovascular health and help with blood circulation and muscle tone. The class is free, but registration is requested on site. Participants are asked to bring a towel and water, as well as a yoga mat.
Tai Chi, 10:15am
Simone Oliver of Four Dragons Institute leads this tai chi, class which will focus on slow, meditative movements that encourage health and mental well-being. Participants are asked to bring a towel and water, and a yoga mat.
Rocket Dog, 10:30am-5pm
Rocket Dog
The Rocket Dog stores plenty of lawn games for Discovery Green’s patrons, including bocce ball, horseshoes, and more. Built by legendary art car artist, Rebecca Bass, Rocket Dog is the official mascot of Discovery Green. (We hope Bass created a water bowl for this guy!)
Kayaking, 10:30am-5pm
Kinder Lake
Kayaking in Downtown Houston? Yep. Saturdays and Sundays, you can rent and paddle around the shallow, fish-filled Kinder Lake. Life jackets are provided, and you don’t need a yoga mat — but don’t forget a hat and sunglasses.
Arte en el Parque
Kids ages three to 12 are invited to create their own unique work of art while improving their speaking and listening skills en español. The class is limited to 40 kids, and is first come, first serve. All art-making materials are provided!
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A detail of Tatiana Escallon's 'La Fiesta,' and Marcella Colavecchio's 'Strike the Match'
THIS SUMMER, ANYA Tish Gallery alights with Strike the Match! — a bold pop-up show of provocative works by four Texas-based female artists whose large-scale paintings have transformed the gallery into a highly charged, sensual environment.
This thoughtfully curated and installed show includes Kristen Brashear, Marcella Colavecchio, Tatiana Escallon, and Heather den Uijl — emerging artists Tish and gallery director Dawn Ohmer have kept an eye on and decided should hang together for the summer, the goal being to expand the viewer’s notion of what a painting can be. Strike the Match! opens June 16 and runs through July 1. So you better hustle, as this is a show you have to see in person.
Colombian-born Escallon’s abstract paintings “La Fiesta (The Feast)” and “Voz de Mujer (Woman’s Voice)” both began as original poems, with no initial visual in mind as to how her words might come to life on a canvas. Fragments of Escallon’s writing (“Words that caress, hands that nourish, joy never leaves me.”) are discernable on top of, but more often beneath, layers of acrylic, oil and mixed-media, like thoughts scrawled in haste lest the feeling behind the poetry is forgotten. The blues in “La Fiesta” saturate Collavecchio’s Strike the Match, where a lit match illuminates the nude figure of a young woman, head held high, as its glow travels from between her breasts to the stretch of her neck. There’s a very intimate, mature exchange happening here, not just between the subject and whoever she is looking at, but between the painting and you the viewer.
Meanwhile, Den Uijl arrives at her mysterious, oil-on-canvas works through a back-and-forth process, beginning with applying paint to canvas, photographing and digitally manipulating the image, then recapturing it with the brush. The resulting shapes and shadows are both strange and beautiful. Somewhere, Dorothy Hood is smiling.
And in Brashear’s multi-layered collage Quilled Garden, flower petals unfold and ripened berries prepare to burst across an unframed, patchwork canvas of paper, burlap, and other textiles, evoking what the artist describes as the “unifying experience of nature and the passage of time.”
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