If you are in the Boston area go check out Houbens solo show at DTR Modern. Titled "Houben Paints Money" the works are comprised of works based on “symbols mined from American currency as keys to understand national dreams and fantasies.” Concentrating on details in both new and old currency, Houben “exhumes their meanings and contradictions, revealing the subliminal power that currency images have.
On view at DTR Modern in Boston. 167 Newbury Street, Boston through March 31, 2012.
If you are in the Dallas area tonight go see this art opening featuring Brandon McLean, Clark Goolsby, and Rocky Grimes. The show is titled "Amazing Isn't Enough" and it explores the pressures of manhood, the fragility between life and death and the triumphs and disasters that occur socially, worldly, and personally. RO2 Gallery is located on 110 N. Akard Street in Dallas. The reception will be from 7 - 11 PM.
Robert Mars’ artwork chronicles an evolving fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and celebrates the icons of the 1950’s and 60’s
by taking inspiration from this culture long past. Through the application of a rich color palette and tongue-in-cheek attitude, Mars’ paintings evoke a
vintage quality of design and pay homage to the idealized age of growth and hopefulness that was prevalent in the USA at the end of the Depression.
A time before the internet and mobile technology, where information was not instantly available to millions and there was no such thing as instant internet
celebrities, and instead people lived with the myth of the unique, untouchable and unforgettable personalities of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James
Dean, Audrey Hepburn and Elvis Presley.
Mars’ work is exhibited with the likes of Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Robert Rauschenberg,
and has been shown worldwide including galleries in Munich, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, Australia, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Paris, Aspen, and Bulgaria.