Solid State

October 5 - November 30, 2024

Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 5, 6pm - 9pm

Site Gallery Houston
The Silos at Sawyer Yards
1502 Sawyer Street, Suite 400
Houston, TX 77007

Open Hours:
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm

Schedule of Special Events at Site Gallery Houston
Performances curated by Garland Fielder

Saturday, October 12
2pm-3pm: Exhibition Tour by Curator Volker Eisele
3:15pm: Solo Performance by Danny Kamins

Saturday, October 19
2pm-3pm: Exhibition Tour by Curator Volker Eisele

Saturday, October 26
2pm-3pm: Exhibition Tour by Curator Volker Eisele
3:15pm: Solo performance by Juan Garcia

Saturday, November 2
2pm-3pm: Exhibition Tour by Curator Volker Eisele

Saturday, November 9
2pm-3pm: Exhibition Tour by Curator Volker Eisele

Saturday, November 16
2pm-3pm: Exhibition Tour by Curator Volker Eisele

Saturday, November 23
2pm-3pm: Exhibition Tour by Curator Volker Eisele

Saturday, November 30
2pm-3pm: Exhibition Tour by Curator Volker Eisele
3:15pm: Performance by Ruthie Langston and Jason Jackson

Sculpture Month Houston is proud to present its eighth annual exhibition titled “Solid State – A Celebration of the Material World”. The location will be at Site Gallery Houston at The Silos at Sawyer Yards, the agro-industrial relic that provides a dramatic architectural background for the participating artists and an immersive art experience for the visitors.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Sterling Allen, Adela Andea, Cody Arnall, Dawn Bennett and Patrick Renner, Victor Calise Blanchard, Nathaniel Donnett, Garland Fielder, Jeff Forster, Kathy Kelley, Michael Sean Kirby, Alex Larsen, Cameron Schoepp, Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher, Fred Spaulding, Carlos Vielma, Stew Vreeland, John Walker.

You are invited to our opening reception on Saturday, October 5, from 6pm to 9pm. Meet all the artists in person and listen to what they have to say about their enigmatic exhibitions. DJ Gab E will play upbeat music and set the mood for a lively celebration. We will not only celebrate our theme’s tangent the “Solid State World”, but foremost, the artists who transform ordinary reality into an inspiring emotional experience.

Since 2016, Sculpture Month Houston has dedicated its yearly exhibitions exclusively to the exploration and presentation of installation art, mostly by Houston and Texas artists. We just witnessed some fabulous installation art here in Texas by Sarah Sze at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Sarah Sze has been an innovator of installation art for over two decades and created stunning new symbols and images by integrating analog and digital elements. She summed it up in one of her statements: “We are in the middle of an extreme hurricane where we are learning to speak through images at an exponential pace.”

The title “Solid State” refers to matter in its solid-state form, the other classical states being gas, liquid, and plasma. Solid state matter surrounds us everywhere and its solidity and constancy provide assurances of a sturdy world with a stable core. It is our fundamental reality, and we interact with it often without giving much thought to its intrinsic value and presence.

Solid state-based elements provide the classical materials for sculptures such as marble, bronze, and terracotta. This narrow list, however, has explosively expanded recently to include concrete, steel, iron, plastic, found objects, epoxy, LED light sources, even organic materials and much more. The cornucopia of new materials has encouraged a reformulation of sculptural art and stimulated pathways and images we never thought of before.

The artists in this exhibition are experimenting with different materials and probing for unexpected associations. They search for fresh avenues of artistic concepts to assess and re-interpret the reality that surrounds us. Above all, “Solid State” is a celebration of the material world.