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

Sculpture Month Houston is proud to present our 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.

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.

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