Join us for this multi-media installation by Houston based collaborative husband-wife team Mary Magsamen and Stephen Hillerbrand. These artists are the recipients of the Carol Crow Memorial Fund Fellowship award, comprising of a $2,000 cash award and a solo exhibition at the Houston Center for Photography. The opening reception is Friday, June 13 from 6-8pm.

Join us for this multi-media installation by Houston based collaborative husband-wife team Mary Magsamen and Stephen Hillerbrand. These artists are the recipients of the Carol Crow Memorial Fund Fellowship award, comprising of a $2,000 cash award and a solo exhibition at the Houston Center for Photography. The opening reception is Friday, June 13 from 6-8pm.

Forced Fields
Mary Magsamen + Stephan Hillerbrand

Forced Fields is an installation that explores ideas about the pressures of daily life through playful use of the children´s toy, an inflatable balloon. Using balloons as an alternative material to project into, onto and around, the image transforms into mesmerizing spheres of personal and psychological interaction. The balloon, filled with our own air, becomes a thin, transparent membrane that is simultaneously delicate, mutable and explosive. It is a lens that examines not only the role of the photographic image but our lives as well.

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