History of Photography
2021-07-13 - 2021-07-27 | Online Learning

Words and Pictures: In Conversation: Elizabeth Bick and Dorota Biczel
2021-07-16 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | HCP Online
MOVEMENT STUDY III: CIRCLING A HAWK by Elizabeth Bick
In Conversation: Elizabeth Bick (2020 HCP Fellow) and Dorota Biczel (ED and Curator, HCP)
How can photography be intermediatic? What even are the intermedia? How does an intermediatic approach alter customary expectations of distance and intimacy in photography? Artist Elizabeth Bick and HCP’s Executive Director and Curator, Dorota Biczel, discuss Bick’s practice informed by her training in modern dance. At the core of Bick’s work are relationships between architecture, urban fabric, movement, and image, and what it ultimately means to be a body in space.
Archived conversation will be available for viewing on HCP’s Vimeo page.
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About Elizabeth Bick’s Movement Studies
After a childhood dedicated to dance, Elizabeth Bick found a choreographic voice through photography. Movement Studies is a three-volume work that portrays a gridded anonymous street, a chosen corner, and finally, one individual. Movement Study I is a distant, peering typology study of patterned movement in occupied transient urban landscapes. Through this scavenger hunt, Movement Study II, a temporary construction facade, and a populated pedestrian corner was discovered and photographed for years. Movement Study III is dedicated to B Hawk, whom, by chance, Bick photographed at the location of Movement Study II, and then exclusively photographed them as they underwent gender transition. The work operates vertically and cyclically, narrowing a perception of the urban experience. Elizabeth is the recipient of the 2020 HCP Fellowship.

Introduction to Studio Lighting: Still Life & Product
2021-07-17 - 2021-07-18 | Houston Center for Photography

Remix: Reconceiving the Family Photo Album Workshop & Intensive
2021-07-18 - 2021-08-15 | Online Learning

Light Meters & The Lies They Tell You
2021-07-25 | Online Learning

In-Person Summer Photography Camp
2021-07-26 - 2021-07-30 | Houston Center for Photography

Photographer's Sketchbook: Building a Daily Practice
2021-08-06 - 2021-08-27 | Online Learning

Photography I: Learning the Basics
2021-08-10 - 2021-08-31 | Online Learning

Become a Photoshop Super User: Tips, Tricks, & Hacks
2021-08-13 - 2021-08-27 | Online Learning

Alternative Printing: Cyanotypes
2021-08-14 - 2021-08-15 | Houston Center for Photography

Large Format Fine Art Printing
2021-08-14 - 2021-08-28 | Houston Center for Photography

Camera Basics
2021-08-15 - 2021-08-22, 2021-09-26 - 2021-10-03 | Houston Center for Photography

Studio Lighting: Portraiture
2021-08-17 - 2021-08-31 | Houston Center for Photography

Photography I: Learning the Basics
2021-08-17 - 2021-09-07, 2021-09-13 - 2021-09-27 | Houston Center for Photography

Celebrating 38th Center Annual: Kris Graves & Artists in Conversation
2021-08-26 17:00 - 18:30
Join Juror Kris Graves and the artists of 38th Center Annual in an online celebration for the show! Over the past weeks, Center Annual has provided a diverse range of works to be viewed by the public at HCP. The show, as Graves states, contains “imagery that has the potential to change stagnant viewpoints about the world we live in.” Save the date and be a part of the conversation!
The event will take place on Thursday, August 26, 5:00–6:30pm CT/ 6:00–7:30pm ET.
Register for the event!

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Members' Critique Group with the Curator and Artists of A Composition of Possibilities
2021-09-21 18:00 - 21:00

A Composition of Possibilities Opening Reception
2021-09-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Houston Center for Photography
A Composition of Possibilities
Houston Center for Photography (HCP) is pleased to announce the opening of A Composition of Possibilities, a show featuring new collaborative work by three Mexico-City-based artists Andrea Martínez, Fabiola Menchelli, and Mike Counahan, curated by Leslie Moody Castro. The exhibition opens with a public reception on September 24, from 6 to 8 pm, and will conclude on November 7, 2021. At the opening, curator’s and artists’ remarks will begin at 6:30 PM.
Attend the Opening 6-7pm!

Attend the Opening 7-8pm!

A Composition of Possibilities marks the first-time collaboration between the three artists and their first opportunity to exhibit in Houston. It is also the first exhibition Moody Castro has curated here. The show in the city that is an important nexus of the Global South and a vital agent in the development of art history of Latin America, is an important step in the careers of the curator and three highly respected emerging artists in Mexico City. Martínez, Menchelli, and Counahan push against the pictorial traditions that have long weighed heavily upon Mexican and Latinx art, providing a refreshing insight into the contemporary artistic culture of the vibrant Mexican capital.
See-sawing between abstraction and the tradition-laden genre of landscape photography, Fabiola Menchelli, Andrea Martínez, and Mike Counahan share the common interest in the investigation of light, its impact on matter, and on our perception of matter. From stars to pebbles, light links the cosmos with the physical world we inhabit, connecting celestial and earthly bodies, and the visible and the invisible. Menchelli, Martínez, and Counahan’s work rejuvenates the seemingly antiquated medium by pressing against the core tenets of historical photography in Mexico. Traditionally, landscape was deployed instrumentally and charged with cultural signifiers of Mexican identity and pre-Columbian past, often through the distinct ethnographic lens. In turn, Menchelli, Martínez, and Counahan resist an ethnographic impulse and invite the exploration of materials, perception, and embodied experience as the unique means to shape our being in and relating to the world and others.
For the exhibition at HCP the artists have created a limited-edition collaborative heliogravure, which will be available for sale at the gallery.

Important Dates

Exhibition On View
September 24–November 7, 2021

In Conversation: Leslie Moody Castro, Andrea Martínez, Fabiola Menchelli, and Mike Counahan
September 30, 5:30–7 pm CST on Zoom
A virtual conversation with curator Leslie Moody Castro and artists Andrea Martínez, Fabiola Menchelli, and Mike Counahan, moderated by HCP’s Executive Director, Dorota Biczel
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Help HCP keep our staff, artists, and communities safe by following our Covid-19 guidelines, based on current recommendations from local, state, federal health officials, agencies, and authorities, including the CDC, as outlined below:

All guests are expected to wear masks at all times inside the gallery
All guests should maintain 6 feet of distance between those outside of their household while inside
Hand sanitizer and disposable masks will be available on site
Beverages will be served outside
If you’re unvaccinated, feeling unwell and/or have been exposed to COVID in the past 14 days, we ask that you please stay at home.

Mark your calendars for the 2021-22 exhibition season at HCP:

2021 Fellowship Exhibition juried by Drew Sawyer, the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator at the Brooklyn Museum, November 19, 2021–January 9, 2022

2021 Fellows will be announced in mid-September

2022 Annul Print Auction, January 21–February 17, 2022
The Photobook Unbound: A Modern History, guest curated by Ashlyn Davis Burns, assembly, and Jon Evans, Chief of Libraries and Archives, MFAH, March 11–May 8, 2022
2022 Fellowship Exhibition, May 27–July 10, 2022
39th Center Annual, July 22, 2022–August 28, 2022

Calls for Fellowship and Center Annual participation will open in early October

View the Exhibition by Appointment

Admission to HCP is free and by appointment only. Using the button below, schedule your 45-minute appointment in advance to view A Composition of Possibilities in person during the following gallery hours:

Wednesday–Thursday: 11 am–7 pm
Friday: 11 am–5 pm
Saturday–Sunday: 11 am–7 pm

Schedule an Appointment
A limited number of free virtual tours are available for schools and community partners. Please email Natalie Rodgers at natalie@hcponline.org for details and to make an appointment.

Questions
For questions about this exhibition, please contact Samuel Rhodes, Exhibitions Assistant, at samuel@hcponline.org or 713-529-4755.

Focusing on Color
2021-09-26 | Online Learning
