Project Row Houses art opening reception: Round 42 - The One and the Many: A Self-Portrait in Seven Parts

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Round 42: The One and the Many: A Self-Portrait in Seven Parts is guest curated by former Project Row Houses Core fellow Sally Frater. Bringing together the work of artists from Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States, Frater has organized a round that acts in equal parts as a response to the mission of Project Row Houses and her time spent in residency there and, by extension, the Third Ward and Houston.

Stemming from her ongoing engagement with notions of site, Round 42 features installations that will collectively explore themes of transience, labor, domesticity and architecture as they relate to notions of diaspora, class and community. Additionally, the artists' works in photography, video, textiles, text and sculpture will interrogate the representation of blackness as something that is fixed, authentic and recognizable while engaging with minimalist and conceptualist practices.

Round 42 draws its main title from Grant Kester's book The One and the Many, in which the author critically examines the politics of relational aesthetics and other participatory art practices. In this context, Frater references PRH's engagement with participatory and community-based artistic expression, the interdependency of curator/artist relations, and the reliance on artistic production to facilitate curatorial practice. The subtitle, A Self-Portrait in Seven Parts, acknowledges that both artists' and curators' practices stem from their own specific subject positions and experiences.

Participating artists include Alexandre Arrechea, Erika DeFreitas, Delio Delgado, Nathaniel Donnett, Kenya Evans, Ayanna Mccloud and Nicole Miller.

An artist talk will be held on March 28, 2:30 p.m, followed by the opening reception from 4-7 p.m. On view through June 21.

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WHERE

Project Row Houses
2521 Holman St.
Houston, TX 77004
https://projectrowhouses.org/

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Admission is free.
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