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    Andy Warhol's iconic snapshots pop up in new downtown exhibition

    Steven Devadanam
    Feb 21, 2022 | 4:28 pm
    Andy Warhol Instantaneous Beauty
    Snapshots from Warhol's “Instantaneous Beauty: Andy Warhol and the Photographic Process.”
    Image courtesy of UH Public Art

    Eccentric, edgy, and weirdly prophetic, Andy Warhol is one of the most celebrated artists in modern history. The man who helped found the Pop Art movement and who’s famous for lines such as, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” is even more famous for iconic images of celebrities and those Campbell’s soup cans and other unmistakable pieces of American consumer culture.

    Now, Houstonians can get a glimpse of some Warholian snaps in a new exhibit at University of Houston-Downtown’s signature O’Kane Gallery. The new show, dubbed “Instantaneous Beauty: Andy Warhol and the Photographic Process,” is organized by Public Art of the University of Houston System (or Public Art UHS) and is a play on another Warhol line, where he declared that he “never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.”

    Viewers can expect Warhol’s photographic takes on beauty, all made between 1975 and 1985. These images belong to Public Art UHS, which received the pieces as a gift in 2008 from the Andy Warhol Foundation, a press release notes.

    Also featured in the show are collaborations by Harry Benson, Brigid Berlin, Christopher Makos, William John Kennedy, and Jamie Wyeth.

    The exhibit will open with a VIP reception 5:30 pm at O’Kane Gallery and runs through April 6. Free gallery tours are available every Tuesday afternoon, from 3 pm to 4 pm.

    Warhol made a splash from the 1960s with his Pop Art imagery of everyday products such as soup cans and Brillo boxes. He then shifted from painting to filmmaking and television.

    In the 1970s, he turned to photography in a comeback to art-making and captured these snaps, many of which are relevant now and speak to Instagram, celebrity, and pop commerce.

    “Warhol foresaw such contemporary mainstays as personal branding, celebrity and its commodification, reality television, the idea of everyone’s 15 minutes of fame, and art at the service of capitalism,” said María C. Gaztambide, Public Art UHS director and chief curator, in a statement. “The works on view confirm how, long before these ideas became cultural values, Warhol made them indivisible from his creative process and front and center of his uncompromising stance. In doing so, he pushed the boundaries of what it meant to be an American artist.”

    Visitors can stay turned to O’Kane Gallery for special events tied to the dynamic, enduring exhibit, which speaks to yet another Warhol line: “The idea is not to live forever; it is to create something that will.”

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    New interactive installation will echo through historic Houston cistern

    Jef Rouner
    Jan 22, 2026 | 3:00 pm
    "Undercurrents" in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
    Photo courtesy of Buffalo Bayou Partnership
    Words travel as light through the darkness of the cistern in Rafeal Lozano-Hemmer's "Undercurrents"

    One of Houston's signature art spaces is opening a unique art installation in April, a piece called "Undercurrents" by Rafeal Lozano-Hemmer that will turn visitors' voices into a brilliant light show.

    The dark, cyclopean space of the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern invites artists to experiment with light and sound in innovative ways. Montreal-based, multi-media creator Lozano-Hemmer is the latest to tackle the task using a mile-long network of wires that sends human voices snaking among the cement columns in racing beads of light. The still reflective surface of the cistern water doubles the effect, creating a mirrored set of racing pulses that fly through the gloom like thoughts along neural pathways.

    Intercoms will be installed around the cistern walkway so that visitors can speak into the system and watch their words flow through Lozano-Hemmer's piece. In addition, Texas writers have contributed recorded poetry recitations, adding another layer of beauty to the work.

    “As our first truly interactive installation in the Cistern, ‘Undercurrents’ offers visitors not only something to behold, but something to become a part of,” said BBP's vice president of external affairs, Karen Farber. “It is such an honor to witness Rafael’s inventive studio responding to the unique conditions of the Cistern and we can’t wait for audiences to see – and hear – the space through this new artwork.”

    "Undercurrents" will be open to the public beginning April 24, 2026, with tours available Wednesday through Sunday. It will run through January 24, 2027, with various spoken word and other audio performances scheduled throughout the year to take advantage of the installation. Check the Buffalo Bayou Partnership calendar for more information.

    Rafeal Lozano-Hemmer Artist Rafeal Lozano-Hemmer.Courtesy of Rafeal Lozano-Hemmer

    Lozano-Hemmer is a renowned Mexican-Canadian artist who specializes in interactive works. Lighting mechanisms is one of his favorite mediums to work in, such as in his touring installation, "Pulse Room," which has 300 lightbulbs triggered by sensors that measure visitors' heart rates.

    "'Undercurrents’ aims to create a choral work where live voice messages from participants are mixed with poetry commissioned from some of Texas's most salient authors," said Lozano-Hemmer. "The project is made in the spirit of 'coming together' that the great American composer Frederic Rzewski proposed as the most important objective of art at a time of turmoil."

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