Mel Chin: Rematch (Blaffer Art Museum)

January 17 - March 21,2015

Part of the expansive, multi-venue survey of artist Mel Chin, the Blaffer presents 31 works, including documentation of numerous projects, selections from Chin’s Erased Currency (1997) and Drawn Currency (2006-08) series, and his collage installation The Funk and Wag from A to Z (2012) a surrealist arrangement of collage.

Opening: January 17, 2015 | 12-2 pm

Artist talk: February 19, 2015 | 7-8 pm
Mel Chin in conversation with art journalist Tyler Green

Curator Talk: March 03, 2015 | 7-8 pm
Exhibition curator Miranda Lash in conversation with Blaffer public affairs director Devon Britt-Darby

Lecture: March 04, 2015 | 12-1 am
Dr. Robert Zaretsky, UH Honors College, on the French Encyclopédie and the reshaping of the modern self.

Workshop: March 02, 2015 | 1-4 pm
A family-friendly afternoon of art making inspired by some of Mel Chin's innovative projects.

Curator Talk: March 11, 2015 | 12-1 pm
Gallery talk

Blaffer Art Museum 120 University of Houston Fine Arts Building
Houston, TX 77204-4018
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