Joe Houston, artist, curator, and contributing author for the Moving Vision catalogue.
This presentation explores the cultural and art historical context of the 1960s that gave rise to a radical approach to painting, which made the viewer’s own perception the central subject of the art work. While Op art seemed to emerge overnight on as a fully-fledged international art movement, Joe Houston traces its deeper origins and makes the case for its inevitability in the continuum of modernism.
Joe Houston is an artist and author who has written and lectured extensively on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on modes of abstraction. Among the exhibitions he has curated on the subject are Post-Digital Painting at Cranbrook Art Museum, Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s at Columbus Museum of Art, and A Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction Since 1950, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Buenos Aires. In addition he has also curated diverse solo projects by such artists as Rona Pondick, Jason Salavon, Kehinde Wiley, and Peter Zimmermann.
He has also contributed to publications for institutions internationally, including The Hood Museum at Dartmouth, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark; Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg; The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Whitechapel Gallery in London. Joe Houston is based in Kansas and is represented by P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City.
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Credits: Reginald Neal (American, 1909–1992) Eight of a Maze-Blue and White, 1965, Lithograph and Plexiglas construction, 21 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Museum purchase with funds from the Beaux Arts Society Fund for Acquisitions and the Pauline Morrison Ledbetter Collections Endowment, 2016.061 © Estate of Reginald Neal.
