Roberta Harris Reconsidered
Main Street Projects Roberta Harris Reconsidered
April 2, 2015 – April 25, 2015 Opening Reception and Block Party: April 2nd, 3700 Block of Main, 5pm - Midnight
Main Street Projects is pleased to present Roberta Harris Reconsidered as its April 2015 installation in the Windows on Main. This month’s pubic art installation, presented collaboratively with co-curator Catherine D. Anpson, offers a sample of artworks that span the course of Houston artist Roberta Harris’s five-decade career. The exhibition will be presented in conjunction with Mid Main Houston’s April First Thursday monthly block party, which invites a diverse audience to engage civically with local businesses to the benefit of local non-profit Camp for All.
“Harris’ arsenal extends from some very convincing Pattern-and-Decoration painting to lyrical Post Modern sculpture making, as well as some rather wild canvases filled with figuration and an exuberant visual language that even in reproductions, jumps off the page.”
-Catherine D. Anspon
Roberta Harris was born in Passaic, New Jersey and grew up in Houston, Texas. She was selected for the Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Harris studied at Parsonʼs School of Design and Hunter College in New York. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are included in numerous private and corporate collections including MTV Corporation, New York and Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, among others. Harris has instructed at Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston. She has been a visiting lecturer at the Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas; the University of Houston, Houston, Texas; the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, and has served as an Advisory member of the Art and Architecture Panel, Texas Arts Commission; Houston Arts Festival; Cultural Arts Council of Houston and the Art League of Houston. Currently, Harris’s work can also be seen in a career retrospective at the Katy Contemporary Arts Musem, through April 19th, 2016.