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Cover photo of Lawndale Annex art students by Frank Martin, 1982. Lawndale Archives.
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Impractical Spaces: Houston
Edited and assembled by Pete Gershon
Series editor: Paddy Johnson
216 pp., full color.
$30.00
Available: Late FebruaryImpractical Spaces is pleased to announce the publication of its first printed edition, ‘Impractical Spaces: Houston’, with contributions from 48 artists and historians chronicling both defunct and active artist-run spaces in Houston.The book is part of a larger anthology that places the city’s art community in the context of a nationally-distributed series of books (and eventual anthology) examining the significance of historic alternative art spaces in cities outside the glare of New York and Los Angeles. Through a collection of descriptive entries, photographs, and ephemera provided by founding members of such spaces, the history of Houston’s alternative art scene is documented, preserved, celebrated, and shared. |
| Featuring contributions by Brian Arthur, Michelle Barnes, Valerie Bell Griener, Lee Benner, Jessi Bowman, Robert Boyd, Penny Cerling, Eepi Chad, Rochella Cooper, Ken Crimmins, Bill Davenport, J.R. Delgado, Farrell Dyde, Sharon Engelstein, Pete Gershon, Wayne Gilbert, Sally Glass, Alex Goss, Andrea Grover, Michael Henderson, Carlos Hernandez, Nathan Kennard, Danny Kerschen, Mark Lacy, Mark Larsen, Cody Ledvina, Rick Lowe, Gabriel Martinez, Mary Magsamen, Jack Massing, Pat Masterson, Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, Paul Middendorf, Jason Nodler, Michael Peranteau, Jim Pirtle, Guillermo Pulido, Brian Rod, Joe Bastida Rodriguez, Henry G. Sanchez, Charlie Jean Sartwelle, Jack Stenner, Emily Sloan, Terry Suprean, Ruby Surls, Cressandra Thibodeaux, Nestor Topchy, Chris Unclebach.
Edited by Pete Gershon. Series edited by Paddy Johnson.
This project has been made possible by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the John and Stephanie Smither Visionary Fund, and by Jeff Beauchamp. Impractical Spaces: Houston is a sponsored project of Fresh Arts, a non-profit arts service organization.
See www.impracticalspaces.org for more information about the national project.
Cover photo of Lawndale Annex art students by Frank Martin, 1982. Lawndale Archives. |
| Pete Gershon is the author of Painting the Town Orange: The Stories Behind Houston’s Visionary Art Environments (History Press, 2014) and Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston 1972 – 1985 (Texas A&M University Press, fall 2018). For two years, he worked with the Creating a Living Legacy Project‘s Houston team to document the artwork of multimedia artist Bert L. Long, Jr., and to arrange his professional papers for access and preservation; and for 15 years he was the founding publisher of Signal to Noise, the internationally distributed quarterly journal of improvised and experimental music. Since 2013, he’s been the program coordinator for the Core Residency Program at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He received a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Hampshire College in 1995 and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of North Texas in 2015. |
| Impractical Spaces is a collaborative national project and groundbreaking anthology of publications that offers a historical look at defunct and active artist-run projects throughout the United States. This long term project will engage at least fifty cities in fifty states with the intent of assembling all publications for distribution in the form of a book charting the national significance of the artist-run scene. |
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