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Station Museum of Contemporary Art wishes to announce the following six solo exhibitions. These exhibitions will open on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7 pm with music & refreshments.
Two films about Palestine by noted artist Suha Shoman deal with critical issues concerning the Israeli occupation of her homeland.
Charif Benhelima’s photographic project, Welcome to Belgium, illuminates the plight of Arab immigrants in Europe. An essay by noted Belgium painter, Luc Tuymans, describes Charif’s project as “a testimony, beginning at the beginning and covering a research period lasting nine years.”
Santiago Forero presents a singularly perceptive perspective on life in the United
States through his cryptic photographs. Santiago is a graduate student from Colombia attending the University of Texas.
Saluto Romano by Czech artist Martin Zet is a series of photographs portraying himself as an object within various environments. This is his ongoing attempt to find freedom and his true identity in a post-communist world.
Houston artist Ed Wilson’s steel sculptures are based on photographs that he took of concentration camps in Germany. They convey moral outrage at the same time as they represent his powerful sculptural identity. His photographs will be exhibited along with his sculptures.
The Station Museum is also presenting a group of mystical paintings by Elliot Wolfson who, in addition to being an artist, is one of the world’s most important authorities on the Kabbalah, understood as esoteric teachings concerning about mysticism and nature of the universe.
These exhibitions will be on view: March 13, 2010 - May 30, 2010
The Station Museum is located in Midtown on the corner of Alabama and La Branch.
The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Admission is free.
For more information or to schedule a tour, please call: 713.529.6900
"Suha Shoman: Bayyaratina and Stop For God's Sake"
SUHA SHOMAN (Palestine)
Suha Shoman was born in Jerusalem in 1944. Shoman lived in Egypt, Beirut and Paris where she read Law at the University Saint Joseph (Beirut) and the University of Paris, Faculty of Law, Pantheon. Shoman moved to Jordan in 1974 and in 1976, Shoman joined the Fahrelnissa Zeid Institute of Fine Arts. She is the founder and the director of Darat al-Funun in Amman, a gallery and visual resources center library dedicated to the stimulation of the visual arts in the Arab world. She is also the member of the board of trustees of the Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan.
"Charif Benhelima: Welcome to Belgium"
 
 
 
 
CHARIF BENHELIMA (Belgium)
Charif Benhelima was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1967. He is a Belgian photo-artist who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Benhelima received Master of Fine Arts from the Higher Institute Sint Lucas, Brussels, Belgium in 1995 and Laureate at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium between 1995 and 1998. He completed Documentary Photography program at the International Center of Photography, New York in 2000. He participated in Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France in 2003, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany in 2005 and the Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa in 2009.
"Santiago Forero: I Want to Live in America and Action Heroes"
SANTIAGO FORERO (Colombia)
Santiago Forero was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied Visual Arts at Pontificia Universidad Javeriena and received his B.F.A. in 2005. He is currently enrolled in the M.F.A. Studio Art program with a concentration in photography at The University of Texas in Austin.
"Martin Zet: Saluto Romano"
 
MARTIN ZET (Czech Republic)
Martin Zet was born in Czechoslovakia in 1959. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from 1979-1985. He lives and works in LIBUŠÍN, Czech Republic.
"Ed Wilson: Architecture of Death"
       
ED WILSON (Texas)
Ed Wilson was born in 1953. He received Bachelor of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University in 1979 and Master of Fine Arts from University of Houston in 1984. Wilson currently lives and works in Houston, Texas.
"Elliot Wolfson: Be / Holding"
ELLIOT WOLFSON (New York)
Elliot Wolfson received Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1979. He completed Master of Arts in 1983 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1986 both from Brandeis University . Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York university, where he has taught since 1987. He was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University (1996), the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University (2000-1, 2008-9), the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University (2005), and the Humanities Center at Rice University (2007). He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research in Spring 1998 and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.
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