Digital Worlds: New Media from the Museum’s Collection June 23–October 8, 2018
Cassandra C. Jones, Wax and Wane, 2008, single-channel video, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Morris Weiner. © Cassandra C. Jones, 2018
Tom Friedman, Wall, 2017, video projection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment. © Tom Friedman / courtesy of the artist; Luhring Augustine, New York; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Jennifer Steinkamp, Mike Kelley, 14, 2007–08, video installation, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Isabel B. Wilson and The Brown Foundation, Inc. © Jennifer Steinkamp, courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Stan Douglas, Hogan’s Alley, 2014, chromogenic print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by “One Great Night in November, 2016.” © Stan Douglas
Robert Covington, Tide Pool, 2016, single-channel video, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by W. Burt Nelson in honor of Kara Fiedorek. © Robert Covington
Brian Fridge, Vault Sequence, 1997, black-and-white video on DVD, ed. 1/3, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Mickey and Jeanne Klein and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Schneck. © Brian Fridge
Digital technology began transforming the landscape of contemporary art as early as the 1960s. When digital equipment became increasingly available and adaptable in the 1990s, artists seized on the unique opportunities it offered for video art and photography.
Digital Worlds: New Media from the Museum’s Collection demonstrates the breadth of invention artists bring to contemporary art through digitization. The exhibition features a selection of MFAH collection favorites, including Jennifer Steinkamp’s Mike Kelley, 14 and Chiho Aoshima’s City Glow.
Also on view are important new acquisitions, such as Cassandra C. Jones’s Wax and Wane, which traces the moon’s monthly cycle through images from the Internet; and Stan Douglas’s Hogan’s Alley, a meticulous reconstruction of Seattle’s downtown red-light district, reimagined as a late-1940s film noir.
Digital Worlds: New Media from the Museum’s Collection | June 23–October 8, 2018
This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.