{"id":1972,"date":"2018-01-04T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:45:18","slug":"art-league-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/art-league-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Art League Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My solo exhibition\u00a0<strong><em>Perceptual Perpetual <\/em><\/strong>opens at The Art League Houston in the Front Gallery space, January 26th, 6-9pm.\u00a0 The exhibition features a new body of work that explores visualization, interaction, physics, and conceptual art. The show includes sonic sculptures, wall assemblages, and a mechanized drawing performance. The work relies on audience participation to activate a visual system, which allow variations of order and chaos to influence how the work is perceived.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I describe the work as a kind of \u201cphysics machine,\u201d similar to the anatomy of a pachinko game or a children\u2019s handheld spinner toy, where gravity, kinetics, and a variety of other forces, cause surfaces to spin and objects to move. Each piece offers a unique interactive framework that creates random fluctuations in movement and audio mechanics. As the work is activated, a conversation emerges between visual aesthetics and embodied interaction. This results in a playful approach to the art experience.The exhibition presents a nexus between art and science that recalls such sources as Galileo\u2019s astronomical instruments, Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s diagrams on perpetual motion, John Cage\u2019s artistic philosophy of chance, and Jean Tinguely\u2019s concept of meta-mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Other exhibitions include <strong><em>Muscle Panic objects <\/em><\/strong>by Hazel Meyer in the Main Gallery, and<em> <strong>Good Times, Bad Times, Give Me Some of That<\/strong><\/em> by Gao Hang in the Hallwayspace<em>.\u00a0<\/em> For more information about the show and each artist go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artleaguehouston.org\/upcoming-exhibitions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.artleaguehouston.org\/upcoming-exhibitions\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Reception: 6 \u2013 9 PM Friday, January 26, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Exhibition Dates: January 26, 2018 \u2013 March 10, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Performance: 6:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Art League Houston\u2019s (ALH) Exhibitions and Public Arts Programs have a strong reputation for brightening Houston&#8217;s public spaces, along with presenting exhibitions that feature diverse, innovative, and socially conscious artists.\u00a0ALH\u2019s Visual Arts Program presents exhibitions and projects by local, regional, national, and international (emerging and established)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sherman Finch, <\/strong><strong>Hazel Meyer, <\/strong><strong>Gao Hang<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My solo exhibition\u00a0Perceptual Perpetual opens at The Art League Houston in the Front Gallery space, January 26th, 6-9pm.\u00a0 The exhibition features a new body of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary-art","category-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/5013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermanfinch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}