HBU Contemporary Art Gallery
The HBU Contemporary Arts Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Contemporary Art Gallery is free and open to the public. For additional information or to arrange a private tour, please contact
Jim Edwards, gallery director, at
jedwards@hbu.edu or Laura Kreft at
lkreft@hbu.edu.
The HBU Contemporary Art Gallery is located in the University Academic Center on campus. This state-of-the art exhibition space was completed in the summer of 2012 and its inaugural exhibition,
Spontaneous Memorial: A Commemorative Installation by
Frank McEntire, honored the victims of 9/11.
The mission of the HBU Contemporary Art Gallery is to encourage contemporary artists to challenge and educate public perceptions of civic and social ideas and aesthetic and spiritual consciousnesses. The gallery functions as a teaching laboratory, hosts gallery tours and lectures by art department faculty and visiting artists, and periodically tours its exhibitions to other exhibition venues.
The Contemporary Art Gallery will feature three exhibitions during the spring 2013 semester 2013:
J. Marie Valdez:
Topophilia - The Houston Paintings
January 10 through February 21
Bert Long
February 28 through April 18
HBU's Master of Fine Arts graduates
April 25 through summer 2013
Ms. Valdez is an assistant professor in art at HBU, and
Bert Long is a Houston-based artist with an international reputation, including a work in the collection of
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Bert L. Long, Jr. - An Odyssey
Mixed Media Assemblages and Paintings
February 28 – April 18, 2013
Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston Baptist University
Bert Long personally chose the majority of works for this exhibit prior to his death on February 1, 2013. A full color catalog written by Contemporary Art Gallery Director, Jim Edwards, accompanies the exhibit.
For further information contact
jedwards@hbu.edu or lkreft@hbu.edu
Gallery admission and events are free and open to the public.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
