Edge of Awakening – Paintings by artist Nicola Parente

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

These words by Henry David Thoreau inspire Nicola Parente’s new body of work Edge of Awakening. The dynamic series of expressive abstract paintings explores neither awakening nor its opposite, but the uncertain worlds between the two where each person must choose among possibilities. Those choices, those points of decision, visited and re-visited, both discover and invent the nature of our lives. Parente’s exhibition runs September 10 through October 9, 2010 at Gremillion &Co Fine Art, Houston.  For more information see Portfolio>Edge of Awakening

Natural Recyclers is an outdoor site specific installation by Nicola Parente and Dyvia Murthy created for Art League Houston. Using mainly recyclable and renewable resources, this installation consisting of three giant mushrooms, fabricated from rebar, soil, moss, herbs, Texas native and non native plants. Exhibition uns through November 13 thru Spring 2010. For more information see Projects>Natural Recyclers

Wasted Resolve, an installation created by Dyvia Murthy and Nicola Parente for the front Gallery of Art League Houston, is inspired by a 2008 New York Times article that ranked Houston as the worst recycler among the nation’s 30 largest cities. Wasted Resolve is a visual categorized summary of un-recycled waste created from debris collected during a week long period from an eight-block area surrounding Art League Houston. Runs  November 13 through December 31, 2009. For more information see Projects>Wasted Resolve

Juried Exhibition, Parente’s painting was selected and exhibited during the conference.

Will there be enough water for all of us in the next 100 years? What is the current quality of our waterways? How can it improve and why? The Shell Center for Sustainability at Rice University considers these and other questions on water in the upcoming conference “Water in the Houston Metabolism – Houston’s Water Needs and Water Quality for this Century”. National and local experts come together to address questions about water, one of our vital resources, and Houston’s sustainable development, growth, natural environment, water, health, and the policies that can make a difference.

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Benefit Reception and Auction
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7 PM
Hotel Inter Continental, Houston

Dr. Scott Sherer, director of the University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery (Main (1604) Campus) is pleased to announce a special exhibition, Transparent/Translucent, curated by Houston-based, art historian and critic, Wade Wilson. The exhibit opens with a reception for the artists from 6-8 pm, Wednesday, June 3, 2009 and will remain on view through July 2, 2009. Tranparent/Translucent includes works by artists Anila Quayyum Agha, Lucinda Cobley, Michael Crowder, Danielle Frankenthal, Meredith “Butch” Jack, Yoko Motomiya, McKay Otto, Nicola Parente, Gordon Terry and Joan Winter.