Katie Grinnan's 'Nocturnal Hologram' to Open 9/10 at DiverseWorks

DiverseWorks is pleased to announce the opening of its 2015-16 season with the exhibition Katie Grinnan: Nocturnal Hologram on Thursday, September 10. There will be a Patron and Member Preview beginning at 6 pm, including an exhibition walkthrough with the artist and DiverseWorks Executive Director and Chief Curator, Xandra Eden at 6:30 pm. The Public Reception immediately follows from 7 - 9 pm. Nocturnal Hologram will be on view at DiverseWorks through November 14, 2015 (gallery hours: W - Sat, 12 - 6 pm), 4102 Fannin Street, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77004.

Los Angeles-based artist Katie Grinnan's sculptures, photography, sound, and video works investigate the relationship between visual and cognitive experience. Nocturnal Hologram features three recent large-scale sculptural installations that explore the productive space of the dream state and our attempts to understand how thought patterns are created and can be made physically manifest. This is Grinnan's first solo exhibition in Texas.

What role might dreams serve in the creative process? How might dreams serve as muse, inspiring and evolving an artist's work, as well as mirroring the artist's psyche? Join us for an afternoon with Anna Guerra, a depth psychotherapist with emphasis and training in Jungian psychology. Guerra will discuss the ideas of Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist who developed the technique of Active Imagination that taps into the fountain of creativity beyond our ego's willful agenda. Additionally, she will assist the audience in an Active Imagination exercise that will shed light on the symbols that arise in dreams and how this imagery can be used in creative endeavors.

Anna Guerra, JD, MA, LPC, is a depth psychotherapist in Houston with emphasis and training in Jungian psychology. She holds degrees in philosophy, law, and clinical psychology. She is a frequent lecturer at The Jung Center and recently taught a two-year extensive introduction to Jung and analytical psychology.

Co-presented by DiverseWorks and The Jung Center

Wednesday, October 21, 6 pm

DiverseWorks on Wednesdays @ Aurora Picture Show

2442 Bartlett Street, Houston, TX 77098

DWOW goes on the road to Aurora Picture Show for an evening of films related to Katie Grinnan's exhibition, Nocturnal Hologram. Dive into a surreal dream world with short films by avant-garde filmmakers who have inspired Grinnan, including Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, and others. As Grinnan uses a network of video reenactments, objects, and images to create sculpture, these filmmakers use editing, jump cuts, hand painted film, and assemblage techniques to create unusual relationships that allow for multiple interpretations.

Co-presented by DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture Show

Saturday, November 14, 3 pm

Astrology Orchestra

Performance at the James Turrell Skyspace, Rice University

Grinnan's Astrology Orchestra is an ongoing symphonic performance project based on her own astrological birth chart. Each sculptural, stringed instrument is tuned to a specific sign of the zodiac and must be played by an individual born of that sign. Grinnan has performed this work in a series of significant artistic and architectural locations including the the 60? telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Venice Beach, and the Integratron, a structure designed and built by ufologist George Van Tassell near Joshua Tree in the 1950's.

ABOUT KATIE GRINNAN

Katie Grinnan (b.1970, Richmond, VA; lives and works in Los Angeles) received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, attended Skowhegan, and received her MFA from UCLA. She has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; the Aspen Art Museum; and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles. Grinnan has been included in many group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art, New York; Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience at Modern Art Oxford, England; and The Artist Museum at MOCA, Los Angeles. Her work is included in collections at MOCA, the Hammer Museum, and LACMA and she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and a Pollock-Krasner grant.