“Montrose Art Society’s Annual Invitational Show” – August 21st 2010 Review

MAS' First Annual Invitational Show 2010 - Opening new doors for artists and bringing new work to the eyes of their public, MAS had a successful Saturday night  for their first invitational art show of the year this last August 21st. Doors opened to the  public at 6:30 and the show picked up through the night until pass 10pm. This is MAS first show using War'Hous Visual Studios as a host and the response from the Houston art community was very high with a big turn out.

MAS introduced to the audience a wide variety of new work from their 9 original members of the society, and along with them MAS  was very pleased to invite new 9 artist with new work and with extremely diverse  concepts, putting together this new Invitational show. Nontheless,  the show also focused on the work of the featured artist of the Month, Michael Abramowitz . The Featured artist of the Month is always chosen by the members of the society to be part of the focus of attention for their coming shows. In this case, August's Featured artist Michel Abramowitz presented his new series of work which is highly characterized by the use of mixed media collage in very large and small formats. He particularly uses pen and ink to capture more extreme details which can be appreciated once the viewer looks closer at the piece. Abramowitz's concepts lays on the idea of his work becoming a map of imagination, at the same time following these intense patterns colors that add an interesting effect to the work. This pieces of work come from Abramowitz's mind as graphic representations of the sounds of music. He was a dedicated musician which made an  great influence on his actual career as artist.

The art work in the show presented a wide varitey of styles that reflects the varity of artist who are part the society. MAS is composed of artists from National and International background( United States, Brazil,France, Pakistan, Argentina, Mexico, El Salvador) which makes their shows very different from other art shows in Houston. The subjects in the art allowes the viewer  to see MAS Latin American, European, Asian and North American roots and the way all these come together.

The show was in so many ways much more dynamic than those from the past and set up a new step forward for MAS in the Houston Art Community. MAS presence in Houston is starting to rise and as it looks like their next shows may just offer more variey of work to target the taste of art that is always present in the city. MAS's First Annual Invitational Show was a success for the Society. The audience has increased and along with this,  MAS was pleased to have the presence of the well known Texas artist HJ- Bott and his wife Margaret Bott who are big images of the Houston Art Community.

MAS was pleased to have a wide variety of guest artists who added an important touch to the show. Also, the Society thanks the public who took their time to come to the show and added the final touch that we needed to make this a succeful exhibition.

MAS hopes this will be just one of many shows to come and is looking forward to have Houstonians as their special guest for their future show. MAS' upcoming show is this next November 12 and 13 at War'Hous Visual Studios.

Thank you.

Montrose Art Society

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