When an art show about boredom begins with the warning, "Viewer discretion is advised," you can rest assured it'd be anything but boring.
In "Staring at the Wall: The Art of Boredom," the main show currently up at Lawndale Art Center, curator Katia Zavistovski brings together six artists who address boredom in their work, whether through the pieces' repetitiveness or as a distraction from boredom. Oil Portrait
From the get-go, the show seems pretty sparse, though there's a lot to unpack among the drawings, video and sculpture present. Oil Portraits
Upon entering the gallery, the first thing you hear are the words "art," "work," "hard," and "work" repeated in a robotic-like chant from somewhere, but we'll get to that later.
Chris Akin's works stands out for its reference of another Houston art institution -- the Menil. A guard at the museum, Akin says he's "spent a lot of time looking at the floor."
Using that as inspiration, he's mapped out areas of the Menil's gallery spaces from his various perspectives.
The most effective of these works is a two-year series that depicts the Menil floor plan.
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