STELLA!! That's Frank Stella...

American artist Frank Stella has worked with several different mediums of art over the course of his long career: sculpture, painting and architecture. He is, inarguably, one of the most influential and important American artists of the past 50 years. 


Frank Stella:Connections will be the most extensive exhibit of his to be shown in the U.K. courtesy of Haunch of Venison London.


Much was made of the recent Stella acquistion made by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Battle of Palminto, but did you know the the University of Houston has inside of its Moores Opera House, the Stella Project installation?


Probably not, as the University of Houston has the most amazing public art collection that was never seen.

"The Stella Project for the Moores School of Music focuses on the centerpiece of the music building: the 800-seat, classically designed theater and lobby for the Moores Opera House. In the theater space, Stella created a work for the dome of the hall, an oval applied to the catwalk and lighting baffle and suspended over the audience. Intrigued also by the architectural form of the lobby, he created a work there that covers the entire length of the sixteen-foot vaulted ceiling and flows onto the waIl wall of the mezzanine, creating a kind of Sistine Chapel for the 21st century. The work is unlike any performance space, not only in Houston but in the world, and is an important addition to public art on both the University campus and in the city of Houston"

http://www.music.uh.edu/art/

I spent several weeks dressed as Dora the Explorer, traversing the UH campus during the heat of summer to locate and record the public art collection it has amassed over the years. 


Couldn't believe the finds - internationally acclaimed artists such as Mullican, Christo, Stella, Reginato were alongside well-known Texans such as Love and King who were amongst the gems I found. 


I did go inside of the MOH to view the Stella installation and found it breath-taking. 


My advice is for Houston to take in a performance here even it's merely under the auspice of seeing some Stella.