2026
Skulls, Elgin Street Studios, Gallery 1, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2026
Passamontanas, Panik Studio, Mexico City, MX, 2026
Fine Thing (Pink Potato Fountain), Houston, TX, 2026
Hot Spots, Elgin Street Studios, Gallery 2, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2026
Collage; music, public policy; performance; orthography; sculpture; installation; gardening; text; sound; bric-a-brac; painting; video; public assembly; selection; experience
Each collage below, approx 9″ x 12″, hand-cut and pasted.
Selected Videos:
Tex Kerschen’s Video Poems (1), 2019. Commissioned and thereafter decommissioned for a New York Public Access Program on poetry.
INDIAN JEWELRY “TURN IT ON AGAIN” 2015.
INDIAN JEWELRY “RIDING CARS TALKING TRASH” 2015.
CLIPD BEAKS’ “WOMB TO TOMB” 2013.
INDIAN JEWELRY’S “FREAK PRIDE” 2013.
INDIAN JEWELRY “TRAVELIN’ CROSS COUNTRY” 2012.
INDIAN JEWELRY’S “GUNS” 2011.
INDIAN JEWELRY’S “SOSOS” 2009.
FUTURE BLONDES “STATIC QUEEN” 2009.
Exhibitions:
Hot Spots, March 5-19, 2026, Elgin Street Studios, Houston, TX
Just Rock, video at Futurescapes, November 10-30, 2023, Reeves Art, Houston, TX
Re: Tempt/Contempt, May 2022, The Orange Show, Houston, TX
Swine, January 20 – February 18, 2018, Civic TV, Houston, TX
Recent Curatorial Work:
Danny Kerschen, Some Days I Just Want to Dream, August-October 2025, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX.
Danny Kerschen and Heath Flagtvedt, March 2020, BS Projects, Houston, TX. Exhibition sponsored by Civic TV.
Heath Flagtvedt: Mystery Meat, April to May 2016, Self Actualization, Houston, TX.
Heath Flagtvedt: New Body, November – December 2014, Self Actualization, Houston, TX.
Tex Kerschen’s Please Yourself, 17 Artists You Shouldn’t Live Without, September – October, 2014, Self Actualization, Houston, TX.
All Dread Set: Jonathan Read, Tina Forbis, and Ken Wiatrek, January to February, 2012, Cardoza Fine Art, Houston, TX.
Domokos Benzcedi: Night Tours, and Michae Dee: Song of Myself, January to February, 2010, Temporary Space, Houston, TX.
Older Curatorial Work:
1998 to 2004, Chief Curator at Art Car Museum and the Station Museum, Houston, TX.
Organized “Made in Palestine” and countless other exhibitions of work by international, national, regional, and local artists, some of which toured, many of which were reviewed favorably in diverse publications including Art in America, Christian Science Monitor, Houston Press, Houston Chronicle, among others. Started a sound series at the Station which continued until 2021.
If you’re reading this, you may be curious, you may be bored, you may be a bot, feeding on the unbroken text in your haste to ruin the universe. In any case, you need consultation. Here are some things I do: writing: long-form; short-form; koans & exhortations; essays, creative and factical; interviews; letters to the delinquent, letters to the lonely-hearted; business writing, including copywriting, abstracts, treatments, coverage, pitches, public relations, and, if you truly need it, powerpoint.
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Clips: art
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Research: print, digital, and person-on-the-street.
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Public speaking and presentations, lectures, readings, and seminars.
Music production, songwriting, sound design, film scoring, consultation, and referrals.
Art direction, consultation, and referrals.
Video production and referrals.
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