Analia Saban (b. 1980, Buenos Aires) takes a forensic approach to media and their embedded traditions and conventions. Surveying art history as if it was a “murder scene,” she peels back layers of material histories and subject matters in search of new directions and possibilities. Currently working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, she uses the constituent parts of each as her very subject matter. This exhibition traces 10 years of Saban’s research through 30 works made between 2005 and 2015 and will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue.
Analia Saban is organized by Claudia Schmuckli, Curator-in-Charge, Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA, and former Director and Chief Curator at Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston. The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Janet and Paul Hobby, Howard and Beverly Robinson, Judy and Scott Nyquist, Barbara and Michael Gamson, and George and Linda Kelly. The catalogue is supported by Agnes Gund and Jill and Jay Bernstein. Additional funding is provided by our First Take patrons Leslie and Brad Bucher, Jereann Chaney, Krista and Mike Dumas, Cullen K. Geiselman, Cecily Horton, and the John P. McGovern Foundation and support from the Cecil Amelia Blaffer von Furstenberg Endowment for Exhibitions and Program, the Houston Endowment, Inc., the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Jo and Jim Furr Exhibition Endowment at Blaffer Art Museum, and The George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation.

Opening : Friday, September 23, 2016, 7 - 9 pm 5-8pm

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