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Lea Weingarten began the Weingarten Art Group in 2006, after more than fifteen years’ experience of working with public and private art collections in achieving their collecting goals. Ms. Weingarten co-founded the Menil Collection’s popular Contemporaries collecting group at the personal request of Mme. Dominique de Menil.
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On Our Radar
Texas painter Bradley Kerl, represented by Houston’s Jonathan Hopson Gallery, is well known for his verdant botanicals, chimerical still lives, and desire to uplift anything dismissed as mundane. His expressive color, flattened shapes, and indelible mark-making seem to set his work paradoxically between representational realism and abstract expressionism. As one of our local favorites, Weingarten Art…
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WAG In The News
The Houston Chronicle highlights WAG project Open House by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck (Havel Ruck Projects), a public art installation at The Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park. The temporary installation in Downtown Houston is part of a larger initiative dubbed Art Blocks that revitalizes and activates underutilized spaces. David Miller of OffCite shares…
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WAG Project
Multimedia artist Ansen Seale, known primarily for his time-based works of photographic art, has expanded out of the picture frame with a new interactive public art installation commissioned by Bellaire Market H‑E‑B, 5106 Bissonnet Street in Houston, Texas, and curated by The Weingarten Art Group. This captivating work incorporates illuminated acrylic slats that cascade above…
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WAG In The News
H-E-B engaged the Weingarten Art Group to curate site-specific works by regional artists to add a sense of placemaking to new locations popping up all over the city. Houston Chronicle’s Molly Glentzer recognized the innovative approach and featured the program alongside an interview with H-E-B president Scott McClelland. In its drive to dominate the Houston market’s grocery store wars,…
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