Opening Day: "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight"

Name: Opening Day: "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight"
Start: 2025-01-24T11:00:00-06:00
Location: The Menil Collection

Schedule

Fri, 24 Jan, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC-06:00

Location

The Menil Collection | Houston, TX

Visit the Menil Collection for the opening day of "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight," on view January 24–July 13, 2025. Admission to the museum is always free.
"Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight" is the first major museum exhibition in thirty years devoted to the work of this pioneering abstract painter. Renowned for his innovative approach to non-representational painting, American artist Joe Overstreet (1933–2019) consistently sought to intertwine abstraction and social politics.
This presentation will include his landmark Flight Pattern series of radially suspended paintings from the early 1970s, as well as related bodies of work from the 1960s and 1990s. Overstreet made a significant contribution to postwar art, positioning abstraction as an expansive tool for exploring the idea of freedom and the Black experience in the United States.