Suzanne Banning presents her second one-person show at New Gallery/ Thom Andriola “Beyond Lolita”.

Suzanne continues her psychological exploration into the feminine psyche drawn from literary inspiration. This work confronts the archetype child/woman issue. Although there are specific references to Nabokov’s “Lolita”, her photographic investigations go beyond the direct narrative of that story.

Suzanne employs a performance like strategy to her photographic essay. She takes images of herself as she moves to specifically inspiring music. Her dancing body is projected onto with scenes from the two Lolita movies and documentaries on roses and butterflies.

Tony Magar, a long time Houston favorite will present a new series of luminous gestural abstractions in Gallery 2. This will be Magar’s first showing since his bypass surgery in Houston during his exhibition last year.

Magar is preparing a major show for the  Mike Weiss Gallery in New York this upcoming April and will be featured in a show at the Blanton Museum in Austin celebrating his relationship with Mark di Suvero and the Park Place Group of New York in the 60’s.

Tony Magar has a chapter on his work and career in the recently released English edition of “The New American Abstraction 1950-1970” published by SKIRA.