Box 13 is cool

I went to their opening last Saturday night and was expecting good stuff but all the shows and the space itself exceeded my expectations. There were basically four exhibitions, that included work you don't see very often like site-specific installation and a lot of video. There's an entire "box" devoted to video which is awesome and I feel that is way overdo here in Houston. The work by Heather Boaz is also very good and nicely presented. It's non-narrative performance based video, which I have a proclivity towards and thought was very sophisticated in concept.

Box13 Artspace itself is functioning like a replacement Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, complete with artist studios and exhibition space all run by an artist board of occupants. These particular exhibitions were all curated by occupants, and approved by the board. Needless to say, they are opening up this opportunity to curate exhibitions at the space through proposal submissions.

Included in the other artist curated/executed exhibitions were lots of installation, sculpture, drawings and more video! Teresa O'Connor curated a show entirely of work she could get on the internet. Elaine Bradford curated a show surrounding ideas of architecture and space, and the show was really thoughtful and good looking.

I'm really excited about this space and feel like it's a much more mature approach to artist run spaces that we've seen here in the past. Hopefully others will notice too.