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Spring Exhibitions Open February 4 at The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts

December 30 2022

The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts is delighted to announce its 2023 Spring Exhibitions, which open to the public on Saturday, February 4.

“America’s Western Landscape,” a new exhibition by photographer Mark Burns, will be unveiled for the first time at the Pearl. The exhibit celebrates the raw beauty, vistas, and natural diversity of the American West. In many ways it represents the “best of the best” of Burns’ landscape work, with 50 pieces selected by the artist including black and white photographs, color photographs, and hand-colorized black and white photographs.

The inaugural exhibition of “America’s Western Landscape,” by American photographer Mark Burns, will open at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday, February 4, 2023. For details, visit pearlmfa.org.

American photographer Mark Burns was born in Houston and creates compelling images that are a unique mastery of composition, lighting, and photographic technique. In October 2015 he completed a five year project photographing all 59 of America’s national parks in black and white. “The National Parks Photography Project” traveled to six museums the following year, including the Pearl, with a combined attendance of nearly 300,000 people.

“America’s Western Landscape” will be featured in the Main Gallery of the Pearl from February 4 through May 13, 2023. The exhibition also features an optional audio guide accessible via smartphones.

In the Cole Gallery, the Pearl will feature “Hidden Beauty in the Ordinary,” with a dozen works by artist Lindy Chambers. Chambers paints rural scenes of life in the Texas countryside where she lives. By simply paying attention, she observes often overlooked aspects of life to discover beauty in mobile homes, stray dogs, and piles of trash.

Her paintings are vibrant compositions of color that never use the same hue twice. Her insistence on variety furthers the idea that everything contains its own unique beauty, if you only stop to notice.

“The Decisions We Make” is one of a dozen paintings by Lindy Chambers that will be featured at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts this spring. “Hidden Beauty in the Ordinary” opens on February 4 and continues through May 13. For more information visit pearlmfa.org.

“Hidden Beauty in the Ordinary” opens February 4 and continues through May 13, 2023. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and admission is free. For more information visit pearlmfa.org.

About the Pearl

The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts exists to provide direct, first-hand access to original works of art, and to offer outstanding educational and public programming. As the only Fine Arts museum in Harris County outside the city center of Houston, the Pearl operates completely through the generous donations of individuals, businesses and foundations from the greater Houston community, and is free to all.

Located at 6815 Cypresswood Drive in Spring, the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. Donations and membership support are appreciated and help continue the Pearl’s mission of art, education, and community.

For more information, please visit www.pearlmfa.org or call 281-376-6322.

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