1. ‘4:48 Psychosis’
Sarah Kane’s visceral, compelling, and dark-humor piece “4:48 Psychosis” enters its final weekend and serves as a date for its own merits, though it feels particularly resonant over 18 months after the start of a trying period of lockdown caused by a pandemic. Kane’s play derives its curious title from a point of maximum chemical imbalance for the brain, and the dark, grimly funny play sinks deep into the nooks and crannies that produce clinical depression. Poet and actor T. Lavois Thiebaud is the star and Jason Nodler of the Catastrophic Theater is directing.
When: 8:10 p.m. – Dec. 11, 2:30 p.m. Dec. 12
Or: MATCH, 3400 Principal
Details: suggested $ 35, but pay what you can; matchouston.org
André Dansby
2. Ping Zheng
Ping Zheng was born in China and is now based in New York City. His work certainly does not reflect the Manhattan cityscape. Instead, with her exhibition “The Voice of Water”, she vividly presents landscapes in luminous, brilliant and mysterious ways. His are nested presentations of elementary entities – water, earth, and sky – but viewed in such a way that positive and negative space merge and merge into each other. His pieces celebrate the land and the landscape, but also present it again. They are revealing canvases full of colors.
When:
From noon to 4 p.m. from Tuesday to Saturday until January 8
Or: McClain Gallery, 2242 Richmond
Details: free; 713-520-9988, mcclaingallery.com
André Dansby
3. Islamic art festival
Last year, more than 22,000 visitors logged in for an online-only presentation of the Islamic Arts Festival. This weekend, the eighth annual event hosted by the Islamic Arts Society will be a hybrid, with in-person festivities taking place at Masjid Al-Salam in the spring.
When: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 10-11
Or: Masjid Al-Salam, 16700 Vieux Louetta
Details: free; islamicartssociety.org
Amber Elliott
4. “EVERYONE”
Israel Rodriguez is perhaps best known as the artist of Houston’s Google search bar, although his very first solo show takes a different approach: body positivity. The “everyBODY” series will feature around a dozen new paintings in addition to the conversationalist abstract canvases that have become his signature.
When: 7:11 p.m. Dec.
Or: Sanman Studios, 1109 Providence
Details: $ 20; sanman.company/gallery/
Amber Elliott
