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There Is a Light that Never Goes Out

Provided - Hopson Gallery

© Steven Evans

There Is a Light that Never Goes Out
Provided - Hopson Gallery
ArtistAmerican, born 1964
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • There Is a Light that Never Goes Out
Date2013
MediumNeon (warm white)
DimensionsOverall: 2 × 60 × 1 1/2 in. (5.1 × 152.4 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Carola Herrin in memory of John Herrin
Object number2020.69
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; [Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, 2019]; purchased by the MFAH, 2020.
Exhibition HistorySteven Evans: If I can’t dance it’s not my revolution, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, June 29–October 19, 2019.
Published References Byrd, Sam, “Fifty Years of Revolution: A Playlist of Emotions,” Outsmart (August 12, 2019), https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2019/08/50-years-of-revolution-a-playlist-of-emotions/ Daderko, Dean and Julie Ault, Steven Evans: If I can’t dance it’s not my revolution. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2019. Glentzer, Molly, “Steven Evans’ Show at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Tunes into 50 Years of Gay Culture,” The Houston Chronicle (July 5, 2019) https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/Steven-Evans-show-at-Conteporary-Arts-Museum-14069595.php# Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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