Blue Star Contemporary Art Center hosts three exhibits this year. The Main Gallery features COUNTER-PHOTOGRAPHY | Japan’s Artists Today, a collection of works by contemporary Japanese photographers –Eiko Hosoe, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Miho Akioka, Miyuki Ichikawa, Akiko Sugiyama, Chie Yasuda, Kazuo Katase, Hiroko Inoue, Tomoko Yoneda, Tomoaki Ishihara, Michihiro Shimabuku- curated by Yuri Mitsuda from the Shoto Museum of Art, and presented through the auspices of the Japan Foundation and the Consulate General of Japan in Houston. The Project Space features Patrick Zeller’s Returns From His Motorcycle Journey In Iran. And Gallery Four features Time-Based Medium, an installation of video art by Leslie Raymond.

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center. Main entrance.

Partial view of the Japanse artist’s exhibit, with Mr. Tsutomo Osawa, Consul General of Japan in Houston, discussing the exhibit with his wife and friends.

Partial view of the Japanese photographers’ exhibit in the Main gallery

Partial view of the exhibit in the Main Gallery.

Detail view of the Main Gallery exhibit.

Detail of an installation in the Japanese photographers’ exhibit.

Partial view of Project Space featured artist Patrick Zeller’s exhibit.

Partial view of Patrick Zeller’s exhibit,

Leslie Raymond, featured artist in the Gallery Four exhibit.

Blue Star staff, Roland Mazuca and Zinnia Dunis Salcedo, perfectly poised next to some of the larger works in the Japanese photographers’ exhibit.

Avid exhibit attendees David Rubin (SAMA) and Richard Arredondo (SAC), enjoying a mirthful moment at the Blue Star exhibit with sculptor Susan Budge.

Jeffrey Dyer emoting with one of the pieces in the Japanese photographers’ exhibit.