Nicole Longnecker Gallery — Attraction in Houston

Having recently viewed several galleries featuring "modern art" I was disappointed but not surprised by the pseudointellectual craftless tat on display at this gallery. How it is humanly possible to create such mindless, lifeless garbage, and then have the audacity to call it fine art, is the only thing I found interesting about this gallery. It's as if the trend in art today is to create something that shows a complete absence of effort, imagination, creativity, skill and mastery. A few smudges or streaks on a canvas make a "painting" or a "sculpture" that is indistinguishable from a grey stucco wall. In many of the works the depressing and mindless absence of color, in favor of mundane gunship gray, seems to be some kind of "lofty artistic expression," presumably to appeal to the equally self-absorbed pretentious viewer. If you want to see fine art created by intellectually honest artists who have spent years honing their craft, this is...

Another depressing waste of gallery space. Full of pretentious junk masquerading as "fine art." I get a good laugh when I read the pretentious Artist Statement and the accompanying pseudo-intellectual descriptions of the "work." The light switches in this place have more artistic merit than a lot of the so-called fine art. We truly live in a corrupt, self-absorbed,...

Love this place! Not only are the owner and manager super nice, the artists they feature original and reasonably priced. Sign up for the gallery's newsletter for openings and to see the featured artists. HUGE BONUS: the gallery doubles as a venue and can hold...