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Community Bond: The 4411 on a Transforming New Space H ouston's gallery scene boasts a series of foundational women dealers — Fredericka Hunter, Betty Moody, Barbara Davis, Kerry Inman, María Inés Sicardi, and Allison Ayers, who together comprise more than two centuries in the art biz. Now there's a promising new powerhouse whose future contributions we foresee will be equally formidable. Cue Janice Bond, whose email sig hints at the unique attributes she brings: "Cultural Architect | Art Advisor | Interdisciplinary Artist." A polymath raised in Houston, her formative experiences as a teen were hanging out in Montrose at Brasil on Monday nights for music and AvantGarden (then Helios) on Wednesday evenings for poetry. After moving to Chicago for college, she honed her practice as an artist immersed in issues of identity, sacred geometry, sound frequencies, and indigenous fractal patterns, and also added curator and art advisor to her CV, founding Bond Creative Advisors in 2009. A plum post at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston opened up a decade later, and she was coaxed back to her hometown in the summer of 2020 to serve as CAMH deputy director. This fall, Bond opens a brick-and-mortar at the 4411 Montrose Gallery Building, and also curates "Ming Smith: Feeling the Future" for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (May 26, 2023, through October 1, 2023). And she's just been tapped by Seismique (an art space carved out of a big-box retailer in West Houston) as its first International Director of Civic Art and Immersive Experiences. But we predict it's at 4411 where her new endeavor, Art Is Bond, will have the greatest community impact. "This gallery is also a project space, because there's an opportunity to educate and really deepen the conversation and the narratives between Houston art and culture, then looking at Texas, regionally, nationally, and internationally," says Bond. Stay tuned. The inaugural exhibition "… and then there was (always)" opens Saturday, September 10, with seven local-to-global talents embracing mixed media, photography, and painting: Adama Delphine Fawundu, Austin Uzor, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley, Colby Deal, Greg Noire, Robert Hodge, and Anthony Suber (through November 6). artisbond.gallery. Catherine D. Anspon AVALON PLACE | 2528 REBA DRIVE 4-5 BR | 5.5+BA | $3.2+M w w w . j a y m o n r o e h o u s t o n . c o m Jay Monroe, BROKER ASSOCIATE , BROKER ASSOCIATE Circle of Excellence Member, Hall of Fame Circle of Excellence Member, Hall of Fame 713.504.6936 713.504.6936 Jay.Monroe@sir.com Jay.Monroe@sir.com Adama Delphine Fawundu's She appeared like the Dog Star at Dawn, 2017, at Art Is Bond GERARDO VELASQUEZ A ny show by William Anzalone — the Texas painter known f o r l u m i n e s c e n t landscapes from Round Top and its environs, as well as Edward Hopper-esque figures bathed in late afternoon light — marks a grand occasion. And, who better to inaugurate the fall season at Red & White Gallery in Fayetteville, Anzalone's exclusive representative. The octogenarian artist has been recording the area's bucolic terrain for five decades. "William Anzalone: Now & Then" pairs his latest landscape canvases with works from earlier portfolios, none of which have been shown before. Exhibition opening and artist reception Saturday, September 3, 4 to 7 pm; through September 24; redandwhitegallery.com. Catherine D. Anspon Field & Figure Janice Bond William Anzalone's Figure Study #14, circa 1970-1980, at Red & White Gallery, Fayetteville 22 AVALON PLACE | 2528 REBA DRIVE 4-5 BR | 5.5+BA | $3.2+M w w w . j a y m o n r o e h o u s t o n . c o m Jay Monroe, BROKER ASSOCIATE , BROKER ASSOCIATE Circle of Excellence Member, Hall of Fame Circle of Excellence Member, Hall of Fame 713.504.6936 713.504.6936 Jay.Monroe@sir.com Jay.Monroe@sir.com