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KATHERINE WARREN, J.D. BROKER ASSOCIATE Circle of Excellence, Hall of Fame 832.725.4340 ELIZABETH GREGORY CHIPMAN, J.D. REALTOR ASSOCIATE Circle of Excellence 713.265.7455 Where Artful Living Meets Legal Acumen T i e r n e y Ta k e Tw o : Creative impresario Tierney Malone is the ultimate multi- hyphenate. He's widely collected for his text- based paintings and drawings informed by his role as the keeper of our town's musicology — work that traverses the genres of gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, country, hip-hop, and classical. Malone is also founder of the performative/ educational series The Jazz Church of Houston and host of KPFT's weekly radio broadcast Houston Jazz Spotlight. Last summer, we covered his show at Hogan Brown Gallery inside the reborn Eldorado Ballroom complex. This month, Malone steps up with part two of "Black Stereo," aligned with the national celebration of Black Music Month. The venue is once again unique and historic: Houston Public Library's African American History Research Center at the Gregory Campus in Freedmen's Town, Fourth Ward. Malone writes in his HPL mission statement: "In 1968, when singer Archie Bell said, 'Hi, everybody. I'm Archie Bell of the Drells of Houston, Texas,' on the hit record Tighten Up, he helped put Houston's music scene on the world map. The music for this song was created and performed by the TSU Toronadoes, a group formed by students from Texas Southern University in the heart of Third Ward, aka The Tre … I am telling the stories and connection that African- American artists and institutions of Greater Houston have with the city and the country." Included in "Black Stereo": works "taking the forms of concert p o s t e r s , s h o w b i l l s , and album covers, infographics meant to highlight, educate, and entertain like music." As the artist says, "The message is in the music." Through September 27, @tierneymalone. Just in: Malone has been tapped to curate a historic Houston playlist to accompany an exhibition mounted at Rice University's Moody Center for the Arts. "Figurative Histories" focuses on four seminal Texas talents who address the Black experience — then, now, and future — via watercolor, photography, collage, and printmaking. The featured quartet are Dallas/Fort Worth-based Leticia Huckaby and Houston trio Earlie Hudnall Jr., David McGee, a n d D e l i t a M a r t i n . Spanning generations, two of the four have received Art League Houston honors: Texas Artist of the Year (Huckaby, 2 0 2 2 ) a n d L i f e t i m e Achievement ( H u d n a l l , 2 0 2 2 ) . A 30-year mid- career survey o f M c G e e 's work is planned at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, North Carolina (March 14 - August 23, 2026). Martin was anointed by the Venice Biennale 2022, exhibiting in the prestigious international biennial's group show "The Afro‐Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined." From Hudnall's revealing image-making spanning four decades of Houston's Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards to McGee's unforgettable Tarot Card series that exposes players in 21st- century America, this significant showcase underscores Texas' profound artists and deep thinkers — and proves that the Moody is at the leading edge for contemporary curation among Houston institutions. The Moody's Alison Weaver and Frauke V. Josenhans curate. Through August 16. moody.rice.edu. Catherine D. Anspon Art Notes 14 Earlie Hudnall Jr.'s Dr. T.F. Freeman and Dr. M.L. King, 2013, at Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University Tierney Malone's Kings of Dowling, 2024, at the African American History Research Center at the Gregory Campus, Houston Public Library