Station Museum, a champion of outsider art, to close
The Station Museum of Contemporary Art announced today it is closing indefinitely, devastating news for Houston’s art community. For more than two decades, the private museum run by James and Ann Harithas, dedicated itself to an incredible array of international art, outsider art, art with socially minded inclinations and all manner of expressions that fell outside the mainstream.
“We have had many questions about what’s next for Station Museum,” read a post by the museum. “As most of you know, we have recently just finished exhibiting ‘Clark v. Fox: Subversion and Spectacle.’ Going forward, Station Museum of Contemporary Art will be on hiatus from public exhibitions and programming until further notice.”
The Station championed scores of artists from around the world. It offered particular value to regional artists like Jesse Lott, who grew up in Fifth Ward. Lott exhibited a series of line drawings and wiry sculptures a year ago.
Lott opened “The Road So Far” in 2021 at the Station and expressed his affinity for the way the museum presented his work. “They gave me a lot of space,” he said, waving his arm toward walls filled with his works.
As for what happens next, the statement read: “We will communicate further information as it becomes available.”