Rainey Knudson with Kimberly Davenport

Long before it became commonplace, Rice Gallery was one of a handful of spaces in the US devoted to commissioning site-specific installation art. One Thing Well: 22 Years of Installation Art, edited by Rainey Knudson. Texts by Kimberly Davenport, Joshua Fischer, Nonya Grenader, Dave Hickey, et al.

Rainey Knudson, the founder of Glasstire, and Kimberly Davenport, the founding Director of Rice Gallery, present “One Thing Well: The Golden Age of Site-Specific Installation Art at Rice Gallery.” They discuss some of the 72 site-specific installations that occurred at the Rice Gallery between 1995, when Davenport joined the Gallery as director, and 2017, when it closed. These installations, by artists including El Anatsui, Shigeru Ban, Tara Donovan, Nicole Eisenman, Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt, and Judy Pfaff, are chronicled in the handsome new book One Thing Well: 22 Years of Installation Art, which will be available for sale at the Modern Shop, with a book signing from 5:30 to 6:30 pm preceding this Tuesday Evenings program.

Kimberly Davenport is a curator of contemporary art. In 1994, she founded Rice University Art Gallery as a contemporary art space dedicated to site-specific installation and served as its director for more than two decades. She holds degrees from Maryland Institute College of Art and Yale University.

Rainey Knudson is the founder of Glasstire, the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. Knudson is currently editing a book for Glasstire about Texas visual art since 2000 and is writing a performance piece about Glasstire and the development of the Internet. She lives in Houston.