{"id":1385,"date":"2019-10-28T19:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2020-10-19T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T16:07:09","slug":"travis-and-jesse-the-road-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/travis-and-jesse-the-road-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis and Jesse: The Road So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Shotgun-House-side-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Shotgun-House-side-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Shotgun-House-side-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Shotgun-House-side-768x534.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Shotgun House, side view<br>Junkyard Dog, 1980. Jesse Lott.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Extended through October 18: <\/strong>Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art presents a new exhibition by Houston artist Jesse Lott and Louisiana artist Travis Whitfield called <em>The Road So Far<\/em>. The exhibit will feature an installation by Whitfield that includes a full-size \u201cShotgun House\u201d containing artifacts and photographs from Northern Louisiana, where Whitfield lives and has a studio. Lott\u2019s featured artworks explore how line creates form and utilizes found objects from near his Houston studio to create dynamic sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Edgar-Blue-and-Ward-1974-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Edgar-Blue-and-Ward-1974-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Edgar-Blue-and-Ward-1974-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Edgar-Blue-and-Ward-1974-768x530.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>&#8220;Edgar, Blue &amp; Ward&#8221; 1974 by Travis Whitfield<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From the smallest detailed figurine to the life-size shotgun house, Lott and Whitfield provide social, historical and political commentary via their respective observations of the world around them. Watch the two artists discuss their work with the Victoria Advocate in the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VictoriaAdvocate\/videos\/1029698824089402\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibit features video and multimedia that bring visitors into the artists\u2019 process and provide insights to the cultural and fundamental backgrounds that led each artist to their current place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Overall-Gentlemen-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Overall-Gentlemen-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Overall-Gentlemen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Overall-Gentlemen-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Overall-Gentlemen.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Men in Overalls by Jesse Lott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibit is curated by Ann Harithas, the museum\u2019s founder and executive director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extended through October 18: Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art presents a new exhibition by Houston artist Jesse Lott and Louisiana artist Travis Whitfield called The Road So Far. The exhibit will feature an installation by Whitfield that includes a full-size \u201cShotgun House\u201d containing artifacts and photographs from Northern Louisiana, where Whitfield lives and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-previous-exhibitions","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivepointsmuseum.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}