This Present Moment
Alicia Eggert
ACQUISITION DATE
August 2021
LOCATION
William P. Hobby Airport, Near Gate 5
7800 Airport Blvd
Houston, TX 77061
District I
CLIENT
City of Houston
SPONSORING DEPARTMENT
Houston Airport System
ACQUISITION PRICE
$30,000.00
Image Credit: All images courtesy of the Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs; Photographer: Slyworks Photography
Project Description
In 2020, Houston Airports and MOCA sought to purchase existing artwork from practicing, professional Texas artists for permanent display within Houston Airports. This opportunity, which prioritized equitable economic support for artists and art organizations state-wide, was coordinated to help meet the needs of the arts community, which has been heavily impacted by Covid-19.
Qualifying artworks include small to medium size 3-D works, and medium to large 2-D works. This artwork by Alicia Eggert was acquired as part of a group of 74 direct purchases and is currently on view at the William P. Hobby Airport.
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HAA oversaw the artwork selection, purchase, transportation, and installation process for this project. Working diligently with sponsoring city departments, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and the selected artists, HAA created and publicized the opportunity, coordinated the panel process, managed artist communications, and monitored on-site installation. A recommendation report was submitted at the conclusion of Artist Selection phase, and a robust closeout report was provided upon project completion detailing project summary and ongoing maintenance requirements.
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The Houston Airport System (HAS) is the City of Houston’s Department of Aviation, comprised of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, William P. Hobby Airport, and Ellington Airport/Houston Spaceport. The System served 54 million passengers in 2022 and nearly 60 million in 2019. HAS positions Houston as the international passenger and cargo gateway to the South-Central United States and as a primary gateway to Latin America. It contributed $36.4 billion to the local economy in 2019 and is responsible for creating 190,000 jobs.
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This project was funded through Houston’s Civic Art Ordinance, which requires 1.75% of the budget for eligible City-funded construction projects to be spent on integrating artwork and artists' ideas in public spaces and conserving the City of Houston’s Civic Art Collection. The Houston Arts Alliance administers the civic art program for the City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs.
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ARTS REPRESENTATIVES
Deborah Fullerton, Art Museum of South Texas, Curator of Exhibitions, Corpus Christi
Christopher Green, University of North Texas, Visiting Lecturer, Postmodern and Contemporary Art and Native American Art, Denton
Anjali Gupta, Curator, Editor, Producer, and Writer, San Antonio
Anonymous, Artist, Houston
Andrea Karnes, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Senior Curator, Ft Worth
Rigoberto Luna, Presa House, Curator, San Antonio
Delilah Montoya, Artist and University of Houston professor, Houston
Erin Murphy, Art Pace, Director of Residencies & Exhibitions, San Antonio
Dennis Nance, Galveston Arts Center, Curator, Galveston
Lanecia Rouse, Artist, Houston
SPONSORING DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVES
Alton DuLaney, Curator and Director of the Public Art Program, Houston Airports
Guillermo Cabrera, Chief Architect, Houston Airports
Dawn Hoffman, Assistant Director For Terminal Management, Houston Airports
Foti Kallergis, Director of Communications & Public Relations, Houston Airports
Maricela Kruseman, Founder and Director, Harmony In The Air
Artist Bio
Alicia Eggert (b. 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work gives material form to language and time, those powerful but invisible forces that shape our perception of reality. Alicia's work has been exhibited at notable institutions nationally and internationally, including the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Everson Museum of Art, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, the Telfair Museums, and many more. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas, TX), Artspace (Raleigh, NC), and Galeria Fernando Santos (Porto, Portugal).