ROTATING EXHIBITION

CHANGE AGENTS: Christian Eckart and Aaron Parazette

About Christian Eckart: International artist (b. 1959, Calgary, Canada) is widely known for incorporating highly refined industrial materials — aluminum, steel, automotive lacquer, and glass — to produce objects related to his investigation of the sublime and its implications within the framework of postmodernity. This investigation has continued and expanded over the past decade with digital works. Eckart moved to New York in 1984 and received his MFA from Hunter College in 1986; he has lived and worked in Houston since 2003. Over 20 years in New York City and up to the present, his work has been the subject of more than 60 solo exhibitions, including numerous museum surveys, and 150 group exhibitions, and is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, among many others notable institutions throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He split his time between New York and Berlin from 1996 - 1997, and then between New York and Amsterdam from 1997 – 2002. Eckart was an instructor at the School of Visual Art, New York from 1994 – 2002, the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from 2003 – 2005, and he held visiting professorships at both the University of Houston and Rice University.

‍About Aaron Parazette: (b. 1960, Ventura, California) holds an MFA in Painting from Claremont Graduate University and relocated to Houston in 1990 as a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where he is now a Professor of Painting at the University of Houston. His work has been shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Austin Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, among others, and is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Menil Collection, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Parazette received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1994 and was named Art League Houston's Texas Artist of the Year in 2012. He has had five solo/two person exhibitions at McClain Gallery the most recent of which coincided with the publication of Parazette’s first monograph.

‍About McClain Gallery: Since 1980, Robert McClain and his dedicated staff have focused on the exhibition and the acquisition of museum quality modern and contemporary art. McClain Gallery’s program represents important twentieth-century figures while continuing to commit to younger generations of artists, which includes the primary representation of many Texas-based artists. The gallery has mounted monographic exhibitions, as well as published scholarly catalogs for Peter Halley, Donald Baechler, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, John Alexander, Julian Schnabel, Bo Joseph, and Pablo Picasso. Their exhibition program is augmented by surveys and group shows that investigate current themes in contemporary art within historic contexts.

‍Change Agents will be on view at Park House Houston for the Fall 2026 season. For inquiries or to purchase works of art, please contact McClain Gallery at the button below.