Photos by Samantha Jane Beatty
Styling by Todd Ramos
Model Jerry Raines for Neal Hamil Agency
Grooming by Briana Dai
Photography assistance by John Lewis
Styling assistance by Tyler Treadwell
Shot on location at The Barn at Four Pines Ranch in Crosby
Pizaro
Artisans
Relish an authentic three-course meal and all-day Bastille festivities July 14 that will transport you from humid Houston to France (well, almost). A DJ is tapped from 6PM to 11PM and additional menu specials will be on offer. Chick black and white attire is encouraged.
Brasserie 19
The annual “Red, White & Brut” Bastille Day Bash is Sunday, July 14, 11am-4:30pm. B19 will be joined by Moët Hennessy for an afternoon filled with specialty cocktails, bubbles, brunch-sized bottles, raffles, swag, and food specials. DJ FXBoxOlmos will spin French Discothèque tunes and guests are encouraged to wear their finest French chic!
13 Celsius
The OG of Houston wine bars invites everyone to visit on Bastille Day, even if they just need to get out of their house for A/C and to charge their phones. On July 14, the bar will celebrate with a discount on all French wines, all night long. They are also bringing back the beloved melted raclette for Sunday only. Cheers to that!
Crepes at Mutiny Wine Room
Vive la liberté! This cool wine-room-cafe is embracing the spirit of liberty and equality Bastille Day, July 13-14. Indulge in a glass or a Red, White & July flight of celebratory French wines while savoring the delicate taste of sweet or savory crêpes, one of France's national delights.
Pizaro's
Here’s a deal for those who show their H-Town pride on 713 Day! Guests sporting a Houston-themed outfit or shirt on July 13 may purchase an 8-inch personal Margherita pizza for $7.13. Promo is available at both locations during normal business hours.
Comet Crush cocktail (photo by Alex Montoya)
A cocktail rooted in space culture and the Astros?! Sign us up. Cafe Leonelli at the MFAH pours a festive 713 Day cocktail called the Comet Crush, with butterfly-pea-infused vodka, vanilla and orange juice. It's $7.13, naturally, and available on July 13 from 5-9pm.
Aperol Spritz (photo by Kirsten Gilliam)
Italian food meets steakhouse-chic in Montrose. Marmo is celebrating 713 Day with $7.13 summer spritzes, including a classic Aperol version and a pretty purple one with Empress Gin. Definitely stay for dinner — the burrata is too good to pass up.
Home Run Dugout (photo by Alex Montoya)
The city's official 713 Day bash will be out-of-the-park awesome at Home Run Dugout. Lil Keke and Paul Wall will take the stage beginning at 4pm, but hang out before or after at the car meet. (Only in H-Town!) Purchase tickets here.
Treebeard's summer cocktails
The Bunker Hill location will celebrate 713 Day with a refreshing deal: Summer cocktails will be $7.13 all day on Saturday, July 13. Think Watermelon Spritz (Tito’s Handmade Vodka, lime, watermelon, agave, soda), Grapefruit Chilton, and the Greta Garbo (Diplomático Planas rum, lime, house syrup, Absinthe). For locations, hours, menus and more information, visit
8th Wonder
Join the brewery for 713 Day. Enjoy live music from Donny Houston, Matt Mejia and Shame On Me from 2-8pm, a vendor market curated by Good Market HTX, and other outdoor activities. The iconic brewery will also be debuting their full bar dispensing spirits and wine, cannabis drinks and beer. The event is open to the public.
'Satuaracion Inversa 1' by Tatiana Escallon
Colombia-born artist Tatiana Escallón, who immigrated to the U.S. at age 30, uses the language of abstract art to compel the viewer toward just such an understanding. The title Escallón has chosen for her exhibit, The “I” in Immigration, on view at Anya Tish Gallery July 12-Aug 3, is a bold statement in a world — “a political world,” as Bob Dylan once sang — where the simple acknowledgment our shared humanity, regardless of where a person was born and later on calls home, is seen as suspect. Inspired by the lines, shapes and textures that distinguish historic Spanish colonial architecture, Escallón’s art transforms the concrete into something more fluid and elemental: It evokes memories of her native land, and the strength and resilience one needs to survive and prosper in an unfamiliar and sometimes not-so-friendly landscape.
Many Houston-based artists' work speaks to the pain and joy of the immigrant experience, such as Haitian-born painter, muralist and sculptor Mathieu JN Baptiste, and Bahia-born painter and performance artist Ibraim Nascimento. Their creations are often representational and figurative, with the subjects navigating surreal, sometimes half-erased landscapes, adorned with clothing, masks, and jewelry that connects the old world with the new. Escallón’s approach when exploring similar territory is more elusive and mysterious, even hermetic. In conversation and on social media, she provides plenty of backstory, but when it comes to the work itself, Escallón pushes the viewer to try and determine what they’re seeing and if lost, sit with their feelings of displacement and otherness.
The artist at work
'Shadows in Motion'
'Mapping Me 07'
Escallón is also a poet. Her mixed-media works previously shown at Anya Tish included words and phrases from her fragmented prose, scrawled in both Spanish and English, and nearly illegible beneath layer after layer of acrylic, rubber, oil, spray paint and collage materials. Words are absent from works in The “I” in Immigration, but poetry is present in the way Escallón composes and creates a unified whole with such disparate materials.
In the absence of words, Escallón’s titles are important and offer the harried viewer a way into the origin of these works. “Satuaracion Inversa 1” (“Reverse Saturation”), the title of the largest canvas in the exhibit, may refer to the very techniques Escallón used to create the two sections of this powerful and gorgeous painting. The title is also a wry, poetic definition of the process of transformation she herself experienced as a stranger in a strange land.
In “Shadows in Motion,” old-world architecture has morphed into something unruly and electric, in which crudely drawn patterns of black lines, applied by a small brush at the end of a long pole while standing over the canvas, are squeezed within islands of pink, green, blue, and other colors, creating a bird’s eye view of an urban landscape, as a fistful of dramatic Franz Kline-like brush strokes attempt to hijack the foreground.
True to the concept of a “pop-up” exhibit, The “I” in Immigration, is on view for a limited time — and should be seen more than once with fresh eyes.