Full color book chronicling some of the alternative music venues, artist run art spaces, DIY spaces and so much more. Part of a nationwide series chronicling such unique places across the country, the Houston edition was compiled by Pete Gershon and features Insomnia Gallery!

from the website:

Houston emerged as a significant city for the arts in the 1970s and 1980s, a former cultural frontier transformed by the oil boom and the arrival of several catalyzing figures including sculptor James Surls. When a fire displaced the University of Houston’s art department in 1979, Surls established the Lawndale Annex in a cavernous, unsupervised warehouse located miles away from campus as one of the city’s first viable alternative art spaces. Historic venues like Lawndale, DiverseWorks, and Project Row Houses are already nationally prominent. Impractical Spaces: Houston would consolidate their histories alongside those of such lesser-known spaces as the Houston Museum of Modern Art (1974-1976); Chicano Arts Gallery (1976-1978); Studio One (1979-1983); Little Egypt Enterprises (1979-1983); Firehouse Gallery (1982-1986); Commerce Street Artists Warehouse (1985-2010); Zocalo/Templo (1989-2001); The Axiom (1987-1991); Tha Joanna (2007-2013); and Skydive (2008-2011).

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