One of the newest art installations on display in Houston is made from an unusual medium. Styrofoam doesn’t typically spring to mind as high art — but as Laurie Johnson reports — it takes on a sort of ...

If you walk into the North Bank Gallery this month, don’t worry about the Styrofoam on the floor. It’s the art. Walk all over it, says the artist. “I’m excited to see how people will react to this.

Rogenes uses all different shapes and sizes of polystyrene packing material to build his creations which range from smaller pieces to giant, death-ray like ones. He also useslight to really play up ...