Going Through a Phrase includes text-based works by artists Alicia Eggert, Candace Hicks, Stephanie Patton, Andrea Tosten, and Rachelle Vasquez. Through neon signage, calligraphy, and textiles, each artist employs familiar fonts and shapes to communicate ideas, warnings, personal reflections, and social commentary. By bringing words into physical form, these works disrupt the constant flow of information we receive in the modern world, inviting viewers into a visual conversation.

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Alicia Eggert (b. 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work gives material form to language and time, the 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 Corning Museum of Glass, the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, the Telfair Museums, and many more. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Galeria Fernando Santos (Porto, Portugal), The MAC (Dallas, TX), and T+H Gallery (Boston, MA). Alicia is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a TED Fellowship, a Washington Award from the S&R Foundation, a Direct Artist Grant from the Harpo Foundation, an Artist Microgrant from the Nasher Sculpture Center, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission. She has been an artist in residence at Google Tilt Brush, Sculpture Space, True/False Film Festival, and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art. In 2020, she was added to the Fulbright Specialist Roster by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Alicia earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Drexel University in 2004, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies from Alfred University in 2009. She is currently a Presidential Early Career Professor of Studio Art and the Sculpture Program Coordinator at the University of North Texas. Her work is represented by Galeria Fernando Santos in Porto, Portugal, and Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas. She lives with her son, Zephyr, in Denton, Texas.
aliciaeggert.com

Candace Hicks collects coincidences from the books she reads and gathers them in her embroidered artist books. Her compendiums of coincidence are records that show the world through a particular, specific, sometimes obsessive, point of view. She is an Associate Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University where she teaches foundational courses in two-dimensional media. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Austin College where she studied drawing, painting, and French. In 2009 she earned a Master of Fine Art degree in Printmaking from Texas Christian University. Her work consists of artist’s books, video, performance, printmaking and drawing. Books from her Common Threads series are in more than 80 collections around the world including, Boston Athenaeum, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Grolier Club, Harvard, Hungarian Multicultural Center, MIT, MoMA, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, UCLA Biomedical Library, Stanford, and Yale.
www.candacehicks.com

Click here to view pages from Candace Hicks’ The Case of the Endless Yarn.

Stephanie Patton is a multimedia artist whose work comprises sculpture, painting, photography, video and performance. Humor plays an important role in her work and is often used as a device to bring attention to more critical issues and transform her personal experiences into something universal. Based in Lafayette, LA, Patton received her BFA in Painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1993 and her MFA in Photography from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Stephanie has shown her work nationally and internationally including at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Elizabeth Houston Gallery and Voltz Clarke Gallery in New York; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Louisiana ArtWorks, the Contemporary Art Center and Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, LA; and Galerie Patricia Dorfmann in Paris, France. She is represented by Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans and Voltz Clarke Gallery in New York City. She is also a founding member of The Front, an artist’s collective, in New Orleans, LA. Her work has been published in The New York Times, New American Paintings and the New Art Examiner. Stephanie has received several grants including a Career Advancement Grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts in 2009 and 2012. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. In 2019 Stephanie was a South Arts Fellowship Recipient for the state of Louisiana and a Finalist for the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art with The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. Stephanie is currently the producer and host (as the character Renella Rose Champagne) of Lost in Love on KRVS 88.7FM.

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Andrea Tosten is a calligrapher and a bookbinder based in Dallas, TX. Her work explores social constructs, binary thinking, and the nature of existence. She received a Bachelor of Science in BioMedical Science from Texas A&M University and a Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Tosten is a self-taught calligraphy artist and has worked in the medium for over 15 years. She teaches calligraphy at Oil and Cotton in Dallas and restores and conserves books at The Book Doctor. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area including an artist residency at Tarrant County College, South Campus in 2019-2020, along with exhibitions at Cedar Valley College, the Dallas Public Library’s Jillian Bradshaw Gallery, the South Dallas Cultural Center, the Bath House Cultural Center, the Oak Cliff Cultural Center, and Terrain Dallas.
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Rachelle Vasquez is a Houston-native and art educator, who received her BA in Art Education with a minor in Art History from the University of Houston. Vasquez is well known for her intricately crocheted works. She participated in artist residencies at DiverseWorks and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout Houston, including solo exhibitions at Lawndale Art Center and Box 13 ArtSpace. Vasquez was an original member of Knitta, a group of artists known for starting the “knit graffiti” movement in Houston, TX in 2005. Her work has been reviewed in the Houston Press, Arts Houston magazine and Glasstire. In 2016, she received and Individual Artist Grant from the City of Houston and the Houston Arts Alliance.
www.rachellevasquez.com

August 22 - November 15, 2020

1878 Gallery

August 22 - November 15, 2020

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Pat Johnson
Nervous Waters

Nervous Waters features the ceramic sculptures of Pat Johnson. Through humorous depictions of the artist as protagonist in a series of imagined scenes, Johnson’s works reveal personal narratives that often address political and social issues. Johnson describes her work as an attempt to unveil her fears and desires, revealing the fine line between humor and sadness, right and wrong, the seen and unseen. This exhibition includes recent coil and hand-built clay work made from terra cotta, along with hand-painted casein sculptures.

Pat Johnson is an artist based in Fayetteville, TX. Her career as a ceramic sculptor spans over 40 years. Johnson received her BFA from North Texas State University. Exhibition highlights include the 2004 juried CraftHouston traveling exhibit organized by the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and the 2013 NCECA conference exhibitions which took place throughout Houston. Her work has frequently been included in the Ceramic National Competition at the San Angelo Museum of Art. In 2014 she was selected to participate in The 35th Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Arizona, the 56th Annual Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Art Center and the Texas Craft Biennial at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Her work is included in the Lark Books publications, 500 Tiles and 500 Figures, Vol.II Johnson’s work was first featured at Galveston Arts Center in 1996 and she has taught summer classes for youth at GAC for the past five years.

patjohnsonartist.com

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Brown Foundation Gallery

August 22 - November 15, 2020

Exhibit-Connect: Leslie Moody Castro in conversation with Francis Almendárez
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
4:30PM via Zoom and Facebook Live

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Francis Almendárez
rhythm and (p)leisure

Francis Almendárez’ exhibition, rhythm and (p)leisure, is part of his ongoing investigation into the fruit and labor of working-class people, specifically of Central American and Caribbean diasporas. Almendárez’ work attempts to confront and unpack the legacy and histories of exploitation, precarity, unemployment, homelessness, dislocation, and debt specific to these diasporas. Drawing on his unique personal history as the descendant of intergenerational migrant agricultural workers, Almendárez inverts and reclaims established dialogues and negative depictions of these communities. The work brings both physical labor and cultural production into the foreground, blurring the line between work and play/leisure.

Francis Almendárez is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator that traverses the intersections of history, (auto)ethnography, and the arts. Using them as tools to address memory and trauma, he attempts to unpack and reconstruct identity, specifically of im/migrant, queer, working-class bodies of Central America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas. Almendárez has participated in exhibitions, screenings, and performances in the US and abroad. Recent shows including rhythm and (p)leisure, Artpace, San Antonio, TX; The Potential Wanderer, The Reading Room, Dallas, TX; Sisyphus, Ver.20.18, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; and Voices of Our Mothers: Transcending Time and Distance, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX. He is the recipient of a Houston Artadia Award, and the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship from Houston Center for Photography. He has also been a participant of the Artpace International Artist-in-Residence program, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow Summer School. Writing on his work has been featured in publications including D Magazine, spot Magazine, Artforum, ARTNEWS, Glasstire, Y.ES Contemporary, and The Dallas Morning News among others. Almendárez was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and is currently living and working in Houston, TX where he is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Houston School of Art. He received his MFA in Fine Art (with Distinction) from Goldsmiths, University of London and BFA in Sculpture/New Genres from Otis College of Art and Design.

francisalmendarez.com

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This exhibition was originally commissioned and produced by Artpace, San Antonio with the support of Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue.

Composite view of rhythm and (p)leisure, 2014/2019, 36:33 TRT 8-Channel video installation: HD projectors, CRT monitors, media players, stereo sound, wooden pallets, wooden crates, discarded clothes, portable work lights; installation dimensions variable. Sound Design and Editing by Anthony Almendárez.

Artist Acknowledgements

I am extremely grateful to all the participants, performers, collaborators, and assistants involved in this project, without whom this work would not be possible.

Participants and Performers:
The Posada family of Cantón San Cristóbal, Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, El Salvador
The Cantillano family of Barrio Sunseri, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Luis Reyes and the Reyes-Amador family of San Agustín, Namasigue, Choluteca, Honduras
The Rivera-Reyes family of Chinandega, Nicaragua
The tortilla makers from Mercado Guamilito, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
The street vendors along the highways of Honduras and El Salvador
The Garifuna musicians at Chuletas y Asados Elvis, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Ty’esha Lewis, Andrés Renteria and Jacqueline Posada

Collaborators and Assistants:
Anthony Almendárez, Rosa King, Jacqueline Posada, Francis Almendárez Sr., Omar Reyes, and Pablo Marimba

Thank you Maceo Spice and Import Company for donating wooden shipping pallets and to Denise Alexander, Elaine Bradford, Reyna Collura, Joshua Ojeda, Rachelle Vasquez, and others who donated clothing for the installation at Galveston Arts Center.

July 11 - October 4, 2020

Strand Gallery

July 11 – October 4, 2020

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Will Henry
Watching Paint Dry

Will Henry’s exhibition, Watching Paint Dry, features recent paintings that continue the artist’s exploration of the landscape, abstraction, and mark making. Henry’s work is rooted in the history of painting and features atmospheric landscapes with constellations of marks floating on their surface. His gestural swipes of color are the subject of Henry’s work and create a low-fi trompe l’oeil effect, with the cropped sections of the landscape serving as a backdrop for an unfolding narrative. Henry’s connection to these sparse vistas is uprooted by an overlay of lines, swipes, and scribbles, echoing the gestures made on the screens through which we often experience these spaces in contemporary life.

Will Henry is an artist based in Houston, TX. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. His work has been included in exhibitions throughout Texas over the past twenty years, including solo exhibitions at Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston; the Southwest School of Art, San Antonio; and the Old Jail Art Center, Albany. Henry was a finalist for the Texas Prize in 2012 at the Austin Museum of Art. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Old Jail Art Center, Albany. He is represented by Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston, TX.

willhenryartist.com

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May 30 - August 16, 2020

1878 Gallery & Vault

May 30 - August 16, 2020

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Katy Heinlein
Soft Skills

Soft Skills features the sculptural works of Katy Heinlein that utilize color, gravity, and tension to explore a kind of absurd geometry, balancing awkward symmetries and humor through an interplay of soft and hard materials. The work incorporates fabric that is elegantly draped, tailored, and tucked to conceal their rigid substrates. Heinlein embraces an abject droopiness found in these sensual works as a sort of awkward disruption to the order of their minimal forms.

Katy Heinlein was born in Baytown, TX in 1973. She received a BFA from University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in 1995 and MFA in Sculpture from Texas Tech University in 1999. Heinlein was an intern at Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX in 1999. In 2000, she relocated to Houston, TX, where she has lived and worked for 20 years. Heinlein has exhibited her work in Japan, Mexico, New York, Chicago, New Haven, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. She collaborated with the Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre in 2005 to create the set and costumes for Spectre de la Rose, performed at Miller Outdoor Theater, and Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center in Houston. She has completed artist residencies in Montauk, NY, Shigaraki, Japan, and Houston, TX and received grants from the Houston Arts Alliance.

katy-heinlein.net

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Brown Foundation Gallery

May 30 - August 16, 2020

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Xochi Solis
Rooted by invisible means

Xochi Solis’ exhibition, Rooted by invisible means, includes collage-based works that reveal underlying layers of the artist’s environment and influences. Constructed in two dimensions from layers of paint, paper, and plastics, Solis’ abstract forms play with dimensional space and the circular shape of portals or ellipses. This exhibition includes monoprints, works on paper, and large-scale wall works created specifically for the Galveston Arts Center Brown Foundation Gallery.

Xochi Solis is an Austin, TX based artist sharing her studio time between Texas and Mexico. She has participated in residencies at Object Limited, Bisbee, AZ (2018) and Pele Prints, St. Louis, MO (2016), as well as collaborations with Shoestring Press in Brooklyn, NY (2017, 2018). Her work is featured in publications including, Collage: Contemporary Artists Hunt and Gather, Cut and Paste, Mash Up and Transform (Chronicle Books, 2014) and A BIG IMPORTANT ART BOOK (NOW WITH WOMEN): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists--and Projects to Help You Become One (Running Press, 2018). Solis’ works has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at WRONG Gallery, Marfa, TX; The Union HTX, Houston, TX; Reyes Project, Birmingham, MI; BOX 13 Artspace, Houston, TX; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; South Texas College Library Gallery, McAllen, TX; Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO; and the Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX. In addition to her studio practice, she is a board member at Boss Babes ATX and manages and spins records with the Austin chapter of Chulita Vinyl Club.

xochisolis.com

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March 7 - July 5, 2020

Strand Gallery

March 7 – July 5, 2020

*Extended to July 5, 2020 due to COVID-19 closure.

Opening Reception Saturday, March 7, 2020
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Adam Crosson
Haptic Recordings: The Body Eyes

Adam Crosson's exhibition, Haptic Recordings: The Body Eyes, emerges from the artist's practice of exploring the Mississippi River and examines the results of intractable relationships with littoral spaces. While produced within the extents of the river’s alluvial plain, the work constellates both from within and beyond this territory—akin to the river’s own supplying tributaries and flows of distribution. Included in the exhibition are video works, along with two kinds of photographic processes. One involves the fabrication of pinhole-type cameras constructed in response to analyzing physical properties of waterways that were once the Mississippi River’s mainstream. The other sources anthropogenic detritus gathered from the river’s banks toward the production of photograms, a photographic process involving the arrangement of objects directly onto light sensitive paper. The work looks to reveal hydrological functions and human incursions over courses of both geologic and human timescales.

“Residing in the ruin or even the construction site triggers affective associations, leading to a crisis of memory as one realizes that everything is always already being lost. The reliance on photography, then, is an effort to capture not that transition, but the experience of being present in the flow of time.”
-Joanna Zylinska, “Nonhuman Photography”

Adam Crosson received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from The University of Texas at Austin where he was a Jack G. Taylor and Virginia R. Allen Presidential Scholar and was awarded the College of Fine Arts Fellowship and the Umlauf Prize. He also holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Fay Jones School of Architecture. In 2016-17, Crosson was a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 2018, he received a Tulane University COR Research Grant, a Monroe Fellowship Grant from the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, and he was awarded a scholarly retreat. Crosson has been awarded additional fellowships to study at the Royal College of Art, London, and to attend the Vermont Studio Center. He has been included in recent group exhibitions in Berlin at the Humboldt University Nord Branch Library and the Erwin-Schrödinger-Zentrum Science Branch Library, The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS, and The Carrol Gallery at Tulane University. Crosson has organized exhibitions in London, Texas, and Vermont. He is currently Assistant Professor and Sculpture Area Head at Tulane University.

adamcrosson.com

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January 18 - April 12, 2020

1878 Gallery & Vault

January 18 – April 12, 2020

Opening Reception Saturday, January 18, 2020
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Amada Miller
But then (again)

But then (again) is an exhibition of photographic and video work focusing on the celestial bodies that make seasonal appearances near our planet. Astronomers and scientists have spent centuries probing these mysterious portents, claiming everything from life-bearing origins to humanity’s destruction. Focusing on comets and meteor showers, the works in this exhibition are comprised of a record made of ice that plays the sound of a comet flying through space (recording acquired by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission) and photographs of the night sky during meteor showers. These images are viewed through the lens of tektite glass, a type of glass that is formed from the heat of a meteor impact.

Amada Miller is a multi-disciplinary artist based in San Antonio, TX. She recently completed a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien via Blue Star Contemporary’s Berlin Residency Program, where she worked closely with curators and research staff at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Future exhibitions include Porcino (Berlin) and Grayduck Gallery (Austin, TX). Her work has been exhibited at Agora Gallery, AP Art Lab, Artpace San Antonio, Blue Star Contemporary, Capsule Gallery, David Shelton Gallery, Flight Gallery, French & Michigan, MASS Gallery, the McNay Art Museum, Palmetto Center for the Arts at Northwest Vista College, Sala Diaz, Serious Topics, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Usable Space Milwaukee.

amadamiller.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

January 18 – April 12, 2020

Opening Reception Saturday, January 18, 2020
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Britt Thomas
Indian Spirit

Indian Spirit documents the Port Neches-Groves Indians high school football traditions and the community who keeps those traditions alive. The photographs take an observational approach to PN-G’s unique fusion of Texas football customs and Native American cultural appropriation that has existed in this community since 1925. The title, Indian Spirit, emerges from the name of PN-G's mascot and reflects the community's intense commitment to their motto of "Honor, Pride, Tradition.”

Britt Thomas is a multidisciplinary lens-based artist residing in Houston, TX. She engages in a concept-driven studio practice that frequently utilizes photography and video due to their uncanny ability to simultaneously reflect and manipulate reality. At the center of her art exploration is the shared experience, seeking simple yet complex ways to analyze her relationship to others and to culture at large.

Born and raised in Southeast Texas, Thomas earned her B.F.A. in Studio Art with minors in dance and art history from Lamar University and a M.F.A. in Photography and Digital Media from the University of Houston. She is a 2018 recipient of Houston Arts Alliance’s SACI artist grant and has art permanently on view at the George R. Brown Convention Center through Houston’s public art collection. Her art has been exhibited in group shows nationally and internationally, recently at Aggregate Space Gallery in Oakland, CA Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea.

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2019

November 23, 2019 - February 23, 2020

Strand Gallery

November 23, 2019 – February 23, 2020

Opening Reception Saturday, November 30, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Amber Eagle
Nap Dreams

Amber Eagle’s exhibition, Nap Dreams, features multi-media works inspired by devotional, celebratory, and folk-art practices found throughout Mexico and the Southern United States. Eagle employs the ephemera of pageantry, ritual celebrations, and adornments often used to celebrate personal and historical events in her work. Influenced by her extensive experience spent between Mexico and Texas, Eagle creates narratives that are inspired by the role of the feminine in Mexican myths and folklore. Cake decorations, party favors, fireworks, prize ribbons, and trophies are represented in an evolving narrative translated through the artist’s personal experience living between two cultures.

Amber Eagle is an artist based in Houston, TX and San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Eagle received an MFA from the California College of the Arts and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She was a Core Fellow with the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and has been an artist in residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, The McColl Center, Charlotte, NC, The Portland College of Arts and Crafts in Oregon, and Lawndale Art Center, Houston. Eagle has spent extensive time in Mexico following an initial award from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County to research fiestas and sugar sculpting traditions. Her work has been featured in exhibitions throughout North America and is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art, Victoria, as well as public art installations in Houston’s East End and Cherryhurst House, Houston. Eagle is an accomplished art car artist whose cars Our Lady of Transportation and Rosebud have received awards at the Houston Art Car Parade.

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October 6, 2019 - January 5, 2020

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

October 6, 2019 – January 5, 2020

Opening Reception Saturday, October 6, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Gerardo Rosales

Undercover

Gerardo Rosales explores issues of class, race, gender, and immigration to expose social inequalities experienced by immigrants coming from Latin America to the United States. Rosales appropriates ornamental aspects of folk art and geometric abstraction, infiltrated with elements that evoke adversity faced by these individuals looking for a better life, only to find themselves facing similar conditions of social and economic exclusion. His paintings include rich colors and patterns that juxtapose the harshness of the wilderness of the tropics with domestic imagery. His works mix conflict with playfulness as a means to exaggerate reality with irony.

Gerardo Rosales was born in Venezuela and is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who has lived and worked in Houston, TX since 2000. Rosales first started producing art as a self-taught artist before attending the Armando Reverón Art Institute in Caracas, Venezuela, where he earned a BA in Painting. After graduating, he moved to London to study at Chelsea College of Art and Design where he received an MA in Painting. Rosales has received recognition at leading art venues in Latin America and Europe, including exhibitions in Venezuela, Argentina, the United Kingdom, and France. His work was most recently featured at the TransArt Foundation for Art and Anthropology, Houston, where he was also a 2018-2019 artist-in-residence.

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Gerardo Rosales explora temas de clase, raza, género e inmigración para exponer las desigualdades sociales experimentadas por los inmigrantes que van de América Latina a los Estados Unidos. Rosales se apropia de los aspectos ornamentales del arte popular y la abstracción geométrica, infiltrados con elementos que evocan la adversidad que enfrentan estos individuos que buscan una vida mejor, solo para encontrarse con condiciones similares de exclusion social y económica.

Gerardo Rosales nació en Venezuela y es un artista y educador multidisciplinario que ha vivido y trabajado en Houston, TX desde 2000. Rosales comenzó a producir arte como artista autodidacta antes de asistir al Instituto de Arte Armando Reverón en Caracas, Venezuela, donde obtuvo una licenciatura en pintura. Después de graduarse, se mudó a Londres para estudiar en el Chelsea College of Art and Design, donde recibió una maestría en pintura. Rosales ha recibido el reconocimiento en los principales lugares de arte en América Latina y Europa, incluidas exposiciones en Venezuela, Argentina, el Reino Unido y Francia. Su trabajo fue presentado recientemente en la Fundación TransArt para Arte y Antropología, Houston, donde también fue artista residente 2018-2019.

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August 24 - November 17, 2019

Strand Gallery

August 24 – November 17, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, August 24, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Erin Curtis

Night and Day

Erin Curtis’ exhibition, Night and Day, includes recent large-scale paintings that are dense with color and pattern. Her layered, cut-canvas works contain disrupted surfaces and reflect an interest in geometric abstraction and its historical roots in weaving, architecture, nature, and ritual. The paintings in Night and Day are nearly overwhelmed by an unreadable chaos that is pulled back to the edge of order by familiar patterns and forms. The works are rooted in landscape and domestic iconography, often sourced from textiles, and influenced by Curtis’ experience as a new mother. Just as night and day can be experienced as opposites, a continuum, or as cycles that shift subtly over the days and months, Curtis explores different ways of experiencing pattern and repetition, separateness and connectedness in her work.

Erin Curtis is an artist living and working in Austin, Texas. Curtis’s work combines utopian ideals of beauty and structure, with process and chance. Primarily working as a painter, she also creates large-scale, site-specific installations and public art projects. She has received grants from the Dallas Museum of Art, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the City of Austin and the District of Columbia. Curtis has had solo shows at Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX (2017), CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California (2016), Big Medium Gallery, Austin, Texas (2015) and Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC (2015). She has created commissioned works for the Chicago Transit Authority, the City of Washington D.C., Facebook, Art in Embassies and the City of Austin. In the summer of 2019, a 20-foot tall cut brick mural commissioned by Intelligentsia Coffee will be installed in downtown Austin. Curtis attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2010 and was awarded residencies at Anderson Ranch (2012) and Vermont Studio Center (2014). In 2008-2009, Curtis was a Fulbright Scholar in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Curtis graduated from Williams College with a BA in Liberal Arts in 1999 and received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007.

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July 13 - October 6, 2019

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

July 13 – October 6, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, July 13, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talks at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

Exchange Rate

Featuring work by Corey Ackelmire, Mike Beradino, Rene Cruz, Kevin Curry, Kathy Hall, Mary Jeys, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Ken Little, Deborah Mersky, Phillip Pyle II, Dan Tague, The Art Guys, and Anthony Thompson Shumate

Exchange Rate features artists who incorporate currency in their work as material and subject matter. Playing on the location of GAC’s home in the 1878 First National Bank Building and The Strand’s history as the “Wall Street of the South,” the artists in the exhibition address commercial systems of trade, value, and labor represented in paper, metal, plastic, and digital media. Addressing personal relationships to currency and the exchange of goods, services, and the accumulation of wealth, worth, and, value, this exhibition aims to give insights into the work of artists connected to the region who each take individual approaches to address this medium of exchange in their work.

About the artists:

Corey Ackelmire

As a metalsmith, Corey Ackelmire is interested in how people make, keep, alter, and use objects for emotional, superstitious, and practical purposes. Metal objects, from common currency to silver spoons, tend to be both durable and malleable, common and sacred, sentimental, and mundane. Exploring their place in material culture is the focus of her work.

Ackelmire earned her BFA in jewelry and metalsmithing from Missouri State University in 2003 and her MFA in jewelry/metals/enameling from Kent State University in 2007. She has been an educator since 2005, is a published author, and has exhibited her work in numerous national and international exhibitions. Currently, she is a full-time instructor and the Visual Art Program coordinator at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas.

www.coreyackelmire.com

Image: Corey Ackelmire, #betterangelsproject, 2019, Wood and copper pennies

Mike Beradino

Mike Beradino is an artist and educator based in Houston, TX. His work has been featured in exhibitions at Art Palace, Houston; Postmasters Gallery, New York; the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA; the EMERGEncy Room at Rice University; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston. He has taught higher education courses including digital art and physical computing for the last decade. Currently he instructs Computer Science at The Post Oak High School. He has worked with the teen digital culture program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston called hang@MFAH since the program’s inception in 2012. In his work, Beradino combines the successes and failures of technological advancement to manipulate the history of consumer technology prompting questions about digital mediation, the functional obsolete, and our collective notion of progress. Beradino holds a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago & MFA from Parsons, The New School of Design.

www.mikeberadino.com

Rene Cruz

Rene Cruz is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer based in Houston, TX. In his work he frequently employs blind-contour drawing processes, recreating well known illustrations of popular culture figures. His work has been included in exhibitions at Art Palace, Houston; Rudolf Blume Fine Art / Art Scan Gallery; The Joanna, Houston; Domy Books, Houston; and Flight Gallery, San Antonio. The exhibition will include a series of “blind-drawn” coins that are included in a public art installation by artist Elaine Bradford at the H-E-B Heights Houston grocery store.

www.renecruz.org

Image: Rene Cruz, PENNY, 2018, Ink and bronze spray paint on wood

Kevin Curry

Kevin Curry received his BFA in Graphic Design from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, and after working as an Art Director in New York and Philadelphia, started his own design & Illustration business before receiving his MFA in Sculpture from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois in 2008. Curry has completed multiple artist residencies, including residencies at Grand Canyon National Park; Redline, Denver, CO; Platteforum, Denver; Art342, Ft. Collins, CO; and Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX. His work has been included in group and solo exhibitions throughout the US, as well as public art commissions for the city of Denver. Curry has held teaching positions at the University of Denver, Regis University, and Baylor University. He is currently a professor at Florida State University.

kcurry.com

Image: Kevin Curry, Value Added (Abraham Lincoln – detail), 2011, US Currency

Kathy Hall

Kathy Hall is an artist based in Houston, TX. She received her BFA and MFA from the University of Houston. Her works have been included in group and solo exhibitions throughout Texas, including exhibitions at the Art Car Museum, Art League Houston, DiverseWorks, Marfa Studio Art, Lawndale Art Center, and Galveston Arts Center. Hall is well known for the installations she creates in her front yard in the West University neighborhood of Houston in collaboration with her neighbors. Her works are in numerous collections including works commissioned by the Federal Reserve Bank, Houston Branch.

Image: Kathy Hall, Anonymous Interior (detail), Paper currency and glue

Mary Jeys

Mary Jeys is a multi-media artist and activist. She has worked to promote social change in non-fiction media settings including a non-profit documentary production company, Aubin Pictures, Inc.; Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts MFA program; and the School of Visual Arts with CUNY Graduate Center that respectively sponsored and hosted Where the Truth Lies, a conference on propaganda. She has participated in creative research opportunities including The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Professional Development Fellowship and LMCC’s Swing Space in New York. She has received grants from FEAST in Brooklyn and Macktez. As a guest speaker, she has been invited to talk at Parsons The New School for Design’s MFA program in Transdisciplinary Design and The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program’s Fix It Yourself Lectures. She received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jeys’ notable projects include founding a local currency for north Brooklyn, NY called The Brooklyn Torch. A local currency is a method of trading goods and services meant to supplement other means of trade while improving the community wealth. Local currencies circulate in a defined region. Money does not leave the area because trade is restricted by the currency boundaries.

www.maryjeys.com
www.brooklyntorch.org

Virginia Lee Montgomery

Virginia Lee Montgomery (b. 1986; Houston, TX, USA) is a filmmaker, sculptor, and facilitator. She received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture in 2016. Working across video, performance, sound, and sculpture, her artwork is a material research practice of philosophical metaphysics. Its content is surreal, latently autobiographical, and often with a feminist impulse. The work is paradoxically cryptic and literal, conceptual and hand-built, digital and physical. VLM deploys an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary of repeating gestures like drilling, dousing, puncturing, or reaching and recursive symbols like circles, holes, spirals, or spheres. Her movements interrogate the complex relationship between physical and psychic structures. VLM also works as a professional mind-map scribe, a Graphic Facilitator.

www.virginialeemontgomery.com

Image: Virginia Lee Montgomery, BEYOND MEANS (video still), 2017, HD video, 02:17

Ken Little

Ken Little was born in 1947 in Canyon Texas. He was a graduate in the first Bachelor of Fine Arts class at Texas Tech University in 1970. He went on to earn a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Utah in 1972. Since 1972 he has held tenured positions at major universities, including The University of Montana at Missoula, The University of Oklahoma in Norman. Since 1988 he has been a professor of Art in Sculpture at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Ken Little is a nationally recognized artist who has been granted two Visual Arts Fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts in1982 and 1989. Since 1993, he has maintained a working studio and Rrose Amarillo, an alternative exhibition space in downtown San Antonio. His work in various media has been shown extensively both nationally and internationally. In south Texas he has exhibited at such venues as ArtPace, Finesilver Gallery, The Southwest School of Art and Craft, and the Blue Star Art Space where he was a board member from1989 to 1995. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Artpace, San Antonio.

Little’s work has been featured in over 40 soloe exhibitions in national and international venues such as: The Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC; The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan Wisconsin; The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis; Diverse Works, Houston; and The Honolulu Academy of the Arts. His work has also been featured in over 200 group exhibitions at institutions like: The Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC; and The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Little is also a songwriter and a performer. He plays guitar and sings in two bands, Rodeo Ho Ho and the Swingbillies. He has one CD out titled, “Simple America” which contains his original material.

kenlittle.com

Image: Ken Little, Soar, 2002, $1 bills on steel, frame, Collection of Tom and Laura Bacon, Houston, TX

Deborah Mersky

Deborah Mersky is an artist based in Johnson City, TX. She received her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle. Mersky has been exhibiting her work since 1980 in exhibitions throughout Texas and Washington. Mersky has created numerous public art works throughout the US including projects in Phoenix, AZ, San Antonio, TX, Redmond, WA, Portland, OR, and Minneapolis, MN to name a few.

deborahmersky.com

Phillip Pyle, II

Phillip Pyle, II is a visual artist, graphic designer, and photographer based in Houston, Texas whose primary interests are race, humor, advertising, sports and popular culture. Mining imagery from sources diverse as mass consumer culture, contemporary advertising, to ephemera, historical imagery, and hip-hop, Pyle introduces a complex vision that derives from a robust comedic foundation while also looking at the abstraction and transience of our values, and beliefs.

Pyle has exhibited his work in numerous institutions including Project Row Houses in Houston, Art League of Houston, Houston Museum of African American Culture, and the University Museum at Texas Southern University. Pyle was an inaugural participating artist in the City of Houston’s Resident Artist program where he worked with the Office of Veterans Affairs in the Third Ward.

phillippylethesecond.com

Image: Phillip Pyle II, Family Money, 2012, Digital print

Dan Tague

Dan Tague is a multi-media artist, curator, and activist based in New Orleans whose multi-faceted work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He is well-known for his dollar bill series that is a hybrid of sculpture, photography and political commentary. Tague’s work appears in numerous public and private collections including The Whitney Museum of Art and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. He is the recipient of several awards including awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Tague was an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York and the La Napoule Art Foundation in France.

www.messageinthemoney.com

Image: Dan Tague, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, 2018, Archival Inkjet print
Courtesy of the artist and Octavia Art Gallery

The Art Guys

The Art Guys (Michael Galbreth, b. 1956, Philadelphia, and Jack Massing, b. 1959, Buffalo) began working together in 1983 after meeting while students at the University of Houston and continued a collaboration that spanned more than thirty years.

The Art Guys’ work has been included in more than 150 exhibitions in museums, galleries and public spaces throughout the United States and in other parts of the world including Europe and China. Their work has been seen in more than 40 solo exhibitions among which include the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, the de Saisset Museum, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the Tampa Museum of Art. The Art Guys realized major public art projects including Intercontinental Airport Houston, Phoenix Airport and the University of Houston as well as civic and private commissions. Additionally, The Art Guys lectured at more than 60 universities, museums and other institutions throughout the United States including Harvard, Chicago Art Institute, School of Visual Arts New York, Kansas City Art Institute, UCLA, Vanderbilt and many more.

Articles, reviews and stories about their work have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Art In America, ArtNews, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, CNN, CBS News Sunday Morning and many more. The Art Guys have been included in many books and catalogs including The Art Guys: Think Twice and SUITS: The Clothes Make the Man, published by Harry N. Abrams, New York; and the DVD The Art Guys: Home On The Range, a compilation of 25 years of video works published by Microcinema International.

www.theartguys.com

Image: The Art Guys, Credit Where Credit is Due, 1997-1998, Credit cards, business forms, 35 framed objects, Private Collection

Anthony Thompson Shumate

Anthony Thompson Shumate, a multimedia artist and designer, has an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Houston (2005) and a BFA from the University of Texas in San Antonio (2001). Shumate’s work often combines corporate design and contemporary art aesthetics in a subversive commentary on the modern American social landscape. He is the recipient of several arts and advertising awards including a 2006 New Works Fellowship for Emerging Artist from the former Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, an ArtPix Grant for Las Pozas: Steps and Falls, a CD-ROM produced in partnership with photographer/videographer Rob Ziebell, six ADDY Awards from the American Advertising Federation, and two Bronze Quill awards in excellence in design. Shumate’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout Houston including exhibitions at Lawndale Art Center and Barbara Davis Gallery, along with public art commissions for Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston; Ladybird Lake Trail, Austin; and the Greater East End Management District, Houston.

actsstudios.com

Image: Anthony Thompson Shumate, Five Dollar Amero Bill Proof, 2012, Hahnemuhle

June 8 - August 18, 2019

Strand Gallery

June 8 – August 18, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, June 8, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Chuck & George

Cat Butt Parfait: Chuck & George Explore the Ecosystem of Domestic Feline Digestion

Chuck & George create a colorful fantasia inspired by the parasites that populate the domestic feline digestive system. Often referencing their personal lives, their exhibition presents a good-humored dissection with variation and theme. The multiple media installation includes paintings, drawings, ceramics, and papier-mâché.

Chuck & George are the collaboration of Dallas-based artists Brian Keith Jones and Brian Keith Scott. Brian K. Jones (Chuck) earned a BFA from The University of North Texas in Painting. In 1990 he joined forces with U.N.T Printmaker Brian K. Scott (George) to form the acclaimed duo Chuck & George. Brian Scott has worked as an artist freelancing and collaborating all of his life. He earned his BFA in Printmaking from the University of North Texas. He was one of the founding and principle artist with the Holton and Associates from 1993-99. He is the founder and a principle artist of the Art Services Collective.

Chuck & George have exhibited both separately and collaboratively in numerous exhibitions, including presentations at the Fort Work Community Arts Center; The Wrong Store, Marfa, TX; McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas; Southfork Gallery, Memphis, TN; Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, TX Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX; Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and CentralTrak, Dallas, TX. They were honored with the 2013 Dallas Observer Mastermind Award. Since 2000 the duo has organized the Oak Cliff Visual SpeedBump Art Tour, an annual public tour of artists’ studios, homes, and galleries that takes place each May.

chuckandgeorge.net

April 27 - July 7, 2019

1878 Gallery

April 27 - July 7, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, April 27, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Chris Bakay
The Tangibility of Memory

Chris Bakay’s exhibition, The Tangibility of Memory, includes cast resin t-shirts and everyday objects that evoke nostalgic memories of youth and skate culture. Through a labor-intensive casting process, Bakay juxtaposes the materials of high and low culture. While his Retired Jersey t-shirts have specific meaning for the artist, the personal memories associated with many of these seemingly ordinary objects shifts for individual viewers. The humble t-shirt, ever-present in tourist towns, serve as a symbol of modern life with their various logos or emblems reflecting personal or lived experiences with shifting meanings.

Chris Bakay is a multidisciplinary visual artist living and working in Houston, TX. Born in 1977, in Atlanta, GA, he studied Design at The Creative Circus. His work has been featured in publications including High Snobiety, Design Taxi, Artnet News, Untitled Magazine, New York Observer, Stylus, Luxury Standard, Tech Cocktail and a segment on Fox News with Andrea Tantaros. Bakay’s work has been included in group exhibitions in Houston, Atlanta, and most recently in the exhibition Emerging To Established - A Group Show at Krause Gallery, New York, NY.

chrisbakayart.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

April 27 - July 7, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, April 27, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jeffrey Dell
Maquette Moon

Jeffrey Dell’s exhibition, Maquette Moon, features a new series of screenprints that continue his abiding interest in space, color, pattern, and perception. Dell explores the human tendency to read into images for symbols, depth, and promises of pleasure. Mixing the languages of visual graphics and trompe l’oeil, Dell’s images create larger questions about the viewer’s imagination, blurring distinctions between actually seeing and projecting that which we want to see.

As an artist known for painterly/printerly abstraction, Dell’s flaps and portals can resemble moons, spaceships, aliens, the unknown, and various objects of longing. All of the titles for individual works are stolen from titles of science-fiction novels published in the 1970’s – novels for which famed illustrator Chris Foss did the cover art. Dell acknowledges the influence of Foss from hours spent staring at his images, both projecting himself into those futuristic worlds and consuming the promised pleasures depicted. Maquette Moon echoes the wistful narrators of these novels.

Jeffrey Dell has headed the Printmaking department at Texas State University for 18 years and currently lives in San Marcos, TX. Recent exhibitions include the International Print Center of New York; The Print Center of Philadelphia; Rochester Contemporary Art Center; Art Palace Gallery, Houston; and Galleri Urbane, Dallas. Dell was commissioned by The LINE Hotel to produce two large unique editions for their newest location in Austin, TX, in 2018. Dell received his MFA from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.

jeffreydell.com

March 9 – June 2, 2019

Strand Gallery

March 9 - June 2, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, March 9, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Brad Tucker
Standard Tan

Brad Tucker’s exhibition, Standard Tan, includes a collection of wood, fabric, and painted sculptural objects that explore color, texture, and language. Often mimicking tools and utilitarian objects, Tucker’s work plays with the loose ends of craftsmanship at the border between painting and sculpture. Tucker’s experience as an artist, skateboarder, musician, and teacher reveals itself in his work through the use of abstracted shapes, text, and sound elements encountered in his daily life.

Brad Tucker (born 1965, West Covina, CA) earned a BFA from the University of North Texas, Denton (1991) and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2009). Tucker has exhibited and performed internationally for the past two decades, including solo exhibitions at Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2015, 2012, and 2009); Re Gallery, Dallas, Texas (2015); Old Jail Art Center, Albany TX (2013); and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (2011). From 1999-2000 Tucker was an artist resident in the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His work is included in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Menil Collection, Houston; the New Museum, New York, NY; and the Plains Museum, Fargo, ND. Tucker lives and works in Austin, TX. He is represented by Inman Gallery.

bradtuckerart.com

January 19 – April 21, 2019

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

January 19 - April 21, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, January 19, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Miss Pussycat
The Puppet Worlds of Miss Pussycat

The Puppet Worlds of Miss Pussycat features an installation of puppets and their worlds by New-Orleans based artist, musician, and puppeteer, Panacea Theriac (also known as Miss Pussycat). The exhibition includes puppets and puppet theaters, along with videos, photographs and ceramic sculptures of her puppets. The Puppet Worlds of Miss Pussycat highlights characters and worlds from her last five puppet shows: The Western Village Shopping Village, Clothes Made by Small Furry Animals, Frenchy and Jett, The Happy Castle of Goblinburg, and The Cookie Carnival Baking Contest. In her work, Miss Pussycat creates paracosmic fantasies that often relate to her own experience as an artist and musician. She’s in a band and her puppets have a band that releases records, while others are artists and museum workers in a fictitious museum. Each character assumes a life of their own in an ever-evolving series of stories.

Panacea Theriac's most widely known public role is as Miss Pussycat, performing puppet shows, singing, and playing maracas in the band “Quintron and Miss Pussycat”. Based in New Orleans, Quintron and Miss Pussycat present live organ-driven party music and puppet shows at parties all over the world.

Born in Antlers, Oklahoma, Theriac began her career in art and puppetry as a child in the Southern Baptist Church of Antlers as part of the Christian Puppet Youth Ministry. She later moved to New Orleans and started a secret nightclub called Pussycat Caverns, which hosted bands and all types of performance in a unique and lively atmosphere. Since 1997 she has run a similar secret night club, The Spellcaster Lodge, with the artist Quintron. Both of these enterprises have brought bands and other inspired people together to put on fun shows for the New Orleans 9th Ward neighborhood. For over 20 years, she has presented live puppet shows in rock clubs, libraries, and secret clubhouses all around the world. Theriac has also made a number of puppet movies and videos, including Trixie and the Treetunks, North Pole Nutrias, and Electric Swamp.

Exhibitions and installations are an important part of Theriac’s work. These shows display puppets and their worlds in galleries and museums and have included exhibits at The New Orleans Museum of Art and an installation at the Center for Contemporary Art in New Orleans. In 2017, she was a featured artist for Prospect 4, New Orleans’ citywide contemporary art triennial, with an exhibition at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. In 2014, she and Quintron were each awarded a Rauschenberg Residency.

www.panaceatheriac.com

2nd Floor Vault

January 19 - April 21, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, January 19, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Quintron
DRUM BUDDY (Miss Pussycat Model)

Playing on the unique acoustics of the concrete and steel lined second-floor vault of GAC’s 1878 First National Bank Building, New Orleans-based artist and musician Quintron, presents one of his most notable inventions, the Drum Buddy. The Drum Buddy is a light activated, analog synthesizer which creates murky, low-fidelity, rhythmic patterns triggered by the rotation of recycled #10 pizza sauce cans. Using the unique characteristics of optical sensors, the instrument produces drum-like tones, chirps, and buzzes in four distinct voices: kick, snare, bass, and "space". Quintron is credited with fostering an analog synth revival in the late 1990s / early 2000s with the invention and continual experimentation with the Drum Buddy. The piece on display at GAC is a one-of-a-kind version of the instrument created for Miss Pussycat in 2009. Visitors are invited to enter the vault to experience the unique soundscape produced by this innovative instrument.

Quintron is a New Orleans-based inventor, organist, and musical octopus behind the eponymous band, "Quintron and Miss Pussycat". He has been making genre-defying noise, soundscape, and house rocking dance music in New Orleans for over 20 years. The majority of his fifteen full-length albums, many created with artist/puppeteer Panacea Theriac (also known Miss Pussycat), have the psychedelic soul of New Orleans party jams as filtered through tough distorted organs and self-made electronic instruments. Quintron is a celebrated nightclub organist and inventor, who has patented a number of his own inventions, including the Drum Buddy. Notable performers who own and play the Drum Buddy include Nels Cline of Wilco, Laurie Anderson, Fred Armisen, and DJ Mr. Dibbs. In addition to his own recordings, Quintron has played on a number of other records, most notably The Oblivions 9 Songs and Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys Grand Isle, which earned a Grammy nomination in 2012 and included the Quintron penned song Chatterbox. In addition to performances throughout the world, Quintron’s instruments and inventions have been included in exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Propsect 4 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, and a 2014 residency at the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, FL.

www.quintronandmisspussycat.com
www.weatherfortheblind.org

January 19 – March 3, 2019

Strand Gallery

January 19 - March 3, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, January 19, 2019
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Camp Bosworth
THANK YOU, PLEASE DRIVE THRU

Camp Bosworth creates elaborately carved and painted wood objects influenced by his West Texas and the U.S. Mexico border surroundings. Hand-carved, and often gilded or painted, the scale of his work often results in humorous and whimsical sculptures. His most recent works are inspired by the menu items of Dairy Queens ubiquitous to small towns throughout Texas. For his exhibition, THANK YOU, PLEASE DRIVE THRU, Bosworth brings steak finger baskets and soft-served ice cream sculptures to Galveston.

Born in Galveston in 1964, Camp Bosworth is an artist based in Marfa, TX. Bosworth received his BFA in painting from the University of North Texas. He has exhibited his work throughout Texas and the US, including exhibitions at Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX; The Old Jailhouse Art Center, Albany, TX; Yard Dog, Austin, TX; Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; and the El Paso Museum of Art, TX. His work is in the collection of the AT&T Center/San Antonio Spurs and was commissioned for Cardinal Blasé Cupich’s crosier staff. Long-time residents of Marfa, he and his wife Buck Johnston own the shop and gallery The Wrong Store, which was named the “Most Beautiful Independent Store” in Texas by Architectural Digest in 2018.

www.campbosworth.com

2018

November 24, 2018 – January 13, 2019

Strand Gallery

November 24, 2018 - January 13, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, November 24, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Kaneem Smith
Captive Sojourn and the Indefinite

Kaneem Smith’s exhibition, Captive Sojourn and the Indefinite, explores the tumultuous relationship between trade, consumption, and commodities. Referencing Galveston’s location on a natural port in the Gulf of Mexico, and its historical and contemporary ties to the exchange of goods and labor, her installation contemplates the trade of natural materials, specifically cotton and coffee through textiles, such as burlap used for import/export purposes. Smith draws inspiration from a familial and historical standpoint of personal experience and the human condition. Her exploration of three-dimensional form incorporates subtle psychological ideas of corruption and its lingering effects on human anthropology and American history. As a mixed media artist and sculptor with a background in fibers, these concepts run a complex thread throughout her body of work. Smith’s exhibition challenges viewers to contemplate global concerns of ethical trade, the West’s over-consumption of natural resources, and colonialist commodification of underprivileged producers and their products.

Kaneem Smith is an artist and educator based in Houston, TX. During her undergraduate art education, she studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and at Rice University before receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University. Among her many accomplishments, exhibitions, awards, and residencies, Smith was the recipient of a visual arts fellowship through The Hungarian Multicultural Center Artists and Writers Residency Program in Hungary (2003), an Edward F. Albee Residency Grant (2005), Vermont Studio Center Fellowships (2006) (2008), and a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Creative Capital Foundation in New York (2008). Smith also received studio fellowships for the Atelierhaus Hilmsen Residency for Artists and Professionals in Germany (2010) (2012). In 2015 Smith co-organized the 2015 Texas Sculpture Symposium in Lubbock, TX, with featured Keynote speaker and distinguished visual artist Judy Pfaff and San Antonio sculptor Ken Little. In 2017, she received a visual artist grant award in sculpture from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and received a Houston Artadia Award through Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue. Smith exhibits with Devin Borden Gallery in Houston.

artadia.org/artist/kaneem-smith

1878 Gallery

November 24, 2018 - January 13, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, November 24, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Renata Lucia
News vs. Nature (Gulf)

For the exhibition News vs. Nature (Gulf), Renata Lucia’s paintings reflect on the widening social divides that unfold in the current news cycle. Her works incorporate national and local newspapers, including works created specifically for this exhibition that use pages from The Galveston Daily News. Acrylic paint and drawing media are applied to crumpled newspaper pages that are selected for composition and content, resulting in a textured topographical illusion. The intimacy of reading a physical newspaper is contrasted with a detached aerial view. Lucia began the News vs. Nature series considering the organized chaos of nature reigning supreme against the psychological toll of bad news. The series shifted and took on new importance in late 2017 as an epic battle began to rage in our perception and discussion of the news. Lucia’s works consider the questions “Is the news fake or, more likely, a last bastion of truth? Is nature sublime, or does it represent the most disturbing aspects of human nature?”

Native Texan Renata Lucia is influenced by her familial heritage of outsider artists, writers, quilters, embroiderers, miniaturists, and a research scientist. She explores memory, craft, domesticity, and the current socio-political climate through multiple mediums and processes. Her subjects range from traditional quilt patterns in encaustic interlaced with photographic images of unknown persons, to newspapers that have been manipulated to resemble our natural, organic surroundings, to photographs referencing the connectivity between consumerism, advertising, graffiti.

Lucia worked as a classically-trained, professional violist in the 1980’s and ‘90s, followed by a career in technical writing. After a chondrosarcoma diagnosis in 2000, she took her first art class when she joined the Glassell School of Art, MFAH. She became the first trained artist in her family when she graduated there with a Painting specialization.

Her work has been featured twice in the periodical New American Paintings and is part of the public collection of the International Women’s Museum in Marfa, TX. Additionally, she was a resident artist at Houston’s Project Row Houses, and a recent award winner at the 2017 Lawndale Big Show and the 2018 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art exhibition. Lucia lives in Houston, TX and works out of her home studio.

www.renatalucia.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

November 24, 2018 - January 13, 2019

Opening Reception Saturday, November 24, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Lina Dib
Threshold

Threshold is an interactive video installation by Houston-based artist Lina Dib that incorporates video of waves breaking on the Galveston shore just before sunset. The shore’s infinite poetic qualities, constant ebb and flow, and collision of bodies (land and sea) features largely in Dib’s work. Threshold is a kind of homage to Thierry Kuntzel’s The Waves and to Andy Warhol’s Sunset. It is a tribute and meditation on the specificities of place and our relationship to natural systems. Post Hurricane Harvey, this piece is part of a larger series of toxic and luring landscapes. Activating 3D space, the video slows down, the audio slows to a deep rumble, and the color desaturates as viewers get closer to the screen. When the video is at a near standstill, viewers can “liquify” the image with their bodies. In a sense, the piece gestures to our clumsy attempts to push back nature and to presume we can control things so large they border on the unfathomable.

Programming: Taylor Knapps

Lina Dib was born in Montreal, Canada and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. Dib is a multidisciplinary artist and anthropologist. Her installations and compositions range from the experimental to the ethnographic and investigate socio-technical and ecological change. Dib is an affiliate artist at the Topological Media Lab at Concordia University in Montreal and TX/RX Labs in Houston, and a research fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Rice University where she also teaches. She is co-founder of Fossilized Houston and the Solar Studios. Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council, AMIDA’s European training program, the Moody Center for the Arts, and the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance among others. Recent publications include Audible Observatories: Notes on Performances (Bloomsbury); Sonic Breakdown, Extinction and Memory (continent.), The Forgetting Dis-ease: Making Time Matter (differences), and Of Promises and Prototypes: The Archeology of the Future (LIMN). Her work has been presented at venues including, Hierarchy Gallery Washington, DC; Lawndale Art Center, Houston; Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco; MOP Projects, Sydney; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Day For Night, Houston; the Whitney Biennial 2017; and at Johnson Space Center NASA.

www.linadib.com

October 13 – November 18, 2018

Strand Gallery

October 3 - November 18, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, October 3, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Buster Graybill
Leisurely

Leisurely is a culmination of 3 years of sculptures and lawn chair strap “paintings” from Buster Graybill’s ongoing Recreational Modernism series. This work celebrates the formal nuances and conceptual potential of objects and materials often associated with outdoor leisure and hobbies. Graybill incorporates materials that might be found at a backyard BBQ, on a fishing trip, or in the garage while tinkering on a hotrod. Exploring Modernist tendencies through a rural working-class perspective, Graybill’s works challenge perceived notions of value and the hierarchies imposed on objects of “high” and “low” culture. Like a miner panning for gold, Graybill sifts through his own environment with a playful yet discerning eye, finding beauty, humor, poetry, and value in the sediment of everyday life.

Buster Graybill is an Assistant Professor at University of Texas at San Antonio in the Department of Art and Art History. He utilizes sculpture, installation, video, and photography to traverse cultural boundaries and reconnect with often overlooked objects, materials and places found in the rural landscape. Graybill has exhibited throughout Texas, as well as in Boston, Miami, New York, and Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan Artist Residency and the Artpace International Artist-In-Residence program, as well as a recipient of grants from the San Antonio Artist Foundation and the Idea Fund, a program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

bustergraybill.com

1878 Gallery

October 3 - November 18, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, October 3, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Jasmyne Graybill
Cultivate

Cultivate is an exhibition of intricate, small-scale sculptures by Jasmyne Graybill. Using dental tools, the artist meticulously sculpts polymer clay into fictional organisms grafted onto domestic objects. Inspired by nature's uncanny ability to flourish in synthetic environments, Graybill’s work visually references barnacles that encrust coastal piers and colonies of mold that fester in the dark voids within our homes. Everyday household objects like spoons, plates, or garden tools become transformed, as these fictional cultures visually adapt to the texture, color, and patterns of the host object. Scrutinizing the processes of adaptation, each work celebrates nature’s resiliency, finding wonder and beauty in the most denigrated elements of our environment.

Jasmyne Graybill is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Northeast Lakeview College in San Antonio, TX. She received her Master in Fine Arts at University of Texas in San Antonio in 2008 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts at University of North Texas in 2003. Graybill uses sculpture and installation to pose questions about our relationship with nature and our constructed environments. Her work has been featured regionally and nationally, including group exhibitions such as “Reclaimed by Nature” at the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio, TX), “(in)Organic” at the Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI), as well as solo exhibitions at Women and Their Work (Austin, TX), The McKinney Avenue Contemporary Gallery (Dallas, TX), The Dishman Museum of Art (Beaumont, TX) and Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX). In 2009 she was awarded “Best in Show” by Juror Mel Chin at the Texas National 2009 at the Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX and in 2010 she was awarded the Dallas Museum of Art’s Kimbrough Artist Grant.

jasmynegrabill.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

October 3 - November 18, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, October 3, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Bill Willis
Totally Okay

Bill Willis’ exhibition, Totally Okay, includes genre paintings whose sources include vintage cook books and images taken from his friend’s social media feeds to assemble an aggregate social and lifestyle fantasy. Willis’ works often embed a sly sense of humor into depictions of mundane subjects, resulting in sincere works that contemplate scenes from his internet searches and everyday life.

Bill Willis lives and works in Houston, TX. He received his MFA in Painting from the University of Houston and BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. His work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at Art Palace, Houston; Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas; Hello Project, Houston; The Joanna, Houston; and Peter Makebish Gallery, New York. He is represented by DEASIL.

Throughout Downtown Galveston

October 3, 2018

One night only!
6:00 – 9:00 PM

The Museum of Pocket Art
featuring Elaine Bradford and Ernesto Walker

The Galveston Arts Center welcomes the Museum of Pocket Art (MoPA) for a special one-night only visit during ArtWalk on October 13, 2018 from 6 to 9 PM. MoPA presents two exhibitions by artists Elaine Bradford (Houston, TX) and Ernesto Walker (Monterrey, Mexico).

The Museum of Pocket Art began fifteen years ago with an idea that everyone should carry with them a small artwork in a pocket to enrich their day and share with others. MoPA developed this idea and organized it into a formal venue for contemporary artists and patrons.

MoPA introduces artwork from contemporary artists in an intimate and personal way. The Museum displays works of art created to fit in the pocket, usually around the size of a business card, in galleries selected to best frame the work, which range from wallets to mobile devices. MoPA shows at the opening of other art exhibits, or “leaches” the reception. At the reception, a MoPA representative approaches people individually and asks if he or she would like to visit the museum, and then shares the works on display. Currently MoPA hosts two shows a year.

Robert Jackson Harrington currently directs the Museum of Pocket Art and is a member of the Center for Experimental Practice and the curatorial collective, Los Outsiders, based in Austin, TX. Harrington creates drawings and sculptural installations from everyday materials that center on the concept of potential. Recent exhibitions include All on the Line at The Backdoor Biennial 2018, Kyle, TX and C wut stix, at Bill’s Junk, Houston, TX.

www.mopaonline.com

About the exhibitions:

Elaine Bradford
Ties that Bind

“I am a collector. I mine thrift and antique stores to find discarded pieces of people’s lives. The collectibles, which have personal histories that have long been forgotten, are transformed. The pieces in this exhibition are representations of relationships. Found family photos have been repurposed. The extensions of embroidery represent hopes, thoughts and fears that can bind people together, or tear them apart. The added fibers are portrayals of being wrapped up in another person, and the distance or closeness that can be created between one another. They talk about longing and unrequited love. I am taking strangers discarded objects, connecting them with craftwork, and creating personal portraits. I see some of myself in each of these objects. I also see some of everyone else.” – Elaine Bradford

Elaine Bradford lives and works in Houston, TX. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2003) and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2000). Her work has been included in shows at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL; Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY; Handmade in America Gallery in Asheville, NC; and Centre Culturel Aragon in Oyonnax, France. Select solo shows have been at The Picture Gallery at Saint Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, NH; ArtLeague Houston, Houston; and Hunt Gallery at Webster University, St. Louis, MO. She is a founding member BOX 13 ArtSpace, an innovative artist run studio and gallery space in Houston. She was a resident artist at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in 2010. In 2011, Bradford completed a permanent civic art commission for the City of Houston at Vinson Neighborhood Library. In 2017, she worked with Houston poet Sara Cress on a project called Routine Fables, where they create a “sculpture poem” every week of the year.

elainebradford.com

Ernesto Walker
Antigravity

This project consists of a series of video-holograms entitled Antigravity that are projected from gadget screens through an accessory that creates the effect of a floating object and helps the image emerge from the screen. The general idea has been developed for its exhibition at The Museum of Pocket Art, a disruptive exhibition space that’s contained on the inside of an Ipod. In these regards, Antigravity is directly related to the nature of MoPA and intends to generate reflections not only about the artwork, but about the platform itself. The holograms are played with the help of an accessory that’s attached to the screen and provokes the effect of three-dimensional objects floating outside the device. Having the image emerging from the screen seeks for an experience that expands the visual possibilities of the screen and generates more ephemeral content. These gestures are combined with the fact that the artwork is played online from a controlled server, so that video presented does not reside in the device nor the server but can only exist by the combination of the played file and the screen accessory. In this regard, the technology only serves as a conduit for the contemplation of an image that poetically just travels through the system but does not touch it.

Based in Monterrey, Mexico, Ernesto Walker’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including exhibitions in London, Brussels, Luxemburg, Athens, Switzerland, Argentina, United States, Colombia, Italy, and Spain. His work is included in collections in Italy, England, United States, Canada, Argentina, and Mexico. Among other distinctions, he was award first place in the Saatchi Gallery Drawing Showdown 2011; obtained the FONCA Young Creators Fellowship from the National Arts Fund (2016); is recipient of the PACMyC fellowship given by the Arts and Culture National Council of Mexico (CONACULTA); as well as the FINANCIARTE production fellowship given by the State Arts Council (CONARTE). Since January 2011, he is professor for the School of Art, Architecture and Design at Tec de Monterrey College.

www.ernestowalker.com

August 25 – October 7, 2018

Strand Gallery

August 25 - October 7, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, August 25, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Jesse Morgan Barnett
LOW MAGIC

Jesse Morgan Barnett is a Fort Worth-based artist known for his consideration of appropriated images, objects, and events based on an aging interest in proposal and drift. LOW MAGIC builds off Barnett’s previous work dealing with compensation, agnostic confidence, and permutations between schadenfreude (pleasure derived from another person’s misfortune) and mudtia (pure joy unadulterated by self-interest). During the summer of 2016, Barnett began corresponding with Valery Spiridonov. At that time, Spiridonov, who lives with a degenerative muscle disease, was the first confirmed head/body transplantation patient, with an operation planned for December of 2017 in Harbin, China. Unexpectedly, in the summer of 2017, Spiridonov’s operation was cancelled and his campaign ended abruptly. Spiridonov would not be made in China, after all. Mulling over ideas to arrive at some compensatory relief, LOW MAGIC ’s amalgamation of images, objects, and language hopes to work through questions about conditionality, perseverance, and naturalistic interpretations of luck.

Jesse Morgan Barnett (South Korea) is a Fort Worth-based artist who received his M.F.A. (Intermedia) from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2011. His work has been exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas), Dallas Contemporary, INTERSTATE (Brooklyn), Lawndale Art Center (Houston), FQ projects (Shanghai), Gallery Rostrum (Malmö), and Pushkin & Gogol (Berlin). His work has also been featured in publications such as Adbusters, Flash Forward, and Semigloss. magazine. Barnett co-curates the Dallas Biennial and is an assistant curator of education at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. His work attempts to reassess browsing, proposition, agnosticism, and anniversaries.

jessemorganbarnett.com

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

August 25 - October 7, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, August 25, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This project was generously funded by the L. Clarke Stout, Jr. Professorship in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Marie Leterme and Rolf Pessier. Additional thanks to Judith F. Aronson, M.D. for supporting Visual Pathology.

Visual Pathology

A collaboration between Galveston Arts Center and the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Participating artists: Steve Fisher, Mark Greenwalt, Colleen Maynard, Sarah Sudhoff, and Kamila Szczesna

Through a collaboration between Galveston Arts Center and the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) the exhibition Visual Pathology aims to explore and shed light on the relationship between the visual and the pathological. UTMB’s museums of anatomy and pathology were founded in 1891 with the opening of the medical department of the University of Texas. Collectively, the museums helped UTMB gain a national reputation for excellence in practical medical education. By the 1950s, like many other medical museums across the United States and Europe, UTMB’s museums were dismantled, due to complex changes in the medical curriculum.

In collaboration with six pathologists from UTMB, five artists were given access to the remnants of UTMB’s historical pathological and surgical pathology collections as an inspirational starting point. Both artists and pathologists worked in teams to consider the history of the collection and present research undertaken at UTMB. The resulting exhibition explores the intersections between pathological and creative practices.

Steve Fisher is a photographer who specializes in large format black and white images of the Texas Gulf Coast. His work combines the classic craftsmanship of photography and print making with contemporary processes to create art that reflects the spare, uncomplicated beauty of our coastal landscape. Fisher’s photographs have received local, regional, and international recognition, including the Houston Center for Photography, Beth Block Juried Membership Honoraria; a 2018 honorable mention in the Monochrome Photography Awards, features in Adore Noire and Galveston Monthly magazines, and 1st Place in the 2015 International Neutral Density Photography Awards. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography; Lawndale Art Center, Houston; The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston; Artspace III, Fort Worth; and Galveston Arts Center. A Houston native, he currently lives in Pearland, TX. Fisher received a Master of Physical Therapy degree from Texas Tech University and a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where he currently teaches.
www.steverossfisher.com

Image: Steve Fisher, The Chrysalis, 2018, Archival pigment print, 35” x 28”, Courtesy of the artist

Mark Greenwalt is interested in how synthetic figuration operates within personal and collective ideas of myth-making, and how figures, isolated from context or purpose, unpredictably attach to fresh notions about self and society. His drawings form, deform, and reform figurative imagery. Greenwalt received an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and an MA and BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including recent presentations at Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX; Sul Ross University Gallery, Alpine, TX; Greasewood Gallery, Marfa, TX; and O’Kane Gallery at the University of Houston Downtown. Greenwalt is a tenured professor at College of the Mainland, Texas City, and is represented by Hooks-Epstein Gallery in Houston.
www.markgreenwalt.com

Image: Mark Greenwalt, Portrait of Vector Pallidum, 2018, Graphite and acrylic on panel, 12" x 12", Courtesy of the artist

Colleen Maynard makes graphite and charcoal portraits of faceless fossilized marine invertebrates. Using drafting pencils, French curves, and patience, coral and other pre-Dinosaur life forms become royal subjects. Maynard studied painting and writing at the Kansas City Art Institute and botanical illustration at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Her work has been exhibited at the Appleton Biennale at the College of Central Florida; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston, and her writing has appeared in such journals as Nano Fiction, Monkeybicycle, and SAND Berlin.
www.colleenmaynard.com

Image: Colleen Maynard, Visualizing Melanoma, 2018, Mixed media: Charcoal and graphite on paper with ink on Plexiglas and aluminium mounts, 50” x 76” x 4”, Courtesy of the artist

Sarah Sudhoff is an artist, photographer, educator, and former photo editor for Texas Monthly and Time magazines. She is the former Executive Director of Houston Center for Photography and owner of Capsule Gallery in Houston. Sudhoff’s work interweaves themes of gender, science, and personal experience through photographs--staged and found--as well as through performance, installation, and small-scale sculpture. Sudhoff has been awarded artist grants from the Houston Arts Alliance (2017) and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2013). Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout the US and abroad, including recent exhibitions at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; Gray Duck Gallery, Austin; Filter Photo Festival and Roots & Culture, Chicago; and the DongGang International Photo Festival in South Korea. She has participated in artist residencies at Artpace, San Antonio, and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Bloomington, IN. Sudhoff holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons the New School for Design, NY, and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.
www.sarahsudhoff.com

Image: Sarah Sudhoff, Index of Refraction (Ruby), 2018, Glass, 5” x 7” x 2”, Courtesy of the artist

Kamila Szczesna is an interdisciplinary artist working in various media and formats, including sculpture, drawing, and installation. In her work, she explores the complex interactions between the human body and the human mind. Szczesna was born in Poland, where she earned an MFA at the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. Her work has been exhibited and is held in public collections in United States, Poland, Japan, Spain, Korea, Germany, and Denmark. She has lived and lived and worked in Galveston, TX, since 2002.
www.kamilaszczesna.com

Image: Kamila Szczesna, Little Daily Discomforts No. 11, 2018, Steel, fabric, resin, plastic, and flocking fiber, 10 ½” x 5” x 5”, Courtesy of the artist

July 14 – August 19, 2018

Strand Gallery

July 14 - August 19, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, July 14, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Timothy Harding
Unfurled

Timothy Harding’s exhibition Unfurled includes works that explore the fluid relationship between pictorial space and the three-dimensional realm through hardedge geometric patterns and manipulated surfaces. Harding’s work navigates spatial relationships between drawing, painting, and sculpture, through dimensional paintings and sculptural installations. His work engages the viewer through the familiarity of controlled line and shape, while containing gestural and physical distortions that evoke a sense of something gone awry.

Timothy Harding received his MFA from Texas Christian University and BFA from Texas Woman’s University. His work has appeared at venues including Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; The Power Station, Dallas; Florida State University Museum of Art, Tallahassee; SCENE Metrospace, East Lansing, MI; The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX, Box 13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX; And Gallery, Jackson, MS; and 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. He was a founding member of the collective Homecoming! Committee and has participated in residencies at the Center for Creative Connections at the Dallas Museum of Art; the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, where he received an education fellowship. Harding was a 2009 recipient of Kimbrough Fund Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art and 2016 Artist Microgrant from the Nasher Sculpture Center. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, TX. He is represented by Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas.

timothyevanharding.com

1878 Gallery

July 14 - August 19, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, July 14, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Susannah Mira
Lighter Than Air

Susannah Mira uses commercial side-stream as her starting point, transforming piles of excess material into sculpture. In manipulating repetitive, geometric units into organic shapes, Mira reinstates the logic of nature into a production cycle that emphasizes profits over planetary stewardship. Her installation, Lighter than Air, employs the metal mesh of used air filters in pieces that appear to float exuberantly in space. The artist adds depth to these delicate forms by employing the brash palette used to designate various workplace hazards. For Mira, these elements serve as a signal to remain conscious of environmental issues, particularly in a political landscape that diminishes their importance.

Susannah Mira earned a Master’s degree in Environmental Art at the University of Art & Design Helsinki (now Aalto University) in 2008, however, she considers her experiential education, gained by living and working at Arcosanti, the Chinati Foundation, Earthship Biotecture, and other aesthetic outposts equally important. Mira has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has been awarded close to two dozen artist residencies throughout North America, including opportunities at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and with Signal Fire. Born in San Francisco and raised in a nondescript Philadelphia suburb, she has been based in Houston since 2013, where she maintains a studio at BOX 13 ArtSpace.

susannahmira.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

July 14 - August 19, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, July 14, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Kalee Appleton
Supplementary Scenes

Kalee Appleton’s work deals with the nature and materiality of photography through the enduring tradition of landscape photography. Supplementary Scenes explores the objectivity of idealized landscapes and utopian worlds depicted in the photographic backdrops commonly used in mainstream photography studios. Like many photographs throughout history, these objects force viewers to question truth and contemplate the mechanical nature of photography, as the pure purpose of these backdrops is to exist as a false contextual object in the aid of transporting a sitter to an idealized world. The imagery produced not only acts as a supplemental scene to a portrait, but also exists to fulfill the desires of the commissioners and sitters of the portrait. Appleton skews and distorts perceptions of space, transforming these backdrops into the sculptural subjects of her photographs. The medium is further pushed into the sculptural realm with irregularly shaped frames. Imagery either responds to the grain of the wood frame or follows the perimeter of the folded landscape, pulling the photograph from the gallery wall while depicting the 3D altered landscape on a 2D surface.

Kalee Appleton is a photography-based artist and educator living in Dallas, TX. Originally from Hobbs, NM, she attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX and received a BFA in Photography in 2005. After graduation she worked as a corporate and aviation photographer, and she later attended Texas Woman’s University in Denton, where she received an MFA in 2014. Appleton exhibits her work regionally at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas and has exhibited nationally at Filter Photo, Chicago, IL; Houston Center for Photography; and Fotofest International, Houston, TX.

www.kaleeappleton.com

June 2 – July 8, 2018

Strand Gallery

June 2 – July 8, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, June 8, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Other Edens
Rebecca Braziel, Dylan Conner, Hallie Gluk, Erin Stafford, Patrick Turk, & Rachelle Vasquez

Other Edens features works referencing patterns in the natural world and those imposed through human interference. These works juxtapose cycles of growth and decay, in a reflection on the evolving cycle of life. The exhibition includes works by Rebecca Braziel, Dylan Conner, Hallie Gluk, Erin Stafford, Patrick Turk, and Rachelle Vasquez.

Rebecca Braziel was born in Savannah, GA. She received a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. Since graduating, she has gained experience as an artist assistant, workshop instructor, middle school art teacher, and co-op member. She has stayed involved with SCAD by returning to the fibers department as a guest critic and senior mentor. Braziel moved to Houston in 2013 and has since shown her work at the Galveston Art Center; Mountain View College, Dallas; Hunter Gather Project, Houston; and The Tank Project Space at Sawyer Yards, Houston. She recently completely a six-month artist residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. In 2017, she received an Individual Artist Grant from the City of Houston and the Houston Arts Alliance for The Creeping Vine Project.
www.rebeccabraziel.com

Dylan Conner is an artist from Houston, TX. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, studied art history at the University of Houston Downtown, and is currently working towards his MFA at the University of Houston. He has worked with the artists of “Itchy Acres” in Houston, Tim Glover and Ed Wilson, over the past decade to hone his craft. He was instrumental in the creation of a number of large-scale public works, including Wilson’s Soaring in the Clouds at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Conner recently completed the fabrication of his first major public commission entitled Firefly Field, which will be permanently installed as the gateway to Houston’s second oldest park, Woodland Park. Conner currently works in Houston among a tightly knit community of artists in a studio space called El Rincón Social.
dconnersculpture.com

Hallie Gluk received her BA in Art History from Tufts University and her BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is currently based in Houston and works as the Education Assistant for the Houston Center for Photography. Her work was recently featured in the exhibition Relief at Flatlands Gallery.
www.halliegluk.com

Erin Stafford received her BFA from the University of North Texas, Denton, and MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Erin Stafford's aesthetic tendencies are reflected in her studio practice as a result of her upbringing in Dallas, TX where she found upper-middle class expectations full of irony and contradiction. This sense of cultural refinement, which included various forms of ritual and tradition, shaped her aesthetic along with her art education, inspiring her to challenge established social conventions. Following graduation from UTSA, she returned to Dallas where she continued her studio practice along with teaching and curatorial endeavors at Red Arrow Contemporary. Her work was recently featured in the 2017 Texas Biennial, as well as in solo exhibitions at Art League Houston, The Carillon Gallery in Ft. Worth and the Caetani Cultural Centre in Vernon, British Columbia. She is represented by Kirk Hooper Fine Art in Dallas.
erinlouisestafford.com

Patrick Turk was born in Galveston, TX and lives and works in Houston. His assemblages have been exhibited throughout Houston in galleries including Mystic Lyon, Art Storm, Lawndale Art Center, and Rudolph Blume Fine Art/Art Scan Gallery, as well as galleries in Dallas, Galveston and Los Angeles, CA. In 2013, he was a resident artist in Lawndale Art Center’s Artist Studio Program. His works have been published in Mung Being Magazine and include commissions for the 2009 Houston Art Car Parade Poster, as well as the Philokalia album cover by Golden Cities. Turk is one of 60 artists included in the book, The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists (Texas A&M Press), authored by Robert Craig Bunch, released in 2016. He was also featured in the concurrent exhibition, The Art of Found Objects, held at Lone Star College – Kingwood in November 2016. Turk is represented by Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas.
www.patrickturk.net

Rachelle Vasquez is a Houston-native and art educator, who received her BA in Art Education with a minor in Art History from the University of Houston. She participated in artist residencies at DiverseWorks and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout Houston, including solo exhibitions at Lawndale Art Center and Box 13 ArtSpace. Vasquez was an original member of Knitta, a group of artists known for starting the “knit graffiti” movement in Houston, TX in 2005. Her work has been reviewed in the Houston Press, Arts Houston magazine and Glasstire. In 2016, she received and Individual Artist Grant from the City of Houston and the Houston Arts Alliance.
www.rachellevasquez.com

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

June 2 – July 8, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, June 8, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

This exhibition, and accompanying catalog, was organized by the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont.

Ellen Tanner
Fables, Families & Myths

Ellen Tanner’s paintings tell intricate stories that unfold through layers of fine detail, carefully rendered textures, and rich color. Her sources of inspiration for the exhibition Families, Fables and Myths include ancient tales exposing human nature, the secret lives of animals, creatures, and characters in myths. These stories provide the framework that Tanner fills with her own unique cast of characters. Each microscopic element plays a part in the larger picture, and when woven together all the details create an intimate world to explore.

Ellen Tanner earned a BFA in Graphic Design at the University of North Texas in 1998 and worked as an illustrator and graphic designer at Fossil Watch Company for 5 years. She moved to Austin in 2003 where she earned a degree in Art Education from the University of Texas. It was during a mandatory studio art class that she fell in love with oil painting. Since that class, Ellen has devoted as much time as possible to working in the studio and teaching herself to paint. Inspired by the fine detail and luminous colors of the Flemish masters, she has sought out information on their techniques and has cobbled together a personal approach to painting with thin glazes of color over a grisaille. She applies these skills with a microscopic focus that makes each painting a tiny yet fully realized world, rich with detail and color. She is represented by Moody Gallery in Houston, TX.

ellentanner.com

April 21- May 27, 2018

Strand Gallery

April 21- May 27, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, April 21, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Stratiforms
Robin Dru Germany, Jason Makepeace, and Page Piland

Stratiforms features the work of three artists who examine layers in the natural environment through photography, sculpture, and painting. These artists demonstrate acute observations of place, process, and materials, specifically in reference to wood and water. Robin Dru Germany portrays waterways in her recent series, titled Surface Tension, through photographs that reveal the parallel systems between water and air. Navigating the creeks, rivers and lakes from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast, Germany reveals these intertwined environments that are laden with implications for our future. Jason Makepeace excavates miniature kayaks and oars from whole logs in his Moldable Subtractions series. As an avid kayaker, these works honor the shape and form of the vessels he often uses to navigate our coastal waterways. Page Piland’s trompe l’oeil paintings reveal mirrored surfaces painted from the cross sections of reclaimed wood taken from sites he encounters in his daily life. These works examine our place in the natural environment and the origins of their materials and subjects, while excavating divisions between what is seen and imagined.

Robin Dru Germany (BA Tulane, Philosophy, MFA University of North Texas) was born in Houston, TX, and grew up further south in the small town of Friendswood. She has taught photography at Texas Tech University in Lubbock since 1996. Her work has been exhibited at the Society for Contemporary Photography in Kansas City, MO; at the New York Hall of Science; at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; and at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi. She has photographs in the collections of the Center for Photography Woodstock, The Boise Art Museum, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ.
robingermany.com

Jason Makepeace is a sculptor living and working in League City, TX. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout Texas, including pubic art projects at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and Discovery Green, Houston. He received his BA from Charleston College, Charleston, SC, and MFA from the University of Houston. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Sculpture and Program Director for the Art & Design Program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
www.jasonmakepeace.com

Page Piland lives and works in Houston, TX. He was born in Austin, TX, and received a BFA from the University of Texas. While at UT, he was art editor of student publications and worked at the Harry Ransom Center. Piland’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout Texas. His 2016 public art commission, Houston’s Tall Forest, is installed at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston.
pagepiland.com

1878 Gallery

April 21- May 27, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, April 21, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Chance Dunlap
Best Chance

Trained as a sculptor and painter, Chance Dunlap’s recent practice has focused on his passion for handmade fishing lures. Best Chance features a selection of Dunlap’s hand-crafted lures, along with examples of folk art lures from the artist’s personal collection. These works mirror Dunlap's own experience and interests as a fisherman, collector, and maker of lures. Created with the utilitarian and hopeful gesture of attracting something you can’t see from the surface, Dunlap’s tackle making possesses the formal qualities of form, texture, and color, while also harboring a relationship to place. In conjunction with the exhibition, visitors are invited to participate in an ongoing lure swap. Bring a lure and trade it for a selection of bait made by the artist.

Chance Dunlap was born and raised near Lubbock, TX, where big skies, cotton fields, and rural experiences have shaped his life and work. While in high school, his family moved to Sherman, TX, where, in the summer of 2003, he made his first sculpture in the backyard of his parents' house – deciding instantly to become a practicing artist. Dunlap completed his undergraduate work at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, just north of the Texas/Oklahoma border, and received an MFA in sculpture at the University of North Texas in Denton. His work continues to take clues from his rural roots, experiences, and personal interests. Dunlap is a proud member of the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club (NFLCC) and regularly attends trade shows to educate others on the subject. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Tyler Museum of Art, the Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas, TX; and Fort Worth Community Arts Center. He is represented by Ro2 Art Gallery in Dallas, TX.

chancedunlap.blogspot.com

1878 Gallery

April 21- May 27, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, April 21, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Laray Polk & Marcos Lutyens
The Trinity River Project

The Trinity River Project is a collaborative exhibition by Marcos Lutyens and Laray Polk, seeking to provide an opportunity for viewers (as readers and contemplators) to become uprooted in their perceptions of the Trinity River, then re-rooted in the spirit of new possibilities. This project began with a series of ten essays, recounting the complex history and relationship between Dallas and the Trinity River from pre-colonial times to date. The essays, published by D Magazine, were followed by a weekend of guided meditations conducted by Marcos Lutyens, and a physical exhibition at the Liliana Bloch Gallery in December, 2016. The presentation of this project at GAC traces the river from Dallas to the mouth of the Trinity River at Galveston Bay.

Marcos Lutyens’ practice has centered on the investigation of consciousness to engage the visitor’s embodied experience of art. Exhibitions of infinite scale and nature have been installed in the minds of visitors. His investigations have included research with social groups such as the third-gender Muxhe, Raeilians, synaesthetes, border migrants, space engineers, and mental architects to explore how unconscious mindsets shift across cultures and backgrounds. Lutyens has developed projects that involve our external surroundings. Works include interactions with pedestrian flows, social media dialogue, air quality levels, animal and biological intercommunication.

Lutyens has exhibited internationally, such as at DOCUMENTA(13), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Royal Academy, the National Art Museum of China, and MoMA PS1. He worked in alliance with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on the 14th Istanbul Biennial, where he also created a large-scale installation on a ship, as well as preparing the public program Thought Forms and Brain Waves: Neuro-Aesthetics and Art, which included some of the world’s leading neuroscientists. Lutyens recently launched his book Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days. Present and recent work includes projects at the Guggenheim Museum, NY, the Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, the Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, the Armory, NY.
www.mlutyens.com

Laray Polk is a multimedia artist and writer. Her interests include politics, media analysis, nuclear nonproliferation, and climate change. Her articles have appeared in print in The Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, In These Times, and online at Rural America In These Times, Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Pacific Free Press, Sri Lanka Guardian, and Znet. Her multimedia exhibitions include Gaza Zoo (a project centered around the politics of captivity); and The Beautiful Obstacle (a history of the military-industrial complex at MIT). Research projects include the study of Cambodian palm-leaf manuscripts at Cornell University, interviews with Navajo Code Talkers in New Mexico, and travel to living Mayan communities and archeological sites in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.

Polk and Noam Chomsky co-authored the book Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe in 2013. A second book on sea-level rise is forthcoming.

March 3 – April 15, 2018

Strand Gallery

March 3 – April 15, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, March 3, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

AnnieLaurie Erickson
Into the Digital Mesh

AnnieLaurie Erickson’s work investigates the physical apparatus of the Internet and digital surveillance. Into the Digital Mesh includes photographic works from her ongoing Data Shadows series, which examines the traces of information we leave behind as we traverse the digital sea of the Internet. Traveling to every Google Data Center in the United States and Europe, and visiting the largest data facilities of Apple and Facebook, Erickson documents the massive infrastructure that houses our data, juxtaposing their unremarkable exteriors with their brightly colored and tangled interiors. The project calls to attention to the physical scale of information collected by these institutions and considers its impact on our daily experience. Erickson’s work offers a symbolic gesture of “counterveillence,” illuminating the locations holding our data through photographs that peer back into to the global scale of technology that surveils our digital lives.

AnnieLaurie Erickson is a lens-based artist and educator residing in New Orleans, LA. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Erickson is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of Photography at Tulane University, as well as a collective member at Antenna in the St. Claude Arts District in New Orleans. Erickson has exhibited her work at Higher Pictures, NYC; the Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC; the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans; the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; the Boston Center for the Arts; and CentrePasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland, among others. Notable press includes The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, Oxford American, Daily Serving, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, Paper Magazine, Afterimage, and Foam Magazine. In 2016 Erickson received an ATLAS (Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) grant to develop her project Data Shadows.

annielauriee.com

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

March 3 – April 15, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, March 3, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Paho Mann and Leigh Merril
Collections, Keepsakes, Souvenirs

In Collections, Keepsakes, Souvenirs, Paho Mann and Leigh Merrill investigate our personal and cultural relationships to the objects we collect and environments we inhabit, while addressing ideas of value, memory, and desire. Observation, photographic representation, and the role of contemporary photographic technologies are central to their individual practices. Mann considers the role of technology and photography in the ways we observe and make meaning from mass-produced objects and personal collections. Through photography, video, and 3D imaging technologies, he examines the objects we own and consume to find evidence of our identity and culture. Merrill seamlessly combines thousands of images taken of the urban landscape to create digitally simulated environments that occupy the fine border between the real and the imagined. Her images explore the construction of desire, fiction, and beauty in our urban landscapes, and what she describes as “a culture of perpetual longing.”

Leigh Merrill received a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Mills College, Oakland, CA. Merrill’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum, the diRosa Art Preserve, Lawndale Art Center, FotoFest International, and the Museum of Texas Tech University. Her work is part of the collections of the Museum of Texas Tech University, the City of Phoenix, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Merrill lives and works in Dallas, TX where she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Texas A&M University-Commerce. She is represented by Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas.
www.leighmerrill.com

Paho Mann’s work has been included in exhibitions at Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, among others. His work is included in the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, the Museum at Texas Tech University, Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS, and the City of Phoenix Public Art Program. Mann received a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Arizona State University. Currently, Mann lives and works in Dallas, TX, where he is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of North Texas in Denton.
www.pahomann.com

January 13 – February 25, 2018

Strand Gallery

January 13 – February 25, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, January 13, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

The Color Condition
Premium Quality

Known for their playful and immersive environments created from a variety of plastic and light weight fabrics, The Color Condition aims to make work that calls attention to the sites where they are installed. Drawn to repetition, patterns, color, and the natural motion of wind, the Color Condition transforms synthetic materials into installations that mimic objects found in the natural environment. Their exhibition, Premium Quality, explores a symbolic collision of the internal and external components of their installations, done and undone, to reveal their hidden woven structures.

The Color Condition is an ongoing collaboration and experiment established in 2010 between Dallas-based artists Marianne Newsom and Sunny Sliger. Their installations and environments have been featured across the US, including public art installations at Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL (2015 & 2016); Austin City Limits; The Pilgrimage Festival, Franklin, TN; as well as exhibitions at Umbrella Gallery and Beefhaus Gallery, Dallas, TX. Their most recent site-specific temporary public art installation for Discovery Green and Houston First Corporation was their largest to date and encompassed the park and Avenida de las Americas in downtown Houston in the fall of 2016.

thecolorcondition.com

1878 Gallery

January 13 – February 25, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, January 13, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Cary Reeder
Impermanence

Impermanence is an exhibition from a new series of paintings and cut-paper works by Houston artist Cary Reeder. Feeling unmoored by a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in 2014, Reeder began this series as a means to explore themes of loss and renewal using nature-based imagery as her muse. With Impermanence, Reeder interprets trees, hands, paths, and portals through bright, highly-saturated paintings and cut-paper painted collage works. Reeder describes her personal relationship with the subject of these works as “a metaphor for my hands and fingers, their craggy knots resembling my joints and veiny lines mimicking mine, and the paths that they shade, symbolic of a journey with an unknown end.” Having primarily exhibited paintings in her past, these new cut-paper works mark a new direction in her practice.

Cary Reeder, a Miami, Florida native, has made Houston, Texas her home since 1998. She worked for more than a decade as a graphic artist and typesetter in the early 80s and received her fine art training at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Glassell School of Art. In between her stint as a graphic artist and returning to art school, she had a 20+ year career as a grant writer and fundraiser for nonprofit organizations. Her work has been included in numerous local, regional, and national juried exhibitions, along with solos shows at the Optical Project (2016) and Lawndale Art Center (2013) in Houston. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance (2013), was twice featured in New American Paintings (Issues #108 and #120), and was a Hunting Prize Finalist (2014). Reeder currently teaches at the Art League Houston.

www.caryreeder.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

January 13 – February 25, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, January 13, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Michael Golden
0 – Connected

Michael Golden’s exhibition, 0 - Connected, includes collages created from images he has collected over the past 30 years of his studio practice. After retiring from teaching in 2016, Golden began sorting through his archive of images. The resulting works document his life experiences, personal associations, and play with visual metaphor through imagery pulled from science, nature and geometry. Golden’s life experiences of coming out, his varied medical history, travels, and teaching are clipped and juxtaposed with representations of forgiveness, oneness, family, and gender identity. Golden’s perception of space is altered by blindness in his right eye, with these collages offering viewers insight into his two-dimensional world.

Michael Golden was born in Chicago, IL and lives and works in Houston, TX. He received his MFA in printmaking and drawing from the University of Illinois, Champaign in 1989. For 25 years he taught in the Art Department at Houston Community College-Central, where he served as Department Chair and Gallery Director. His work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including “The Abstract Impulse” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Rudolf Blume Fine Art/Art Scan Gallery, Houston; Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL; Project Row Houses, Houston; and Artists Space and the Painting Center, New York. Golden’s work is in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN; University of California, Palo Alto; and University of Texas at Austin, as well as corporate and private collections. He has received Individual Artists Grants from HAA for both his own work and for curating.

www.michaelgoldenstudio.com

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November 25, 2017 – January 7, 2018

Strand Gallery

November 25, 2017 – January 7, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, November 25, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Dan Schmahl
Sufers Beach

Dan Schmahl’s exhibition, Sufer’s Beach, takes its title from Sex Wax graffiti on Galveston’s seawall at the artist’s favorite surfing spot. In someone’s attempt to designate the spot as a “surfer’s beach,” Schmahl found the moniker poetic and a reminder that life is suffering, even in his search for a beach break. Schmahl’s exhibition documents the romantic pipe-dream of a Galveston, Texas beachfront utopia. This hopeful surf spot will be portrayed through a body of work containing photographs, video, printed matter, and a 13-foot-tall viewing platform resembling one of Galveston’s seawall lifeguard stands. Schmhal describes the stand as, “an interactive perch and sheltered gallery bench; a pivotal seat from which viewers can feel the gulf breeze through the A/C ducts, and envision an alternative future amidst the changing tides of the Anthropocene. It’s a show about what a little optimism and collective yips and howls can create: paradise dammit!”

Dan Schmahl received his BFA from Florida State University in 2012. He was a resident artist at the Galveston Artist Residency from 2013 to 2014. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Warte für Kunst, Kassel, Germany; Austin Center for Photography, Austin, TX; Signal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; MASS Gallery, Tallahassee, FL; and Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL. Schmahl owns and operates Super Hit Press, a project to self-publish handmade artist books and zines, and is a member of the Galveston DIY collective WAKE. Schmahl currently lives and works in Galveston, TX.

www.danschmahl.com

This exhibition is supported in part by McCoy’s Building Supply.

1878 Gallery

November 25, 2017 – January 7, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, November 25, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Joan Laughlin
Entanglement

Joan Laughlin’s detailed paintings of forest undergrowth and tree knots highlight the resilience of the natural world and allude to the fleeting nature of memory for the exhibition Entanglement. Laughlin’s monochromatic renderings of the tangled forest floor border between hyper-real and abstract in their attention to detail. Laughlin began this body of work while caring for her father who had Alzheimer's. Through this experience and observations of the forest ecosystem, Laughlin reflects on the interconnections between loss and regeneration.

Joan Laughlin received her MFA in 2002 from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. In 2015, she received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from UTHealth. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions in Houston over the past 15 years and a solo exhibition at the Jung Center in 2015. Laughlin is an adjunct Art Instructor at Houston Community College. She currently lives and works in Houston, TX.

www.joanmlaughlin.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

November 25, 2017 – January 7, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday, November 25, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Motoyuki Noguchi & Toshimichi Minagawa
Taiguruma Radio Station

Taiguruma Radio Station reintroduces the lost art and tradition of Japanese “fish cart” lanterns through an installation by Motoyuki Noguchi and Toshimichi Minagawa. Taiguruma originated in the town of Maki in Niigata Prefecture, Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1868). Pulled by children to cemeteries during Obon festivals each August, these lanterns were created to honor and communicate with the spirits of their carriers’ ancestors. The craft and traditions associated with Taiguruma disappeared when their last craftsman passed away over 20 years ago. Since 2004, Motoyuki Noguchi, leader of the Taiguruma Revival Project, has worked to revive and preserve this craft and engage communities in this traditional practice. Along with his collaborator, Toshimichi Minagawa, Noguchi has introduced Taiguruma through workshops and exhibitions throughout Japan and abroad.

Expanding on the tradition of communicating with our ancestors, Noguchi and Minagawa’s installation offers visitors an opportunity to open a line of communication across borders, generations, and cultures through messages collected from visitors and a local radio broadcast. In collaboration with Ball High School’s KTOR radio, messages from the installation will be read on the air periodically through the duration of the exhibition.

This exhibition marks Noguchi and Toshimichi’s fifth visit to Galveston, Niigata City’s sister city and is presented in conjunction with their annual lantern workshop at the Galveston Art League.

Motoyuki Noguchi (b.1981) received his Master’s in Visual Communication and Design from the Nagaoka Institute of Design in Niigata, Japan, in 2004. In 2009, The Taiguruma Revival Project won the Wakuwaku Town Daisakusen Competition sponsored by Mos Burger and received sponsorship for their activities for one year. In 2011, the project received the Shinkosho Award from Tiffany Foundation, recognizing the notable contribution to the preservation of Japanese traditional arts and culture in contemporary society and revitalization of local communities. Since 2013, Taiguruma workshops have been held every November in Galveston, TX, the sister city of Niigata City, Japan.

Toshimichi Minagawa (b. 1976) graduated from Nagaoka Institute of Design in 1998, where he studied the preservation and utilization of historic cultural properties. In 2001, he began working with the Maki city town management organization on urban revitalization projects. He has served as the project planner for the Taiguruma Revival Project since 2005, working with installation design, presentations, workshops, festivals, and technical support in Japan and overseas. In 2013, Minagawa established the Nakayoshikawa Apartment Project design team, a revitalization project in a former soy sauce and miso factory in the Maki ward of Niigata City. Since 2015 the team has worked to light up the factory’s iconic red brick chimney as a remembrance of the factory’s former industry. Minagawa is also currently working with area Kenkou knife makers on sales of their products and through securing a successor to learn these skills for future generations to appreciate.

www.taiguruma.com

October 14 – November 19, 2017

Strand Gallery

October 14 - November 19, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, October 14, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Giovanni Valderas
TRADECRAFT

Giovanni Valderas pulls from his culture, history, and origins to produce three-dimensional mixed-media works that address the tattered relationships with his Guatemalan, Mexican, and American ancestry. His recent work addresses issues with gentrification in Spanish speaking communities and incorporates frayed elements of the piñata. Through the use of idioms incorporated into piñata forms, Valderas transforms these objects associated with celebration to highlight an alternate identity of the decay of traditional structures. Installed guerilla style alongside commercial real estate development signs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Valderas’ piñata start a conversation about the rapid gentrification of communities and juxtaposes their messages of power and influence.

The exhibition’s title piece, TRADECRAFT, consists of an installation of fourteen 48 inch letters, spelling the phrase “QUIÉN LOS PARARÀ.” At first glance the phrase’s potentially pejorative meaning, which translates to “Who will stop them,” is subverted into a message of empowerment for Spanish speakers. QUIÉN LOS PARARÀ is intended to co-opt words of fear and transcend them into a positive message for the culturally marginalized. The installation appropriates the piñata form in an effort to transform its original identity in popular culture from one of mere birthday celebrations, to one of a cultural construct in an attempt to decipher the complex history between US and Latin America. Through this work, Valderas aims to engage viewers and provoke a sense of empathy.

A native of Dallas, M. Giovanni Valderas is the Assistant Gallery Director at Kirk Hopper Fine Art. He also was appointed by Dallas City Council as Vice Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission, under Mayor Mike Rawlings. Previously he was the Gallery Director at Mountain View College. Valderas graduated from the College of Visual Arts & Design at the University of North Texas with a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing & Painting. He has taught Mural Painting, Beginning and Intermediate Figure Drawing at the University of North Texas as well as Foundation Drawing and Art Appreciation at Richland and Mountain View College. He is a former member of 500x gallery, one of the oldest co-op galleries in Texas. His work has been featured in the 2013 Texas Biennial, New American Paintings Magazine, issues #108 and #132, and Impossible Geometries: Curated works by Lauren Haynes at Field Projects in New York City.

www.giovannivalderas.com

1878 Gallery

October 14 - November 19, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, October 14, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Regina Agu
Sea Change

Regina Agu explores representations of the physical and historical landscape in her exhibition Sea Change. Agu’s work explores narratives related to language, history, representation, and their intersections in contemporary ideas around landscape and communities of color. Central to the exhibition is an 80-foot panoramic photograph printed on billboard vinyl documenting a group of prototype sand dunes constructed from the sargassum that regularly washes up on Galveston’s shores. Using landscape photography, environmental research, and source texts including Jean Rhys' 1966 feminist novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Sea Change is a speculative commentary on climate change, the tourism industry, environmental justice, and interrelated economies.

Regina Agu currently serves on the Board of Directors at Project Row Houses, Houston, TX and since 2014 has been the Co-Director of Alabama Song, Houston. From 2014-2015, she was the Artist Board President at DiverseWorks, Houston. Awards and residencies include Artadia Houston Award, 2017; Lawndale Artist Studio Resident, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, 2017-2018; SEED Grant for Alabama Song (with Gabriel Martinez), The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 2016; Open Sessions 2016-2017, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, 2016; Associate Artist in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 2015; Southern Constellations Fellow and Artist-in-residence, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC, 2015; The Idea Fund Grant for Friends of Angela Davis Park (with Gabriel Martinez), Houston, 2014; Individual Artist Grant – Emerging, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, 2012; and Creative Capital Master Class, Houston, 2012. Most recently, Agu was featured in the group exhibitions into the midst of things, DiverseWorks, curated by Rachel Lynn Cook; and Where Do We Stand?, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, on view August 3, 2017 – September 17, 2017, curated by Nova Benway and Lisa Sigal. Agu lives and works in Houston, TX.

www.reginaagu.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

October 14 - November 19, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, October 14, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Christie Blizard
Wanting to not want

Christie Blizard presents work from her ongoing project in which the artist holds up text paintings on The Today Show and Good Morning America. Through Blizard’s disruptions of the broadcast, she tests the boundaries of free speech in America. Since 2014, Blizard has made approximately 30 appearances in the audience of broadcasts of these popular morning television programs. The project has gained national attention through articles in Hyperallergic and ArtNews, and was nominated for an Art Matters award. For her exhibition, Wanting not to want, Blizard presents a new series of text paintings, video projections and still images taken from appearances during the summer of 2017. During the opening reception, Blizard will perform as Matt Lauer, host of The Today Show.

Christie Blizard is a national and international exhibiting artist, working in a variety of media merging painting, poetry, and performance. Since 2006, she has been featured in over 70 national and international art exhibitions including those curated by several renowned art figures such as: internationally known artists Mel Chin and Pradip Malde; Dr. Charissa Terranova, Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies and Director of Centraltrak Artist Residency at UT Dallas; Rene Barilleaux, Chief Curator at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Carter Foster, Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Heather Pesanti, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and Antoine Guerrero, Director of Exhibitions at PS1. Recent exhibitions include an invitation to the Texas Biennial 2011 and 2013 curated by Virginia Rutledge held in Austin, and solo exhibitions at Lawndale Center for Art in Houston and Women and Their Work in Austin. Other recent residencies and fellowships include Artpace in 2017, the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH and Centraltrak Artist in residence program through the University of Texas at Dallas. Her work has been featured in ArtNews, Hyperallergic, Blouin ArtInfo, and Art in America.

christieblizard.com

August 26 – October 8, 2017

Strand Gallery

August 26 - October 8, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, August 26, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Bradley Kerl
Greenhouse

Houston-based painter Bradley Kerl presents Greenhouse, an exhibition of recent work ranging from works on paper to large-scale paintings. Kerl mines his day-to-day experiences for image- making opportunities: classroom still-life arrangements, a flowerbed at the grocery store, potted plants at the doctor’s office. These seemingly mundane moments offer the artist an opportunity to develop his particular vernacular. With the inclusion of etchings, works on paper, and small canvases, the artist’s varied approach to making fully realized, large-scale paintings will be on view for the first time in a major exhibition.

A native of southeast Texas, Bradley Kerl has called Houston home for the past six years. Kerl studied drawing and painting at the University of North Texas, as well as the University of Houston, where he earned his MFA in 2014. His work has been exhibited widely in Texas including the group exhibitions HOT & WET at Circuit12 Contemporary (2016) and Fun at Kirk Hopper Fine Art (2017), both in Dallas, TX. He has also been the focus of solo exhibitions at Art Palace Gallery (2014, 2015) and Houston’s Texas Contemporary Art Fair (2016). More recently, Kerl spent January 2017 in residence at 100 West Corsicana in Corsicana, TX, in addition to completing his first mural at Circuit12 Contemporary’s PRIMER bookstore. He is currently an Affiliate Artist Instructor of drawing and painting at the University of Houston. Kerl is represented by Art Palace in Houston.

www.bradleykerl.com

1878 Gallery

August 26 - October 8, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, August 26, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Angel Oloshove
The Ocean Never Closes

Angel Oloshove presents a new series of ceramic totems that reflect on the land, environment, and its constant state of flux for the exhibition The Ocean Never Closes. Oloshove’s work experiments with painterly glazes to express feelings of transcendental experiences through form and color. She describes her stacked stupa as connecting earth, water, fire, wind, and the void. Oloshove’s works are beacons, reveling in the beauty of the day and standing strong to weather the greatest storm. In her work, clay is brought to a new light, as stone, vibrating with the history of the land.

Angel Oloshove (b. 1981, Temperance, MI) studied painting at California College of the Arts and went on to worked in graphic design and toy development in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009, she turned her focus to develop her studio practice in ceramic sculpture. She balances a fine art practice of sculptural ceramics as well has her own line of functional design pottery that is stocked in design boutiques throughout the United States. Her exhibition Floating Worlds was selected as a Critic’s Pick for the April 2015 issue of ArtForum. In 2015, she was named one of “Ten Modern Ceramists Shaping the Future” by AnOther Magazine. In 2015, Oloshove’s ceramic designs and artworks were included in the survey exhibition Texas Design Now at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. She has exhibited at Gallery Hanahou (New York), Front St. Gallery (Oakland, CA), and several arts institutions across Japan. Oloshove was a finalist for the 2015 Houston Artadia Award, and will begin a residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in the fall of 2017.

www.angeloloshove.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

August 26 - October 8, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, August 26, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Christopher Cascio
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Christopher Cascio is a painter based in Houston. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA, 1999) and the University of Houston (MFA, 2013). Cascio has exhibited his work extensively, including exhibitions at Devin Borden Gallery, Cardoza Fine Arts, Rice University, Blaffer Museum, DiverseWorks, and Lawndale Art Center in Houston, New Image Art and Maitland Foley in Los Angeles, Makebish in New York, and others exhibition in Dallas, San Antonio, and San Francisco. In 2014, he was included in the Contemporary Art Museum’s 65th anniversary show Outside the Lines. He was recently featured in Sneeze Magazine and reviewed in Art in America. Cascio teaches at Sam Houston State University and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

www.christophercascio.com

July 15 – Aug 20, 2017

Strand Gallery

July 15 - August 20, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, July 15, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Abhidnya Ghuge
Changing Perspectives

Abhidnya Ghuge transforms disposable paper plates into immersive installations using wood-block printed patterns inspired by Indian henna designs, the microscopic and macroscopic world, and the current cultural landscape of America. Ghuge’s work celebrates these patterns and organic forms, while calling attention the ephemeral nature of human experience.

Born in India and a dermatologist by previous profession, Abhidnya Ghuge is a multidisciplinary installation artist. Currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Tyler, she has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States, and her work can be found in collections throughout India and the United Kingdom.

abhidnyaghuge.com

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

July 15 - August 20, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, July 15, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Burning Bones Press
Collective Pulse

Burning Bones Press is a printmaking studio in the Houston Heights, founded by Carlos Hernandez and Pat Masterson in 2011. The studio is a center of collaboration for artists working in a variety of print media, including etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, screenprints and monoprints. The exhibition, Collective Pulse, features a selection of prints by members of Burning Bones Press. This exhibition is co-organized by Keelin Burrows, Curator for The Printing Museum, Houston, and Dennis Nance, Curator for Galveston Arts Center in conjunction with PrintHouston.

Burning Bones Press is a printmaking studio which collaborates with artists to produce editions of original etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, screenprints and monoprints. The studio also does contract, collaborative printing for other publishers, dealers, artists, and institutions, and is available on a limited basis for open-shop work by experienced artists. In addition, Burning Bones Press offers classes for the general public in screenprinting, lithography, relief, monoprints and more.

www.burningbonespress.com

June 3 – July 9, 2017

Strand Gallery

June 3 - July 9, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, June 3, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Robert Hodge and Tierney Malone
Two & 1/2 Years: A Visual Celebration to the Spirit of Juneteenth

Two & 1/2 Years: A Visual Celebration to the Spirit of Juneteenth is a collaboration between multidisciplinary artists Tierney Malone and Robert Hodge. The story of the institution of slavery in Texas and the origins of the Juneteenth celebration are reexamined and retold musically and visually. The exhibition is a visual representation of the music project Two and 1/2 Years: A Musical Celebration to the Spirit of Juneteenth, produced by Robert Hodge and Tierney Malone, released June 19, 2016.

Robert Hodge is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of memory and commemoration. Born in Houston, Texas and raised in the City’s Third Ward district, the artist studied visual at the Atlanta College of Art before returning to Houston. Hodge has exhibited his work in numerous national and international institutions including Project Row Houses; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the Contemporary Museum of East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. Named amongst the Houston Press’ 100 Most Creative People in 2011, Hodge has also received grants from the Houston Arts Alliance and The Idea Fund. Hodge recently received the Joan Mitchell Artist Grant and Young Master Prize in 2014. Hodge attended the prestigious Skowhegan residency summer of 2014 and had his first solo museum exhibition in 2014-2015 as well at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Robert Hodge recently released “Two and 1/2 Years” A Musical Celebration to the Spirit of Juneteenth a record he executive produced in June 2016. He is working on two new music projects along with exhibitions this year.
www.robertleroyhodge.com

Tierney Malone was born in Los Angeles, but has long called Houston his home. Malone is a modern-day storyteller who creates works on paper and mixed media constructions. He uses the cannon of African-American history and pop culture to create contemporary tales about life. By invoking colorful and emotionally charged figures from jazz, sports and literature, Malone makes powerful and sensitive works that are both visually beautiful and politically provocative.

Malone has exhibited his art widely throughout Texas and the U.S., including numerous solo exhibitions. His works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the Kansas City Jazz Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Goldman Sachs, New York; and the Federal reserve Bank, Houston, Texas. He is the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a CACHH Visual Artist Grant and Kimbrough Visual Artist Grant.

Malone has collaborated with noted jazz musicians, commissioned to create the jacket cover for musician Con Byrons’ 199 CD, “Romance of the Unseen”, on the Blue Note label and jazz pianist Randy Weston for a 2003 performance at the Miller Outdoor Theater. In 2008, he completed two major commissions; a limited edition print celebrating Da Camera of Houston’s 20th Anniversary and an outdoor mural entitled “Southern Sounds” for the Coleman Art Center in York, Alabama. Music and the creators of music are a major influence in his work. It was November 2009 that Malone presented a solo exhibition in Houston, Texas “Third Ward My Harlem.”
www.tierneymalone.net

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

June 3 - July 9, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, June 3, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

ROUX
SALT

The Houston-based artist collective ROUX includes Rabéa Ballin, Ann Johnson, Delita Martin, and Lovie Olivia. Their works navigate between styles of the past and the proposed future and address experiences unique to Women of Color residing in the American South. These four artists not only embrace and challenge drawing conventions in medium, surface and concept but apply unusual approaches to the process and ingredients of printmaking, installation, video, sculpture, and painting. Their exhibition, SALT, is presented in conjunction with PrintHouston, a biennial celebration of original prints at galleries and museums throughout the region.

Born in Germany, raised in southern Louisiana, Rabéa Ballin received her informal training from her mother who was a friseur and salon owner. The cultural shifts resulting from being the daughter of an American soldier and a European mother resulted in a sensitive awareness of the power and politics of hair. Her scrutiny of the sculptural aspects of hair began with her self-taught hair braiding practice. The cross pollination of untold histories and hair are the core elements of her work. Ballin holds an MFA (University of Houston), and a BFA (McNeese State University). During her years at McNeese she returned to Germany to attend the Goethe Institute, subsequently studying Art History in Rome and Florence, Italy. Currently an assistant professor of art, Rabéa is living and working in Houston’s historical Third Ward community.
www.rabea-ballin.com

Ann Johnson was born in London, England and raised in Cheyenne, WY. She received a BS in Home Economics from Prairie View A&M University, an MA in Humanities from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, as well as an MFA from The Academy of Art University, in San Francisco with a concentration in printmaking. In 2010, she received the Teaching Excellence Award at Prairie View A&M University, and was awarded Art teacher of the year in the School of Architecture. In 2011, she received the distinguished Presidents Faculty of the Year award. Johnson’s work has been exhibited nationally in solo, group and juried exhibitions. She was a Prize winner in Lawndale Art Center’s “The Big Show” in 2004, and was the Mixed Media winner in the Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition in 2007. Johnson was also included in the Texas Biennial in 2013. Most recently Johnson has focused on experimental printmaking, and in 2015 she was acknowledged as an “Artist to Watch” in the International Review of African American Art. She has exhibited at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; The Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX; Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; Tisdale Beach Institute, Savannah, GA; Charles H. Wright Museum, Flint, MI; The Apex Museum in Atlanta, GA; and The California African American Art Museum in Los Angeles, CA. Johnson has published several articles for School Arts magazine (Davis), and has written and designed a number of books including: I’ll Fly Away (Solefolio Press), BÄs (Solefolio Press), Paper & Ink (blurb), ROUX (Solefolio Press), Craft$ For The No Budget Art Teacher (Solefolio Press), and STIR (Solefolio Press). She is represented by Hooks Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX.
www.solesisterart.com

Delita Martin is an artist currently based in Huffman, Texas. She received a BFA in drawing from Texas Southern University and a MFA in printmaking from Purdue University. Formally a member of the fine arts faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Martin is currently works as a full-time artist in her studio, Black Box Press. Working from Oral traditions, vintage and family photographs as a source of inspiration, Martin’s work explores the power of the narrative impulse. Her process of layering various printmaking, drawing, sewing, collaging, and painting techniques allow her to create portraits that fuse the real and the fantastic. In her work, she combines signs and symbols to create a visual language. By fusing this visual language with oral storytelling, she offers other identities and other narratives for women of color. Martin’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Most recently Martin’s work was included in the State of the Arts: Discovering American Art Now, an exhibition that included 101 artists from around the United States. She was also included in International Review of African American Art as one of 16 African American artists to watch who are gaining national and international attention in 2015.
blackboxpressstudio.com

Lovie Olivia is a native Houstonian and a visual artist who’s practice employs Fresco (buon and secco) with the addition of digital fresco (monotype) and sgrafitto (scratch) to create paintings, objects, installations and discourse around issues of gender, sexuality, race, class and power. Although her past includes some formal artistic training, including graduating from Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, she mostly relies on her independent studies of art, cultures, music, literature, and history to influence her work. She has exhibited at Jam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Pillow, Brooklyn, NY, 36; Steps Gallery, Pittsburgh PA; The Art League Houston; Darke Gallery; GalleryM2; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Project Row Houses; Arthello Beck Gallery, Dallas, TX; and Houston Museum of African American Culture. In addition to her multifaceted approach to visual art, she teaches drawing at Art League and painting at Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Olivia is also a recipient of an Individual Artist Grant Award 2009 and 2014 which is funded by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
www.lovieolivia.com

April 22 – May 28 , 2017

Strand Gallery

April 22 - May 28, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, April 22, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Jules Buck Jones
Gardens and Graveyards

Austin-based Jules Buck Jones’ exhibition, Gardens and Graveyards, is a multimedia installation fusing his paintings, drawings, and sculpture with backdrops, props, and costumes from his Animal Facts Club performances. Jones’ work hints at the supernatural authority of nature through anthropomorphized landscapes and pairings of odd congregations of wildlife. The work delves into thoughts of evolution, transformation, and extinction. Animal Facts Club, puts on theatrical performances which highlight the wide range of species of Texas.

Jules Buck Jones earned his MFA in Painting at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, in 2008 and a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, in 2005, and has had artist residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME), The Light House Works (Fisher Island, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and AIRIE in the Everglades National Park (Homestead, FL). His work has been exhibited throughout Texas and his native Virginia. He has received commissions from Gensler (Houston, TX), Dell Children’s Hospital (Austin, TX) and the City of Austin, TX. His work is in the permanent collection at The Contemporary Austin. He is represented by Conduit Gallery (Dallas, TX) and David Shelton Gallery (Houston, TX). Animal Facts Club is a like-minded consortium of artists, scientists, musicians, and writers who come together to share awesome facts about animals with each other. They put on educational performances, create annual calendars, and make animations and videos about the amazing character traits of animals.

www.julesbuckjones.com

1878 Gallery

April 22 - May 28, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, April 22, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Calder Kamin
Plastic Planet

Like the scavenger animals Calder Kamin sculpts, she collects a variety of colored plastic bags from her friends and family. Kamin strips and twists the bags into textures like fur or grass to create the work in her exhibition Plastic Planet. This same plastic litters road, fills oceans, and has entered the tissue of all living things. Her work poses the question, “What are the steps to solve this crisis?” In addition to the exhibition, Kamin’s Neocortex Classroom provides visitors an opportunity to absorb the problems of our planet, such as pollution and extinction caused by humans. Through hands-on activities and events, Kamin is motivated to inspire her audience make better choices for the environment. Kamin’s art sparks activism and an opportunity to participate in the greater good by transforming materials and her audiences.

Calder Kamin earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute. Kamin was the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art Truck Artist for the 2013-2014 school year and the first Artist-in-Residence at the Beach Museum of Art. She was one of 102 national artists to be selected for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s exhibition “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now”. Kamin was a mentor for the Teen Artist + Mentor Program in 2015 and is a 2017 Crit Group fellow at Contemporary Austin. She has returned home to Austin, Texas. Her solo exhibition Plastic Planet at Women & Their Work was supported by a Mid-America Arts Alliance 2017 Artistic Innovations Grant. Her next project is to animate her Plastic Planet series for a PSA that will debut on KLRU with project funds from The Awesome Foundation. Kamin is featured in the series Arts In Context set to air on PBS in the fall of 2017.

calderkamin.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

April 22 - May 28, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, April 22, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

James Talambas
2,524 Earthquakes This Past Year

Fort Worth-based multidisciplinary artist James Talambas brings his spatial work, 2,524 Earthquakes This Past Year - a sound installation referencing seismic activity in Oklahoma and North Texas between January 1 and September 12, 2016, attributed to the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, activity in the region.

James Talamabas is a composer and installation artist who employs technology, improvisation, and space into the pieces he composes, creating site-specific, and musician-specific electro-acoustic works. Talambas also creates original scores and sound design for film, and as the creator and owner of New Media Recordings, he produces, publishes, and arranges for artists internationally.

www.500x.org/james-talambas
www.newmediarecordings.com

March 4 – April 16, 2017
David Aylsworth | Either/And
Steve Fisher | Galveston: Spare Beauty
WAKE | In Our Wake: A Collective’s Collected Objects
Lina Dib | Pool of Sound

January 14 – February 26, 2017
Jonathan Leach | Guts and Bone
Luisa Duarte | Personal Scapes

November 26, 2016 – January 8, 2017
Rachel Gardener | Prey
Rena Wood | Interpreting Memory

October 8 – November 20, 2016
Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak | Discourse
Ann Sandberg | Children in Print
Mindy Véissid | Intuitive Moments
Beyond Bindings: The Book as Art

August 27 – October 2, 2016
New Beginnings: The Shape of Things to Come
Marcos Hdez | Things I See Things I Am
Ariane Roesch | Upwards and Onwards

June 4 – August 22, 2016

Main, 1878, and Brown Foundation Galleries

June 4 - August 22, 2016

Opening Receptions Saturday, June 4, 2016 and July 16, 2016
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Curator’s talk at 6:30 PM

***Twenty-Five: A Celebration* | *Twenty-Five: A Conclusion***

This summer, GAC celebrated Clint Willour’s 25th anniversary as curator with two distinctive exhibitions.

Willour has curated approximately 4000 artists in 469 exhibitions for Galveston Arts Center. His curatorial expertise has been pivotal for artists, collectors and viewers throughout Texas. Highly respected for his excellent understanding and promotion of outstanding contemporary visual art, he has given exhibitions to countless emerging, mid-career, and established artists, some of whom have since achieved national and international prominence.

While his discerning eye has won him respect from the Art World at large, it is also his amiable character that has garnered admiration from all who have known and worked with Willour. Never a flatterer, his approach is consistently honest without pomp or pretention, resulting in remarkably curated exhibitions that reveal the true nature of the artist or artists involved.

Galveston Arts Center is fortunate to have had Clint's creative leadership for the last quarter century. We invite everyone to come and celebrate his accomplishments this summer with two exhibitions that honor one of our state's most respected curators and featuring some of its most renowned artists.

Both Summer Shows are a retrospective of artists Willour has worked with over the past 25 years including: David Bates, Mary McCleary, Luis Jimenez, Ann Stautberg, and David McGee. A full list of artists for Twenty Five: A Celebration can be found below. Twenty Five: A Conclusion will feature Galveston artists who have been shown at GAC, as well as works by artists to whom Willour gave their first or second exhibitions. The impressive artist list for A Conclusion includes Luis Jimenez, Arthur Turner, Sandria Hu, Julie Speed, David McGee, Michael Ray Charles, H.J. Bott, Jonathan Leach, and Robert Pruitt, among others.

Artists - Twenty Five: A Celebration
Al Souza - Houston
Amy Blakemore - Houston
Ann Stautberg – Houston
Christopher French – Houston, DC
David Aylsworth - Houston
David Bates - Dallas
Dixie Friend Gay
Dorneth Doherty - Dallas
Earlie Hudnall, Jr.- Houston
Gael Stack - Houston
Helen Altman - Dallas
Jean Wetta – Galveston/New Jersey
Joe Havel - Houston
Joseph Glasco - Galveston
Lance Letscher - Austin
Mary McCleary – Nacogdoches
Rackstraw Downes - The World
Ray Carrington III - Houston
Robert Ruello - Houston
Sydney Yeager – Austin
The Art Guys -- Houston
Tommy Fitzpatrick – Austin

In the 1878 Gallery (Artists from Galveston)
Marie Leterme
Eugenia Campbell
Robert John Mihovil
Mayuko Ono Gray
Eric Schnell
Nick Barbee
Liz Ward
Doug McLean
Eric Avery
Ann Wood
Jane Allensworth
Ken Shelton
George Bowes
Martha Terrill
Luanne Stovall
Janet Hassinger
Susan Shirley Eckel

In the Brown Foundation Gallery
Darryl Lauster - Houston/Arlington
Sandi Seltzer Bryant - Houston
Pam Johnson - Houston
Jules Buck Jones - Austin
Gary Parker - Nacogdoches
Lillian Warren - Houston
Lawrence Lee - Dallas
Chris Akin - Houston
Scott Gordon - Houston/California
Dee Wolff - Houston
Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak - Houston
Beth Secor - Houston
Sarah Greene Reed - Austin
Will Henry - Houston
Orna Feinstein - Houston
Devon Moore - Houston
Kristin Musnug - Fayetteville, Arkansas
Francesca Fuchs - Houston
Page Kempner - Houston
William Cannings - Lubbock

April 16 – May 22, 2016
Margaret Smithers Crump | Vital Signs
Mari Omori | The Habit of Being II

March 5 – April 10, 2016
Will Michaels | Brooms Up: Muggles Play Quidditch
Ben Davis | A Corner of Canaan
Kenny Braun | Surf Texas

January 9 – February 21, 2016
Michael Kennaugh | Locus in Quo
Bennie Flores-Ansell | 1 dpi & Projection
Natasha Bowdoin | H E X ∆ M

November 28, 2015 – January 5, 2016
Francesa Fuchs | Selected Paintings 2004 – 2015
Arielle Masson | Akasha : The Fifth Element
Janet Hassinger | Planet Ocean

October 11 – November 22, 2015
Elinor Evans | A Force of Nature: 101

August 22 – October 4, 2015
Eric Schnell | Binder

July 11 – August 16, 2015
CONNECTIONS: Edmonton & Houston

May 30–July 5, 2015
Robert Ruello | Fuzzy Essentials

April 17–May 23, 2015
Adela Andea | Lux Æterna

February 28 – April 12, 2015
Urban Ecologies

January 10 – February 22, 2015
Texas Abstract

November 29, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Orna Feinstein | Now and Zen – Fifteen Years of Contemporary Printmaking

October 11 – November 23, 2014
Nature Centered | Isela Aguirre, Rebecca Braziel, & Kari Breitigam

August 23 – October 5, 2014
Robin Myers | Unknown Constellations
Keliy Anderson-Staley | On a Wet Bough: Contemporary Tintype Portraits

October 11 – November 23, 2014
Palace Revolution

June 7 – July 6, 2014
Ron Adams | Master Printer
Luis Jimenez | Selected Prints

April 26 – June 6, 2014
Pat Colville | A Celebration – Five Decades of Work

March 9 – April 20, 2014
Hillerbrand + Magsamen | Home Improvement
Through a Child’s Eyes

January 19 – March 2, 2014
Jane Allensworth | Recent Works
Remembering Susan Shirley Eckel

November 30, 2013 – January 5, 2014
Troy Woods | The Story…

October 5 – November 24, 2013
David Politzer | When You’re Out There
Emily Peacock | You, Me & Diane

August 24 – September 29, 2013
Lawrence Lee | INTO THE LIGHT
Michael Bise | Life and Death

July 13 – August 18, 2013
Kelly O’Connor | Rock City

June 1 – July 7, 2013
Marcelyn McNeil | Bent into Shape

April 20 – May 26, 2013
Marie Leterme | Memories, Ghosts and Shadows
Atelier 1513 Remembered

March 9 – April 14, 2013
Piero Fenci | Battlement | A Survey

January 19 – March 3, 2013
Curtis Gannon | Never Enough

November 24, 2012 – January 6, 2013
The Drawing room, Part II

August 25 – September 30, 2012
Robert Pruitt | Recent Drawings

July 14 – August 19, 2012
Galveston Artist Residency | The First Year

June – July 8, 2012
HJ Bott | A 40 Years Celebration

April 21 – May 27, 2012
Karin Broker | Wired, Nailed, Drawn and Printed

March 10 – April 15, 2012
Sharon Joines | Wharton County: This Alluvil Land

January 28 – March 4, 2012
Charlotte Smith | dot, dot, dot

November 26, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Kamila Szczesna | Fleeting

October 8 – November 20, 2011
Sarah Williams | Outside the County Seat

August 27 – October 2, 2011
Mayuko Ono Gray | Japanese Calligraphy My Way

July 16 – August 21, 2011
Isa Leshko | Elderly Animals

July 16 – August 21, 2011
Jules Buck Jones | Everglades

June 11 – July 10, 2011
Michael Guidry | The Son and the Heir

April 30 – June 5, 2011
Ann Wood | Garnish

March 12 – April 24, 2011
Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom | Manual on Books

January 22 – March 6, 2011
Bert Long | Bert’s Red Book

November 27, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Michael Tole | Struck by Lightening More Than Once, She Didn’t Yield

October 9 – November 14, 2010
Rusty Scruby | Playing in the Sand

July 10 – August 22, 2010
Dan Rizzie | The Flatbed Years, Selected Prints 1993–2009

May 29 – July 4, 2010
Letitia Huckaby | LA 19 (Daughters of God)

April 17 – May 23, 2010
Howard Sherman | Eating Your Friction

March 6 — April 11, 2010
Dixie Friend Gay| Mural Studies 1998–2009
Dornith Doherty | At Mid-Career

January 23 – February 28, 2010
Damian Priour| Water Sparks

November 28, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Patrick Renner | Xylem
Jonathan Leach | Beauty and the By Product

October 10 – November 22, 2009
Chuy Benitez | Summer in the City
Mark Schatz | Earth Below Us

August 22 – October 4, 2009
Houston. It’s Worth It. IKE
Art for All Exhibition

2026

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2023

2022

2021

2020

Strand Gallery

October 10, 2020 – Janaury 3, 2021

Going Through a Phrase

1878 Gallery

August 22 - November 15, 2020

Pat JohnsonNervous Waters

Brown Foundation Gallery

August 22 - November 15, 2020

Francis Almendárezrhythm and (p)leisure

Strand Gallery

July 11 – October 4, 2020

Will HenryWatching Paint Dry

1878 Gallery & Vault

May 30 - August 16, 2020

Katy HeinleinSoft Skills

Brown Foundation Gallery

May 30 - August 16, 2020

Xochi SolisRooted by invisible means

Strand Gallery

March 7 – July 5, 2020

Adam CrossonHaptic Recordings: The Body Eyes

1878 Gallery & Vault

January 18 – April 12, 2020

Amada MillerBut then (again)

Brown Foundation Gallery

January 18 – April 12, 2020

Britt ThomasIndian Spirit

2019

Strand Gallery

November 23, 2019 – February 23, 2020

Amber EagleNap Dreams

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

October 6, 2019 – January 5, 2020

Gerardo Rosales

Undercover

Strand Gallery

August 24 – November 17, 2019

Erin Curtis

Night and Day

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

July 13 – October 6, 2019

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

Exchange Rate

Strand Gallery

June 8 – August 18, 2019

Chuck & George

Cat Butt Parfait: Chuck & George Explore the Ecosystem of Domestic Feline Digestion

1878 Gallery

April 27 - July 7, 2019

Chris BakayThe Tangibility of Memory

Brown Foundation Gallery

April 27 - July 7, 2019

Jeffrey DellMaquette Moon

Strand Gallery

March 9 - June 2, 2019

Brad TuckerStandard Tan

1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries

January 19 - April 21, 2019

Miss PussycatThe Puppet Worlds of Miss Pussycat

2nd Floor Vault

January 19 - April 21, 2019

QuintronDRUM BUDDY (Miss Pussycat Model)

Strand Gallery

January 19 - March 3, 2019

Camp BosworthTHANK YOU, PLEASE DRIVE THRU

2018

Strand Gallery

November 24, 2018 - January 13, 2019

Kaneem SmithCaptive Sojourn and the Indefinite

1878 Gallery

November 24, 2018 - January 13, 2019

Renata LuciaNews vs. Nature (Gulf)

Brown Foundation Gallery

Pat Johnson
Nervous Waters

Francis Almendárez
rhythm and (p)leisure

Will Henry
Watching Paint Dry

Katy Heinlein
Soft Skills

Xochi Solis
Rooted by invisible means

Adam Crosson
Haptic Recordings: The Body Eyes

Amada Miller
But then (again)

Britt Thomas
Indian Spirit

Amber Eagle
Nap Dreams

Chris Bakay
The Tangibility of Memory

Jeffrey Dell
Maquette Moon

Brad Tucker
Standard Tan

Miss Pussycat
The Puppet Worlds of Miss Pussycat

Quintron
DRUM BUDDY (Miss Pussycat Model)

Camp Bosworth
THANK YOU, PLEASE DRIVE THRU

Kaneem Smith
Captive Sojourn and the Indefinite

Renata Lucia
News vs. Nature (Gulf)

Lina Dib
Threshold

Buster Graybill
Leisurely

Jasmyne Graybill
Cultivate

Bill Willis
Totally Okay

The Museum of Pocket Art
featuring Elaine Bradford and Ernesto Walker

Elaine Bradford
Ties that Bind

Ernesto Walker
Antigravity

Jesse Morgan Barnett
LOW MAGIC

Timothy Harding
Unfurled

Susannah Mira
Lighter Than Air

Kalee Appleton
Supplementary Scenes

Other Edens
Rebecca Braziel, Dylan Conner, Hallie Gluk, Erin Stafford, Patrick Turk, & Rachelle Vasquez

Ellen Tanner
Fables, Families & Myths

Stratiforms
Robin Dru Germany, Jason Makepeace, and Page Piland

Chance Dunlap
Best Chance

Laray Polk & Marcos Lutyens
The Trinity River Project

AnnieLaurie Erickson
Into the Digital Mesh

Paho Mann and Leigh Merril
Collections, Keepsakes, Souvenirs

The Color Condition
Premium Quality

Cary Reeder
Impermanence

Michael Golden
0 – Connected

Dan Schmahl
Sufers Beach

Joan Laughlin
Entanglement