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Heather Bause
By focusing on color, form and line, Heather Bause’s latest series of paintings of North American songbirds highlights nostalgic beauty underscored by a desire to maintain control. Drawing inspiration from Audubon’s classic plates, Bause meticulously paints songbirds in near-repetition against retro palette backgrounds using acrylic on canvas. Reminiscent of antique wallpaper in its subject and background color, Bause’s stunning birds aim for perfection, a strenuous act in a natural setting as well as in a domestic one.
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Blakely Bering
Blakely’s work reflects her theatrical sense and the action of her creation remains powerful from thirty feet away. Her emotional abstractions are playful, serious, and dramatic. She has been noted as a colorist for her intricate rich layers of oil on panel.
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Sophia Buddenhagen
Sophia Buddenhagen's abstract paintings consist of color, random words, letters and numbers. She uses mixed media such as acrylic, water color, spray paint, ink, and oil pastels to enhance the visual and textural aspects of her paintings. Sophia believes art is a way to help people learn more about themselves and expand upon their creativity and to become more aware of their world and people around them.
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Melinda Buie
Melinda Buie was born and raised in East Texas. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she now lives and works in New York City. Buie's work consists of large scale oil paintings of cows from her family’s farm in East Texas, portraits of men and women, and an architectural series, including bridges, underpasses and buildings.
Buie paints by breaking down her chosen subject. She strips the excess and emphasizes interesting features. Her lines swirl across the canvas, creating movement or rhythm to the work: the eyes set the mood of the piece, while the bold colors give temperature to the painting-emphasizing simplicity in form. The paintings bounce, communicate and vibrate on the wall, creating an immediate dialogue with the viewer.
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Andrew Scott DeJesse
His pieces are an intense study of Southwest culture but are not the typical images one might see of the Southwest. Instead, they focus on moments lost and places forgotten. Andrew strives to paint not only what is seen in the present, but to also tell a story from the past and to capture the impressions made on the landscapes by people and past events. He uses thin multi-layered abstract washes of paint to create an atmospheric quality.
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Erik Estrada
Estrada, a local Houston artist, brings his three-dimensional art forms reminiscent of local sites to our gallery walls. His art has evolved over the years to en-body the famous towers and structures around the globe.
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J. Antonio Farfan
In a time of globalization and multiculturalism, the human race as a whole has become curious about the different cultures and beliefs of other peoples. Although we make a conscious effort to understand and explore our surroundings, we must look closer at the familiar and explore the world in multiple dimensions. By doing so, we will become aware of the more obscure environments, languages, and subtle traits of humanity. Likewise, we will realize the constant change of all things, thereby neutralizing our own pre-conceptions. This closer exploration will ultimately create a more compassionate and enlightened human race; one that is better able to understand others and the importance of our world, for now and for many years to come.
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Hank Gray
Gray's color procures a sense of life of another place always pulsing about the layers. This gives a sense of wonderment, hope and primal wanting. Simple linear lines and metal represent the structure (for better or worse) of our logical minds, but also depict a threshold or boundary that might be maintained by either dueling side. Heavy shapes represent indulgence and strength, as well as a constant construction or re-construction of the environment. Calculated markings and drips represent the strife and aging that the subject always carries. The viewer’s eye must be able to flow through an entire piece without distraction, however chaotic.
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Joseph Hammer
These pieces are from the heart. I’m a lover of books, and I wonder: will there be books as we now know them in the future?
I’m partial to using old, discarded hardback books in collages and am inspired by the varieties of colors and textures on their covers, by how they can be used, like paint, to provoke feelings and emotions, to explore things such as line, color saturation and tension.
As a lover of history, I pay tribute to these threadbare, tattered tomes. They provide a look back at the bookbinder’s craft and the careful, sometimes elaborate designs, marbling and gold leaf, of long ago. Deterioration does not diminish their beauty but adds a patina of use, of human “hand prints.”
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John Jenkins
John’s Genomic works are designed to represent the basic element of life, DNA. The sequencing of images and diagrams in each work create a visual pattern that is intended to evoke the modern fascination with genetic mapping and self discovery through investigation of most basic inner workings. The possibilities of genetics are endless and the permutations are infinite. Each genetic sequence is unique. The paintings can be viewed individually or combined in a sequence just like the genomes they represent.
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Lucas Juarez
Juarez, a Northern California artist, produces energetic abstracts with ink and acrylic on paper. His work is gestural, flowing, and has depth lying in the negative space he creates. Painting for more than 10 years, he has been influenced by the human form, architecture, and free movement of his own body. Each work is unique and is part of his "Free Form" and "Structure" series.
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Julia Koivumaa
My vision, my art speaks the vocabulary of creation and transformation. While I begin with a narrative, these sometimes remain nebulous and obscure and are therefore open to interpretation, influence and rethinking as images take shape. Through the immediacy of image-making, I find a meaningful channel for ideas that hover and live in my sub-conscious mind. These images flicker, find form and dissipate once exposed to my conscious observation. These nebulous confines attempt to capture and define these glimpses or moments in time. Primitive elements and imagery are transformational and aid in the fabrication of meaning.
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Luc Leestemaker
Luc Leestemaker (1957-) Dutch/American, grew up in the Netherlands, where interests in art, theater and communication led him into such diverse professions as remedial teacher; founder of an Amsterdam based performing arts center; founder of the European art collective “Hart Poetry;” founder and editor of a monthly business and arts magazine; and managing director of “ Leestemaker & Associates ,” a consulting firm specializing in arts' marketing, financing, and public relations. But it would be Leestemaker's long-standing interest in painting (his grandfather and great-grandfather were artists), that would ultimately command his devotion.
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Patrick Lewis
My Art begins with a series of collaged pieces that are formed from found images, scrapes of papers and ephemera. Once completed these collages are cut into strips and scattered randomly onto the artists table, only to be repeiced together into the works you see now. These images create new narratives within the work that are continually pulling on one another, the chaos of creative process is tempered into the orderly organization of the collage image, which is again subjected to the destructive forces that yields yet another layer of imagery.
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Ana Lopez-Montes
Ana López-Montes has a BFA from School of Visual Arts at New York City. Extensive studio work in France and in México City has lead her work to concentrate in the modern theories of color especially in painting and in the printmaking technique, monotype. Her work has been exhibited in New York City, Spain, France, U.K. and in México. She lives and works in México City.
Homage to the Cities of the World is a series of monotypes. These city landscapes unfold to play with form and color and to evoke reminiscences. The intention is to convey memories of people of different cities visited or lived.
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Jennifer Morgan
Jennifer Morgan, a Dallas-based artist whose work is brightly hued with whimsical depictions in a narrative style. Jennifer graduated from the University of North Texas where she studied art history, marketing and painting....
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Peggy Port
Peggy’s intricate layers resemble that of fresco walls and ages plaster. She calls upon traditional mediums, oil, canvas, and encaustic to build her explorations of color and form. The contemplative color fields seem to float as they resonate into the spaces beyond their own physical dimensions.
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Kevin Richert
Kevin Richert was born in Ossining, New York, studied Drawing and Painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York City receiving a BFA in 1977. He moved to Houston Texas in 1979, and he has worked professionally as an artist and designer/illustrator for over thirty years in advertising and publishing. In 2003 Kevin earned his MA and in 2004 completed his MFA at Stephen F Austin University. For the last 15 years Kevin has taught at The Art Institute of Houston.
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Heather Sanchez
Heather Sanchez is a new artist in the Houston area and already her work may be found in several private and business collections. Originally from Minnesota, she has always been attracted to modern, minimal design and attributes this interest to her Finnish decent. After attaining her Bachelor of Arts at Oklahoma Baptist University studying Sociology and Spanish, she chose to move to Mexico City where she developed a sincere and profound appreciation for the urban look and lifestyle. These two influences are apparent on her canvas and provide the notable contrast between chaos and calm.
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Isabel Souchon
Isabel is a young artist from Caracas, Venezuela. The vital orientation of her work is her vision of nature and its transformations. She works creating theatrical scenarios, presenting landscapes that let the eye navigate towards infinite horizons seeking silence and peace.
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Lin Swanner
Swanner has been painting and exhibiting for over 25 years. Making images that are a challenge to her, as well as the viewer, are an important aspect of her work. The female figure is Swanner's primary image, which she continues to explore with primitive, classical and abstracted forms. Although best known for her figurative work, Swanner is also known for her large vessels and chairs which often look as if they might move. Swanner is a former Houston artist now living and working in Austin.
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