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Diana Atchetee
Diana earned a Bachelor of Studio Art, specializing in painting, from Texas State University in 2005.
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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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Stanley Bermudez
Stanley’s distinctive style employs bright colors, inspired by his childhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela where he was exposed to the vibrant colors of the city and the traditional Venezuelan folk art. Viewers often find his paintings to be dynamic, vibrant, and funny, with a Pop Art quality.
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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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Ali Cavanaugh
Ali is best known for her “little girl” paintings. She uses fields of alluring color, rich in texture, to accentuate the figures of adolescent girls. Thoughts of envy, loss, and doubt unfold within the work and suddenly the viewer discovers something highly spirited and playful. This vibrant contrast which create a push and pull of emotions is what makes this work so desirable.
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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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Emilie Duval
Emilie Duval’s geometric shapes series are fascinating with their deep perspective. These unstructured forms appear to converge toward a singular focus point. They seem to reach an insubstantial and fictitious goal, concealed by a confusion of ruffle lines.
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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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Carole Holt
Bold, provocative color best describes Carole Holt’s contemporary painting in acrylics. In her most characteristic abstract works, she lays down areas of color juxtaposed with mysterious darks, transparent veils, and opaque impasto, creating a unique style.
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Austin James
Austin believes that art is energy and that an artist is capable of translating his or her own individual energy into art. Austin’s pieces focus on color and motion and are composed of layers of paint and mixed media coupled with gestural movements on canvas. His works are in oil, acrylic, charcoal and encaustic.
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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
Northern California artist, Lucas Juarez, produces energetic abstracts with ink on paper. His work is gestural, flowing, and has depth.
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Marcus Miller
Dr Marcus Miller is a Houston native now living in Portland, Oregon. In regards to working with monotypes, Marcus had this say, “I find the process of making monotypes to be unique and unlike my experience of painting and other forms of print making. There is a sense of mystery and magic in making a monotype, and what a monotype can reveal to me, that I would compare it to alchemy.”
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Ellen Orseck
Ellen’s work grapples with personal subjects – images drawn from family, conflicts in relationships, rites of passage, illness, death, vanity, and prejudice. Through symbols such as tornadoes, which can be simultaneously beautiful and horrific, she explores emotional conflict. Her attempt to balance illusion and reality includes drawing at every stage of the painting process, in the under-painting and on the surface of the top layer creating both a foundation and embellishment for the work.
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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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Elisabeth Smith
Elisabeth's paintings suggest organic formations that seem familiar but remain elusive. Through its ambiguity, her art engages the viewer with harmonic color relationships, subtle forms, and contrasts. Her work with multiple layers of color and texture produce a quality of depth and complexity that encourages contemplation.
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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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Dana Sparks
Her work is strongly influenced by her extensive travels where she acquired an appreciation and awareness of color and form. Her goal is to attain strong composition and a rich dramatic palette with spontaneous forms while maintaining a sense of sophistication. She embraces the unplanned, unstructured results that come when working on nonrepresentational, abstract art.
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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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James Stephen Zoller
James pulls upon classic subjects such as the still life and landscape, yet creates with a distinctly modern style. A series of apples seems to represent the singularity of modern life and the traditional cottage door conveys a sense of quiet discovery of the new. James draws upon experiences of life in Texas and the New England coast for artistic inspiration.
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