Here We Go...
Past exhibition
Overview
This exhibition reflects on the paradigms of painting and abstraction, their history, conundrums, directions, positivism and their relevance in Houston's contemporary art-world.
About the artists:
BRANDON ARAUJO
Araujo is an American artist whose work references geometric abstraction and minimalism. Having lived and worked in Europe and Asia, his works harness the enigmatic sensations that arise from experiencing cross cultural aesthetics. Araujo’s current practice utilizes digital processes in order to explore a balance between new forms that lack a sense of familiarity and the art historical structure of abstract painting.
PRESTON DOUGLAS
Douglas explores epiphany in painting and its consequential relationship to performance. His CTHRUME paintings series as the artist calls them are inherently link to a dynamic of painting and the history of the stretcher as body.
KATE MULHOLLAND
Mulhollland’s work reflects on how time is a creative, nourishing and sometimes destructive force in our lives. Her process is facilitated by incorporating paint as both additive and reductive methods to ultimately reveal images made by time. Other processes involve temperature, humidity, heat and mechanical removals. She sees her works as autobiographical taking in consideration color, mood, studio environments and daily experiences all influence the material and surfaces the artist chooses. The artist has a gravitational response to verticality formatted compositions in painting which can be link to art history as portraiture. Metaphorically Mulholland sees her work as a quick glimpse in mirror reminding herself, “This is temporary.”
TOMMY TAYLOR
Taylor navigates painting through a dynamic ritual of choice, personal myth and the tactile. He uses a strategic meaning series that underscores how much fulfillment he can exhume through use of images, its reality and its revision from an uncertain life in our Digital Age.
ERIKA WHITNEY
Whitney’s formulation of painting and sculpture is non-objective, base in color relationship, tactile surfaces and moods her works become portals where the viewer can move in and out visually. Her painting is embraces a decision-making methodology which is about compromise and allowing the work to be what it demands to be while she helps it along the way.
About the artists:
BRANDON ARAUJO
Araujo is an American artist whose work references geometric abstraction and minimalism. Having lived and worked in Europe and Asia, his works harness the enigmatic sensations that arise from experiencing cross cultural aesthetics. Araujo’s current practice utilizes digital processes in order to explore a balance between new forms that lack a sense of familiarity and the art historical structure of abstract painting.
PRESTON DOUGLAS
Douglas explores epiphany in painting and its consequential relationship to performance. His CTHRUME paintings series as the artist calls them are inherently link to a dynamic of painting and the history of the stretcher as body.
KATE MULHOLLAND
Mulhollland’s work reflects on how time is a creative, nourishing and sometimes destructive force in our lives. Her process is facilitated by incorporating paint as both additive and reductive methods to ultimately reveal images made by time. Other processes involve temperature, humidity, heat and mechanical removals. She sees her works as autobiographical taking in consideration color, mood, studio environments and daily experiences all influence the material and surfaces the artist chooses. The artist has a gravitational response to verticality formatted compositions in painting which can be link to art history as portraiture. Metaphorically Mulholland sees her work as a quick glimpse in mirror reminding herself, “This is temporary.”
TOMMY TAYLOR
Taylor navigates painting through a dynamic ritual of choice, personal myth and the tactile. He uses a strategic meaning series that underscores how much fulfillment he can exhume through use of images, its reality and its revision from an uncertain life in our Digital Age.
ERIKA WHITNEY
Whitney’s formulation of painting and sculpture is non-objective, base in color relationship, tactile surfaces and moods her works become portals where the viewer can move in and out visually. Her painting is embraces a decision-making methodology which is about compromise and allowing the work to be what it demands to be while she helps it along the way.
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