CINCO RANCH
Group exhibition of greater Houston area artists using diverse media. These artists reside in Houston, Katy, Missouri City, Sugar Land, Brookshire, Fulshear and The Woodlands, Texas. Exhibition is on view until October 10.
Rachel Gardner | Clinton Millsap | Motoko Yasue | Terri Bieber | Nancy Viola
Carolina Dalmas | Linda Dautreuil | Mary Margaret Hansen
Susan Budge | Kelley Devine | Tatiana Escallon | Mary Lynch
Rachel Gardner
is best known for her hauntingly playful, white, paper maché wolf sculptures. Growing up in Sugar Land, TX, she longed to feel connected to the wild and deep nature. She often searched for enchanting places that had not been invaded by concrete to connect and explore.
Rachel graduated with her BFA in Art Education, with a focus in painting, from Stephen F. Austin State University. She went on to teach elementary art for 2 years. Desiring to learn more and teach at a higher level, Rachel decided to pursue her MFA at Houston Baptist University. She began to study under and was studio assistant to accomplished artist Michael Roque Collins.
Starting graduate school as a painter, Rachel was hungry to get off the canvas. Her second and final year of graduate school, Houston artist Sharon Kopriva led a paper maché sculpture workshop at the university. It was exactly what Rachel was looking for, sculpture with a painterly feel. She soon began creating her wolves.
Rachel now lives in the Houston Heights with her husband Zach and two young children. She is an Assistant Professor at Houston Baptist University where she leads the Sculpture program and teaches both graduate and undergraduate students. When she is not teaching, you may find her working on her new body of work, a large sculptural installation, including creatures beyond the wolf at her home studio.
Nancy Viola
Her work as a visual artist and writer spans fifty years. Her passions are assembling photo collages, crafting personal essays, printing photographs from negatives and authoring blog posts and travelogues. Not a day goes by that I do not look for connections between and among images and words.
She has shown work in solo and group exhibitions, produced site-specific installations and served as lead artist for a City of Houston public art project. She is represented by Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston.
Linda Trappey Dautreuil
was born in New Iberia, Louisiana, graduated from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, with degrees in Visual Arts with a concentration in painting and drawing as well as English with an emphasis on literature and drama. In 1996 she established her studio practice in the community of Covington, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans
“I enjoy a good story but I am not a narrative painter. I approach the paper or canvas as an opportunity to explore visual ideas with an interest in the way parts function within organic environments. Color, shape, pattern and lines, even the lines of a sentence, or the rhythms of poetry and music, influence my process. I admit an enjoyment of words with multiple meanings to make connections that are not literal but visual. The painting, Option to Choose evolved in this way. Figurative elements appear untethered, parts of a whole but open to interpretation. Glimpses of imagery serve to produce narrative traces. There is no story following only one path, but rather, layers revealing and concealing levels of meaning to be discovered in time.”
Carolina Dalmas
Her artistic journey started when she was 7 and hwe mom registered her into a youth Art Academy, which she attended for years. Here, she built a passion for drawing and painting in all mediums, which gave her a strong foundation in visual arts. Her teacher was a nun who shared with her admiration for Michelangelo’s art, inspiring her with the anecdotes about him painting the Sistine Chapel against his will.
Dalmas has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry with a post graduate degree in medical analysis and food science. She practiced in hospitals and clinics in Patagonia. After moving to the United States in 2004, she left behind her career as a biochemist, and turned to her love for painting as a way to reconnect with her roots. She has continued my artistic studies with renowned artists around the world who have helped her transform her style from classical and neutral to a more dynamic, contemporary and colorful one.
Susan Budge
(b. 1959) has been making ceramic sculpture for over forty years. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Texas Tech University in 1983, a Master of Arts degree from University of Houston in 1987 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Texas at San Antonio in 1999.
Budge’s work has been included in hundreds of exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Her work is in private collections in Saudi Arabia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Greece..
Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the San Angelo Museum of Art, the Art Museum at Northern Arizona State University, the Art Museum of South Texas, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Budge has completed public commissions for Brackenridge Park, The South Texas Center for Blood and Tissue, and Lady Bird Johnson Park in San Antonio. Corporate Collections include: Five States Energy, Dallas, The University of Texas San Antonio, Tesoro, Project Control, San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Wyatt Energy, Houston.
Budge’s thirty year teaching career began with Artist in Education Grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts. In 1995 she became Department Head of Ceramics at San Antonio College where she earned tenure, full professor and was awarded the NISOD excellence in teaching. Budge now lives in Brookshire where she continues her studio practice working with clay and bronze.
We are looking forward to Susan joining our teaching team in the coming months!
Kelley Devine
is a Houston-based fine artist who works in a variety of media to explore issues of society and self. Devine received her bachelor's degree in art with an emphasis in sculpture at Southeastern Louisiana University. After graduation, she began to exhibit her works in national and local venues. Kelley then went on to work for the Houston Arts Alliance, managing special projects, before becoming a full-time artist. Devine pursued her master's in fine art at Houston Baptist University and currently is an adjunct professor there.
Her art helps her communicate what she sees as the opposing forces within the human psyche. "As a painter and a sculptor, I strive to incorporate the concept of how self-perception and internalization differ from the perceptions and assumptions of others, by combining materials, applications or images that are visually and psychologically contrary to one another."
Tatiana Escall
ón
Abstract artist born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Escallón started her creative career as a designer and illustrator. It was years later when painting became her main language. In the year 2000 she moved to Houston in search of a better future and opportunities.
Her work is and was part of Latino Art Now! for both 2019 and 2020 billboard campaigns celebrating Houston Latino artists. Latino Art Now! is a national platform and partner of the Smithsonian Institution.
In 2019 she received the SACI (Support for Artist and Creative Individuals) grant from the Houston Arts Alliance, to create and exhibit large scale paintings from the collection “Taste and Contrast”. During the last years she has also received support from the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, University of Houston Center for Mexican American Studies; Fresh Arts and Art Launch.
Escallón's paintings are acrylic on canvas/mixed media; she enjoys the large format and her works are a continuous exploration of color and composition bringing to the canvas the contrast of her own experiences.
Figurative Work
While giving the same importance to composition and color as in her abstract painting, in the figurative work Escallón uses the space to tell a story that relates to people, this also gives her the opportunity to play with the already known rules of perspective and proportion making them a fun space to explore.
Mary Lynch
Mary's dream of becoming an artist began by attending Sam Houston State University at the age of 53. Five years later, she graduated with a BFA degree in Studio Art. Her studies and travels in Mexico and Italy added another layer of excitement for learning to see in a new way. For 7 years, Lynch was able to share everything she had learned with high school students in Manassas, Virginia.
In 2007, Lynch was ready to explore her own work, content, and style by moving to Anthem, Arizona. She always thought she would be a painter…..that was, until she touched clay again. Her whole notion of expressive work took shape in the realization that she had to carve, cut out, and let her pieces breath. What a surprise!
Lynch became fascinated with the rhythm and movement of line. “One of a Kind” pieces began to emerge. Spontaneous action created wonderful relationships between positive and negative spaces. Hidden images occasionally appeared with surprising results.
After 8 years of developing knowledge and understanding of clay, Lynch had the opportunity to show her work at the Arizona Fine Art Expo in Scottsdale during the 2015 and 2016 seasons.
New exploration became possible when she moved to Fulshear, Texas in 2018. She can now see her style emerging.
Terri Bieber
Married to Scott, mother of Andrew,
Kennan, Topper and Claire! Artist,
Teacher, Community Volunteer, Arts
Advocate, Founder of ARTreach. Moved
to Katy in 1993, now moving to the
Great Smokey Mountains!