SUGAR LAND
Group exhibition of greater Houston area artists using diverse media. These artists reside in Houston, Katy, Belleville, Sugar Land and Brookshire, , Texas. Exhibition is on view until October 10.
Lee Lee Brazeal | Lindy Chambers | Lanre Buraimoh | Tiffany Heng Hui Lee
Susan Budge | Kelley Devine | Tatiana Escallon
Tiffany Heng Hui Lee
Tiffany Heng Hui Lee is a visual artist specializing in abstract, mixed media collages and paintings. At the age of eighteen, she immigrated to the United States from Taipei, Taiwan. As a student at the University of Houston, she was mentored by her painting professor Richard Stout who pushed her to accept nothing less than excellence in her work. As a graduate student, she was a teaching assistant which allowed her to inspire and encourage others to incorporate her requirement for intimate detail into their work.
Lee obtained her bachelors of Fine arts and Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston, with an emphasis on interior design/environmental design. She first began creating and expanding her use of paper collages, sculptures and jewelry. Her studio and home are located in Sugar Land, Texas. As a registered interior designer/artist she uses her innate recognition of color and shapes learned from her Asian culture to create tranquil and soothing interiors and artwork. Tiffany’s work demonstrates exceptional restraint, using simple, geometric forms to create complex, abstract images of natural landscapes. The use of mixed media, including paper, metal and wood, enhances her work, generating a message of peace and harmony within.
During 2019-2020 Tiffany’s paper collage was included in a juried exhibition (Lines, Shapes & Objects) sponsored by Fusion Art. In addition, her artwork was also accepted in the “Show Your Paper” exhibition, juried by Kathryn Markel, at the Women Made Gallery in Chicago. She also received the grand prize from Artrepreneur Open Call ”Landscape: Louis Rule”. Tiffany’s artwork was selected for the Juried Art Exhibition “Art Matters” by Galerie Biesenbach- Cologne, Germany. Several of her collages were also published in the First issue of Ever-Emerging Magazine (Netherlands) and The Huts Magazine.
Lindy Brazeal-Chambers
Chambers transforms the pastoral into the extraordinary. Long before she puts paint to canvas, her artistic process begins with the simple act of paying attention. From the outside looking in, she observes often overlooked aspects of life to discover an otherwise unseen beauty in the ordinary -- in mobile homes, stray dogs and piles of trash.
Her paintings are vibrant compositions of color. She works in two distinct palettes, one bright the other subdued, each containing an incredible diversity of hue and value. Her insistence on variety furthers the idea that everything contains its own unique beauty, if only you stop to notice.
Chambers skillfully uses lines and shapes to both break up the vibrancy of the canvas and to imbue her compositions with a narrative power. The line work introduces a tension to the color as the objects of her focus appear to pop and the details of each scene defiantly catch the viewer’s impatient eye. It is in this way that her paintings elevate above mere depiction to offer a lesson in the art observation.
Each painting has strong elements of abstract and impressionist techniques, as well as drawn forms that are cartoon like in character. The blend of the two adds dimension to the flat surface and provides visual anchors in the midst of the cacophony of color.
Based in Belleville, Texas, Chambers is a Texas Big 10 for Art prize winner at KCAM, a past recipient of the Silver Award from Art Forward, and the Alexander Rutsch Painting Award from the Pelham Art Center. Originally she studied graphic design but progressed to taking classes at Glassell School Museum of fine arts, She also studied Bronze Casting at Al Shakis Foundry. She still considers herself self-taught.
Her work has been featured in galleries and museums across the U.S. including The Grace Museum in Abilene, the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado and the Pelham Art Center in New York. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Lee Lee Brazeal
Lee Lee Brazeal currently lives in Belleville, TX. She moved to Houston, Texas in 1980, after growing up studying art on the east coast. She calls Houston home even though she was actually born in Jackson, Tenn.
She studied design and advertising in North Carolina then studied art, design and Illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York City.
After leaving New York she worked as an Art Director for eight years, Then turned to illustration and worked as a national illustrator for ten years. She had a very successful career as an illustrator and won many prestigious awards.
In 1991 she and her husband started a gate company designing custom art gates for big ranches, subdivisions, and businesses. Her company is still alive and her designs have proven to be innovative and ground breaking.
Commercial illustration and design did not keep her from pursuing her painting privately. She has always seen herself as a painter, her paintings are intensely personal and charged by her book worthy life experiences.
Tatiana Escallon
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. it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.