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Welcome to Fort Worth Scene
Founded in June 2000, Fort Worth Scene is a leading provider of
community information for art, entertainment, restaurants and theatre in Fort
Worth, Texas. Our mission is to provide complete, up-to-date
information about art, entertainment and all the activities in and around our town. Any
business that deals in art, entertainment, restaurants, theatre
or public offerings of this type are welcome to
submit entries to Fort Worth Scene for publication. If you know
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Jan Ayers Friedman - Artist
Jan Ayers Friedman was born in Dallas, Texas in 1954 and currently paints and sculpts from
her studio in the Fort Worth Ridglea area. She studied art and science curricula at ETSU
and UTA and has served on boards of local arts organizations since 1984. A co-founder of
the Texas Jewish Arts Association, Jan is currently involved with helping build arts
opportunities and education platforms that encourage open dialogue and creative innovation.
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Stormie Parker - Windstorm Studio
Windstorm studio is located in the heart of the Fort Worth Nature Center. Home of Wendell
and Stormie Parker who have encompassed a creative ceramic center where Stormie makes
sculpture with personality and purpose within an enchanting garden. They invite each
guest to step into a world that embraces the abundance of the earth. Wine grapes encompass
a courtyard leading up through herb gardens intermingle with a bounty of bright flowers.
Walk through the orchard of fruit trees, with blackberries boarding the fence. Vegetables
grow season round in raised beds with xeriscaping techniques conserving water while
creating a beautiful place to live and create.
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Betsy Horn - Artist
I am a self-directed artist living and working in Fort Worth, Texas. I have won awards
for my landscape paintings and have been selected to be featured in a Public Art exhibit
for the City of North Richland Hills, Texas in 2022. I am currently working with Alliance
for Children, Tarrant County, Texas through art and monetary donations from my tree bark
series of works, as well as contributing to their art therapy program. My artistic mission
is to evoke a love of nature and reveal the spiritual experiences hidden therein. My
work is neither abstract nor realistic. As I examine my subject, I pull the colors out
and reduce the lines down. I take from the most interesting areas of my subject, placing
sections into a cohesive composition of lines and areas of visual interest. I use color
to either portray the subject so that it is recognizable or to exaggerate that which we
think we see.
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Laura Hunt - Artist
Exhibition: Through April 24 - Bernice Coulter Templeton Gallery at Texas Wesleyan University
Benefiting Tarrant County Homeless Coalition
I paint the human figure. I’m drawn to the emotion expressed by the gesture of a hand or
the tilt of a head. I’m fascinated by the divine spark, the infinite variety of the
human face, and the tiny differences that make each of us our unique selves. Themes of
human relationships and emotion, social issues and empathy bind the work together.
Although my work has a naturalistic foundation, I am uninterested in creating academically
perfect figurative work. I prefer a more expressive approach that is less about visual
accuracy and more about the human experience.
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Michael Pianta - Savage Arcadia
Exhibition: February 18th - March 18th 1:00-3:00pm
Fort Worth cutting-edge realist artist, Michael Pianta, opens his solo MFA art exhibition,
Savage Arcadia, this Saturday, February 19th 1:00-3:00pm at the Goldmark Cultural Center in
Dallas. Michael's large scale figurative paintings explore the double-edged relationship
between human beings and nature.
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Cosmo Jones - Artist
I prefer to allow styles, materials, and techniques to drift as I experiment
based on instinctual decision making. I feel this gives my paintings their own
kind of consciousness. The purpose of my work is simply to allow truths to
uncover themselves and then to present those discoveries to viewers. It is up
to the viewers to find what is useful to them. This is how I fulfill my role
as an artist-by moving into gray areas of reality and mystical states of
consciousness in order to bring something back as an offering. I don't worry
about technique or procedure. If I have an idea, I do it. If I have an affinity
in the moment to use some imagery or a adopt a technique, I don't hesitate. I
try not to worry if things "make sense," allowing my conscious and unconscious
desires to emerge, and give my artwork power.
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Rick Steinburg - Artist
Rick Steinburg is an Austin, Texas based visual artist and musician that creates compositions
that combine painting with the use of found objects. Seeing the visual possibilities
in objects and art fragments allows the process to determine a significant part of
the outcome. The spontaneous nature of this process allows a narrative to develop
organically. Elements of My Creative Process are seeing the possibilities in objects,
words, ideas and sounds. Letting the creative process determine part or all of
the outcome. Finding beauty and joy in unexpected places/forms. Being unafraid of
mistakes. Giving objects and fragments that could easily be discarded a new life
and purpose and allowing a narrative to develop organically from the pieces.
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Jennifer Stufflebeam - Artist, Gallery Manager
Jennifer won 2nd place in acrylic/oil painting at the Camp Fire Christmas Art Competition
Jennifer lives and maintains an art studio in Parker County, Texas. She studied art in
high school and Tarrant County College Northeast, along with an occasional workshop in
Fort Worth. Her medium of choice is acrylic with oil stick on canvas, but also enjoys
working in oils, watercolors and pencil and pastels on paper and canvas. She is
represented by Art on the Boulevard in Fort Worth, Texas. Art on the Boulevard is
an artists' co-operative located in west Fort Worth at 4919 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Suite B.
We are 2 blocks east of the Merrick Street and Camp Bowie
Boulevard intersection. Our goal is to furnish a place where the artist can be free to
express themselves with few boundaries, and maximum support. Most of our artists work...
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Katherine Akey - Artist
Through photography, printmaking, fiber art, and writing my work focuses on the
transformation of human experience, especially that of trauma and conflict. Much
of this is an exploration of the change of experience from history to myth, from
mourning to commemorating. But I always try to do this exploration through the
experiences of individuals. Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote that when a man dies
an unknown world dies with him; photographic archives as well as personal
histories, these are what is left when that unknown world disappears, these are
where we can connect to the humanity of the past, these are where I excavate.
My childhood was spent climbing through archaeological sites with my parents;
their academic practice is the foundation of how I make sense of the world,
dusty sites and overflowing vitrines that fill my memory.
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Vince Veazey - Artist
The text-based series evolved from Veazey's experience working in the art
gallery setting and noticing how verbal exchanges impact a viewer's decision
to acquire a piece. Veazey provides key phrases and rhetoric used to influence
the casual art buyer, or serious collectors, and brings to light the manner in
which artists have to maneuver that influence. From Tyler originally, Veazey
received his BFA from U.T. Tyler. After graduating he taught art for six
years. He currently resides in Fort Worth. "There's a composition to" these
works, he said. "When you start laying it out, you don't want anything to be
distracting. I take some words out, like 'really.' The final words need to
take you" directly to the point.
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Matthew Bourbon - Artist
My work is insistently abstract, mathematical, conceptual in origin and
geometric in appearance. It does not derive from perception, but is
entirely constructed from numerical rhythms and proportions; it is concept
made visible, a thought construction. The content of the work resides
partly within the work itself and partly in the viewer's apprehension of
the mathematical structure that is made visible through geometry and not
disguised by other subject matter. The industrial color palette is limited
to black, various grays, white, and metallics, further distancing the work
from observed colors in natural forms. These hues enforce the inherent
geometry and are less likely to reference imagery or subject matter outside
the concerns of the work...
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Gloria Sepp - Artist
Gloria Sepp is an artist living and maintaining an art studio in Fort
Worth, Texas. Her passion for painting shows in the beautifully rendered
abstract expressionism styled creations on canvas. She achieved her B.A. Fine
Arts Degree at the University of Miami, along with Graduate Studies with
University of North Texas, TCU, University of Texas, and The Savannah School
of Art and Design. Most of her abstract expressionism works are derived from
her life experiences and emotions. She is a member of Society of Watercolor
Artists, Trinity Art Guild, Dallas Visual Arts, North Texas Art League,
National Art Educators Association, National League of Penwomen, and National
Collage Society. She is represented by Art on the Boulevard located at 4919
Camp Bowie Blvd., Suite B, in Fort Worth Texas. Websites: gloriasepp.com, or
artontheboulevard.com
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Brenda Ciardiello - Artist
Brenda Melgoza Ciardiello is a Mexican-American artist and poet who
paints contemporary landscapes, botanicals and abstract art that deal with
themes of personal connection to nature, as inspired by her experiences and
travels in nature around the world. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History
and Classical Civilizations from the University of Notre Dame, as well as a
Master of Science in Education from The City College of New York. Brenda is
heavily influenced by her bicultural and international experience of the world.
Born in Mexico City but raised in Texas, she has also lived / studied in Italy,
the U.K., New York City, New England, the Rocky Mountains, and the Middle East
and, as part of her process, travels whenever possible to capture original
source imagery for her artwork.
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Brenda Gribbin - Artist
My art focuses on botanical forms. Expressive gesture, re-iterated line and
selective erasure translate my movement at the easel into those of the
subjects; grass pushing up from earth, trees moving in wind, plants twisting
and dancing. The deep black and velvety texture of a charcoal stick is pure
joy to me, and capturing the image with its organic presence gives context.
I use various dry media as well as watercolor and acrylic paint on canvas,
paper, and panel. I am motivated by the collaborative process, and believe
collaborative art builds community. Translating collective ideas into the
language of a painting forms common ground and produces artwork that
strengthens bonds. The artwork becomes a cairn for moments that make us
who we are.
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Lane Banks - Artist
My work is insistently abstract, mathematical, conceptual in origin and
geometric in appearance. It does not derive from perception, but is
entirely constructed from numerical rhythms and proportions; it is concept
made visible, a thought construction. The content of the work resides
partly within the work itself and partly in the viewer's apprehension of
the mathematical structure that is made visible through geometry and not
disguised by other subject matter. The industrial color palette is limited
to black, various grays, white, and metallics, further distancing the work
from observed colors in natural forms. These hues enforce the inherent
geometry and are less likely to reference imagery or subject matter outside
the concerns of the work...
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Chris Bingham - Artist, Muralist, and Designer
My work seems to be taking an ever-evolving course, similar to my life in most
stages. Over the years the style has been fluid and experimental, but the
meaning behind the work has been the constant. Life, pattern, daily struggle,
and the pure joy of being alive. When you look at my work, I hope to place the
viewer in a familiar time or place, churn a memory that may have been long
forgotten, or just make you remember why it is you love your life. The images
portrayed may not always be the most pleasant of scenes, but the lasting memory
they will leave will surely burn a pattern on your heart.
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Brad Antifolk - Artist
As a child my earliest memories of art are not between the lines of a coloring
book, but the lines themselves. It was the lines that stuck with me. In my
art today, the focus is the dichotomy between the arbitrariness of how color is
positioned on the canvas against the carefulness of the outlines of that color.
The line takes the color and makes it pop. There is beauty in imperfection.
As a leader of people in business, I would draw a straight line using a ruler
and then freehand a straight line next to it. I would then ask my employee
which one was they preferred. Inevitably they always said the one drawn with the
ruler. Ah, but the imperfection seen in the line drawn freehand has so much
more soul and power in it. My artwork continues to be about these small blemishes
that the hand drawn line produces. The power and the soul of the artist. Life is
not always perfect...
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Romulo Martinez - Artist
In my artistic journey, I have been a faithful follower of color, which, with
the impulse to deepen the potential of it, has led me in a fascinating way to
study the iridescent effects that show and reflect the colors of the rainbow
in natural and industrial elements present in our environment and societies,
to represent them with the challenge and ingenuity that the proposals merit.
With a personal photographic experiment in my workshop, this aesthetic
investigation began, which, when witnessing through the contemplative
observation of color radiation inside an aqueous body after the decomposition
of light, germinated in me the interest in investigate the color through light
and the materialization of the intangible phenomenon, leading me to communicate
what has been observed through various techniques, tools and materials that
evoke and reproduce those variables...
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Vanessa Daly a.k.a. Dos Santos - Artist
The artist behind Dos Santos artworks is Vanessa Daly. She is a contemporary
abstract artist and Psychologist M.S. based in Fort Worth, Texas. She was born
and raised in Caracas, Venezuela in 1988. Since her childhood, she has been
influenced not only by the Latin American culture but also by her Portuguese
and Italian family roots. Her brother and grandfather are also visual artists.
She watched them paint and had their artworks around the home, making it
colorful and unique. She studied Psychology in Bogotá, Colombia, and got
immersed in painting as a therapeutic tool. This changed her life and allowed
her to deeply connect with people beyond words. She moved to Fort Worth, Texas,
in 2017, and had gained recognition for her emotional abstract art and
self-expression workshops. Her paintings represent her emotions as a human, as
a woman...
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Sophia Ceballos - Artist
Sophia is an artist with a multicultural and multi-continental
upbringing. She and her family moved frequently throughout her childhood to
places such as Guam, Spain, The Virgin Islands, various cities throughout the
east coast and Texas. Her travels and experiences have cultivated an interest
in language visuals, environments and pattern. Sophia's practice is a
meditation on the intimacies of personal environment and the psychological
relationships with those surroundings, which she expresses through the use
of mixed mediums, watercolor and acrylic. Through hand generated mark making
within confined systems, she romanticizes minutia and detail that her
materials possess. She graduated with honors, earning a BFA from The
University of Texas at Arlington and lives within the Dallas- Fort Worth
metroplex.
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Ken O'Toole - Inklings
"Inklings" are celebrations, concrete caricatures of the great
expanse, maps of star fields, brightly colored nebulae and the nurseries of
infant stars as they gather their systems to them. Some are simply slices of
home. Some are other-worldly. I am grateful for them all. In the last email I
told you about my newest body of work, "Inklings." These sculptures
evolved from studio experiments. They embody the concept of "thoughts as things". Each one
is bent, shaped, twisted, cut and folded. In their most beautiful forms they are much like
developing skeletal systems, which cannot stand by themselves for long. They are vulnerable.
So, the plexi cubes are sealed to keep the contents safe. This "Inkling" shown is called,
"Wholehearted". Please click the image or MORE ARTICLE INFO to see
my current newsletter.
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Greg Bahr - Artist
Greg Bahr is an artist living and working in Fort Worth, Texas. My work
explores routine, repetition, and pattern. Using images based on daily
repetitive movement, I create work that looks at patterns and routine in
human behavior such as those that occur in ones daily tasks, whether its
at work, driving, or home. The repetitive and banal nature of most of these
tasks allows them to be dismissed in ones overall scope of life, yet account
for a large segment of it. Using repetitive, zen-like processes such as
screen printing helps to mimic these tasks while transforming their
pathways or images visually.
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John D Williams - Artist
A SPILT LIFE: When I graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Art from Texas Tech
University, I was doing large paintings with squeeze bottles on tarpaper. To
work in a smaller studio setting, I began the drawings, using India ink with
the ink droppers and my fingers. I had developed my style, looking for a way
to be able to draw anything I want, always with a personal edge. The process
is fast and I feel myself as a conduit to something beyond myself. The drawings
are sometimes planned and sometimes not. I channel the artwork in a manner like
the abstract expressionists but ending often with comic imagery. My inner life
contains the dark and burlesque. In one sense, the artwork is autobiographical.
In another sense, they are meant to stand on their own, connecting my life with
that of the viewer in a reactive conversation.
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Kate Simon - Artist
As a young artist, I merely portrayed the world as I saw it. Today, I'm privileged
to create the change I wish to see in the world. So, when I'm not changing
coastal landscapes into vibrant, multi-media textured works or 2D designs, I'm
transforming my beliefs with one abstract slathering of paint after another. If
that sounds like therapy, that's because it is. I operate from the belief that
all creative people hold one thing in common: good or bad, they never stop
creating. It's been said "your outer world is a reflection of your inner world."
I agree, and it's this inner world I am really working on through the creation
process. For me, it's just as effective as meditation. It's when my thoughts
are clearest, and I'm most at peace; and ultimately, I hope that's the stuff
that lives in the work and is transferred to viewers. This isn't something I've
always been intentional about.
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Erika Huddleston - Artist
Erika Huddleston is a Texas artist who attended the University of Texas at
Austin for a Masters in Landscape Architecture as well as the Parsons School
of Design in New York City. She is a contributor to Aether Art Journal and
Texas Architect Magazine - writing about the overlap of urban design and fine
art. Texas Monthly in Spring 2017 included her in their list of the top ten
Texas artists to collect now. Huddleston was selected as a 2015 Hunting
Prize finalist. In 2013-2014, she was an artist with bcWORKSHOP for the
ten-month public art "Activating Vacancy" project in the Tenth Street
Historic District in Dallas - funded partially by the National Endowment
for the Arts. She was artist - in-residence with the Shoal Creek Conservancy
in Austin in 2014 and her paintings and maps of Waco Creek were shown at
the Mayborn Museum, Baylor University.
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Gale Johnston - Artist
Gale's work has been accepted in juried competitions, winning numerous awards
from Southwestern Watercolor Society, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia
Exhibition, Society of Watercolor Artists, Western Federation of Watercolor
Societies and National Watercolor Oklahoma. She is a signature member of
Southwestern Watercolor Society and Society of Watercolor Artists. Private and
corporate collectors across the nation proudly include Gale's paintings. Studio
3908 Lynncrest Drive, Fort Worth, TX, 76109, 817-999-7984
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Camille Gibbons Kerr - Artist
My name is Camille Gibbons Kerr. I am a native Texan. I was born in Dallas,
Texas. I graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree. I live in Fort Worth, Texas with my husband, Michael and our sweet
puppy, Topper. We have two grown sons, James and John Michael. I have taught
art in public school for many years - every grade but mostly high school. I
enjoy teaching young artists of all ages. I try to help them build confidence
in themselves and in their work by teaching them skills and introducing them
to different kinds of art media and artists. Besides teaching and making my own
art, I also love gardening. It is very important to me. One of my most exciting
experiences was traveling to see Monet's garden at Giverny in France and to
learn how important gardening was to him and to his work.
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Phillip A. Ecton - Artist
I am an amateur artist working in Fort Worth. I use non-linear algorithms of
my own writing to generate abstract images of varying complexity with some
randomness and some of my own input incorporated into the images. I also
dabble in painting and drawing. My intention is to allow each viewer to have
their own unique interpretation of what is being presented. My hope is that
through the viewing of these images, viewers can take away their own ideas
and be inspired to create their own media adding to the novel information
content of humanity as a whole.
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Greg Brown - Artist
Artist Gregory Brown melds Versace ties with dynamic geometric patterns. Gregory
emphasizes the art in fashion by breathing a new life in late Gianni Versace's
work. With a collection of vintage Versace ties, Gregory expands the creative
vision on canvas by spotlighting each Versace piece. "The glamour in fashion
ended with Gianni's death in 1997, I wanted to find a way to keep his collection
alive," states Gregory. In his free time, Gregory enjoys traveling across Europe,
reading historical stories, and being an avid runner. His dynamic artwork has
been displayed in American Airlines Admirals Clubs in both Miami and Chicago,
the World Trade Center in Dallas, and shown at exhibits in
Jerusalem and Paris. Keeping the designs of Gianni Versace alive and
making people smile are his motivations.
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Allie R Dickerson - Artist
I don't know exactly how clay happened. I had done a little bit of clay work
during my time in the MFA program when focusing primarily on paint. But I hadn't
touched it since. I think it became interesting again because clay seemed the
way to make plants. This moving into clay has become a turning point. I am able
to satisfy quite naturally my attachment to order, my love of intricacy and
specificity, utilizing the properties that are inherent in clay. Each piece
is constructed by hand individually. Sometimes I will just move the clay in
my hand and have a leaf. Importance is placed on the form and the process of
making. At times as in life, things break, are created by happenstance or...
are what they should be. Intuitively, I adhere pieces one at a time to? a board
until the work feels complete. I make the shapes in multiples moving from the
simple to the more complex.
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Julie England - Artist
My preference is experience of landscape rather than domestic life. My Landscape
@ Elevation body of work combines the memory and feeling of being in space. My
artwork includes aerial perspectives of New Mexico and other arid locations. Long
discussions with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum about photographing her sites from
the air led to using their 2018 photographs as my inspiration. An aerial view
enhances the viewer's awareness of the three dimensions in space. These landscape
paintings capture gestures of surfaces and spaces, enabling a sense of movement
while standing still. Being outdoors can be a link to childhood. Raised on a
rural Wisconsin pine tree farm, I felt trees beckon to me as imaginary childhood
friends. My connection to outdoor energy is like being with family.
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Kay Wirz - Artist
I believe my art is a combination of my experienced intuition, and my acquired
skills, and is a means of self-expression and growth. By using flat, mostly
hard-edge areas of color, careful line work and sometimes surface patterns and
textures, I develop the form of my subject matter. I'm constantly intrigued
by the endless substance and variety to be found in subtle color and shape
relationships. The result is a combination of representational and abstract
images. When asked to describe my work, the best answer is that I paint in
"designed realism" or a "readable abstract" style.
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Jessica Fuentes - Artist, Educator, Community Advocate
A longtime Fort Worth resident, Jessica Fuentes has exhibited her work locally
for over a decade and is a former member of the F6 Gallery Collective and 500x
gallery. During the 2019-2020 academic year, she was an Artist-in-Residence at
Tarrant County College South Campus. As an art educator with nearly 15 years of
experience, Jessica has taught in the classroom, in higher education, and worked
at the Dallas Museum of Art as Manager of Gallery Interpretation & the Center
for Creative Connections and at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art as
Manager of School & Community Outreach. Jessica was instrumental in the
development of the C3 Visiting Artist Project and the Carter Community Artists
initiative. She has collaborated with cross-departmental teams; supervised
staff, interns, and volunteers;
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Maegan Kirschner - Artist, Director, Curator
Maegan Kirschner is a mixed media artist whose work continues to inspire and
amaze as she challenges herself to explore art as a bridge across the gaps in
our society (gender, race, sexuality, economic inequality, and other social
issues) in addition to the expression of emotion through the use of organic
shapes and vibrant colors. Maegan's work has been featured in more than 55
art exhibits between March 2017 and January 2020. Two of those shows (2017 and
2018) have been with the AASH - Arcadia Art Show in Tyler Texas. The third
international art show that Maegan's work has been featured in is The Biennial
Project Biennial 2019 at the Venice Biennale. While exhibiting her work regionally
and around the world Maegan also manages her own art studio, AMK Studio, and
The Artist's Story Gallery.
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Ziesook You - Scent of Broq-pa
Ziesook You has been experimenting with a variety of genres such as photography,
video, installation, and painting. She portrays her surroundings and daily life in a
bold, unaffected video language. Her pieces include the video diary of her family using
time flowing methods, a documentary film taken in various world travel sites depicting
space and time, and 10 Years Self-Portrait using time compression techniques. She has
exhibited Korea, Australia, Iceland, Taiwan, Hungary, Japan, France, the Netherlands
and the United States. Since 2016, she has been working on the "Scent of Broq-pa"
project, which expresses happiness through the coexistence of humans and nature, with
people from various walks of life and has been exhibiting it in Korea, Hong Kong and
the United States.
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John Storm - Artist And Educator
John Storm creates a magpie collection of bits and pieces of daily life, artistic
influences, and memories. He embraces a playfulness, openness, and serendipity in
the moment of creating. The influence of outsider art, wabi-sabi, imperfection and
street art, fuel John's quest for a pure child-like freedom of expression. John's
drawings, paintings and collage work embody his vibrant creative approach which sees
everything as possible artistic inspiration. The imagery, symbolism, and color
palette of his work take the viewer on a visual journey to experience their own
memories and reference points. John ultimately wants the viewer to experience an
echo of the joy he feels during the moment of creation. When not creating or
teaching, he can be found spending time with his two sons or losing a game of
chess to his beautiful wife.
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Lee Lee Brazeal - Artist, Director, Illustrator
Lee Lee Brazeal 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.
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Armando Sebastian - Artist
Armando Sebastian was born and raised in Monterrey Mexico. At an early age he became
interested in theater, fashion and designed costumes for plays. Later he discovered
his need to express himself and his passion for Art which led him to paint. It was
during this period that he realized his talent was innate. In 2004 Sebastian moved to
the city of Dallas,TX. Here is where he formally decided to start his career as an
Artist. Sebastian's work has been part of exhibitions throughout the years. He has been
featured in “the Dallas Morning News” and “Studio Visit Magazine” among others
publications. In 2016 his work was recognized with the “Artistic Merit Award”, (granted
by the Artspace Gallery111) in it's Fourth Annual Regional Juried edition in Fort Worth,
TX. In the summer of 2018 he was part of the statewide traveling show “MariconX”, and
the New Texas Talent show.
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Justin Burns - All That's Left
Justin grew up in Farmers Branch, Texas and studied close to home at the University of
North Texas. He earned his BFA focusing on Studio Drawing and Painting in 2013 and
currently is an art educator in Tarrant County and a Golden Working Artist for Golden
Artist Colors. While Justin was achieving his degree, between 2008 - 2011 he and his
twin brother Jonathan were signed to Island/Def Jam/Mercury Records and traveled the
United States. After his music endeavours, Justin focused back at home and began to
take interest in the Burns family farm which was established in 1914 and the surrounding
community of Kopperl, TX. After seeing all that's left of Kopperl, Justin wanted to
visually showcase the beauty of the decay of this small town. Eventually these spaces
will disappear and will become a distant memory of a time of how things used to be along
with the people...
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Dan Jian - Landscape As A Motif
My work explores landscape as a motif and metaphor that conveys a depth of meaning
through the reductive representation of form. As an immigrant, I find landscape
acquires meaning through memories. Through reflection and recollection, we are the
subjects overwriting a landscape's original narrative while holding the potential of
all future memory. The current work draws pictorial references from Buddhist mural
painting in Tang dynasty caves, China (Mogao Caves at Dunhuang), in which stories and
narratives are constantly shifting due to the flattened and sometimes ambiguous
background. Examining this characteristic, I explore shifts in meaning by re-contextualizing
familiar traditional painting motifs and making new points of connection between people,
places, and narrative. Working with oil on paper, I blend quotidian environs with non
sequitur images to capture...
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Lindy Chambers - Magical Events
Only if you're interested
There has never been a time I have not held a paint brush. My life has always been about
art. Although I have painted in many styles, used many techniques and mediums, my mature
art is landscape and oil paint. There has been many contemporary artists that have
influenced me, throughout my life, never to copy or emulate them, but in a subconscious
manner, more like tea, steeping in a pot. Sometimes these influences come out in my own
work as color or composition, or how I take a new perspective on an old subject. Painting
changes as you grow, and this change though sometimes painful is good, it keeps you
fresh and interested.
---- Lindy Chambers
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Peter Harrington - Kabuki Imagist
An aesthetic influence for me has been with the Imagist School of Chicago, however my work
has taken its own path into uncharted territory. My paintings are a kind of Kabuki of
forms, often have a totemic, iconic expression. An unlikely, but inevitable, intersection
of elements from primitive nature and the human presence, toward a philosophical whole.
Artist friends have commented on the humor and inventiveness of the way things are put
together, pointing to the pure ideas behind the resolved work. Some years spent living
in Zen Monastic communities and solitary retreats in the wilderness have also lent a
certain feeling of relatedness to the natural world and the paintings have since been
marked by these experiences. Works by Peter Harrington now showing at the Frost Gallery.
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Lee Albert Hill - A Texas Original
Lee Albert Hill uses a painting technique that combines foregrounds of hard-edged
geometric mark-making with informal assemblages of composition and background. His
lush application of paint is used for specific effects of color and rich textural
results. Upon closer inspection, each piece reveals a sense of symbiology and written
language imparting a quality of inscribed time and permanence. Personal and full of
eccentricities, his paintings promote a meditative response synonymous with the best
of abstract painting today. Born in Dallas, TX in 1963, Hill has been a Texas based
painter for more than 20 years. His work is represented by the CAMIBAart Gallery and
Cufflink Art in Texas and can be found in private and public collections such as
American Airlines, Austin Texas Developer Riverside Resources, NYC based Loews Hotels,
The Marriott Corporation...
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Layla Luna - The Jane Series
It was a summer afternoon and we sat cross-legged in the dirt making mud pies. I used
pine needles to decorate the top of mine. I don't remember the details of my cousin's pie,
I only remember that she was happily chattering away about important kid things. And we
sat like that knowing with every ounce of confidence that we were making mud pies exactly
right. The Jane Series is a body of work inspired by the pure joy and freedom in which
those little girls created with abandon. It is about reclaiming the courage to make by
looking inward instead of accepting the expectations of worth and success that we are
inundated with on a daily basis. It is reconfiguring the massive amounts of information
our society feeds us into something simple and orderly. Jane is a common name in my
small family.
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Keith Thomson - Artist - Potter
The first time I touched clay at art school, I was drawn to its unlimited potential of
design and workability in realizing my creative ideas. Clay from the earth, water, air
and fire are the essential elements which must be harmonized to create a ceramic form.
Whether it is a functional bowl, made on the wheel, an abstract sculpture using
extrusions, hand built with slabs or cast in a mold, all the basic elements are the
same. The clay needs water to make it workable, air for drying and fire to make it
permanent. After that, the limitations are only out with your creative imagination. My
studio is always open. You can come watch me work or get your hands in some clay.
Experienced or beginner, young or old, anyone can come to The Firehouse Pottery and
experience the creative and magical powers of clay.
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Olivia Saldívar - Artist - Printmaker - Painter
I carve prints which portray the ennui and mystery of the southwestern landscape. Carving
relief prints and painting offers a textural immediacy to the known and the unknown of
our land. It is vital to document these mysteries and offer context as to what it means
to live in the borderlands of the west in our day and age. Documenting the quiet beauty
of the southwestern landscape has long been a theme in my work as stories and shapes
unfold and transform in the bright sun. Sometimes resulting in minimalist landscapes.
Other times resulting in portraiture. People are constructed within the frame, looking
out, watching and waiting to discover their next course of action. This individualization
within the tableau gives pause to and silence from one to another. In the end there is
hope in the silence and in that contemplation.
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Robert L Berry - Jazz Art Boutique
I have always dreamed of being a professional artist and I began expressing myself through
drawings at an early age. The teachers would let me draw the display for Christmas on the
blackboard. I never lost my passion for art. My work is rich, colorful, and has bold
textures. I believe that in the quest for individuality, art is the highest expression
of "Human Victory". In the final analysis, it does not matter how the world perceives
your art, it only matters how your art perceives the world. I paint using acrylic paint
and cerne relief outliner paint on canvas and bisque ceramic tiles. My creations are a
combination of Jazz and Art in an "Improvisational Contemporary Style". Journey with me
through a "Rainbow of Explicit Color on Canvas". The Creations contained on the site are
all originals using acrylic and cerne relief outliner paint on canvas and ceramic tiles,
and paper.
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Rebecca Low - She Creates What She Sees
Rebecca's art is very diverse. She creates what she sees. When Rebecca looks at, what
many people call junk, she may see all kinds of things - it's very much like seeing
faces or objects or landscapes in the clouds. Empty space is filled when Rebecca sees
it. Then she either takes found objects, or raw metal, or both and often combines them
with paint, water, rock, glass, fire or any other material to help her create her
vision. Rebecca's attempt is not to try and control - but to let the visions and
materials control themselves, her work and her. Most of Rebecca's art is just for fun and
rarely philosophical. It tends to either appear off balance (a little like the artist) or
it has motion or both. Rebecca will often use wind, water and/or fire to enhance her
sculptures.
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Julie Lazarus - Acqua Alta
Most of my new work is a result of my travels to Italy over the past seven years. My
observations of the amazing light reflected off the water and buildings of Venice and
Murano has been an inspiration for my work. My newest works, however, are inspired by
the intriguing floral growth of the trumpet vines and the grapevines that grow in
abundance throughout Venice, and by the tree limbs that appear to frame the vistas
of the landscape. During my visits to the Veneto, I sit beneath the arbors, surrounded
by the flowering vines and sketch my surroundings. These influences become the shapes
and colors for my paintings and for my blown glass produced during my visits to Murano.
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Sharon Grimes - Consciousness
Sharon Grimes of Longview, TX, is a self-taught contemporary abstract artist whose art is
expressed with vivid colors and vibrant energy in all of its textures and layers.
The thoughts and awarenesses that I have while working are always interesting to me.
Sometimes the act of painting reaches deep into my soul and prompts me to think of things
that I wouldn't normally give a lot of thought. As I worked on this piece I started to
feel enveloped and warmed by it. I used the lines to indicate different levels of awareness,
building up to a crescendo of light. When I started to become conscious of the light, I
wondered if the awarenesses that I develop are limited to humans or if the earth itself
is aware, in much the same way that we are.
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Ariel Davis - Artist, Gallery Manager, Arts Organizer, And Curator
Ariel Davis is an artist living and working in Fort Worth, Texas. Her work reflects on
humanity, relationships, and time, in the form of stylized figurative paintings. In her
work you can find the idea of relationships at the core, that play with symbolism in
telling a story. In preparation of creating a painting, she employs the process of
photography, collage, and digital manipulation to create a unique source image, or she
works from life. Many times she will engage individuals in the community to collaborate
with her as subjects in her work. Capturing and portraying the energy and mood of a scene,
group or individual is more important then the details, which is defined by her loose
style and use of bold color.
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Gwen Meharg - Marking Time Series
Exhibition on Display: 2019- 2020
Nine Marking Time paintings can be seen at Crittenden the Studio 299-101 St. Louis Ave.,
Fort Worth, Texas, 76104 Due to CV19 complications call the gallerist, George Crittenden,
at 917-514-9715 to ask when you can see the art. Call me at 817 832 6952 and I will meet
you there if I can. Do artist brains work differently? I don't think so, but I one have
experience with the one brain. A psychiatrist friend of mine disagrees. She tells me I
see the world in a unique way. As an experiment, join me for a walk through of the
coalescence of my painting series, Marking Time.
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