Collectors Club Cycle VI Janice Bond Ben Tecumseh DeSoto Sharon Engelstein Renata Lucia Rebecca Novak Lisa Qualls Beth Secor Geraldina Interiano Wise
Viewing Period October 19th – January 8th 2017
Janice Bond Cultural Curator and Arts Advocate with a zeal for the creative and imaginative, Janice Bond is a communications, programs, and business development strategist specializing in arts and culture. A combination of "Northern edge," "Midwest will," and "Southern hospitality," Bond's forward thinking and high energy approach has been utilized over the past decade in a range of curatorial projects and programs. Her insight has also been an integral part of developing interactive and creative marketing campaigns. The debut of her company SAVANT | SAVANT in 2009 began the incalculable journey of Janice leading stellar collectives of great artistic minds and institutions as a consultant. From Dakar to Detroit, local art exhibitions to international music festivals, her continued interest and investments in arts and culture stems from her passion for developing more impactful, shared, restorative, and sustainable creative economies globally. In the community, she lends her time to multiple organizations and institutions as a gracious speaker, board member, volunteer, and mentor. From 2013 to 2015, she was appointed and served as Director of Arts and Culture at IMAN with a focus of using art as a tool for social justice and restorative healing on Chicago's Southwest Side and beyond. Janice opened Gallery ONI in 2014, a contemporary art gallery and cultural space located in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to promoting the work of women artists of color. As a visual/multimedia artist, her original paintings, installations, and collective soundscapes focus on multidimensional human perspectives and identity, sacred geometry, sound frequencies, and indigenous fractal patterns found in various cultures and urban landscapes. In 2015, The Art Allies was launched, an initiative created to educate and develop more visual art collectors and arts entrepreneurs in major cities all over the world.
Works Available: Self Lover (From the Series, Beyond the Binary) Lotus Standing (From the Series, Beyond the Binary) As I Damn Well Please (From the Series, Beyond the Binary)
Self Lover (From the Series, Beyond the Binary) | 2016 Mixed media on archival photo print | 12� x 12� $3,500 | Courtesy of Janice Bond
Lotus Standing (From the Series, Beyond the Binary) | 2016 Mixed media on archival photo print | 12� x 12� $3,500 | Courtesy of Janice Bond
As I damn Well Please (From the Series, Beyond the Binary) | 2016 Mixed media on archival photo print | 12” x 12” $3,500 | Courtesy of Janice Bond
Ben Tecumseh DeSoto Ben Tecumseh DeSoto is a native Houstonian. DeSoto worked as a photojournalist with the Houston Chronicle for 25 years. Since 2006, DeSoto has worked on the Understanding Poverty Project (UPP), a survey and research on the subject of homelessness spanning almost 30 years. UPP exhibited at DiverseWorks Artspace in the Fall of 2008. A major portion of UPP is documentary work spanning two decades in the lives of two individuals with lifelong struggles with the traumas of poverty. He has been part of the group show No Zoning: Artist Engage Houston exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in the Summer of 2009. Current activity includes moving approximately 500 rolls of street photography, the “overshoots” of his extensive documentary work on homelessness and inner city gentrification to the University of Houston Library Archive for public access. Other projects approaching completion include two documentary films incorporating DeSoto’s subject work spanning decades on the Houston Punk Music scene and homelessness and its solutions. He has work that is part of the permanent collection of the MFAH and the Harry Ransom Center.
Works Available: Rick Lowe Dr. Biggers James Bettison
Rick Lowe | 1991 Digital color print from negative | 8” x 10” $500 | Courtesy of Ben Tecumseh DeSoto
Dr. Biggers | 1986 Handmade black and white print | 8” x 10” $500 | Courtesy of Ben Tecumseh DeSoto
James Bettison | 1986 Color Print (Digital) | 8” X 10” $500 | Courtesy of Ben Tecumseh DeSoto
Sharon Engelstein Sharon Engelstein was born in Montreal, Canada and has lived many places. She graduated with an MFA in sculpture from the Claremont Graduate School in California, and came directly to Houston for the Core Residency Fellowship at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She has since been included in a number of exhibitions in Houston and around the country. She began teaching at the University of Houston almost immediately after finishing the Core Residency program in 1992, and later taught at the University of Texas at Austin. Engelstein has also lectured extensively around the country at various institutions including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, UT San Antonio, California College of Art, The Menil Collection, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. In 1995 Engelstein received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and soon after had a solo exhibition at Texas Gallery, Houston. In the following years she had numerous solo and group exhibitions around the country including solo shows at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Glassell School of Art, Houston; Locust Projects, Miami; Elias Fine Art, Boston; Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco; and The Suburban, Chicago. In 2002 she participated in the prestigious International Artist in Residence Program at Art Pace in San Antonio, and has received awards from the Canada Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and Cultural Arts Council of Houston Harris County. In 2010 she completed a monumental sculpture commissioned by the City of Houston for the Houston Police Department. In 2015 she completed public works for Hermann Park and Houston Light Rail. She is currently working on public sculptures for the City of Austin and the University of Houston. Her work is represented by Houston’s Devin Borden Gallery.
Works Available: Dragon Belly Green Slime Bumbry Mask
Dragon Belly | 2015 Ink on Paper | 22” x 17” | $2,200 | Courtesy of Devin Borden Gallery
Green Slime | 2015 Ink on Paper | 17” x 22” | $2,200 | Courtesy of Devin Borden Gallery
Bumbry Mask | 2015 Ink on Paper | 22” x 17” | $2,200 | Courtesy of Devin Borden Gallery
Renata Lucia Renata Lucia is the daughter of a writer/outsider artist and a research scientist, and the granddaughter of a visionary outsider artist, and quilters/embroiderers; this lineage frequently manifests in her multi-disciplinary practice. Her work has been featured twice in the periodical New American Paintings, is held in private collections and the public collection of the International Woman’s Museum in Marfa, TX, and has been shown in Texas, Chicago IL, and Los Angeles, CA. Her artist residencies include Project Row Houses and Box 13 ArtSpace. She is a Rice University and Glassell School of Art, MFAH graduate. Lucia resides in Houston, TX.
Works Available: Such, Such Were the Joys 2 Under the Oak Our Sports Shall Be Seen
Such, Such Were the Joys 2 | 2016 Encaustic and toner transfer on panel | 12” x 12” $400 | Courtesy of Renata Lucia
Our Sports Shall Be Seen | 2016 Encaustic and toner transfer on panel | 12” x 12” $400 | Courtesy of Renata Lucia
Under the Oak | 2014 Encaustic and toner transfer on panel | 24” x 18” $400 | Courtesy of Renata Lucia
Rebecca Novak Rebecca Novak is an interdisciplinary artist and musician. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from DePaul University in Chicago and a Master of Music from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In 1993 she was awarded a fellowship to the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where she studied feminist musicology and modern dance as well as classical horn. She completed further studies in sculpture, painting, and drawing at the MFAH Glassell School in 2008. Her work involves collaborations and individual projects reaching into visual art, performance, score writing, poetry, and improvised music. Recent works and projects include PerFormative Poesis: A Timed Play in Three Acts at DiverseWorks (2015); Other Ends Pine, a collaborative publication and performance with the Hygge Writers Group (2014); and Radio DWOW, a live performance and slideshow for SonicWorks, DiverseWorks (2014).
Works Available: Sounded (film sprockets) Lilacs in the Rain/Just one Hour With You/ I Had the Craziest Dream/El Rancho Grande/Exodus Berenice's tennis (from the installation and performance, PerFormative Poesis: A Timed Play in Three Acts)
Sounded (film sprockets) | 2014 Oil paint, colored pencil, metal leaf, charcoal, medium image transfer, and collage on archival sanded paper 10� x 24� | 2 drawings, hang side by side as diptych $400 | Courtesy of Rebecca Novak
Lilacs in the Rain/Just one Hour With You/ I Had the Craziest Dream/El Rancho Grande/Exodus | 2014 Colored pencil, pencil, charcoal, collage on archival paper | 15’ x 16.5� $325 | Courtesy of Rebecca Novak
Berenice's tennis (from the installation and performance, Performative Poesis: A Timed Play in Three Acts) | 2015 Birchwood airplane plywood, plywood, metal leaf, sandbags, pickling white, acrylic, and live-written script for a play | 26” x 10” x 30” $425 | Courtesy of Rebecca Novak
Lisa Qualls Lisa Qualls received her BFA and BA from the University of Texas at Austin. She continued her studies in Fine Art and Design at Parsons and FIT in New York, NY and CISIM in Ravenna, Italy. Her work is represented by Nicole Longnecker Gallery. She resides in Houston with her husband and two dogs and an evil monkey.
Works Available: Ramona in the Field In the Sugarcane Lega Necklace
Ramona in the Field | 2012 Graphite on clapboard | 8” x 8” x 2” $500 | Courtesy of Lisa Qualls and Nicole Longnecker Gallery
In the Sugarcane | 2016 Photo transfer, colored pencil, pigment on paper | 17� x 12� | $1,650 | Courtesy of Lisa Qualls and Nicole Longnecker Gallery
Lega Necklace | 2011 Graphite on clapboard | 24” x 36” $2,500 | Courtesy of Lisa Qualls and Nicole Longnecker Gallery
Beth Secor Beth Secor is an artist living in Houston, Texas. She has a BFA in Printmaking and an MFA in Painting from the University of Houston. Her work is represented by Inman Gallery. In addition to being an artist, she is a lecturer in the Visual Arts at the University of Houston, Downtown.
Work Available: Metaphors of Adolescence: 6:45pm
Metaphors of Adolescence: 6:45pm | 2011 Etching on Rives BFK, ed. 15/20 | 13” x 10” $500 | Courtesy of Beth Secor and Inman Gallery SOLD
Geraldina Interiano Wise Geraldina Interiano Wise discovered art at a young age. Her parents, self-taught art enthusiasts, had a good eye for modern art, were opportunistic in their collecting, and insisted in her early art education. She created much of the art that hung in her dorm rooms while in college and was adept at trading art with other art students at Rice University. Her collection reflects her unique life trajectory, from her Maya roots to finding herself an immigrant after the Civil War in El Salvador separated her family; and each piece has a personal history. She has opened the sustainable family home she designed and built, CASA Wise, for the Collector’s Club, where the family’s personal collection is integrally intertwined with her own art. Her husband Scott calls the art filled grand room, which she envisioned as a salon for sharing ideas, as their art war room; she considers it her reference library. Her motto is “home is where our art is.”
Works Available: Fusion Towards Fusion
Fusion (Left) | 2016 Acrylic, indigo pigment, oil pastel on canvas | 12” x 12” x 1.5” $600 | Courtesy of Geraldina Interiano Wise Towards Fusion (Right) | 2016 Acrylic, indigo pigment, oil pastel on canvas | 12” x 12” x 1.5”
$600 | Courtesy of Geraldina Interiano Wise