ERIKA ALONSO (b. 1987)
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Erika Alonso Hurry Up, 2021 acrylic and charcoal on canvas 56 x 78 in $6,000.00
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Erika Alonso Untitled, 2021 acrylic and charcoal on wood panel 48 x 48 in $3,750.00
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Erika Alonso Escape, 2021 oil and charcoal on wood panel 48 x 48 in $3,750.00
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Erika Alonso Circus, 2021 acrylic and charcoal on wood panel 48 x 48 in $3,750.00
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Erika Alonso Colorful Fields, 2021 acrylic and charcoal on canvas 48 x 36 in $3,500.00
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Erika Alonso Progressive Collapse, 2021 pen and brush and ink on paper 59 x 95 in $3,200.00
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Erika Alonso Paradise Birds, 2020 acrylic, charcoal and graphite on canvas 48 x 36 in $2,800.00
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Erika Alonso Spring Flowers, 2020 acrylic and charcoal on canvas 53 x 34 in $2,500.00 61x41 inches (unstretched); ~53x34 inches (stretched)
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Erika Alonso Woodland Creatures in Yellow, 2020 acrylic and charcoal on canvas 40 x 20 in $1,500.00
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Erika Alonso SOS, 2021 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 24 x 12 in $650.00
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Erika Alonso Refuge, 2021 acrylic and charcoal on canvas 16 x 20 in $650.00
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Erika Alonso Alone But Not Lonely (No. 2), 2021 watercolor, ink and pastels on toned handmade paper 30 x 22 in Framed 35 x 28 in $1,300.00
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Erika Alonso Alone But Not Lonely (No. 3), 2021 watercolor, ink and pastels on toned handmade paper 30 x 22 in Framed 35 x 28 in $1,300.00
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Erika Alonso Alone But Not Lonely (No. 1), 2021 watercolor, ink and pastels on toned handmade paper 30 x 22 in Framed 35 x 28 in $1,300.00 2143 Westheimer | Houston, TX 77098 | 713.521.7500 | www.foltzgallery.com
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Erika Alonso Let's Dance, 2021 watercolor and ink on handmade paper 28.50 x 21 in Framed 37 x 25 in $1,200.00
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Erika Alonso Bird Brain, 2021 watercolor and ink on handmade paper 18.50 x 18.50 in Framed 24 x 24 in $850.00
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Erika Alonso A Forest, 2021 watercolor and ink on handmade paper 18.50 x 18.50 in Framed 24 x 24 in $850.00
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Erika Alonso Saints, 2021 watercolor and ink on handmade paper 18.50 x 18.50 in Framed 24 x 24 in $850.00
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Erika Alonso Dandelion Winds, 2021 watercolor and ink on handmade paper 18.50 x 18.50 in Framed 24 x 24 in $850.00
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Erika Alonso Porthole, 2019 watercolor and ink on paper 22 x 15 in Framed 29 x 21 in $650.00
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Erika Alonso (b. 1987) Erika Alonso is a Cuban-American painter, working and living in Houston, Texas. Her childhood was spent in Southern California, a place she often “escapes” to while painting. Alonso is a self-taught artist and an unabashedly painterly painter. Her current makings involve experimenting in abstract expressionism through a series of whimsical, abstract-figurative-landscape paintings that are meant to capture a moment in all its fleetingness—the movement and rush and whirl of it. The artist describes her work as an escape from reality: “My paintings are just places I’d like to be, places where I’d like to spend my time. Places that are stimulating, enchanting, complex, and consistently inconsistent.” And in a way, they are where the artist spends most of her time, painting in her studio at Winter Street. Alonso likens her painting process to daydreaming, and the painting picture to a vessel through which the viewer can travel. Her faith in the process comes across in her use of color with abandon, which the artist attributes to her confidence in the act of painting as one of repetition and physical and mental calibration: “You can’t control what you are doing, and you don’t know where you are going, but you just do it again and again until the knowledge is in the muscles and the bones, not the brain. The brain has better things to do; no time for instruction—only vision!” Alonso’s main influences can be seen plainly in her work: Willem DeKooning’s use of charcoal and blending of unconventional materials and the idea of a “slipping glimpser”, and the fractured brushstrokes, heavily influenced by Cecily Brown. Other influences include painters Joan Mitchell and Larry Poons; illustrator Ralph Steadman; and musicians as well, such as Beck and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Despite her proclivity for art at a young age, Alonso had relatively few interactions with art in her childhood and adolescence as her parents were not interested in art and favored more practical professional pursuits. Her first experience with art was with a painting in the garage of her childhood home—one that was left behind by the previous owner. That picture, remembered as a pen and wash style landscape, was the only painting she lived with as a child, and it still fascinates her to this day. Alonso’s series of whimsical and intimate watercolor paintings from 2019 were at the outset an experiment in efforts to “find” that very painting as a visual memory to be replicated. While not successful, Alonso found along the way her distinct mark-making style and her preference for mediating the materials and process, as opposed to controlling or directing it. In late 2019, the artist created a series of “tiny ink drawings” which highlights her unique marks. The series was created over the course of a few months and includes over one hundred 7.5” x 5.5” drawings. Currently, Alonso is working on large-scale acrylic paintings on canvas and handmade cradled wood panels. This series is where she is exploring color and further defining her own visual language: a watchful eye in the sky, windows as escape hatches, reflection pools, cascading flowers (that are also people), and birds, snakes, and animals of all kinds. Alonso’s fantastical paintings and drawings have been exhibited throughout the Houston area and in group shows at Spring Street Studios, Winter Street Studios, and Hardy & Nance Studios. She has two shows slated for summer 2021. Alonso’s paintings can be found in numerous private collections in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, as well as in the not-so-private and world-renowned Lester Marks Art Collection in Houston, Texas. 2143 Westheimer | Houston, TX 77098 | 713.521.7500 | www.foltzgallery.com
Artist Statement
My recent paintings, made with acrylic and charcoal, mix perspective and pure chance. I begin a painting with no intended outcome, fully embracing the materials and their interactions with each other. While my method is not restrictive, it often begins with gestural mark-making in charcoal. From there, I unmask figures (or non-figures) through a series of additional layers. The unmasking itself is a practice of presence and structured wonder. Influenced by my immediate surroundings, what results finds comfort at the interstices between abstraction and figuration. This ambiguity is at the center of my creative process. Education 2010
University of Houston, B.A., Marketing
Selected Exhibitions 2021 Texas Emerging: Volume 2, Foltz Fine Art Gallery, Houston, Texas (upcoming - August) Renewal, Winter Street Studios, Houston, Texas 2020-1 Discovering Repeating Patterns, Spring Street Studios, Houston, Texas 2019-20 5x5x5 Show, River Oaks Square Arts Center Gallery, Alexandria, Louisiana The Abstract Show, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston, Texas 2019 Come Together: Collaborative Show, Winter Street Studios, Houston, Texas Events & Press 2021 Fresh from the Studio, March 4, 2021. Virtual artist talk hosted by Women & Their Work. 2020 Meet Erika Alonso: Contemporary Artist, December 22, 2020. Interview published with online magazine Shoutout HTX. Collections Private collections in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany Lester Marks Art Collection, Houston, Texas
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DYLAN CONNER (b. 1989)
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Dylan Conner Blue Beam, 2019 Salvaged beam with paint and natural patina, steel, and polymer gypsum 8 x 9 x 10 in $1,900.00
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Dylan Conner Succulents, 2021 Steel pipe with natural patina, salvaged medical oxygen tanks, and polymer gypsum 4 x 3 x 8 in $900.00 each
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Dylan Conner Wasteland Coral , 2019 Steel from pipe with natural patina, polymer gypsum, reclaimed foundry equipment with refractory residue, partially charred hardwood timbers from pallet, and steel hardware 36 x 24 x 30 in $11,000.00
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Dylan Conner (b. 1989) Dylan DeBock Conner, born in Houston, TX in 1989, received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, studied art history at the University of Houston Downtown, and is currently working towards his MFA at the University of Houston. Houston artists, Tim Glover and Ed Wilson, have been key in helping Conner hone his craft over the past decade. Conner builds sculpture primarily using mild steel, stainless steel, plaster, and concrete. A variety of other materials can be found in his work as well. He has been instrumental in the creation of a number of large-scale public works including Ed Wilson’s Soaring In The Clouds at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX. Conner recently completed his first major public commission entitled Firefly Field which is permanently installed as the gateway to Houston’s second oldest park, Woodland Park, in the Woodland Heights. Conner currently works in Houston among a tightly knit community of artists in a locally cherished studio space called El Rincón Social . Artist Statement I create my sculptures with steel, plaster, and concrete, historically rich materials that carry inherent conceptual weight. I find new aesthetic value in the properties of these materials by pushing them to their limits. Force, pressure, bulging, compression, constraint, and vulnerability are recurring themes. In some pieces, I also incorporate found materials such as a cast iron lamppost, a heavy wooden beam, delicate wallpaper, or a steel marine buoy. Site is always an important consideration in my work, but when I use found objects, rather than responding to the site they typically inhabit, the sculptures become self-reflective in nature and assume an introspective quality. Trial and error are fundamental to my process as I experiment with casting and fabricate intricate steel frameworks. Some of my works are successful because so many have failed. Investigating the entire process, from conception through execution to failure or success, is the driving force of my practice. Education 2019 Master of Fine Arts, University of Houston, Houston, TX 2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 2007 High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX Work 2019 - Current Owner/Sculptor, Dylan Conner Sculpture and Fabrication, Houston, TX Consultant, Metal Sculpture, High School Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX 2018 - 2019 Teaching Fellow, Sculpture, University of Houston, Houston, TX Instructional Assistant, Sculpture, University of Houston, Houston, TX 2017 Lead Fabricator, Ed Wilson Sculpture Studio, Houston, TX 2015 - 2016 Consultant, Drawing, High School Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX Artist assistant and fabricator, Ed Wilson Sculpture Studio, Houston, TX 2013 - 2015 Mold-Making Workshop Leader, Art League Houston, Houston, TX Artist assistant/fabricator for sculptor Tim Glover, Houston, TX 2011 - 2012 Avis Frank Gallery Exhibitor, Texas Fine Arts Fair, Houston, TX Installer for sculptor Ledelle Moe, 2012 Dallas Biennial, Dallas, TX
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2008
Teachers Assistant, Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Solo Exhibitions 2015 2014
Where Two Become One, Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, TX Breaking the Mold, Capitol Street Gallery, Houston, TX Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Pitch and Roll, 1940’s Air Terminal Museum, Houston, TX 41st Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX Other Edens, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX 2018 2017 Shaped by Subtraction, Box 13, Houston, TX Perspectives, Gensler, Houston, TX 2016 Fotos y Artefactos, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2015 Collective Solid, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX Painting and Sculpture, Rudolph Blume Fine Art/Art Scan Gallery, Houston, TX Spreading the Love, City Hall, Houston, TX 43, G Gallery, Houston, TX 2014 2013 A Panoramic View, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX Salon Style, Alonzo Gallery, Houston, TX States of Matter (two man show), Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, TX 2012 Bringing it All Back Home, Art League Houston, Houston, TX 2011 2010 2008 2007
Hello Everything, El Rincon Social, Houston, TX God, Art Car Museum, Houston, TX Menagerie, Winter Street Gallery, Houston, TX BFA Thesis Exhibition, Maryland Institute College, Baltimore, MD Expanded, Area 405 Gallery, Baltimore, MD Cast Elements, Main Zero Gallery, Baltimore, MD Selected Works, Jung Center, Houston, TX NFAA Exhibition, Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Honors and Awards 2019 Mayor’s Proud Partner Award 2019 University of Houston School of Art Graduate Travel Grant Cynthia Woods Mitchell Award 2016 Wich Foundation Scholarship Fanny Blaunstein Thalheimer Scholarship 2007 Mark di Suvero Award and Scholarship National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) winner Scholastics Gold Key Visual Arts Portfolio Presidential Scholar in the Arts Nominee
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LAURA GARWOOD (b. 1989)
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Laura Garwood Untitled (Dark purple, Yellow, Pink Stripes), 2018 oil and acrylic on canvas 72 x 35.50 in $3,600.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled (navy with blue), 2019 oil and encaustic on canvas 72 x 48 in $3,600.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled (yellow), 2020 oil on canvas 72 x 39.50 in $3,600.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled (burgundy, red, yellow, white), 2019 oil and acrylic on canvas 72 x 27.50 in $3,200.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled (white and yelllow), 2018 mixed media on canvas 54 x 36 in $2,800.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled (purple, black and green), 2019 encaustic and oil on canvas 90 x 42 in $2,800.00 48x42 in. (canvas)
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Laura Garwood Untitled (white with teal blue), 2018 acrylic on canvas 40 x 54 in $2,500.00
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Laura Garwood Peekabo, 2018 gesso on canvas woven 20 x 20 in Framed 21.50 x 21.50 in $1,200.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled (orange, blue, green, white), 2019 oil and acrylic on canvas woven 30 x 20 in $1,000.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled (thick blue center), 2021 mixed media on canvas 18 x 18 in Framed 19.25 x 19.25 in $575.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled (white with yellow, pink), 2021 mixed media on canvas 16 x 16 in Framed 17.25 x 17.25 in $475.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled(white with turquoise) #1, 2021 Mixed media on canvas 16 x 16 in Framed 17.25 x 17.25 in $475.00
Laura Garwood Untitled(white with turquoise) #2, 2021 Mixed media on canvas 16 x 16 in Framed 17.25 x 17.25 in $475.00 2143 Westheimer | Houston, TX 77098 | 713.521.7500 | www.foltzgallery.com
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Laura Garwood Untitled (white weave), 2021 Mixed media on canvas woven 10 x 10 in Framed 11.25 x 11.25 in $375.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled (yellow green), 2021 mixed media on canvas laid on panel 12 x 12 in Framed 13.25 x 13.25 in $350.00
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Laura Garwood Untitled Pink #1, 2021 Mixed media on canvas 10 x 10 in Framed 11.25 x 11.25 in $275.00
Laura Garwood Untitled Pink #2, 2021 Mixed media on canvas 10 x 10 in Framed 11.25 x 11.25 in $275.00
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Laura Garwood (b. 1984) Laura Garwood was born In Texas and spent her childhood in Houston, where she now currently resides. Laura recalls an early fascination with not only artwork itself, but also the lives of the artists that shaped their work, depicted in the Mike Venezia’s picture books. In conjunction with enrolling in the Religious Studies and Literature Program at Princeton University, Laura took several Studio art classes, notably influenced and encouraged by Artist/Professor, Eve Aschhiem. Post College, Laura moved to New York City to resume studio art courses at Hunter College, completing a BA in studio arts, studying under Laura Sue King, Constance de Jong, and Drew Beattie. The vibrancy and energy of New York City’s art life had a lasting impact on Laura’s understanding of contemporary Art. Shortly thereafter, Laura moved back to Houston and began working from her studio at home; experimenting with strips of canvas and attaching these pieces repeatedly across a traditional stretched canvas; and later ripping them away to reveal the original canvas in a process of creative destruction through the repetition of adding and removal practice. Art can be an obsessive playing around with materials and improving one’s mastery over these personally chosen materials. In process art, Laura sees qualities of the sublime, a kind of beauty that juxtaposes rough edges, scrapes and/or paint marks along with the artist’s intention to harmonize a work of Art through color or texture. In addition to painting, ripping, and stapling Laura has earned a master’s degree in counselling and worked part-time at Santa Maria, Texas’ largest multi-site residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment center for women. The art process can be an escape and healing from the chatter of the mind. It is an entrance into the universal. If one finds the space and energy to experiment with chosen materials they will find the artist within. Artist Statement Looking at art can be meditative, you are meditating on an abstract or expressive image, representing the sublime. My hope is that my work, with its indicators of process and human touch reflect the effort to continually re-define and evolve what is beautiful.
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PETER HEALY (b. 1989)
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Peter Healy Stacked, 2021 oil and graphite on canvas 60 x 60 in $5,200.00
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Peter Healy Divide and Conquer, 2021 acrylic and spray paint on canvas 60 x 60 in $5,200.00
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Peter Healy The Watcher, 2020 acrylic on canvas 70 x 48 in $5,000.00
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Peter Healy Community #2, 2021 acrylic on canvas 34 x 34 in $3,000.00
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Peter Healy Anatomy of a Sherbet Beast, 2019 oil and spray paint on canvas 40 x 30 in $2,600.00
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Peter Healy Untitled, 2021 oil and spray paint on wood panel 24 x 30 x 2.50 in $2,200.00
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Peter Healy Clouds, 2021 spray paint on wood 14 x 24 x 5.50 in $1,200.00
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Peter Healy Assemblage #1, 2020 found wood, oil paint, resin and graphite 40.50 x 34.50 x 6 in $1,000.00
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Peter Healy Assemblage #2, 2020 found wood, oil paint, resin 19 x 13.50 x 3 in $750.00
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Peter Healy Looking Out #3, 2021 acrylic on wood panel 12 x 16 in $650.00
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Peter Healy Looking Out #2, 2021 acrylic on wood panel 12 x 16 in $650.00
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Peter Healy Looking Out #1, 2021 acrylic on wood panel 8 x 10 in $500.00
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Peter Healy Floating through the Archway, 2021 acrylic and spray paint on canvas 9 x 12 in $475.00
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Peter Healy Lemon Sherbet, 2020 acrylic on canvas 8 x 10 in $450.00
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Peter Healy Dots and Lines, 2020 acrylic on canvas 8 x 10 in $450.00
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Peter Healy Untitled , 2019 found wood and gold leaf 53.50 x 18 x 13 in $3,500.00
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Peter Healy Totem #2 (blue/grey), 2021 acrylic on carved wood 3.50 x 3 x 3 in $225.00
Peter Healy Totem #1 (black/yellow), 2021 acrylic on carved wood 4.50 x 2 x 2 in $200.00
Peter Healy Totem #4 (red/pink), 2021 acrylic on carved wood 5 x 3 x 2 in $250.00
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Peter Healy Totem #3 (green/turquoise), 2021 acrylic on carved wood 5.50 x 2 x 3 in $250.00
Peter Healy Totem #5 (yellow), 2021 acrylic on carved wood 5 x 3 x 3 in $275.00
Peter Healy Totem #6 (purple, white, red), 2021 acrylic on carved wood 5 x 3 x 3 in $300.00 2143 Westheimer | Houston, TX 77098 | 713.521.7500 | www.foltzgallery.com
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Peter Healy (Irish, b. 1973) I am an Irish artist with a background in illustration. I now live full time in Houston Texas. These days I work in series and, also, individual paintings, drawings, and assemblage. My mediums are oil paint, acrylic, ink, pencil, collaged fabric, assembled wood/ various 3d objects and paper. I try to let ideas come to me and sometimes let the pieces speak to me through their creation using editing as part of the process. They are usually colorful and often try to illustrate the contrast of living in the sparsely populated Fermanagh countryside of my youth and living in the city with a diverse population. I have lived in Ireland, England, Amsterdam, and Los Angeles. I now call Houston, Texas home. Where I live with my wife and two daughters, two cats and a dog. These experiences and diverse populations have influenced my work. There are so many ways to represent population architecture and nature, that I am constantly going between mediums to describe these relationships. ARTIST STATEMENT A lot of the time the shapes in my paintings and drawings are like characters or individuals trying to coexist in a space on canvas or paper, just like we do in cities. In some series I am with the viewer looking through a window or down a tunnel at forms floating in space. Sometimes the shapes go off the edge; I want the viewer to think “What's around the corner?”, much like we all wonder what’s around the next corner in our everyday lives. I am interested in relationships between the objects I make, movement, landscapes or environments, composition, and space. My assemblage work is all about collaging 2d/ 3d forms. A lot of the time it’s about reusing wood and material to give it a second life. It’s like making a jigsaw puzzle whilst inventing the pieces. When hurricanes happen there is so much material ruined. I wanted to find a way to reuse it and mix it with drawing or painting. It also gives me the opportunity to make unusual shapes. In general, I always loved getting lost in paintings, so I want the viewer to do the same. I want to make work that takes people away. The landscapes I looked out across over the years always make me think of the road ahead, distance not yet covered and the possibilities for the future. So, I try to emulate that feeling in my work. EDUCATION 1994-97, BA, Graphic Design and Illustration, University of Central Lancashire, England SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2021, The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2021, A5 traveling drawing group show, touring: N. Ireland; NSW Australia; Cyprus; Netherlands; Lithuania; New Mexico; Argyl Scotland; Gallway; Greece; and India. 2021, Solo, IN FLUX, Objets Trouvés, Oklahoma City, OK 2021, Solitude in Bloom, two-man show with Matt Messinger, Hardy & Nance Gallery, Houston, TX 2020, Adaptation: A Virtual Exhibition, Artists for Artists, Houston, TX 2020, The Pandemic Faire, Glasstire Online Exhibition, Glasstire Magazine 2019, The Joy of Painting, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2018, Two man show with Matt Messinger, Hardy & Nance Gallery, Houston, TX 2016- 2017, C.A.R., Los Angeles, CA SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS 2020, Be a Houston Angel, Mural for Houston Angels Nonprofit Organization, Downtown Houston, TX 2143 Westheimer | Houston, TX 77098 | 713.521.7500 | www.foltzgallery.com
MATT MESSINGER (b. 1974)
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Matt Messinger Parasol 1 , 2020 linen, gesso, vintage parasol on canvas 72 x 60 in $5,600.00
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Matt Messinger Parasol 2, 2020 oil, gesso, vintage parasol on canvas 51 x 51 in $3,800.00
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Matt Messinger Double Hydra , 2021 oil and gesso on linen 58.25 x 28.50 in $3,400.00
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Matt Messinger Hammerhead Shark, 2021 oil, gesso, found linen on unstretched canvas 15 x 70 in $3,000.00
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Matt Messinger Double Chupacabra, 2020 oil and black gesso on canvas 21 x 19 in Framed 22 x 20 in $2,000.00
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Matt Messinger Hammerhead, 2021 oil, gesso and found linen on canvas 10 x 28 in Framed 11 x 29 in $1,800.00
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Matt Messinger Argus Cluster, 2021 gesso on found canvas mounted on canvas 12 x 12 in Framed 12.50 x 12.50 in $1,200.00
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Matt Messinger Thistle, 2021 gesso on found canvas mounted on panel 10 x 8 in Framed 10.50 x 8.50 in $1,200.00
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Matt Messinger UFO (above grey mountain) , 2021 oil and acrylic on linen on canvas 8 x 10 in Framed 8.50 x 10.50 in $1,100.00
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Matt Messinger Cloud, 2019 oil, gesso and found linen on canvas 6 x 8 in Framed 7 x 9 in $800.00
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Matt Messinger Four Planes , 2017 oil and gesso on linen on canvas 14 x 11 in $900.00
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Matt Messinger Theodore , 2021 oil, gesso and linen on panel 8 x 10 in $900.00
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Matt Messinger Quadruple Hydras , 2021 watercolor on found paper 11 x 14 in $1,000.00
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Matt Messinger Kite 1, 2018 watercolor on found paper 16 x 13 in Framed 25.50 x 22.50 in $875.00
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Matt Messinger Owl, 2021 watercolor on found paper 5 x 8 in Framed 18 x 22.50 in $875.00
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Matt Messinger Crow, 2020 watercolor on found paper 15.50 x 14 in $875.00
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Matt Messinger Parasol Study , 2018 watercolor on found paper 15.50 x 14 in $875.00
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Matt Messinger Chupacabra Study , 2019 watercolor on found paper 16.50 x 13.50 in $800.00
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Matt Messinger Double UFOs , 2019 watercolor on found paper 19 x 23 in $800.00
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Matt Messinger Seven-headed Cobra, 2018 watercolor on found paper 13 x 10.50 in $650.00
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Matt Messinger Two Serpents , 2019 watercolor on found paper 12.50 x 14.50 in $550.00
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Matt Messinger Hydra , 2020 watercolor on found paper 8 x 9 in $550.00
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Matt Messinger Cobras , 2019 watercolor on found paper 6 x 8 in $500.00
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Matt Messinger Lightning, 2019 watercolor on found paper 7 x 10 in $475.00
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Matt Messinger Kite 2, 2019 watercolor on found paper 4 x 7 in Framed 8.50 x 11 in $475.00
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Matt Messinger Serpent , 2018 watercolor on found paper 8 x 12 in $475.00
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Matt Messinger Lightning #2, 2018 watercolor on found paper 8.25 x 6.25 in $475.00
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Matt Messinger Red Argus - SIGN, 2019 watercolor on found paper 6.50 x 5 in $400.00
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Matt Messinger Arachne Study, 2018 watercolor on found paper 6 x 5 in $375.00
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Matt Messinger Serpent Rug, 2020 oil house paint and resin on found textile 154 x 31 in $2,600.00
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Matt Messinger Argus 1, 2020 black gesso, pencil, and resin on reclaimed wood 3.50 x 13.50 in $900.00
Matt Messinger Argus 2, 2020 black gesso, pencil, and resin on reclaimed wood 3 x 13 in $900.00
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Matt Messinger Argus 3, 2017 black gesso, pencil, and resin on reclaimed wood 3 x 17 in $1,000.00
Matt Messinger Argus 4, 2017 black gesso, pencil, and resin on reclaimed wood 3.50 x 17 in $1,000.00
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Matt Messinger Ladder 2, 2019 mixed media 24.50 x 7 in $1,000.00
Matt Messinger Ladder 1, 2018 mixed media 18 x 6 in $800.00
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Matt Messinger Cluster 1, 2021 plastic, enamel paint, resin and wood base 9 x 6 x 6 in $1,200.00
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Matt Messinger Cluster 2, 2021 plastic, enamel paint, resin and wood base 7 x 4.50 x 4.50 in $800.00
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Matt Messinger Cluster #3, 2020 plastic, resin, house paint and wood 19 x 10 x 10 in $1,400.00
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Matt Messinger Sadie and Clyde, 2019 ceramic, buttons, resin and wood 9 x 5.50 x 1.50 in $1,100.00
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Matt Messinger Shoe, 2019 wood and nails 6 x 8 x 2 in $450.00
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Matt Messinger Driftwood Serpent #1(blue), 2021 drift wood, gesso and oil paint 2 x 12 in $700.00
Matt Messinger Driftwood Serpent #2(black), 2021 drift wood, gesso and oil paint 2.50 x 15.50 in $700.00
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Matt Messinger (b. 1974) Matt Messinger is based in Houston, Texas. He is best known for paintings which incorporate matte surfaces with symbolic images, generally in black and white. Meticulous fabric collage often layered from found household linens or flour sacks – creates a neutral ground which accentuates the flatness of the painting surface. Subtle patterns of drips and graffiti simultaneously create an illusion of spacial depth, contradicting this flatness. It is within this field that Messinger combines visual quotations from popular culture, scientific diagrams, or animals – real and imagined. Messinger's paintings mix serious ideas and icons with lighthearted techniques and imagery. Messinger enjoys symbolism and can be inspired by anything from logos, advertisements and animals, something simple as a number, or as subtle as a texture. Messinger scavenges pop detritus with an eye to nostalgia, humor, and subtle irony.
Education Associates of Applied Science, Art Institute of Houston, TX Selected Solo Exhibitions 2011, Found, Debra Colton Gallery, Houston, TX 2013, New Paintings, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2014, Stack, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2015, Cluster, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2017, Argus, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2019, Bestiary, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX Selected Group Exhibitions 2009, The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2011, The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2011, Use Your Illusion, Debra Colton Gallery, Houston, TX 2012, Table Top, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2012, Summer, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2012, Ink+Graphite+Paint, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2013, Color Vision, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2014, Selections, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2015, Mixed Doubles, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2015, Go Big, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2015, Inherent Palette, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2015, Winter Exhibition, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2016, Five Sculptors, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2018, Two man show with Peter Healy, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston, TX 2019, Joy of Painting, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2019, Exquisite: Works on Paper, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX 2019, Studio E, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston, TX 2021, Solitude in Bloom, two-man show with Peter Healy, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston, TX Honors and Awards o 2011, The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (Finalist Winner) o 2017, Argus, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX (Glasstire’s Top 5 in Texas) o 2019, Bestiary, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX (Glasstire’s Top 5 in Texas)
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MERIBETH PRIVETT (b. 1982)
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Meribeth Privett To the Heart of the Matter, 2021 acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 in $4,375.00
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Meribeth Privett A Point in Time, 2020 acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 in $3,500.00
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Meribeth Privett Don't Box Me In, 2019 acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 in $2,800.00
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Meribeth Privett Soul Blossom, 2021 acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 in $2,800.00
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Meribeth Privett The Journey, 2021 acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 in $2,800.00
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Meribeth Privett Enjoy the Silence, 2021 acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 in $2,100.00
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Meribeth Privett A Perfect Storm, 2021 acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 in $2,100.00
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Meribeth Privett Falling into Place, 2021 acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 in $1,200.00
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Meribeth Privett (b. 1982) Meribeth Privett is an intuitive artist who fell in love with abstract expressionism in Houston, Texas. Her art is a collaboration of self and spirit. Although she is primarily self-taught, Meribeth has taken foundational classes in drawing, painting, design, and ceramics. She found she thrived in a more unconventional setting, such as studying with mentors and workshops. Her color pallets are unique and surprising, and her paintings have an alluring, mysterious quality. She is ritualistic in her process. She sets an intention to become a hollow bone and let the creative energies flow through her. The painting takes on a life of its own. She listens to the guiding whispers to serve the process. Artist Statement I believe the presence of art in our lives provides both healing and inspiration. When we choose to live with a piece of art, we form a relationship with the artwork and, by extension, with the artist. The energy we perceive in a work of art is a presence in our daily lives; tangible art speaks to us and gives meaning to our environments. In my painting, romance is not dead: There is love. There is ritual. There is courtship. There is the patience that I’ve known only in my deepest, most committed intimate relationships. I feel a sense of loyalty, fascination, and commitment to my art; it’s a beautiful love affair. My paintings represent bringing order to chaos – a unification of the masculine and the feminine. I hope to allow my collectors to transport themselves to the place of creativity when the piece was painted and remind them that they, too, can access this realm. Selected Exhibitions 2020-2021, Repeating Patterns, Spring Street Studios, Houston TX 2020-2021, At the End of the Tunnel, Spring Street Studios, Houston TX
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About the Artists For Volume II of Texas Emerging, the featured artists include: Erika Alonso (b. 1987) Erika Alonso is a Cuban-American painter, working and living in Houston, Texas. Her childhood was spent in Southern California, a place she often “escapes” to while painting. Alonso is a self-taught artist and an unabashedly painterly painter. Her current makings involve experimenting in abstract expressionism through a series of whimsical, abstract-figurative-landscape paintings that are meant to capture a moment in all its fleetingness—the movement and rush and whirl of it. https://www.instagram.com/erikaalonsoart/ http://erikaalonso.art Dylan Conner (b. 1989) Dylan Conner, born in Houston, TX in 1989, received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, studied art history at the University of Houston Downtown, and is currently working towards his MFA at the University of Houston. Houston artists, Tim Glover and Ed Wilson, have been key in helping Conner hone his craft over the past decade. Conner builds sculpture primarily using mild steel, stainless steel, plaster, and concrete. A variety of other materials can be found in his work as well. Conner recently completed his first major public commission entitled Firefly Field which is permanently installed as the gateway to Houston’s second oldest park, Woodland Park, in the Woodland Heights. https://www.instagram.com/dylanconnersculpture/ https://dconnersculpture.com Laura Garwood (b. 1984) Laura Garwood was born in Texas and spent her childhood in Houston. She graduated from Princeton University and went on to earn a BA in Studio Art from Hunter College in New York after. Shortly after, she moved back to Houston and began working from her studio at home; experimenting with strips of canvas and attaching these pieces repeatedly across a traditional stretched canvas; and later ripping them away to reveal the original canvas in a process of creative destruction through the repetition of adding and removal practice. In process art, Laura sees qualities of the sublime, a kind of beauty that juxtaposes rough edges, scrapes and/or paint marks along with the artist’s intention to harmonize a work of art through color or texture. https://www.instagram.com/lgarw/
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Peter Healy (Irish, b. 1973) Peter Healy is an Irish artist with a background in illustration, now residing in Houston, Texas. He works in series as well as individual paintings, drawings, and assemblage, using a variety of mediums, including oil paint, acrylic, ink, pencil, collaged fabric, assembled wood/ various 3d objects and paper. Healy tries to let ideas come to him and sometimes let the pieces speak to him through their creation using editing as part of the process. They are usually colorful and often try to illustrate the contrast of living in the sparsely populated Fermanagh countryside of his youth in contrast with living in large cities with diverse populations. Over the past twenty years, he has lived in Ireland, England, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and now calls Houston, home. These experiences have influenced his work as there are so many ways to represent population, architecture, and nature. https://www.instagram.com/peterhealypaintings/ Matt Messinger (b. 1974) Based in Houston, Texas, Matt Messinger is best known for paintings which incorporate matte surfaces with symbolic images, generally in black and white. Meticulous fabric collage - often layered from found household linens or flour sacks – creates a neutral ground which accentuates the flatness of the painting surface. Subtle patterns of drips and graffiti simultaneously create an illusion of spacial depth, contradicting this flatness. It is within this field that Messinger combines visual quotations from popular culture, scientific diagrams, or animals – real and imagined. Messinger's paintings mix serious ideas and icons with lighthearted techniques and imagery. Messinger enjoys symbolism and can be inspired by anything from logos, advertisements and animals, something simple as a number, or as subtle as a texture. Messinger scavenges pop detritus with an eye to nostalgia, humor, and subtle irony. https://www.instagram.com/mattmessinger9/ Meribeth Privett (b. 1982) Meribeth Privett is an intuitive artist who fell in love with abstract expressionism in Houston, Texas. Her art is a collaboration of self and spirit. Although she is primarily self-taught, Meribeth has taken foundational classes in drawing, painting, design, and ceramics. She found she thrived in a more unconventional setting, such as studying with mentors and workshops. Her color pallets are unique and surprising, and her paintings have an alluring, mysterious quality. She is ritualistic in her process. She sets an intention to become a hollow bone and let the creative energies flow through her. The painting takes on a life of its own. She listens to the guiding whispers to serve the process. https://www.instagram.com/meribethprivett/?hl=en https://meribethprivett.com foltzgallery.com
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