New Exhibit and New Artists at Green House Gallery: "Enter the Woods"
On June 13, the Green House Gallery opens its “Enter the Woods” show with four guest artists, featuring Gulf Coast landscapes and diverse woodland themes, as well as mixed-media pieces highlighting wood, fiber, ceramics and metal.
Houston, TX, May 20, 2009 --(PR.com)-- On June 13, the Green House Gallery will open its “Enter the Woods” group show, highlighting four new guest artists and featuring images of trees, forests and landscapes, from stark and somber to rich and warm. The exhibit celebrates the wide-open skies of Texas embracing trees in all their moods, as seen by local artists.
Michael Huggins’ acrylic paintings show a partnership between land and sky, in which trees are simply the link between earth and ether. Several paintings depict a patient brown earth under a heavy brass-gold sky; another features fecund hills in rich, warm colors with surrealistic air-balloons rising from the ground into an inviting sunset-warmed sky.
Laura Williams paints trees viewed from below against the sky; the unusual perspective evokes further organic possibilities -- nerve fibers, vein pathways, and riverbeds – while remaining faithful to the true image of the tree.
Sony Hartley combines ceramics, wood and fiber, creating stunning one-of-a-kind pieces. Her work ranges from lavishly glazed vessels nested in gnarled wood, to freeform tiles suspended on fibers to form a wall-hanging. Her offerings also include simple stoneware cups and cereal bowls.
James Ciosek works primarily in metal, moving freely in the artisanal and fine arts realms. The single common element in his highly diverse work is technical mastery of the medium. He says, “I love to work with recycled materials but rarely create found art. I take a concept and build it from the ground up.” In one example, “Peeling Reed”, Ciosek presents materials recovered after Hurricane Ike. Corrugated fiberglass and corrugated tin, blown off roofs and into the streets of Houston, were transformed into a nine-foot free-standing light sculpture.
Joe Carrell’s oil paintings feature landscapes in soothing, traditional lines. His sunlit scenes add a classical underpinning to the gallery’s body of work.
P.A. Mueller has created a new series of multi-media pieces. One new piece features tree bark blooming in a central flower-form, swirling in her trademark sunburst of colors. Other new works incorporate the architectural severity of wooden shims (garnered from construction scraps) into bright liquid landscapes, split along a sharply defined horizon.
Kristy Allmon’s photographs reveal lush woods, in all their Gulf Coast moodiness. One new piece shows a steep stairway leading upwards into dense, jungle-like greenery. Her trademark technique, incorporating metallic paper, emphasizes the surreal quality of fairytale forests.
Resident metal sculptor Jonatan Lopez continues to offer playful metal torsos of men and women, fashioned from small metal scraps from previous sculptures, as well as his distinctive taxidermy sculptures. As his animal sculptures in metal have gained a loyal following among Houston collectors, each show features new work in this line.
The show will also include new paintings, drawings, jewelry, photography, sculpture and collages by Mina Agah, Miquel Correll, Lois Morton and Monique Weston.
The Green House Gallery fosters an unpretentious atmosphere, including prices that make art accessible to all, from first-time buyers to longtime collectors. Artists greet visitors and offer demonstrations, in a stately house that opens onto a bough-canopied verandah. The artists encourage questions about their materials and creative processes. As a running theme in every exhibit, the gallery continues to promote and exemplify re-purposed and recycled materials in artwork.
The gallery is open from noon-6 p.m., Thursday through Sunday, and by appointment. A reception is held every second Saturday of the month. For more information, please visit www.greenhouseartgallery.com
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Michael Huggins’ acrylic paintings show a partnership between land and sky, in which trees are simply the link between earth and ether. Several paintings depict a patient brown earth under a heavy brass-gold sky; another features fecund hills in rich, warm colors with surrealistic air-balloons rising from the ground into an inviting sunset-warmed sky.
Laura Williams paints trees viewed from below against the sky; the unusual perspective evokes further organic possibilities -- nerve fibers, vein pathways, and riverbeds – while remaining faithful to the true image of the tree.
Sony Hartley combines ceramics, wood and fiber, creating stunning one-of-a-kind pieces. Her work ranges from lavishly glazed vessels nested in gnarled wood, to freeform tiles suspended on fibers to form a wall-hanging. Her offerings also include simple stoneware cups and cereal bowls.
James Ciosek works primarily in metal, moving freely in the artisanal and fine arts realms. The single common element in his highly diverse work is technical mastery of the medium. He says, “I love to work with recycled materials but rarely create found art. I take a concept and build it from the ground up.” In one example, “Peeling Reed”, Ciosek presents materials recovered after Hurricane Ike. Corrugated fiberglass and corrugated tin, blown off roofs and into the streets of Houston, were transformed into a nine-foot free-standing light sculpture.
Joe Carrell’s oil paintings feature landscapes in soothing, traditional lines. His sunlit scenes add a classical underpinning to the gallery’s body of work.
P.A. Mueller has created a new series of multi-media pieces. One new piece features tree bark blooming in a central flower-form, swirling in her trademark sunburst of colors. Other new works incorporate the architectural severity of wooden shims (garnered from construction scraps) into bright liquid landscapes, split along a sharply defined horizon.
Kristy Allmon’s photographs reveal lush woods, in all their Gulf Coast moodiness. One new piece shows a steep stairway leading upwards into dense, jungle-like greenery. Her trademark technique, incorporating metallic paper, emphasizes the surreal quality of fairytale forests.
Resident metal sculptor Jonatan Lopez continues to offer playful metal torsos of men and women, fashioned from small metal scraps from previous sculptures, as well as his distinctive taxidermy sculptures. As his animal sculptures in metal have gained a loyal following among Houston collectors, each show features new work in this line.
The show will also include new paintings, drawings, jewelry, photography, sculpture and collages by Mina Agah, Miquel Correll, Lois Morton and Monique Weston.
The Green House Gallery fosters an unpretentious atmosphere, including prices that make art accessible to all, from first-time buyers to longtime collectors. Artists greet visitors and offer demonstrations, in a stately house that opens onto a bough-canopied verandah. The artists encourage questions about their materials and creative processes. As a running theme in every exhibit, the gallery continues to promote and exemplify re-purposed and recycled materials in artwork.
The gallery is open from noon-6 p.m., Thursday through Sunday, and by appointment. A reception is held every second Saturday of the month. For more information, please visit www.greenhouseartgallery.com
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