Art By Jim
by James Taylor
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Artist Roster
Aliona Price
I am Aliona Price – a self-taught artist originally from Chisinau, Moldova. Currently live in Santa Fe, Texas.
After experimenting over the years with various mediums I found my passion with oil on canvas. I strive to create expressive abstract and impressionistic artwork that has an influence on the viewer’s emotions and state-of-mind in general.
Feel free to check my website gallery for new original artwork, commission orders, pet portraits, and fine art prints.
Check out my website www.alionaprice.com
Modern Artifacts
by Heather Wobbe
Seeing beauty in the design and aged patinas of ancient objects, Modern Artifacts looks to juxtapose unique textures with a modern aesthetic. I draw inspiration from my experience working on an archaeology dig in Houston’s Historic Freedmen’s Town, as well as my time as a Curatorial Assistant for the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and the Stone Fort Museum of Nacogdoches.
I received my BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University where I studied a variety of cultural and historical metalworking techniques as well as advanced chemical patination processes, now specializing in creating my own patinas that I paint on with a torch. I work with sold 14K gold and gold filled materials, sterling silver, nu-gold, bronze, copper, and shibuichi and transform the materials into anthropologically inspired contemporary jewelry.
Conflict free raw blue and black diamonds, fossils, geodes, lapis lazuli, buffalo turquoise, and other stones are sprinkled into my work to enhance the minimal yet bold look of the collection.
Using crisp lines and simple geometry as a vehicle to celebrate the beauty of the raw materials in different states, the pieces appear both polished and new, as well as worn and aged. Whether using patina, a sandblaster, or 23K gold leaf, contrasting finishes define my work and give it the graphic quality which lends it its identity.
Bug In The Box
by Ruben Salazar
We offer handmade butterfly shadow boxes with a hint of style. Our shadow boxes make great gifts for your friends, family or just for yourself.
Dirigible Designs
One-of-a-kind sterling jewelry by Melanie Schlossberg. www.dirigibledesigns.com
Ann of Clayhearts
I have been a potter for over 40 years, beginning as an apprentice in a professional studio in northern New Mexico before finishing my BFA at Northern Arizona University. After establishing Clay Hearts Pottery in Austin Texas, I moved my studio to Wimberley in the Texas Hill Country. My pottery reflects my long study of ceramic history, in particular work done by women. So I hand build my pieces, pinching coils, cutting slabs and reassembling using the techniques learned in the Southwest. My designs, done in glazes I developed, often pull from 19th century Art Pottery and china painting traditions.
All my work is lead-free, safe in the microwave and dish- washer and oven-safe at normal baking temperatures.
MATCLO
by Mathilde Clos
Inspiration, Patience, Experimentation.
I made my first ring here in Malaysia a few years ago. The first thing that I did was that I bought a torch for soldering silver and despite my husband fears, I jumped right in. Slowly, I started to really love soldering and working on different modern designs, creating simple objects that carry what make me happy. It’s hard work but it’s fulfilling, and there is nothing better than waking up the next day, happy to do it all over again!
I can confidently say: “I found my element!”
Now it’s time to enjoy it…
All jewelry is hand made with a lot of care and attention in my atelier.
VioArt
by Viorel Vaida
My work is decorative art on mixed surface and technique of painting. My colors are outside the normal range and styles that I have seen in my travels in the US.
Carolyn Bertrand Hodges
For art inquires, contact:
Mitch Cohen | 832-273-4798
Recently on view at Urban Eats (opens the artist archive, Carolyn is 1st)
www.CarolynBertrandHodges.art
Purchase Miss Carolyn’s book!
Exploring Contemporary Art
A formal essay on the exploration of contemporary art by Houston artist Carolyn Bertrand Hodges, with select paintings by the artist.
S E R R A N O G A L L E R Y
2000 Edwards St.
Houston, Texas 77007
713 724 0709
www.serranogallery.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
I wish it to be known why I use the medium of ink to create my art.
For many long years, I painted with oils. Focusing with intent on subject matter with a realism we are all familiar with and relate to in our personal experience. However, now, the pen is more handy for me than painting.
With a pen, there is a flow. With a pen, there is no clean-up as with paint, and there is certainly no tediousness … indeed there is a timelessness. With the fine point of a pen, multi-affects may be visualized. There can be surprise, discovery, and inventiveness. And, in my art, no monotonous design!
Now I approach my art in a different manner than I did in the past. Subject matter, or things which we are all familiar with remain and comes partly from memory.
However, as I draw, in a randomized sort of way, and like in a dream, unforeseen images appear consciously. Dependent on this unconsciousness, as with dreams, or imagination as some people call it, the artist is faced with the unpredictable until an image pops out. That’s it, this is what it means … and after all, much better than I could have thought up, and certainly a lot more fun!
Like in dreams, the images may be a mystery. The whole unconscious is a mystery to most of us. Like the unconscious, we can dream up images with our art. Also, as with meditation, we may transcend beyond the ordinary when we create art … making art as a whole; The great “I am that … I am.”
There is a ceaseless flow of imagery, and with such spirit, things don’t matter, for detail, memory, etc., are part of the whole, and all-embracing.
~ Carolyn Bertrand Hodges
ABOUT
“Miss Carolyn” is a longtime fan of First Saturday Arts Market. A few years ago, I interviewed her and found her personality to be spot on with the other artists at the market. After many conversations and artistic outings, I continue to include her random bits of knowledge in my arts column, Art Valet, in The Leader Newspaper.
Town in City Brewing Co.
Town in City Brewing Co. brings the neighborhood-style brewery to Houston Heights. You can enjoy our indoor taproom or outdoor patio and beer garden. Sample some at First Saturday Arts Market, then head over to the taproom!
