Archway Gallery Exhibitions - 2010
James Myres
December 4 - December 31, 2010
Sherry Tseng Hill
City Sights, City Sounds
November 6 - December 2, 2010
Archway Gallery presents City Sights, City Sounds, featuring new work from artist Sherry Tseng Hill as she brings to life a study of the city, a study in dualities – ordered and chaotic; harmonious and discordant; light and dark; quiet and loud, City Sights, City Sounds. The artists will be on hand to visit with guests firsthand during the exhibition opening reception on Saturday, November 6 from 5 – 8 pm at the gallery. City Sights, City Sounds will be on view at Archway Gallery November 6 – December 2, 2010.
In quiet reflection, the city offers sights that, in isolation, capture a time and place. Singular details – an alley, a building, a momentary composition of elements in motion – can evoke moods, or even tell stories. In her transparent watercolors, Hill’s effort is to capture these fleeting moments or eternal details with great clarity. City Sights.
The city also moves and breathes. In this constant motion, the city creates a visual and aural symphony of experience. The acrylic medium provides, for Hill, a way to express this free and flowing, luminous and often cacophonous, life of the city. A festival, the constant river of traffic on the freeway, lights glowing at night –Hill captures all of these experiences. City Sounds.
Hill’s paintings are accomplished with a basic palette of the three primary colors. In the watercolors, this is accomplished with great purity, using only the primaries. The self-imposed discipline of this technique contributes to the sense of clarity of these works. For the acrylics, Hill adds Titanium white and Payne’s gray to the primary palette, as well as mixing additional media such as pen and ink, graphite and colored pencils. The freer expressive possibilities of this expanded palette flow naturally in her effort to capture the many-layered sensory character of the city in these paintings. Educated at Rice University, Hill earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Architecture in 1980 and a Bachelor of Architecture in 1982. In addition to her studies in architecture and art history at Rice University, Hill also took numerous art studio classes. Recently, she studied under a number of award winning watercolor artists through the Watercolor Art Society - Houston’s (WAS-H) workshops and classes.
Hill is a member of Watercolor Art Society - Houston and a Signature member of the National Watercolor Society. She has won numerous awards for her watercolors, including an Honorable Mention in WAS-H Annual Membership Show 2008 and WAS-H International Exhibition 2009.
In quiet reflection, the city offers sights that, in isolation, capture a time and place. Singular details – an alley, a building, a momentary composition of elements in motion – can evoke moods, or even tell stories. In her transparent watercolors, Hill’s effort is to capture these fleeting moments or eternal details with great clarity. City Sights.
The city also moves and breathes. In this constant motion, the city creates a visual and aural symphony of experience. The acrylic medium provides, for Hill, a way to express this free and flowing, luminous and often cacophonous, life of the city. A festival, the constant river of traffic on the freeway, lights glowing at night –Hill captures all of these experiences. City Sounds.
Hill’s paintings are accomplished with a basic palette of the three primary colors. In the watercolors, this is accomplished with great purity, using only the primaries. The self-imposed discipline of this technique contributes to the sense of clarity of these works. For the acrylics, Hill adds Titanium white and Payne’s gray to the primary palette, as well as mixing additional media such as pen and ink, graphite and colored pencils. The freer expressive possibilities of this expanded palette flow naturally in her effort to capture the many-layered sensory character of the city in these paintings. Educated at Rice University, Hill earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Architecture in 1980 and a Bachelor of Architecture in 1982. In addition to her studies in architecture and art history at Rice University, Hill also took numerous art studio classes. Recently, she studied under a number of award winning watercolor artists through the Watercolor Art Society - Houston’s (WAS-H) workshops and classes.
Hill is a member of Watercolor Art Society - Houston and a Signature member of the National Watercolor Society. She has won numerous awards for her watercolors, including an Honorable Mention in WAS-H Annual Membership Show 2008 and WAS-H International Exhibition 2009.
Marsha Harris & Tom Irven
Flight & Freestyle
October 2 - November 4, 2010
Marsha Harris & Tom Irven
Flight & Freestyle
Archway Gallery presents Flight and Freestyle in October, featuring new work from artists Thomas R. Irven (wood) and Marsha Harris Solomon (watermedia painting) who use their unique styles to depict escaping gravity and perpetuating motion.
The artists will be on hand to visit with guests firsthand during the exhibition opening reception on Saturday, October 2 from 5 – 8 pm at the gallery. On Sunday, October 17 from 2 -3 pm both artists will present a demonstration at Archway Gallery. Flight and Freestyle will be on view at Archway Gallery October 2 - November 4, 2010.
Thomas R. Irven is a wood artist who has been producing wood art, woodturnings and custom furniture in his Bellaire, Texas studio since 1987. In his latest series produced for Flight and Freestyle, wood and wire come together to make mobiles. Demonstrating his “freestyle,” much of Irven’s work is a bit off-center and incorporates other media including wire, thread, glass and pigments. His primarily lathe fashioned forms are manipulated and used in various ways to produce interesting and unique creations. Irven is always looking for something fresh and different in his work.
Watermedia artist Marsha Harris Solomon’s colorful free-flowing style bring both ‘flight’ and ‘freestyle’ to life for this exhibition through her magnificent new paintings. While painting a work for her class last year, Solomon realized that it was the fourth in a row she had done that dealt with birds or flying, and decided to let her subconscious take the lead.
In the Flight and Freestyle show she wants to show how the ability to fly, and our human recognition of its importance, permeates our culture and language and emotions.
Irven was a 2010 Niche Award finalist and an exhibiting artist in the “Visual Arts Alliance 27th Juried Open Exhibition” at Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. Irven’s work is included in the Lark Books publication 400 Wood Boxes: The Fine Art of Containment and Concealment.
Solomon is a nationally recognized watermedia artist with the rare honor of holding Signature Status in eight Watercolor Societies across the U.S. Her distinguished career includes holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree; a 45-year career in drafting; being Past President and Signature Member of Watercolor Art Society – Houston (WAS-H); teaching and demonstrating her phenomenal skills as a water media artist throughout the Houston Region and exhibiting her work for the past 16 years at Archway Gallery. Solomon’s work has been published in the national Watercolor Magic magazine and Arts Houston magazine. She continues teaching beginning watercolor at WAS-H and her work is frequently included in their juried exhibits.
The artists will be on hand to visit with guests firsthand during the exhibition opening reception on Saturday, October 2 from 5 – 8 pm at the gallery. On Sunday, October 17 from 2 -3 pm both artists will present a demonstration at Archway Gallery. Flight and Freestyle will be on view at Archway Gallery October 2 - November 4, 2010.
Thomas R. Irven is a wood artist who has been producing wood art, woodturnings and custom furniture in his Bellaire, Texas studio since 1987. In his latest series produced for Flight and Freestyle, wood and wire come together to make mobiles. Demonstrating his “freestyle,” much of Irven’s work is a bit off-center and incorporates other media including wire, thread, glass and pigments. His primarily lathe fashioned forms are manipulated and used in various ways to produce interesting and unique creations. Irven is always looking for something fresh and different in his work.
Watermedia artist Marsha Harris Solomon’s colorful free-flowing style bring both ‘flight’ and ‘freestyle’ to life for this exhibition through her magnificent new paintings. While painting a work for her class last year, Solomon realized that it was the fourth in a row she had done that dealt with birds or flying, and decided to let her subconscious take the lead.
In the Flight and Freestyle show she wants to show how the ability to fly, and our human recognition of its importance, permeates our culture and language and emotions.
Irven was a 2010 Niche Award finalist and an exhibiting artist in the “Visual Arts Alliance 27th Juried Open Exhibition” at Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. Irven’s work is included in the Lark Books publication 400 Wood Boxes: The Fine Art of Containment and Concealment.
Solomon is a nationally recognized watermedia artist with the rare honor of holding Signature Status in eight Watercolor Societies across the U.S. Her distinguished career includes holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree; a 45-year career in drafting; being Past President and Signature Member of Watercolor Art Society – Houston (WAS-H); teaching and demonstrating her phenomenal skills as a water media artist throughout the Houston Region and exhibiting her work for the past 16 years at Archway Gallery. Solomon’s work has been published in the national Watercolor Magic magazine and Arts Houston magazine. She continues teaching beginning watercolor at WAS-H and her work is frequently included in their juried exhibits.
Cookie Wells - A Closer Look
September 3 - 30th, 2010
Cookie Wells - A Closer Look
Water media artist Cookie Wells presents a new series of works A Closer Look, at Archway Gallery, September 4 through September 30, 2010.
The artist will be on hand to visit with guests firsthand during the exhibition opening reception on Saturday, September 11 from 5 – 8 pm at the gallery. While there, attendees will have the chance to win an original painting being raffled by Wells. The Women’s Institute of Houston is co-hosting Wells’ opening reception with Archway Gallery.
In this series of work, A Closer Look, Wells seeks to convey a sense of perception and point of view. These colorful water media paintings are either from a “bird’s eye view” or a really “close-up, micro view.” Both views tend to distort the actual reality. In her artist’s statement Wells shares, “all of life is a moving canvas waiting to be frozen in a moment. Hopefully, it will conjure up a feeling or emotion and discussion…what’s your point of view.”
On Friday, September 24 from 6 - 8 pm, Wells will give an Artist’s Talk about her process of creating art with water media at Archway Gallery. Guest poet, Pat Dixon, will join Wells to form a collaboration of words and art.
Wells was accepted in 2005, 2007 and 2009 to the prestigious Watercolor U.S.A. competition at the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Missouri. After winning a prize for one of her pieces, she was invited to become a member of the Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society. Wells is also an active member of the Watercolor Art Society, Houston where she recently won a First Place and an Honorable Mention in two monthly shows.
She has been a member of WiVLA (Women in the Visual and Literary Arts) for 15 years and has served on the board under four presidents. Wells worked for more than 30 years in the commercial graphic world. In the 1980’s, she chose to paint in watercolor for its loose and flowing qualities. She fell in love with the medium and continues to find it challenging and exciting. The works in this medium has grown in many directions, as the artist employs collage, inks and acrylics in her works. Wells is always seeking ways of using color and texture.
The artist will be on hand to visit with guests firsthand during the exhibition opening reception on Saturday, September 11 from 5 – 8 pm at the gallery. While there, attendees will have the chance to win an original painting being raffled by Wells. The Women’s Institute of Houston is co-hosting Wells’ opening reception with Archway Gallery.
In this series of work, A Closer Look, Wells seeks to convey a sense of perception and point of view. These colorful water media paintings are either from a “bird’s eye view” or a really “close-up, micro view.” Both views tend to distort the actual reality. In her artist’s statement Wells shares, “all of life is a moving canvas waiting to be frozen in a moment. Hopefully, it will conjure up a feeling or emotion and discussion…what’s your point of view.”
On Friday, September 24 from 6 - 8 pm, Wells will give an Artist’s Talk about her process of creating art with water media at Archway Gallery. Guest poet, Pat Dixon, will join Wells to form a collaboration of words and art.
Wells was accepted in 2005, 2007 and 2009 to the prestigious Watercolor U.S.A. competition at the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Missouri. After winning a prize for one of her pieces, she was invited to become a member of the Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society. Wells is also an active member of the Watercolor Art Society, Houston where she recently won a First Place and an Honorable Mention in two monthly shows.
She has been a member of WiVLA (Women in the Visual and Literary Arts) for 15 years and has served on the board under four presidents. Wells worked for more than 30 years in the commercial graphic world. In the 1980’s, she chose to paint in watercolor for its loose and flowing qualities. She fell in love with the medium and continues to find it challenging and exciting. The works in this medium has grown in many directions, as the artist employs collage, inks and acrylics in her works. Wells is always seeking ways of using color and texture.
Mary Davis - Unexpected
August 2 - September 2, 2010
Houston, Texas (June 10, 2010) – Water media artist Mary L. Davis presents a new series of works, Unexpected, at Archway Gallery, August 7 through September 2, 2010.
The artist, who is celebrating a year of artistic success, will be on hand to visit with guests firsthand during the exhibition opening reception on Saturday, August 7 from 5 – 8 pm at the gallery, located at 2305 Dunlavy, Houston, Texas, 77006.
Davis was selected from among 113 artists to receive an award from the Watercolor U.S.A. 2010 competition for her aqueous media painting, Shattered Glass. This prestigious honor afforded her Signature Status within the organization and an invitation to become a member of the Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society. The judge for Watercolor U.S.A. 2010 was Richard Martin III, Professor Emeritus of Art and Director of the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Texas. Davis was presented the award this month at the opening reception of the 49th annual national juried competition at the Springfield Art Museum, where the award winning piece is on display through August 8, 2010 in Springfield, Missouri.
Mary L. Davis, Shattered Glass, 2009
In her former life, Davis worked for an architectural and engineering consultant and later became an entrepreneur. She served as the President of the Davis Alliance which facilitates infrastructure projects and cityscape enhancements throughout the Houston area. Her use of aqueous media, which by its nature has a great deal of material flexibility, suits Davis’ desire for an unstructured creative outlet which distinctly contrasts with the exacting nature of her professional life. Davis has pursued her career as an artist after taking water media classes since 2005. Davis served as the President of the Watercolor Art Society-Houston from 2009 to 2010 and is one of the newest members of the Archway Gallery roster of artists.
Christie Coker & Andrea Wilkinson
Fur, Feather & Field
June 5 - July 1, 2010
Christie Coker & Andrea Wilkinson
Fur, Feather & Field
Archway Gallery presents the exhibition Fur, Feather & Field, on view June 5 – July 1, 2010. Opening Reception: Saturday, June 5, 5 – 8 p.m. Fur, Feather & Field, the June exhibit at Archway Gallery, features work of sculptor Andrea Wilkinson & painter Christie Coker.
Sculptor Andrea Wilkinsonand painter Christie Coker showcase their artistic passion for animals and landscapes. The artists found inspiration for their art works from the animals and landscapes that define the quiet beauty found along country roads.
Andrea Wilkinson has enjoyed a lifelong love of animals which is now expressing itself in her sculpture. Working as a docent at the Houston Zoo, educating children about animals and conservation, provides her with inspiration and opportunities to observe animals. Animals often display the uninhibited playfulness of children and she tries to capture that in her work.
Christie Coker is inspired by life's little details. She invites us to take a closer look at a quiet moment she has captured from her day. Her use of color through a variety of drawing and painting media extend the long contemplative moment she shares with us.
Sculptor Andrea Wilkinsonand painter Christie Coker showcase their artistic passion for animals and landscapes. The artists found inspiration for their art works from the animals and landscapes that define the quiet beauty found along country roads.
Andrea Wilkinson has enjoyed a lifelong love of animals which is now expressing itself in her sculpture. Working as a docent at the Houston Zoo, educating children about animals and conservation, provides her with inspiration and opportunities to observe animals. Animals often display the uninhibited playfulness of children and she tries to capture that in her work.
Christie Coker is inspired by life's little details. She invites us to take a closer look at a quiet moment she has captured from her day. Her use of color through a variety of drawing and painting media extend the long contemplative moment she shares with us.
Catherine Winkler Rayroud
Cutting Edge
May 1 - June 3, 2010
Archway Gallery presents Cutting Edge: work by Catherine Winkler Rayroud. Award winning paper-cutting and ceramic artist Catherine Winkler Rayroud will present the paper-cuttings she created over the last four years in a solo show taking place at Archway Gallery, from May 1st to June 3rd 2010.
Paper-cutting is a mind-boggling art that uses a single sheet of black paper folded in half and cut in highly ornate and intricate patterns with tiny nail scissors. With amazing patience (it can take up to 3 months to create a single cutting) Catherine produces stunning pieces that have a visual narrative with a strong sense of humor. Together with her paper-cuttings she will present a collection of ceramic pieces on which paper-cuttings have been used as a decoration before being fired.
Catherine Winkler Rayroud was born in Switzerland, where she lived and worked until 1999. In January 2000, she moved to Houston, TX.
Archway Gallery presents Cutting Edge: work by Catherine Winkler Rayroud. Award winning paper-cutting and ceramic artist Catherine Winkler Rayroud will present the paper-cuttings she created over the last four years in a solo show taking place at Archway Gallery, from May 1st to June 3rd 2010.
Paper-cutting is a mind-boggling art that uses a single sheet of black paper folded in half and cut in highly ornate and intricate patterns with tiny nail scissors. With amazing patience (it can take up to 3 months to create a single cutting) Catherine produces stunning pieces that have a visual narrative with a strong sense of humor. Together with her paper-cuttings she will present a collection of ceramic pieces on which paper-cuttings have been used as a decoration before being fired.
Catherine Winkler Rayroud was born in Switzerland, where she lived and worked until 1999. In January 2000, she moved to Houston, TX.
Deborah Bay & Sue Burke Harrington
Deconstructing Reality - FotoFest
March 6 - April 1, 2010
Opening Sat. March 6, 5-8 p.m. Archway Gallery participates in FotoFest 2010 featuring Deborah Bay & Sue Burke Harrington. Bay will show work from her series “Metaphysics 10101,” which explores “the borderlands of reality and imagination amid the terrain of an increasingly digitized existence.” Burke Harrington is pres...enting works from her series, “Metamorphosis”, which incorporates both photographs and traditional art media in her discoveries of the changes in reality. The show continues through April 1.
Mary Lee Gray
February 6 - March 4, 2010