The Artist and the Studio h o usto n Spring/Summer 2022
Pavlina Vagioni
Siren Rhapsody in A (Homage to Scriabin), oil on canvas (detail), 2022.
Multimedia artist
On the cover
Lauren Luna
Multimedia artist
1502 Sawyer Street, Houston TX 77007
Pavlina Vagioni
The Silos Studios #113
1824 Spring St, Houston, TX 77007 Spring Street Studios #131
832-713-7217
@laurenlunaltd
@laurenlunaltd
832-888-9366 / +306972509364
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www.artistaluna.com
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Pavlina Vagioni
www.vagioni.com
Master painter, Lauren Luna was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She holds a bachelor and master degree in Fine Arts, focusing in painting. Commencing her professional artist career in New York City, and now living in Houston, she is “Your City Painter”, specializing in iconic city architecture and urban landscapes. Luna currently teaches at Lone Star and San Jacinto colleges, and is Co-President of the D.R.E.A.M. Affect Foundation, an initiative that awards scholarships to minority Art students pursuing a career in the Fine Arts, and grants for emerging artists to show their work and recipient of a Lauren Luna Day proclamation by the Mayor of Houston.
Pavlina Vagioni is a Greek-born multimedia artist with a kaleidoscopic practice ranging from installations, sculptures, paintings, sound collages, and digital works. The common thread of her works is the reinterpretation of classical myths within a contemporary context. Using a scenographic approach, she varies the size of her works, from monumental to intimate dimensions, with a combination of abstract and figurative elements. Pavlina is an honours graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts and a first prize diplomate classical singer of the Alexandroupolis Music Society conservatory in Greece with additional studies in music theory, composition and piano. She retains studios in Athens, Greece and Houston, TX, USA, and regularly exhibits at Sawyer Yards in Houston, Kappatos Gallery in Athens, and online shows. She recently exhibited her work at the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Greece and her work was featured in Art Seen magazine.
Miller Quevedo Purple Sky on the Bayou 36”x24”
“waterfall melody” 100”x 54” acrylic on canvas
Miller Alexander Quevedo
Millerqart
2000 Edwards St Houston TX 77007 Silver Street Studios #318 972-352-8698 Info@millerqart.com
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Blazing Houston 24”x36” The Sky Painter 36”x24”
Lauren Luna “Your City Painter”
Lighted Bridges over 59 - 36”x24”
Oil and acrylic painter
Collage, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Dana Cargile Art
Sheila Leatherwood
2101 Winter Street Houston, TX 77007 #A10 Winter Street Studios (713) 449-4074
2101 Winter Street Houston, TX 77007 #A10 Winter Street Studios (903) 521-6690
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Sheila Leatherwood
“Who are the late bloomers? They are people who at whatever cost and under whatever circumstances have succeeded in finding themselves.”Brendan Gill “I am a late bloomer! Surviving cancer came at a personal cost. After making peace with the challenges my forty year survivorship brought, I was finally able to find myself and experience life in a whole new way - through art.In 2015, my first pieces of art were portraits of famous people made of many layers of paint, cardboard and glue. Frida, Diego Rivera, Napoleon, Josephine and Snoop Dogg and Martha were some of my favorites. Since then, I’ve branched out and created several Willies, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Iris Apfel, a few family portraits, Bevo, and many others. My cardboard art work (assemblage) has a bit of a sculptural feel. These days, the medium varies from cardboard on canvas, to mixed media on canvas and paper. I also take commissions. My portraits are expressive and tell their stories in an intuitive way, hopefully evoking a smile or two from the viewer.
DeAnn Christensen 1824 Spring St, Houston, TX 77007 Spring Street Studios #111 832-860-0275
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www.deannchristensen.net
DeAnn is known for her colorful paintings and diversity of subject matter. Though she has an abstract style which is recognizable as her own, she continues to expand her style, subject matter and mediums. It is her goal to continue to show diversity in her artistic growth. Art keeps us open minded and aware of the world we live in. Art can inspire thoughts and dreams, promote empathy or healing or bring beauty. It can transform reality to create an alternate understanding or tell the truth in blatant vulgarity. Art is our greatest form of expression. A silent language that can communicate all things.
Twinsters 24 x 18 Mixed Media
“I create fine art paintings using oil, acrylic, mixed media and watercolor. My style is impressionistic that utilizes bright contrasting colors. I paint landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, abstracts, animal and human portraits. I paint images in vivid color that I hope others will connect with. I paint with all the feeling in my heart to send a message to my viewer. My goal is to draw the viewer in to study my work to find hidden images. I make art to leave a piece of myself behind on this earth for my loved ones.”
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Mixed Media/Painting/Collage
Spring Skies. 10x10” abstract landscape painting.
Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses. 20x16” Landscape painting.
Madre Tierra 3 x 5 Mixed Media
Separation Call
Koi Stream
“Art keeps us open minded and aware of the world we live in.” Aplauso Magazine - Spring/Summer 2022
Kymn Harrison 2000 Edwards St Houston TX 77007 Silver Street Studios #205
studio@kymnharrison.com www.kymnharrison.com kymn harrison fine art kymnharrisonfineart
239 Westheimer Rd. Houston, Tx 77006
713 - 522 - 5281 info@ardensgallery.com www.ardensgallery.com
Galaxy Games, 30” x 36” acrylic on canvas
Kymn Harrison draws on her background in psychology to evoke emotions through color and form. Her primary focus is color subject and style are secondary. Each painting is designed to take the viewer on an intimate journey into the world of feelings.
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Recent endeavors include an innovative technique to create abstract scrapes using only paint and a palette knife. Her current project is a series of paintings chronicling Kymn’s journey through all 14 states of the Appalachian Trail, which will culminate in a solo exhibition in October 2022 entitled Blaze. As a member of the Silver Street Studios collective, Kymn is part of a vibrant group of cutting edge artists in one of the nation’s largest working arts communities. Her work can be seen in a variety of exhibits both in person and online.
Established in 1959, Arden's Picture Framing provides quality custom framing and fine art services in Houston and the surrounding areas. Space Blot, 24" x 36" acrylic on canvas.
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www.artistandy.com ARTISTandy (Andy Gonzalez) born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, June 19, 1974, discovered art early in life, and began developing drawing and painting skills in school. In 1992, ARTISTandy began college and studied at Parsons Paris, School of Design in France where life and art began to sync. ARTISTandy produced hundreds of life drawings, sculptures, paintings and dove into studies in color and design. When he returned to the States in the mid 90’s, he continued studying Renaissance, Classical and Modern Art. In 2008, ARTISTandy began experimenting with a new style of work by combining Abstract with Cubism. Over 240 sketches, drawings and designs for oil paintings in his AGGA Collection are currently divided into twenty-one series and scheduled for production over thirty years; all with divine inspiration and messages within each piece, otherwise known as Modern Biblical Art. Shortly after the birth of AGGA, ARTISTandy launched a new Collection titled FACES. FACES are works of Mixed Media pieces on Canvas, Linen, Wood Panels, Di-Bond Brushed Aluminum Panels, Bas-Relief Sculptures and Liquid Chrome Sprayed Canvas. FACES depict close up images of of all types of human emotions, and of every living thing on earth in
an abstract style. FACES was inspired by ARTISTandy’s son Noah, and new works are produced daily in conjunction with AGGA. 2020 ushered in a new world ARTISTandy began to explore; the world of NFTs. It’s what all artists have been waiting for. A world that allows royalties of art sales to forever generate revenue through blockchain technology, and tied to a crypto digital wallet. ARTISTandy minted his first NFT on the OpenSea network, and has created over 100 NFTs to date, and continues to mint NFTs on Rarible and Portion as well. “NFTs are not the future of the art world, because it’s already here, and will forever be part of this space; the physical will co-exist with the non-fungible. NFTs are highly regarded investments by digital asset owners, and creators have no boundaries,” says ARTISTandy. Please visit ARTISTandy.com to see all the produced bodies of art, and visit studio 202 located at Silver Street Studios for art consultation, to discuss color, design, paintings, sculptures, NFTs and become an investor and collector in creations by ARTISTandy.
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Artist Andy Gonzalez
2000 Edwards St, Houston, TX 77007 Silver Street Studios #202 713-291-7533
Donna Carnahan
832-928-4961 - Houston, TX ladonnafoto@gmail.com www.LaDonnaFoto.com ladonnafoto
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Donna Carnahan, international photographer from Houston, has been featured in Forbes magazine for her pentaptych (5 piece canvas) of a summer Tuscan vineyard. Donna recently exhibited her fine art photography at XIII Florence Biennale, Italy. Florence is where she was first inspired and took a photographic journey through 10 regions of Italy over a seven year timespan. She amassed a large collection of images depicting the timelessness of Mediterranean landscapes. Striking cultural landscapes in Switzerland, Czech, France, Spain, and Monaco have also been highlighted in her artworks. After a successful career in finance, she is able to use her technical skills in new ways to further develop her digital photography into artistic creations on canvas, metal and metallic paper. "I love inspiring people with my atmospheric images and taking my art collector’s walls from vanilla to vibrant."
"Summer of Serenity" photo on canvas 36"x48" - 2019
Andy Gonzalez
"Bellagio" photo on canvas 36"x24" - 2017
NFT AGGA Series N2, The Wilderness - 40X40
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Gretchen Bender Sparks
Lenice Colangelo
2000 Edwards St Houston, TX 77007 Silver Street Studios #214 713-444-7562
“ Welcome to my world ” August 5 - 27, 2022
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Artist. Geologist. Road Tripper As an artist, I see beyond the physicality and science of the landscape - it becomes a complex and unlimited juxtaposition of texture, color, and pattern. I want to take my viewer to wherever my imagination and creativity takes me - albeit without abandoning my scientific perspective. New projects include: a series of interior landscapes and how the outside influences the interior; woodworking and metal sculptures; and the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas.
My family line comes from many different places and cultures: Italy, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia. I was born in Mexico and I moved to Houston a long time ago. Fragments of all these places made the culture I have. Fragments. What I am is what you see. We are complete humans until we have to describe ourselves. Then, magic happens! We have to use different words and feelings. We become fragments. We dismember ourselves. My inspiration and ideas come from Greek and Latin antique sculptures. Gods and characters of mythology come to life with a modern twist. I describe myself through the characters I create. I put me in all of them and, maybe you- if you dare. These fragments of life. This is what I do.
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West Gallery Silver Street Studios
2000 Edwards St, Houston, TX 77007
Jeanne’s Flowers 36x36 inches 2022
Chinati Mountains 18x34 inches 2021
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Jatziri Barrón
John Bishop Fine Art
CONTEMPORAY ARTIST/PAINTER
Silver Street Studios 2000 Edwards St Studio #323 Houston, TX 77007 956-534-3222
2000 Edwards St Houston, TX 77007 Studio #108 Silver Street Studios 936-668-0029
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johnbishopfineart
John Bishop is a painter and illustrator currently working in Houston, Texas. Though born in Houston, he has spent much of his life traveling. John obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Texas, and he has been involved in photography, creative writing and fine art ever since college. Though he spent 30 years working as a librarian in Texas, New Mexico, California, Romania, The Emirates, New Zealand, and Russia, John returned to Houston in 2016 where he and his husband now work full-time on their creative business in fine art, publishing, video production and commercial photography. My art attempts to connect, to bind disparate elements together into new vocabularies, new stories, that are both fresh and archetypal at the same time. I paint, photograph, and write about what I feel, not so much what I see. Don't look to my art for history, but rather for a glimpse into my own emotion, my own symbols, my own stories. Hopefully, you will recognize your story there too, and my art can become your art as well.
Jatziri Barron is a Mexican artist living and working in Houston since 2013, dedicated full-time to her art. The artist advocates through her art about the beauty of cultural identity and is interested in creating bonds for connecting people no matter their race, religion, culture, or background by creating awareness of different humanitarian topics. As she comments on her latest work, "We are an extension of nature, magnifiers of our culture and identity, our skin tell stories about our ancestors, we are our colors, we are our roots, and we're proud". Jatziri expresses the world around her through both figurative and abstract art since she believes constant exploration feeds her process of creation, the most important aspect of her art is carrying messages and awakening feelings of positiveness, interconnection, and representing individuals at their highest selves.
“Clara” 30”x24” Mixed media - Abstrealism
"Soy Mis Raices"
PAINTINGS WITH THREAD AND COLOR
“The Kid” 24”x24” Mixed media - Abstrealism
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“Terra”
Jenny Guarino 2000 Edwards St Houston, TX 77007 Studio #117 Silver Street Studios
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Breaking Waves 36”x48’’ Mixed media on cradled panel
Jenny explores the color, shape, line and texture of the world around her. An Australian/American, she has gone on walkabout many times, traveling the world, taking photos and drawing aerial views of the sky and landscape from plane windows and sketching the colors and shapes of objects that excite and interest her. The use of abstraction and fluid art allows Jenny to capture the essence of what she has seen, creating spontaneous fields of color and shapes that represent her geographic memories of the world from above. Her diptych “Wave clouds” was recently purchased by the City of Houston for installation in one of their airports. Jenny posts her stories, photos and iPad sketches of her travels on social media. To see her paintings, you can visit her by appointment in her Silver Street studio where she creates her art, or book classes or commission fluid art works through her website. Aplauso Magazine - Spring/Summer2022
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