Artists
Karine Parker-Lemoyne |
Lisa Qualls |
Katy Anderson |
Marie-Pierre Stien |
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Jason Kishell |
Maylis Hopewell-Curie |
Kay Nguyen |
Marie Valdez |
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Karine Parker-Lemoyne |
"Crossing boundaries with color and movement to beckon the vitality of Life" Karine is an imaginative French painter who is driven by an incredible passion for expression through art. She has developed an innovative style that blends precise realism with abstract expressionism and movement. She explored Art techniques at the “Beaux-Arts” of Amiens (academic French Art School) for 3 years in weekly classes when she was a teenager. She developed her artistic talents through workshops in France, England and the US. She lived in London and Paris and decided to move to Houston, TX in 2007. Her life in London awakened her insatiable want for expressing her soul through Art. Underground exhibits and a tight circle of friends made her London years decisive in knowing that Art was to become her calling. Turning the page on her successful career as a top-level executive in Paris, she decided to set her creativeness free and harness the belief that living Art is a way of life and a truth to live in. A truth she wants to share and enjoy with a series of exhibits she is organizing with other artists. This series of exhibits is focused on opening portals by creating events that bring known and emerging artists to the forefront of authentic encounters with the public. Her work has been sold in the U.S., in France and the UK. Karine was an artist demonstrator at the Bayou City Art Festival in October 2009 and her past exhibits in Houston include the French Alliance, the Jung Center, the Houston Public Library World languages Center, RougeArt series, the Beginnings Art Gallery and East Montrose Art Walk. |
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Lisa Qualls |
Lisa Qualls received her BFA at the University of Texas at Austin. She continued to study photography, ceramics, textiles and printmaking at Santa Chiara, Italy; Parsons and The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York; and the Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio respectively. After exploring these mediums separately she began to combine them in both sculptural and mixed-media pieces. The techniques she works with enable her to use various materials to express her thoughts about history, culture and balance in life. Lisa has been a Hunting Art Prize Finalist and received two grants from the Houston Arts Alliance as well as a Mixed-Media Residency at the Houston Center of Contemporary Craft and a Printmaking Residency at the Southwest School of Art and Craft. Images of her work have been published in regional publications and Art Forum International. |
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Katy Anderson |
Katy Anderson grew up in East Texas where her early influences came from her mother’s oil painting and ceramic hobbies. At age four, the family home burned and everything was lost prompting her mother to take up a new hobby, photography. A camera was always around after that though it was not until a second house fire that her instincts drew her behind the lens, she began shooting. Continuing to shoot in high school, Katy graduated and began studying photography at Sam Houston State University. After 2 years of study she moved to Houston in 1999 and started her career as a photographer. Working with both 35mm and large format cameras, the unique style that is all her own incorporates revealing glimpses into the imagination of her subjects, who are most commonly children. Her work has been described as nostalgic, involving childhood memories and events from her own life which she admits, are very much the root of her inspiration. Katy was born (1979) in Houston and was raised in Lovelady, Tx. |
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Marie-Pierre Stien |
Born and raised in Dunkirk, France, Marie-Pierre Stien misspent her youth reading in bed and tending to the imaginary worlds tucked inside her desk drawers. She learned to speak three languages, extract the square root of prime numbers and knit fisherman sweaters. She graduated with honors from a string of prestigious institutions of higher education and has a stack of diplomas somewhere in her file cabinet to prove it. In the late-1980’s Marie-Pierre moved to Texas in hope of living the Great Big American Dream. She has worked as a waitress, a tutor, a bank clerk, a translator, an IT consultant, a recruiter, a compensation specialist, a university administrator and a director of human resources. For many years, she wrote at night after the children were put to bed and the last load of laundry was folded. Once her children moved out, she built a studio in the garage and started to wake up earlier and earlier for the sake of art and hot tea. From November 2005 to October 2009, she wrote a weekly essay for “Food For Thought, a blog about the small things that matter”. She’s been a regular and well-applauded contributor of articles and essays to the Circle of Women e-newsletter, Greensheet Connection, RougeArt events and the Archway Gallery writers. In January 2008, Marie-Pierre took an art class at the Jung Center of Houston and reconnected with her love of drawing and color. She is currently working on a series of illustrated tall tales about toothy monsters and magnificent failures.
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Jason Kishell |
Jason Kishell’s work is based on his curiosity of the natural world, infused with subtle emotional gestures and impulsive thoughts. Using visual attributes from plants, bugs, and bones, he creates works that are meant to be entertaining and engaging. He works in both 2-dimentional and 3-dimentional media ranging from porcelain to wood to graphite and gauche. Jason attended IUPUI, Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, IN receiving a BFA in 2001 and received an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO in 2003. He is currently employed by Houston Center for Contemporary Craft as the Education and Artist-in-Residence Coordinator and teaches sculpture and ceramics at Houston Community College. Email: Jason_Kishell@hotmail.com
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Maylis Hopewell-Curie |
Maylis was born in Amiens, northern France in 1977. She received her first camera at the age of 8 years old, and after it broke moved on to learn the basics of SLR photography with a manual-focus Minolta SLR. As a student, she became a member of her school’s photography club, where she discovered and improved her developing and printing techniques. She moved to Scotland in 1997 with a brand new Minolta Dynax autofocus in hand. There, she coached a photography club in a secondary school. During her studies at the University of Edinburgh where she gained a PhD in History of Art, she continued to take photos and was involved in the University’s photography club. In 2006, she bought her first digital SLR, along with software. This acquisition opened up new possibilities for the talented photographer. Her photographs are being used on several websites. She also set up a professional photo gallery on the web and moved to Houston in 2007. |
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Kay Nguyen |
Kay Nguyen was Born in Saigon, Vietnam and immigrated to America at the end of the Vietnam War. She completed her BFA at the University of Houston in 1990; received a full scholarship/teaching fellowship from Kent State University for her MFA degree, completed in 1995. Before entering graduate school, Kay interned at a production pottery in Okinawa, Japan and spent one year as an apprentice to Master Potter and Kiln Designer, Frederick Olsen. She received funding for projects through Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Creative Capital/Diverse Works Artist Retreat Workshops, Kingwood College, I Have A Dream, Houston and Writers in the School. Kay Nguyen is an adjunct professor at Houston Community College and has taught at San Jacinto College, Kingwood College, University of Houston, Texas Southern University and Sierra Nevada College, Project Row Houses, Glassell Junior School. Other related experiences include artist residencies at University of Michigan (1998) and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2004). She was also featured on the cable network HGTV show, “That’s Clever”, for her ceramics work. She has created installations such as “Amor Fati” at Diverseworks, “ClayBowls” at Project Row Houses, and “Second Nature” at North Harris College, “The Art of Happiness” at Poissant Gallery and exhibited her ceramics at other local venues. Kay lives and works in Houston, Texas. She has currently set up a new studio in the Montrose area for designing and producing her ceramics as well as for workshops, private instruction and art projects that promote art, culture, and healing in the community. |
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Marie Valdez |
Marie Valdez is a visual artist whose concentration is in painting, printmaking and drawing. She holds a BFA in Studio Art, a BA in Psychology from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, and received her MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2004. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in venues located in Massachusetts, Texas, and Mexico. Her work has focused on exploring the archetype of home through investigations of architecture, and proximity both locally and abroad. Over the last year she has been directed to the landscapes/cityscapes of Houston, and investigates how architectural structures (industrial structures, modern building, and domestic homes) relate to our everyday environment and function in our community. Through these investigations her work seeks to make unique what was commonplace, and create an awareness of the importance of our everyday environment through the discourse of paint. Marie holds various awards such as the Ester B. and Albert S. Kahn Career Award and the Deans Scholarship from Boston University and was selected as a finalist for the 2009 Hunting Art Prize. She resides and has a studio in Houston, Texas. Marie currently teaches at Lone Star College-North Harris and San Jacinto-South as an Instructor of Art.
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Voahangy Ramariavelo Grenier |
Marie-Voahangy Ramariavelo Grenier was born in Paris the 25th of March, 1957. She grows up in Madagascar and moves later to North Africa. She graduates from high school in 1974 and travels to Sweden and South America before going to college. Among other countries, she lives mostly in Colombia where she learns Spanish. In 1976, she returns to Europe and spends a year in London to learn English. In 1977, she registers at the university Paul Valery in Montpellier, France where she obtains a Masters degree in English. In 1981, she enters the Ecole Normale of Montpellier and becomes a teacher in 1984. From 1984, she teaches lower school and preschool in Montpellier, France, Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean and then in Houston, Texas, at the Awty International School. In 1994, she finds unused painting materials bought by her husband and discovers a new passion: painting. In 1995, she moves to Paris and begins to sell her paintings. In June 1999, at her first solo exhibition in Paris, at l’Essec she sells 20 out of 70 paintings in a few days. She has done numerous exhibitions since. In 2004, she was requested to become listed on the French government's site at www.drouot-cotation.org which designates the contemporary French artists recognized for their established work. And she has also been listed by the Italian universal dictionary of 20th century artists, Comanducci at www.comanducci.it In addition, she has signed collections for Maryse-des-Jours as an artistic illustrator using her art on modern furniture and decorative items and she created her own jewelry collection in 2005. She has been invited along with 39 others artists in the world to display her work in The Museum of Americas in Doral, Florida, in July 2009 and is currently showing in Argentina. She has joined the Green House Art Gallery in Houston, TX, in October 2009. |
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Joelle Verstraeten |
Joelle was born in 1960 and raised in Belgium. Although, she has always shown artistic interested and talent, she studied law, practiced successively as a lawyer, legal adviser and family mediator. At about 40 years of age, she realized that her professional career was suffering from the many international moves her family made. Her three children were more autonomous, she had more time for herself and decided to get involved in painting which has always attracted her as an unreachable dream. Using her children’s paints, she jumped into this new journey. In Brussels in 2004, she became a student at the Uccle Art School in painting and monoprint, two artistic approaches that feed the thoughts differently: which mount to use, how to use black as a color, how to control the subject or play with accidents, what is the meaning of the line between the shapes or how colors superimpose. For the first time, she met with other students and teachers and their open minded approaches were very stimulating. In 2007 and 2008, she participated to local exhibitions where her work was well received.She moved to Houston in January 2009 where she met other artists and exhibited twice in April and November. She currently takes a monoprint class at the Glassel school
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