raison d'être
October 13th - November 11th, 2017
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xylotheque
July 15th - September 2nd, 2016
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Ron Ulicny (b. 1973, Bethlehem, PA, currently lives in Austin, TX) attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, followed by 13+ years in Los Angeles and nearly a decade in Portland, where his work was frequently exhibited locally and internationally. He has also held solo exhibitions in San Francisco and along the west coast, and his work can be found in several remarkable private and institutional collections throughout the US and internationally. In 2016, his xylotheque exhibition at Cindy Lisica Gallery was highlighted in the Houston Chronicle and nationally in Visual Art Source and Art Ltd Magazine, and two of his large-scale installations were presented in the George R. Brown Convention Center during the TX Contemporary Art Fair.  His 2017 solo exhibition, raison d'être, is featured in ArtHouston Magazine’s Fall/Winter highlights and the Houston Chronicle. Past publications include Colossal, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, Default, Beautiful Decay, the cover of The Cincinnati Review, and in the opera “I FURIOSI” at the Teatro De Roma in Italy.

(b. Seoul, Korea)

MFA, Yale University School of Art
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

UNFOLDED
September 8 - October 7, 2017

Chun Hui Pak (b. Seoul, S Korea, lives in Austin TX) earned her MFA (1986) in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art and holds a BFA (1984) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She extended her studies in 1995 to the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit, and further again to the La Romita School of Art in Umbria, Italy, in 2011. She exhibits in the US and internationally and her work is found in impressive private, public and corporate collections. Awards include the 1998 Creative Artists Grant, ArtServe Michigan award, 1999 “Best in Show” in the Michigan Fine Arts Competition, and the 2007 Curator Award from Art Micro Museum in New York City. Her 2017 Year of the Rooster II painting was selected by Weingarten Art Group and reproduced as a monumental public art installation by the City of Houston Art Blocks program, on view as a “Main Street Marquee” at Main Street and Walker.

(b. 1971, Guyana, lives and works in Pittsburgh)

Exhibitions with CLG: 
"Fine Wind, Clear Morning" (July-August 2017)
"Art Aspen" (August 2017)
"Art City Austin" (April 2017)

The multi-faceted and passionate artist Gavin Benjamin combines his skills in photography, painting, commercial design, and printmaking. Born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn, he received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he began his career as an artist, experimenting with multiple mediums. Early on, Benjamin worked with the well-known portrait photographer Arnold Newman, who inspired Benjamin to elicit the personalities of his subjects. He now exhibits in numerous galleries and institutions, as well as art fairs, such as CONTEXT Miami and the upcoming Art Aspen. He has produced photo shoots for Esquire, Kenneth Cole Productions, and Neiman Marcus, and his artwork has been featured in national publications, including Interior Design, ID Magazine, The Washington Post, Clear, City Magazine, V Magazine, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the New Glass Review Curator's Selection of the Corning Museum of Glass.

Upcoming solo exhibition: February 23 - March 31, 2018

Born in Venezuela in 1974, Jan Rattia's stunning photographs and compelling new portrait series have been exhibited recently at Art on Paper at Pier 36 in NYC, and previously at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Art Miami, International Center of Photography, Camera Club NY, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, the Atlanta Contemporary, LOW Museum, ClampArt (NYC) and Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia). He was the recipient of the Carol Crow Fellowship with solo exhibition "Tease" held at Houston Center for Photography in 2017.

Upcoming exhibition at Cindy Lisica Gallery in January 2018

Rachel Gardner’s multi-faceted work has been exhibited and acquired throughout her native Texas and from coast to coast, as well as internationally in Europe. She is known for her wild animal sculptures using paper as a primary medium and setting up installations with the subjects appearing in their “natural environment” or within the walls of galleries and museums. Gardner completed her MFA in Painting and Sculpture at Houston Baptist University, where she now teaches courses in studio art and art appreciation.

Gardner also works in painting and drawing, using high sporadic movements that simulate the workings of the soul. In her Rewilding exhibition, she used sharpened sticks as utensils to produce etchings and reference the intrinsic energy of the canine prototypes, almost as if they are mid-howl. She has recently shown at Texas Art House with her Encounter series (catalog and photography available), Art on Paper (New York, NY), Art Aspen, and the Galveston Art Center. She has received awards from Lawndale Art Center in 2015 and the Visiting Artist award at Molzberger Academy of Fine Arts in Hilsmen Germany.

Upcoming exhibition at Cindy Lisica Gallery in January 2018

David Solomon (b. 1976, Kingston, NY) is an American contemporary artist and painter currently based in Santa Fe, NM. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and was studio assistant to major American artists Frank Lobdell and John Henry Waddell. He has shown in galleries and art fairs across the US and internationally. He has had reviews in Art In America, Art LTD, Huffington Post, Santa Fean Magazine, Adobe Airstream, THE Magazine, and others, and his work is included in wonderful private collections in Houston and worldwide.

Solomon's work is driven by an organic blend of both his early life and later formal experiences. As a child, he and his father (who attended Parson’s in New York) had "doodling sessions" and his artist-grandmother took him to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art as a child. Later, Florida’s swamps, beaches, and scrapyards became a playground for David’s inquisitive mind and provided endless hours of study. The forms of fruits, seeds, flowers and various animals still act as elements in his compositions. Physics, nature, and philosophy are evident, and more recently, the desert and mountainous landscapes influence his evolving work. 

MFA, University of Houston
BFA, Memphis College of Art

Solo exhibition: Floating in Space
September 9th - October 8th, 2016
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Jennifer McClish (b. 1982) received her BFA from Memphis College of Art and MFA from University of Houston. She continues to teach Foundation and Studio Art courses in Painting and Drawing at area universities and has held solo and group exhibitions in Baltimore, Memphis, and Houston, including a standout presence in the 2016 MFA Thesis show at the Blaffer Art Museum. McClish has received a number of awards of recognition for her work and appears in Glasstire, Commercial Appeal, and an upcoming feature in Studio Visit Magazine this fall.

BFA, Painting, 1992, The Cooper Union, NY, NY
1988-1989 Parsons School of Design, NY, NY

Solo exhibition: January 6th-February 4th, 2017

After completing her BFA in Painting from The Cooper Union in New York (1992), Catherine Colangelo returned to her native Houston to pursue her art practice. She was the recipient of 2011 and 2007 Individual Artist Grant Fellowships from the Houston Arts Alliance, and has been a Hunting Prize finalist in 2014 and 2010. Colangelo was selected by Bill Arning, Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, from over 1000 entrants to be included in New American Paintings, No. 102. She also appears in the latest West issue, No. 106, juried by Claire C. Carter, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Colangelo's work is found in impressive private and corporate collections including the Four Seasons Hotel (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Four Seasons Hotel (Houston), Rosewood Abu Dhabi Hotel, (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Fidelity Investments (Boston), and Sidley Austin LLP (Houston). She has appeared in Art in America, Glasstire, Houston Press, Art Houston Magazine, Visual Art Source, The Austin Chronicle and The Houston Chronicle on multiple occasions. Other recent solo exhibitions include McMurtrey Gallery, DARKE Gallery, Conduit Gallery, and Art League Houston.

Solo exhibition: ORDER FROM CHAOS
April 21 - May 27, 2017

Emilie Duval is a Houston-based artist, originally from France, whose work investigates economy, luxury and the complexities of societal structures through painting, sculpture, video and other new media. The artist has created a body of work that is both cerebral and visually delightful. Duval is a virtuoso of multi-layered painting, and she connects this studio practice with photography, video and installation. She has been a finalist for the Hunting Art Prize in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Her work was featured in The Big Show (2006), the Texas Biennial (2007), New American Paintings (2007), the Dallas Contemporary (2009), and FOTOFEST (2016). She was recently included in the exhibition GENOCIDE: Man's Inhumanity to Mankind by local legendary curator Clint Willour at the Holocaust Museum (2016).

Exhibition: Natural Flexibility (March 17 - April 15, 2017)

SHANG-YI HUA currently practices her sculptural work as a selected artist in the Glassell School of Art BLOCK studio residency program. Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, she has made her mark in Houston through stunning freestanding sculptures using tree bark, roots, metals, rope and resin. Her work highlights her dual cultures and the concept of “home” by calling attention to universal and spiritual ideas.

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Jamie Earnest (b. 1994, Birmingham, AL, lives and works in Pittsburgh) can be found in numerous private and museum collections. After attending the Alabama School of Fine Arts, Jamie Earnest went on to earn her BFA in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University, attended Norwich University Abroad in Berlin (2014), and completed a prestigious fellowship program at the Yale School of Art, Norfolk (2015). She was the recipient of multiple awards and scholarships. In the short time since her degree program, Earnest’s career has been skyrocketing.

In 2015, Earnest was selected by Chad Alligood, Chief Curator of American Art at the Huntington and former Curator of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Eric Shiner, Senior Vice President of the Fine Arts Division at Sotheby’s and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum for a juried exhibition at Revision Space Gallery. Earnest has shown internationally and had three solo exhibitions in 2016 (including her first museum show): Private Spaces / Public Personas at The Andy Warhol Museum, Your Home or Mine? at Cindy Lisica Gallery, and Holes in Real Space at The Mine Factory. This year, two of her large paintings were exhibited in The Apotheosis of Homer at Suzhou Arts and Culture Center in China.

Jamie Earnest works in large and small-scale painting and printmaking. Each layered piece uses color and texture combined with recognizable subject matter to depict interiors, scenes, and objects in the physical world, while simultaneously addressing memories, experiences, and dreams.

(b. 1952, New York)
MFA, University of Hawaii-Manoa

SOLO EXHIBITION | TARGETED DISSONANCE(*catalog available)
February 10 - March 11, 2017

GROUP EXHIBITION | Fine Wind, Clear Morning
July 7 - September 2, 2017

Deborah G. Nehmad is a Honolulu-based artist who brings her background practice of politics and law into her artwork. She received her MFA in printmaking from the University of Hawaii, and holds a BA in government from Smith College and Juris Doctor from Georgetown University. She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including her most recent and critically-acclaimed exhibition, WASTED, held at Kim Foster Gallery in New York and Honolulu Museum of Art in Hawaii. She has been awarded by the Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts, has received the Individual Artist Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts, and was one of six artists included in the Sixth Biennial of Hawaii Artists at The Contemporary Museum in 2003. Her work is in numerous corporate, private, and institutional collections, including the Achenbach collection at the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Yale University Art Gallery, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Smith College Museum of Art, Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, the Hammer Museum of UCLA, the Hawaii State Art Museum, and the Honolulu Museum of Art.

The work of Pure Evil can be found all over the world, as his tags and signature tear drops and dripping blobs adorn walls both inside galleries and outside in the street. He is the son of the Welsh painter John Uzzell Edwards (1934-2014).

After leaving the UK as a young adult and spending 10 years in California, where he found inspiration through skate culture and politically-infused graffiti, Pure Evil returned to the UK and honed his own original street art practice. He became known for his signature fanged bunny rabbits and developed his own approach to urban art, tagging and spray painting. Today he runs his own successful gallery space in London and frequently exhibits in major cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Toronto, and Los Angeles. His work has also been shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and he has given lectures on street art at Tate Modern and the ICA in London.

For over 40 years, Diane Burko has investigated monumental and geological phenomena throughout the world. She contrasts the concept of the deep past with the immediate present in her solo exhibition of photography, painting and photo-based media.

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Schwab is one of "30 under 30 Groundbreaking Artists" in Art Business News and part of a "Must See Exhibit" in LOCAL Houston. He had solos with Revision Space and The Andy Warhol Museum in 2015, and Cindy Lisica Gallery in 2016.

BFA, Goldsmiths, University of London (lives and works in Brittany, France)

Irish-French artist Barbara Smith explores questions of mortality and eternity through communicating the richness and splendor of the human condition. She collaborates with other artists using a wide range of mediums from painting and sculpture to photography and etching in plexiglass. Smith’s recent work has been exhibited at Le Grand Palais, Paris, and she collaborated with Louis Vuitton for Sorbet Magazine.

Studio Art and Art History Faculty at Kinkaid School
BFA, University of Houston

Exhibitions at Cindy Lisica Gallery:
Natural Flexibility (group show) March 17 - April 15, 2017 with Sarika Goulatia, Shang-Yi Hua, and Felipe Lopez.
Ritual Redux (solo show) June 2 - July 1, 2017

The work of Anthony Suber pleases both familiar followers of the artist and newer audiences. His new body of work draws from an extensive visual vocabulary of African diaspora and contemporary American experience. The artist executes his honed sculpture skills to create thoughtfully molded metal and wood forms and oxidation for his poetic paintings. Saber's artwork has been placed in collections across the country and included in exhibitions at noteworthy institutions such as the Houston Museum of African American Culture, Project Row Houses, and Sculpture Month Houston. 

MA, BFA, Carnegie Mellon University

Solo Exhibition: I Can’t Say That I Don’t Know That I’m Alive, October 14th - November 12th, 2016

Terry Boyd holds a BFA in Painting and Master of Art from Carnegie Mellon University. He has shown in Miami, New York, St. Louis, Toronto, Houston, Portland, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC, including the Smithsonian. He completed a sought-after residency in Bhutan in 2015 and has appeared in VICE, Glasstire, Treading Art, Venison Magazine, and several other art publications. He was honored “Best in Show” at the Three Rivers Art Festival and the 2014 Eben Demarest Trust Award, joining the likes of Jackson Pollock.

Boyd is a multi-platform artist who uses performance and fiber art to explore the mind and human experience within his art practice. His recent body of work employs unconventional drawing, painting, and embroidery techniques to connect audiences to lost memories, forgotten dreams, and personal histories. The layered and meditative nature of his process serves as a visual mantra for both artist and viewer alike. He brings a range of works on linen, canvas, and paper, as well as installations and custom environments.

Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Tom Wesselmann
Cy Gavin
Paul Bowden
Jeff Schwarz
FriendsWithYou
Young Chun
PURE EVIL
Haylee Ebersole
Ms. Dingo
Fabrizio Gerbino
Sarika Goulatia
George Grosz
Masha Fikhman
Chad Hasegawa
Nugent Kos
Caldwell Linker
Steven Miller
Felipe Lopez
Mando Marie
SIT
Bayo
Chad Hasegawa
Mao Li
Elizabeth Rudnick
& more...