Held at The Jung Center of Houston at 5200 Montrose Blvd in the Museum District.
On view: September 24 - November 7, 2022
Opening reception: September 24th, 5-7PM, followed by FOTOFEST Biennial opening
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June 2 - July 9, 2021
Public reception: Saturday, June 5th, 5-8PM

BoxHeart Gallery welcomes guest curator Cindy Lisica as she presents What We Know - an exhibition of three artists from three coasts: Stephanie Gonzalez (Houston), Tobia Makover (Savannah), and Claudia Parducci (Los Angeles).

Curator Cindy Lisica has encountered each of these artists under different circumstances in places where she has lived. What ties the artwork together for her exhibition What We Know is their visual poetry and mastery of art-making as a language that moves the viewer into a unique space, a microcosm, even if only for a moment. Lisica remembers the words of her college poetry professor, "Write what you know." This short but profound piece of advice rings true through art that speaks directly to the viewer by forming an emotional connection. These women know things. They are demanding. They are reflective. They are luminaries in their respective circles.

June 14 - August 17, 2019

Cindy Lisica Gallery in partnership with PrintMatters Houston presents an international group exhibition of prints by artist members of PrintMatters Houston and artist members of La Estampa from Medellin, Colombia.

Featured artists from PrintMatters Houston:

Andis Applewhite, Shanti Conlan, Luisa Duarte, Orna Feinstein, Katherine Rhodes Fields, Leamon Green, Carol Hayman, Amber Kaiser, Melanie Leslie, Eileen McClellan, Kelly Moran, Sharon Navage, Gissette Padilla, Elvia Perrin, and Joelle Verstraeten

PrintMatters Houston is a Houston-based 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote traditional and non-traditional printmaking, encourage print collecting, and to further the professional growth of its members.

Featured artists from La Estampa:

Maria Adelaida Correa, Ana Cristina Berrio, Marta Lucia de Bedout, Ana Isabel Diez, Ana Fernandez, Pablo Guzmán, Hilda Piedrahita, Pilar Posada, Angela Maria Restrepo, Susana Santamaría, Alejandro García, Jansel Figueroa, Santiago Rodas, Gabriel Mesa, and Jorge Alberto Rodriguez

La Estampa is a 30-year old printmaking studio located in Medellin, Colombia. Taller De Grabado La Estampa and its members are dedicated to the practice and diffusion of etching and relief techniques.

May 3 - June 8, 2019

Cindy Lisica Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Diane Burko’s newest work, which comes to Houston after two recent museum solo shows at the Walton Arts Center and the National Academy of Sciences in DC. Her paintings, photography and mixed media reflect an incredibly impressive career and expeditions around the world, using new materials and technology.

Diane Burko (b. 1945, New York, NY, lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) is an internationally-recognized artist working at the intersection of art and science. She earned her MFA at the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, a Bachelor’s in Painting and Art History at Skidmore College in 1966 and has been a professor at Princeton University, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the University of the Arts, among others. Her various honors include two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a residency through the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation in Giverny, and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Women’s Caucus for Art.

March 22 - April 27, 2019

Known for his marvelous and whimsical gestural style, he creates a symphony of real and fantastic machines for human interaction and travel from planet earth to the outer reaches of the atmosphere and space. His colorful storytelling is a satiating blend of technical accomplishments and dreams of the future. The brilliant, energetic canvases bring thoughtful visual poetry about the past and the future with incredibly varied, yet harmonious lines and color combinations. With his direct lived experience of recent unrest in his beautiful home city of Managua, Javier Valle Pérez sharply conceives a series of spectacular journeys of both child-like wonderment and forward-thinking fantasy. His paintings combine truth, nature and desire in our worlds within worlds. It is an exciting time to welcome the profound and joyous work of Javier Valle Pérez once again to Houston.

February 16 - March 16, 2019

January 11 - February 9, 2019

The sounds of aviation, such as military planes and helicopters, have long been part of the fabric of Sarah Sudhoff’s life. Her father a military pilot, she grew up on or near military bases. She recalls, “He once left for nine months to serve on an aircraft carrier and then again to serve in Desert Storm. The sounds that carried him away resurfaced on his return.” These sounds represent nostalgia, as well as both hope and fear.

The Houston based artist now finds herself looking skyward in Houston, following the red helicopters of Memorial Hermann’s Life Flight crews. With their data, she began her evolving Point of Origin project, seeking to honor those involved in these life-saving missions through suspended sculptures, a sound installation, and debossed wall works that draw upon personal observations, cartography, and the mechanics of the helicopter and those involved in the nearly 300 flights completed in just one month of Life Flight. Point of Origin connects us through our shared human experience. 

Artist Bio: Sarah Sudhoff holds an M.F.A. in Photography from New York’s Parsons School of Design and a B.J. in Journalism and Photography from the University of Texas at Austin. She has received a 2017 Individual Artist Grant from Houston Arts Alliance for her recent body of work and is the Executive Director for the Texas Photographic Society. Sudhoff previously served as Executive Director of Houston Center for Photography and owner of Capsule Gallery in Houston. She has been photo editor for Texas Monthly and Time magazines
and on the boards of Austin Center for Photography and Texas Photographic Society. She taught photography at Stephen F. Austin State University, Trinity University, and the Art Institute of San Antonio and participated in artist residencies at Artpace and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Bloomington, Indiana. Sudhoff has also been awarded by The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2013) and exhibited internationally and across the U.S. at Galveston Arts Center, Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, Gray Duck Gallery in Austin, Filter Photo Festival and Roots & Culture in Chicago, and the DongGang International Photo Festival in South Korea. 

November 18, 2018 - January 5, 2019

Acclaimed Houston-based artist, Catherine Colangelo’s second solo exhibition at Cindy Lisica Gallery. She takes us on a powerful visual journey with her splendid painting process of vibrant colors, refined forms, and careful layering. Colangelo has received a number of awards and features in 
Art in America, New American Painting, PaperCity Magazine, Glasstire, Houstonia, Houston Press, Art Houston, Visual Art Source, Voyage Houston, The Austin Chronicle, and The Houston Chronicle.

Oct 11th – Nov 10th, 2018 

An intriguing trio of artists for a multi-dimensional exhibition alongside Sculpture Month Houston. Touchstones are benchmarks as objects and significant moments and memories. These three diverse and highly accomplished artists bring their material delights to the forefront in a thought-provoking and rhythmic display of shape, color and form. The extraordinary paper work of Jae Ko returns to Houston after her acclaimed solo exhibition, FLOW, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2016 wowed audiences. Atticus Adams, Pittsburgh’s “Artist of the Year,” further establishes his gulf coast appeal with dazzling and sophisticated assemblages of textile and precious metal mesh. Nasher Center Award-recipient Rachel Fischer creates intriguing and whimsical biomorphic pieces.

September 7 - October 6, 2018

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June 29th - September 1st, 2018

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Cindy Lisica Gallery presents the 2018 Houston solo exhibition of internationally-acclaimed artist Charles Uzzell Edwards a.k.a. PURE EVIL (b. 1968, Wales). His celebrated portrait-based artwork investigates identities in art, politics and Hollywood, such as Jackie O, Liz Taylor, Elvis, and Picasso, to name a few of his fascinating subjects. The success of his Nightmare series of dripping celebrity portraits has taken him around the world from and he has recently held remarkable shows in the museums and galleries of major cities across the USA and UK, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Austria and even Mongolia. The Houston exhibition includes new works on steel, special edition prints, canvases, and an incredible installation artwork that cannot be missed.

SUMMER POP-UP EXHIBITION

July 27 - 29, 2018

100 RED HOT ARTWORKS BY:

Rachel Gardner, Lennox Rees, Jennifer McClish, Yasuyo Maruyama, Jason Bly, Suguru Hiraide, Jan Rattia, Angel Oloshove, Kidrobot, Jean-Pierre Verdijo, Cartoonneros, Shang-Yi Hua, David Solomon, Jamie Earnest, Amanda Visell, Frank Kozik, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts…

Cindy Lisica Gallery presents an extraordinary pairing of artists for an otherworldly duo exhibition. The supple forms of Houston-based ceramics sculptor Angel Oloshove meet the vibrant and visionary paintings of Nicaraguan artist Javier Valle-Perez.

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April 6th - May 12th, 2018

Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Shang-Yi Hua (b. 1967) moved to the US in 1989 and later completed the BLOCK Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) Glassell Studio School. She makes her mark through stunning freestanding and wall-mounted sculptures drawing from nature and the environment, seamlessly linking material reality with the inner self.

Hua’s work has been featured in a number of exhibitions. In 2017 alone, her sculptures were included in the thematic group exhibition “Natural Flexibility” at Cindy Lisica Gallery, “Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art“ at the Williams Tower Gallery (juried by Jose Esparza Chong Cuy, Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), “Known and Underknown” at Arts Brookfield in Two Allen Center (curated by Sally Reynolds), and several international art fairs. Her artwork can be found in prominent private collections and was recently highlighted in the Houston Chronicle, Houston CityBook and HiConcept Magazine.

February 17th - March 31st, 2018

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L A N D I N G S is a diverse and elegant series of striking figurative subjects and provocative and poignant objects in which Rattia explores the ongoing political crisis in his native country of Venezuela, immigrant identity, and the fluid concept of home and place in current times. By devising inventive configurations of symbolic objects, such as a cuatro (a South American four-string guitar), an orchid (Venezuela’s national flower), or a pomegranate, for example, alongside a purposeful selection of people as subjects, Rattia provides multiple sensations, from conflict and mortality to beauty and memory.

Jan Rattia (b. 1974, Caracas, Venezuela) moved to the US in 1994 and later turned his longstanding love affair with art into his reason, graduating in 2012 from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City. His work has since garnered international attention and has been shown at such renowned galleries and institutions as the International Center of Photography, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Atlanta Contemporary, LOW Museum, Hartsfield- Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Camera Club NY, Bridgette Meyer Gallery, ClampArt NYC, Houston Center for Photography (HCP), and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (CAMH).

January 5th - February 17th, 2018
This exhibition was in honor and memory of our dear friend, David Solomon. Although taken too soon, may his spirit of creativity and humor survive us all.

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Fall to the Wild is a marvelous pairing of two extraordinary artists for a duo exhibition that shines light on different processes, while recognizing organic connections in the subject matter.

Rachel Gardner is known for her life-size wolves, birds and other wild animals using paper as a primary medium. She completes captivating installations with her subjects in their “natural environments” appearing within the walls of galleries and museums. This latest series present hummingbirds and blackbirds as narratives in charcoal drawings and sculptural forms.

Santa Fe based painter David Solomon brings his “Falling Bodies” series of luminous oil paintings on aluminum. The abstracted and repeated forms of drips, waves, and bodies act as elements in colorful compositions referencing Quantum Holographic and Wave theories in what becomes the artist's final series after a lifelong dedication to art.

November 18 - December 30, 2017

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The multi-layered work of Jennifer McClish brings explosive color and character to the gallery walls in her latest solo show, “Expanded Orbit” at Cindy Lisica Gallery. McClish (b. 1982) holds a BFA from Memphis College of Art and MFA from University of Houston and had a standout presence at her 2016 Thesis Show at Blaffer Art Museum. Her subsequent “Floating in Space” solo exhibition at Cindy Lisica Gallery wowed audiences with her distinct style referencing science fiction and space travel. The latest works in "Expanded Orbit" bring a new sense of marvel and engagement with pop culture and the cosmos. The artist uses a variety of materials to build the dynamic textures of her paintings, employing illustration, experimentation, abstraction and architecture. Each canvas is an enticing narrative possibility for the viewer to relish and explore.

Twelve Days of Art + Fashion + Design with Kimono Zulu, Iki Japan & House of Takura

A cross-national collection of curated gifts for the holidays and beyond…

December 12-23, 2017

RON ULICNY | raison d'être

October 13th -  November 11th 2017
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Industrious and reflective describe his latest creations and the artist himself, as Ron Ulicny makes his triumphant return to Houston with a new series of signature sculptures. The minimalist/surrealist works are both cerebral and amusing, as Ulicny uses carefully selected and masterfully manipulated material to portray the workings of his mind. His latest solo exhibition, Raison d’être, includes stunning wall-mounted sculptures fabricated from galvanized steel ducting. Ulicny embodies the meaning of the French phrase, as he brings his relationship with his craft to the forefront of all that he does and shares it with the intrigued audience. Every piece represents one of an infinite number of reasons for living and being an artist. 

September 8th - October 7th, 2017

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The extraordinary perceptions of S. Korean born Chun Hui Pak (MFA, Yale University School of Art and BFA, Art Institute of Chicago) are presented as carefully rendered paintings in her latest solo exhibition, Unfolded. The series is a massive undertaking with subject matter representing the entire line of animals in the Chinese Zodiac, depicted skillfully and beautifully, as unfolded origami figures. Pak participates in the contemporary and the classic, as she engages in still life, trompe l’oeil realism and representation with illusions of three-dimensional reliefs, while also employing abstraction and a more contemporary and postmodern sensibility. Unfolded is a monument to our very real human interest in connecting meaning and purpose with our personal and daily lives and the universe.

FINE WIND, CLEAR MORNING
Friday, July 7th - September 2nd, 2017
*summer show and featured venue in PrintMatters’ PRINTHOUSTON 2017.

Participating artists:
Gavin Benjamin (b. Guyana, lives and works in Pittsburgh)
Charles Uzzell-Edwards a.k.a. PURE EVIL (b. S Wales, lives and works in London)
Jamie Earnest (b. Birmingham, AL, lives and works in Pittsburgh),
Felipe Lopez (b. Bronx, NY, lives and works in Houston)
Deborah Nehmad (b. New York, NY, lives and works in Honolulu)
Chun Hui Pak (b. Seoul, S Korea, lives and works in Austin)
Minka Stoyanova (b. New Orleans, lives and works in Hong Kong).

June 2nd – July 1st, 2017

*One of Glasstire's top five exhibits in Texas*

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This 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. Audiences witnessed two performances in collaboration with Urban Souls Dance Company, incorporating wearable artwork, sound and video for this special presentation of the piece, Griot Gospel. 

Anthony Suber holds a BFA from the University of Houston and teaches Studio Art and Art History at the Kinkaid School. His artwork has been placed in collections across the country and included in exhibitions at local institutions such as the Houston Museum of African American Culture, Project Row Houses, and Sculpture Month Houston. 

April 21-May 27, 2017

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Houston-based French artist Emilie Duval 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 and mixed media, video and installation for her newest series, ORDER FROM CHAOS. She examines overarching issues of society and economy through her spirited representations of Digital Ledger Technology and the Federal Reserve, while making bold associations with Baroque period style, drama and excess. This daring exhibition revisits the past and elegantly connects it with the present.

Duval attended the Art and Art History program at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris in 1995, while simultaneously studying Law at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas. She is a two-time Hunting Prize finalist and has held exhibitions around the world from Brussels to Salt Lake City. 

Featured artists:

SARIKA GOULATIA
SHANG-YI HUA
FELIPE LOPEZ
ANTHONY SUBER

NATURAL FLEXIBILITY is a sculpture exhibition that brings together four artists from different backgrounds, combining innovative material processes with a thoughtful and beautiful investigation of our human impact on nature and each other.

February 10 - March 11, 2017

The deeply moving artwork of Deborah G. Nehmad brings stunning layers of materials and concepts, revealed through multiple series of an extensive body of work. The artist’s latest series, on view for the first time, turns to the more traditional craft of needlepoint and the use of QR codes that can be read with cell phones to convey powerful messages to the viewer. The visually enlightening effects of her techniques employed on paper include burning, etching, scraping, scoring, stamping, puncturing, typing, writing, and drawing. Each individual mark or hole provides its own narrative, marking of time, process and presence.

Initially stemming from the artist’s own personal pain, her work from the wasted series addresses anguish on a broader scale, incorporating compulsive mark making to translate what cannot always be conveyed adequately through verbal interactions. The tension applied to and implied by her artwork draws serious attention to disquieting issues, such as gun violence and political turmoil in the United States. This exhibition urges the viewer to unmask and recognize our humanity in troubling times, while also introducing seductive, captivating and aesthetically arresting material. TARGETED DISSONANCE is accompanied by an illustrated catalog with text contributions by David A.M. Goldberg, Georgianna Lagoria de la Torre, and Dr. Cindy Lisica.

January 6th - February 4th, 2017

*Top Five Exhibits of January - LOCAL Houston Magazine
*Recommended Exhibition - Glasstire
*Recommended Exhibition w/ full review - Visual Art Source
*Art DayBook Feature - Houston Chronicle

Catherine Colangelo’s work gives nod to traditions that existed long before our time. Her paintings stem from a visual vocabulary as varied as illuminated manuscripts, Indian and Islamic miniatures, textiles, and visionary art. These vibrant and unusual works are painstakingly created with graphite and gouache on muslin over wood, using a process of concentration and skill that is also comforting and meditative. Her 2017 solo exhibition, Talismanic, explores the idea of shields, or protective objects, seen to act as talismans or charms which ward off evil, while simultaneously bringing good fortune.

November 18 - December 31, 2016

This exciting group exhibition focuses on contemporary artwork that is directly and deliberately situated on a Pop trajectory. With reference to moments and practices in the careers of Warhol and other leading Pop artists, the works selected for this exhibition draw on their lineage and explore parallel subjects and methods of production in new ways and with a distinct fervor. Both historical and material connections give nod to the legacy of Pop, while highlighting current artists using the language and iconography of consumer culture. 

Artists:
PURE EVIL
Jamie Earnest
Mao Li
Roy Lichtenstein
Richard Pettibone
Travis K. Schwab
Barbara Smith
Andy Warhol
Tom Wesselmann
 

October 14-November 12, 2016

Terry 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.  His solo exhibition, I Can’t Say That I Don’t Know That I’m Alive, brings a range of works on linen, canvas, and paper, as well as installations for Sculpture Month Houston.

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

September 9th - October 8th, 2016

The innovative and explosive work of Jennifer McClish activates the gallery space with intense color and distinctive character. The Houston-based studio artist collages a variety of materials and Schmincke varnish to build the incredible surfaces of the paintings. Her inimitable style references popular culture, transportation and technology, and science fiction, and the works evoke a sense of presence in the cosmos. "Floating in Space" presents mixed media painting and sculpture engages audiences in the artist’s explorations of magnificent texture and vibrancy. Her unique methods and art-making techniques employ illustration and architecture to investigate the internal psyche, as well as social output and human interactions. Ultimately, joy is discovered through honed imperfection.

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, Studio Visit Magazine and Arts + Culture TX.
 

July 15th - September 2nd, 2016

Xylotheque comes from the Greek xylon for “wood” and theque for “repository” or “collection”, and, much like a library or museum, they have immeasurable historic, cultural, and scientific value in their content and purpose. For his latest solo exhibition, Ron Ulicny creates work that embodies this term, while boasting skilled craftsmanship, fabrication, and woodworking techniques, combined with his established background as a surrealist sculptor. This exciting body of work has been in the making for the last two years, while Ulicny has carefully selected, finely crafted, altered, polished, and then constructed (and, in some cases, reconstructed from nature) materials into magnificent and finely-tuned compositions. The installation includes wall-mounted as well as free-standing sculptural objects that exquisitely reference the human connection with nature and the artist’s relationship with chosen media. His process is one of discipline, study, and sensory experience, with each piece revealing to the viewer an intrinsic conceptual fabric, inherent environmental concerns, and a clear appreciation of global art and design.

Ron Ulicny (b. 1973, lives and works in Los Angeles) attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, followed by 13+ years in LA and nearly a decade in Portland, where his work was frequently exhibited locally and internationally. He has held solo exhibitions in San Francisco and along the west coast, including Spoke Art, Guardino Gallery, Mirus Gallery, Arty, Salem Art Association, and Grand Central Art Center. His work can be found in several remarkable private and institutional collections in the US and Europe, and art publications including Colossal, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, Default, and Beautiful Decay, among many others. Recently, Ulicny’s work was featured on the cover of The Cincinnati Review and in the opera “I FURIOSI” at the Teatro De Roma in Italy.

June 3rd - July 9th, 2016

For her Houston debut, Jamie Earnest asks a seductive question: “Your Home or Mine?”...

The idea of “home” indicates a sense of place and possession of space, whether tangible or metaphoric. Earnest dances on this line, using bold color, juxtaposition of textures, and provocative compositions of large-scale mixed-media oil paintings. Her work evokes memory and philosophy, while referencing Pop and Postmodern styles. Earnest has a notable and extraordinary ability to execute dream-like interiors on both large and small scale, incorporating domestic and industrial materials on the canvas. The vibrant paintings have a unique material and textural quality. They investigate and imagine domestic spaces, architecture, and spatial experiences by depicting the physical world, as well as the interiors of the mind and the subconscious. Earnest’s magnificent paintings recall personal memories and the thoughtful imaginings of stories of friends and lovers.

Jamie Earnest attended the Alabama School of Fine Arts, Yale Norfolk School of Art, and Carnegie Mellon University, where she received her BFA in Painting. She was the recipient of The Samuel Rosenberg Senior Art Award, The Rose J. Navratil Art Scholarship, The Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, The Anne Ophelia Dowden Junior Award, and The Fifth Year Scholar Award for Art from the Office of the Dean. She was selected to join the ranks of Robert Indiana, Sylvia Plath, Philip Pearlstein, and Cy Twombly among other modern masters through the ART.WRITE.NOW national award and exhibition. Her work has been shown in New York, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, and Birmingham, jury-selected for exhibition by Chad Alligood, Curator of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and her most recent work was displayed alongside Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, in conjunction with Michael Chow: Voice for my Father, at The Andy Warhol Museum. Earnest’s work has appeared in contemporary art journals, including Peripheral ARTeries, Bitterzoet Magazine, TAP, and LandEscape, and books, The State of Art and International Contemporary Artists.

Travis K. Schwab: Plastics
April 22nd - May 28th, 2016

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For this latest exhibition, Plastics, Travis K. Schwab focuses on ideas of past, present and future technology and continues to examine our image-based and digital society through stunning photo-realist oil paintings. Schwab often looks to film and photo-media as a starting point to develop intense works of portraiture. The results are mysterious and provocative, as he addresses questions of identity and attitudes toward the future of humanity with insight, compassion, curiosity, and even dark humor.

Schwab’s cool, compelling paintings are in impressive institutional and private collections across the country in New York, Miami, Houston, Austin, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and more along the way. His debut solo at Revision Space in 2015 was met with high praise and was soon followed by a solo at The Warhol. His works are featured in prominent publications, including New American Paintings and The New Republic, and he was selected as one of “30 Under 30 Groundbreaking Artists” in Art Business News. His artwork was recently featured in PaperCity Magazine and as part of a “Must See Exhibit” in LOCAL Houston.

Diane Burko
CINDY LISICA GALLERY | HOUSTON
March 18 - April 16, 2016

As a participating venue in FOTOFEST INTERNATIONAL 2016 BIENNIAL, we are proud to host a solo exhibitio featuring large-scale photography, painting, and photo-based media by Diane Burko. For over 40 years, Burko has investigated monumental and geological phenomena throughout the world. "Traces of Change" contrasts the concept of deep time with the immediate present with powerful images informed by polar expeditions and a masterful art practice. 

Burko is an award-winning and widely-exhibited artist currently based in Philadelphia. Download press release and list of works here.

For The Win / Fare Thee Well
Revision Space | Pittsburgh

Opening Reception: Friday, March 25th, 7-9

For the last two and a half years, Revision Space has held 16 exhibitions and presented dozens of artists through memorable solo and group shows. We’ve now come to represent an expanded program in Houston with the opening of Cindy Lisica Gallery, and the time has come to close our storefront space in upper Lawrenceville. Let’s celebrate the accomplishments and fantastic reputation we developed in the contemporary art scene in Pittsburgh....

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Barbara Smith (France/UK) | Travis K. Schwab (USA) | Elizabeth Rudnick (Denmark/USA)

CINDY LISICA GALLERY | HOUSTON
February 12 – March 12, 2016
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“Over Time” is an exhibition of three artists working across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, suggesting the passage and experience of time. The larger subject of life and death is intermixed with the specificity of humanistic moments…
 

photography, portraits, and doubling
REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
Jan 15 - Feb 14, 2016

This exhibition is guest-curated by Nicole Coffineau and features artworks that experiment with doubling, multiplicity, and relationality to explore their effects upon likeness and identity in contemporary photographic portraiture. 

Artists:
Zhiwan Chueng
Sally Dennison
Sean Fader
Nabiha Khan
Senalka McDonald
Darren Lee Miller
Mat Thorne
Stacey Tyrell

CINDY LISICA GALLERY | HOUSTON
Jan 8 - Feb 6, 2016

Exhibition of new paintings and objects by Fabrizio Gerbino at the new Houston Museum District location. It's the exciting inaugural show of Cindy Lisica Gallery at 4411 Montrose. Download the press release and exhibition checklist.

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
Dec 4 2015 - Jan 2, 2016

This special guest-curated group show by Kent State Professor Emeritus Brinsley Tyrrell and MFA Jonathan Schwarz features ceramic work by a group of artists exhibiting works from a single wood-fired kiln in Freedom, OH. 

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
SEPT 18 - NOV 1, 2015

Artist Steven Miller presents an intense and cohesive series of works of photography and film that pay homage to the French writer and political activist, Jean Genet (1910-1986). Genet, who was openly gay and imprisoned multiple times in the mid-20th century, is celebrated as progenitor of the modern queer movement and as a highly-influential artist to his contemporaries.

Steven Miller draws us deeply into the world of the oppressed and the oppressor, where intimacy and violence co-exist, and the situational relevance is poignant in our current landscape of extreme rates of incarceration, as well as gay activism and marriage rights.

Gallery visitors will experience large-scale photographs and a video projection, staging a dark and beautiful plethora of representations of love, loneliness, and suggestion.

Exhibition dates: Sept 18 - Nov 1, 2015

Opening reception: Friday, September 18, 6-10PM

About the Artist: Steven Miller is a Seattle-based artist whose work has been widely published and exhibited. Queer issues and the theme of nonconformity are central to his art practice.

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
Exhibition dates: July 24 - September 13, 2015
Opening reception: Friday, July 24th, 6-10PM

Artists' talk:  Saturday, September 12, 5-7PM, with special guest speaker Eric Shiner. GREAT WAVES II is a rotating exhibition of works by artists based in Pittsburgh who are given the opportunity for professional gallery representation through this exciting summer series, now in its second year.

Jurors:
Eric Shiner, Director of The Andy Warhol Museum
Chad Alligood, Curator of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Curator:
Cindy Lisica, PhD, Director of Revision Space

Congratulations to artists Jamie Earnest, Haylee Ebersole, and Sarika Goulatia! This unique exhibition concept will be actively re-imagined throughout the summer with works available for purchase "off the wall" and new works fresh out of the studio for multiple presentations.

About the artists:

Jamie Earnest
Yale University Norfolk Summer School of Art (2015)
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University (expected 2016)

Earnest explores color and composition with monumental paintings and mixed media, evoking memory and philosophy. She examines domestic and personal space, juxtaposed with the use of industrial materials.

Haylee Ebersole
MFA, printmaking, Ohio University (2013)
BFA, printmaking, Metropolitan State University of Denver (2010)

Ebersole’s work utilizes unorthodox materials, such as gelatin, to create abstract 2-D and 3-D forms, while drawing upon landscape, geological formations, the body, and the micro/macro. The fascinating objects possess rebellious qualities, yet they are exquisite in their presentation.

Sarika Goulatia
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University (2006)
MA, Textiles, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi (1996)
BS, Textiles, Lady Irwin College, New Delhi (1994)

Indian-born Pittsburgh artist Sarika Goulatia’s exciting current work utilizes discarded, donated, and found materials like shoeboxes, shopping carts, magazines, and toys, to create site-specific sculptures and installations, as well as their accompanying drawings. Her unique perspective includes the impact of childhood, the loss of her father to Lou Gehrig’s disease, and her own near-death experience.
 

THE URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART MOVEMENT
(an exhibition featuring works by street artists and Pop-Surrealists from around the globe)

June 19 - July 19, 2015
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 19th, 6-10PM
This event is free and open to the public with refreshments and DJ provided!

Hosted by Revision Space | Curated by C.A.V.E. Gallery:

The Center for Audio and Visual Expression, known as C.A.V.E. Gallery, was first conceived in 2001 as a series of traveling art events showcasing visual art, film and music. Fueled by the fresh, new art scene exploding in Los Angeles, C.A.V.E. established a permanent gallery in 2008 in Venice Beach, California, a 1,500 sq ft space located on Abbot Kinney Blvd, an eclectic and trend-setting commercial street in Venice Beach, California.

For PDF of available works and prices, click here.

ARTISTS:
VON (UNITED KINGDOM)
BEN KEHOE (PITTSBURGH)
KYLE HUGHES-ODGERS (AUSTRALIA)
RUBIN415 (NEW YORK)
ALEC HUXLEY (SAN FRANCISCO)
AMANDA MARIE (COLORADO)
YOUNG CHUN (LOS ANGELES)
RESTITUTION PRESS (LOS ANGELES)
CHAD HASEGAWA (SAN FRANCISCO)
MAX NEUTRA (LOS ANGELES)
JASON HERNANDEZ (LOS ANGELES)
PEETA (ITALY)
KID ACNE (UNITED KINGDOM)
JOHN PARK (LOS ANGELES)
SHERVIN IRANSHAHR (PITTSBURGH)
EATCHO (PORTLAND, OR)
SIT (AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS)
HELLBENT (BROOKLYN, NY)
BAYO (MEXICO CITY
JOSHUA CHARLES HART (LOS ANGELES)
VINZ (SPAIN)
TAKA SUDO (JAPAN)
TOM FRENCH (UNITED KINGDOM)
CHERRI WOOD (MINNESOTA)
LI-HILL (BROOKLYN, NY)
ZACH JOHNSEN (PORTLAND, OR)

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
Youthful yet visionary, and mostly colorblind, Schwab pushes through the limitations of his vision, and decidedly moves outside of his comfort zone and into the color spectrum -- with stunning results. Schwab has graced the pages of Art Business News, New American Painting, and The New Republic, to name a few, as well as a host of fantastic local press reviews. His works have been shown at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Lawrence Hall Gallery, Panza Gallery, and Silver Eye Center for Photography, and his paintings in last year’s group exhibition "Great Waves" at Revision Space were extremely compelling and sought-after... His new work is a major hit with collectors and audiences, and a fantastic limited edition exhibition catalog has been produced in 2015.

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
March 27 - May 3, 2015

New work by Caldwell Linker at Revision Space reveals another dimension to this artist's oeuvre, displaying meticulous beadwork portraiture alongside compelling photography. The work is quietly powerful, touching, contemplative, and calls on the viewer to actively engage in its visions.

Caldwell Linker has worked in photography for nearly 20 years and has pioneered the representation of the queer community and a broad spectrum of events in Pittsburgh. The artist was featured in a solo exhibition, All Through The Night, at The Andy Warhol Museum in 2013, and has since continued to expand the realm of photography.

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
February 6 - March 22, 2014

Miss Dingo's paintings and woodblocks are delightful and confrontational at the same time. Her spectacular works depict scenes of madness and beauty, pleasure and pain - the world(s) in which we live.

Miss Dingo earned her BFA in painting and printmaking from Pratt Institute in 2013, has exhibited extensively in New York and Brooklyn. Her "Children's Cleavers" in Art is Violent last year were a huge hit, and we are proud to present our first opening in the new year 2015 with all new work by this talented artist.

**WINNER OF "EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR" AND "BEST IN SHOW" AT THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL 2015**

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
December 12, 2014 – January 31, 2015

Trained as a painter, Boyd currently uses drawing and embroidery techniques, incorporating drama, abstraction and performance into multi-faceted and intense pieces. His work uses repetitious lines and imagery, seeking to draw emotion and memory from the viewer. Boyd received his BFA in Painting and Contextual Practice from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 and went on to complete a Masters in Arts Management in 2013. He maintains his studio at Radiant Hall in Lawrenceville and has shown at numerous venues in Pittsburgh, as well as Chicago, Washington, D.C., Portland, Houston, Miami, and upcoming international cities. "Pins & Needles" is Boyd's 6th solo exhibition.

Paul Bowden (Pittsburgh), Siena Baldi (Ohio), Barbara Smith (France), Jeff Schwarz (NYC), Ron Ulicny (Portland/LA), and selections from the Graham Shearing Collection.

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
October 31 - Dec 7, 2014

The image of the human skull has long been an icon of life, death, and the human condition. The Enduring Skull explores the meaning and symbolism of the skull in contemporary art in a variety of media — from textiles and prints to ceramic and mixed media sculpture.

About:

Graham Shearing, collector, critic, curator, consultant and writer who has lived in Pittsburgh for two decades and continuously impacts the region's arts and culture. After studying law at the University of Cambridge and reading for the English Bar, he became distracted by the lure of art and has been writing and curating ever since. He has served as art critic for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Pittsburgh Quarterly, and is involved with numerous arts institutions, projects and organizations.

Siena Baldi (Martin’s Ferry, OH) received her BFA in Printmaking/Drawing and Environmental Studies from the Washington University in St. Louis is 2011. She co-founded the art nonprofit MITCH Collective, and she currently teaches at TechShop Pittsburgh and the West Liberty University, WV. Her latest artwork focusing on skulls is garnering attention in the press.

Paul Bowden (Pittsburgh, PA) lives and works in Polish Hill. After studying drawing and painting in his early career, he began to focus on sculpture while abroad in Italy, working in the studio of Paolo Carosone in the 1980s. His site-specific bronze sculptures can be found at the Palmer Museum of Art and UPMC, among other prestigious institutions and collections. He has received numerous distinctions for juried exhibitions in Pittsburgh, and he will present previously unseen work for this exhibition.

Jeff Schwarz (Brooklyn, NY) is a Pittsburgh native with an MFA from Syracuse University. His works explore the ceramic medium, using painterly glazes and other materials such as wigs or mirrors to create unique sculptural pieces. His solo exhibition, “Loves You,” opened at Revision Space in September 2014 and received a number of exciting reviews. His work has been exhibited across the globe, from Bushwick Open Studios and the San Angelo Museum to the Icheon World Ceramic Center in South Korea.

Barbara Smith (Cameret-Sur-Mer, France) received a BA Honors Degree in Design from Goldsmiths College in London in 2001. Her works often focus on themes of life and death, experimenting with different techniques and media such as drip-painting, blind-contour painting, and etching. Her most recent EXO + ENDO series is resulting in a number of global design and media collaborations and will be featured for the first time in Pittsburgh.

Ron Ulicny (Portland, OR) creates sculptural works from found objects, combined and reconfigured into surrealistic compositions. After attending the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Ulicny moved to Portland and has since exhibited extensively on the west coast, including a number of solo exhibitions — most recently at Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco. His work can be found in several exciting collections in the US and Europe, and new work for the exhibition will be exhibited for the first time in Pittsburgh.

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
September 12 - October 26, 2014

A Pittsburgh area native with an MFA from Syracuse University, Schwarz has been producing new ceramic sculptures out of his Brooklyn studio that are guaranteed to impress and surprise you. He uses the visual language of drawing and painting and translates it into the ceramic medium. He creates complex and painterly glazed finishes that are seemingly inimitable and exceptionally unique. The wall pieces and printed photographic works add an entirely new dimension. The resulting figures are alive with depth, intensity, and texture.

Schwarz has exhibited across the country and the globe, from major US art institutions as The Mattress Factory and The Huntington Museum of Art to as far as The Icheon World Ceramic Center in South Korea. Collections including his work also span widely, from The Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh to The Garth Family Art Partnership (TX).

Masha Fikhman | Zack John Lee | Travis K. Schwab
REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
May 27 - September 7, 2014

Curated by Revision Space Director Cindy Lisica, in collaboration with each artist, audiences will see different iterations of the exhibition on various visits and events at the gallery. After opening weekend, the art works are available "off the wall" and the show and will be actively re-imagined throughout the summer.

Masha Fikhman - BA Studio Arts, History of Art, University of Pittsburgh (2011) 

No stranger to the local art scene, Fikhman has actively exhibited and collaborated throughout the city and nationally. She travels the world seeking ideas and inspiration for her intense and at times whimsical works that incorporate innovative textures and bold colors. The results are arresting, provocative, and fantastic.

Zack John Lee - BA Studio Arts, University of Pittsburgh (2013)
Lee is expressive, thoughtful and unafraid to take risks. By exploring the
human ability to make automatic gestures and movements into his drawing practice, his recent works take on forms that seem simultaneously natural, alive, and otherworldly. Lee has received the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts Award, the Betty Blockstein Levine Memorial Award, and has actively exhibited in Pittsburgh, Annapolis and Portland.

Travis K. Schwab - A self-taught and color blind artist out of his studio in Irwin, Schwab was one of "30 under 30 Groundbreaking Young Artists" in Art Business News in 2013. With source materials from present internet media and films to personal experiences and choices, Schwab works his own unique story and vision into each painting. His works have made their way into publications such as New American Paintings and The New Republic, as well as a number of impressive private collections.

REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
May 23 - June 22, 2014

"Savage Elements" unveils a selection of paintings and collages that demonstrate this multi-faceted artist's keen ability to cultivate a body of work that explores innovative ideas. 

Kos is a veteran of cultural crossings and international travel. She is both an active observer and participant in the situations presented in her work through explorations of form and discipline. The works in this exhibition display humility and curiosity, from minute details of daily life to questions of cosmic proportions.

Recently relocated back to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia after living in France for 8 years, Kos continues to experiment with new materials and techniques. The selected works move through time retrospectively and include previously unseen pieces and stylistic developments in the artist’s oeuvre. 

Kos received her BFA in Painting and Printmaking in 1998 at Virginia Commonwealth University and later studied figure drawing at the Beaux Arts de Paris. She has exhibited her work in galleries and alternative spaces in Virginia and France, showing in such prolific venues as La Chappelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière and the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. 

Courtney Cormier & Miss Dingo
REVISION SPACE | PITTSBURGH
April 5 - May 18, 2014

Miss Dingo earned her BFA in painting and printmaking from Pratt Institute in 2013 and has recently returned to her hometown of Pittsburgh. Her work explores humankind's tumultuous relationship with nature, animals, and the roles of caregiver, protector, master, or butcher. The cleaver paintings created for this exhibition offer both playful narrative and social commentary, while pushing the edges of technique and taste. She has previously exhibited in galleries and museums in Pittsburgh, New York and Brooklyn.

Courtney Cormier is a self-taught artist with a degree in psychology at the University of Tennessee. A 5-time world champion baton twirler, she began painting in 2010 and has since produced a number of impressive works from her studio in Greensboro, NC, where she is coordinating a state-wide art project featuring 16 artists from across the U.S. and collaborating with the internationally-recognized Chicago street artist, “CRO,” aka Ray Noland. For Art is Violent, Courtney has created original thematic works to be shown for the first time in Pittsburgh.
 

Revision Space inaugural show
February 21 - March 30, 2014

The dynamic and contemplative paintings of Cy Gavin come from a place of passion and an insightful process. The exhibition presents the convergence of his unique personal history growing up in the southwestern Pennsylvania rust belt and the recent passing of a dear friend and collaborator in New York, artist Ellen Cantor. Sometimes as if created while overcome or entranced (or in a fugue state), Gavin's multi-dimensional works simultaneously convey magnetism and vulnerability, struggle and strength. His stunning canvases invoke a spirit of wonder and the capacity to grow and adapt, combined with careful observation of the world and those who live in it: friends, lovers, and strangers alike.

Cy Gavin earned his BFA in painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and currently lives and works in New York. His works have been shown in galleries and museums in Pittsburgh, New York, Ithaca, San Francisco, and Chicago and can be found in a number of private collections. Revision Space is proud to present Gavin's first solo exhibition with accompanying publication of a full-color catalog, written by Cindy Lisica and designed by Klaus Kempenaars.