ARTISTS
Stella Alesi
Stella Alesi has been practicing the art of painting since she announced out loud, at the age of eleven, “I am going to be an artist!” That was New Jersey in 1974. In 2005 Alesi received a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center residency program. All along the way Alesi has continually exhibited, and presently resides in Austin, Texas.
Catherine Allen
Catherine Allen was born in 1982 in Midland, Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin with a bachelor’s degree in painting in 2010, she went to work in her hometown of Midland. After spending several years outside the field of fine art, she began once again to focus on oil painting, using the skills and perspective she acquired in school and at various jobs to enrich her paintings.
Jason Archer
Jason Archer is an American visual artist, and pioneer of contemporary arts in Austin, Texas. His work fuses Pop Art and cultural archetypes to create modern myths that reimagine historical events, natural phenomena or existing ritual.
Camp Bosworth
Artist Camp Bosworth was born in Galveston, Texas and now lives and works in Marfa, Texas.
He draws much of his inspiration from the richly diverse culture of the great state of Texas.
Diverging traditions and histories, the trope of the Western form and references to pop-culture influence and surrounds his practice. His work employs narrative and humor to illustrate his observations on the small art town of Marfa and the border life.
Molly Brocklehurst
Molly Brocklehurst is a British, figurative painter based in Austin, Texas. Her work is characterised by her use of a limited palette to create nostalgic, dreamlike narratives. Brocklehurst holds a BA with honours from Leeds College of Art (2016) and an MFA in Fine Art from the University of Arts London (2019). Her work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and the USA. She has had work included in the Wing’s private collection in London and currently has work included in Soho House’s private collection in New York.
Melinda Buie
Occupying a studio in Port Chester, NY, Buie has exhibited her work in NY, CT, NJ, VA, NC, AZ, CA, TX, London, Berlin and Italy. Her work consists of large scale oil paintings of cows from family’s farm in East Texas, portraits of men and women, and an architectural series, including bridges, underpasses and buildings.
Brandon Campos
Brandon Campos is a contemporary figurative artist whose work is concerned with the connection between memory, photography, and nostalgia. Using a wide range of techniques in both oil paintings and charcoal drawings Campos blurs and distorts his family photographs creating hazy recollections of the past, teasing out the slippery way memory moves through time.
S.M. Chavez
Painting in oil, the principle subject within Chavez’s work is the Vaquero. Notable for its marriage of old and new, his work pays homage to historic masters such as the Taos Society of Artists while also looking towards the future of contemporary western art. With a soothing sense of color and exceptional design aesthetic, his work is firmly situated among the best that contemporary western painting has to offer.
Marcella Colavecchio
Colavecchio studied classical drawing at Lyme Academy of Fine Art under the master draftsman Dean G. Keller. Her work has been shown nationally with notable exhibitions most recently in Austin at the West Chelsea Contemporary and in New Orleans at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. It has also been featured by Almost Real Things Magazine, The Austin Chronicle, The Austin American Statesman, and Split Lip Magazine.
Reagan Corbett
Native Houstonian, Reagan Corbett has spent the majority of her life fully immersed in the world of fine art. As a young girl, Corbett spent weekends sketching at The Menil, and participated in a variety of classes at the Glassel Junior School. Throughout her childhood, Corbett developed a fascination for studying how the world is seen through the eyes of others.
Laurel Coyle
Laurel Coyle is a multi-disciplinary artist who has called Lockhart her home for the past six years. She picked up her first camera, a 110 instamatic, at age eight, and became fascinated by the possibilities of image making.
B Shawn Cox
B Shawn Cox is a multimedia artist, juror, collector and curator. Born in Lubbock Texas, with ranching roots in west Texas, he currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. His vibrant and diverse work has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States in both private and corporate collections. He has degrees in Architecture and Law but has maintained and developed an evolving art practice for over 30 years.
Noah Dorr
American pop culture captured Dorr’s attention from a young age, and integrating them into his work is central to his craft. A fine sensitivity to the images, figures, and sounds of American media is conveyed in his compositions. The cultural symbols of our contemporary physical and digital environment are Dorr’s primary material, and he searches for humor in the visual juxtaposition of products, memories, and environments.
Aileen Fitzgerald
Aileen Fitzgerald is a self-taught landscape artist based in Austin, TX. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Texas at Austin and dedicated eight years to practicing as a critical care nurse. Her art draws deeply from the nurturing foundation of her medical career, translating those experiences into a creative process that harmonizes soothing movements with dynamic playfulness.
Ralph Fulton
Inspiration to paint comes to me in many ways: nature, my immediate surroundings, figures, people in different environments in everyday activities, and some animals interacting with humans in indoor and outdoor spaces. I make paintings from experiences, also actions that I think are about to take place, sometimes dreams that I’ve never had.
Douglas Galloway
Texas artist, Douglas Galloway, practiced art even as a small child. He began private lessons at age 8 and was an instructor himself by age 18. Douglas attended Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas where he pursued a degree in Graphic Design, then changed his study to Studio Art. In the mind 1980s he moved to San Antonio, Texas where he immersed himself in the Latino culture, finding himself intoxicated by the festivals, the spirituality of the depth of family devotion that would become the vivid colors of the paint that brushed across his canvas.
Miles Glynn
Miles Glynn (b. 1980) is a mixed media artist living and working in the American West. The common thread throughout Glynn’s work is that of presenting images and themes from our past with renewed intrigue and relevance. His work has evolved into something that is part contemporary art & part time capsule. Glynn’s mixed media works are at once familiar and curious, modern yet nostalgic.
Gregory Gove
Born in St. Louis, Gregory spent the majority of his career based in Chicago working with architects, interior designers, and corporate art consulting firms, creating art for public and commercial spaces, for a variety of notable clients, including General Motors, Elvis Presley Enterprises. Michael Jordan, Whirlpool, MillerCoors, and many national and international hotel brands such as Hilton, Sheraton, and Marriott among others.
Fort Guerin
Raised in Mesa, Arizona and a graduate of Northern Arizona University, Fort’s original direction was in sculpture, but like many other young artists he didn't have the resources at the time to continue with that path and began painting in 1996.
A self-taught painter, he began painting in his home, defining his style through journaling and drawing inspiration from 1940’s and 50’s vintage western art and imagery.
Tyler Guinn
Tyler Guinn is a Texas based artist. His art practice is currently managed from a studio in central Austin, near the home where he lives with his wife and children. Guinn's work in abstract expressionism is collected internationally, featured in notable design projects, and represented by various galleries. Having formally launched a fine art career in 2017, his background in various fields of design are evident in the color theory, materiality and balance of each composition.
Ray Hadaway
Ray Hadaway is a self-taught artist based in Texas. His charming artworks blend various media and techniquesvdrawing inspiration from the beauty of nature and hisvtravels. With clever use of color, texture, and composition,vRay’s art evokes joy and resonates with people from allvwalks of life. Inspired by artists, such as Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ray calls his unique approach a contemporary folk fusion with a Texas twist.
Wes Hansen
Wes Hansen is an Austinite who studied Set Design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current body of work is influenced by Alex Katz, Jack Kirby and others. He prefers to reference pop culture, advertising and to use bold and unnatural colors.
Tiffany Huff
Tiffany Huff is a Texas-based artist who holds a BFA in Studio Art and an all-level teaching certification from Texas State University. With 18 years of experience teaching art, Tiffany also dedicates time to her studio practice as a painter, printmaker and illustrator. Drawing inspiration from southwestern landscapes and wildlife, her work encompasses oil paintings, hand drawn illustrations and screen printed vintage clothing. Tiffany’s deep connection to the land of west Texas serves as a profound inspiration rooted in respect for the ancient wisdom of wild and expansive spaces.
Matt Kaplinsky
Matt Kaplinsky works in a variety of paint media, creating original works largely inspired by landscapes and still lifes. Reflections of various 19th and 20th century masters can be seen in his 21st century works, including such figures as Charles Burchfield, David Bates, and Picasso, as well as Matisse, Monet, Degas and Van Gogh.
Jacob Lovett
Jacob Lovett is an American artist most notably known for his contemporary western oil paintings. Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas his work is heavily influenced by the western lifestyle and culture that has surrounded him since he was a kid. Although he does not wear the title cowboy, his admiration for the ethos that they uphold to this day is what draws him to this subject matter.
Margo Lunsford
I dig up the buried stories that need a voice. My canvases are woven with memories, some fuzzy from time passing. ese stories house themes that lay bare our inner dialogues, mental health struggles, and the conflicts that make us who we are. When I'm in the creative process, my thoughts go out to anyone on a similar journey, and my heart goes to them. When you view my art, I hope it hits you emotionally, awakens the dialog you have within connecting with your own story, and makes you embrace both the vulnerable and strong parts of you.
Molly Odom Magill
My work is almost always an exploration of place. Who we are, where we come from and where we are going as expressed through color, form and texture. The work seeks to use these elements to explore and question not only the geography, but the culture, boundaries, intersections in our environments. The hope is that each piece will push us to consider our life’s path and to find confidence in our place in the complicated beauty of the world.
Hailey Marmolejo
Hailey Marmolejo was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where her passion for art began to flourish from an early age. Pursuing her creative ambitions, she majored in Fine Arts at St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX, and worked as an intern at MexicArte Museum and La Peña Gallery. Seeking new artistic perspectives, Hailey studied painting at the Universidad de Antonio de Nebrija in Madrid for one semester.
Landry McMeans
Landry McMeans is a full-time artist based in Austin, Texas with a passion for painting Sonoran Desertscapes. Purple mountains, neon sunsets, and saguaro cacti have been staple subjects in her work since she first picked up cardboard relief while studying Communication Design at Texas State University in 2005. McMeans’ primary medium has since evolved into hand-cut stencil prints evoking the muted psychedelia of the American Southwest.
Paul Meyer
Paul Meyer (b. 1974, Houston, Texas) is a painter and sculptor. The son of a homebuilder, Meyer grew up around construction and early on developed a fascination and respect for its materials, inputs and outcomes. Finding inherent beauty in the rawness of the everyday components, Meyer launched his studio practice with unique incorporations of cement, mortar, wood, and other mixed-media yet uncommon in fine art paintings.
Cruz Ortiz
Cruz Ortiz is an American Contemporary Artist who uses multiple mediums examining historical social political narratives through bold graphic screen prints, figurative abstract portraiture and dream-like landscapes.
Danika Ostrowski
Danika paints landscapes en-plein-air and creates in-studio work based on photographs, sketches and memories. She currently lives and works in Austin, Texas creating commissioned paintings and developing her own series of work which she exhibits throughout the country.
Brandon Owen
Brandon Owen has made a name for himself in contemporary Western art, merging his natural illustrative talent with the cowboy influences of his youth, shaped by a career in graphic design.
Kandice Pierce
Kandice Pierce was born and raised in historic Rome, Georgia, and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design. After relocating to Austin, Texas, in 2010, she continued painting while working as a Hospitality Designer. After a fifteen-year career in Interior Design, she decided to take a chance and pursue her passion,
Caroline Pinney
Caroline Pinney is a contemporary figurative artist whose work primarily explores intimacy and human relationships. Since receiving her BFA in 2016, the artist has lived in Nashville, Richmond, and is now based in Austin — energized by the warm weather. The landscapes and robust art and music scenes of each city have propelled her curiosity and independence, instilling lyricism and movement into her work.
Gabriel Portillo
Artist, Gabriel Portillo also known as “Paste” was born in Alpine, Texas. He currently resides and is based out of Austin, Texas. Music, people, and west Texas have been a big influence as of lately. His work ranges from portraiture, landscapes, and abstraction.
Patrick Puckett
Patrick Puckett was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1979 and moved to Austin, Texas, in 2005. Studying under professor James Meade at the University of Southern Mississippi, he received his bachelor degree in fine arts in 2002. His paintings are visual inventions culled from a life lived in the South.
Adde Russell
Born in Southern California and the daughter of a Marine Corp Colonel, Adde Russell has called many places home. After graduating from Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts in 2000, she spent several years exhibiting her work in the Northwest, New York and Italy before making the move to Austin. Although, focused on traditional painting techniques, her work is far from conventional. She experiments with her process and examines the use of materials making her work unique and vital.
Ryan Scheer
Ryan Scheer is a photographic artist based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado using photography techniques from the late 1800s to produce western-themed dioramas. Using the Wet Plate Collodion process, Ryan brings images to life inspired by his youth and his love of the Western lifestyle.
Ian Shults
Ian Shults is a self taught artist from Austin Texas. After many years of contributing to the city’s public art and large scale landmark sculptures, he began showing his paintings in 2010. His work combines found imagery with iconography to display a narrative that points a novel lens towards a timeless era. With a unique painting style and an idiosyncratic character, his paintings provide a puzzle for the viewer to explore.
Leslie Lewis Sigler
Leslie Lewis Sigler is an oil painter who explores the human condition through contemporary portraits of silver family heirlooms. Born and raised in San Marcos, Texas, Sigler studied painting at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2008 she has been scavenging and painting family heirlooms while witnessing their stories and histories unfold as she translates their portraits to panel. She lives in Soquel, California with her husband and two young sons and exhibits nationally.
Jon Stahly
Jon Stahly (b. 1994) is a contemporary multimedia artist currently living in Austin, Texas. Pulling from personal and familial histories, his works collage images from varying time periods and locations to form layered and blended compositions that challenge any singular narrative.
Christopher St.Leger
Christopher St.Leger is an artist of the Romantic tradition whose source of imagination is both light and mood. Born in northwest Indiana in 1973, he studied architecture in Ohio and in Budapest, Hungary, and now lives in central Texas with his wife and two children.
Christy Stallop
Christy Stallop is an artist living in Austin, Texas. Born and raised in El Paso, her work is greatly influenced by the west. She received a degree in Art Education from St. Edwards University. Christy’s work has been selected for the City of Austin’s People’s Gallery and the Art in Public Places TEMPO programs.
Marie Tobola
Marie comes from a more classical figurative background but leans on the abstract while pursuing a wide subject matter looking for humanity in the image hoard of society. She graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago in 2006, and has been working with the figure in oil paints for over twenty years.
She lives and works in Lockhart, Texas.
Michael Van
Michael depicts scenes of leisure featuring families, water, and subtle narratives. His improvisational approach to painting allows him to honor his direct observations by making decisions and adjustments during the painting process rather than making revisions to a preconceived image. Michael lives in Euless, TX, with his wife, Jana, and their cat, Pickles.
Bruce Lee Webb
“I use my art as a memory vessel for myself and to expose others in a random way to things I am interested in and fascinated by. I am interested in the random factor in art like the road driven down for the first time. I was told by a spirit medium in Lily Dale, New York that my art has the power to heal. I hope it heals others, as I know it has healed myself.”
Tori White
Tori White is an American painter based in Teton Valley, Idaho where she recently relocated after establishing her career in Los Angeles. Tori’s work draws from her background in storytelling as a writer and an actress. Her paintings often feature lonely characters and objects that allow the hint of a larger story but leave the viewer to wonder.
Camille Woods
I am a contemporary figurative painter. My work explores the day to day human experience through the lens of my own life and journey as a queer woman. I paint stories of characters individually or collectively using bold colors and themes of desperation and loneliness, acceptance and belonging.
Adam Young
Adam is a self-taught woodworker, metalworker, and visual artist. His build work allows for the beauty of raw materials to speak through simple and unique design. His painted work delves into his curiosity of the natural world, folklore, his fascination with history and metaphorical storytelling. Originally from southwest Louisiana, he is a longtime resident of Austin where he still lives and works daily.