Shanti Conlan

The daughter of Peace Corp volunteers, Shanti Conlan was born on Majuro in the Marshall Islands. She spent her childhood in Ann Arbor, Michigan until her family was transferred to Houston, Texas, where she graduated from the city’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows regionally and nationally. After living in many different cities around the United States, she returned to Houston, where she has built her home and studio.

Working in the mediums of printmaking, drawing and collage, Conlan creates images that capture both the physical and intangible forces of the natural world: sound, motion, light, distance, and gravity. Her work is a visual interpretation of these forces, from the layering of sediment and the formation of terrain, to the movement and interaction of celestial bodies. The work shifts in focus from the macro to the micro, examining the multiple worlds within worlds.

Anne-Joëlle Galley

In a world whose reality can often be somber, art brings you a sparkle of hope. Anne Joelle Galley’s paintings, mono-types and prints are strongly influenced by intense colors. Color, through its vibrancy, is her signature and the strength of her expression. Throughout the years, colors have amalgamated her style, giving continuity to her work. Galley often works directly with her fingers, on paper, board, metal or canvas, thus ‘building up’ the piece much like a sculpture.Prints are often collaged with colored “Chine Collé”.

The Series presented here as part of the biennial “PrintHouston2019” is a Series of lithographs, silkscreens and linocuts using “Chine Collé” and collaged mono-types.

Having studied in Europe and attended private studios and Art courses at Sotheby’s and ICA--Institute of Contemporary Art/Christies--in London, Galley subsequently joined “The Art Students League of New York”, where she first became involved with printmaking. She has exhibited in Italy (Florence Biennale), Switzerland, England, Mexico, Romania (Arad Biennale), New York City (first solo show in 2002), Spain (Cáceres Bienal) and Houston.

Galley is also a Life member of “The Art Students League of New York.”

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Luisa Duarte

Luisa Duarte is a Venezuela born, Houston-based visual artist. These two worlds, and a diverse blend of cultures, have shaped her ideas and understanding of what constitutes ‘home.’ A vague sense of displacement, and, at times, an underlying yearning to ‘belong,’ has lead the artist to create imaginary spaces that appear to straddle multiple worlds, perspectives and forms.
Throughout her upbringing, Duarte was widely exposed to contemporary non-figurative art during a time when the Latin American geometrical abstraction, constructivism and kinetic art movements were at their peak. This aesthetic, and its push to create new ‘Utopian’ cultural spaces in opposition to mainstream politics and culture, loosely informed her professional practice as an architect, and currently continues to influence her practice as a visual artist

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Maria Hughes

Maria Hughes is a dedicated and prolific artist, with an eye for the abstract and an intense love of color. She began her career in design -creating window displays and the interior decor for a department store in Laredo, Texas.
After eight years there, she decided to pursue work that would give her more of a creative outlet. She began painting at age 30. Two years later, she moved from her home in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to Houston to study art at the Museum of Fine Artist. She then began studies at the University of Houston, where she received her bachelor's in art education. Hughes taught in the Houston Independent School District, and after years in the classroom, pursued a master's degree in guidance and counseling at Texas A&M University. Hughes continued working in HISD as a counselor, until her retirement in 2003. Since then, Hughes has immersed herself in art. She joined the Houston Art League, always searching for ways to improve her technique. Seven years ago, she enrolled in a class taught by her former student, Armando Rodriguez, who converted Hughes into a printmaker. Hughes works have been showcased in three solo exhibits and in numerous group shows. She is a founding member of Canal Street Gallery and her work can be found on the gallery's walls as well as in a number of personal collections.

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