POP UP ART Gallery September 21st at The Chocolate Bar (Rice Village)
Houston, Texas –08/11/2010 – Pop Up Art Gallery: The Pop Up Art Gallery is a pop up art gallery, one day only exhibition of art work by four young Houston based artists. Pop up retails shops have been popping up all around the world and we’re bringing the phenomenon to Houston. With these four artists we are creating a fresh way to make connections between artist and consumers, generating feelings of specialness and urgency! Not to mention the art is really cool! The Pop Up Gallery will be at The Chocolate Bar in the Rice Village from 7 P.M to close on September 21st. Hosted by Danny Clark and The Chocolate Bar, the exhibition includes paintings, drawings, photographs, illustration and mixed media.
The artists participating are: Anna Spradley, 2:12, Kelley Devine, and Kristen Eide.
Anna Spradley is a completely self-taught with no background and very little knowledge in the arts. Her cartoon-like portraiture paintings often have apparent biblical undertones mimicking her own spiritual battle. Anna has painted in live venues for crowds of hundreds and has established respect and support from her local creative arts community. She has shown at ArtCrawl Houston 2009, Gaslight Gallery, Summer Street Studios, Avant Garden and Mink.
2:12, a Houston based artist, has a passion for urban decay. His tools of choice are the x-acto knife (for cutting painstaking details) and the spray can (for stenciling layer by layer) and his canvas is the grit and grime of the city. 2:12’s mission is to bring attention to those areas that are often unnoticed or neglected. By using vivid colors, eye catching patterns and sometimes physical objects, his works add considerable interest to what was otherwise uninteresting. His gallery work and private sales are often created to resemble his work that is found on the street. Using textures and techniques that make each piece look as if it was cut from a wall. The stencils used to create these canvases are used on the street first, and then painted in limited editions before the stencils are destroyed.
Kelley Devine is a compulsive creator. In that, in order to function normally she must be creating at all times. Kelley uses her art as a way to communicate without being too vulnerable to others. The artwork represents the oppositional forces within the human psyche as the individual struggles to balance expected and assumed roles. She does this through the combination of materials and applying images that are visually and psychologically contrary to one another.
Kristen Eide is a young up and coming designer and artist. As an artist and illustrator, she focuses on the human form and portraiture, observing fashion as an identity to character. Kristen incorporates her fashion studies as wel as architecture elements and geometric aesthetics. She accomplishes her illustrations with water color and ink. Kristen received a B.F.A. in photography at the University of Iowa and studied fashion design at Parsons Paris.
The Chocolate Bar is located at 2521 University Blvd. Houston, TX 77005
The artist’s works and opinions displayed or expressed during the art show at The Chocolate Bar are not necessarily those of The Chocolate Bar or its content providers, advertisers, sponsors, affiliated or related entities, and The Chocolate Bar makes no representations or warranties regarding the artists works or those opinions.
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