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Untitled, 2001
Mixed Media on Vellum
12 x 9" |
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Light Breaks, Red
Bird. . . Silent Song, 2001
Gouache on Pondicherry Paper
20 1/4 x 28" |
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Zoë Charlton earned
her MFA in Painting from The University of Texas in Austin, and
she currently lives and works in Springfield, Missouri.
In 2000, she was part of Out of the Ordinary at the
Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston.
In the accompanying catalog essay Paola Morsiani writes,
“Charlton’s work faces head-on the cultural gap between black
and white Americans - a seemingly unalterable abyss. In her drawings and paintings both groups behave in ways that
the artist links to an historical heritage yet to be examined in
all its devastation...”
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Dee Wolff, educated
at the University of Houston and at the MFAH’s Glassell School
of Art, has received numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, and
has exhibited widely, including a one-person exhibition at the
Museum of Southeast Texas. Joan
Seeman Robinson writes in the catalog for that exhibit that “She
is a miniaturist, but her subjects are cosmic and universal, like
those of medieval scribes and the illuminators of sacred
manuscripts…Wolff’s paintings and drawings are religious and
spiritual, but not denominational or dogmatic. They are absolutely inspired by her personal drive toward
self-knowledge.”
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