Artist Talks and Demos
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Watch short demos by Pyramid’s Artistic Associates as they guide us with helpful tips for in-studio art making. Also below are in-depth artist talks by Pyramid’s Artists-in-Residence and exhibiting artists in the Helen C. Frederick Gallery.
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Art Demos
Paper Couching with Selene
Emulsion Screen Coating with Korey
Getting Ink Out of Its Can with Niki
Artist Talks
Artist Talk w/ Mosiah Ballard – Keyholder Resident
Mosiah Ballard, Keyholder Resident Fall 2024-Winter 2025, is a comic artist and illustrator based in Maryland. He briefly studied at the Maryland Institute College of Arts but received his Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Media from Bowie State University. He is driven by self-exploration and uses narrative to connect with others. His background in traditional mediums informs his interest in keeping the digital aspects of digital creation as minimal as possible. Instagram: @moziyuh
Finding a Voice Through Printmaking: Curlee Raven Holton
Finding a Voice Through Printmaking is a retrospective of print work by internationally renowned artist Curlee Raven Holton. The exhibition shares over 50 works and represents variety of print techniques and subjects.
Holton’s work is powerful, tapping into the quiet, subliminal idea of Art as a mighty oracle and artists as sages. Many of Holton’s works ponder flashing visions wrapped up in a single image. Brimming with irony, sadness, and humor, Holton’s titles play narrator to mythological-like action. His compositions are broad and searching; images to lean on, and to lean into. Each grants a great view of all that lies beyond here and often offers answers that bring on more questions. The works assembled encompass nearly 40 years of Holton’s artistic career.
Artist Talk with Carlos Hernandez
Houston-based artist Carlos Hernandez shares screenprints, collages, and sketchbooks in Mixed Up, Cut Up. Hernandez’s work reproduces familiar visual images and arranges/collages them into new, layered works, often with added hand-drawn elements. The results are high-voltage graphic works with retro grit. Carlos Hernandez’s work has been showcased through a variety of gallery shows and projects that include the music industry, restaurant and retail design, and corporate work. He is a founding partner and director of Burning Bones Press, a full-service printmaking studio located in the Houston Heights, and has served as an instructor of screenprinting at Rice University, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.
A Conversation with Alonzo Davis
ERRANTRY shares Davis’ explorations on paper over the last thirty years, juxtaposed with his newer, larger-scale mixed media constructions. Exhibited works include prints, collage, and sculpture. The theme of Errantry, which in this exhibition is interpreted as a form of wandering that includes a sacred motivation, reflects Davis as a traveler of the physical world, an artist who migrates between several different media, and as an explorer of the depths of his subconscious. His inner travel, expressed through an intuitive, improvisational approach to abstract composition, reflects a lifetime of national and international journeying.
“Paravisions: Sketching an Alternate Art(World)” by Imar Hutchins, Zoma Wallace and Matthew Gordon
Using our panelists’ recent project honoring the Windrush Generation in Birmingham, UK, as a point of entry, we consider questions such as: Is Art (as we experience it today) exclusively the province of the wealthy? Is it a status symbol? A commodity to be hoarded and flipped? Is Art trapped in a space of monetary concern, or does it still have room to move as a vehicle for something else? How should we (can we) consider work by Black artists, as we deal with the current “mainstream” fascination with it? And how should we (can we) protect it? … Our panel seeks to question the ways that Art can be experienced, presented, collected, utilized and/or understood.
SANA(A) – Print Works by Jessica Sabogal and Shanna Strauss
SANA(A) debuts the six-year collaboration between life partners and artistic duo Jessica Sabogal and Shanna Strauss. Together, they meticulously hand-print their individual and collaborative works on paper, encompassing an array of techniques.
Between Two Fires Artist Talk with Sue Carrie Drummond
Sue Carrie Drummond gives us an in-depth look into her process for creating the pieces in the exhibition Between Two Fires. The exhibition features meticulously layered work using different process combinations, including hand dying, screenprinting, stitching, bookmaking, and handmade paper with blowouts, the last being a process for which Drummond is particularly known.
Over the Rainbow Artist Talk with Gail Shaw-Clemons
Washington, D.C. Artist Gail Shaw-Clemons’ mastery of the rainbow roll technique is on full display in this vibrant exhibition of her monotype sculptural prints. Her work challenges the eye to see color not experienced before. Nearly 50 of these vivid works comprise the exhibition, dominant in the series are sculptural assemblages that twist paper and color into even more high-contrast rainbows.
Artist Talk with Etai Rogers-Fett
Watch Etai talk about the work he completed during his Keyholder Artist Residency at Pyramid Atlantic during 2022/23.
Artist Talk with Winston Harris
Watch Winston talk about the work he completed during his Keyholder Artist Residency at Pyramid Atlantic during 2022/23.
Artist Talk with Curlee Holton on Printmaking with David Driskell
From the Collectors' Preview Reception of A COLLABORATION OF CREATIVITY: PRINT WORK BY DAVID C. DRISKELL. Dr. Curlee Holton who curated this show talks to us about his printmaking collaboration with David Driskell.
PASTPORTS Artist Talk with Rosa Leff
In her meticulously hand-cut streetscapes, Rosa Leff explores changing cities and the concept of time. Her subject matter is drawn from photos she took during her travels, including the destinations of Japan, China, Puerto Rico, and the U.S.
The exhibition features work Leff made pre-pandemic based on these images, alongside new work based on photos from the same travels. With a post-lockdown eye, she has discovered new details in the source material that were seemingly insignificant before and are now beautifully intriguing.