April 6 - May 2, 2024
From Archway Gallery:
“Archway Gallery presents Metamorphosis, featuring new works by Joan Laughlin and Liz Conces Spencer, on view April 6 – May 2, 2024. The artists will be available to visit with guests during the opening reception on Saturday, April 6, from 5 – 8 p.m. and will give a joint Artist Talk at 6:30 p.m. They will also introduce the seedling giveaway and the auction tree donated by Trees for Houston.
In this exhibition, the artists’ observations of and reactions to the constancy of change in the natural world are interpreted in paintings, drawings, mosaics, and sculpture.
Joan Laughlin is inspired by daily walks through the Heights area, observing ever-evolving gardens and foliage with seasonal change. This practice has become a metaphor for her reflections about the nature of life in general and her conclusion that “the only constant in life is change.” Her intricate works are meditative studies on the present, which is fleeting and transitional.
The works of Liz Conces Spencer are also rooted in the natural environment, but from a perspective that vibrates with interpretive patterning and color. Current works are mosaics, glass, wood, and paint in compositions that unveil layers of being in stages of time, or as she has described the revelation, “the aching mystery of infinite change.”
Joan Laughlin has been a member of Archway Gallery since 2019. She has been involved in Houston arts for about 30 years and has done everything from working as a gallery assistant and museum registrar to teaching studio art and art history to college students to now showing and selling her work at Archway Gallery. She has had three solo exhibits, has been included in numerous group exhibitions, and was a Hunting Art Prize Finalist three times. For more information about Joan, go to https://www.archwaygallery.com/joan-laughlin.html.
Liz Conces Spencer joined Archway Gallery in 2005. As a 1975 graduate of the University of St. Thomas’ art department, she was intrigued by the visual tangle of existence and began what would become a lifetime study of figures and patterned landscapes. Liz is a teaching artist for Young Audiences of Houston, manages the Life Drawing program at Archway, and is co-chair of the annual Juried Exhibition which opens the gallery walls to area artists. View her full bio and CV at ww.lizconces.com.”
Reception: April 6, 2024 | 5–8 pm
2305-A Dunlavy
Houston, 77006 TX
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