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14/11/2003

Homecomings

Matthew Travis Gallery, Houston

The Matthew Travis Gallery is pleased to announce its final show for 2003, featureing four very distinct artists: Phyllis Flax, Andis Applewhite and Maggi Battalino, and New York-based Richard Fox. These artists work in very different ways, yet each creates works of lasting beauty that stimulate and please the senses.

Phyllis Flax is a fixture on the Houston art scene. Flax's recent work has been strongly influenced by the forests of Montana. Her images reveal the play of light and shadow on the primeval woodlands of this vast state. Her works have been seen at many juried competitions, including the Visual Arts Alliance Show (1997 and Third Place Award 2000) and the Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art (2000). She has also exhibited at the Spring Branch Medical Center Art Show (2001) and the Midtown Visions Cultural Arts Tour (2001). Flax studied at the Glassell School of Art.

A native New Yorker, Richard Fox has traveled extensively in Europe, especially in Italy, France, England, Spain, and the Low Countries. French and Italian artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in particular have inspired him to depict the mores and sights of today-a living history in paint. He reapplies compositional structures and techniques he has seen in works of the past to suit a modern representational mode of expression. His paintings are represented in the collection of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, and in private collections in New York, San Francisco, Paris, and Luxembourg.

Andis Applewhite sees screen printing as opening creative possibilities beyond the traditional techniques of painting. Her works are the result of multiple printings of different colors. With each successive printing, she experiences a moment of decision, a moment when she must search within herself to find the creative strength to meet the challenge of combining colors to create a successful work of art. Texas native Applewhite is a graphic designer and principal with Andis Applewhite Design. Her work has been seen in several juried shows including The Big Show at the Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas, in 1994, 1997, and 2002.

A distinguished working visual artist, Maggi Battalino has a studio in the downtown arts district of Houston, Texas. Chosen by METRO, Cultural Arts Council of Houston and HOK architectural firm to design the prestigious Museum District Station for Light Rail in Houston, Battalino adds this highly visible collaborative Public Art Commission to an impressive list of accomplishments. She has been invited to exhibit in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions. Battalino has been chosen to be part of the highly respected Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art exhibition for three consecutive years.

OPENING PARTY: Saturday 15 November 6-9pm

Matthew Travis Gallery
610 W. Alabama St.
Houston, TX 77006-5004
713-520-0553

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