Fresh From the Studio | Red Dot Edition

Thu Aug 29, 2024

12PM

Fresh from the Studio invites W&TW artist members to share what they are working on now. In this virtual format, artists share work in progress, newly finished artworks, and recent or upcoming projects. Each presentation is about 10 minutes with time for your questions and comments afterwards. Fresh from the Studio is your chance to see what is new and hear from contemporary artists. This program is free and open to the public.

This segment of Fresh from the Studio will feature Rosie Clements, Elena Hernandez-Peña, Bethany Johnson and Grace Nguchu.

About the Artists

Rosie Clements works in photography, sculpture, and print. Across all mediums, her practice is fundamentally image-based. In her recent work, she makes digital photographs and reconstitutes them as physical objects, testing the ever-blurring boundaries between the material and the virtual. Clements has exhibited her work across the country, including a recent solo exhibition at McLennon Pen Co. in Austin, TX in 2024. She has been featured on a variety of platforms for visual culture both digitally and in print, including BOOOOOOOM, Southwest Contemporary, and It’s Nice That. Clements was included in Lenscratch’s ‘26 to Watch’ list in 2023.

Elena Hernandez-Peña is an artist based in San Antonio, Texas. She studied photography at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and has since focused her practice on alternative developing utilizing diverse materials and techniques. Exploring themes that shed light on pressing cultural issues affecting Latine and working-class communities in the United States, she seeks to capture the resilience and fragility of life across cultures and sociaeconomic strata.

Bethany Johnson is an artist currently living in Austin, Texas. Johnson received her MFA in painting from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. Her work is represented by Moody Gallery in Houston, and has been featured in New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and HuffPost, among others. Johnson has held residencies at Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Denkmalschmiede Höfgen in Grimma, Germany, and the Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University.

Grace Nguchu is a contemporary artist based in Austin, Texas. Growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, she was deeply inspired by her surroundings – the lush green landscape and the tall mountains in the Great Rift Valley, the vast golden savannah plains of the Maasai Mara and the exquisite coastline of Mombasa. It was during this time that Nguchu took an interest in drawing, finding endless inspiration in nature and comic books. In 1998, she moved to the United States, initially settling in Hawaii before eventually finding her way to Austin, Texas. In 2018, she began to pursue her art career – drawing, painting, and establishing her unique voice as an artist. Nguchu considers her work to be a form of visual storytelling. Through her work, she seeks to express the beauty and harmony residing in the natural landscape of Kenya and promote environmental awareness.

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