Homage to…

An exhibition organized by Carolyn Prescott that featured painting, photography and mixed media work. Homage To… explored the influences women writers, dancers, and painters have had on ten Austin women artists.

About the Artists

Belinda Casey’s art is developed from a narrative fragmenting of images. Her childhood was rich with colorful characters, steel magnolias and a confluence of mixed messages. The consequence of this is a creative ability to find humor in most things. Her aesthetics reflect these poetic dichotomies: beauty with calculation, the bitter with the sweet, the humorous with the serious; the literary with the familiar; clandestine moments with collected observations. She enjoys the play of metamorphic connections with the subconscious and senses. Sexual entendre and duality of meanings are explored with symbolic and psychological innuendo. Images are juxtaposed, altered, and accessorized with a tongue-in-cheek attitude to form the focus of her work.

Pat Taylor had an Army Brat childhood, based in the South and then traveling throughout Europe and Japan, Pat Taylor settled in Austin Texas. She received got her Bachelor of Fine Art in Studio Art (magna cum laude) and her Master of Art in Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. Since then she has lived in Central Texas and travelled throughout Europe and Turkey, while studying art and art history.

Katherine Brimberry is Co-founder, Director, and Senior Master Printer of the Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Katherine’s expertise as Senior Master Printer is in the collaboration phase of intaglio or relief projects. She has worked as a technical collaborator with artists such as James Surls, Julie Speed, Frank X. Tolbert 2, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Joan Winter, among many others. She is an experienced instructor of printmaking having taught printmaking at Texas State University, St. Edward’s University and Austin Community College. Every other year, Katherine directs and teaches a two-week workshop, Intensive Printmaking at La Romita School of Art in Terni, Italy. In her recent work, Katherine combines printmaking techniques creating layered images picturing historic or futuristic aerial images of the landscape. She was honored to be an artist in residence with an exhibition in Nis, Serbia in March 2019.

About the Curator

Carolyn Prescott grew up in North Carolina, was educated at Duke University (BA) and Bard College, New York (MFA in painting). She has lived mainly in three places in her life: Durham, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; and since 2000, in Germany. Painting and drawing are for her a way of exploring the world, and the tradition of painting offers many possibilities. She’s less interested in mimesis than in how painting reaches the senses. She sometimes think of “brush as touch,” of “light as sight.” Painting provides an imaginative field of play between perception and conception, between image and language.