artist cv & bio - 2015

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STEPHANIE GONZALEZ

CV

Published Work• Outsmart Magazine: 9/2015

• The Houston Chronicle: 6/2012

• 002 Magazine: 6/2012, 12/2008

Public Collections

• Tarakaan – Murals and custom ceiling panels (collab with Julie Worsham), Houston, TX 9/2015 – present

• City Centre - Outdoor Mural: (collab with Julie Worsham), Houston, TX 6/2015 – present

• Starwood Hotels - Le Méridien Saigon: (collab with Julie Worsham), Ho Chi Minh City, VN 9/2014 – present

• Music World Entertainment - The Rice Mansion: Houston, TX 5/2012 – present

Exhibitions• White Linen Night in the Heights: John Palmer Gallery, Houston, TX 07/2015

• The Mural Project: Muir Fine Art Gallery, Houston, TX 07/2015

• Liberty’s Negroni Week Art Show: Liberty Station, Houston, TX 05/2015

• A New Beginning: John Palmer Gallery, Houston, TX 05/2015

• Raw: John Palmer Gallery, Houston, TX 03/2015

• Solo Show: John Palmer Gallery, Houston, TX 02/2015

• Solo Show: The Starving Artist Gallery, Houston, TX 01/2014

• Solo Show: The Starving Artist Gallery, Houston, TX 06/2013

Selected Group Exhibitions • The Mural Project: Muir Fine Art Gallery (collab with Julie Worsham), Houston, TX 07/2015

• 4th Annual Star Wars Art Festival: Houston, TX 4/2015

• The Christina Project 2nd Annual silent auction: Cedar Creek Café Bar & Grill, Houston, TX 4/2015

• PFLAG Art for Education Silent Auction: Warehouse Live, Houston, TX 4/2015

• 62nd Annual Diana Awards Silent Auction: St. Regis Hotel Ballroom, Houston, TX 3/2015

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• Free Press Summer Festival: (collab with Julie Worsham) Houston, TX 2014, 2013, 2012

• Bisou: BeHuman Gallery, Houston, TX 02/2014

• Anthropologie Store: (collab with Julie Worsham) Houston, TX 3/2013

• Love Sick or Sick of Love Photography Show: War’hous Gallery, Houston, TX 11/2012

• IIDA: Skyline Art Services, Houston, TX 09/2012

• Sight and Sound Poster Show: War’hous Gallery, Houston, TX 8/2012

• Perfect 10's: War’hous Gallery, Houston, TX 05/2010

• Student Portfolio Show: The Art Institute of Houston, TX 12/2010

• Assembled: The Art Institute of Houston, TX 11/2009

Donations• Make a Wish Foundation

• Young Texans Against Cancer

• Aids Charity Auction

• MD Anderson Sprint for Life (Ovarian Cancer Awareness)

• Diana Foundation

• PFLAG

Education• The Glassell School of Art - Houston, TX – Intermediate Drawing 8/2015 – 12/2015

• The Art Institute of Houston, TX - Interior Design 2007-2010



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Bi- og-ra- phy

Born in

Monterrey N.L. Mexico, Stephanie Gonzalez grew up with her grandparents in Reynosa, Mexico and picked up painting from her grandfather. She began painting at the age of 14 and later started developing new techniques and experimenting with different mediums. As a child, Gonzalez moved from Georgia to Mexico, then to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. After high school, she moved to Houston, where she currently resides. Stephanie enjoys creating abstract works that reflect her emotions, freelance logos, murals, interior designs, and she also creates simple twine bracelets. In her work, she uses mixed media such as coffee, wine, aerosol paint, watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels, china ink.

Stephanie received her BFA in Interior Design from the Art Institute of Houston in December, 2011. She has created works for public collections such as Starwood Hotels - Le Meridien in Saigon, murals for Lot 8, famous designer Chloe Dao's retail boutique in Rice Village, Skyline Art Services, the Make a Wish Foundation, Pearl Bar, and friends commissions; in addition to these murals, Gonzalez has also participated in many art happenings in Houston and shown her art at various galleries throughout the South Texas area. She is well versed in many design programs including Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, AutoCAD, Revit, & 3D Studios Max. Stephanie currently works as a full time fine Artist in Houston, TX.

Stephanie seeks to inspire emotion and touch people’s hearts with her works.

Artist StatementEverything starts with a feeling, I work with unconventional materials and spend months, sometimes years on my pieces. I explore with the idea of grunge, imperfection and beauty in the disaster. My work, while abstract,



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attempts to represent specific emotional instances or conflicts that occur within my mind and/or heart and/or “soul.” I would be hard pressed to explain to a viewer what an individual painting or portion of a painting means. My hope is that each viewer will experience some personal connection with a painting that translates into a bet-ter understanding of my experience.


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