Cool + Collected, Frisco Art

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lucian Perkins is an independent photographer and filmmaker whose documentary work often focuses on human-interest stories encompassing daily life and social issues in the United States, in addition to conflicts and crises overseas. He is known for an approach that counterpoints a deep sympathy for his subjects with an ability to expose their hopes and foibles, and for a style that combines formal clarity with, from time to time, an offbeat humor.

Elisabeth Condon's paintings fold references to scroll painting and the decorative wallpapers of her childhood home into multi-layered landscapes. She prefers pouring, splattering, or pressing paint to have unpredicted results, instead of using just a paintbrush. Condon's work is often described as a cross between scenic landscapes and colorful abstractions in increasingly multi-layered compositions.

Avish Khebrehzadeh's work extends to drawing, painting, and animation. Rendered delicately and with a calligraphic line, the animals and human figures that populate her compositions appear isolated from each other and their surroundings. Her chosen subjects often invoke an imagined reality. Although concrete and accessible, Khebrehzadeh's visual vocabulary retains a sense of mystery, which leaves space for our imagination.

Andrew Zimmerman creates work that investigates the intersection between painting and sculpture, art and design, the hand-made and the mass-produced. For much of his career, he has been exploring materials that stand outside traditional art making and addressing ideas of interchangeability and mass production.

Cameron Welch builds visual narratives with a diverse array of references and symbolism, ranging from the personal - his memories, experiences, and biracial identity - to the collective, mining different cultural and visual traditions from across time. He started making mosaic assemblages in part after wandering through the Ancient Greco-Roman wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Noting that people of African descent were often underrepresented or misrepresented regardless of being an intrinsic part of the ancient world.

Amanda Williams uses color as a tool to examine the complex ways in which race informs our assignment of value to physical, social, and conceptual spaces. She often begins projects by meditating on a specific color or set of colors, which she relates to an everyday space or scenario. She created her CANDYLADYBLACK paintings using a restricted palette of nine saturated hues derived from the colors of Now and Later and Jolly Rancher candies. 

Christina Hejtmanek utilizes photography, sculpture, painting and drawing to create abstracted images that address concepts of temporality, perception, and varying states of consciousness. Her photographs are shot with film and printed traditionally, resulting in works that have a soft, hazy quality suggestive of a dreamlike world. These works explore the liminal states of travel and consciousness, distilling the natural world into painterly explorations of mark, hue, light and form.

Elliott Hundley's sculptures, collages, and paintings employ cut photographs, natural objects, urban detritus, paint, stick pins, and countless other materials. His work recalls the early "combine" sculptures of Robert Rauschenberg, the provisional minimalism of Richard Tuttle, and the elaborate narrative impulses of many contemporary artists.

Georgia Saxelby is an interdisciplinary artist born in Sydney and based in Los Angeles. Through sculpture, moving image and performance, she constructs architectural imaginaries that produce feminist counter-mythologies and question the symbolic spaces in which Western identities and values are performed today. Her practice seeks to create slippages between reality and fiction in institutional architecture as a method of revealing, parodying and eroding patriarchal systems.

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann merges traditional Chinese and Japanese ink painting techniques with an approach rooted in Western abstraction. She was originally trained in sumi ink painting, which forms the basis for her work. These forms coalesce into compositions that appear alive and churning on the paper, sometimes spilling off the page and into site-specific installations. In addition to sumi ink, Mann uses a range of materials and techniques, including acrylic, graphite, collage, etching, and silkscreen.

Maggie Michael creates paintings that have a delicate balance of dynamism and control, which she achieves with her striking colors and intuitive brushstrokes. Her paintings contrast hard-edged shapes, sometimes stenciled, with looser gestures, and employ a variety of pigments, including ink, acrylic, latex and spray paint. For Michael, her work serves as a platform for exploring physicality, the workings of language, literature, and the vagaries of emotion and information.

Maria Luz Bravo is a photographer whose work revolves around the use of space in the contemporary urban landscape. Some of her photographs are captured during her daily walks, allowing chance and discovery to make their way into an otherwise routine activity. By photographing the things that are discarded and overlooked, she dignifies their humbleness and quietly brings them back to our consciousness by revealing meaningful visual relationships.

María Magdalena Campos-Pons often uses herself and her Afro-Cuban relatives as subjects to create historical narratives that illuminate the spirit of people and places, past and present. Recalling dark narratives of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, her imagery and performances honor the labor of black bodies on indigo and sugar plantations, renew Catholic and Santería religious practices, and celebrate revolutionary uprisings in the Americas.

Reginald Madison is a painter and sculptor who came to prominence during the Black Arts Movement in Chicago (1965ー1975). Working on a range of mostly found surfaces-including paper, canvas, and panel-he pursues a deeply intuitive process in which feeling and improvisation are embraced. Often painting to complex music that sets a challenging standard, Madison prefers disturbed surfaces: tar unevenly applied, banged up wood, hemmed drop cloths, and gritty linen.

Woody De Othello creates work whose subject matter spans household objects, bodily features, and the natural world. He is widely known for his ceramic sculptures depicting everyday items, and rendered larger-than-life with cartoon-like exaggeration and anthropomorphic expressivity. His paintings embody a similar energy as his ceramic work, and introduce the artist's obsession with still-life tropes, skewed perspectives, and formal investigations. 

Bettina Weiß combines both oil paint and acrylics in distinct color stratums atop wood panels. Boldly geometric, Weiß's paintings amplify the language of abstraction. Utilizing both rectangular and circular panels and canvases, her affinity for prismatic shapes, circles and segments fuse with the high-keyed harmonic colors creating emblematic image patterns and fields, and are suggestive of Mandalas or other sacred geometric forms.

Carmen Neely draws intuitively on her memories, creating gestural abstractions characterized by vivid color, layered lines, and scratches ranging from gentle to bold. The titles of Neely's paintings are fragments culled from meaningful conversations which led to a shift in her perspective regarding experience, relationships, and the notion of being present.

John Hitchcock is an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, and is of Comanche and Northern European descent. Raised in Oklahoma on Comanche tribal lands, he draws on his personal history to create prints, drawings, and sculptures that fuse energetic abstraction with layered allusions to indigenous cultures. His most recent works on paper honor the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne people and their horses. In 1874, Ranald S. Mackenzie ordered the 4th U.S. 

Linn Meyers creates drawings and installations comprising thousands of closely spaced, rippling lines, each nested beside the one that came before it. Using a type of paint marker often wielded by graffiti artists, she painstakingly draws each line by hand, welcoming the imperfections that are a natural part of working without templates or taped lines. The resulting patterns flow and pulse with energy.

Nan Goldin is a photographer and activist who is best known for her work that explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. The photograph on view, however, is from a period when Goldin stopped documenting her own life and the people around her, and instead started taking pictures of the rich blues and pale pinks of twilights and dawns all over the world.

Pedro Reyes employs sculpture, performance, video, and activism to address pressing social and political issues. His works often promote individual and collective agency by inviting viewers to engage in participation and dialogue. Steeped in notions of structure and pedagogy, Reyes explores the means by which knowledge and empowerment are shared and communicated amongst individuals. By creating spaces for encounter, the artist produces the conditions by which to drive cultural change.

With a focus on materiality, Samara Weaver explores texture, color and perspective in her delicate works on paper. She combines large numbers of small, often simple elements, into multi-faceted compositions, gaining complexity and space from their combination. Her process involves painting yards and yards of trace paper with watercolor paint, in large sections or a continuous strip. The final pieces are composed of tens to hundreds of linear feet of hand-painted paper, which she crumples, folds, and arranges into the final piece. 

Steven Cushner is a painter who is inspired by the human instinct to identify patterns in daily life. His imagery is derived from the obvious logic of simple functions like the mechanics of a stack of firewood, the weave of a fisherman's net, or the movement of a buoy in the ocean. Each work, varying in scale from enormous to tiny, has a commanding presence that teases out the relationship between what something looks like and how it acts.

Tomo Campbell's large-scale oil paintings offer multiple focal points and keep the eye in constant motion. Balancing activity and stasis, confidence and doubt, his works occupy a fertile space somewhere between the known and the undiscovered. His abstracted depictions of 'traditional' subjects such as hunting, parades and explorers are, as he puts it, "never quite solid or whole", yet they exude an extraordinarily rich sense of vision. "I try to paint in a way that makes the paint vibrate", says Campbell, "to make it look light and delicate and on the cusp of shifting".

Yuko Nishikawa creates a fantastical environment with her colorful, textural lively forms. With a hands-on, exploratory approach, she makes paintings, lighting, mobiles and sculptures using a variety of mediums including clay, wire, fabrics, as well as repurposed materials such as recycled paper and used eyewear lenses. Her work reflects her accumulative experiences in architecture, restoration, interior and furniture design, crafts and engineering.