Andis Applewhite
Houston, Texas
United States
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RESUME
Gallery Representation
Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
Selected Solo Shows
2009 Obtuse Writings, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
2009 Obtuse Writings, Milam County, Texas, Houston, Texas
2007 Syzygy, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
2006 The National Institutes of Health, East Alcove Gallery, Washington, DC
2001 Exhibition of Prints, Artist's Studio, Houston, Texas
Selected Group Shows
2010 Printing from Perception: Observing Minute Details and Grand Gestures, Adobe Art Center, Castro, CA
2010 Articulation2010, Art Chatter Houston, The Audley House, Houston, TX
2009 Paper & Ink, PrintMatters Houston, The Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX
2009 Human Nature Planted in Russ Pitman Park, Houston, TX
2009 New Member Showcase, (LAPS), Tustin, CA
2008 Identity: Unlimited Editions, (LAPS), Los Angeles, CA
2008 The California Center for the Arts, (LAPS) Escondido Museum, CA
2008 Salem College Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC
2008 Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, Ireland
2008 Intersections, Jung Center, Houston, Texas
2007 Darke Gallery, Houston, Texas
2007 Myriad Voices, Intexure, Houston, Texas
2006 Women Printmakers of Austin Membership Exhibit, Austin, Texas
2006 Transformations, Glenview Mansion Art Gallery, 20th Anniversary show for WPG, Rockville, MD
2006 Smith Farm Center for the Healing Arts, Small Works, Washington, DC
2006 Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD
2005 Women Printmakers of Austin Membership Exhibit, Austin, Texas
2005 Washington International Print Fair, Washington, DC
2005 Southern Graphics Council, Washington, DC
2004 Berkeley Art Center, Annual Members' Showcase, Berkeley, CA
2003 MatthewTravisGallery, 4 person show, Houston, Texas
2003 MatthewTravisGallery, 2 person show, Houston, Texas
2003 MatthewTravisGallery, Group show of gallery artists, Houston, Texas
Selected Juried Shows
2008 1st Biennial Footprint International Print Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
Jurors - Kristin Heming, Director of Pace Prints, NY and Jim Kempner, Director of Jim Kempner Fine Art, NY
2007 The Big Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas
Juror - Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2006 The Big Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas
Juror - Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2004 17th Annual MacNeese National Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Juror - Matthew Drutt, Senior Curator, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
2003 Open Show, Art League Houston, Texas
Jurors - Dr. Robert Card & Karol Kreymer
2002 The Big Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas
Juror - Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Curator of American and Contemporary Art,
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
1999 Visual Arts Alliance 16th Annual Juried Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Juror - Janet Landay, Curator of Exhibitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1998 The Dishman Competition, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
Juror - James Yood, Professor of contemporary art at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
1997 The Big Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas
Juror - Don Bacigalupe, Ph.D., Director of the Blaffer Gallery, the art museum of the University of Houston
1994 The Big Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas
Juror - Tom Moody, Artist and Art Critic
Membership / Studio Lecture / Invited Presenter
2009 Presentation to The Kreeger Museum of Art Docents, Washington, DC
2009 Elected Member, California Society of Printmakers
2008 Presentation to The Corcoran Gallery of Art Docents, Washington, DC
2007 Elected Member, Los Angeles Printmaking Society
2004 Looking at Art, Studio Tour, Houston, Texas
2003 American Society for Aesthetics/Rocky Mountain Division "Breaking Borders: Poetry and the Visual Arts"
2002 American Society for Aesthetics/Rocky Mountain Division "The Beauty of Well Timed Aggression"
1997 American Society for Aesthetics/Rocky Mountain Division "Creative Process"
Scholarships
Recipient of Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop 2006, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
Recipient of Glassell School of Art Scholarship, 2004 Fall Semester
Education
Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas
Associate in Art, San Jacinto College, Pasadena, Texas, 1975
Experience
Level of Experience: Very Experienced
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art explores the relational, emotional and psychic aspects of ourselves. Within myself, I uncover the interaction of these three aspects by focusing on the tensions created by their dualities. These underlying conflicts give rise to further questioning and probing. I then synthesize the choices made, the enlightenment or confusion discovered, and the consequences that are the result. Through the use of intuitive gesture and intentional control, I seek a balanced expression of the opposites.
For example, my Obtuse Writing prints probe communications that are both known and hidden within myself. These writings originate from using my dominate hand to ask questions and my non-dominate hand to answer. Surprisingly, this process unearths long forgotten and sometimes unknown, unconscious ruins. By printing the answers backward, the archetypal, symbolic nature of the now-known memories visually match the power of the communications.
I have been working in the serigraph medium for the past 19 years. This printmaking process is an indirect, reproductive method that, conversely, allows me personally to be spontaneous and experimental. Using a variety of typical and uncommon tools, I achieve textures that loosen the standard, hard-edge look of silkscreen printing. Yet, I can also take advantage of the uniquely strong color and multiple images associated with the silkscreen method.
