Along Those Lines

Anne Allen, Michael Henderson, Charles Mary Kubricht, Kathleen McShane, Eric Schnell, and Randy Twaddle

Along Those Lines features six Texas-based artists whose work in drawing, painting, and sculpture draw connections to the landscape, mapping, and perceptions of the worlds we live in. The works are rooted in both observation and imagination, creating a series of personal geographies that contemplate relationships between physical and imagined spaces. Through their works a subconscious architecture reveals a meditative map for viewers to navigate.

Anne Allen grew up in Fort Worth, TX, and has lived and worked in Los Angeles, CA, Portland, OR and New York's Hudson Valley before returning to Texas in 1999. Allen received her MFA in metals from the State University of New York at New Paltz and her BFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Texas at Austin. She did a post-graduate residency as Metals Artist in Residence at the Oregon School of Arts and Craft in 1996. Solo exhibitions of her work include Big Benbrook Kintsugi, Art Tooth at SoMa, Fort Worth, TX; Beach Salad and Other Watery Adventures, Cris Worley Fine Art, Dallas, TX; From the Back Seat, Over Water and On Foot, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX; Skin Game, Lakeview Gallery, Tarrant County College NW Campus, 2013; Alchemy, The Old Jail Art Center Cell Series, Albany, TX; Laureate, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; Deft Touch, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX; Openwork, Studio 832, Dallas, TX; Enduring Pattern, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX; Four or Five Large Drawings, the Gallery at Rivendell, New Paltz, NY. Allen was a 2016, 2011, 2009, 2008 and 2007 finalist for the Hunting Art Prize. Allen’s curatorial projects include Trinity Perspectives: Views of An Urban River, Streams and Valleys, Inc., Fort Worth Community Art Center; Texas Paint, Part Two: Out Of Abstraction, Arlington Museum of Art; and Rock, Paper, Scissors: An Exhibition of Sculpture, Arlington Museum of Art, among others. Allen is currently a Public Art Project Manager with the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Allen served as Director of the Arlington Museum of Art (AMA) from 2001-2007, and as Executive Director of The Old Jail Art Center in Albany, TX, 2000.
annelouiseallen.com

Michael Henderson is an artist in Huntsville, TX. He has an M.F.A. from the University of North Texas and was a fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He is the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Artists Space. His videos, video installations, digital prints, drawings and paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Henderson is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art at Sam Houston State University.
www.michaelhendersonstudio.com

Charles Mary Kubricht is an artist and set designer in New York and Marfa. Her artwork has been featured in CULTUREVOLT, BOMB, ELLE DÉCOR Italy, Marfa: Transformation of a West Texas Town, Dazzle: Disguise and Disruption in War, and Art and P61VMAG. Major institutional solo exhibitions include Where Time Dwells, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Canyon Series, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX; Scanning the Grand Canyon, Austin Museum of Art; Charles Mary Kubricht, Matrix Series, Art Museum of South Texas. Kubricht’s public art installations include Alive-nesses:Proposal for Adaptation, High Line, New York; paraMuseum: Environmental Exigencies, Rice University, Houston, TX; and Landscapes Near and Far, U. S. Port of Entry, Columbus, NM. She was awarded a GSA Art in Architecture Award; Creating a Living Legacy Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (New York) and DiverseWorks (Houston, TX); residencies at the Core Program of the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and Yaddo, Saratoga, NY. Her work is in the collection of museums such as Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Blaffer Museum, Austin; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; University of Houston, Houston; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso. Her opera set designs include Kurt Weill’s Der Protagonist and Christoph Willibald Gluck’s L’arbre enchanté commissioned by the Fire Island Opera Festival.
www.charlesmarykubricht.com

Kathleen McShane was born in Cleveland, Ohio and spent many years living in New York, and then Philadelphia and Detroit. She has lived in Fayetteville, TX for over 11 years. McShane received a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She currently teaches Drawing and Painting at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. Recent exhibitions include Slow Work at Cité des Arts Gallery in Paris, Drawing Challenge at Jason McCoy Gallery NY, along with exhibitions at the Drawing Center, Brooklyn Museum, Aldrich Museum, Carroll and Sons in Boston, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Recent exhibitions in Texas include presentations at Bill Davenport’s Optical Projects in Houston, SOFA and Big Medium Galleries in Austin, and the Drawing Biennial at SCA Rogers Gallery in San Antonio. Her work is represented by Paul Kotula Projects in Detroit and is included in many private and public collections, national and international, including Wynn and Sally Kramarsky, Weatherspoon Museum, Fidelity Collection, Entemann Collection Germany, and James Rosenquist. Artist Residencies include MacDowell, Cité des Artes Paris, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Ireland, and Frans Masereel Belgium.
www.kathleenmcshane.com

Eric Schnell was born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1968. In 1995 He graduated from the University of Houston with a BFA in studio painting and a minor in English Literature. In 1998 he received his MFA from Columbia University, with a concentration in the studio arts. He has built drawing based installations for numerous exhibitions, including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; Momenta Art, Brooklyn; Artist Space, NYC; The Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC; and Arthouse, Austin, TX. Past awards include grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He has taught art at high school and college throughout his career. Since 2010, He is the Co-founder and Director of the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) and occasional curator of exhibits at the GAR gallery and other art spaces.
ericschnell.com

Randy Twaddle has maintained a multi-disciplinary visual art practice for over thirty years, exhibiting throughout Texas and the nation since the early 1980’s, including exhibitions at museums and galleries across the country, and in numerous public, corporate, and private collections. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Cultural Arts Council of Houston Harris County Artist Award, and an Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award from the Dallas Museum of Art. His work is in the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Brooklyn Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Yale University, and other institutions. In 1998, Twaddle co-founded the strategic communications and design firm ttwēak, where he served as principal and creative director for 13 years, working with clients such as Zilkha Renewable Energy, Texas Children’s Hospital, MFAH, CAMH, The Menil Collection, and many others. Twaddle was co-creator of the Houston. It’s Worth It. campaign, a ttwēak project, which published three well-received, crowd-sourced books - HIWI: The Book, HIWI:Ike, and HIWI:Rice. Twaddle left ttwēak in 2011 to return to his studio practice full time. Since then he has continued to exhibit drawings, prints and paintings, completed public and private art commissions in various media, designed textiles for Crypton, designed a line of Transformer Tiles for LaNova Tile, and a series of Transformer Rugs for Carol Piper Rugs. Twaddle currently serves as the Executive Director of the John Fairey Garden in Hempstead, TX. He is currently represented by Moody Gallery, Houston and Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas.
www.randytwaddle.com

Strand Gallery

July 16 - October 2, 2022

Along Those Lines