Strand Gallery
April 23 - July 10, 2022
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, April 23, 2022
6 – 9 PM
This exhibition is supported in part by a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts.
Never Odd or Even
Melinda Laszczynski, Kate Mulholland, and Erika Whitney
Never Odd or Even features the paintings and sculptures of Houston-based artists Melinda Laszczynski, Kate Mulholland, and Erika Whitney. The exhibition highlights the opposing and complimentary ideas and processes each artist employs in their individual relationship to abstraction and color. Laszczynski’s paintings and sculptures highlight her magpie tendencies to accumulate and manipulate shiny films and painted textures, building them up into playful and tactile surfaces, along with experiments in the alchemical processes of ceramics and paper. Mulholland excavates her painting’s surfaces, carving and eroding layers, mimicking geological and meteorological processes that create the world around us. Whitney’s paintings and installations are a result of an intuitive process resulting from memory, routine, and experimentation. Through a push and pull between additive and subtractive, methodical and intuitive processes, these works navigate the artists’ ongoing experimentations with abstraction that flow between paintings and objects.
Melinda Laszczynski received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Houston and her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She is a Professor of Studio Art at Houston Community College. Laszczynski was a resident in the 2016-2017 Lawndale Art Center Artist Studio Program, the Spring 2021 Artists-in-Residence program at the Printing Museum, and the Vermont Studio Center. Laszczynski has shown her work extensively across Texas. Recently, her work has been at exhibited at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, The Gallery at UTA in Arlington, TX, Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse, NY, and Survival Kit Gallery in Cleveland, OH. Her work has also been exhibited at Cardoza Fine Art in Houston, Galleri Urbane in Dallas, TX, Pulse Miami, and the Amarillo Museum of Art 600 Sculpture Biennial. Laszczynski’s work is included in the collections of UTSW (Dallas), Toyota (Dallas), and Lester Marks (Houston). She lives and works in Houston, TX with her partner John and their cats Agnes and Krudler.
www.melindalaszczynski.com
Kate Mulholland was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and currently lives in Houston, Texas. She attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati and graduated with a BFA from the University of Houston while studying Geosciences. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Houston at Cardoza Fine Art, The Wedge Space, and G Gallery. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Barbara Davis Gallery, David Shelton Gallery, Private Eye Gallery, including exhibitions curated by artists Robert Hodge, Preston Douglas, and Mark Flood. Mulholland was featured in the 2019 issue #144 of New American Paintings and has work in private and corporate collections nationwide.
katemulholland.com
Erika Whitney was born in East Texas and is currently based in Houston. She received her MFA in Painting from the University of Houston and BFA from the University of Texas at Tyler. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Houston at the Front Gallery and BS Projects, along with recent group exhibitions at Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Barbara Davis Gallery, The Big Show at Lawndale Art Center, and New Texas Talent at Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX. She will participate in the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation of Art Summer Sessions Residency in 2022. Whitney currently teaches at Sam Houston State University, Art League Houston; Houston Community College, and San Jacinto College.
www.erikawhitney.com
