Clare Kirkconnell

Nod to the Holloway Hankie

2018

Born in Brownsville, Texas, in 1955, Clare Kirkconnell spent a number of years in Mexico City before returning to Houston to finish high school. She developed an interest in the arts early on and continued her education at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. After college, Kirkconnell spent several years as a fashion model traveling the world from bases in New York and Paris. She concurrently studied acting, landing several film and television roles, including a three-year run as the female lead in the highly acclaimed drama The Paper Chase. Never abandoning her early interest in painting, Kirkconnell then continued her studies in at Santa Monica College and Otis Parsons School of Design. Her work has been consistently well-received and can be found in many important private collections. When not in the studio, Kirkconnell divides her time between her husband and son, the family wine business, “Hollywood and Vine...

Mark Fox was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1963. He received his Bachelor of Fine Art from Washington University in St. Louis and his Master of Fine Art from Stanford University. Fox has received numerous accolades and residencies, notably from the Versailles Foundation, Munn Artist Fellowship, Giverny, France; Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic; Working Space, Awarded by Kultureferat, Munich, Germany; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito; and Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. His work is featured in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; and the Anderson Collection, Stanford University. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Intersections: Giverny: Journal of an Unseen Garden, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach...

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Born in Brownsville, Texas, in 1955, Clare Kirkconnell spent a number of years in Mexico City before returning to Houston to finish high school. She developed an interest in the arts...

Oil and mixed media on canvas

Donald Roller Wilson A RITE OF PASSAGE NAUGHTY BETTY…SEEN HERE ALONG WITH HER HALF-SISTER, JUDY… BOTH GIRLS BEING OBSERVED POSTERIORLY BY THE FATHER…WATCHING WITH EXAGGERATED DISINTE...

oil, rope, embroidery thread on canvas

This piece presents to us glossy longitudinal stripes of pastel hues, overlaid on a foggy blue-grey underpainting with meticulously rendered raindrops. The earthy fragrance of spring...

Valerie Hird’s body of work is a visual compilation of the experiences, associations and memories collected in her trips through the Middle East, Northern Africa, Spain and Turkey. H...

Things We See Towards the End, 2020, acrylic, oil, graphite, pastel, thread, nails and yarn on canvas. Spider web. Blue, yellow, red, black, white, pink abstract. Custom framed in a...

Yin Yang, 2020, acrylic, oil, graphite, pastel, thread and yarn on canvas. Yellow, black, white, pink abstract. Custom framed in a white floating frame.

The Sorcerer, 2020, acrylic, oil, graphite, pastel, thread and yarn on canvas. Green, blue, pink, abstract. Custom framed in a white floating frame.