CURATED BY KELLY MORAN
April 9 through May 31st
open and Free to the public – Museum hours are Friday-Sunday 12pm to 5pm
Opening Reception Saturday April 9, 2022
7pm to 10pm
Drinks and Hors D’oeuvres will be served
All eight artist in the exhibition will be in attendance
Contemporary Art Museum Plainview (CAMP) announces its Spring 2022 exhibition. PAPER, curated by Kelly Moran, will open Saturday April 9th, with a reception for the artist, and will run until May 31st. The artists in the show will be flying in from all over Texas to stay in Plainview, attend the reception and experience some West Texas hospitality.
PAPER is curated by Houston based artist Kelly Moran whose work can be seen in museum, corporate and private collections throughout the region. She has a BFA from Louisiana Tech University and received an informal art education by working closely with Houston printmakers Penny Cerling and Dan Allison producing prints for other artists such as Sharon Kopriva, Nancy Kienholz, Terrel James, Richard Stout, Beneto Heurta and James Mcgee just to name a few.
“These artist works on paper show a variety of storytelling just like the artist that began using paper
when it was first invented. It has been a privilege to work with this group of Texas Printmakers that
are dedicated to their craft and to educating people about the art of printmaking.”
The artists in the exhibition are all teachers. Richard Armendariz is currently a Professor at The University of Texas in San Antonio. Liv Monique Johnson teaches at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Glassell School of Art. Jesse Shaw is an assistant Professor of Art at Texas A&M International University in Laredo Texas. Ryan O’Malley is Professor of Art and Graduate Coordinator at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi. Xenia Fedorchenko is a professor of Art at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Sangmi Yoo is a Professor of Art at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas and Carlos Hernandez teaches workshops all over the United State.
Besides teaching, each of these artists have long list of impressive accomplishments.
Carlos Hernandez is a founding member of Burning Bones Press in Houston and is the official commemorative poster artist for Austin City Limits. He has work in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute, was the 2019 Artist in residence at Hatch Show Print in Nashville Tennessee, created the label for St. Arnold’s brewery Santo’s beer and has had the fortune to work with his idol Ed “Big Daddy” Roth.
Richard (Ricky) Armendariz has work in the permanent collections of the Bush International Airport in Houston, the Cheech Marin Collection, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the McNay Art Museum, and the Denver Art Museum to name a few. His International exhibitions in South Korea Bethlehem and Tel Aviv, Berlin, Germany and New Delhi, India. He has been an artist in residence at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlinand in Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado. In 2017 he was the first artist in residence at the DoSeum in San Antonio, Texas
Sangmi Yoo was born in Korea and is the recipient of the first Wolhee Choe Memorial Award, AHL Foundation’s Visual Art Prize in New York. She was an artist in residence in Northern Ireland and exhibited in the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, the Gyeongnam International Art Festival in Korea, the Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition in New Zeeland and is in the permanent collection of the Art Bank of the National Museum in Korea, the Springfield Art Museum, and the Museum of Texas Tech University among others.
Ryan O’Malley has work in the collections of the Mint Museum and the Library of Congress. As a member of Outlaw Printmakers, he has exhibited nationally and internationally including Canada, Estonia, Russia, Japan, France China, Mexico, Italy, Latvia and Iran and his expertise is included in Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process, Second Edition, by Fick and Grabowski.
Liv Monique Johnson was born and raised in Hawaii where she first worked as a studio assistant at the University of Hawaii in Hilo before getting her MFA from Texas Tech University. As a botanical illustrator she has published the first scientific illustrations of four newly discovered species of Cyrtandra in the peer-reviewed journal Phytokeyswas. Currently an assistant at Burning Bones Press in Houston, her national and international exhibitions include the Japanese Paper Museum in Tokushima, Japan and the Wailoa Arts and Cultural Center. Hilo, Hawaii.
Jesse Shaw is currently working on a series of fifty prints depicting the epic story of America. Prints from his American Epic series of linocut prints have been exhibited nationally in Nashville, New Orleans, New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina. Shaw is represented by galleries in Florida, California, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. He was recently part of UFO’s Over Lubbock at the Charles Adams Studio Project.
Xenia Fedorchenko is Russian born before living in the US east coast. She is represented by Water Street Studio in Bridgeport, Connecticut and her work is in the permanent collections of several museums as well as university, corporate and private collections throughout the country. She recently gave a talk on JOOYOUNG CHOI at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas’s spring Taste of the Arts Lecture Series.
Each year the museum produces three major exhibitions highlighting regional, national, and international artists as well as acting as a service organization to create dozens of community events, classes, and programs. The leading art and review magazine for Texas visual art, Glasstire, has reviewed all of CAMP’s exhibitions, including them in their prestigious TOP FIVE segment. Four of the exhibitions were named the No.1 art opening to attend in the state. These reviews put CAMP alongside Texas greats like the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Dallas Contemporary, The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. In 2019 CAMP was nominated for the Community Foundation of West Texas’ IMPACT AWARD for its work with the Juvenile Justice System. Upcoming shows include summer kids programming Playapallooza where the whole museum will be turned into an art playground, Gail Siptak: A Retrospective and Site into Action, a performance and installation art residency. Open every Friday thru Sunday from 12pm to 5pm, the museum is always free and open to everyone.
