HEIDI VAUGHAN FINE ART is proud to present beautiful rage (a clear and concise history of the female gender), a solo exhibition featuring the art of Karin Broker. The show opens Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 3510 Lake St., Houston, TX 77098 in Houston's oldest Gallery Row. The doors open at 11. The artist's reception and party will take place from 5 to 7. 

Exhibition Dates: September 6 - October 11, 2025

Exhibition Opening: September 6, 11 to 5, HVFA

Artist Reception and Party: September 6, 5 to 7, HVFA

Collector Talk: September 13, 1 to 2:30, HVFA

Student Talk (let's talk drawing): September 20, 1 to 2:30, HVFA

Artist Talk (kb talks drawing... and draws): October 4, 1 to 2:30, HVFA

Show Closing: October 11, 11 to 5, HVFA

“Inspiration for this exhibition comes from a small card of the Golden Rose dating to 1330 that I purchased from the Musée de Cluny-Musée National du Moyen Âge in Paris, France more than ten years ago. The Golden Rose is a solid gold ornament traditionally blessed by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church on the fourth Sunday of Lent. Historically, recipients of the Golden Rose have included prominent churches, royalty, military figures, and governments. The first rose dates back to the eleventh century and was a single rose. Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84) substituted the single rose on a thorny branch with multiple leaves and flowers. chaos in paradise swirls with disruption because it was Adam who ate the apple. Judith and friend shows two women working hard to sever the head of a bad man. Mary M looks longingly up in ecstasy towards heaven and to her partner, Christ. And the dome-shaped bouquet for Cabrini celebrates the Italian saint who, along with her sister nuns, established sixty-seven schools and orphanages around the world. The smaller drawing titled for her melancholia holds a full and energetic bouquet. Looking closely, you can see her quietly standing naked, almost invisible inside her container of a house.”  -Karin Broker

Karin Broker has been a successful professional artist for decades. Her work includes drawings, prints, and assemblage sculptures. No matter the material, Broker's art is heavily informed by what she calls "gender stuff." Broker is empowered by the thousands of incredibly talented and brave women who have been forgotten, purposely overlooked, and dismissed for their many achievements throughout history. Her art can be found in numerous important permanent museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and Harvard University. Born in Penn, Pennsylvania, Broker received a BFA from the University of Iowa and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She studied printmaking under Stanley W. Hayter at the Atelier 17 in Paris. She was Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at Rice University from 1980-2022. In 1994, she was the Texas Artist of the Year. She has been awarded two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

“It is the incorrect, negligent, insufficient, and even fraudulent history about my tribe that drives me to draw or construct objects. Females have been historically deleted, forgotten, brutalized, degraded, tortured, and murdered for the sole reason that they were female. These quiet bouquets are my collective self-portraits of and to my tribe.” -Karin Broker