Exhibitions & events
HVFA presents a new exhibition in our main viewing room every six weeks, showcasing our 12 represented Texas artists. We have two smaller viewing rooms dedicated to consigned and secondary market.
BLUE CHIP HOUSTON
SECONDARY MARKET TREASURES BENEFITTING THE HOUSTON ARTS FOUNDATION
January 20 to February 17, 2024
HEIDI VAUGHAN FINE ART is proud to present Blue Chip Houston, an art exhibition and sale of secondary market treasures benefitting the Houston Arts Foundation. The show opens at 11 am on Saturday, January 20, 2024, at the gallery, located at 3510 Lake Street at Colquitt in Houston's oldest Gallery Row. A reception will take place in the evening from 5 pm to 8 pm. Blue Chip Houston runs through February 17, 2024. HVFA events are always open to all and offered free to the public.
The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, mixed media works, drawings, prints, and photographs. Most artworks in the sale are by artists with connections to Houston, including Kermit Oliver, James Surls, Dorothy Hood, Jesús Moroles, Mel Chin, Charles Schorre, Virgil Grotfeldt, Andy Warhol, Charles Pebworth, Jun Kaneko, Donald Roller Wilson, Terrell James, Mel Chin, Aaron Parazette, James Drake, Richard Fluhr, McKay Otto, Lester Marks, George Krause, Patsy Cravens, David Brown, Manual (Hill/Bloom), David Aylsworth, Basilios Poulos, Floyd Newsum, Earl Staley, Joe Mancuso, John Biggers, Edsel Cramer, Chuck Dugan, Robin Utterback, Leslie Field, Paul Kittelson, Joseph Havel, Robert Ruello, Kyle Young, Ibsen Espada, Richard Stout, Marianne Papanek-Miller, Giles Lyon, Al Souza, Kathleen Packlick, Wendy Watriss, Michael Kennough, Ron Hoover, John Atlas, Michael Meazell, Sandy Seltzer-Bryant, Daniel Kayne, Daryl Lauster, Paul Fleming, Emily Joyce, Charles Dorman David, Elena Cusi-Wortham, Edward Lee Hendricks, and more.
dreams, visions & desires
susan budge
October 19, 2023 - December 31, 2023
HEIDI VAUGHAN FINE ART is proud to present Dreams, Visions & Desires, an exhibition of new sculptural works of art by Susan Budge. The show features a collection of objects rendered in ceramic. It opens on Saturday, October 21, 2023, at 11 am. A special reception will take place on opening day from 5 pm to 8 pm at the gallery, located at 3510 Lake Street at Colquitt, along with all the galleries in Houston’s oldest Gallery Row. An artist talk is scheduled for Saturday, November 11, at 1 pm. The exhibition runs through December, 2023. HVFA events are always open to all and offered free to the public.
Multitudes are revealed in Dreams, Visions & Desires, Budge’s first solo exhibition following a series of significant life events. As always, she prefers to work spontaneously in the studio in order to allow her subconscious thoughts to surface. Much like the Surrealists, Budge celebrates the unexpected, the element of surprise, and paradox in all she creates. She envisions each of her sculptures as having a secret soul which is silent more often than it speaks.
echome
mary margaret hansen
IMMERSED
TIFFANY HENG-HUI LEE
april 1 - may 6, 2023
The works of art in Immersed reflect Heng-Hui Lee's understanding of the relationship between the earth's elements and the balance of nature within the universe. Most artworks in the exhibition are mixed media collages that reference specific locations around the world which can be recognized by their colors. Heng-Hui Lee evokes moods through works that especially express feelings of peace and happiness. She translates a sense of balance into other objects, including delicate jewelry, which is also part of the exhibition.
OBECTS FROM DAVID BROWN AND OTHER PRIVATE COLLECTIONS BENEFITING THE HOUSTON ARTS FOUNDATION
fEBRUARY 25-MARCH 25,2023
HEIDI VAUGHAN FINE ART is proud to present Objects from David Brown and Other Private Collections Benefiting the Houston Arts Foundation, an exhibition and sale of important secondary market works of art. The show opens on Saturday, February 25, 2023, and runs through Saturday, March 25, 2023, at the gallery, located at 3510 Lake Street at Colquitt in Gallery Row in the Upper Kirby district. Hours on opening day are 11 to 5, with a reception from 5 to 8.
The exhibition and sale includes significant works by Kermit Oliver, James Surls, Dario Robleto, Jesús Rafael Soto, Lucia Koch, Tomas Diaz Cedeno, Jesús Bautista Moroles, James Drake, Dorothy Hood, Michael Tracy, Hilary Wilder, Sofi Zezmer, and others.
PETALS AND SPIKES
THEDRA CULLAR-LEDFORD
JANUARY 14 - FEBRUARY 18, 2023
HEIDI VAUGHAN FINE ART is proud to present Petals and Spikes, an exhibition of new paintings by Texas-artist and feminist activist Thedra Cullar-Ledford. The show opens on Saturday, January 14, 2023, and runs through Saturday, February 18, 2023.
Petals and Spikes continues the long, historic tradition of artists who find inspiration in flowers. Examples date to ancient cave paintings and Egyptian tombs, Medieval millefleur tapestries, works by Italian Renaissance artists, including masterpieces like Botticelli’s bountiful Primavera, to the still life paintings of Old Dutch Masters; from Monet’s 250 Water Lilies paintings to Van Gogh’s Sunflowers series, Klimt’s lush and exuberant flower garden paintings, to Matisse’s bouquets of flowers, the Pop flowers repeated by Warhol, and Murakami’s joyously smiling flowers, all the way to Koons’ gigantic balloon flowers of today.
Petals and Spikes presents figurative and abstract floral works and is the third solo show for the artist at HVFA. These latest works build on Thedra’s lively New York show at Prince Street Gallery in 2021, Smells Like Good Times, where colorful figurative paintings depicted post-quarantine happiness. Prior shows, including HVFA’s Dollies and Villains, which took place in September 2020 during the height of the masked times, presented political characters, themes, and the revulsions of then-current events. The important Lady Part Follies at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, exhibited in 2016, confronted the horrors of cancer, including the artist’s own battle with breast cancer. With Petals and Spikes, the artist has returned to calmness and the effervescent palette of Accoutrements, exhibited at HVFA in 2018, shifting from beautiful clothes and accessories then to the joys of flowers now.
ONCE UPON A TIME
a gallery group show
December 3, 2022 - January 7, 2023
HEIDI VAUGHAN FINE ART is proud to announce Once Upon A Time, a group exhibition featuring works by its 12 gallery artists.
Once Upon A Time tells the story of the Houston artists that make up the HVFA roster and form the heart of the gallery. Artists exhibiting in the show are Roberta Harris, Patrick McGrath Muñiz, Susan Budge, Thedra Cullar-Ledford, Mary Margaret Hansen, Linda Hickerson Hofheinz, Avisheh Mohsenin, Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Viveka Barnett, Tiffany Heng-Hui Lee, Claude Charlier, and John Dyer. Some of the artists have been with the gallery since it opened almost five years ago, and others are new to HVFA in 2022. All share the talent and heart and spirit that makes the gallery so special.
transcending
curated by susan budge & heidi vaughan
October 22, 2022 - November 26, 2022
HEIDI VAUGHAN FINE ART is proud to announce Transcending, an exhibition featuring the work of 11 Texas artists curated by Susan Budge and Heidi Vaughan. The exhibition, which coincides with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, has at its core the notion of transcending cancer and other personal challenges through art. Transcending opened Saturday, October 22, 2022, at the gallery, located at 3510 Lake Street at Colquitt in the Upper Kirby Galleries and ran through November 26, 2022.
Artists in the Transcending exhibition are Susan Budge, Thedra Cullar-Ledford, Richard Fluhr, Linda Hofheinz, Sharon Kopriva, Charmaine Locke, Michelle O’Michael, McKay Otto, Susan Plum, James Surls, and George Tobolowsky.
“Transcending: to rise above or go beyond the limits of; to triumph over the negative or restrictive aspects of; to overcome; to be prior to, beyond, and above material existence”
Susan Budge had a solo exhibition scheduled to open now at HVFA, but she was unable to create the works needed for it. Said the artist, “Following recent surgery for breast cancer, I realized that I could not produce enough work to fill my scheduled solo show. Rather than cancel, I asked if we might co-curate a show by artists whose works lift us out of our grounded realm. We all face challenges, and how we choose to regard them has a ripple effect on those around us. It is my hope that this exhibit will help viewers overcome the negative aspects of their individual challenges, creating a transcending effect.”
ELECTRICALLY
HILLERBRAND+MAGSAMEN
September 15, 2022 - october 15, 2022
Inspired by “Live Better Electrically,” a mid-century corporate advertising slogan, Electrically is an exhibition of photographs and sculptures by Hillerbrand+Magsamen.A bronze medallion, embedded in the brick next to the front door of Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s 1960s house, is emblazoned with the charge to “Live Better Electrically.” The medallion was part of one of the most successful post-war mass marketing home advertising campaigns in US history by General Electric and Westinghouse. The corporate “certification" on how to live is current and foreboding. Hillerbrand+Magsamen have harnessed and repurposed its power as inspiration for their exhibition Electrically.
After a tumultuous couple of years, Hillerbrand+Magsamen want to live better too, and reconnect. Through a dynamic and dangerous process of destruction and renewal, the artists translate electricity into a system of abstract visual language as they draw with electricity in an unpredictable method that creates one of a kind works as the electricity fuses with the image.
By using Lichtenberg burning (fractal burning) to discharge electricity through their artwork, Hillerbrand+Magsamen give a nod to the Surrealist’s process of “automatic drawing.” Fractal burning was discovered by a German Experimental Physicist, George Lichtenberg (1742 –1799) who also authored The Waste Books. The performative burning technique requires a unique collaboration between the two artists and two points of electricity. As each artist holds an electric node, with nostalgia-tinged images between them, the high-voltage current seeks out its connection across the distance, marking time in the form of charred fractal patterns.
objects from sanders, camfield, and other
private collections
BENEFITING THE HOUSTON ARTS FOUNDATION
JUNE 25,2022 - AUGUST 20,2022
OBJECTS FROM SANDERS, CAMFIELD, AND OTHER PRIVATE COLLECTIONS is a secondary market art exhibition. Works presented are from some of the most noteworthy private collections in Houston.
Among artworks in the exhibition will be objects by George Rodrigue, Jesus Rafael Soto, Davis Cone, Jene Highstein, Joseph Havel, Dorothy Hood, Jesus Moroles, Bert Long, Edward Lee Hendricks, William Cannings, Gael Stack, Man Ray, George Krause, Manual, Wendy Watris, Michael Tracy, Karin Broker, Aaron Parazette, Earl Staley, Richard Stout, Ibsen Espada, Joe Mancuso, Maria Antonietta Mameli, Mehdi Moutashar, Aldo Chaparro, Walter Rosenblum, Vittorio Matino, Helmut Barnett, Wulf Barsch, Jim Dine, Charles Pebworth, Troy Woods, David Alysworth, Paul Kittelson, Nick Gentry, Benjamin Senior, John Clement, James McNabb, Masaru Takiguchi, Ron Hoover, John Biggers, Larry Bell, Kermit Oliver, and more.
Fabulous
A GALLERY GROUP SHOW
may 7,2022 -june 18,2022
FABULOUS is a show intended to emphasize all that is positive, exciting, and wonderful about Houston art.
HVFA artists participating in the show are Emilie Duval, Susan Budge, Hillerbrand + Magsamen, Thedra Cullar-Ledford, Viveka Barnett, Roberta Harris, Linda Hofheinz, Patrick McGrath Muñiz, Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee, Avisheh Mohsenin, and Mary Margaret Hansen.