TIFFANY HENG-HUI LEE
FIVE ELEMENTS: HOLDING THE WORLD TOGETHER
HEIDI VAUGHAN FINE ART is proud to present FIVE ELEMENTS: HOLDING THE WORLD TOGETHER, an exhibition of paintings, mixed-media paper collages, and sculptures created using colors, shapes, and materials that symbolize the five essential Chinese elements, Wu Xing, found in nature: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. The exhibition will be installed before Labor Day weekend and officially opens with a reception with the artist on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at 3510 Lake Street at Colquitt in the Upper Kirby Galleries in Houston's Oldest Gallery Row. Doors open at 11 am on September 12. The reception with Lee will take place that evening from 5 to 8. An artist conversation moderated by Bao-Long Chu, Program Director, Arts & Culture, Greenspaces at Houston Endowment, will take place at 1 on Saturday, September 19. A special workshop on the Chinese Five Elements will take place at 1 on Saturday, October 10. All events are free and open to the public.
The fragile ecosystem of our planet is in a delicate state. Everything happening in the world now sets an imprint on our future. Our relationship with the elements is complex. A perfect balance sustains life and is a source of beauty and wonder. Each element interrelates with the other, providing a complimentary, interrelated, and interdependent relationship in the universe. Lee's goal in Five Elements: Holding the World Together is to transform these symbolic elements using shapes, colors, and textures, painted, layered, and folded, to create compositions that express this ideal in nature and life.
BUFFALO BAYOU CONNECTED I, II, III, 2026, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER, 21 X 17 INCHES
This is Lee's second solo show at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art. Since then she has had three museum solo exhibitions, including at the Nave Museum in Victoria, Texas, the Beeville Art Museum in Beeville, Texas, and the Bosque Gallery in Cypress, Texas. In 2024 she was honored by Houston Endowment with the Jones Artist Award. Her work has been selected for numerous juried exhibitions including by Alison de Lima Greene, the Isabel Brown Curator of Modern Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, for the Visual Arts Alliance Exhibition Other Stories About Who We Are. Her work was included in an international exhibition at the CICA Museum in Korea. She has exhibited in the Asian American Resource Center in Austin, Texas, Art Museum TX, Houston, Texas, the Dougherty Arts Center in Austin, Texas, the Jung Center Houston, Texas, Lee College in Baytown, Texas, Women Made Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, curated by Kathryn Markel, The Health Museum, Houston, Texas, and Galerie Biesenback-Cologne in Cologne, Germany, among many others. Recent residencies include the Children's Museum Houston and Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Texas.
