About
The Lockhart Project was a collaborative partnership between ICOSA Collective and Spellerberg Projects linking the art communities of Austin, TX and Lockart, TX. Throughout the Fall 2021 season, ICOSA presented programing at the Spellerberg Projects exhibition spaces in the heart Lockhart’s historic district. Located approximately 40 miles southeast of Austin, Lockhart is a great day-trip or weekend destination. Long renowned as the "Barbeque Capital of Texas," the city is also home to a burgeoning art, music and culinary scene.
This collaboration featured a group exhibition En Mass, involving ICOSA Collective members, which was on display at the Masur Gallery from September through Feburary 2021. In addition, the program involved four seperate exhibitions of invited artists outside the collective who work both regionally and nationally. These exhibitions included San Antonio artist, curator, and zinester Suzy González in September; photographers Rana Young and Zora J Murff in October; and painter Loc Huynh in November. The invited artist exhibitions debuted monthly at the Spellerberg Projects Main Street Gallery, located at 103 S Main Street. The program runs Feburary, 2021
About Spellerberg Projects: Spellerberg Projects (est. 2016) presents exhibitions and public programs featuring local, national, and international artists. This non-commercial gallery and artist-run DIY space is affiliated with Spellerberg Associates, a digital strategy consultancy serving clients in arts and culture
Hannah Purvis
Exhibition Dates: February 4 – February 25, 2022
ICOSA Collective and Spellerberg Projects are pleased to announce Two Realities by Hannah Purvis at Spellerberg Projects Main St. Gallery in Lockhart, TX.
Artist Statement:
My figurative paintings explore technology, my identity as a neurodivergent female, and unrealistic beauty standards created by social media. As we become increasingly entwined in the digital world, I make paintings that hint at the rift and the romance between people and pixels. Recently, computer work, zoom classrooms, and online friends has turned my life digital. Thinking about my digital life, virtual places, and future concepts like the meta-verse I notice our online presence is valued over our physical lives. Living in a virtual reality is impossible to ignore, so I choose to embrace it by making work that references a digital realm. I fuse digital glitches and portraiture with oil paint and charcoal, layering images and colors. To do so, I deliberately use technologically advanced programs such as Photoshop, digital editing software, and apps in my process of creating. In my palette, I use saturated pigments and fluorescent paint to bring figuration out of abstraction and I combine local color with full-chroma pigments toreplicate a digital space in the real world.
Dyslexia fractures images and words I see. This perspective aids the design of my hybrid compositions. My paintings reference a glitch that reflects the imperfect nature of the body and the mind. My work simultaneously deals with processing and accepting my identity as well as appearance ideals due to media pressures and the personal drive for thinness and self- objectification I dealt with as an adolescent and young adult. I am overwhelmed by a repetitive and idealized version of the female body that I have felt pressure to achieve online. I paint this idealized version by replicating the imagery I see on social media that leads to body image misperception and body dissatisfaction. The technical reorganization of the human environment and the human experience is a new, rich, and unnegotiable reality, full of troubling and promising potential. My work explores the fissures between the hopeful and concerned elements of this new relationship.
About the Artist:
Hannah Purvis is a Texas-based artist living and working in Houston, Texas. She received her BFA with a concentration in Painting from Texas State University in 2021. Combining figurative elements with abstraction she uses Painting to explore a fractured identity. She is interested in themes that relate to our advancing technology that combines portraits and figure painting with influences of the digital. Hannah has exhibited her work throughout Texas and is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at Spellerberg Gallery in Lockhart Texas.
Summer, Oil on Canvas , 36” x 48”, 2021
Gallery Hours: Exhibition is viewable 24 hours/day or by appointment
For private appointments email:info@spellerbergprojects.com
EN MASS
ICOSA Collective group exhibition
Exhibition Dates: September 3 – February, 27, 2022
Kicking off the fall season partnership in Lockhart, TX, ICOSA Collective and Spellerberg Projects are pleased to announce En Masse, a group exhibition featuring the ICOSA Collective at Spellerberg Projects Masur Gallery.
En Masse includes the work of ICOSA’s current members and interns. The exhibition takes full advantage of the grand space and opulent backdrop of the Masur Gallery. Presented works span mediums of painting, printmaking, installation, sculpture and video. They explore scale and texture and play with the context of contemporary work in a historical setting.
Location: The Masur Gallery, 119 W San Antonio Street, Lockhart, TX
