Photopainting: The Exploration of Pixels and Paint
by Terri Sanders
June 10 - August 12, 2017
Hillery Community Gallery
Reception:
Saturday, July 8, 2017 • 11am-3pm
by Terri Sanders
June 10 - August 12, 2017
Hillery Community Gallery
Reception:
Saturday, July 8, 2017 • 11am-3pm
"Sunlight"
The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to present Photopainting: The Exploration of Pixels and Paint by local artist Terri Sanders. The multidimensional artist and educator delicately hand-colors infrared photographs to create haunting images of places visited. Presented in this exhibition is a collection of photopaintings from Sanders' time spent in Puebla, Mexico. Learn more about the artist and her inspiration below:
Artist Statement
I carry a sketchbook everywhere I go entering ideas to recreate with different mediums and processes. My influences are everything I see and experience. The subject matter changes between my daily life and my travels. I am constantly drawing, writing, and gathering ephemera that often develops into in-depth and detailed images in my sketchbook or altered books. I long for road trips that always go off the beaten path.
In 2011, my residency at Skidmore College in New York changed the way I approached color theory. I experimented and painted with gouache and watercolor into a series of infrared photographs taken in a cemetery in Puebla, Mexico. The dramatic light of the infrared photography is enhanced with the beauty of the opaque, layered colors of gouache. My process of hand coloring photos resulted in the creation of my “photopaintings.”
Through my continued intense studies, research, and exploration, I have expanded my photography by combining 35mm and digital images with different papers, mediums, collage, writing, drawing, and painting. My photography from Mexico, Africa, and across the U.S. allows me to relive captured images. I continue my education with classes, workshops, and residencies whenever I can. During research and the creative process, new areas of interest arise and lead to the next body of work.
About the Artist
Terri Sanders received her B.F.A. in Advertising & Graphic Design and a M.ED in Curriculum & Instruction from Sam Houston State University. Terri is presently teaching at Hauke High School in Conroe ISD, where she teaches advanced drawing, painting, and creates cross-curriculum with academic and art classes. She has served as a lead art teacher and has taught all levels of drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, Advanced Placement 2D & 3D portfolios and Advanced Placement Art History. Community outreach is a part of her teaching, as well as in her personal life.
Terri is an active member of the Conroe Art League, the Lone Star Art Guild, and Houston Center for Photography, and was selected as a Master Artist with The Woodlands Waterway Arts Council. Throughout her career as an artist, she has exhibited her artwork in numerous solo and group exhibitions – competitive and invitational.
Artist Statement
I carry a sketchbook everywhere I go entering ideas to recreate with different mediums and processes. My influences are everything I see and experience. The subject matter changes between my daily life and my travels. I am constantly drawing, writing, and gathering ephemera that often develops into in-depth and detailed images in my sketchbook or altered books. I long for road trips that always go off the beaten path.
In 2011, my residency at Skidmore College in New York changed the way I approached color theory. I experimented and painted with gouache and watercolor into a series of infrared photographs taken in a cemetery in Puebla, Mexico. The dramatic light of the infrared photography is enhanced with the beauty of the opaque, layered colors of gouache. My process of hand coloring photos resulted in the creation of my “photopaintings.”
Through my continued intense studies, research, and exploration, I have expanded my photography by combining 35mm and digital images with different papers, mediums, collage, writing, drawing, and painting. My photography from Mexico, Africa, and across the U.S. allows me to relive captured images. I continue my education with classes, workshops, and residencies whenever I can. During research and the creative process, new areas of interest arise and lead to the next body of work.
About the Artist
Terri Sanders received her B.F.A. in Advertising & Graphic Design and a M.ED in Curriculum & Instruction from Sam Houston State University. Terri is presently teaching at Hauke High School in Conroe ISD, where she teaches advanced drawing, painting, and creates cross-curriculum with academic and art classes. She has served as a lead art teacher and has taught all levels of drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, Advanced Placement 2D & 3D portfolios and Advanced Placement Art History. Community outreach is a part of her teaching, as well as in her personal life.
Terri is an active member of the Conroe Art League, the Lone Star Art Guild, and Houston Center for Photography, and was selected as a Master Artist with The Woodlands Waterway Arts Council. Throughout her career as an artist, she has exhibited her artwork in numerous solo and group exhibitions – competitive and invitational.