March 2008

Galveston ArtWalk this weekend!

Saturday, March 1, 6-9 p.m.

Fiesole #0411, 2006


Fiesole #0482, 2006

Picture yourself at FotoFest 2008!

Every two years, the Houston region becomes the world's premiere showcase for photographic art with the biennial presentation of FotoFest. 

Buchanan Gallery is proud to announce its fourth FotoFest exhibition, opening this Saturday, March 1, with an artist's reception from 6-9.

Award-winning Houston photographer Terry Vine presents a beautiful new series of images made in the Italian countryside of Fiesole, located in Tuscany, just outside of Florence.  Vine's photographs "take us on an Italian road trip unlike most we have vicariously experienced - one of quiet beauty, contemplating the softness of nature," comments Clint Willour, curator of the Galveston Arts Center.  

Vine's Fiesole photographs are offered in limited editions of only five prints per image, with overscaled, archival prints up to 21 x 32 inches (image size).  Click here to view Terry Vine's "Fiesole" images.

Agave, 2006


Wedding Cactus, 2006

Phyllis Hand shoots "Succulents"

For a complementary contrast to Terry Vine's color, panoramic images of a faraway land, Houston photographer Phyllis Hand explores the amazing beauty of Texas succulents, with close-up, black-and-white images.

The overscaled dimensions of Hand's prints - up to 40 x 40 inches on archival watercolor paper - underscore the incredible textures, shadings and amazing varieties of agaves, wedding cacti and other species.

"The result is a group of stunningly haunting images of exotic beauty," states the Galveston Art Center's Clint Willour.

To see images from Hand's Succulents series, please click here.

"Map Poem...Abandoned" by Dee Wolfe is included in "Soiree."

Next Artwalk: "Soiree" celebrates lifetime of art and friendship

Opening Sat., April 12, "Soiree" is a group exhibition featuring seven women artists from Houston who have celebrated life and art for over 20 years. "Soiree" will include Buchanan Gallery artists Bobbye Bennett, Honey Harrison and C. Ellen Hart, along with guest artists Charlotte Cosgrove, Anstis Lundy, Dee Wolfe and the late Helen Orman.

Art Quote of the Month

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."
- Diane Arbus, American photographer, 1923-71