STIR EXHIBITION

PrintHouston II

The four artists who have come together to form the exhibition “STIR” prove to possess a gift for making a ruckus in their studio as printmakers. Since their initial exhibition entitled ‘ROUX’ premiered at the Houston Museum of African American Art and Culture 2011, artists Rabéa Ballin, Ann Johnson, Delita Pinchback Martin, and Lovie Olivia continue to explore the female nature of the world around them in singular ways. Ballin abstracts intimate moments with a comb over the scalps of faceless sitters. Johnson pursues the residue left from the holes in her family tree. Martin contrasts soft skin portraits with sharp graphic encounters. And Lovie Olivia’s sculptural monoprints gives weight to the shoulders of the ghosts that this artist stands on today.