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February Featured Artist: Marlo Saucedo

About the Project:
As musical ensemble-in-residence for Sawyer Yards, Houston’s own Loop38 is partnering with seven visual artists from the Sawyer Yards community to present workshops, demonstrations, and performances that explore the world of graphic scores. Every Second Saturday, a resident artist will select one of their works of art to serve as that day’s musical score. Curious listeners and contemporary arts lovers will witness the classically-trained musicians of Loop38 turn each visual masterwork into an aural delight.

About the Artist: https://www.marlosaucedo.com/
“Glassell Jr. School scholarship classes at Houston Museum of Fine Arts were my introduction to art. I left my hometown for college psychology and graduate school business degrees in other cities, returning to a vibrant arts community where I’m excited to be involved. My work is created in the light of a north-facing window in my home, and exhibited in my studio/gallery at Silos on Sawyer in the dynamic Sawyer Yards artist community in Houston.” - Marlo Saucedo

About Second Saturdays at Sawyer Yards: https://www.sawyeryards.com/secondsaturday

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January Featured Artist: Ellen Ray

About the Project:
As musical ensemble-in-residence for Sawyer Yards, Houston’s own Loop38 is partnering with seven visual artists from the Sawyer Yards community to present workshops, demonstrations, and performances that explore the world of graphic scores. Every Second Saturday, a resident artist will select one of their works of art to serve as that day’s musical score. Curious listeners and contemporary arts lovers will witness the classically-trained musicians of Loop38 turn each visual masterwork into an aural delight.

About the Artist: http://www.halt713.com/?p=2845 (please note the artist’s new addresses: 1502 Sawyer street, studio 118, Houston 77007 and 5100 Montrose, studio 8 Houston 77006)
Follow her on Instagram @ehrayart !

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December Featured Artist: Ellen Hart

About Glimmer:

The concept for Glimmer came to mind as I walked along White Oak Bayou several days after a storm had surged through the area.  Due to a high level of debris in the water there were eddies and pools and backwater ripples on the surface with reflections and highlights gleaming into my eyes. 

 I was searching for a source image to broaden my painted meaning.  Although my work often takes off from site-specific phenomena (local bayou waterways) my objective in content is deeper and wider.  Moving water is an example of energy flow, electricity, and is also connected (for me) to brain chemistry and the flow of intellectual and emotional processes in the brain.

An underlying motivation for my work is an effort to be fully present in the moment that I take in source experiences, meaning that I strive to really see and feel and absorb the whole moment, including the scene, the color, the heat, the light, the air, as well as my personal conscious and semi-conscious “emotional weather.”  I may sketch or photo the source site as well  to cement the experience.  If I can fully open to the experience I may be lucky enough to translate it to an image on paper or canvas later in the studio.

Glimmer became an expression of the multi-layered forces of White Oak Bayou as it sought equilibrium on a specific day after a flood, as well as my flow of thought and feeling as I groped for a new visual realization of my meaning.  And as Glimmer began to manifest on the easel I glimpsed a new set of insights about my painted meaning coming into focus.

-Ellen Hart

About Sunrise Tomorrow:

A foggy day in late spring of 2016 found me wandering the banks of Little White Oak Bayou with my husband, Jack.  We were new to our home and the Community Park that borders Little White Oak.  At the time the trees and banks were full of debris.  Plastic bags and other remnants of urban life hung in the branches like reverse prayer flags.  The fog almost obscured the bloated ripped mattress that was lodged in a split tree spilling its stinking shredded foam into the water.  Humidity was high as the temperatures climbed.  

I remember how hard it was to stay present in that moment.  We really wanted to slip into a fantasy future where we could figure out a solution to the polluted waterway.  I strained to see the small spots of light on the water surface that flickered in and out of focus as the fog drifted.  I struggled both emotionally and visually to process the scene before me as my brain ping-ponged into overload.  We took some photos and climbed the hill back to our home.

Later in the studio SUNRISE TOMORROW developed.  Based on my memory of the fog, the rising heat and elusive reflections on the water surface, the painting came to investigate that part of the creative process where the brain is trying to piece together a whole image out of disparate, jarring and visually fleeting parts.  A big part of the creative struggle was my “emotional weather” from the experience.  The image developed a sense of intense suppression of the visually disturbing scene and a tamped down anger at the way we pollute our waterways.  The fog drifting over the image cannot completely hide the disturbance beneath.

- Ellen Hart

About the Project:
As musical ensemble-in-residence for Sawyer Yards, Houston’s own Loop38 is partnering with seven visual artists from the Sawyer Yards community to present workshops, demonstrations, and performances that explore the world of graphic scores. Every Second Saturday, a resident artist will select one of their works of art to serve as that day’s musical score. Curious listeners and contemporary arts lovers will witness the classically-trained musicians of Loop38 turn each visual masterwork into an aural delight.

About the Artist: http://www.ellenhartstudios.com
About Second Saturdays at Sawyer Yards: https://www.sawyeryards.com/secondsaturday

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November Featured Artist: Nonviolenze

About the Project:
As musical ensemble-in-residence for Sawyer Yards, Houston’s own Loop38 is partnering with seven visual artists from the Sawyer Yards community to present workshops, demonstrations, and performances that explore the world of graphic scores. Every Second Saturday, a resident artist will select one of their works of art to serve as that day’s musical score. Curious listeners and contemporary arts lovers will witness the classically-trained musicians of Loop38 turn each visual masterwork into an aural delight.

About the Artist: http://www.nonviolenze.com/
Nonviolenze is a one of a kind studio integrating Music, Art & Poetry.

As global citizens we increasingly exist in diminishing territorial and psychological borders. The message of unity in diversity is key to the promotion of peace and stability. Unity must be rooted in the trinity of Nonviolence – in thought, Word and Deed.

The end of all knowledge is the understanding that “We are One”. The bigger picture reveals that planet earth is but a spec of the universe. Further zooming out shows us that the universe is a miniscule part of the grand cosmos. Where then does that leave the argument of differences? Does it really matter?

These concepts are expressed by skillfully integrating poetry, music and painting. This integrated art form empowers the artist to express complex issues and capture the minds and souls of the audience.

Ahimsa Creations LLC. is an integrated music and arts production company formed in 2012. Ahimsa Creations owns the copyrights to over 100 songs, paintings and books. Nonviolenze is a trademark of Ahimsa Creations LLC.

SHRI - Founder of Nonviolenze. Multitalented singer, songwriter, composer & artist working under the brand "Nonviolenze". His musical repertoire includes soft rock, jazz, progressive, alternative rock, jazz fusion and pop.

RANJINI-  Her journey in painting began in watercolors when she was a child.  Ranjini started painting with acrylics in 2004. Her style ranges from conceptual to abstract and she loves exploring different mediums and compositions.  Ranjini's inspirations are sometimes born of visual ideas which she then captures on a canvas. Most of her paintings are a visual expression of the lyrics in Nonviolenze music.

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October Featured Artist: Nergis Mustafa

About the Artist:

Nergis Mustafa’s work explores the notion of visual dreamlike images interspersed with a profound reality- a reflection of the multi cultural world she inhabits. She orchestrates a combination of painting, collage and drawing to create imagined and surreal landscapes. The form, composition and colors are meticulously used to construct a poetic canvas. Colors sooth or jar, float or sink—revealing the artist's current state of mind. 

There is a constant tension between the precision of her line drawing set against a loosely painted background — figures and floating objects, (abstract and realistic) existing in the same plane.

Always exploring new methods and techniques in her work, Nergis uses mixed media, charcoal, watercolours, egg tempra, oils and acrylic paints, to seamlessly create a landscape at once both familiar and unique. As life is ever changing and evolving - so is her work— yet there remains a consistency in its ethos that has itself become her signature “style”. She often explores symbols and ornamental motif's drawn from her rich Pakistani heritage.

Nergis Mustafa is a Houston-based artist, trained at the Glassel School of Art, affiliated with the Museum of Fine arts in Houston.

Find her at The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Studio 214 and at her website www.nergismustafa.com

About the Project:
As musical ensemble-in-residence for Sawyer Yards, Houston’s own Loop38 is partnering with seven visual artists from the Sawyer Yards community to present workshops, demonstrations, and performances that explore the world of graphic scores. Every Second Saturday, a resident artist will select one of their works of art to serve as that day’s musical score. Curious listeners and contemporary arts lovers will witness the classically-trained musicians of Loop38 turn each visual masterwork into an aural delight.

About Second Saturdays at Sawyer Yards: https://www.sawyeryards.com/secondsaturday

FREE EVENT - Subscribe HERE for Event Announcements

As musical ensemble-in-residence for Sawyer Yards, Houston’s own Loop38 is partnering with seven visual artists from the Sawyer Yards community to present workshops, demonstrations, and performances that explore the world of graphic scores. Every Second Saturday, a resident artist will select one of their works of art to serve as that day’s musical score. Curious listeners and contemporary arts lovers will witness the classically-trained musicians of Loop38 turn each visual masterwork into an aural delight.

To kick-off this project, Loop38 musicians will use the first Second Saturday (September 8) to introduce and perform graphic scores from such artists as Cathy Berberian, Morton Feldman, and Cornelius Cardew. By favoring graphic notation over the traditional practice, these composers create a structural framework which grants performers a greater degree of interpretational control.

Join Loop38 and the artists-turned-composers of Sawyer Yards to celebrate creativity in these free monthly events!