Join us for our self-directed life drawing class! There will be a live model but no instructor. All levels of skill and experience are welcome. It’s a chance to sharpen your skills, connect with fellow artists, and enjoy a relaxed, creative evening.
Easels and chairs provided. The fee is $15 to pay the model. Please RSVP via the lockhartlifedrawing account on Instagram. Hosted by Marie Tobola.
We are a co-presenting partner for this year’s Media City Film Festival. Watch 70+ experimental films online throughout the month, and join us at the gallery in Lockhart, TX, on Saturday, December 28, 7 pm for an in-person screening.
Media City Film Festival’s 27th edition presents more than 70 films and digital artworks with nearly 50 virtual world premieres over the course of its online celebration: December 9–30, 2024.
Audiences can experience new films, world premieres, digital restorations, and historical masterpieces from legendary, award-winning, and emerging artists including Artavazd Péléchian, Ja’Tovia Gary, Mona Hatoum, Kamal Aljafari, Richard Serra, Jocelyne Saab, Madeleine Hunt–Ehrlich, Toshio Matsumoto, Sharon Lockhart, Mustafa Abu Ali, Skip Norman, Rose Lowder, Akram Zaatari, Sky Hopinka, Harun Farocki, Little Egypt Collective, Kevin Jerome Everson, Suneil Sanzgiri, and dozens more.
Highlights hail from Windsor-Detroit, Armenia, Colombia, Hong Kong, Palestine, Iran, Brazil, Japan, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, across Canada, and around the world.
All screenings and events are FREE: www.mediacityfilmfestival.com
Gallery hours
Saturday, March 15, 11am-3pm
Saturday, March 22, 11am-3pm
Saturday, March 29, 11am-3pm
Saturday, March 30, 11am-3pm
Friday, April 4, 6–9pm – First Friday
Saturday, April 5, 11am-9pm
Artist’s Reception
Saturday, April 5, 6–9pm
About the Artist
Elee Torres is an artist from México currently living in Fairfield, Iowa. Elee is an MFA candidate at Maharishi International University (M.I.U.) in Fairfield graduating in 2024 and received a BFA in Painting from Maharishi International University in 2013.
In 2001, after immigrating to the U.S., Elee received a scholarship from the ArtReach Program at the Indianapolis Art Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Elee has participated in group exhibitions, including the recent MFA Thesis Exhibition 2024 at MIU, the annual Ecojam Fashion Show from 2013 through 2016 in Fairfield Iowa, and BFA Thesis Show 2013 at MIU.
In addition to his studio work Elee has collaborated with various artists and organizations in Fairfield Iowa putting on dance and stage performances Including, Passion Dance Studio, Judy Bales: Words Collide 2012, Fairfield Art of Dance, FEIST Club Burlesque, and Bubble Boys Burlesque.
Gallery hours
Saturday, February 15, 11am-3pm
Saturday, February 22, 11am-3pm
Saturday, March 1, 11am-3pm
Friday, March 7, 6–9pm – Artist’s Reception
Saturday, March 8, 11am-3pm – Last Look
About the Artist
Tianjiao Wang works with photography, film, video, and installations to acknowledge the presence of things. She believes that to see something is to study it, develop an affinity for it, and attempt to understand it. Through photographing and filming, she anticipates drawing others closer while keeping them perpetually within the realm of the other, without crossing boundaries, encroaching, or fusing.
She obtained her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2024 and was a resident artist at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in 2023. Wang has received various forms of support, including the University of Chicago Scholarship Fellowship and the Fire Escape Films Independent Project Grant. In 2022, she self-published an artist photo book titled “Yanqing, through the Veil” and held her first solo exhibition “In Theory, it is Feasible” in Shanghai, China. She was selected for a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Chicago for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Gallery hours
Saturday, January 11, 11am-3pm
Saturday, January 18, 11am-3pm
Saturday, January 25, 11am-3pm
Saturday, February 1, 11am-3pm
Friday, February 7, 6–9pm – Artist’s Reception
Saturday, February 8, 11am-3pm – Last Look
About the Artist
Hawu Juhye Lim (b. 1989, Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean-American artist whose practice centers on works on paper. Growing up in suburban America as a 1.5 generation undocumented immigrant, Lim prioritized day to day survival over emotional wellness. When she finally came to be on her own to continue her study, she discovered a deep well of overlooked hearts from her past, accumulated during the struggle for survival. These emotions – anxiety, ungroundedness, depression, and a flicker of hope among others– became a reservoir within her. Lim’s work translates this pool of emotions into potato-like lumps that embody surrender, a desperate attempt to appear human, and the constant struggle for stability. With these series of drawings, Lim studies her own limbo in the hopes to understand, love and, live even in this Absurd world. Lim earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in and continues to hone her practice in Brooklyn, New York.
Gallery hours
Saturday, December 14, 11am-3pm
Saturday, December 21, 11am-3pm
Saturday, December 28, 11am-3pm
Friday, January 3, 6–9pm – Artist’s Reception
Saturday, January 4, 11am-3pm – Last Look
Artist’s Statement
“I am enamored by the atmosphere of clubs: spaces that feel grimy, deafening, and lit by neon lights. Sweating bodies are pushed together, forcing intimacy despite the anonymity offered by these spaces. The recurring figure in my work is always seen alone, caught in a moment of privacy. Through this figure, I think about fleeting feelings like desire, despair, but also mischief and elation. I start my paintings by generating footage of myself dancing in a staged environment, incorporating strobe lights and a green screen. The videos that are created in this process eventually become important as their own works that I also think of as paintings. Color emerges as the most prominent element of the paintings, pushing and pulling the boundaries of the figure and disorienting the space she inhabits. I am invested in the task of pulling light and glow from dirty and muddy paint. I want my work not to be bright, but rather to glow from within.” – Katie Bell, 2024
About the Artist
Katie Bell (b. 1997) is a painter, animator, and writer based in Fairfield, Iowa. She received her MA in Studio Art at Maharishi International University in 2024 and her BA in Studio Art at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas in 2020. She has attended residencies and workshops such as Anderson Ranch Art Center and the Sou’wester. Her work has been shown in Iowa, Chicago, and Arkansas.
Katie also curates and hosts shows out of her own studio space in Iowa. She is currently most excited about curating two person shows as it feels like there are infinite ways to weave two people’s work together while still working within parameters. Curating also helps her think about her own work in fresh and interesting ways.
Join us for our self-directed life drawing class! There will be a live model but no instructor. All levels of skill and experience are welcome. It’s a chance to sharpen your skills, connect with fellow artists, and enjoy a relaxed, creative evening.
Easels and chairs provided. The fee is $15 to pay the model. Please RSVP via the lockhartlifedrawing account on Instagram. Hosted by Marie Tobola.
Join us for our self-directed life drawing class! There will be a live model but no instructor. All levels of skill and experience are welcome. It’s a chance to sharpen your skills, connect with fellow artists, and enjoy a relaxed, creative evening.
Easels and chairs provided. The fee is $15 to pay the model. Please RSVP via the lockhartlifedrawing account on Instagram. Hosted by Marie Tobola.
Join us for our self-directed life drawing class! There will be a live model but no instructor. All levels of skill and experience are welcome. It’s a chance to sharpen your skills, connect with fellow artists, and enjoy a relaxed, creative evening.
Easels and chairs provided. The fee is $15 to pay the model. Please RSVP via the lockhartlifedrawing account on Instagram. Hosted by Marie Tobola.
Join us for our self-directed life drawing class! There will be a live model but no instructor. All levels of skill and experience are welcome. It’s a chance to sharpen your skills, connect with fellow artists, and enjoy a relaxed, creative evening.
Easels and chairs provided. Please RSVP via the lockhartlifedrawing account on Instagram. Hosted by Marie Tobola.