July 26th – September 8th, 2024

Pablo Cardoza Gallery is pleased to present a group show featuring Jean Sandoval, Lee Emerson, Anne Herrera, Curtis Oliviera, Tony Torres, Tam-Hien Vuong, Landess Walker and Jennifer Miranda. The opening reception will be on Friday, July 26th from 7-10pm.

With inspiration ranging from light-hearted beauties to deep-seated issues, the artists of “Outliers” are examining what it is to be who they are in the context of our society. From traditional painting to avant-garde art practices, the creators featured in our upcoming group show are finding creative expressions out of everyday situations and focusing, not only on self-empowerment through art, but community empowerment and healing. While this show will be mainly composed of paintings and prints, these Texan artists featured in this show have practices ranging all throughout the 2D and 3D realms and are forging
ways of working to express their inner realities. Elements of discovery are both inspiration for and content within the art pieces themselves. Join us in journeying through the minds and processes of inspiring new artists in our upcoming group show “Outliers” at the Pablo Cardoza Gallery opening July
26th from 7-10pm.

Jean Sandoval
Jean is a Houston-based multi-disciplinary artist. Born in Mexico but raised in Texas, they have a deep appreciation for art history and a soft spot for modernist texture and occult philosophy. Their work touches upon contemporary events and history with their special interest in society’s relationship with rising authoritarianism and how it copes with the absurdism that follows. Jean wishes to express a subtle rage toward the historical amnesia that riddles a late-stage capitalist world using a range of various mediums.

Anne Herrera
Anne Herrera is a lifetime Houstonian and art-lover currently working as a high school Art teacher in Spring Branch ISD. She grew up in the Spring Branch area and developed a love of various art-forms in high school. In addition to her Art classes in public school, Anne began studying photography at the Glassell School of Art at the age of 15 and continued there for 3 years. She graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor’s degree in Art and a minor in Education. In her second year of teaching, she began working for the Teacher Fellows program at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. In this role, she helped write and test curriculum for the museum’s online educational resource called Learning Through the Arts. As an educator, she is passionate about serving and inspiring economically disadvantaged students. As an artist, Anne has experimented with photography, ceramics, sculpture, and collage, with a focus on drawing and painting. While she has practiced and studied Art for many years, Anne is an emerging artist in the community. She began creating this new body of work entitled, “Cracked” in November of 2021. In the brief time since, Anne has shown at the Mid Main Lofts Gallery, Spring Branch’s Altharetta Yeargin Art Museum, Hardy and Nance Studios, The Sola Salon and Spa, Art Machine Gallery, The Silos, and Asch Building.

Landess Walker
Landess Walker is a West Texas born artist focusing on Afro-centric futurism in acrylic and oil paintings. Born in 2002, Walker’s ideas behind her work is to create a world for African Americans to be seen through utilizing colors that create feelings of positivity, gratitude and showing the beautiful accomplishments of her culture for the pieces. She was top 9% at her high school and is now a senior at the University of Houston, pursuing a BFA in painting. She is currently in the Project Row Houses Summer Studio Program.

Lee Emerson
Lee Emerson is a born and raised Texan artist working with film photography, screen-printing, punch needling and more. She attended HSPVA from ’97-’00 before graduating from Jones High school in 2001 and moved on to graduate with a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas in 2010. Emerson revels in exploring new mediums and heavily relies on the ability to lose herself in the process of creation as a way to cope with trauma. She is currently healing by working with freshwater aquatics and punch needling; the aquascapes she creates gives her a regained sense of control in her life as well as creating a peaceful and orderly environment to empower herself. The physical process of punch needling allows Emerson to expend and process energy, and by studying and creating images of the animals she is caring for in the Aquatic arts, she is able to calm her body and mind. Emerson has shown art throughout Houston and Austin since 2001. Her goal is to create something the viewer can enjoy aesthetically but also touch… every healing stitch.

Tam-Hien Vuong
Tam is a Vietnamese American multidisciplinary artist, who explores 2d surfaces to 3D interactive sculptures. The spontaneity and movement of nature inspire her work, allowing for randomized bits of intensity, awkwardness, anxiety, and calm imagery pieced together with fluid painting to create an overwhelming experience. Following nature’s rebellion from rigid forms, Tam has moved away from traditionally angled canvases. She continuously explores different mediums to apply her signature motifs, such as acrylic paint, oil, and paper mache. Additionally, her style of jewel-toned color palettes creates an initial impression that captures the audience before the otherwise uncomfortable dreamlike composition. Tams wants her work to act like a contradiction between escapism and acceptance, speaking to the feeling of indecision in moments of dilemma and trauma. As a part of her practice, her work is cathartic to her challenges of anxiety and stress. Tam aims to spark the viewers’ excitement for the beautiful aesthetics of her work and simultaneously connect with an overwhelming emotion towards the inconsistency of life.

Curtis Oliveira
Curtis Oliveira grew up in Houston’s skateboarding and music culture scenes of the 1990’s. At that time Curtis became involved in street art, collaborative environment, and installation work as Agent 5. Curtis earned a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago with a focus in sound and sculpture. Curtis contributed to the establishment of freeradiosaic.org while attending SAIC. This would mark the origin of the Agent 5 sharing Agent 5 show. Mid way through attending SAIC, along side collaborator, Danny Kerschen, Curtis rode bicycles across the USA. A pivotal life experience. Post SAIC, back in Houston, Curtis continues the passion for environments and the body being our first environment, via designing clothes through remixing and sampling techniques. Curtis contributed collectively as a founding member of the artist space, Bill Hicks Resurrection Laboratory. He then attended an artist residency at 4/5ths Gallery in Breckenridge Colorado. Curtis ultimately relocated to New York City. Around 2016, all life experiences funneled into a focus on hand drawn digital artworks, a summation akin to sculptural and aerosol technique as well as the love for hidden imagery in everyday life presented through a versatile medium by way of a common thread, storytelling. On going projects include @aj5s of @jfjlive (on youtube) and visual designer of Ice Cream, a music project. Curtis is an active union member of IATSE local 52 primarily working on-set in the property department for film and television. Curtis is based out of Brooklyn, New York. For more details, more to see, visit: aj5s.com

Jennifer Miranda
Jennifer Miranda was born and raised in the heart of Houston Texas. Born from immigrant Mexican parents, she is the youngest of 3 girls in her family. Raised in a home with overpowering female energy, she grew up with a developed sense of awareness of what it is like to be a woman in society. Miranda is currently a student at the University of Houston’s School of Art where she hopes to graduate as a Bachelor of Art with a minor in education. Miranda hopes to begin her career in the near future as an educator of the arts where she aims to expand the knowledge of art in the technical, visual, and business sense. She is currently very active in the art scene in the beautiful city of Houston where she has been able to exhibit and sell her work. Miranda has had the pleasure of having her work displayed at multiple art galleries and city wide art festivals around Houston Tx.