SUZETTE MOUCHATY | RECKLESS MEDITATIONS
Please join us for an artist reception, Saturday, July 2nd, 6P to 8P.
Artist Profile
This exhibition is a concoction of artworks conceived as the pandemic carnival of madness careened along during what, at times, seemed like the world’s last days. A ticket dispenser demarks the entrance into this psychic landscape – a circus of ethical relativism, societal impediments, and gendered power symbols. Colorful lighters provide a joyous spark for the burning clouds that lend a comic sense of doom over the scene. There is a perplexing ransom note. A raucous flock of vaginal speculums is cackling on a fence, and a dejected X-chromosome sits slumped on the floor. A standard warns us that humanity has strayed far off course. Unsympathetic images of human brains confront, alienate and fascinate. These objects and images don’t sit well together, and yet, they do, as poignant, strident, and reckless meditations.
Artist Biography
Suzette Mouchaty is an artist-scientist who lives and works in Houston, TX. Her artistic practice blends formal structures of rational scientific thought with the imaginary and subversive artistic realm. She has studied studio art at the Glassell Studio School of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and she holds an MFA degree from University of Houston School of Art in Interdisciplinary Practices and Emerging Forms (IPEF). Mouchaty’s scientific work took her to Sweden where she completed a Ph.D. in Genetics at Lund University.
Website: SuzetteMouchaty.com
Instagram: @smouchaty
Solo Exhibitions
2019. “Nudies in the Cube” June 14-July 27. Anya Tish Gallery. 4411 Montrose Blvd, Houston, Texas. Solo exhibition.
Group Exhibitions
2021. “The Box” Dec. 4-Jan. 8, 2022. Hooks-Epstein Galleries. 2631 Colquitt St, Houston, Texas.
2021. “Totally Immersed” November 17. The Lab. Presented by Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries, and ForceofNature.eco. Adelaide, Australia.
2021. “The Big Show” June 19-Aug. 14. Juror: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2019. Texas Contemporary Art Fair. Oct 10-13. Presented by Anya Tish Gallery. George R. Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, Texas.
2018. “The Trouble with Toys” November 9-24. Bill’s Junk. 1125 E. 11th St., Houston, Texas.
2018. “3rd Annual Marilyn Dickey Juried Art Competition” September 7-28. Juror: Sharon Engelstein. Sugar Land Art Center & Gallery. 104 Industrial Blvd. Suite Q, Sugar Land, Texas. First Place.
2018. “Real/Surreal” May 12 – August 12. Juror: Carolyn Garcia. The Silos, Houston, TX.
2018. “40th MFA Thesis Exhibition 2018″ April 6-21. Blaffer Art Museum. 4173 Elgin St., Houston, TX
2018. “52nd Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show” February 16-May 4. Juror: Dora Natella. Del Mar College, 101 Baldwin, Corpus Christi, Texas. Honorable Mention.
2017. “The Big Show” July 7-Aug. 12. Juror: Toby Kamps. Collaborative work with Charlotte Cosgrove. Lawndale Art Center, 4912 Main Street, Houston, Texas.
2017. “TextureTextureTexture” June 12-Sept. Glassell Studio School of Art Kinder Morgan Exhibition Series. Kinder Morgan, 1001 Louisiana St., Houston, Texas.
2016. “The Art of Collage and Assemblage” Oct. 3-22. Interspace Gallery, Glassell Studio School of Art, MFA Houston, Houston, Texas.
Bibliography
Crowther, Andrea. 2021 Behind the scenes in the SA Museum’s marine invertebrates collection. South
Australia Museum and Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries (EMS). Artwork curated by Dan Monceaux. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2EDCYs7niM9MLAt_vZ4yeg
Texas Contemporary Art Fair 101 — the Best Booths, Collector Picks and Stars to See
The Ultimate Guide to Houston’s Art Bonanza by Catherine D. Anspon. Paper City, October 10, 2019. https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/texas-contemporary-art-fair-guide-best-booths-art-picks/
Where to Find Your Favorite Artists at This Weekend’s Texas Contemporary by Susie Tommaney. Houston Press, October 7, 2019. https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/things-to-do-texas-contemporary-at-george-r-brown-convention-center-11363521
Suzette Mouchaty: Nudies in the Cube. Anya Tish Gallery. Editorial Features. Visual Art Source online magazine published by ArtScene, PO Box 2029, Thousand Oaks, CA 91358. July 13, 2019. http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=17&aID=5263
Art & Life with Suzette Mouchaty Voyage Houston Magazine online, July 18, 2018. http://voyagehouston.com/interview/art-life-suzette-mouchaty/
Highlights from UH’s 40th Annual Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition by Brandon Zech, Glasstire:Texas
Visual Art Online, 14 Apr 2018. http://glasstire.com/2018/04/14/highlights-from-uhs-40th-annual-master-of-fine-arts-thesis-exhibition/
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Now On View at Blaffer Museum by Paul Middendorf. Free Press Houston online, 16 April 2018. https://www.freepresshouston.com/master-of-fine-arts-thesis-exhibition-now-on-view-at-blaffer-museum/