DANA YOUNGER & FELICE HOUSE | TRAILHEADS AND TRANSMUTATIONS
Artist Reception Saturday, October 1, 6P to 8P Exhibition Through October 29, 2022.
G Spot Gallery Presents, Paintings by Felice House
and Sculpture by Dana Younger
Opening Reception Saturday, October 1st, 2022, 6p to 8p
TRAILHEADS AND TRANSMUTATIONS
“One of the projects of art is to reconcile us with the world, not by protest, irony or political metaphors but by the ecstatic contemplation of pleasure in nature.” – art critic Robert Hughes from Shock of the New Artist couple Felice House and Dana Younger present painting and sculpture that studies, observes, processes and transmutes the wild spaces and creatures of Texas.
Their work follows in the footsteps of painter Thomas Cole, father of the Hudson River School, who believed that the American wilderness was sacred and essential to our nation’s identity. He said, “There is in the human mind an almost inseparable connection between the beautiful and the good, so that if we contemplate the one the other seems present.”
The artwork in this show is about caring. It is about our times, our world, and the Promethean moment humans are experiencing which is demanding new choices in how we engage with each other and the planet.
Dana Younger Artist Profile
Dana Younger is looking forward and back at the same time. Looking back, to the skill, history and tradition of representational art and forward through the digital lens. This is where his work lives reveling in the colliding, engulfing, advancing and assimilating change that is now.
As a teenager, Dana’s family moved to northern Idaho to homestead. They built a log cabin with no electricity or running water. In summer, he chopped wood. In winter, he cross-country skied to school. Grounded by this experience, he has one foot solidly in the world of tradition. The other foot is always advancing further into technology.
Younger received a BA in Theater from the University of Texas. After undergrad he performed with the experimental theater group, Troupe Texas. When he realized he needed to make money, he turned to art. In 1999 he co-founded Blue Genie Art Industries and spent over a decade creating large scale public sculpture. It was in this business that he developed a taste for the edge of technology as an early adopter of digital fabrication equipment. Some of the most notable pieces his company created are the 17 ft long bas reliefs on the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Kinky Friedman’ promotional vehicle for his gubernatorial campaign, Mardi Gras parade floats and the giant ring at the Texas A&M alumni center. Currently he is an owner of the Blue Genie Art Bazaar, an annual holiday art fair now in its 22nd year and is the Exhibits Manager for Texas Parks and Wildlife where he supervises writers, designers and fabricators to make exhibits for Texas State Parks.
Felice House Artist Profile
Felice House is a representational painter interested in working through the difficulties of thinking about the figure and the land within masculine constructs; how it is constrained and how to help it resist and exceed its confines.
House has exhibited in museums and galleries across the country, as well as internationally. Her paintings are represented in private and public collections, including The Booth Museum of Western Art, New Mexico State University, Google, Austin City Limits Music Festival and Prentice Women’s Hospital.
She received an MFA in painting from the University of Texas, a MS in Visualization from Texas A&M and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She studied classical painting and portraiture at the Schuler School of Fine Art in Baltimore, MD.
House is an Associate Professor in the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M.
