VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

 Archway Gallery presents City Sight, City Sounds, featuring new work from artist Sherry Tseng Hill as she brings to life a study of the city, a study in dualities – ordered and chaotic; harmonious and discordant; light and dark; quiet and loud, City Sights, City Sounds. The artists will be on hand to visit with guests firsthand during the exhibition opening reception on Saturday, November 6 from 5 – 8 pm at the gallery. City Sights, City Sounds will be on view at Archway Gallery November 6 – December 2, 2010.

In quiet reflection, the city offers sights that, in isolation, capture a time and place. Singular details – an alley, a building, a momentary composition of elements in motion – can evoke moods, or even tell stories. In her transparent watercolors, Hill’s effort is to capture these fleeting moments or eternal details with great clarity. City Sights.

The city also moves and breathes. In this constant motion, the city creates a visual and aural symphony of experience. The acrylic medium provides, for Hill, a way to express this free and flowing, luminous and often cacophonous, life of the city. A festival, the constant river of traffic on the freeway, lights glowing at night –Hill captures all of these experiences. City Sounds.

Hill’s paintings are accomplished with a basic palette of the three primary colors. In the watercolors, this is accomplished with great purity, using only the primaries. The self-imposed discipline of this technique contributes to the sense of clarity of these works. For the acrylics, Hill adds Titanium white and Payne’s gray to the primary palette, as well as mixing additional media such as pen and ink, graphite and colored pencils. The freer expressive possibilities of this expanded palette flow naturally in her effort to capture the many-layered sensory character of the city in these paintings.

Educated at Rice University, Hill earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Architecture in 1980 and a Bachelor of Architecture in 1982. In addition to her studies in architecture and art history at Rice University, Hill also took numerous art studio classes. Recently, she studied under a number of award winning watercolor artists through the Watercolor Art Society - Houston’s (WAS-H) workshops and classes.

Hill is a member of Watercolor Art Society - Houston and a Signature member of the National Watercolor Society. She has won numerous awards for her watercolors, including an Honorable Mention in WAS-H Annual Membership Show 2008 and WAS-H International Exhibition 2009.

ABOUT ARCHWAY GALLERY
Archway Gallery, one of Houston’s and the nation’s oldest artist owned and operated galleries, is located at 2305 Dunlavy and is open Monday – Saturday from 10 am – 6 pm and Sunday from 1 – 5 pm. Since 1976, Archway Gallery has been exhibiting the work of the area’s finest artists, providing a great selection of affordable, high quality art including sculpture, pottery and painting in a variety of media and styles. Artists are always on site, offering visitors a unique experience to meet the artist who created the work, offering a personal insight about the process behind their creativity.

The gallery offers a “Tea and Tour” program, providing visitors with a free artist-led tour of the current exhibition, followed by tea and refreshments. In addition to monthly exhibitions, Archway also hosts a variety of demonstrations and monthly readings for local writers and authors.

With 30 artist-members, Archway Gallery is THE destination in the Houston area for art.

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Pictured above:  Afternoon Light on Marshall Street.