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Item Ships From: Houston
The texture of Tuscany, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
An old brick wall in the town of Montereggioni in Tuscany, Italy :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
A gift from heaven, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A young brown pelican with his mouth wide open ready to receive a squid thrown at him :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed b...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Who is afraid of Yellow, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A fall day on on the beautiful island of Burano in Italy with its colorful houses. :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Winter in Provence, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
On the outskirts of Arles in Provence, along the Arles river. The location is just next to the famous Langlois bridge painted by Van Gogh. :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
The Amalfi flag, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A beautifully textured wall in the town of Ravello on the Italian Amalfi coast :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the a...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Photograph of Man's Back While Sitting
By Rodney Susholtz
Located in Houston, TX
Photograph of a man sitting with his back to the camera. He appears to be waiting at a transportation stop or at a park. Photograph had a warm hue to it.
Artist Biography: Rodney Susholtz...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Modern Abstract Photograph of a Pink and Gold Building with Window
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract photograph of the side of a building with pink and gold accents by the Texas artist Mark Greene. The off-centered window is balanced by the extension of the black mat...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
"Dry Season" Zebra Herd at Watering Hole Wildlife Photograph Edition 330/950
By Thomas Mangelsen
Located in Houston, TX
Color wildlife photograph from 1991 by photojournalist Thomas Mangelsen. The work features a herd of zebras gathered around a watering hole. Signed, dated, and editioned 33/950 along lower from margin. Currently hung a complementary black frame with a cream matting.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 24.5 in. x W 35 in.
Artist Biography: A Nebraska native, Mangelsen’s love of nature, his life outdoors and business success were heavily influenced by his father. An avid sportsman, Harold Mangelsen took his sons to favorite blinds along the Platte River in Nebraska to observe the great flocks of ducks, geese and cranes that migrate through the valley. From these adventures, Mangelsen learned important lessons for photographing in the field, most notably patience and understanding animal behavior. In 1965, Mangelsen began studying business at the University of Nebraska. In 1967, Tom transferred to Doane College in Crete, Nebraska, where he changed his major and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Tom continued postgraduate study in zoology and wildlife biology at the University of Nebraska and Colorado State University. In 1970 Mangelsen moved to Nederland, Colorado. He spent two years living in the Rocky Mountains in an old mining shack without electricity or running water with his English setter, black lab and raccoon. Tom continued to work on his photography and studied arctic alpine ecology at the University of Colorado’s Mountain Research Station near Nederland. There he met Bert Kempers, a CU film producer, who later hired Tom as cinematographer and film editor for his company Westwind Productions, making educational and nature documentaries. Tom longed to make a documentary about the Platte River and its great wildlife resource. He returned to the Platte each spring to film the great crane migration. These experiences led to Tom traveling to the cranes’ nesting grounds in Alaska and their wintering areas in Texas. National Geographic television wanted to produce a documentary, which would chronicle the plight of the endangered whooping crane...
Category
1990s Realist Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Les années 1940 (Stephanie Seymour: La Passante du Siecle)
By Richard Avedon
Located in Houston, TX
Richard Avedon
Les années 1940 (Stephanie Seymour: La Passante du Siecle), 1997
Gelatin silver print
15 1/2 x 19 in (39.4 x 48.3 cm)
Edition of 4
JPHB 5683
Category
Late 20th Century Houston - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Cherry Valley 2" Contemporary Laser Print Photograph of Ship Channel Houston
By Casey Williams
Located in Houston, TX
Color laser print photograph by contemporary photographer Casey Williams. The piece features a close up shot of the reflection of a red boat in the Houston ship channel. Signed, titl...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Laser
A gift from heaven, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A young brown pelican with his mouth wide open ready to receive a squid thrown at him :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed b...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Summer Breeze, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A woman walking past an old wall and an old hand rail along the port in Bastia, Corsica. The late evening breeze is blowing through her hair. :: Photograph :: Black & White :: This p...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Mythology, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A llama after the rain in Peru :: Photograph :: Black & White :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Ye...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Cypress, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
The tall cypress trees in Caddo lake, Texas at sunset :: Photograph :: Black & White :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Deja vu, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
Along the Seine in Paris, a woman with an umbrella is walking past a painting of a woman with an umbrella :: Photograph :: Black & White :: This piece comes with an official certific...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Urban Shadows II, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A red chair and its shadow :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signatu...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
State of Grace, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A roseate spoonbill in flight :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Giverny, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
The photograph is taken in the gardens of Monet's house in Giverny, France during the fall showing the green bridge and the waterlilies that he made famous in his paintings. :: Photo...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Urban shadows, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A dark metal chair and its shadow on a grey concrete floor :: Photograph :: Black & White :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Rea...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Grand Central, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
Inside the main hall of Grand Central station in New York city. One woman in the center of the photograph is standing still while everyone else is moving. :: Photograph :: Black & Wh...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
The Voyeur, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
On the side of a building in Paris, part of a painting by Eugene Delacroix shows Marianne looking inside the neighboring apartments :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
A young Nepalese monk, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A young Nepalese mon in a monastery in Katmandu, Nepal :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Monmartre, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
The famous steps of Monmartre in Paris in winter :: Photograph :: Black & White :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
The perspective of noon, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A young boy walking in the narrow alleys of the town of Chefchaouen in Morocco. :: Photograph :: Black & White :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signe...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
The Left Bank, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
The view of Paris' left bank seen from the top of the Notre Dame Cathedral :: Photograph :: Black & White :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by t...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Barbie, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A babrbie doll against the backdrop of summer flowers :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: N...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Summer, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
The reflection of a sailboat :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signa...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Watching the rain, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
A young girl dressed in white watching the rain from an old terrace :: Photograph :: Black & White :: This piece comes with an official certificate of au...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Route 66, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
An abandoned Cafe along Route 66 :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: S...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Parisian rooftops, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
By Fikry Botros
Located in Yardley, PA
Sunset over Parisian rooftops with the Eiffel Tower in the background :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: ...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Houston - Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Black and White Portrait Photograph of Diego Rivera
By Herb Ritts
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white portrait photography by American fashion photographer Herbert Ritts Jr. The photograph depicts Diego Rivera (Diego María de la Concepción...
Category
1950s Realist Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Contemporary Surrealist Monochromatic Photograph
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary monochromatic photograph by contemporary photographer, Matt Dahl. The photograph depicts three main figures, each appearing double, which is done through a camera exposu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Hawkins Ranch" Dark-Toned Modern Contemporary Colored Landscape Photograph 2/2
By Casey Williams
Located in Houston, TX
High contrast contemporary photography by Houston, TX photographer Casey Williams. This photograph depicts a snapshot of a balcony or terrace with white wooden railings...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Oil
"Bathers 2" Intimate Warm Toned Nude Abstract Impressionist Painting of a Couple
By Saralene Tapley
Located in Houston, TX
Warm-toned abstract impressionist nude painting by Houston, TX artist Saralene Tapley. This painting depicts an intimate moment between the man and woman subject as seen through Tapl...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Houston - Photography
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Hawkins Ranch" Green-Toned Modern Contemporary Colored Landscape Photograph 2/2
By Casey Williams
Located in Houston, TX
High contrast contemporary photography by Houston, TX photographer Casey Williams. This photograph depicts a snapshot of a scene entering a property's yard. The color in the photos s...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Oil, Silver Gelatin
Contemporary Black and White Still Life Photograph of a Wig Shop
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white contemporary photograph by Houston, TX artist, Jim Reitz. This photograph depicts a wig shop that is stocked to the brim with inventory. Curr...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Black and White Photograph of a Found Crucifix Sculpture on the Ground
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white silver gelatin photograph by Houston, TX artist Jim Reitz. The work features a broken crucifix sculpture found on the ground. Signed by artis...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Contemporary Black and White Street Photograph of a Couple with an Obama Mural
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white contemporary photograph by Houston, TX artist, Jim Reitz. This photograph depicts a street scene where a couple stands by an Obama mural. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Contemporary Hand Tinted Photograph of a Young Lady
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary hand-tinted photography of a young woman by Houston, TX artist, Jim Reitz. Signed by the artist at the bottom left. Framed and matted in a natur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Black & White Urban Photograph of a Man with a Bike Against Houston, TX Skyline
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white silver gelatin photograph by Houston, TX artist Jim Reitz. The work features a man pushing a bike in a parking lot with the Houston city skyl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Hand Colored Silver Gelatin Portrait Photograph of a Casual Male Figure
Located in Houston, TX
Hand colored silver gelatin photograph by Houston, TX artist Jim Reitz. The work features a man casually leaning against a building and looking at the camera...
Category
2010s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Modern Skewed Black and White Film Negative Depicting an Off-Centered Tree
Located in Houston, TX
Modern black and white off-centered film negative of a photograph of a tree. The 24th image on the strip of film, the skewed composition creates an air ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Black and White Silver Gelatin Photograph of Igor Stravinsky
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white silver gelatin portrait photograph of Igor Stravinsky by well-renowned 20th Century photographer Yousuf Karsh. Matted and framed in sil...
Category
1950s Modern Houston - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Noel, MO" Modern C-Print Photograph of Vintage Bell Hop Hotel Sign Edition 1/20
By Amy Blakemore
Located in Houston, TX
Classic Americana c-print photograph of a vintage bell hop sign in Noel, MO by Houston, TX artist Amy Blakemore. The photo features a central sign in ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
C Print
"Unique Thrift" C-Print Photograph of a Vintage Car and Thrift Shop Edition 1/20
By Amy Blakemore
Located in Houston, TX
C-print photograph of a thrift store during the holiday season with a white vintage car parked out front by Houston, TX artist Amy Blakemore. The composition is expertly balanced bet...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
C Print
"Man" Modern C-Print Photograph of a Man in a Suit and Fedora Edition 1/20
By Amy Blakemore
Located in Houston, TX
A seemingly candid c-print photograph of a man in a suit wearing a white fedora walking down the street by Houston, TX artist Amy Blakemore. The composition is expertly balanced betw...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
C Print
Havana, Cuba Daily Life Photograph of "Don't Let Them Take You Alive" Graffiti
By Rick Hunter
Located in Houston, TX
Photograph documenting daily life in Havana, Cuba by renowned photojournalist Rick Hunter. This work features a closeup shot of graffiti stating "Don't Let...
Category
1990s Realist Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Photograph of Nude Marilyn Monroe Pose 2
By Tom Kelly
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white photograph of a nude Marilyn Monroe taken by Tom Kelly in 1949. The work was distributed as calender art and one was featured in an issue of Playboy magazine in 1953. The photograph is not framed.
Artist Biography: Kelley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He learned photography as an apprentice in a New York photo studio, and then worked for the Associated Press and Town & Country magazine. After coming to California in 1935, Kelley established a photography studio in Hollywood and produced promotional photographs of motion picture stars. David O. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn retained Kelley to take promotional photos of their stars and starlets for magazine covers and advertising. Later, Kelley's business shifted to commercial and advertising photography.
Some of Kelley's most famous photo subjects have included Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Winston Churchill, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, David Bowie, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yma Sumac and, of course, Marilyn Monroe, with and without clothes. Tom Kelley had a way of making his subjects feel comfortable behind the camera. He would bring his wife with him to his shoots to create a more soothing and relaxed atmosphere.
Kelley served on the panel of judges at the Miss Universe...
Category
1940s Modern Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Ferns and Leaf" Contemporary Nature Color Photography
By Nick Zungoli
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary nature photograph by New York artist, Nick Zungoli. Photograph features a dried red oak leaf on a bed of green moss. Edition 1/300. Signed in the bottom right corner. Framed and matted in a chrome frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 10.75 in. x W 8.25 in.
Artist Biography: Internationally recognized and the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, Nick Zungoli’s work has been widely collected since he opened Exposures Gallery in the Hudson Valley’s Art...
Category
1980s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Recto Verso Leaf" Contemporary Nature Color Photography
By Nick Zungoli
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary nature photograph by New York artist, Nick Zungoli. Photograph features two dried maple leaf on a bed of green moss. Edition 1/300. Signed in the bottom right corner. Framed and matted in a chrome frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 10.75 in. x W 8.25 in.
Artist Biography: Internationally recognized and the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, Nick Zungoli’s work has been widely collected since he opened Exposures Gallery in the Hudson Valley’s Art...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Turkey Fungus and Leaf" Contemporary Nature Color Photography
By Nick Zungoli
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary nature photograph by New York artist, Nick Zungoli. The photograph features a bunch of turkey fungus and a leaf. Edition 1/300. Signed in the bottom right corner. Framed and matted in a chrome frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 10.75 in. x W 8.25 in.
Artist Biography: Internationally recognized and the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, Nick Zungoli’s work has been widely collected since he opened Exposures Gallery in the Hudson Valley’s Art...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Jailhouse View" Contemporary Black and White Texas Photograph
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white contemporary photograph by Houston, TX artist, Bevin Bering. Photograph features the Harris Country Jail along San Jacinto St. in Downtown...
Category
2010s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Ferns and Leaf" Contemporary Nature Color Photograph
By Nick Zungoli
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary nature photograph by New York artist, Nick Zungoli. Photograph features a dried autumn leaf on a bed of green ferns. Edition 1/300. Signed in the bottom right corner. Framed and matted in a chrome frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 10.75 in. x W 8.25 in.
Artist Biography: Internationally recognized and the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, Nick Zungoli’s work has been widely collected since he opened Exposures Gallery in the Hudson Valley’s Art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Leaf in Dewy Grass" Contemporary Nature Color Photograph
By Nick Zungoli
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary nature photograph by New York artist, Nick Zungoli. Photograph features a dried leaf on a bed of dewy grass. Edition 1/300. Signed in the bottom right corner. Framed and matted in a chrome frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 10.75 in. x W 8.25 in.
Artist Biography: Internationally recognized and the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, Nick Zungoli’s work has been widely collected since he opened Exposures Gallery in the Hudson Valley’s Art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Havana, Cuba Daily Life Color Photograph of a Classic Car Bird Hood Ornament
By Rick Hunter
Located in Houston, TX
Photograph documenting daily life in Havana, Cuba by renowned photojournalist Rick Hunter. This work features a closeup of a classic car hood ornament in t...
Category
1990s Realist Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"West Gate" Angkor Thom, Cambodia Black and White Photograph
By Tony Argento
Located in Houston, TX
Angkor Thom was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer Empire. It was established in the late 12th century by King Jayavarman VIII. The photo...
Category
Early 2000s Naturalistic Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
“Madonna and Child” Contemporary Photography on Collotype Edition 1/1
By Delilah Montoya
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary photograph on collotype by Houston, TX artist Delilah Montoya. Photograph shows a young woman wearing a dress and a shawl over her head. The photographed subject holds an infant, a visual reminiscent of the Madonna and Child. The same subject, while surrounded by lit candles, sits against a graffiti backdrop with the word "time" in the bottom left standing out. She looks directly at the camera, confronting the viewer's inquisitive gaze.
Titled, signed, and dated by artist. Framed and matted in a red and gold wooden frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 17.25 in. x W 16.125 in.
Artist Biography: Although she was born in Texas and lived in Nebraska into her twenties, photographer and printmaker Delilah Montoya has deep roots in northern New Mexico through her mother's family. Raised by her mother, Montoya observes that women have empowered her family for five generations.
Montoya studied photography and printmaking at the University of New Mexico, where she received her bachelor's degree, master's degree, and master of fine arts. She works in a variety of two-dimensional photographic and printing processes as well as creating larger installations. The artist describes her approach as postmodernist and uses documentary strategies to interpret her own distinct vision.
Politically, Montoya is committed to exploring issues of identity in terms of a Chicano cultural context:"In my own evolving ideology I question my identity as a Chicana in occupied America, and articulate the experience of the minority woman. I work to understand the depth of my spiritual, political, emotional and cultural icons, realizing that in exploring the topography of my conceptual homeland, Aztlan, I am searching for the configuration of my own vision. " (Montoya n.d.) Montoya is committed to the expression of Chicana experience and history, but she does not consider herself as a feminist. Indeed, Montoya rejects identification as a United States-style feminist because she believes that "Feminists don't give us solidarity. As a Chicana my issues are multifaceted, not just gender, but class, race. "
The border, for Montoya, is a politically imposed construct, a part of a United States colonialist enterprise that was forced upon the Chicano community. It is the environment in which Chicano life and history unfolds. Montoya's work explores contemporary and historical issues, sometimes win a humorous twist. Her artist's book for the 1992 Chicano Codices exhibition organized by the Mexican Museum in San Francisco, Codex Delilah: a Journey From Mechica to Chicana (including text by poet Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo), traces the imaginary journey of Six Deer, a character who embodies the contact between indigenous and Spanish culture in her trip "pal norte" towards Aztlan, the "spiritual homeland of her ancestors." As she journeys to the north, the character also journeys forward in time, meeting important Chicanas from the past, including La Llorona...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
“Treyolia” Black and White Conceptual Contemporary Photograph
By Delilah Montoya
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white contemporary photograph by Houston, TX artist Delilah Montoya. This conceptual photograph captures a young child with long, dark, curly hair, resembling that of Christ's, also wearing a white dress with a thick, patterned lining. The young subject also holds what appears to be a heart figure, also replicated as a graffiti on the wall. Signed and labeled at the back. Framed and matted in a black wooden frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 23 in. x W 18 in.
Artist Biography: Although she was born in Texas and lived in Nebraska into her twenties, photographer and printmaker Delilah Montoya has deep roots in northern New Mexico through her mother's family. Raised by her mother, Montoya observes that women have empowered her family for five generations.
Montoya studied photography and printmaking at the University of New Mexico, where she received her bachelor's degree, master's degree, and master of fine arts. She works in a variety of two-dimensional photographic and printing processes as well as creating larger installations. The artist describes her approach as postmodernist and uses documentary strategies to interpret her own distinct vision.
Politically, Montoya is committed to exploring issues of identity in terms of a Chicano cultural context:"In my own evolving ideology I question my identity as a Chicana in occupied America, and articulate the experience of the minority woman. I work to understand the depth of my spiritual, political, emotional and cultural icons, realizing that in exploring the topography of my conceptual homeland, Aztlan, I am searching for the configuration of my own vision. " (Montoya n.d.) Montoya is committed to the expression of Chicana experience and history, but she does not consider herself as a feminist. Indeed, Montoya rejects identification as a United States-style feminist because she believes that "Feminists don't give us solidarity. As a Chicana my issues are multifaceted, not just gender, but class, race. "
The border, for Montoya, is a politically imposed construct, a part of a United States colonialist enterprise that was forced upon the Chicano community. It is the environment in which Chicano life and history unfolds. Montoya's work explores contemporary and historical issues, sometimes win a humorous twist. Her artist's book for the 1992 Chicano Codices exhibition organized by the Mexican Museum in San Francisco, Codex Delilah: a Journey From Mechica to Chicana (including text by poet Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo), traces the imaginary journey of Six Deer, a character who embodies the contact between indigenous and Spanish culture in her trip "pal norte" towards Aztlan, the "spiritual homeland of her ancestors." As she journeys to the north, the character also journeys forward in time, meeting important Chicanas from the past, including La Llorona...
Category
1990s Contemporary Houston - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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