Exhibitions

YANIRA VISSEPÓ: BLUE YARDS

Fort Houston Gallery / 2020 Lindell Ave. March 3, 2018 - March 31, 2018

Yanira Vissepó

CURATED BY ALYSSA A. BEACH

This March, Fort Houston is proud to present BLUE YARDS, a new solo exhibition by Yanira Vissepó. The show will open on March 3rd, and continue through March 31st of 2018. The gallery will hold an open reception on the evening of March 3rd, in conjunction with the Wedgewood Houston Art Crawl, from 6 to 9pm.

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Yanira Vissepó is a textile artist located in Nashville, TN, who utilizes hand carved blocks to create imagined scenes, patterns and symbols on a variety of different mediums. Richly textured and transformative of the spaces in which they reside, Vissepó's patterns take many different forms -- from hand-painted and block-printed murals to framed and free-standing
tapestries, as well as works on paper. While naturalistic and inherently spiritual, her imagined shapes maintain a sense of play in their demonstrated contrast of order and incident. Deceptively simplistic, Vissepó's works invite viewer engagement by utilizing generally familiar
characters, often emblematic of the natural world, and arranging them into freeform visual narrative. Overall, both Vissepó's printing process and resulting products evoke a sense of ritual -- meditative, reverent, deliberate.