Lost, Sought, Found
June 2 - July 2, 2023 at Arts Fort Worth, 1300 Gendy St, Fort Worth, TX
Lost, Sought, Found is an exhibition featuring five emerging North Texas-based artists: Magaly Cantú, Beronica Gonzales, Elizabeth Hill, Matthew Ryan Johnson, and Grace Nicole. From mythic to mundane, each artist meditates on the experience of inhabiting a body that perceives and tries to make sense of the time and space they occupy. The grid is used both conceptually and visually as an organizing principle to contain and chronicle the artists thoughts and memories. Through material choices, the bed becomes a site for exploring presence/absence, vulnerability, and fragility. Works selected for this exhibition explore the elasticity of time and softness through a variety of visual language, including photography, self-portraiture, automatic and reductive drawing, found objects, and text. Read Emma S. Ahmad's piece that mentions this exhibition, Existing in Space & Time: Recent Exhibitions at Arts Fort Worth.
Lost, Sought, Found is an exhibition featuring five emerging North Texas-based artists: Magaly Cantú, Beronica Gonzales, Elizabeth Hill, Matthew Ryan Johnson, and Grace Nicole. From mythic to mundane, each artist meditates on the experience of inhabiting a body that perceives and tries to make sense of the time and space they occupy. The grid is used both conceptually and visually as an organizing principle to contain and chronicle the artists thoughts and memories. Through material choices, the bed becomes a site for exploring presence/absence, vulnerability, and fragility. Works selected for this exhibition explore the elasticity of time and softness through a variety of visual language, including photography, self-portraiture, automatic and reductive drawing, found objects, and text. Read Emma S. Ahmad's piece that mentions this exhibition, Existing in Space & Time: Recent Exhibitions at Arts Fort Worth.
Elizabeth Hill, detail of Big Red
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Beronica Gonzales, detail of year: 2021
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Grace Nicole, The Curve On My Back, Photograph, 2023
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Beronica Gonzales, Window, acrylic and thread on muslin, 2022
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Magaly Cantú, Memory Foam, Dyed Hosho paper, found mattress, water color, 2022
Magaly Cantú, I'll Get You A Towel, hair, latex, found bralette, nylon, cotton batting, 2022
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Matthew Ryan Johnson, Molt (Immunity), Gouache, colored pencil, graphite on paper, 2022
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Grace Nicole, I Need To Lay Down, photograph, 2023
Beronica Gonzales, This is Me Taking a Nap (My
Idea of Comfort), paper, paper pulp, found sewing patterns, thread, 2019
Matthew Ryan Johnson, Gate (snowblind), watercolor, color pencil on paper, 2021
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Magaly Cantú, Rub Me Please, screen printing, graphite on paper, 2023
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Magaly Cantú, Mi Camita Quebrada no. 1, porcelain,
screen printing, graphite on paper, cotton, 2022
Magaly Cantú, detail of I'll Get You A Towel
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Elizabeth Hill, Chewy I & II, mixed media in wooden box, 2019 (left); Beronica Gonzales, Calendar #2, acrylic and thread on muslin, 2023
Beronica Gonzales, year: 2021, sticky notes, thread, 2021
Elizabeth Hill, Big Red, acrylic, oil, faux leather patch, wooden blocks, and thread on wood
About the artists
Magaly Cantú is an artist based in Denton, Texas. She completed her B.F.A in Printmaking at the University of Texas at San Antonio, in 2019. She is currently working towards her M.F.A with a specialization in printmaking from the University of North Texas. She is a multi-media artist, working in printmaking, book arts, ceramics and drawing while dissecting experiences of intimacy, the body, and women-hood. @magalycantuprints
Beronica Gonzales is from San Antonio, Texas. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing & Painting with a Double minor in Art History and Psychology from the University of North Texas in 2021. Gonzales was the recipient of the Cluley Projects Inaugural Open Call in 2022. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and has been exhibited in various spaces throughout Texas. Currently, she is a part of cohort 3 at The Cedars Union in Dallas. Beronica lives and works in Dallas, TX.
www.beronicagonzales.com | @beronicamg
Elizabeth Hill is a Dallas-based artist whose body of work is centered around experimentation with various surfaces and textures and is driven by intuitive process, dimensional dialogs, and color theory. Hill graduated from the University of North Texas in 2019 where she earned a B.F.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting & Drawing, as well as a double minor in Women’s & Gender Studies and Art History. Her work has been shown throughout North Texas at galleries such as 500X, Ro2 Art, Denton ARThaus, Umbrella Gallery, and Art Room Fort Worth. She was also featured in Voyage Dallas for their Local Stories series in 2020. While her main focus is painting and drawing with a slight sculptural element, she recently began exploring installation art in 2021 through her solo show 'word vomit' at Terrain Dallas and an Earth Day installation for Novak Fort Worth. www.elizabethhill-art.com | @_zabe_
Matthew Ryan Johnson is a multimedia artist and educator living and working in Denton TX exploring themes of existential uncertainty, the fluidity and bias of memory, impermanence and embodiment. His work utilizes interdisciplinary processes that primarily result in drawings, prints, and paintings, Johnson received his Master of Fine Arts from the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas in 2021, where he worked closely with artists Binod Shrestha, Liss LaFleur, Matthew Bourbon, Lauren Lake and Elaine Pawlowicz. Matthew received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University in 2016 where he worked closely with Michael Reedy, Amy Sacksteder, Dustin London, and Brooks Harris Stevens. He currently teaches core drawing, intermediate and advanced painting, and intermediate and advanced figure drawing at the University of North Texas. www.matthewryanjohnson.com | @m4tthewj
Grace Nicole is a Dallas based photographer whose work focuses on many aspects of black identity. Her main goal is to highlight and explore honest experiences of the black woman's experience in America. Grace's art uses texture and beauty as a way for her to add depth and also give honor to the beauty and pain of her experience. As her Southern Creole lineage is the nucleus of who she is, as a lot of her lineage peaks out in her thought-provoking aesthetic choices. She captures all of her images through film and prefers her work to be predominantly unfiltered. Although it is but a small part of a big microcosm, it is her experience and how she sees the black femme. www.gracenicole.format.com | @gracenicc
Beronica Gonzales is from San Antonio, Texas. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing & Painting with a Double minor in Art History and Psychology from the University of North Texas in 2021. Gonzales was the recipient of the Cluley Projects Inaugural Open Call in 2022. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and has been exhibited in various spaces throughout Texas. Currently, she is a part of cohort 3 at The Cedars Union in Dallas. Beronica lives and works in Dallas, TX.
www.beronicagonzales.com | @beronicamg
Elizabeth Hill is a Dallas-based artist whose body of work is centered around experimentation with various surfaces and textures and is driven by intuitive process, dimensional dialogs, and color theory. Hill graduated from the University of North Texas in 2019 where she earned a B.F.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting & Drawing, as well as a double minor in Women’s & Gender Studies and Art History. Her work has been shown throughout North Texas at galleries such as 500X, Ro2 Art, Denton ARThaus, Umbrella Gallery, and Art Room Fort Worth. She was also featured in Voyage Dallas for their Local Stories series in 2020. While her main focus is painting and drawing with a slight sculptural element, she recently began exploring installation art in 2021 through her solo show 'word vomit' at Terrain Dallas and an Earth Day installation for Novak Fort Worth. www.elizabethhill-art.com | @_zabe_
Matthew Ryan Johnson is a multimedia artist and educator living and working in Denton TX exploring themes of existential uncertainty, the fluidity and bias of memory, impermanence and embodiment. His work utilizes interdisciplinary processes that primarily result in drawings, prints, and paintings, Johnson received his Master of Fine Arts from the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas in 2021, where he worked closely with artists Binod Shrestha, Liss LaFleur, Matthew Bourbon, Lauren Lake and Elaine Pawlowicz. Matthew received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University in 2016 where he worked closely with Michael Reedy, Amy Sacksteder, Dustin London, and Brooks Harris Stevens. He currently teaches core drawing, intermediate and advanced painting, and intermediate and advanced figure drawing at the University of North Texas. www.matthewryanjohnson.com | @m4tthewj
Grace Nicole is a Dallas based photographer whose work focuses on many aspects of black identity. Her main goal is to highlight and explore honest experiences of the black woman's experience in America. Grace's art uses texture and beauty as a way for her to add depth and also give honor to the beauty and pain of her experience. As her Southern Creole lineage is the nucleus of who she is, as a lot of her lineage peaks out in her thought-provoking aesthetic choices. She captures all of her images through film and prefers her work to be predominantly unfiltered. Although it is but a small part of a big microcosm, it is her experience and how she sees the black femme. www.gracenicole.format.com | @gracenicc