Art at the Cathedral
On Display at The Cloister
'Wildlife Watercolors: Where Art and Nature Unite' by Katherine Rodgers
Showing now in the Cloister Gallery
On display now in the Cloister Gallery at Christ Church Cathedral is thriilled to welcome artist Katherine Rodgers! Katherine explores her artistry primarily through the Watercolor medium, and teaches art in her private studio, and through the Watercolor Art Society of Houston.
A reception will be held with the artist on Friday, April 19, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Here's more from Katherine Rodgers herself..
I am Katherine Rodgers, and my passion lies in capturing the elusive beauty of the world around us through the gentle yet powerful medium of watercolor. Watercolor, to me, is more than just a technique; it is a dance between intention and spontaneity. With each artwork, I seek to embrace the inherent unpredictability of the medium, allowing the colors to merge and flow organically, creating an enchanting harmony that mirrors the natural world's organic rhythms. My brush glides across the paper with a sense of fluidity, embracing both control and release as I strive to breathe life into my subjects; the delicate petals of a flower, the interplay of light and shadow on a landscape, or the feathers on a bird.
For the last 20 years, my family of five have moved a total of eleven times and we have lived all over the country and in different parts of the world to include Germany and Cuba. Even though I went to college to become a nurse, my passion for art was always a part of me and I consider myself to be a self-taught artist. When we landed in Washington, DC, in 2016, I put together my studio and started to paint and share my work with friends. This soon landed me in galleries, art shows, and exhibitions around my area and in New York. My love for watercolor brought me to many local art groups and I found my new friends in the art community.
I currently reside in Houston, Texas, where I teach watercolor to beginners through the Watercolor Art Society of Houston. I work and teach private students in my studio east of downtown where I am inspired by the urban landscape and am surrounded by other local artists.
My show here at Christ Church Cathedral, “Wildlife Watercolors: Where Art and Nature Unite” brings together all of my birds from Cuba for the first time. This particular group of paintings has never been shown publicly and I am so humbled to have them together in the Cloister Gallery. Along with the Cuban birds, I have included some of my favorite flowers, the tulips, along with the Houston Zoo lion named Hasani. I hope that the collection brings feelings of peace and happiness to all who come to see it.
Previously Featured at The Cloister
FotoFest Biennial Exhibit
(Featured March 7th - April 16th)
The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition, Critical Geography, reexamined traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while investigating shifting and emergent spatial realms.
Critical Geography featured a diverse range of image-based practices: from photographers and storytellers whose works shed light on systemic oppression, violence, and urgent environmental concerns, to artists and image-makers who appropriate mapping, social media, and technology to explore inequality in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The exhibition presents a range of unorthodox strategies employed to construct new narratives around place and community while imagining alternative social organizations of space.
For this year’s exhibition, the Cathedral’s Cloister Gallery (located in Reynolds Hall) hosted an exhibition by the Pixels+Silver Photography Group. Pixels+Silver is a photography critique group of emerging to mid-career artists. They work in a variety of photographic techniques including Analog (Film) and Digital photography.
Works by Rhonda Radford Adams
Featured January 24th - March 6th in the Cloister Gallery
Learn more about Rhonda and her incredible art at www.artrra.com.
Deepspace Communication – Sounds in the Firmament
by Kevin Cromwell (featured December 20, 2023 - January 23, 2024)
Local artist Kevin Cromwell explores the connections between us and the beyond in a series inspired by our historic Cathedral.
Here's more from the artist: “When I first was told that I was going to have a show at Christ Church Cathedral, a decision was made that I needed to create a series of work that speaks to the wonderful architecture of the space and how people relate to it. The windows in the Cathedral inspired me to create the works as vivid narrative set regularly on the wall.
I started out this series with thoughts about gathering and sharing food with one another. This thought was later expanded to create a connection between people and those greater thoughts which are in the invisible space beyond."