Five-Mintue Tours: Tara Conley at ELLIO Fine Art, Houston

Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run spaces across the state of Texas send us video walk-throughs of their current exhibitionsLet’s get your show in front of an audience.

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Tara Conley: Lost and Found at ELLIO Fine Art, Houston. Dates: September 20 – October 21, 2024.

Via ELLIO Fine Art:
Tara Conley is a Houston-based sculptor whose work invites viewers into mindful engagement with space and form. Her sculptures are a record of time and movement, as she explores a theory that line is the first language. With sculptures that feel organic, ancient yet modern all at once, her practice has shifted focus from individual enlightenment to connection and communication.
Themes of fluidity and structure, loss and growth, and life and death reverberate through her art, touching on both personal and collective histories These ideas, moments, and memories percolate over years into free-standing sculptures, wall installations, and text pieces. Working in bronze, stainless steel, and cast iron, Conley’s commitment to craft and creativity merges architectural precision with a deep sense of play and wonder.

Of the exhibition, PaperCity Magazine says, “Conley’s signature sculpture Untitled captivates you with its intricate design in polished stainless steel, resembling the organic lattice work of a celestial sphere. Her metalsmithing talent is fully expressed in her large-scale pieces.”

The showalso garnered praise from Houston CityBook: “Lost and Found will have you admiring how Conley can turn such unforgiving alloys into complex shapes and patterns filled with alchemical energy that seem to dance before your eyes.”

Credits
Videography by Sharon Ferranti
Photos by Ken Eke

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