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Lanecia A. Rouse (b. 1978, Atlanta, GA) is a multidisciplinary artist who splits time between Houston, TX, and Richmond, VA. Her portfolio includes a range of mixed media collage, abstract painting, photography, teaching, writing, speaking, and curatorial projects for various non-profit organizations. She is a Co-founding Creative Director for the ImagiNoir Equity Group. She also serves as the Chair of the Curation Team for the Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery of Holy Family HTX in Houston, TX.
She has exhibited at Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (2022 + 2023), Project Row House, Houston, TX (2022), Art is Bond. Gallery, Houston, TX (2022), Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX (2022), Asia Society Texas, Houston, TX (2022), Urban Zin Gallery, New York City, NY (2021 + 2022), The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC (2021 + 2022), Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX ( 2022 + 2023), Duke University Chapel (2022) ; Collect it for the Culture, Houston, TX (2021); Houston First Corporation, Houston, TX (2021); Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2020); Project Row Houses Round 51: Local Impact II, Houston, TX (2020); Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; American Church in Paris, Paris, France where she did a 1-month residency (2018); and Fourth Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2017 + 2021). This fall she will be joining the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts in Charleston, SC as one of their 2023 Fall Artist-in-Residence. Lanecia is a graduate of Duke University Divinity School and Wofford College. Aside from shows/exhibitions, you can see her work at the Hardy + Nance Streets in Houston, TX and High Dawn Studios in Richmond, VA. @LARArtStudio (IG, Facebook + Twitter) |
Artist Statement
Art making is an act of love for me. It is in the work that I am able to dive more deeply and honestly into the complex layers of myself and come to better see, name and understand the collage that is me as well as the world we all inhabit as I participate in the imagining and creating of better worlds.
My artistic practice is contemplative, slow, intuitive and playful/exploratory in nature. I explore the possibilities of a variety of materials, often found, overlooked, and/or discarded materials patinated by time-- that I layer, stitch, deconstruct, reimagine, and re-construct to potentially bring a new thing into existence. I build mixed media collage works that point towards alternative ways for viewing and knowing human experiencing. I sit with questions and draw upon memory, poetry/literature, sociopolitical realities, theology and history to create mixed media collages and paintings that reflect the textured ideas, complex realities, emotions, dreams, longings, questions, possibilities and beauty that make up the storied layers of the human experience.
Art making is an act of love for me. It is in the work that I am able to dive more deeply and honestly into the complex layers of myself and come to better see, name and understand the collage that is me as well as the world we all inhabit as I participate in the imagining and creating of better worlds.
My artistic practice is contemplative, slow, intuitive and playful/exploratory in nature. I explore the possibilities of a variety of materials, often found, overlooked, and/or discarded materials patinated by time-- that I layer, stitch, deconstruct, reimagine, and re-construct to potentially bring a new thing into existence. I build mixed media collage works that point towards alternative ways for viewing and knowing human experiencing. I sit with questions and draw upon memory, poetry/literature, sociopolitical realities, theology and history to create mixed media collages and paintings that reflect the textured ideas, complex realities, emotions, dreams, longings, questions, possibilities and beauty that make up the storied layers of the human experience.