Lanecia A. Rouse (born 1978 in Atlanta, GA) is a versatile artist who divides her time between Houston, TX, and Richmond, VA. Her diverse portfolio spans collage, abstract painting, photography, teaching, writing, speaking, and curatorial projects for local non-profit organizations.
Recently concluding a month-long residency in Charleston, SC with the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, Lanecia has also been an Artists on Site: Series 3 Artist-in-Resident at the Asia Society HTX in 2022, and the 2020-2021 Artist-in-Resident for the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University. She holds the position of Artist-in-Resident partner at Holy Family HTX Episcopal Church in Houston, TX where she leads the Curation Team for the Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery. Her exhibitions include venues such as Th San Jacinto College Central Gallery, Pasadena, TX (2024); The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX (2023); The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC (2021, 2022, + 2023); Reynolds Contemporary Gallery, Richmond, VA (2022 + 2023); Hogan Brown Gallery, Houston, TX (2023); Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX (2022 + 2023); Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2022); Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX (2022); Asia Society TX Center, Houston, TX (2022); Art is Bond. Gallery, Houston, TX (2022); Urban Zin Gallery, New York City, NY (2021 + 2022); Duke University Chapel (2022); Collect it for the Culture, Houston, TX; Houston First Corporation, Houston, TX (2021); Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2020); Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2020); Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; Forth and Nomad Gallery, Houston, TX (2019); American Church in Paris, Paris, France where she did a 1-month residency (2018); and Fourth Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2017 + 2021). Lanecia's work is currently featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage at the First Museum in Nashville, TN September-December of 2023. It will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston opening in February 2024 and then to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. A graduate of Duke University Divinity School and Wofford College. Lanecia studios at High Dawn Studio in Richmond, Va. Inquiries regarding Available Works PDF, Speaking Engagements, Interviews, etc.: LARArtInfo@gmail.com Gallery inquiries: Reynolds Gallery Instagram: @larartstudio |
ARTIST STATEMENT
Art-making, for me, is an act imbued with love. It serves as an exploration, allowing me to plunge into the intricate layers of my being. Through my work, I engage in the authentic unveiling, naming, and understanding of the collage that defines both myself and the shared world we 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.