Doozika

For the 6st time, Doozika is inviting entries for the competition to find the most interesting emerging worldwide artists.

This year’s edition is addressed to those who present interest in unique demarches, and will focus on socially engaged projects that are provocative, inquisitive and contribute to the ongoing conversation of race and representation in contemporary art and society.

In particular it will engage with artists who pair their observations with new media technologies to produce their art projects.

This competition aims to give the impetus and opportunity to artists (Painting, Installation, Mixed media, Video art as well as Experimental Dance and Performance) to work between the boundaries of Contemporary Art.

In 2013, she received her Bachelors in painting from the University of Houston and this past May graduated with her Masters in Fine Arts from Houston Baptist University. Recently, she taught an experimental 3D workshop at Art League Houston for their 2016 Summer High School Studio Art Intensive program and currently teaches art classes to elementary, junior high & high school students.

Studio Practice

Using a conglomeration of experimental processes, my work uses intensely remembered emotions as the catalyst to create works that represent the essence of a memory or event. The resulting pieces are both 2 and 3-dimensional structures, containing caught fragments of the past infused with personal reflections. How do we make tangible the intangible?

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Hillaree Hamblin is a fine artist and arts educator living and working in Houston, Texas. Her work has been shown in Germany, London and at various art spaces around Houston including Lawndale Art Center, Samara Gallery and Box 13 Artspace.