Untitled, 2022
Acrylic and tempera on paper
51 7/8 x 43 3/8 inches

Bo Joesph is a New York based artist whose work is defined by a meticulous, multi-step process that begins with collecting images from his extensive personal archive of catalogs, photographs, and books. Joseph’s selected source materials are then cut, layered, and obscured using a unique chemical processing technique the artist created in his studio. The result is one single composition that is stripped of familiar context and transformed into solid, simplified forms. His paintings on paper feature these forms outlined repeatedly in vibrant oil pastels across multiple layers to emphasize certain figures and icons. More recently, Joseph has developed a unique technique for creating reliefs using casein, a milk-based medium with roots in ancient art

His work can be found in collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; and Guilin Art Museum in China. Notable solo exhibitions have been held at Lee Eugean Gallery (Seoul), Sears Peyton Gallery (New York), and McClain Gallery (Houston).

Solar Flare I, II, and III, 2021
Acrylic and rhintesones on dura-lar
36 x 38 inches each

René Treviño is a Mexican-American multimedia artist and painter based in Balitmore, Maryland. His art merges ancient Mexican texts and pre-Hispanic sculptures with modern popular culture references to build a new language that bridges the past and the future. Through meticulous, handmade proceses, he honors the generational labor of his ancestors while exploring themes of identity in his work. This series, which features paintings of solar flares and moon phases, seeks to reflect humanity’s enduring curiosity about space and the mysteries of the universe.

His work has been featured in, among others, The New York Times, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Enquirer, Washington Post, and Dallas Observer.

Portal, Roadtrip, West of Here, 2024
Edition 4 of 5
Hand-stretched archival print on wood

Sarah Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Austin, working in photography and cinematography, and a co-founder of the film production company Go-Valley. Wilson’s work often explores themes of community, identity, and memory. Her ongoing photography series, DIG, draws on her grandfather’s work as a paleontologist, blending archival imagery and iconic landforms with her own photography of West Texas landscapes. Wilson’s practice bridges the personal and the scientific, drawing on her annual pilgrimages to paleontological digs in Big Bend where she photographs desert landscapes, creates conceptual self-portraits in the style of geology and anatomy charts, and reflects on evolution as a reminder of our place at the very end of the human timeline.

A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she works across documentary film, editorial photography, and public art. Her photography has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Atlantic, and Texas Monthly, and is included in the collections of the Harry Ransom Center and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Parasol #18-19, 2021
Linen, gesso, vintage parasol on canvas
72 x 60 inches each

Matt Messinger is a Houston based mixed media painter and sculptor. His paintings meld his thoughtful and methodical painting practice with playful imagery to create dynamic and striking mixed media works. His process often begins with precise fabric collages made from found materials like household linens and flour sacks, which create a neutral base for the paintings. Subtle elements like drips and graffiti-style marks add a sense of movement and depth to the background. This series incorporates flattened parasols to create the illusion of pulsating bursts hovering on the surface of his subdued backgrounds.

Influenced by a background in graphic design, he is drawn to symbolism and finds inspiration in everyday sources (logos, ads, animals, numbers, textures), collecting bits of popular culture with an eye for nostalgia, humor, and quiet irony. His work has been widely exhibited throughout Houston.

Yellow Baseball, 2024
Acrylic and linen collage over canvas
76 x 70 inches

Yellow Baseball by Matt Messinger blends a deep love of baseball with a nostalgic appreciation for vintage magazine covers. By using anonymous imagery, he intentionally removes ties to specific teams or brands, evoking a broader, more universal connection. Driven by a desire to break away from his background in graphic design, his art challenges the polished, commercial aesthetics of his past and embraces a more personal and expressive visual language.

Blue Reflection Lines, 2025
Paper and mixed media on panel
50 x 40 inches

Katsumi Hayakawa is a Japanese artist known for his intricate, hand-crafted mixed media and paper sculptures and installations. His work often symbolizes the invisible infrastructures that make up the digital age, and the intense density and architecture of modern cities. Hayakawa’s work often contrasts void and solidity, as well as repetition, to examine human perception of space, and the blurred lines between reality and virtuality. In his mixed media paper works, the viewer can often find a subtle horizontal band cutting through the composition, intended to ground the viewer and represent a horizon line. This artwork was created specifically for The Clifford Chance Houston Art Collection.

His work has been exhibited internationally in Japan, Taiwan, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States. His work can be found in the collections including, among others, Louis Vuitton in Hong Kong and London, the American Embassy in Dubai, Target, and The Royal Bank of Scotland.

NY Revelation #3156, #2080A, and #3080F, 2019
Archival pigment print
36 x 52 inches each

Zelda Zinn, originally from Los Angeles, is a photo-based artist working in Brooklyn. Her process moves fluidly between photography and other mediums as she constructs, deconstructs, and reconstructs both her subjects and the photographic image itself. 

In her Revelations series, Zinn digitally removes visual information from her photographs in a reductive editing method, stripping away foreground and background to reveal empty spaces that highlight only compositional elements such as line and color. The remaining imagery prompts the viewer to fill in the gaps with their imagination, and question what might have been in the image before.

Field Lines (Copper) and Drawn from Dust, 2022-23
Color lithograph
30 ½ x 30 ¼ inches each

Terry Maker is a Texas-born artist based in Louisville, Colorado. Maker’s work typically begins with studying everyday, discarded materials that are then cut, cast, ground, and layered on top of the surface of her paintings to create otherworldly patterns and shapes. What starts as overlooked debris transforms into something newly resonant, revealing unexpected beauty and meaning in the ordinary.

A recurring visual and conceptual motif in her work is the circle, which reflects tension, reoccurrence, and generative movement. The circle acts as both a structural anchor and a symbolic threshold, connecting themes of identity, transformation, and the divine. Through reimagining familiar materials and forms, Maker seeks to create spaces of renewed perception.

Cascading Folds (with footer) No. 50, 65, and 69, 2024-25
Tinted polymer on yupo paper
32 x 26 inches each

Susan English is an abstract painter based in Cold Spring, New York. Her paintings focus on the interplay of color, light, and surface. To create her sublime surfaces, English has developed a unique method of painting that involves folding the edges of the paper and painting with a pouring technique, allowing the polymer to flow naturally with each layer responding to gravity, viscosity, and time. The result is a thick yet allusive paint surface that glows and reveals the layering of media upon close study.

Her approach to color is rooted in both memory and intuition. English is especially drawn to transitional, in-between hues where tones resonate emotionally and visually. For Susan, a painting is complete when color and surface align into a unified, multi-sensory experience that feels both balanced and alive.

Tango and Scooter, 2024
Watercolor on paper
41 x 30 inches each

Elizabeth Satin is an artist based in Massachusetts who began creating art later in life, after a successful corporate career. Upon departing from her frenetic and fast-paced working environment, Satin began painting and drawing as a form of meditation, working primarily in watercolor and collage. Satin explores the relationship between simple geometric forms, shapes inspired by nature, and a restrained color palette to develop a visual language that expresses different emotional states.

Some shapes found in Satin’s work suggest abstracted human figures, which often become focal points within the compositions. The careful arrangement of shapes aims to evoke a sense of balance and movement, while the contrast between brighter colors and more subdued tones of blues and grays creates a dynamic tension.

Light Glyph I Light Blue, Light Glyph II Pink, Light Glyph III Avo, 2025
Pigmented acrylic
40 x 40 inches each

Casper Brindle is a Los Angeles based painter and sculptor, originally born in Toronto, Canada. Brindle began artmaking as a teen, deeply influenced by his surroundings in Southern California. This environment, full of endless depths of color and space, became an impactful inspiration behind his minimalist compositions enhanced with luminous colors and sublime surfaces. His work draws upon influences from many historical movements, including the Light and Space Movement, the Finnish Fetish Movement, as well as elements from Minimalism and Color Field painting. Brindle is commonly recognized for his profound focus on optical effects and studies of color, light, and form using pigmented acrylic as his primary medium. These three works were created specifically for The Clifford Chance Houston Art Collection.

Brindle's art has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, and written about in, among others, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Art in America. His work has been exhibited at institutions across the US and internationally, and is included in several prominent private and museum collections including Morningside College Collection in Sioux City, lowa, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.

Yellow Lovers (Sassafras) and Green Lovers (Plane Bark), 2024
Acrylic on linen canvas
30 x 24 inches each

Jacob Feige’s body of work is part of a continuous exploration of personal identity within an ever progressing society that is chasing advancements in technology and artificial intelligence. Each of his paintings begins with an illustrative face showing profiles, over which a cast acrylic head is placed. Cut-outs in the acrylic partially expose the layers beneath, creating a layered composition of fractioned faces.

The Lovers series is intended to spark reflection, encouraging viewers to consider the shifting nature of relationships and connection. Each portrait is layered over a background of carefully rendered leaf tracings, representing a unique, identifiable form. While the faces do not tie back to any specific identity, the leaves offer familiarity. The use of artificial color further distances the work from naturalistic representation, setting both the figures and foliage in a space removed from the real world.

Rolling X, 2025
LED projection on acrylic wall painting
72 x 72 inches

Jay Shinn is a visual artist who lives and works between Dallas, New York, and Berlin. Throughout his artistic practice, he has explored a range of materials and techniques, developing a visual language rooted in geometric abstraction. His work is influenced by his surroundings, personal limits, and the present moment.

Using a combination of hand-painted wall murals and projected imagery, often choreographed with shifting colors, Shinn blends traditional abstraction with digital light and optical illusion. These layered visuals blur the line between the physical and the ethereal, inviting viewers into a meditative space. Rather than directing interpretation, the artist’s goal is to encourage reflection, giving each viewer a space to arrive at their own unique experience shaped by memory, perception, and chance. This installation was created specifically for The Clifford Chance Houston Art Collection.

His work can be found in numerous collections including, among others, Houston Intercontinental Airport, Houston Hobby Airport, DFW International Airport, Texas A&M University, Microsoft Corporation, Fidelity Investments, and the Tom Ford Collection.

Can you help me find my dad?, 2024
Paper collage
51 11/16 x 61 7/8 inches

Kaima Marie Akarue is a Houston based artist, born to a Nigerian immigrant father and a white American mother. The inspiration behind her work is her personal navigation of these two distinct cultural identities. Through her collage-making practice, she explores themes of  human identity and culture, urban life, and capitalism, and examines how these forces shape individual, familial, and societal narratives. Much of the imagery found in her collages are direct references to Houston, Texas.

Her work has been featured nationally in group exhibitions at the Houston Museum of African American Culture, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Crossed Alignment, 2025
Burnt lines, hand dyed fabric and thread on paper
41 x 60 inches

Katrine Hildebrandt is a Boston based artist whose work draws inspiration from geometric forms and the conceptual exploration of space and time. Using a handheld burner, Hildebrandt creates intricate lines and dots on paper that make up a larger, mesmerizing pattern. At first glance her works may appear simple, however, upon closer study, the compositions reveal a meditative depth created by intense repetition that lures viewers in. Her harmonious patterning seeks to guide the viewer through a journey of presence, perception, and meditation.

Despite their minimalism, the creation of Hildebrandt’s work is volatile and delicate. Each mark must be precisely planned and timed, as one misstep can disrupt the entire composition. This repetition becomes ritualistic, evoking the meditative practice of Mandalas across spiritual traditions. Through overlapping circles and symbolic forms, Hildebrandt explores impermanence, leaving behind traces that, like the remnants of fire, prompt reflection on what endures.

Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Phecda, Dubhe, and Merak, 2025
Oil on stretched canvas and panel
58 x 29 x 1 ½ inches each

David Hardaker is a Houston based contemporary artist working mainly in shaped canvas paintings. This body of work was conceived out of Hardaker’s ongoing studies of the concept of an AI-generated prompt. Each shape is constructed solely from straight lines and arcs of circles, with internal lines adhering strictly to the perimeter of the defined form. Any color can be selected, but each additional layer must be progressive tints of the original hue or a gradually blended variation. This line of order in his painting process is intended to represent a concept he calls rule-based abstraction, relating back to artificial intelligence. The resulting compositions are optically charged and pulsate due to the result of layering pigment in a light to dark pattern play.

This seven-piece series was created specifically for The Clifford Chance Houston Art Collection. The pieces are named after seven stars in the order they are seen in the night sky.