I know little more about art than the average schmo; however, when I begin to feel a vibration when viewing art, I know I’ve discovered something special. While viewing Roxana’s work for the first time at Square 1 Art Studio, I sensed the hum of the vibration. I contacted Roxana via email; thank goodness, she was agreeable to having a page on our website.
ROXANA TUFF
“In 2000 after earning a specialization in metalsmithing from Texas State University, I found a fresh jump into the art world by making and exhibiting my work at the national level in many shows over the past four years. I began incorporating symbolic, iconic, and pop-culture images in the work through photo etching, casting, and the use of found objects. Soon, I found myself drawn back to the process of finding and using many images from my surroundings and the larger world. My love of drawing and painting pulled me back into the wonderful world of mixed media processes. Here I could use paint, graphite, ink, collage, photo-transfers, found objects, and appropriated or invented images to make my work. This more immediate process of working allowed me to almost speak the drawings. My works layer recognizable image with gold leaf, paint, graphite, scraps of paper, diary entries from the 60's, old newspapers and book pages, drawn images, stamped images, printed images, photo transfers, and formed 24K gold figures.
“I like to consider myself normal. But, I think my impulse and obsession for drawing suggests a bit of oddity.
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ROXANA’S EXHIBITIONS
2013
The Hunting Art Prize, 2013 Finalist. Houston, Texas
Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee
Member of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas
Contemporary Art at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington
The Dames Show, Square 1 Art Studio, Bryan, Texas (small group show)
Texas and Neighbors, Tri-State Regional Juried Art Exhibit, Irving Art Center, Irving, Texas
You are Here: Mapping the Journeys. Featured artist. Walker’s Gallery, San Marcos, Texas
2012
Faculty Exhibition, University Gallery, Texas State University-San Marcos
2011
Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, Three-person Invitational, Gallery Black
Lagoon, Austin, Texas
Small Group Invitational, Square 1 Art Studio, Bryan, Texas
2010
WWW small group Invitational, DTroppy Studio/Gallery, Beaumont, Texas
“One Cube Foot” TASA show -Third Place Award for drawing “speech impediment” State wide show: Art educators
The Fiction Project: The Color of Betrayal. Illustrated.
This work is a 11,000 word narrative book that fuses writing
with art. The book is housed in the Permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY.
Putting-It-All-Together: Collage, Montage, and Assemblage
Climate/Gallery, 37-24 24th Street, Suite 406 Long Island City, New York National Group show
2009
43rd Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar
National Juried Group show
100 for 100 Scholarship Fundraiser, University Gallery, Texas State University
2008
"Admiration" National Juried Show, SAVA Exhibition Gallery,
San Antonio, Texas, National Juried Group show
Bold Expressions 53rd Annual International Juried Art Exhibition
Carmichael, CA.Merit Award, International Juried Group show
"Ego," A National Juried Exhibit, Newark Arts Alliance, Newark, DE, juror: Ryan Grover, juror's prize, National juried Group show
"See What I Mean?” Image and Text, Featured Artist
Walker Gallery, San Marcos, Texas, local group show
Figurative Collaboration, D. Troppy Studios, group show, Beaumont, Texas
"Generations," Walkers Gallery, San Marcos, Texas, local group show
"Art Works" 2008, Walkers Gallery, San Marcos, Texas, local group show
"Conversations," D. Troppy Studios, Beaumont, Texas, Regional group show
2007
"Time Lapse Existence,” Central Texas College, Killeen, Texas, Regional
solo show
"ArtWorks" 2007. Walkers Gallery, San Marcos, Texas
2006
"Life Notes," McCreary Gallery, CAC, Temple, Texas, Regional solo show
2005
All Media V, International Juried Competition, Period Gallery, Lincoln,
NE
Special recognition: "Thermal Guardian" and "Liberee," National Group
show
2004
Texas Roots, The Lodge at Creekside, Wimberly, Texas, Regional invitational
Faculty Exhibition, University Gallery, Texas State University-San Marcos
2002
"Nature and Time," Natur und Zeit, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau
Hanau, Germany, International group
2000
Group Exhibition, Women & Their Work Gallery, 1710 Lavaca,
Austin, Texas
1999
New Metal: Emerging Views, Contemporary Craft Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Materials: Hard & Soft Exhibition, Center For The Visual Arts, Denton,Texas
22nd Annual Alumni Exhibition, University Gallery, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, Best of Show award
“In The Palm of Your Hand” Juried Student Exhibit, Maryville
University, Saint Louis, Missouri
1998
All Student Juried Competition, University Gallery, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
Society of North American Goldsmiths Student Exhibition. The Jacob
Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1997
All Student Juried Competition, University Gallery, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos Texas
Society of North American Goldsmiths Juried Student Slide Presentation, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1996
All Student Juried Competition, University Gallery, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
1990
Alumni Show, University Gallery, Southwest Texas State University,
San Marcos, Texas
1988
Juried Alumni Exhibition, University Gallery, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, Merit Award
1987
Solo Show:"Drawings from the Source," Kerby Lane Café, Austin, Texas
ROXANA’S GALLERIES
Spanish Governer's Palace, San Antonio, Texas
Sacramento Fine Arts Center Galleries
Newark Arts Alliance, Newark, DE
ROXANA’S UPDATES:
Roxana has a new website (http://roxanatuff.com) and email address (roxytee3@gmail.com).
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