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2026 Juried Members’ Exhibition

Juror: Carlos Hernandez, Founder of Burning Bones Press

The work of Houston-based serigraphy artist Carlos Hernandez has been showcased through a variety of gallery shows and projects that include the music industry, restaurant and retail design, and corporate work. Carlos is a founding partner of Burning Bones Press, a full-service printmaking studio located in the Houston Heights and has served as an instructor of Screen Printing at Rice University, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.

Career highlights included serving as the Artist-In-Residence at the re-knowned Hatch Show Print, which culminated in a show at the Haley Gallery; becoming a part of the print collection at The Smithsonian Institute and the Library of Congress; being tapped as the official commemorative poster artist for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

Carlos’ work as a visiting artist has taken him to Pratt NY, Parsons NY, New York School of Art, IPCNY, Ft Wayne Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Self Help Graphics- Los Angeles, Duke University, Frogman’s, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and more.

Corporate work has included Apple, Levi’s, American Express, Miller Brewing Company, Google, Lincoln Motor Company, Live Nation, New West Records, C3 Presents, Hohner USA, and more.

 

Juror’s Statement

It was an honor to curate the SGCI 2026 Juried Members’ Exhibition. The quality of works submitted was truly impressive, making the final selections both exciting and challenging. 

In my review, I prioritized pieces that showcased the hand of the artist—works grounded in touch, craft, and intention rather than heavy machinery involvement. I was drawn to prints with strong narratives, as well as works that brought forward fresh contemporary challenges and perspectives within printmaking. 

I chose three Juror’s Prizes from among the selected works. 

Heather Muise’s gorgeous 4-color reductive etchings Maelstrom and Changing Waters made such an impact I couldn’t decide between them for first place! The pieces related a strong, lasting narrative that extended beyond the clearly political. 

Sandra (SE) Penney’s strikingly subtle  Beachcomber Sock In (Magenta Light) depicts a yard populated with empty furniture to imply a story just ended or one about to begin. It’s a slice of life, with no life present, all illustrated with baffling technique and unified color.

The printing itself is on display in the bold process colors and Moiré patterns of Lani Shapton’s third place winner RoShamBo. The layout is so inviting and dynamic it counters the stoic craftsmanship of many artists’ books. 

There are more themes and literally dozens of other works to talk about, chosen from hundreds of applicants. I am impressed with the variety and creativity of work submitted for this exhibition and I’m so happy to have a hand in bringing it to you. Congratulations to all of the artists, and my juror’s award winners. We welcome you to help choose an Audience Award winner as well. Thank you for your participation!

Heather Muise

A sitting African elephant joins a woolly mammoth in this composition. The background is printed in a warm red and minty teal layer with flying birds over the elephant and a silhouette of a tree behind the mammoth.

First Prize: 

Maelstrom
Etching and aquatint
14″x11″
2024

An image mimicking a museum catalog features a red grid filled with specimens and archeological artifacts like those founds in a natural history museum printed in blue. The blue text "Phantoms of Lost Museums, Catalogue II, Volume VII" sits in the center of the top third of the "cover".

First Prize:

Changing Waters
Etching and aquatint
14″x11
2024 

An arrangement of turquoise, pin, and black ovoids create a roughly symmetrical composition. Around the center, four swallows in light blue converge on a fifth in the center. The background is populated with contour studies of flowers in white and additional swallows in cream on the brown base layer.

This is Fine
Etching and aquatint
14″x11″
2025

Sandra (S.E.) Penney

Second Prize:

Beachcomber Sock In (Magenta Light)
Reduction Linoleum Monoprint
24″x18″
2024

Lani Shapton

The text of a poem, biological explanation, and Fibonacci sequence diagrams sit upon layered images of sea shells in browns and grays.
The text of a poem, biological explanation, and Fibonacci sequence diagrams sit upon layered images of sea shells in browns and grays.
The text of a poem, biological explanation, and Fibonacci sequence diagrams sit upon layered images of sea shells in browns and grays.

Third Prize:

RoShamBo
Eight Layer Split-Fountain Screen Print cut into an Accordion Pant Zine
4.75” X 18” X 3.25”
2025

A bucolic, 18th century style landscape of two figures at the edge of a cliff overlooking a river and mountain range is confronted by intensely colored, almost psychedelic stones and a red stream and a volcanic explosion from one of the mountains in the middle ground.

Madonna #5
Screenprint
10.5″ x 8.75″ x 1″
2024

Laura Post

 

A grid of fine, red lines at offset angles are printed on a sheet of cream and moldy green handmade paper.

Amy T.
Woodblock print cast with handmade paper from non-native species from Texas and recycled cotton fabric
48” x 32”
2024

Cascade Almond

 

Flower-like shapes in lime green and pink float among a photo of a tranquil, flooded landscape

The Guardians
Lego print
13″x20″
2025

Natalie Deam

A fanciful, deteriorating island surrounded by a hazy black halo. Above, an inset of the heads of flowers seemingly emitting pollen.

Swim Swarm
Stone lithograph on suminagashi
18″x12″
2024

Donald Furst

 

Sussuration
Mezzotint
11″x16.5″
2025

Andrew Rice

Undulating layers of white line work evoking coral and wood are surrounded by wisps of cloud and stars on a dark blue ground.

Will Anything Float Again?
Lithograph
11″x14″
2025

Undulating layers of white line work evoking coral and wood are surrounded by wisps of cloud and stars on a dark blue ground.

Challenge: Lost Futures
Etching
14″x11″
2025

Polly Law

Saddell Stone & Seaweed
Screenprint
16″x22″
2025

Sage Dawson

Eternal Loop
Reductive linocut and acrylic on stretched canvas
25″x20″
2025

Not Unlike A Buried City
Linocut, collagraph, acrylic collage
36″ x 26.5″ x 0.75″ (two sided flag)
2025

Jennifer Hughes

The left shoulder, upper arm, and chest of a figure rendered in layers of cream and brown populates this image. On the arm are tattoos in blue that reference Indigenous motifs of the Americas. The tattoos are labeled "2, 5, 4" implying a guide to their meaning.

Oshun/ I dream in stereo
Lithograph
18″ x 24″
2025

Kathy McGhee

The shape of Hispaniola--Haiti and the Dominican Republic--is printed in black surrounded by a yellow outline. Beneath, the text "Nuestra Futura Isla" (Our Future Island) is created by a the ground of abstracted swooping marks in gray and orange.

Dwarf Blue Rabbitbrush
Screenprint
13″x9″
2025

Mary Claire Becker

A woman stands in the center of the page where half the body is light skinned wearing black, the other dark skinned wearing white with white hair. She stands in an implied box of water in front of a house with tropical plants pouring out of the windows on the light side, and covered in foliage on the dark. The figure holds a black hand emerging from the plants on the light side and holds a white hand emerging from the foliage covering the house on the dark.

Yellowstone Interpolation
Screenprint
14″x11″
2024

A woman stands in the center of the page where half the body is light skinned wearing black, the other dark skinned wearing white with white hair. She stands in an implied box of water in front of a house with tropical plants pouring out of the windows on the light side, and covered in foliage on the dark. The figure holds a black hand emerging from the plants on the light side and holds a white hand emerging from the foliage covering the house on the dark.

Mirage (After Thomas Moran)
Stone lithograph and Photolithography
11″x14″
2023

A woman stands in the center of the page where half the body is light skinned wearing black, the other dark skinned wearing white with white hair. She stands in an implied box of water in front of a house with tropical plants pouring out of the windows on the light side, and covered in foliage on the dark. The figure holds a black hand emerging from the plants on the light side and holds a white hand emerging from the foliage covering the house on the dark.

Text to Image: The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Photopolymer Intaglio and letterpress
14″x11″
2025

Alexandra Fernandez

(IM)MIGRATION
Woodcut and screenprint
11″x14″
2025

E O Dean

A tessellated pattern in blue evokes waves and sea creatures.

Eroded Shell
Mokuhanga
10″x7.5″
2025

Susan Wehling

Birds will talk
Monotype and masking
10″x15″
2025

Charlie Street

A funeral for a bee larvae attended by other insects includes the text "If bees disappeared from Earth, humans would have 4 years left to live". Surrounding the funeral scene nude humans are in agony, like those cast into hell in medieval last judgment motifs. Above a king and owl loom with the text "Doomsday Clock" at the top with a rabbit hanging off the clock in the "o" of the word clock that is nearly to midnight.

City Above Hell
Woodcut
11″x13″
2025

Kelly Nelson

The word "navigate" hovers over an image of heavy cloud cover in gray with a layer of rusty red collagraph with varied grooves and splotches printed lightly over the clouds.

Always First, Bloom
Woodcut
35″ X 10″
2024

Anne Beidler

Circle Back
Artist Book-Relief Print and Collage
10″x12″x15″
2024

Doug Eberhardt

A silhouette in red ink overlays a landscape in warm colors. Imagery is printed on cream colored hand made paper with irregular edges that is mounted on white paper.

Monstrous Mayhem
Risograph
11″x17″
2025

Lea Basile-Lazarus

A three dimensional star form like an ornament sits upon light gray lines evoking a map with intermittent red dots in varied sizes. Behind, a gray green background is interrupted by splotches of dark gray and two clouds in black that enter the image at the left corners.

Space Needed
Embossed, monoprint, hand painted
28″ X 22″ mounted on 30″ X 24″ cradle board with D-rings and wire
2025

Lisa Bulawsky

A map of North America from 1803 with the route of the Lewis & Clark expedition stitched in red thread through the fabric. The portion of the route that Sacajawea led is in bolder stitches. Colonial place names and Lewis & Clark have been stitched over as well, leaving an emblem that says "Peace and Friendship". A small image of Sacajawea is stitched into an inset claiming the bicentennial of the expedition as her own.

The Surface of the Earth and the Figments of the Mind
Collagraph, monotype, and collage on Evolon
40″x30″
2025

Lynn Sures

A overhead perspective of protestors, many with hands up, being met with armed riot police.

In the Past Tense
Linocut, artist-made paper of colored flax pulp
25″ x 30″
2023

Mark Bovey

Worlds Beyond Perception #2
Laser engraved, hand printed woodcut, with collé
21″x28″
2023

April Flanders

A diptych showing a fern sprouting from a base that evokes shells, tubers, and grubs.

Glide
Screenprint monoprint
25.25″ x 25.25″
2024

Berel Lutsky

 

Osprey Meadow Becomes a Lake…
Color lithograph
14″x 20″
2024

Matthew J. Egan

Metamorphosis
Lithograph
14″x11″
2024

Margaret Craig

Growing Out Plastic Planet
Handmade paper and mixed media on wooden support with repurposed plastic, etching, cast acrylic etching, screen print paper pulp
18″x18″x3″
2024

Jungle Evolutions with Space Junk
Handmade paper and mixed media on wooden support with repurposed plastic, etching, cast acrylic etching, screenprint paper pulp
23″x23″x1″
2024

Kayla Cordy

Glass Hallway
Reduction linocut
24″x18″
2025

Ruthann Godollei

Safe Zone
Monoprint and collagraph
28″x28″ framed
2024

Bunting (Welcome to Our Town), Farm/Auto
Screenprint on plastic pennants
19″ x 36″ x .05″
2025

Celeste De Luna

Coatlicue Outfit
Woodcut on fabric
24″x60″
2025

Xianying (Bonnie) Yu

Culture, Veil, and Religion
Etching, drypoint and aquatint
18″x26″
2024

Irena Keckes

Phenomenology of Flow #5
Linocut print on cotton fabric
74.4″ x 21″
2024

Richard Rodriguez

Astray
Monoprint
16″x10.5″
2025

Beth Fein

Rising
Woodcut monoprint, pressure print (cut to shape)
88″ x 16″
2023

Sheryl Kolitsopoulis

Music is Life/Life is Music
Aluminum plate lithograph
11.25″ x 11.75″
2023

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