Everett Taasevigen

McCleary's home is an admixture of thoughtfully considered objects, books and art, and a testament to a life well lived.

JooYoung Choi's "The Cosmic Womb" has been growing in complexity since 2012.

The spacious studio of Dallas native Ludwig Schwarz has beautiful natural light. The ceiling is covered with old pressed tin tiles and the paint-splattered wooden floor tells stories of past…

Dallas artist Lizzy Wetzel has a very strong personal iconography that draws on notions of the spiritual and supernatural from a variety of cultures. In addition to her intensely detailed…

Dallas artist Marjorie Schwarz once volunteered at the Dallas Zoo and used the birds as inspiration. She painted them to help her remember their names but it also became a…

Margaret Meehan and Noah Simblist are possibly the two most compassionate people I have ever met. The married couple are both artists and recently moved from Dallas to Fort Worth…

Dallas’s Shamrock Hotel was built in 1915 and was used as a furniture factory and showroom in the 30s and 40s. According to artist and manager Peter Ligon, the building…

Son of a Hollywood police photographer/detective, Gary Sweeney is a classic Irish smart-ass – quick-witted and funny as hell. Case in point, his public art project for the city of…

Lauren Kelley’s unapologetic approach to stop-motion animation is in keeping with the studio space in which she creates her videos. Kelley rents a very humble apartment just outside of downtown…

Following in the path of her signature monarch butterflies, artist Margarita Cabrera just migrated from El Paso to Houston where she’s teaching sculpture at the University of Houston. The day…

With dreams of a Millermatic 180 welder dancing in her head, Houston-based, Prague-born artist Hana Hillerova is pushing her signature use of mirror in a new direction; she’s learning to…

I’m always fascinated by how often an artist’s space resembles their art, from the space itself to the objects lying around the studio to the way its organized – or…

On a vintage English bike, a “Robin Hood” three speed, Marfa artist Julie Speed rides to her studio every morning to paint the images in her head. Vito, a beautiful…

Plants, plants and more plants surround Bert L. Long Jr.ʼs Houston studio and home. The artist’s edenic lot also boasts a thriving vegetable garden. Located in Houston’s historic Fifth Ward,…

Austin-based artist Steve Brudniak is a renaissance wonder of creativity, charm and wit. Over the years, Brudniak has successfully had his hands in sculpture, design, performance, carpentry and radio announcing,…

I spent several hours with David Aylsworth over the course of a couple weeks, trying to figure out how to best photograph his studio. It’s a wide-open and sun-filled 1,500-square-foot…

Jill Pangallo, performance artist and cat lover, lives in Austin with her cat Vinny and a headful of witty characters. Quickly after meeting “Jill” she and I began discussing a…

Nestor Topchy has lived in Houston for about 25 years.  Since 2001, he has been living on the North side on an acre compound with his wife and daughter.  Upon…