Common Ground Opening Reception

Join us for the Opening Reception of Common Ground, a study in portraiture by Hilary Rochow and Hilary Jean. This perfect match of dimensional, monochromatic portraits will feature both drawings and sculptures. Common Ground will be up at Mercury Project from January 21st to February 25th.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Hilary Rochow is a multidisciplinary artist and designer living and working in San Antonio, Texas. She holds a Bachelors of Industrial Design from Auburn University. Her formal training in both industrial and graphic design informs her illustrations of impactful figures on clean backgrounds as well as the simple detail of her sculptural works. Her lifelong adoration of the natural world weaves its way into her choice of animal and plant subjects. She has shown work at multiple galleries including Flax Gallery, Space C7, and FL!GHT. She also operates a gallery, Rojo, and studio in the Southtown Arts District in San Antonio.

Hilary Jean creates forms she finds humorous, touching on the absolute ridiculous nature of “being” and what that entails for everyone living crammed together in cities and stacked on top of each other. Her late night bus rides and working at an improv theatre in downtown Austin, TX have inspired many characters from this collection. It is an ode to the minds of the people she has come to admire along the way; their strength in facing what it takes to be a complex person in a sometimes unforgiving world, and the glorious exasperated expressions resulting from the complications.