CV | Ghislaine Fremaux & Lando Valdez

Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux-Valdez are a collaborative partnership. Both are principally pastellists, but are also painters, and each claims portraiture as the center of their artistic universe. Together, their work concerns the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, and desire (and the concomitance of all of these). They undertake the ideation and execution of each piece collaboratively, often drawing shoulder to shoulder, or frequently alternating. The drawings follow from long conversations about their own relationship, the visual cultures of medicine and religion, and the responsibilities of figurative art. They are married and live in Lubbock, Texas.

Individual CVs are available upon request.

GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS + PUBLICATIONS

2024

[Show Title TBA], solo show of collaborative work, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX (FORTHCOMING)

2023

Corpus Secretum (body secret), solo show of collaborative work, Program Gallery, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (JUNE 30 - AUGUST 19, 2023)

More is Never Enough, international, juried and curated by Triton Mobley, Field Projects, New York, NY

INDA 15: The 15th International Drawing Annual, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, international/juried publication, Cincinnati, OH

Boundless Whispers, international/juried, virtual exhibition with Eve Leibe Gallery (London, UK), curated in partnership with ArtsinSquare.com

Acceptance, Issue 20, Feels Zine, international/juried publication, Toronto, ON

2022

Unmasked: Contemporary Portraiture, national, juried by Jessica T. Smith (Curator, Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Long Beach Island Foundation, Long Beach Island, NJ

Collectivity + Collaboration, Vol. 5, Southwest Contemporary, regional (the southwestern United States)/juried publication, selected by Darren Jones (US editor-at-large for New Art Examiner and regular contributor to Artforum)

#1 Artsin Square Exhibition, international/juried, virtual exhibition via ArtsinSquare.com

Full Circle, invitational, group exhibition curated by Giulia Livi and D'Nae Harrison, Zoller Gallery, State College, PA

2021

12th Annual Drawing Discourse, international, juried by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, virtual and in-print exhibition, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC

Models in Motion, international, juried by Jim Morphesis, virtual exhibition via San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Encino, CA

Thick, ShockBoxx Gallery, national/juried, Hermosa Beach, CA

2020

Repose, virtual group exhibition curated by Leslie Moody Castro, via Artists4Artists

Paint: Medium as Power in a Time of Crisis, international, juried by Juana Williams (Curator, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; now Curator, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI), Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

Salina Biennial: Contemporary Art from the Mountain Plains Region, regional, juried by Ksenya Gurshtein (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS), Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

AWARDS & HONORS

2022

Third Place, conferred by Dr. Jessica T. Smith, Unmasked: Contemporary Portraiture, LBIF, Long Beach Island, NJ

2021

Best in Show, conferred by Jim Morphesis, Models in Motion, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Encino, CA

2020

Second Place, conferred by Ksenya Gurshtein, Salina Biennial: Contemporary Art from the Mountain Plains Region, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

RESIDENCIES

2021

Anderson Center Residency Program, August 2020, Red Wing, MN

'16-'20

Charles Adams Studio Project, Work Studio B, Lubbock, TX