Cindee Travis Klement
Houston-based artist Cindee Travis Klement works in sculpture, mixed media, and printmaking to consider the interrelationships of the human and natural worlds, and the energy and movement behind quotidian events. Trained in graphic design, she worked for decades in commercial real estate and home construction before beginning her career as an artist. In the processes of construction, she learned the techniques and materials of rebuilding and designing domestic spaces; she studied ferrocement faux bois with master craftsman Donald Tucker. This French technique of sculpting concrete to mimic wood connected her material interest in sculpture with her lifelong passion for the natural world and, specifically, the landscapes of her native Texas. Klement subsequently began working in bronze and hydro stone, eventually developing a body of work made from wire and rebar, covered in stainless steel lath, plaster, hydro stone, and various rusted wire cloths. In this new body of work, Klement considers how her materials and their relationships to light and shadow might capture the spontaneous movements and dynamic gestures of the world around us. She approaches her sculptures as drawings in space. Among other subjects, she has made sculptures that capture hats caught in a gust of wind, dogs shaking water from their coats, sounds vibrating from a violinist performing, and a person rescuing a pig from floodwaters, always looking to the emotional or physical energy and dynamism of often-unnoticed moments.she has made sculptures that capture a hat blowing in the wind, a dog shaking water from its fur, a violinist performing, and a person rescuing a pig from floodwaters, always looking to the emotional energy and dynamism of often-unnoticed moments. In her monoprints for the 51.88” Art of resilience exhibition, Klement collected images of everyday heroes from the rescue and recovery efforts during and after Hurricane Harvey. Using her loose, gestural style, she makes prints that are simultaneously portraits of a community at its best and watery memories of the traumas of the storm. Her work is in the Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport Collection and the Houston Flood Museum. She completed the Glassell BLOCK Program at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2018 and maintains a studio at Bermac Arts in Houston.
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