Current Residents
Raul Rene Gonzalez, Director
Raul Rene Gonzalez is a San Antonio-based artist born in Houston, TX. Gonzalez works as a multi-dimensional artist who utilizes a wide array of mediums through versatile methods of painting, drawing, performance, installation, and dance. He received an MFA in Art from The University of Texas at San Antonio and a BFA in Painting from the University of Houston.
Raul Gonzalez explores topics such as work, fatherhood, gender roles, labor, identity, pop culture, and abstraction. Raul’s artwork has exhibited widely throughout Texas and the United States, including numerous solo exhibitions. His works are in the permanent collections of The National Mexican Museum of Art, The National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Mexic-Arte Museum, McNay Art Museum, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and the City of San Antonio, amongst others. Raul has been the recipient of the Luminaria Artist Foundation Grant Award, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, a NALAC San Antonio Artist Grant, a Dave Bown Projects Award of Excellence, a Surdna Foundation Grant Recipient, and San Antonio Art League & Museum 2021 Artist of the Year.
Cassie Gnehm
Cassie Gnehm is an artist and educator based out of San Antonio, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art and Design and her Master in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Denver. Gnehm is a full time high school drawing and painting teacher and has taught internationally as well as at the college level. Gnehm’s work examines the representation of the female body throughout art history and contemporary culture. By repainting and collaging over these historical figures Gnehm takes back control of the female form and draws comparisons between bodies past and present.
https://www.cassiegnehm.com/
Sara Corley Martinez
Sara Corley Martinez was born in Frederick, Maryland in 1986. She received her MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 2011. Sara has exhibited around the US with work in Baltimore, New York, Houston, and Cincinnati. After a break to have a child she is inspired to create work about the physical transformation and absurdly wonderful experience of motherhood. Sara has spent the last decade as an Art Educator. She was Curator and Director of Mantle Art Space and is now a Resident Artist at Clamplight Gallery and Studios. Sara currently lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.
Mary Margaret Johnson
Mary Margaret Johnson was born and raised in San Antonio, TX and received her BA in Fine Arts at Sewanee: The University of the South in 2018. Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes photography, textiles, print making, wearable art, painting, and murals.
Her work explores the collective experiences of loss, grief, and the need for human connection by using elements in arms reach- plants, flowers, and documentary photographs of her everyday life- on cyanotype textiles and prints. Johnson also communicates the struggles of mental illness with self-portraiture and text.
David Sirebrenik
Born in Santiago, Chile, David grew up in Los Angeles spending many Summer & Winter breaks in either Santiago or Barcelona, Spain. Early exposure to Art & Architecture in Barcelona sparked his enduring urge to create.
David is known for sensual organic abstractions and icons often incorporating Collage, Mylar, and Holographic Films in a curious fashion harkening to another time--past & future. Through the mid-1990’s he was Resident Artist at the Legendary Hollywood Afterhours Nightclub—Does Your Momma Know-- where he provided the backdrop for the scene of global House-Music DJ’s. The Underground Club’s dark, womb-like environment served a perfect space to develop his imagery. At the same time, he started ARTCARE and grew a clientele of Art Collectors & Dealers offering Art related services including Installation and Sculpture Conservation. David balances his time in San Antonio since 2016 between art making and as a Realtor helping people sell, buy, and rent their homes.
Caroline Gonzales
Caroline Gonzales is an abstract artist, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Gonzales' work reflects her journey as a woman through obstacles, challenges, and celebrations. Gonzales envisages her blank canvas by digging deep into her emotions and realizations. Colors, forms, and movements all playing a part in her orchestrated conclusion- whether it be one piece or a series for this to happen.
https://www.carolinegonzalesart.com/
Symone Martinez
Symone Martinez is a Self-taught artist based in San Antonio Texas. A wife and mother of 3 kids. She uses her art as a therapeutic expression of her emotions as well as a way to connect with others.
@symonemartinez_art/
https://symonemartinezart.com/
Mark Anthony Martinez
Hello my name is Mark Anthony Martinez and I’m a conceptual artist and curator. I hold a BFA (2012) from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA (2014) from Portland State University.
In my art I employ self portraiture, text, installation and video. Wherein a majority of my previously exhibited works revolve around themes of racialized identity— challenging western notions of “white” as neutral.
Works exhibited at institutions such as; the Centro de Artes (San Antonio), Mexic-Arte (Austin), Co-Prosperity Sphere (Chicago) and the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center (New York) — to name a few notable venues.
This year, I’m eager to explore subjects such as labor, science fiction and local ecology; through a continuing multidisciplinary approach.
I’m ecstatic to finally be part of the Clamp Light ecosystem after admiring its amazing programming and residents for the near ten odd years of my return to San Antonio.
Tim Olson
I am Tim Olson. I am a mixed media artist currently based in San Antonio who has become increasingly tired of using the third person perspective when writing artist biographies. I grew up on a small farm outside of the city of Zumbrota in southeastern Minnesota. The farm was filled with abandoned tools and equipment from previous owners in piles and sheds going back probably over a century. I think this helped feed a curiosity of things.
After graduation from high school, I studied art in Bemidji, MN in the northern part of the state. It was a former logging community turned college and tourist town. There I earned a BFA in visual arts with an emphasis in painting and drawing. Since leaving Bemidji, I have moved to Portland OR, Denver CO, Baton Rouge LA, Keller TX, and finally finding myself in San Antonio.
My work consists largely of drawing/illustration and painting combined with collage and assemblage of found objects, often with components of language.
Laura Stevens
Laura Ann Stevens was born in San Antonio but grew up traveling the world with her family following their active duty father in the Air Force. A graduate of the University of Iowa with a B.A. in psychology, Laura is a hand embroidery artist. Her first show was in August 2023 at Clamplight Studios in San Antonio, Texas. Since then she has appeared in numerous other shows throughout the city. Practicing cross stitch and embroidery for the last 10 years, Laura has finally gained the confidence to share her artwork with the lovely people of San Antonio.