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.
Raul spends his time balancing an art career, managing Werk House SA, a short-term rental Airbnb property, and being a stay-at-home-parent.
Sarah Fox
Sarah Fox is an artist and educator living in San Antonio, Texas. Fox works with students of all ages at the Southwest School of Art. She is also a resident artist and studio member of Clamp Light Studios and Gallery. She received her MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2015. She studied painting at the Glasgow
School of Art in 2004 and earned her BA from Southwestern University in 2005. In between degrees she worked as a graphic designer and illustrator, an aesthetic that made a strong impact on her work.
Multiple surgeries throughout her teens and early twenties left Fox with a scarred and stitched together body. This imperfect vessel has influenced the cut and paste, collaged aesthetic that runs through all of her work. The characters that fill her world are an investigation and acceptance of difference.
sarahfoxart.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.
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/
Hector Barbosa
Hector Barbosa is a San Antonio based artist. He received his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He’s an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in drawing. His work is influenced by supermarkets, vehicles, religion, and the subconscious. Hector creates sporadic works that reflect how he sees and feels the world around him. Anxieties from his past are still prevalent today, he explores and questions trauma caused by the systems in place that are meant to be safe. Sharing his mental health experiences and finding a linking interest with everyone in a respectful manner.
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.
Crystal Rocha
Crystal Rocha is a self taught artist, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Crystal uses various mediums including oil, acrylic, collaging and screen printing to translate her experience of life into pictures. Her main concentration is portraying deep emotions with easy to digest concepts to her audience and working to present her art an accessible level.
“Parallel Play” : Daryan Arcos and Frances Baca
Daryan Arcos and Frances Baca are from San Antonio, Texas. They are fellow art school dropouts from Southwest School of Art. Their friendship began while working quietly & stressfully alongside each other in the wee hours of night. Whether their shared activities are wholesome or chaotic, they always each have many beverages in hand while drawing separately but together.
They are neighbors, coworkers, boss babies, & bff’s so naturally they have always played with the concept of a collab. “Parallel Play” is their dream child, a mash up of concepts they bond over- shared sense of aesthetics whether it be goth girlfriend or cherub baby, their love for cartoons/ desire to be a cartoon, overwhelming detailed line work, dark sense of humor, fluid sexuality, girl bossing, jersey shore, Gilmore girls, & at the center of their friendship, art. Parallel Play an outlet for all the ideas they throw around together, and a celebration of their friendship & lifestyle together.