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Conversation Between Sharon Kopriva & Catherine D. Anspon: Deborah Colton Gallery celebrates the tremendous response and success of the multi-media exhibition, Sharon Kopriva: Meditations, Migrations & Muses with an Open House - Closing Reception and a "Conversation" between the Artist and Catherine D. Anspon. The Open House is on Saturday February 23rd, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, with the "Conversation" taking place from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. In this exhibition, Sharon Kopriva searches for spirituality and light in her forests and fields. A Texas native, she currently works in Houston, Texas and Hope, Idaho. Since her inauguration with the Fresh Paint exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1985, Kopriva has exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at The Menil Collection, The Ogden Museum and national museums in Lima, Peru and Monterrey, Mexico. Sharon Kopriva works in both two and three-dimensional media. Her career has taken her through investigations of Pre-Columbian cultures in Peru, exclamations of her Catholic faith, inspirations from the spiritual forest of the Pacific Northwest, and most recently an exploration of Muses of the Visual Arts. Sharon Kopriva was first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in 2009, and in 2011 had her first solo exhibition at DCG, titled Cathedrals, Phantoms and Naked Dogs. Since then, Kopriva has been featured at Deborah Colton Gallery in many group exhibitions including Visions, DCG Looking Back and Beyond, Houston Foundations exhibitions and at many local and national art fairs. Sharon's last solo exhibition at Deborah Colton Galley was Illuminations in 2014, which then toured to Kirk Hopper Gallery in Dallas as Tubers* Tablets* Turfs* Tails in 2016. Since 1998, Catherine Anspon has covered the Texas art scene for PaperCity magazine, where she is currently an Executive Editor, based in Houston. Her byline has also appeared in Artnews as its Houston correspondent, Art & Antiques, Spot, and Glasstire, and most recently, ArtDesk, and Cultured. With a Master's in Art History, this Pittsburgh native, Catherine Anspon has served as an independent curator, and traveled to report on Texas-related arts stories including trips to Moscow (covering the MFAH Pushkin Museum exchange in 2001, and FotoFest Portfolio Review in 2011); and Shanghai (for an exhibition of Houston contemporary artists at the Shanghai Art Museum in 2006). Her experience in the gallery world was gleaned at Meredith Long & Company, where she met iconic Texas artists like Dorothy Hood and William Anzalone. The author of the volume Texas Artists Today (Marquand Books, 2010), she and a team of photographers statewide are at work on Volume II of Texas Artists Today (anticipated publication date 2020), which will benefit Art League Houston, while documenting visual talents in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, and beyond. Catherine began writing about Houston's art scene in the mid-1990s, for the scrappy weekly Public News. Her first artist interview subject was Sharon Kopriva, whose work she has subsequently covered for more than 20 years, including the artist's museum solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in 2000 (reviewed for Artnews, September 2000). Deborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists world-wide, whose diverse practices include painting, works on paper, sculpture, video, photography, performance, conceptual future media and public space installations. The Gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas, national and international artists to make positive change and to help Houston become a leading destination city of the arts.