Mixed media artist
Mixed media artist
A New Vision.

Monica Medellin is a Houston-based artist who has been working in art for over fourteen years through studio practice and education. Originally from McAllen, Texas, she grew up in Houston and holds a degree in fine art from the University of Houston.
Her painting practice is rooted in experience and personal reference, often drawing from moments that feel familiar yet subtly unsettled. Moving fluidly between expressive brushwork and precise execution, Medellin allows each image to determine its own visual language. Her work resists overt narrative, favoring atmosphere, tension, and a quiet sense of presence.
Alongside her studio practice, Medellin has remained actively engaged in the art world through arts education and advisory-based work, maintaining a sustained relationship to both making and looking. Her practice reflects an artist in mid practice, committed to refining a distinct voice through attention, discipline, and continued exploration.
I approach painting as a form of attention. My images are drawn from personal experience, observation, and reference, translated through a process that balances intuition with control.
My paintings often focus on the everyday, not as documentation, but as transformation. Familiar moments are shifted slightly off center, allowing mood, tension, and restraint to carry meaning. Narrative is present, but understated, shaped by time, memory, and return rather than explanation.
Depending on the demands of the image, I move between expressive gesture and careful precision, treating technique as a tool rather than a signature. Rather than working within a fixed style, my practice remains open and evolving, guided by curiosity, rigor, and the quiet authority of lived experience.
A Modern Day Georgia O'Keeffe (pdf)
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