BIO

Felice House is a representational painter whose work centers on portraits of women and the land, primarily depicting West Texas and its cowgirl inhabitants. Her paintings remix elements of visual culture to foreground the female hero within the vast West Texas landscape she occupies, blending observation, narrative, and contemporary symbolism.

Her work is included in both public and private collections, including The Booth Western Art Museum, New Mexico State University, Austin City Limits Music Festival (10th Anniversary Poster), Google Headquarters, Prentice Women’s Hospital, and Pecos Hospital. She has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Upworthy, Vice Magazine’s The Creators Project, the BBC News, among others.

She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, an MS in Visualization from Texas A&M University, and an MFA in painting from the University of Texas. House studied classical painting and portraiture at the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, MD. She is an Associate Professor in the Visualization Program at Texas A&M University and a member of the Baha’i Faith.

RE•WESTERN SERIES

“Tomorrow hopes we learned something from yesterday.” – John Wayne

In the Re•Western series, Felice House places contemporary women into heroic roles once occupied by Western film icons such as John Wayne, James Dean, and Gary Cooper. By reimagining these iconic figures as women, House interrogates the gendered nature of cultural power and asks, “What if John Wayne were a woman?”

Re•Western debuted in 2013 as a joint exhibition with sculptor Dana Younger at the G Gallery in Houston. Since then, the series has been shown regionally, nationally, and internationally, including at the Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds College of Art, UK.

SUM YOU SOME ME SERIES

Felice House’s painting and drawing series, Sum You Some Me, presents head-and-shoulders portraits of women interacting with the landscape. The resulting tension between figure and environment creates a reflective space in which viewers can consider their own sense of self, nature, and wholeness.

Sum You Some Me debuted in January 2016 as a two-person exhibition with sculptor Dana Younger at Aquinas College’s gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. An expanded version of the exhibition later appeared at the Dougherty Arts Center in Austin, TX.