Basilios Poulos: Landscape Journeys

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Diving into fall season with our second of three exhibitions devoted to Houston Modernism, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art presents Degrees of

Abstraction Featuring: Basilios Poulos & Don Localio , which consists of two one-man exhibitions.

Each artist uniquely uses his own visual language to depict varying approaches to abstraction, and offers an interesting inspection of the developments and modes of abstract painting in Texas by the two artists.

Basilios Poulos: Landscape Journeys: While Basilios

“Bas” Poulos has been anactive and important figure in the Houston arts scene for almost forty years, having taught in the Art Department at Rice University from 1975-2008, this is his first solo exhibition at William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art. Gallerists Reaves and Foltz are both longtime admirers of Poulos’work, and have each been following his recent works with much interest as they explore abstraction within landscape painting.

In the fall of 2016, Poulos completed an artist residency in LaGrange, Georgia where he was surrounded by luscious wooded landscapes. Basilios Poulos: Landscape Journeys focuses on this body of work inspired by his time there, as well as his reflections on landscape upon returning to Texas, and is sure to be one of the most vibrant and lush exhibitions of the fall.

In his most recent output from the past year, Poulos

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focuses on abstracted landscapes such as Enchanted Forest, Southern Woods, The Wetland, or the ubiquitous Abstract Landscape Series. These acrylic and watercolor works demonstrate his in-depth pictorial and physical artistic investigation of landscapes inspired by the woods, with fine attention to time and the changes to the landscape affected by its passing–light and shadow, autumnal colors, catching the seasonal changing of the leaves.

Of Poulos’ work, art historian Jim Edwards recently stated, “Poulos has melded color, line and form simultaneously, rendering the features of the landscape not as isolated elements, but rather as varied coexisting colored shapes. It is the assembly of these juxtaposed colored shapes that createsthe paintings’ sense of pictorial space while at the same time capturing a sense of nature's own rhythms and colors dance-like luminosity."

No. Artist Title of Work Date Medium Size (inches) Landscape Journeys 1

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Abstract Landscape No.1

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

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Abstract Landscape No.2

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

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Abstract Landscape No.3

2017

acrylic on canvas

48x60

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Basilios Poulos

Abstract Pond Landscape No.1

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

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Basilios Poulos

Abstract Pond Landscape No.2

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

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Basilios Poulos

Abstract Pond Landscape No.3

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

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Abstract Pond Landscape No.4

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

8

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Cool Morning Light

2014

acrylic on canvas

48x60

9

Basilios Poulos

Late Day Light

2014

acrylic on canvas

36x48

10

Basilios Poulos

Noonday Bright

2014

acrylic on canvas

48x60

11

Basilios Poulos

Sunshine

2014

acrylic on canvas

48x60

12

Basilios Poulos

Southern Woods No.1

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

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Basilios Poulos

Southern Woods No.2

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

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Basilios Poulos

Southern Woods No.3

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

15

Basilios Poulos

Southern Woods No.4

2016

acrylic on canvas

48x36

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Basilios Poulos

Southern Woods No. 1

2017

watercolor

15x11

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Basilios Poulos

Southern Woods No.2

2017

watercolor

15x11

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Basilios Poulos

Southern Woods No.3

2017

watercolor

15x11

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Basilios Poulos

Enchanted Forest No.1

2017

watercolor

15x11

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Basilios Poulos

Southern Woods-Small No.1

2017

watercolor

12x9

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Basilios Poulos

Southern Woods-Small No.2

2017

watercolor

12x9

Landscape Journeys Basilios Poulos

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1. Basilios Poulos, Abstract Landscape No. 1, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

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2. Basilios Poulos, Abstract Landscape No. 2, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

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3. Basilios Poulos, Abstract Landscape No. 3, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 48x60 inches.

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4. Basilios Poulos, Abstract Pond Landscape No.1, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

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5. Basilios Poulos, Abstract Pond Landscape No. 2, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

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6. Basilios Poulos, Abstract Pond Landscape No. 3, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches..

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7. Basilios Poulos, Abstract Pond Landscape No. 4, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

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8. Basilios Poulos, Cool Morning Light, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 48x60 inches.

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9. Basilios Poulos, Late Day Light, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 36x48 inches.

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10. Basilios Poulos, Noonday Light, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 48x60 inches.

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11. Basilios Poulos, Sunshine, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 48x60 inches

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12. Basilios Poulos, Southern Woods No. 1, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

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13. Basilios Poulos, Southern Woods No.2, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

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14. Basilios Poulos, Southern Woods No. 3, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

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15. Basilios Poulos, Southern Woods No. 4, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

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16. Basilios Poulos, Southern Woods No 1, 2017, watercolor, 15x11 inches.

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17. Basilios Poulos, Southern Woods No 2, 2017, watercolor, 15x11 inches

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18. Basilios Poulos, Southern Woods No. 3, 2017, watercolor, 15x11 inches.

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19. Basilios Poulos, Enchanted Forest No. 1, 2017, watercolor, 15x11 inches.

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20. Basilios Poulos, Southern Woods-Small No. 1, 2017, watercolor, 12x9 inches.

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21. Basilios Poulos, Southern Woods-Small No. 2, 2017, watercolor, 12x9 inches.

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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

B or n in Amer ica to parents who immigrated in 1938 f ro m G re e ce. Af ter recei v i n g h i s B FA from t he At lant a Co lle g e o f Ar t a n d h i s M FA f ro m Tu lane Univer sit y, he beg an te ac h in g pa i nti n g at Ho u sto n' s p rest igious R ice Un i ve rs it y in 1975, a po si ti o n h e h eld unt il 2008 when h e e ar n e d t h e s tatu s o f Pro fesso r Em er it us.

H e h as d i rec ted a n d ta u ght t he R ice St ud io Ar t p ro gram in Greece fo r n i n e s um mer s and has bee n an ar t i s t- i n -resi den ce at th e Ecole d es B eauxAr t i n Par i s an d th e Un i versi t y o f G eorgia in Cor tona, I t a l y. Th ro u g h o u t h i s ca reer, Po u l o s has received The Gug g e n h e im Fel l owsh i p, Th e Fren ch G over nment Grant ( for e i g ht m o nth s i n Pa r i s) , Th e M e llon Enhancem ent Gra nt, t h e Fin e Ar ts Fo u n dati o n o f At lant a Grant, and Th e Ph i B e t a K appa Awa rd fo r E xcellence in Teac hing, a nd h as h ad over 35 o n e - perso n exhib it ions in t he Un i te d St ate s an d Eu ro pe.

H i s p ai nti n gs a re i n th e co llec t ions of m ajor m use u m s an d pu bl i c a n d pr i vate collec t ions in t he Un i te d St ate s an d Greece, su ch a s Colum b ia M useum of Ar t (Co l u m bi a , S o u th Ca ro l i n a ) , The M int M useum (C h a r l o t te, N o r th Ca ro l i n a ) , Th e M u seum of Fine Ar t s, H ous to n , N e w Or l ea n s M u seu m o f Ar t, Vor res M useum (At h e n s, G re e ce) , a n d Ch a se M a n h att an Bank (New Yor k a nd At h e n s, G reece) .

• 2016 Artist-in-Residence, Butterfly House, LaGrange, Georgia • 2008 Professor Emeritus of Visual & Dramatic Arts, Rice University • 1975-2008 Professor of Visual & Dramatic Arts, Rice University • 1997 Visiting Professor of Painting, University of Georgia, in Cortona, Italy • 1994 Artist-in-Residence, University of Georgia, in Cortona, Italy

E D U C AT I O N • 1968 M.F.A., Tulane University • 1965 B.F.A., Atlanta College of Art • 1960-62, 1964 University of South Carolina-Columbia H O N O R S A N D AWA R D S • 1974 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial, Foundation Fellowship • 1965-66 French Government Grant for Year in Residence in Paris • 1965 Fine Arts Foundation of Atlanta Grant

S O LO E X H I B I T I O N S • 2015 The Acadian Landscape, LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia • 2015 Journey Into Landscape, UAC Contemporary Gallery, Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas • 2013 Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2009 Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2008 Rice University, Visual & Dramatic Arts Main Exhibition Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2007 Joan Wich & Company Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2007 Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2001 New Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2001 Theophilos Gallery, Athens, Greece • 1999 Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum (Collaboration with John Lawrence, photographer), LaGrange, Georgia • 1999 New Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1998 Selini Gallery, Athens, Greece • 1996 New Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1994 Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas • 1992 Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1987 Caroline Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1986 Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1986 McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Houston, Texas

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• 1985 McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1984 LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia • 1984 Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas • 1984 Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia • 1984 Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina • 1983 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France • 1982 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, California • 1981 Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia • 1981-82 Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas • 1980 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York • 1980 Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia • 1980 Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, LaGrange, Georgia • 1979 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Caorlina • 1979 Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas • 1978 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, California • 1978 Simonne Stern Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana • 1977 Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas • 1976 Simonne Stern Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana • 1975 Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas • 1973-74 Simonne Stern Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana • 1967 Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina • 1965 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia GROUP EXHIBITIONS • 2016-17 Voices of Trees, Mother Dog Studios, Houston, Texas • 2016-17 11th Annual Open Call Group Exhibition, Art Car Museum, Houston,Texas • 2016 Retable Exhibition, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas • 2016 Figure Out, Tapp’s Art Center, Columbia, South Carolina • 2016 re-in-car-na-tion, Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas • 2015 The Horse Show, Art Crawl Houston, Mother Dog Studios, Houston, Texas • 2014 Texas, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas

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• 2013-14 The Gun Show, Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas • 2012 Western Sequels, Art from the Lone Star, Istanbul, Turkey • 2012 Western Sequels, Art from the Lone Star, Athens, Greece • 2013 The Snake Show, Art Crawl Houston, Mother Dog Studios, Houston, Texas • 2012 God, Art Car Museu m, Houston, Texas • 2012 Reconstruction, Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas • 2011 Hot, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1998-2013 Day of the Dead, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas • 2008 Form and Figure, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2008 Landscape Exhibition, Meredith Long & Company Gallery, Houston, Texas •2007 Black and White, a Little Yellow, Joan Wich & Company Gallery, Houston,Texas • 2006 Holiday Show, Joan Wich & Company Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2006 At Work:@play, Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts Faculty Group Exhibition, Rice University, Houston, Texas • 2005 The Back Room, Gallery 101, Houston, Texas • 2002 Flora/Fauna, Plaza Johnson Gallery, Dickinson, Texas • 2001 Vessels of the Soul, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1997 Classically Inspired, Hooks/Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas • 1996 Angels, Crosses, Icons, Commander’s Point Art Space, Austin, Texas •1995 Artist-in-Residence/Faculty Exhibition, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona Italy • 1995 Houston Open Studios, • 1995, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas • 1995 Day of the Dead, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas • 1994 Group Exhibition, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona Italy • 1993 Foreign Influences, Two-Person Exhibition, Museum of East Texas,Lufkin,Texas

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• 1993 A Sense of Place, Transco Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1993 Summer Group Show, Frank Bustamante Gallery, New York, New York • 1991 Is There Still Life in the Still Life – Or is Nature Morte?, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas • 1990 Not Just Another Faculty Show, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas • 1990 Large Scale/Small Scale, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas • 1989 Third Annual Invitational Plate Show, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1989 Watercolors by Basilios Poulos, Karie, Greece • 1988 Plat du Jour, Second Annual Plate Exhibition, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1988 Contemporary Interpretive Landscape, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas • 1988 Invitational, The Watston Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1987 Petit Format, Kouros Gallery, New York, New York • 1987 Synergy, Glassell School of Art Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1986 Texas Visions: Art League of Houston, Transco Building, Traveling Exhibition • 1985 Fresh Paint, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1985 Fresh Roots, First Marks, Drawing Room Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1983 Thirty Plus Artists, Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, Georgia • 1982 Houston Artists Exhibition, Stavenger Art Museum, Stavenger, Norway (Traveling Exhibition) • 1982 Houston in Dallas, Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas • 1980 Made in Texas, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana • 1979 A Closer Look, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1979 Made in Texas, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans,

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Louisiana • 1979 Fire, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1979 Three Painters, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York • 1978 What’s Up in Texas, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas • 1977 Six From Texas, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada • 1977 35th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • 1974 New Talent, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York •1974 Contemporary Reflections, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut • 1972 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York • 1969 First South Carolina State Invitational, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina S E L E C T E D P U B L I C CO L L E C T I O N S • Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece Vorres Museum, Athens, Greece • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana • Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina • Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum. LaGrange, Georgia • Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina • Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana • LaGrange University, LaGrange, Georgia • School of Humanities, Rice University, Houston, Texas • Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York; Athens, Greece Galveston/Houston Company, Houston, • Texas Grand Hotel, Houston, Texas • Gulf Oil, Houston, Texas • Highland Resources, Houston, Texas • Inn on the Park, Houston, Texas

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Basilios Poulos, pictured in his Houston studio, surrounded by his Landscape Journeys series.

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