CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
december 8, 2017 - january 13, 2018
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
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CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
The holiday season always seems to be the perfect time to showcase the recent works of our magnificent stable of contemporary Texas artists. What better time to present patrons with a fabulous new selection of Texas paintings, each available to be lovingly acquired and given as that special memento or esteemed gift of the season? What better time, also, to celebrate the season together to acknowledge our appreciation of our artists and patrons for their continuing support and contributions to our gallery? And so, in the spirit of the season, we give you our Contemporary Texas Regionalism Winter Show, filled with the best examples of Contemporary Texas Regionalism!
The exhibition includes works by 15 members of the gallery’s CTR group, offering a grand revue of the best narrative art being produced in the state today. Participating artists include Randy Bacon (Albany), Mary Baxter (Marfa), David Caton (Utopia), Margie Crisp (Elgin), Fidencio Duran (Austin), Pat Gabriel (Fort Worth), Billy Hassell (Fort Worth), Lee Jamison (Huntsville), Laura Lewis (Mason), William Montgomery (Elgin), Noe Perez (Corpus Christi), Jeri Salter (Round Rock) and Debbie Stevens (Cypress).
All of these well-established, mid-career artists are distinguished in their own right. All are imminently collectable; their works can be found in numerous public and private collections in Texas and throughout the nation. All in all, therefore, the exhibition certainly makes for the best holiday art “fare” in town, with the gallery all aglow with beautiful, attainable works certain to warm the heart and inspire avid art shoppers to take one or two home as special decorations for a special time of year! The exhibition will also include works by artists Jon Flaming, Hunter George, Otis Huband, Jonathan Paul Jackson, E. Dan Klepper, Ken Mazzu, Erik Sprohge, Richard Stout, and William Young.
-Bill Reaves & Sarah Foltz Reaves | Foltz Fine Art
No.
Artist
Title of Work
Date
Medium
Size (inches)
Contemporary Texas Regionalism: Winter Show 1
Randy Bacon
Tendebam in Deum, et Offendi in me Ipsum
2017
oil on canvas
24x36
2
Randy Bacon
Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos #4
2017
oil on canvas
16x72
3
Randy Bacon
Merkel
2017
oil on canvas
16x72
4
Mary Baxter
Becky Speckles
2017
bronze
4x8x2.5
5
Mary Baxter
Nit Noi
2017
bronze
5.5x8x2
6
Mary Baxter
Desert Expanse
2017
oil on polyfiber
32x28
7
Mary Baxter
Green Ocotillos
2017
oil on polyfiber
30x30
8
Mary Baxter
Ocotillo
2017
oil on polyfiber
24x20
9
Mary Baxter
Sitting Jack Rabbit
2012
bronze
10
David Caton
Hot Springs Canyon Morning #3, Big Bend
2017
oil on canvas
48x48
11
David Caton
Hot Springs Canyon Morning #4, Big Bend
2017
oil on canvas
36x48
12
David Caton
Mule Ears, Mornings, Big Bend
2017
oil on canvas
36x48
13
David Caton
Pulliam Bluff, Late Afternoon, Big Bend
2017
oil on canvas
36x48
14
David Caton
The Chisos from the West, Big Bend
2017
oil on canvas
36x48
15
Margie Crisp
Ruisdael Hen
2017
Tempera & 24K gold leaf on panel
14x11
16
Margie Crisp
Ruisdael Rooster
2017
Tempera & 24K gold leaf on panel
14x11
17
Margie Crisp
Cardinal Boy
2017
watercolor on panel
4x4
18
Margie Crisp
Scotts Oriole
2017
watercolor on panel
5x5
19
Fidencio Duran
Easter Party
2017
acrylic on canvas
12x36
20
Fidencio Duran
The Offering
2017
acrylic on canvas
12x24
21
Jon Flaming
Abandoned House, Big Bend, Texas
2017
oil on canvas
20x24
22
Jon Flaming
Church, Big Bend, Texas
2017
oil on canvas
20x24
13x7x7.5
No.
Artist
Title of Work
Date
Medium
Size (inches)
Contemporary Texas Regionalism: Winter Show 23
Jon Flaming
West Texas Jack Rabbit
2017
etched acrylic on canvas
60x48
24
Pat Gabriel
Duplex
2017
oil on board
5.25x7.5
25
Pat Gabriel
Across the Way
2017
oil on board
4.5x7.25
26
Pat Gabriel
Grandma's Place
2017
oil on board
5.25x7.5
27
Pat Gabriel
Hideaway
2017
oil on board
4x6
28
Hunter George
Coast Guard, south Padre
2017
watercolor
14x11
29
Hunter George
Martindale Cotton Gin
2017
watercolor
14x11
30
Hunter George
Old magnolia Train station in magnolia, TX
2017
watercolor
11x14
31
Billy Hassell
Coyote
2016
lithograph
8.5x24
32
Billy Hassell
Grasshopper
2017
lithograph
8.5x24
33
Billy Hassell
Raven
2017
lithograph
8.5x24
34
Billy Hassell
Roadrunner
2017
lithograph
8.5x24
35
Billy Hassell
Rooster
2017
lithograph
8.5x24
36
Billy Hassell
Stink Beetle
2017
lithograph
8.5x24
37
Billy Hassell
Swallow
2017
lithograph
8.5x24
38
Billy Hassell
Llano River
2010
watercolor
14.5x19.5
39
Billy Hassell
Mockingbird and Grasshopper with Ripe jalapeno
2017
oil on canvas
50x48
40
Jonathan Paul Jackson
2010
mixed media
45x36
41
Jonathan Paul Jackson
2017
mixed media
45x36
42
Lee Jamison
2017
oil on canvas
24x36
Crane 2 Crane 3 Early Evening, Caddo Lake
No.
Artist
Title of Work
Date
Medium
Size (inches)
Contemporary Texas Regionalism: Winter Show 43
Lee Jamison
Hilltop Icehouse
2017
oil on canvas
18x24
44
Lee Jamison
Parade in Evening Shadows
2017
oil on canvas
16x20
45
E. Dan Klepper
Comanche Moon
2017
photograph on photo rag paper
20x20
46
E. Dan Klepper
One hundred Moons
2017
photograph on photo rag paper
17.5x17.5
47
E. Dan Klepper
Renegade
2016
photograph on photo rag paper
32x32
48
Laura Lewis
Brazos Dawn
2014- 2017
oil on canvas
56x36
49
Laura Lewis
Mystery Canyon
2017
oil on canvas
34x56
50
Laura Lewis
The Bridge
2017
oil on canvas
32x48
51
Ken Mazzu
Jefferson County #6
2017
watercolor on paper
9x12
52
Ken Mazzu
Jefferson County 1
2014-2017
oil on canvas
40x50
53
Ken Mazzu
Trinity River Basin
2016
watercolor on paper
54
William Montgomery
Buffalo
2012
oil on canvas
24x60
55
William Montgomery
Cactus and Rocks
2012
oil on panel
16x20
56
William Montgomery
Crevice Spiny Lizard, Nueces River
2016
watercolor
14x17
57
William Montgomery
Diamondback Terrapin
nd
oil on panel
11x14
58
William Montgomery
East Texas Pond
2013
oil on panel
11x14
59
William Montgomery
Yellow-Breasted Chat
nd
oil on panel
8x8
60
Noe Perez
Bluebonnet Field
2017
oil on canvas
30x40
61
Noe Perez
Near Utopia
2017
oil on canvas
12x16
62
Noe Perez
Standing Tall
2017
oil on canvas
31x21
63
Noe Perez
Thru the Bluebonnets
2017
oil on canvas
31x21
9x12
No.
Artist
Title of Work
Date
Medium
Size (inches)
Contemporary Texas Regionalism: Winter Show 64
Jeri Salter
Colors of Palo Duro
2017
pastel
9x18
65
Jeri Salter
Red barn in Spring
2017
pastel
11x14
66
Jeri Salter
Red Cliffs and Juniper
2017
pastel
17x30
67
Erik Sprohge
Arroyo Los Diablito
2017
watercolor
19x13.5
68
Erik Sprohge
Cliff Patterns 2
2006
watercolor
14.5x60
69
Erik Sprohge
Kerrville Late Afternoon
2017
watercolor
14.5x21.5
70
Debbie Stevens
Glorious
2016
oil on canvas
36x18
71
Debbie Stevens
In a Whirl
2016
oil on canvas
18x36
72
Debbie Stevens
Spring Transformation
2017
oil on canvas
18x24
73
Debbie Stevens
Tranquil Splendor
2016
oil on canvas
36x18
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM
Winter Show
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
1. Randy Bacon, Tendebam In Deum, Et Offendi In Me Ipsum, 2017, oil on canvas, 24x36 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
2. Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos #4, 2017, oil on canvas, 16 x 72 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
3. Merkel, 2017, oil on canvas,16 x 72 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
RANDY BACON Randy Bacon was born in 1957 in Abilene Texas. He pursued his interest in art studying studio art at the University of Texas and earning his bachelor’s in fine arts and journalism from Southern Methodist University. In 2003 Bacon earned a summer fellowship in painting at the Vermont Studio Center, an opportunity to greatly improve his skill and develop his personal style. Bacon continued to grow as an artist earning his master’s of fine arts degree in painting from Texas Christian University in 2007. Though maintaining a presidency of Stuart Bacon Advertising and Public Relations, a full service agency he co-founded with Jim Stuart in Fort Worth, from 1987 to 2002, Bacon chose painting as his true vocation and returned to painting full time.
Randy Bacon has always been attracted to the quality of light, the precise colors and the big skies of his native state. In communicating a sense of place, Bacon often draws upon the people and venues of his life to bring about work where past, present and future become blended, where memory and reality connect. Before returning full time to painting, Bacon was president of Stuart Bacon Advertising and Public Relations in Fort Worth, from 1987 to 2002, a full–service agency he co–founded with Jim Stuart. Bacon has had solo museum exhibitions at the Grace Museum in Abilene, the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, and the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University. Four of his paintings were selected for the “Art of the Red River Wars” exhibition at the PanhandlePlains Historical Museum in Canyon, and his work has been selected many times for the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum Annual Invitational. Bacon’s work was in group shows at the Museum of East Texas Culture
in Palestine and the Grace Museum. His work has been in numerous invitational group exhibitions in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Fredericksburg.
One of Bacon’s paintings is in the permanent collection of the Grace Museum, and his work is in many corporate collections, including Mansfeldt Corporation, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Waterford Capital, the John and Bobie Nau Collection of Texas Art, Moncrief Oil, Lake Austin Spa, Baldwin Anthony Securities Inc. and Woodbine Development Corporation. Bacon was selected by the Kimbell Art Museum for the Artist’s Eye series where his painting “Patricia” was displayed between the two Cezanne paintings in the Kimbell’s permanent collection. Bacon earned an MFA from TCU where he was awarded a full scholarship, and he was given a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. He is represented by William Reaves Fine Art in Houston, Carter Bowden in Fort Worth, and Jody Klotz Fine Art in Abilene.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1957, Born in Abilene, Texas • 1976-77, University of Texas at Austin, Studio Art • 1980, Southern Methodist University, B.F.A., Studio Art and Journalism • 2003, Vermont Studio Center, summer fellowship, painting • 2007, Texas Christian University, M.F.A., painting
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Selected Exhibitions • 2007, The Artist's Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas • 2007, Hunting Art Prize Exhibition, Houston, Texas • 2007, The Texas Five, Museum of East Texas Culture, Palestine, Texas • 2007-2012, Annual Invitational, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas • 2008-2012, Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 2009, A Cell of One’s Own, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas • 2009, Trinity Perspectives, Views of An Urban River, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 2010, Art of the Red River War: A Clash of Cultures on the Southern Plains, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas • 2010, Drawing on the Past: Selections from the Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas • 2011-2012, Familiar Territory: The Art of Randy Bacon, The National Ranching Heritage Center, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, Texas
Selected Public Collections • The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas • Mansefeldt Corporation, Abilene, Texas • Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico • Waterford Capital, Dallas, Texas • The Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art, Abilene, Texas • Moncrief Oil, Fort Worth, Texas • Baldwin Anthony Securities Inc., Dallas, Texas • Woodbine Development Corporation, Dallas, Texas
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
4. Mary Baxter, Becky Speckles, 2017, bronze, 4x8x2.5 inches.
5. Nit Noi, 2017, bronze, 5.5x8x2 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
6. Desert Expanse, 2017, oil on polyfiber, 24x48 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
7. Green Ocotillos, 2017, oil on polyfiber, 30x30 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
8. Ocotillo, 2017, oil on canvas, 32x28 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
9. Sitting Jack Rabbit, 2017, oil on canvas, edition of 25, 13x7x7.5 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
MARY BAXTER Mary Baxter was born in 1963 in Lubbock, Texas. Baxter always had a keen interest in art, particularly since family camping trips to the Chihuahuan Desert. She chose to pursue her passion attending the University of Texas at San Antonio to study painting and advanced printmaking. Fully self financing her studies, Baxter worked across the country on the high goal polo circuit. In 1955 Baxter moved to a ranch to help raise stocker yearlings and train horses. It was there that she began to see the beauty of the rugged desert and interpret it in her paintings. After several years, she was able to free herself of ranch duties to paint full time.
Baxter moved again in 2002 to Marathon, Texas and opened the Baxter Studio and Gallery in the old Shoemake Hardware Building. There, she continued to produce and sell her works for ten years. Currently, she resides and works in Marfa, Texas, using a vintage Silver Streak trailer to live in more remote locations where she creates some of her smaller plein air paintings. She frequently gathers ideas and sketches for larger pieces which she finishes later in her studio. This combination of techniques has helped Baxter to truly convey the beauty of the Texas landscape. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1963, Born in Lubbock, Texas
• 1988, B.S., University of Texas at San Antonio • 1995, Moves to the Big Bend Region of Texas
• 2002-12, Baxter Studio and Gallery in Marathon, Texas
• 2005, Best in Show, Trappings of Texas exhibition, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas
• 2006-07, McDonald Observatory Residency, Fort Davis, Texas • 2011, Madrono Ranch Residency, Medina, Texas • Resides in Marfa, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 2003, Solo exhibition, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa. Texas
• 2004, Group of five, Baxter Gallery, Marathon, Texas
• 2005, Two person show, Highland Gallery, Marfa, Texas • 2005-08, Trappings of Texas, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas • 2005-09, Annual Animal Art Show, Invitational, Big Bend Venue
• 2008, Hunting Art Prize, Juried Show, Houston, Texas
• 2008, Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, Invitational, Austin, Texas • 2009, Solo exhibition, Eugene Binder Exhibition Space, Marfa, Texas
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW • 2010, Solo exhibition, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
• 2010, Solo exhibition, Hunt Gallery, San Antonio, Texas • 2011, Group of four, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas
• 2013, A Tribute to Texas Rivers, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas
• 2013, The Texas Aesthetic VI, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2013, Hill Country Love Affair, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2014, Painting in the Texas Tradition, The Turner House, Dallas, Texas
• 2014, The Texas Aesthetic VII, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
10. David Caton, Hot Springs Canyon Morning #3, Big Bend, 2017, oil on canvas, 48x48 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
11. Hot Springs Canyon Morning #4, Big Bend, 2017, oil on canvas, 36x48 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
12. Mule Ears, Monring, Big Bend, 2017, oil on panel, 36x48 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
13. Pulliam Bluff, Late Afternoon, Big Bend, 2017, oil on canvas, 36x48 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
14. The Chisos from the West, Big Bend, 2017, oil on canvas, 36x48 inches.
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David Caton
(American, B. 1955) David Caton is a painter based in Texas; his work spans three decades of exploring landscape and still life, architectural and mythological painting. David began the study of painting during high school years in Houston, Texas, and later earned his BFA from the University of Houston before completing his MFA graduate studies at Yale University. Throughout these early years, he began to exhibit regularly and was also invited to be in group shows. He has since had numerous solo exhibitions, and his paintings are featured in corporate and private collections all over the country. He has received two National Endowments for the Arts and many other prestigious awards. He has also contributed photography to the digital oratorio Corpo, Carne e Espírito, which premiered at FIT Festival Belo Horizonte, Brasil. David has a close affinity for the terrain of the west, especially that of Big Bend, Utah and Arizona. He travels to these areas regularly gathering plein air painting material for future paintings. He usually executes studies in oil or pastel before completing the larger canvases. His refined technique and love for depicting the grandeur and drama that exist in nature have generated works that are both monumental and compelling.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights 1955 BORN Pasadena, CA 1979 BFA, University of Houston, Houston, TX 1982 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1981 Teaching Asst. to Gretna Campbell 1982 Teaching Asst. to Samia Halaby
Selected Exhibitions 2004 David Caton and Bill Zaner, Harris Gallery, Houston 2002 Group Exhibition, Harris Gallery, Houston
Group Exhibition, Williams Tower, Houston, Curator: Sally Sprout 2001 A Sense of Place, Williams Tower, Houston, Curator: Sally Sprout David Caton & Libby Johnson, Harris Gallery, Houston Living and Working in Texas, Park Central VII, VIII and IX, Dallas Opening Exhibition, Barbara Able Gallery, Santa Fe Group Exhibition, Park Central VII, Dallas Still Lifes, Transco Tower, Houston Texas Landscapes, Transco Tower, Houston 1996 Intimate, Houston Area Small Works Exhibition, Davis Gallery/ Pennzoil Place Gallery, Houston 1994 Romancing The Land, group exhibition, Galveston Art Center, Galveston Landscape Without Figures, group exhibition, Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston 1993 Fur, Fins, Feathers and More; A Multi-Media Menagerie, Galveston Art Center, Galveston 1990 Bell Ross Gallery, Memphis 1988 Houston '88, Cullen Center, Houston Bienville Gallery, New Orleans Wilhelm Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Bell Ross Gallery, Memphis 1987 Bienville Gallery, New Orleans Wilhelm Gallery, Scottsdale 1986 Wilhelm Gallery, Houston Lawndale Lab Show, Lawndale Art & Performance Center, Houston 1985 Wilhelm Gallery, Houston 1984 Wilhelm Gallery, Houston 1983 Diverse Works Group Show, Houston 1982 Yale Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut 1981 Texas A&M University, MSU Gallery, College Station,
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Texas 1979 Max Hutchinson Gallery, Houston Miniature Show, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston Houston Invitational Painting, Max Hutchinson Gallery, Houston 1977 Houston Area Show, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston 1975 Annual Spring Exhibition, Cullen Center, Houston Truair, Hornbuckle, Sellers, and Caton, One Allen Center Houston
Honors and Awards 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant 1980 Ford Foundation Graduate Assistance Grant, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1979 European Travel Grant, administered through the Museum of Fine Arts Houston 1974 Houston Post Scholastic Award, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Selected Collections • Societe Generale, Dallas • Heritage Media, Dallas • West University Bank, Houston • Electronic Data Systems, Dallas • Chase Bank, Houston • Bank One, Houston • American General Corp., Houston • First City Bank, Houston • Dow Chemical, Houston • Transco Energy, Houston • Andrews Kurth, Houston • Schlumberger, Houston Vinson & Elkins, Houston
Tenneco Inc., Houston Texas A&M University, College Station Bank of America, Houston Quanex, Houston Marathon Oil, Houston USAA, San Antonio Fidelity Investment, Denver Northern Trust, Dallas Duke Energy, Houston Chase Bank, San Antonio Northern Trust, Houston Fidelity Investment, Houston Scott, Douglass & McConnico, Austin Houssiere, Durant & Doussiere, Houston St. Luke’s Hospital, The Woodlands Hilton Americas, Houston AGL Resources, Atlanta Watt, Beckworth & Thompson, Houston OmniAmerican Credit Union, Fort Worth MD Anderson Hospital, Houston POGO, Midland Methodist Hospital, Houston Chevron, Houston Northwestern University Hospital, Chicago Sacred Heart Medical Center, Eugene Numerous Private Collections
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
15. Margie Crisp, Ruisdael Hen, 2017, tempera and 24k gold leaf on panel, 14x11 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
16. Ruisdael Rooster, 2017, tempera and 24k gold leaf on panel, 14x11 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
17. Cardinal Boy, 2017, watercolor on panel, 4x4 inches.
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18. Scotts Oriole, 2017, watercolor on panel, 5x5 inches.
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MARGIE CRISP Originally from New Orleans, Margie Crisp resides in Elgin, Texas, just east of Austin, with her husband and fellow artist William Montgomery.
An award-winning author, Crisp divides her time between writing and creating art. Currently her primary mediums are egg tempera paintings on panel (often embellished with 24k gold leaf) and printmaking including linocuts and lithographs. She finds working in the traditional medium of egg tempera a meditative process and enjoys working with the dry pigments, mixing in egg yolk to produce the quick-drying and durable paint. While birds are one of the primary subjects in her art, she does not consider herself a bird artist. She explains that birds are prevalent, abundant and familiar. They inhabit the same spaces as people do and are bold enough to confront them. She feels that the moment of communion between species draws her to repeatedly draw, paint and print birds. Crisp describes her own work as grounded in reality: the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1960, Born in New Orleans, Louisiana
• 1984, Earns Associate of Applied Science in Commercial Art and Advertising Design, with High Honors, Southwestern Technical College, Sylva, North Carolina
• 1991, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, B.F.A with High Honors
• 2009, Writer in Residence, Thinking Like a Mountain
Foundation, Ft. Davis, Texas
• 2011, Artist in Residence, Mardroño Ranch, Medina, Texas
• 2012, Publishes River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado, Texas A&M University Press
• 2012 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture, presented by Texas State Historical Association
• 2012 Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of NonFiction, Texas Institute of Letters • Resides in Elgin, Texas
Selected Exhibitions
• 1989, Intimate Images: Small Works on Paper, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas • 1995, Counterpoint 1995, Edd R. Turner Memorial Award, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas • 1995, Art At Large: Billboard Art Competition, one of three winners, Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas
• 1995, Third Biennial Gulf of Mexico Symposium Juried Art Show, Honorable Mention, Art Center of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas • 1996, In the Garden: Katherine Brimberry and Margie Crisp, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas • 1996, Southwest ’96, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 1997, Contemporary Views: Images of Land and Nature, Diane Grammer, Margie Crisp, Stacey Erickson, and Gordon Fowler, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas
• 1997, New Lines, Women Printmakers of Austin, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW • 1998, Art School Faculty Exhibition, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
• 1998, National Works on Paper, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas • 2002, People, Places and Things, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
• 2003, North American Print Biennial, Boston University, Boston Massachusetts • 2004, Gardens, Real and Imagined, Austin Museum of Art, Driscoll Villa, Austin, Texas
• 2005, The Print Show, Maryland Federation of Art City Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland • 2007, Betty MacDonald, Foust, and Margie Crisp, Migration, A Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
• 2008, Art, Science and the World Around Us, Art Center Waco, Waco, Texas • 2010, Texas Aesthetic III, Contemporary Texas Regionalism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2011, Texas Aesthetic IV, Contemporary Texas Regionalism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2011, Rivers, Group Show, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, Texas
• 2011, Perspective Influences Perception, Artwork from the Airport’s Collection, Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, Arizona • 2011, Fresh & Salty, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 2012, Tribute to a Texas River: Prints of
the Colorado By Margie Crisp, Contemporary Texas Regionalism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas
• 2012, River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado, Solo Exhibit, by Margie Crisp, The Art Center of Waco, Waco, Texas • 2012, River of Contrasts, Solo Exhibit, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, Texas
• 2012, River of Contrasts: Artwork of the Texas Colorado River by Margie Crisp, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, Texas • 2012, River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado, Solo exhibit, Taste Wine & Art, Johnson City, Texas
• 2013, Texas Aesthetic VI, Contemporary Texas Regionalism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas
• 2013, A Tribute to Texas Rivers, Contemporary Texas Regionalists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2013, Restless Heart: Early and Contemporary Texas Regionalism, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas
• 2013, Margie Crisp: Art of the Texas Colorado River, Solo Exhibit, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas • 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas Summer Cut, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW • Wings & Wheels, Artwork from the Airport’s Collection, Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Selected Public Collections • The Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas
• Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas • Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
• The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
• Phoenix Arts Commission, Print Collection, Phoenix, Arizona • The University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
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19. Fidencio Duran, Easter Party, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 12x36 inches.
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20. The Offering, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 12x24 inches.
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Fidencio Duran Fidencio Duran tells visual stories that honor the history of his family and community. Duran's artwork appears in public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. One of his most prominent works, The Visit, graces the length of the ticket counter at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Duran has the distinction of being the only artist to receive all three Dallas Museum of Art Awards to Artists.
Nave Museum,Victoria, TX, Grace Museum, Abilene, TX, MexicArte Museum, Austin,TX, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL, Museo Latino, Omaha, NE, Mesquite Art Center, Mesquite, TX 1994 Family/Community: Fidencio Duran, Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, TX GROUP EXHIBITS (selected)
A recent series combines landscapes, nature, and found objects as metaphors for our human need for community and shelter. They espouse the value of living in close relation to the earth.
2015 Selections from the Contemporary Art Collection, MexicArte Museum, Austin, TX
COMMISSIONS(selected) 2011 El Centro, Austin Community College, The Role and History of Education in east Austin neighborhoods Govalle, Riverside, Montopolis, and Del Valle, Riverside campus, Austin, TX,
COLLECTIONS(selected)
2004 University of Houston Permanent Collection, Strength in caring, Center for 2000 Students with DisAbilities, Houston, TX
South Texas Independent School District, The Last Haven, Biblioteca Las Americas, Mercedes, TX 1999 Art in Public Places Program, The Visit, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, TX
1996 Art in Public Places Program,Comite Patriota, Diez y Seis, Cinco de Mayo, Zaragoza Recreation Center, Austin, TX
SOLO EXHIBITS (selected) 2014 Tree of Life, Gay Fay Kelly/Prizer Gallery, Austin, TX 2005-2007 A Painted Memory: The Art of Fidencio Duran,
2014 Nuestras Historias: Stories of Mexican Identity from the Permanent Art Collection, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX Austin Contemporary, Austin, TX
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX Grace Museum, Abilene, TX PUBLICATIONS(selected) 2014 Sunday Afternoon, Alexandra Landeros, Latino
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2011 Duran pinta historia local, Liliana Valenzuela, Ahora Si, 2008 Enmascarados, Alvaro Ibarra, Fluent Collaborative, December
2007 "More than memories", Ben Bamsey, Artworks, Winter 2004 good mix, visiones from post modern Aztlan, Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly AWARDS
2015 Austin Arts Hall of Fame, Austin Critics Table 2014 Artist Inc., Live Austin fellowship, Austin, TX
2012 Jose Cuervo Tradicional Mural Project, national finalist 2012 Artist in Residency Program fellowship, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
1996 Dozier Travel Grant, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1990 Arch M.Kimbrough Fund Award, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1983 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX EDUCATION 1984 Bachelor of Fine Arts(studio), University of Texas at Austin, Spring
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21. Jon Flaming, Abandoned House, Big Bend, Texas, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches.
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22. Church, Big Bend, Texas, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW JON FLAMING
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Jon Flaming was born in 1962 in Wichita, Kansas Interested in art from a young age, he grew into a self taught artist working in a variety of media including watercolor, acrylic, oil and found materials. Flaming has tapped into a ne earlier regionalist sentiment and technique, evidenced by his iconic Texas subject matter. His paintings bring warm recollections of earlier, simpler roots, while simultaneously magnifying awareness of social change and transformation underway in the state of Texas. Flaming’s works clearly reflect the idiom of Texas regionalism and he has been classified as one of the state’s foremost neo-regionalist painters. His art is doen by a Texan for Texans, yet is still rich with universal narrative and appeal. Flaming started Jon Flaming Design in 1993 and has created award winning design campaigns and illustrations for a number of clients including Neiman Marcus, Milton Bradley, JC Penney, Pizza Hut, FedEx, Hewlett Packard and Pepsi.
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1962, Born in Wichita, Kansas 1968, Family moves to Texas 1985, B.F.A. from Texas State University 1993, Started Jon Flaming Design Serves AIGA Board of Directors Currently resides in Richardson, Texas
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2017 Jon Flaming - Recent Work, a 2 person exhibit at William Reaves Fine Art in Houston
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2016 "Meat - A Visual Narrative of BBQ Joints, Steakhouses & Burger Stands” - Solo exhibit at David Dike Fine Art 2014 "Oil on Canvas" show - Solo exhibit at David Dike Fine Art 2014 Contemporary Texas Regionalists show, Turner House, Oak Cliff, Texas 2014 The Texas Aesthetic VII: Lone Star Heritage in Contemporary Texas Painting - William Reaves Fine Art 2014 John Wayne Film Festival, Dallas, Texas (created art & branding for festival) 2014 Artistic Impressions of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas 2013 Restless Hearts Exhibit - San Angelo Museum of Fine Art 2013 Contemporary Western Art Exhibit - Stephen F. Austin University Show - Nacogdoches, Texas 2013 Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Invitational - Canyon, Texas 2013 Birdston Valley Revival - Solo Exhibit - David Dike Fine Art 2013 Hill Country Love Affair: Interpretations of the Texas Heartland William Reaves Fine Art T 2013 The Texas Aesthetic VI: Lone Star Heritage in Contemporary Texas Painting - William Reaves Fine Art 2012 William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show – Texas Aesthetic) William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show - West Texas) 2011 Texas Stampede – Group show, Insight Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show – Texas Aesthetic) 2010 William Reaves Fine Art – Solo exhibit (Roads Less Traveled – Jon Flaming’s Texas) 2010 William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show – Texas Aesthetic) 2010 Grace Museum – Bobbie & John Nau collection of Texas Art (Drawing on the Past) 2010 Cole Art Center – Nac Collect show 2009 William Reaves Fine Art – Houston (group show) 2009 A Texas Sampler – William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show) Work featured on KERA public radio 2008 Cherry Spring Festival - (group show) 2008 David Dike Fine Art – (group show) 2008 William Reaves Fine Art – Houston (group show)
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2008 Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Invitational 2008 “The Business of Art”– (group show) 2008 “Art in the Metroplex”– (juried show TCU) 2007 Cherry Spring Festival (group show) 2007 David Dike Fine Art – (group show) 2007 “Then and Now” show – Texas State University 2006 Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Invitational 2006 David Dike Fine Art – (group show) September 2006 David Dike Fine Art – (group show) February 2006 Blue Star Gallery, Hico, Texas – (solo) 2005 2005 David Dike Fine Art – (solo) 2005 McKinney Avenue Contemporary - show entitled “Natural Disasters” 2004 Plano National Juried Show 2003 2004 David Dike Fine Art – (solo) 2001 David Dike Fine Art – (solo) 1999 David Dike Fine Art – (solo)
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24. Pat Gabriel, Duplex , 2017, oil on board, 5.25x7.5 inches
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25. Across the Way, 2017, oil on board, 4.5x7.25 inches.
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26. Grandma's Place, 2017, oil on board, 5.25x7.5 inches.
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27. Hideaway, 2017, oil on board, 4x6 inches.
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PAT GABRIEL Pat Gabriel was born in Chicago in 1960 but soon after relocated to Fort Worth. He began drawing and sculpting as a child but became much more serious about producing art during his teenage years. At age fourteen, he met Yan Macs, a Latvian-born painter and re-established his inspirational compass. Afterwards, he began working with acrylic paints and producing highly detailed paintings. After he graduated, Gabriel immediately began working as a commercial artist and started moving his way up in the advertising field. Although the commitments of his daily life limit his time, the direction and quality of Gabriel’s work matured over time and he later began working with oils and studying mainly European artists.
Gabriel states that he is greatly inspired by clouds and what they do to light; he often paints the transformation of light and color frequently seen in the Texas landscape. In addition, he draws inspiration from plant life and keeps an elaborate garden. Working slowly, Gabriel spends quite a bit of time considering what to paint and comments that many of his paintings are symbolic or perhaps allegorical. Highlighting the collision of nature and man-made elements, he creates figurative painting through landscape imagery. In most cases, Gabriel begins his works with small idea sketches, working on many ideas at once. He photographs his subjects of interest and then edits the images to create a final painting reference. He mentions that his greatest aspiration is to make the viewer experience the same feelings he had while he was painting. Bringing the awe he experienced when he noticed the shifts of light in the morning sky to his pieces, Gabriel states that he conveys ideas that are personal to him but are universal to his audiences. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights
• 1960, Born in Chicago, Illinois • 1966, Moves to Fort Worth, Texas • 1990-present, Executive Director of Creative Services at
GCG Marketing • 2009, The Gail and Bill Landreth Award in memory of Gene Owens, Preservation is the Art of the City®, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 2011, Lucy Brants and Harry Brants Award in memory of Cynthia Brants, Preservation is the Art of the City®, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 2011, Hunting Art Prize Poster, Painting Fragile Spring selected for poster image • Selected Exhibitions • 2007, The 9x12 Works on Paper Show, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 2008, Fort Worth Community Arts Center 2008 Biennial, Fort Worth, Texas • 2008, Advisory Panel Selects, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 2009, Texas Artists Coalition Juried Membership Show, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 2009-2011, Preservation is the Art of the City®, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 2010-2011, Hunting Art Prize, Gulf States Toyota Friedkin Corporate Campus, Houston, Texas • 2011, CONTEM?ORARIES: A Survey of 21st Century American Artists, Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas
Selected Public Collections
• GCG Marketing, Fort Worth, Texas • Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art
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28. Hunter George, Coast Guard, South Padre, 2016, watercolor, 14x11 inches.
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29. Martindale Cotton Gin, 2016, watercolor, 14x11 inches.
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30. Old Magnolia Train Station in Magnolia, TX, 2016, watercolor, 11x14 inches.
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HUNTER GEORGE Born in 1932 in Lynchburg, Virginia native and current resident of Texas, Hunter George studied art, design and photography at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia where he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree.
As a graphic artist from 1960-2000, he was honored with numerous design awards from Art Directors' Clubs of New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Tulsa and Houston; Communication Arts Magazine; Print Magazine; Ad Week Magazine; The Printing Industries of America; and the Dallas Fort Worth Society of Communication Arts. George is also a past president of the Art Directors' Club of Houston and has served on the Texas State Board of the American Institute of Graphic Artists. In addition, he serves as a member of CASETA, the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art George has always hungered to capture the natural, as well as, the historical in watercolor. He states that he aims to help preserve a cultural history that is quickly fading from our midst. His love of old buildings and landscapes dominate his portfolio, entitled Reflections of the Past.
Since becoming a full-time watercolorist in 2000, George’s prize winning paintings have been featured in art galleries throughout the state of Texas. A longtime member of the Watercolor Art Society of Houston, George has had paintings accepted in the Houston International Watercolor Shows in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012 which granted him Signature status in this society. His award winning works have been represented throughout Texas by galleries in Houston, Galveston, Rockport, San Antonio, Belleville, Salado and Wimberley. His works are also showcased in Texas Highways Magazine and The Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center in Austin.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1932, Born in Lynchburg, Virginia
• 1952, Korean War Veteran, United States Air Force • 1959, BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
• 1960-1975, Graphic Designer/Art Director, Houston, Texas • 1975-1985, Partner, Advertising Agency, Houston, Texas
• 1985-2000, President, Hunter George Graphic Design, Houston, Texas • 1986, Board member, American Institute of Graphic Artists
• 2000-present, Watercolors by Hunter, Houston, Texas • Member, Rockport Society for the Arts • Member, Arts for Rural Texas
Selected Exhibitions
• Watercolor Art Society, Houston
o 2005, 28th Annual International Show
o 2008, Awarded Honorable Mention in 31st
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o 2009, 32nd Annual International Show
o 2010, Awarded Signature Status, 34th Annual International Show
• Blair House Gallery, Wimberly, Texas • Hunt Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
• Simply Art Gallery, Galveston, Texas • Creekside Gallery, Belton, Texas
• Holland House Gallery, Bellville, Texas • Griffith Gallery, Salado, Texas
• The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas • Texas Highways Magazine, Austin, Texas
Selected Public Collections
• Texas Oil Museum, Luling, Texas
• Cultural Activities Center, Temple, Texas
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31. Billy Hassell, Coyote, 2017, lithograph, edition of 10, 8.5x24 inches.
32. Grasshopper, 2017, lithograph, edition of 10, 8.5x24 inches.
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33. Raven, 2017, lithograph, 8.5x24 inches.
34. Roadrunner, 2017, lithograph, edition of 10, 8.5x24 inches.
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35. Rooster, 2017, lithograph, edition of 10, 8.5x24 inches.
36. Stink Beetle, 2017, lithograph, edition of 10, 8.5x24 inches.
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37. Swallow, 2016, lithograph, edition of 10, 8.5x24 inches.
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38. Llano River, 2017, watercolor on 300lb arches, 14.5x19.5 inches.
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39. Mockingbird and Grasshopper with Ripe Jalapeno, 2017, oil on canvas, 50x48 inches.
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Billy Hassell
(American, B. 1956) Fort Worth-based fine artist Billy Hassell, who was recently referred to as “Mother Nature’s Stylist” by The New York Times, has been showing his artwork since the 1980s in galleries across the country. His bold colors and patterns inspired by nature have captured the imagination of collectors throughout the nation. Few artists use color as effectively as Billy, and his graphically illustrative style contributes to his work’s emotional punch. Elite museums in Texas such as the Dallas Museum of Art, the Modern in Fort Worth, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Menil Collection in Houston, among others, have acquired Billy’s oil paintings for their permanent collections. His work hangs in a US Embassy, the University of Texas, the offices of HBO, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center. National art magazines such as Art News, Southwest Art, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have featured Billy’s paintings, as well as many regional publications such as the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, D magazine, and 360 West, to name a few. His artwork has also been displayed on several television shows.
Because of his dedication to conservation, Billy has donated art throughout his career to conservation organizations. The Nature Conservancy, Ocean Conservation and Audubon have used his artwork to raise money for environmental causes and celebrate the beauty of nature.
A unique passion of Billy’s is printmaking - in particular, lithographs. Billy has collaborated with a number of master printers to produce a sizeable number of color lithographs. This increasingly rare and labor-intensive form of printmaking has been and continues to be sought after by collectors internationally. Billy’s talents are not limited to the canvas. He has produced and designed large-scale stained-glass murals, one of which is a large floor medallion for the DFW airport, another, a 50 foot mural at a fire station in Fort Worth. He has also worked on various public art projects as well.
Academia has been an ongoing interest throughout Billy’s life as well. He earned his BFA from Notre Dame, followed by his MFA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Upon completion of his graduate degree, Notre Dame invited him to as a professor to teach etching and watercolor. He has also taught a variety of art classes - painting, drawing, printmaking, and studio practices - at universities including Davidson College in North Carolina.
Billy is regularly invited to people’s ranches and other landscapes across the country (and on occasion, out of the country) to capture the unique beauty of private places for their owners. Most recently, he completed a mural at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country that was featured in the Wall Street Journal. Today, Billy’s work continues to show the natural world charged with life, energy and movement. On canvases that loom larger than life, both in size and vibrancy of subject, his distinctive use of color and stylized natural elements and animals reveal why he has become such a highly respected painter. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights 1956 Born in Dallas, Texas 1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 1982 Master of Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
Solo Exhibitions 2014 EPHEMERA: Winged Creatures of Texas, The BRIT, Ft. Worth, Texas September-November ILLUMINATION, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas April 2013 ILLUMINATING NATURE, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas December – March 2014 2012 WILD THINGS (With David Everett), The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX, September-January 2013 WATERSHED, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, April-May COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans,
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW Louisiana, March-May 2010 MEMENTO, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, Oklahoma, December DISTANCES, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, May BREATH, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, February 2009 TANGLE, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas, December MIGRATION, 15 Year Survey, Ellen Noel Museum of Art, Odessa, Texas, September 2008 Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas, November MIGRATION, 15 Year Survey, Texas A&M International University, August LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana, August FIELD NOTES, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, May JOURNAL, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, January 2007 MIGRATION, 15 Year Survey, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, September 2006 LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2005 Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas, December Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, September Bryant Gallery, Kingsville, Texas, April McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, April 2004 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, April 2003 William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas, December Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, September Meredith Long and Company, Houston, Texas, April 2002 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas, September Dberman Gallery, Austin, Texas, May 2001 Meredith Long and Company, Houston, Texas, May 2000 William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft. Worth, Texas, December Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, March
1999 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas, July 1998 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, September Innsbrook Resort and Convention Center, Wright City, Missouri, July M B Modern, New York, New York, March 1997 William Cambell Contemporay Art, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1996 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, November Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, July 1995 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas, November 1994 William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas, September 1993 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, October 1992 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, May 1991 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, February 1990 Scott Alan Gallery, New York, New York, April 1989 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, October Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, North Carolina, February 1988 Scott Alan Gallery, New York, New York, April 1987 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas, December Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, September DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas, September 1986 Caroline Lee Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, May DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas, January 1985 Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, May 1984 McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Houston, Texas, July 1983 The Texas Club, Houston, Texas, October McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, February Group Exhibitions 2014 TEXAS CRITTERS, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, September-October SECOND NATURE (with David Everett), Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas, April 2010 25 Years of Adair Margo Gallery, Satoa Gallery, El Paso, Texas, December
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW Advancing Tradition: 25 Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, December Collections, Cultures & Collaborations, (Curated by Tracee Robertson), UNT Art Gallery, Denton, Texas, January 2009 Recess, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December 2008 Art, Science and the World Around Us, (curated by Margie Crisp) Art Center Waco, Waco, Texas, October Public Art in Fort Worth, Billy Hassell, Benito Huerta, and Anitra Blayton, (curated by Janet Tyson) Ft. Worth Public Library, Ft Worth, Texas, April 2007 Margarita Cabrera and Billy Hassell, The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, January 2006 Blurring Boundaries, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, Texas, September Artists for the New Century, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT August 2004 Fall Group Exhibition, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, November 30th Anniversary Exhibition, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft. Worth, Texas, October 2003 Art in the Metroplex (Juror: Diane Karp), Moudy Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, September For the Birds, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, April – May 2002 Landscapes, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, July Invitational Exhibition, Longview Museum of Art, Longivew, Texas, April 2001 Invitational Group Exhibition, dberman gallery, Austin, Texas, November-December Faculty Biennial Exhibition, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, October- November Five Star Texans, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas, September Made in Texas, The Art Center of Waco, Waco, Texas, September The American Landscape Today, Meredith Long and Company, Houston, Texas, May Fresh Voices, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City,
Missouri, June-July 2000 Summer Show, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, June 1999 Inaugural Exhibition, G.O.C.A.I.A. Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, October 1998 Texas Roots, The Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas, September Inaugural Exhibition: New Works by Contemporary Artists, Gerald Peters Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 1998 The Hurlbutt Bestiary, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, April-May 1997 New Horizons 1997, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, August 1996 Shared Passions, M B Modern, New York, New York, September Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas, (Alan Gussow and Gayle Maxon-Edgerton, Curators), Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, traveling exhibit, July through January 1996 Sacred Matter, M B Modern, New York, New York, July M B Modern Artists, Babcock Galleries, New York, New York, May 1995 Texas Myths and Realities, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, October Images of Nature III, Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, March-April Glenn Lane: Remembering, Trammell Crow Center, Dallas, Texas, April Opening The Border: Landscapes of Texas and Mexico, The Parc Royale, Houston, Texas, January-March 1994 All Creatures Great and Small, (Jo Ann Hart, Curator), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, June- July Collector’s Choice: Living with Art, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, June Anonymous, West End Gallery, Houston, Texas, March 1993 Texas Select Invitational Exhibition, (Richard M. Ash, III, guest curator), Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas, October Talleres en Fronteras: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from South Texas and Baja California, Weil Gallery, Corpus Christi
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW State University, Corpus Christi, Texas, traveling exhibit, April through December Animal Attraction, University of Dallas Art Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, April Art and the Animals, Longview Museum and Art Center, Longview, Texas, February Texas Art Celebration ‘93, juror: David Ross, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas, February 1992 On Death y Los Dios De Los Muertos, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, Texas, November Second Nature, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas, September The Big Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, (Annegreth Nill, juror), Houston, Texas, September Printmaking in Texas: The 1980’s, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas, June 100 Aniversary Exhibition: Masterworks from Ft. Worth Collections, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ft. Worth, Texas, April GROUP EXHIBITIONS (cont.):Contemporary Prints: The Peregrine Press Archives, (Alan Govenar and Jo Ann Hart, curators), traveling exhibit, September 1992 - August 1995 Flatbed: The First Two Years, Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas, February 1991 Group exhibition, Peregrine Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December Time is Relative, Beverly Gordon Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December Ship Shape, Galveston, Texas, September Chords and Discords, Hudson River Museum, Westchester, New York, July Paintings by Joanne Brigham, Billy Hassell, Jeff Delude, Hickory Street Annex Gallery, Dallas, Texas, April 1990 Forty Texas Printmakers, Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, Ft. Worth, Texas, November Primal Impulse: Billy Hassell and David Winston, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas, November 1989 Counter Signals: (Kevin Curry, curator), Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, Texas, August Earth Day 1990, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft. Worth, Texas, April
Feather, Fur & Fin, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, March 31st Annual Invitational Exhibition, Longview Museum & Arts Center, Longview, Texas, December Small Works, Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December A Family of Artists, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December Artists of Oak Cliff, Modern Dallas Art, Dallas, Texas, September Fish Tales, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft. Worth, Texas, July The Nature Of The Beast, Hudson River Museum, Westchester, New York, April Print Makers, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, February 1988 Zoomorphism: Animals in Art, Trammel Crowe Center, Dallas, Texas, September American Artists’ Beastiary: Armadillo to Zebra, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas, March 1987 The Fictional Figure, Caroline Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas, December Going to the Dogs, Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October Mythmakers, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft. Worth, Texas, October 1986 Inaugural Exhibition, Scott Alan Gallery, New York New York, May Faculty Exhibition, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Indiana, November Billy Hassell/Ken Saville, Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 1985 Texas: A State Of The Arts, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, March Texas Visions, Transco Tower, Houston, Texas, December Propaganda, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas, September Austin Annual, Mexi-Arte, Arts Warehouse, Austin, Texas, September East End Show, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston,
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW Houston, Texas, September 1985 The Horses’ Mouth, DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas, August Self-Image, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas, April Southwest ’85, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March Houston Artists in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Gallery for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, February 1984 Houston Profile, four-person show, The Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas, November Texas Only, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, September Four Texas Artists, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, August Competition ’84, juror; Peter Marzio, 2 Houston Center, Houston, Texas, April 19th Annual Juried Art Award Exhibition, juror; Jane Livingston, Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas, March Artist Call, Lawndale Annex, Houston, Texas, February 1983 Maps: A Mail Art Show, Diverse Works, Inc., Houston, Texas, December Synergy ’83, The Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas 1982 Group Show, Boston State House, Boston, Massachusetts, May Noir Blanc And The Chromatics, Leverett Craftsman and artists, Leverett, Massachusetts, April Thesis Exhibition, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, February Eleventh Annual Competitive Art Exhibition, Ely Art Gallery, Westfield, Massachusetts, February Works on Paper, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, January Anything Goes, Zone Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, January 1981 Group Show, Pratt Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts, December Billy Hassell/Stanton Sears, Danco Art Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts, September Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, The Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado, July Four Painters, Agusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, May
1980 Alumni/Faculty Exhibition, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, October Drawing Exhibition, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, September Boston Community Art Exhibition, Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, May Juried Exhibition, Edison Community College, Fort Meyers, Florida, April Group Show, Kaji Aso Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, February
Honors and Awards • Best of Show, 42nd Annual Invitational Exhibition, Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas 2002 • Honorable Mention, 31st Annual Invitational Exhibition, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, Texas, December, 1989 • Anne Giles Kimbrough Award, Dallas, Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, 1985 • Best of Series: Emerging Artists, 1984; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, 1984 • Cash Award; Competition ’84; juror, Peter Marzio, Assistance League, Houston, Texas • Cash Award; 19th Annual Juried Art Exhibition; juror, Jane Livingston, Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas, 1984 • Cover of the 1984 Houston Arts Calendar & Directory, Houston, Texas, 1984 • Synergy ’84; The Arts Symposium of Houston, Houston, Texas, 1983 • Best in show cash award, NEAF Gallery, The New England Artist Festival & Showcase, Northampton, MA 1981
Public Art Commissions • Fire Station #34, Sendera Ranch, Fort Worth, Texas 2007-2008, design / implementation of exterior mosaic (3’x 50’) • Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport, International Terminal D, D/FW, Texas 2002-2005, design for mosaic floor medallion (20’ in diameter) • Audubon Society of Texas, Austin, Texas, 2002 - 2007; 5 limited edition color lithographs (editions of 30 each)
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW • University of Texas, A.C.E.S. Building, Main Campus, Austin, Texas, 2002; oil on canvas (72” x 96”) • VHA, Inc., Dallas, Texas, 1995; two oils on canvas (50”x50” each) • 8.0 Club, Houston, Texas, 1994; mural (8’ x 25’) • Mesa Restaurant, Houston, Texas, 1994; mural (15’ x 50’), ironwork (4’ x 44’) and painted wood wall relief (4’ x 7’) • Home Box Office (HBO), Dallas, Texas, 1992; oil on canvas (72” x 60” • Cistercian Abbey, Irving, Texas, 1991-92; Tabernacle door (bronze)= • Texas Nature Conservancy, San Antonio, Texas, 1992; color intaglio edition printed at Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas • Methodist Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 1991; oil on canvas (72" x 60") • Foreman and Dyess, Interfirst Plaza, Houston, Texas, 1983; Mural (6’x 18') • Butler & Binyon, Allied Bank Building, Houston, Texas, 1983; Mural (5’x 25') • University of Massachusetts, Fine Arts Center Auditorium foyer, Art for a Public Space, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1982; Two murals (4’x 25') • New England Artist Festival, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1981; Poster
Public Collections • Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas • Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, Ft. Worth, Texas • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas • The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas • Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas • Ellen Noel Museum of Art, Odessa, Texas • Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas • University of Texas, Austin, Texas • Home Box Office (HBO), Dallas • Cistercian Abbey, Irving, Texas • VHA, Inc., Dallas, Texas
• Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas • The Crescent Collection, Dallas, Texas • Frito-Lay, Inc., Department of Research and Development, Plano, Texas • Methodist Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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40. Crane 1, 2017, mixed media, 45x36 inches.
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41. Crane 2, 2017, mixed media, 45x36 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW Jonathan Paul Jackson American, born in Houston, Texas (b. 1984)
Jonathan Paul Jackson is a Houston native and working with the El Rincon Social Studio. Mostly self-taught, Jackson began creating work at the age of 11 and has been exhibiting and curating since the age of 16. He has assisted and been mentored by prominent Houston artists Angelbert Metoyer, J. Antonio Farfan, Robert Hodge, and Lovie Olivia. His research into the “Masters of Color,” such as Matisse, Warhol, and Gauguin has been an inspiration serving his exploration of color. His research and interpretation of tribal language and symbolism has led him to create imagery that is all his own. Solo Exhibitions 2014 Mid Main Windows, Houston, Texas 2013 When the Going was Good, Little Pink Monster, Austin, Texas 2005 A Touch of Felt, Cafe Brazil, Houston, Texas
Group Exhibitions 2017 Group Show, Lullwood Group, San Antonio Texas Tell me I Can't, SXSW event, Austin, Texas Galveston Art Walk, Galveston, Texas Group Show, Sanpai Gallery, Galveston, Texas Group Show, MKT Bar, Houston, Texas 2016 Trust Me Daddy, Safe House Gallery, Houston, Texas 2016 Contact with Andrew Schmidt, Toplogy Gallery, Austin, Texas East Austin Studio Tour, Topology Gallery, Austin, Texas By the Pound, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, Texas Art Bash, Austin Art Alliance, Austin, Texas Group Show, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, Texas Locus, Alt Gallery, Austin, Texas Artifacts and Fotos, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
SXSW art installation, American Greeting Card Company, Austin, Texas Meditations: Art of the African Diasporas, Texas Southern University Art Museum, Houston, Texas. Curated by Dr. Alvia Wardlaw. Untitled Exhibition #003, Tomo Mags, Houston, Texas 2015 Collective Solid, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas Artifacts, El Rincon Social, Houston, Texas 2014 Group Show, Alonzo Gallery, Houston, Texas The Group Show, Little Pink Monster, Austin, Texas 2007 Black\Gold with Adrian Landon Brooks, Sucker Punch Art Gallery, Houston, Texas 2005 The Great Adventures, The Private Residence of Daniel Kane, Houston, Texas Curatorial Projects 2015 Artifacts, El Rincon Social, Houston, Texas 2014 The Group show, Little Pink Monster, Austin, Texas 2009-2012 Do it any Way YOU Wanna, Several warehouses throughout the East side of Houston, Houston,Texas 2011 Emerging / Merging, 2 day group exhibition, Winter Street Studios Houston, Texas Bibliography Interview with Design Firm CRPKG http://crpkg.com/2013/09/ lightbox-feature-houston-artist-jonathan-jackson/
Article on the Group Exhibition Collective Solid Paper City Magazine July 2015 Interview with Arts Houston Magazine January 2017
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42. Lee Jamison, Early Evening, Caddo Lake, 2017, oil on canvas, 24x36 inches.
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43. Hilltop Icehouse, 2017, oil on canvas, 18x24 inches.
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44. Parade in Evening Shadows, 2017, oil on canvas, 16x20 inches.
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LEE JAMISON Lee Jamison was born in 1957 and almost immediately developed an interest for art. Stating he has drawn since he could hold something to make a mark with, he began painting around the age of eight. Constantly involved in art classes throughout school, he chose to major in art at Lon Morris College, a small Methodist junior college in Jacksonville, Texas and completed his degree at Centenary College in Shreveport.
Jamison feels that drawing is simply a form of expression, similar to writing and he simply expresses things he knows. He enjoys working in series which are often rich with historical influence. Commenting that he has no set process for creating a work, he describes his paintings as ideas vaguely bubbling up from below. Historical works will always begin with a recorded of event but he states the potential connection of historical occurrences to the modern day drive him to create pieces compelling to the viewer. Essentially, it is Jamison’s own historical exploration. Jamison has been a full-time professional artist since 1982. He is known for three major specialties: landscapes in oils (particularly of East and Central Texas), large murals, and historical paintings. His landscapes have been the mainstay of a career spanning a quarter of a century and his mural projects have included major works for the historic Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas and the University of Texas at Austin. His historical works have focused on his knowledge of Texas history and include numerous works on the Texas revolution. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights
• 1977, A.A. Art Lon Morris College, Jacksonville, Texas • 1979, B.A. Art Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana • 1994-present, Works as a muralist
• 2011, The Sam Houston Project, produced nine credited works for combination documentary film and website on the life of Sam Houston
Selected Exhibitions
• Numerous Gallery Exhibitions, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas
Selected Public Collections
• Scott E. Johnson Memorial Mural, Huntsville, Texas • Driskill Hotel Ballroom renovation, Austin, Texas • University of Texas- Texas Memorial Stadium, East Grandstand expansion, Austin, Texas • Lon Morris College Millennium Mural, Jacksonville, Texas • Mayborn Museum Complex, (numerous murals and dioramas, significant work on installation of the museum, and work on development of the Emergence of Man Gallery) Baylor University, Waco, Texas • Bastrop County History Mural, Bastrop, Texas • Elgin Community Mural, Elgin, Texas • Mayborn Museum Complex Mammoth Mural, Baylor University, Waco, Texas • Kellogg-Pritchett House Dining Room, Huntsville, Texas • Walker County Storm Shelter Mural, Huntsville, Texas • Waco Mammoth Site Murals, Waco Mammoth Site, Waco, Texas
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45. E. Dan Klepper, Comanche Moon, 2016, photograph, edition of 25, 20x20 inches.
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46. One Hundred Moons, 2015, photograph on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, edition of 25, 17.5x17.5 inches.
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47. Renegade, 2014, photograph on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, edition of 25, 32x32 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW E. DAN KLEPPER E. Dan Klepper is an artist, writer and photographer based in west Texas. His work has been featured in numerous books and magazines, including “In Sight”, the online photography magazine for The Washington Post. Klepper’s art, exhibited at his Marathon studio Klepper Gallery, can be found in collections across the state. EXHIBITIONS Time Arts (analogue and digital video) and Studio Arts (photography, painting, sculpture)
FESTIVALS American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA Montreal Musiques Actuelles/ New Music America, QUEBEC Australia Video Festival, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, GERMANY Video Shorts, Seattle, WA Berlin International Film Festival, GERMANY 13th Poetry Film/Video Festival, San Francisco, CA Video Culture International, “New Media”, Toronto, CANADA Great Lakes Film and Video Festival, Milwaukee, WI San Sebastian International Video Festival, SPAIN Center for Media Arts, “Festival de Video”, Paris, FRANCE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS “Art in Chicago, 1945-1995”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL VIPFILM 8, Berlin, GERMANY “Multiples”, Atlanta, GA “Family Ties”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA “Encontros”, Glubenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PORTUGAL “Video Drive-In”, IVAM, Valencia, SPAIN “Video Drive-in”, NCI, Lisbon, PORTUGAL “Chicago Works: Art from the Windy City”, Erie Museum of Art, PA
“Kunst Video”, Gallery F15, Moss, NORWAY “Basically Boxes”, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL”Making Myths”, White Columns, New York, NY “Chicago Survey”, The Banff Centre, ALBERTA “The Science of Fiction/The Fiction of Science”, Grant Park, Chicago, IL “Myths and Miracles”, Center for New Television, Chicago, IL “Chicago Scene”, Mandeville Art Gallery, San Diego, CA “Chicago Video”, The Kitchen, New York, NY “Video 8”, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY “Video – Chicago Style”, Global Village, New York, NY “3 Erlanger Videotage”, University of Erlanger, GERMANY “Video Works”, West Hubbard Street Gallery, Chicago, IL ”Chicago Video”, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN “Sexuality Series”, Rhode Island Museum of Art, Providence “Video Pool”, Winnipeg, CANADA “Modern Dangers”, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY “New Wave Series”, First Street Forum, St. Louis, MO “Roles, Representations, Sexuality”, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA “Science and Fiction”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA SOLO EXHIBTIONS “Television”, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL “southofbasse”, baker studio, San Antonio, TX Klepper Gallery, Marathon, TX
PUBLIC WORKS PURCHASE PROGRAMS University Health System, Salud-Arte Program 2012-14 COMMISSIONS San Antonio Area Foundation East Post Ranch Tim Cuppett Architects Arnow Residence
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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Arts Council Completion Grant, IL, 82 Arts Council Fellowship, IL, 83 Arts Council Fellowship, IL, 84 Regional Fellowship Award, IL, 85 Arts Council Fellowship, IL, 86
EDUCATION BFA, University of North Texas MFA, School of the Art Institute, Chicago Graduate program, Biology, Sul Ross State University BIBLIOGRAPHY “Marathon Run”, Susan L. Ebert, Dorado Magazine, March 2016 “Off-the-Grid”, The Washington Post, April 29, 2015 Texas Monthly, Jordan Breal, Sept. 11, Volume 39, Issue 9, p. 54 American Film Institute, catalogue, 89, p. 13 Video Drive-In Valencia, catalogue (Spanish/English), Sept 89, p. 31 Encontros, catalogue (Portuguese/English), 89, p. 126 Screen, M. Soltis/D. Schebers, Nov 89, p. 20 New City, Tim Jacobs, July 89, p. 8 New Art Examiner, review, Jeff Abell, “Basically Boxes”, March 86, p. 50 Chicago Tribune, David Prescott, May 85, Sec. 7, p. 45 New Art Examiner, review, Lucas Haas, Feb. 81, p. 17 VISIONS, Satoru Fujii, editor, Feb. 81, p. 73
EDITORIAL Books Why the Raven Calls the Canyon ~ Off the Grid in Big Bend Country, TX A&M University Press (Spring 2017) 100 Classic Hikes in Texas, Mountaineers Books, (Spring 2009) Spirit Walker ~ JD Challenger and His Art, Tide-mark Press
(2005). Ghostdancing ~ Sacred Medicine and the Art of JD Challenger, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1998. (Edwin Daniels) Wolf Walking, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1997. (Edwin Daniels) Magazines (Features/Articles/Photography) Texas Highways Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine Cowboys&Indians Magazine Texas Lifestyle Magazine Taos Magazine American Cowboy Lonestar Outdoor News Mountain Athletics
Web Content The Washington Post, In Sight, April, 2015 Texas Historical Commission, www.texastimetravel.com Texas Highways Magazine, www.texashighways.com
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48. Laura Lewis, Brazos Dawn, 2014-2017, oil on canvas, 56x36 inches.
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49. Mystery Canyon, 2017, oil on canvas, 34x56 inches.
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50. The Bridge, 2017, oil on canvas, 32x48 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW LAURA LEWIS (b. 1954) Laura Lewis quickly noticed her interest in art when a self-portrait assignment in the third grade depicted her gift for drawing. Pursuing artistic education throughout her adolescence, Lewis was fortunate to study portraiture under renowned artist Glenna Goodacre.
At the beginning of her college years, Lewis majored in art but later changed her field of study in health sciences. She graduated with a degree in the health sciences and had a long career in the medical field. However, throughout her years as a medical employee, her artistic passion did not disappear and Lewis continued to paint portraits, learn print making techniques, and study with accomplished artists such as Paul Milosevich and Carroll Collier. Lewis has been a fulltime professional artist since 2001, and continues to study through workshops with artists such as George Strickland, Matt Smith, and Camille Przwodek.
Lewis states that portraying the rugged beauty of the High Plains of Texas is her most gratifying challenge. She focuses her artistic gift on successfully conveying the grandeur of the Texas landscape to her audiences. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights 1954 Born in Austin, Texas 1978 BS, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos 2001–present Regionalist Painter of the High Plains of Texas 2011 Member of Contemporary Texas Regionalists, WilliamReaves Fine Art, Houston 2004 Best of Show, Red River Valley National Juried Show, Vernon 2012 Best of Show, Lubbock Art Festival Juried Exhibit, Lubbock 2013 First Place, Lubbock Art Festival Juried Exhibit, Lubbock Authored or referenced in:
“Using Rhythm and Movement to Create Harmonious Landscapes” by Jana Fowler, American Artist Magazine, February 2009 “Landscapes Reimagined” by Mary Lance, Texas Co-op Power Magazine, July 2010 The Complete Painter’s Handbook, published by American Artist Magazine, 2012 “Advice for Sustaining an Artistic Career,” American Artist Workshop (a special issue of American Artist Magazine) 2012 “Build Audiences with E-Portfolios” by E. Brady Robinson, Professional Artist Magazine, October/November 2014 2016 Mural commissioned by Chevron Corporation for Corporate Headquarters, Midland, Texas (100 Years in Oil, oil on canvas, height (7 feet, 6 inches) x length (51 feet, 2 inches) Resides in Mason, Texas Selected Exhibitions 2000 Pastel Society of New Mexico, Fisher Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2003 Lubbock Art Festival Juried Exhibit, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock 2004 Midland Arts Association National Juried Show, Midland 2004–05 Red River Valley National Juried Show, Vernon 2005 Solo, Rhythm in the Landscape, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock 2007 Solo, West Texas Landscapes, McCormick Gallery, Midland 2007 The Big Picture, EdibleMetal Gallery, Lubbock 2008 Lubbock Centennial Celebration: 50 Years of Art, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock 2008–09 Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition, 2009 Solo, Art on Texas Avenue, Lubbock 2009 Lubbock Art Festival Juried Exhibit, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock 2010 Solo, Weiler House Fine Art, Fort Worth
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW 2010 The Presence of Light: Sky and Light in the Texas Landscape, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston 2011 Solo, Art on Texas Avenue, Lubbock 2011 Southwest Gallery, Dallas 2011−15 The Texas Aesthetic, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston 2012 Contemporary Texas Regionalists, traveled: Haley Memorial Library & History Center, Midland; Gage Hotel, Marathon 2012–13 Lubbock Art Festival Juried Exhibit, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock 2013 Restless Heart: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo (catalogue) 2013 Celebrating the Regionalist Legacy in Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts at the Gage Hotel, Marathon 2013 A Tribute to Texas Rivers, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston 2013 Solo, About Place: Paintings of Laura Lewis, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock 2013 Hill Country Love Affair: Interpretations of a Texas Heartland, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston 2013 Holidays at the Haley, Haley Memorial Library & History Center, Midland 2014 Intersecting Plains: Views of the Texas Coast & Texas Drought, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston 2014−15 Painting in the Texas Tradition, traveled: Turner House, Dallas; Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring (catalogue) 2014−15 Holiday Show featuring the Contemporary Texas Regionalists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston 2015 Ties that Bind: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Turner House, Dallas 2015 Texas Visions: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Nave Museum, Victoria 2015 As Far as the Eye Can See: 100 Years of Texas Art, Two Allen Center, Houston
2016 Contemporary Texas Regionalism: A Holiday Show, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston 2016−17 The Texas Aesthetic, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston 2017 Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo; Texas Capitol Ground Floor Rotunda, Austin; Witte Museum, San Antonio (book by same title published by Texas A&M Press) 2017 Lone Star Legacies in Contemporary Texas Art, Featuring Views of the Permian Basin by Laura Lewis, Haley Memorial Library & History Center, Midland Selected Public Collections ARMTech Insurance Services, Lubbock Benchmark Business Solutions, Lubbock Chevron Corporation, Midland Chromatin, Inc., Lubbock First United Bank, Lubbock Glasheen Valles Inderman LLP, Lubbock Happy State Bank, Amarillo Plains Cotton Cooperative Association, Lubbock San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo WindTex Energy LP, Dallas
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51.Ken Mazzu, Jefferson County #6, 2017, watercolor on paper, 9x12 inches.
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52. Jefferson County 1, 2014-2017, oil on canvas, 40x50 inches.
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53. Trinity River Basin, 2016, watercolor on paper, 9x12 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW Ken Mazzu
SOLO EXHIBITION:
(American, b. 1967)
Echoes of Oblivion, Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas. June 29 August 25, 2013.
B.F.A. Lamar University 1992
M.F.A. University of Houston 1997
Campbell Center For Historic Preservation Studies, Mount Carroll, Illinois 1998 Member, American Alliance of Museums, 2014 - Present Instructor, Glassell School of Art, Studio School, 2006 Present AWARDS & HONORS:
Scholarship Grant, Leslie T. and Frances U. Posey Foundation, Sarasota, Florida 1995
Friends of Art Scholarship, University of Houston 1995
FINALIST: 2013 Hunting Art Prize!
2012 Group Exhibition: Texas A&M University, MSC Forsyth Center Galleries, 4th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition, College Station, Texas. April 21 - August 19, 2012.
Two - Person Exhibition: Before Time, We Stand And Crumble, University of Texas at San Antonio, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas. May 31 - June 17, 2012.
2011 Group Exhibition: Gambol: Art League Houston’s 2011 Juried Member Exhibition, Houston, Texas. December 2 - December 31, 2011.
2010 Group Exhibition: 20 On Paper, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. December 7, 2010 - January 7, 2011. Group Exhibition: A Homecoming: A Tribute To Professor Emeritus Jerry Newman, Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. October 7 - November 10, 2010.
Selected Exhibitions
2016 FINALIST: 2016 Hunting Art Prize!
2015 SOLO EXHIBITION: Deconstruction Beauty, Katy Contemporary Arts Museum, Katy, Texas. September 17 November 15, 2015. Group Exhibition: Structure, Bank of America Center Lobby, 700 Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas, August 13 - December 9, 2015. Organized by Kinzelman Art Consulting.
2014 Group Exhibition: Beyond Graphite: Fab 15 + Performance, G Gallery, Houston, Texas, July 5 - 25, 2014. Curated by Catherine D. Anspon. 2013 Faculty Exhibition: 35 Years in the Glass Block Building, Laura Lee Blanton Gallery, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 13, 2013 February 23, 2014.
2008 2007 2000 1997
Group Exhibition: Artists In Academics: Works By Houston Arts Faculty, Beeville Art Museum; Beeville, Texas. May 3 - July 17, 2010.
Detrital Terrain, Lone Star College- North Harris, Houston, Texas Artifacts of Reason, Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas
Ken Mazzu: Excavations, The New Gallery, Houston, Texas Recent Paintings: Ken Mazzu, Small Projects Gallery, The University of Houston, Houston, Texas
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
The Williard Law Firm, L.P., Houston, Texas Weingarten Realty, Houston, Texas
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW Vinson & Elkins, LLP, Houston Texas
Longhorn Steel & Flamecutting, Houston, Texas PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
South Main Baptist Church, Houston, Texas
Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas
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54. William Montgomery, Buffalo, 2012, oil on panel, 9x12 inches.
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55. Cactus and Rocks, 2012, oil on panel, 8x10 inches.
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56. Crevice Spiny Lizard, Nueces River, 2016, watercolor, 14x17 inches.
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57. Diamondback Terrapin, nd, oil on panel, 11x14 inches.
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58. East Texas Pond, 2013, oil on panel, 11x14 inches.
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59. Yellow-Breasted Chat, nd, oil on panel, 8x8 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW William Montgomery
• 2008, Art, Science and the World Around Us, The Art Center, Waco, Texas • 2009, Nature Under Pressure: Etchings and Lithographs by William B. Montgomery, Tyler Museum of Art
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1953, Born in Tyler, Texas, currently lives in Elgin, Texas Selected Collections • 1972, TFAA Scholarship, Texas Fine Arts Association • Albritton Collection, Dallas, Texas • 1973-74, University of New Mexico • Art Center of Waco, Waco, Texas • 1974, Perugia Fine Arts Academy, Perugia, Italy • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1974-75, Kansas City Art Institute • Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas • 1975-77, University of New Mexico • Numerous Private Collections • 1996, Award of Merit, Southwest ’96, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico Selected Exhibitions • 1976, Two Edges on a Line, ASA Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico • 1977, William B. Montgomery, Triple G Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island • 1979, New Works - Carol Ivey and William B. Montgomery, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas • 1979, National Print Invitational, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (touring) • 1983, New Figurative Drawing in Texas, San Antonio Art Institute Gallery, San Antonio, Texas • 1983, Four State Survey, Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico • 1985, Southwest '85, Museum of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico • 1985, Twenty-Sixth Invitational, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, Texas • 1988, William Montgomery, Recent Works, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas • 1992, 20th Anniversary Exhibition- 1972-1992, The Art Center, Waco, Texas • 1996, Southwest ‘96, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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60. Noe Perez, Bluebonnet Field, 2017, oil on canvas, 30x40 inches.
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61. Near Utopia, 2017, oil on canvas, 12x16 inches.
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62. Standing Tall, 2017, oil on canvas, 31x21 inches.
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63. Thru the Bluebonnets, 2017, oil on canvas, 24x36 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW NOE PEREZ (b. 1958) Noe Perez was born and raised in Falfurrias, Texas. Interested in art from a young age, Perez’s artistic education began in his early teens as he studied with various local artists. Despite his love of art, he chose to major in engineering rather than art. Perez earned his bachelor of science degree in civil engineering at A&I University and continues to work in that field today. Unwilling to put intense interest in art aside, Perez has continued to advance his artistic abilities, attending plein air painting workshops with PAPA artists Ron Rechner and George Strickland. Much of his work is done in the studio from photographs and plein air studies.
• 2008–11 Salon International, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio • 2010 Texas Traditions, Heritage Gallery, Dallas and Insight Gallery, Fredericksburg • 2010–11 Alamo Kiwanis Show, San Antonio • 2012 Restless Heart: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo • 2013 Holidays at the Haley, Haley Memorial Library, Midland • 2014 Painting in the Texas Tradition: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Turner House, Dallas • 2015 Painting in the Texas Tradition: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring • 2015 Ties that Bind: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Turner House, Dallas
Perez believes that plein air painting is an essential exercise for any landscape painter and he paints outdoors whenever possible. He paints the South Texas landscape–dusty terrain dotted with low brush and cactus in bright sunlight–using Selected Public Collections beautifully realistic colors that are equally muted and vibrant. • Icon Bank, Galleria Houston • King Ranch, Kingsville Noe Perez is a master at capturing the beauty and essence • Kleberg National Bank, Kingsville of South Texas from Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande. • San Jacinto Title Co., Corpus Christi • University of Texas at San Antonio Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1958 Born in Falfurrias, Texas • 1979 BS, Civil Engineering, A&I University, Kingsville • 2009 and 2011 Honorable mention for artistic excellence, Jury’s top 50, Salon International Art Show, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio • 2010 Included in Texas Traditions, Fresno Fine Art Publications, LLC • Resides in Corpus Christi, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 2006–08 Night of Artists, Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio
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64. Jeri Salter, Colors of Palo Duro, 2017, pastel, 9x18 inches.
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65. Red barn in Spring, 2017, pastel, 11x14 inches.
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66. Red Cliffs and Juniper, 2017, pastel, 17x30 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW JERI SALTER (b. 1955) Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Jeri Salter has lived all over Texas– Houston, McAllen, Plano, Lago Vista, and currently, Round Rock. A selftaught artist, Salter honed her skills over the years through various classes and workshops, focusing her talent on pastel landscapes. Her paintings often parallel images from early Texas artist Frank Reaugh, as she derives her inspiration from the vast beauty in nature, highlighting the open skies and rolling plains of the Texas landscape. Most recently, she has found similar beauty in rural buildings and roadways.
Salter describes her landscapes as having remnants of humanity, captured in the scenes that feature derelict buildings and worn dirt roads. In painting these ordinary scenes, she tries to convey an appreciation of the natural beauty and the emotional sense of “searching” evoked therein.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1955 Born in Richmond, Virginia • 1974 Moved to Texas • 1983–84 Glassell School of Art, Houston • 1994–95 Collin County Community College, Plano • 2002–present Member, Central Texas Pastel Society • 2005–08 President, Central Texas Pastel Society • 2007-present Member, Austin Pastel Society • 2009 Best in Show, Austin Pastel Society Miniature Show, Austin • 2009 Best in Show, Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple • 2010 Pastel Second Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, Arizona • 2010 Mark Chapman Award, Best in Show, Fayetteville Artwalk Competition, Fayetteville, Texas • 2011 Pastel First Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, Arizona • 2012 Pastel Second Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, Arizona • 2012 Best in Show, Central Texas Pastel Society Membership
Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple • 2014 Pastel First Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, Arizona • Resides in Round Rock, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 2004–05 Wildflower Art Show, Salado • 2004–05 Art Walk, Georgetown • 2005–06 Austin’s Artist Harvest Facet Show, Austin • 2006 Lady Bird Johnson’s Wildflower Center Holiday Show, Austin • 2007–09 Austin’s Museum of Art’s Laguna Gloria Holiday Show, Austin • 2008–09 Texas Wild Bunch, Professional Artists’ Show, Kerrville • 2010–11 Fort Worth Main St. Festival, Fort Worth • 2010–11 San Antonio Fiesta Show, San Antonio • 2010–11 Bayou City Downtown and Memorial Show, Houston • 2010–11 Cottonwood Art Festival, Richardson • 2010–11 Art City Austin Show, Austin • 2010–11 Dallas Arboretum Artscape Show, Dallas • 2010–12, 2014 Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, Arizona • 2011 Featured Artist, Fayetteville Artwalk, Fayetteville, Texas • 2012 Restless Heart: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo • 2013 Holidays at the Haley, Haley Memorial Library, Midland • 2014 Painting in the Texas Tradition: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Turner House, Dallas • 2015 Painting in the Texas Tradition: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring • 2015 Ties that Bind: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Turner House, Dallas Selected Public Collections • BNSF Railroad Collection • Icon Bank, Galleria, Houston • Icon Bank, Sugarland • San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo
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67. Erik Sprohge, Arroyo Los Diablito, nd, watercolor, 19x13.5 inches.
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68. Cliff Patterns 2, 2006, watercolor, 14.5x21.5 inches.
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69. Kerrville, Late Afternoon, 2017, watercolor, 14x21.5 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW Erik T. Sprohge (B. 1932) Erik Sprohge was born in Riga, Latvia, and spent his early childhood in Germany and came to Houston, Texas in 1937. At sixteen he was a student of Lowell Collins and Robert Preusser, at the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He received a degree in architecture at The Rice Institute and in 1954 won the William Ward Watkin Traveling Fellowship enabling him to travel extensively in Europe. He also studied painting at the Institute Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in 1961, and at the Glassell School, Houston in 1984.
In the 70s he was design partner with Converse, Sprohge & Cox, Architects, after which he specialized in architectural illustration. Sprohge has been active in the Art League of Houston, and has had one-man shows at Dreyer Gallery, Lantern Lane Gallery, at the Jack Meier Gallery, Lowell Collins Gallery and Watercolor Art Society-Houston, Galleries. His works can be seen in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Washington. A watercolorist, his works reflect actual or remembered scenes that, while realistically rendered, portray the spirit behind the reality.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1932, born Riga, Latvia
• 1938, moves to Houston, Texas
• 1938-48, Museum School Children’s classes, Houston, Texas • 1948, studies under Robert Preusser and Lowell Collins at Houston Museum School of Art
• 1949-54, B.S. in architecture, Rice Institute, Houston, Texas
• 1955-57, U.S. Army stationed in Europe, part-time illustrator for Special Services
• 1961, studies under Fred Samuelson at Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico • 1964-72, design partner at Converse, Sprohge, & Cox Architects
• 1966, Fred Ealand Memorial Award, Art League of Houston
• 1981, studies under Philip Renteria at Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas • 1999-present, Signature Elite Membership, Watercolor Art Society, Houston, Texas
• 2005, Lifetime Achievement Award as an Early Texas Artist, CASETA
Selected Exhibitions
• 1964, Dreyer Gallery, Houston
• 1969, Lantern Lane Gallery, Houston • 1974, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston
• 1997, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston
• 2005, Rice Institute and The Visual Arts in Houston 19001960 • 2006, Early Houston Artists in Houston Collections, The Heritage Society, Houston
• 2002-06 & 2011, Participation in International show, WAS-H
Selected Public Collections
• Numerous private collections
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
70. Debbie Stevens, Glorious, 2016, oil on canvas, 36x18 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
71. In a Whirl, 2016, oil on canvas, 18x36 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
72. Spring Transformation, 2017, oil on canvas, 18x24 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
73. Tranquil Splendor, 2016, oil on canvas, 36x18 inches.
CONTEMPORARY TEXAS REGIONALISM WINTER SHOW
Debbie Stevens Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1955, born in Stillwater, Oklahoma • 1968, moves to Texas
• 2004, BFA University of Texas at San Antonio
• Signature member of Oil Painters of America and Society of Animal Artists • Member of International Guild of Realism
• 2004, Naima and Joseph Abraham Memorial Award, Second Place Painting, Arts International, El Paso, Texas • 2005, International Artist Magazine Award of Excellence, 14th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils, Oil Painters of America
• 2010, 1st Place in wildlife “the Artists Magazine Competition
• 2010, 3rd place Southwest Art Magazine “21 over 31” Artists to Watch
Selected Exhibitions
• 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, The Salon International, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
• 2005, 2007-2010, Annual National Juried Exhibition, Oil Painters of America • 2005, Central Regional, Oil Painters of America
• 2005, First Annual Show, International Guild of Realism • 2008, Western Regional, Oil Painters of America
• 2008, Third Annual Show, International Guild of Realism
• 2010, Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
Selected Public Collections
• Numerous private collections
About William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art
H OUSTON’S T EXAS- C ENTERED G ALLERY William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, originally established in 2006 in Houston, Texas, is dedicated to the promotion of premier Texas artists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing particularly on historically significant artists active in the state during the period of 1900-1975.
The gallery showcases many of the state’s most accomplished and recognized talents, all of whom have significant connections to Texas and have evidenced the highest standards of quality in their work, training, and professionalism. In addition to its general focus on Early Texas Art, the gallery places special emphasis on the rediscovery and presentation of midcentury works by Houston and South Texas artists. William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art is the foremost provider of Texas Modern Art, which includes midcentury masters and pioneering expressionists working in the state. The gallery also represents a dynamic group of contemporary artists, known as the Contemporary Texas Regionalists, actively showing their works in annual gallery exhibitions as well as traveling exhibitions throughout the state.
William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art is a comprehensive gallery offering fine art appraisals, consultation, collections management, brokerage, and sales services. The gallery exhibits artists working in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography. In order to promote interest and broaden knowledge of earlier Texas art, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art supports related gallery talks, community events, scholarly research, and publications. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm and other times by appointment.
Gallery Contacts:
William Reaves, President william@reavesart.com
Sarah Foltz, Executive Director sarah@reavesart.com
Mariah Rockefeller, Gallery Director mariah@reavesart.com