| First
Lady Laura Bush to Open Exhibit for Artist Dan Allison
Friday, February
5, 1999
 AUSTIN
– Texas First Lady Laura Bush will open a public exhibit featuring the
paintings of Dan Allison of Houston on Friday, February 5. Mrs. Bush, Mr.
Allison, Capitol staff and guests will attend the opening reception in
the First Lady’s office at 11:00 a.m. in Capitol Extension Room E1.008.
Members of the press and legislators and their staffs are welcome.
Allison, 35, is
a Houston native. He studied art at Sam Houston State University, and his
career began with an installation and performance at Miller Outdoor Theatre
called "The Disposable Circus", commissioned by the Museum of Fine Arts
and the Houston Main Street Festival.
Allison creates
his art by layering various materials, such as sandpaper, fabric, and metal
filings on large masonite panels that serve as plates. The large prints
he pulls from these surfaces in limited editions are unique impressions,
which he mounts on stretched canvases. He is also known for using a unique
three-color aquatint process. He uses yellow, red, and blue inks printed
in that order which yield a wide range of colors. He believes he is the
only artist using this process.
Allison’s work
can be found in many corporate, private and museum collections including
Houston’s Caddell and Conwell Foundation, Transco, Compaq, the Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, the National Museum of Belgrade and the Parco Art
Gallery in Shebuya Tokyo, Japan.
His one-person
shows have been featured in Texas, Washington, California, Connecticut,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. His work also has been in numerous group
shows in North America and Europe.
The artist’s innovative
printmaking earned considerable recognition in Eastern Europe and Japan.
He won the Grand Prix at the 1987 International Graphics Biennial in Ljubliana
Slovenia – joining the ranks of other noted artists, including Joan Miro,
Robert Rauschenberg, David Salle, and Cy Twombly.
Dan Allison is
the 16th in a series of artists to be featured in Mrs. Bush’s
office. |
