STATEMENT
"At
its best my art seeks to describe a universe of polarities. It delineates
those paradoxes in our existence of light and dark, weak and strong, the
abstract and literal, in a world full of irony. My work at other
times only needs for me to enjoy doing it and people to enjoy seeing it."
The
present series of polymer photo gravures started with the stolen flowers
suite in 1999. In that series I started working as I had in
the early 1980's with words in my visual artworks but this time using
images that I was initially "photographing" with my computer. The earlier
texts were taken from literary works in progress and the images were usually
of leaves and flowers that metaphorically became the pages for a book.
Recent
works garnered from bits of video I edit from commercials, movies, and
the evening news focus on the time between the big events in our lives.
People who are caught up in the moment "on the way to the fire" so to speak
but not the fire itself. I am memorializing the most common moments
that make up our days and by far the greater parts of our lives.
I try
to define the perimeters of these passing days by the nature of their extremes.
I see a paradox of opposites in life, that no matter how ironic, are dependent
on one another to exist at all.
2009
"Eb und Flut" Two person show with curator Jim Edwards, Salzwedal Germany
One person printmaking overview 1976 - 2002, Huntington Museum of art,
Huntington W.V.
"Amistad II" Modern art Museum, Arequipa Peru, cat.
2007
"Amistad" Museum of Fine Arts, Group Exhibition, Lima Peru, cat.
2006
"Houston Contemporary" Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai China, cat.
2005
Contemporary Gallery Ljubljana, (solo)
"Texas Works on Paper" biennial, Havana Cuba, (group)
"Early Works 1976 - 1990" Gallery Art El, Check Point Charlie, Berlin
Germany
"Everyone's Story" one person, M'ARS Gallery. Moscow Russian Federation
2004
“Coastal Connections” Art Museum of Corpus Christi,
"Ulterior Motifs" Amarillo Art Center, Texas
"Digital Art" M'ARS Gallery, group show (October) Moscow Russian Federation
2002
- 2003
"Ambos Mundos" Casa de Alejandro Mundos, Havana Cuba (group show)
Craighead/Green Gallery, Dallas TX
ARTCO Galerie, Leipzig Germany
Midwestern State Univerity
William Campbell Gallery, Ft. Worth TX
Foto-Fest, Redbud/Tembo Colaborative, Houston TX
2001
Gallery
Zero, Barcelona Spain
Abbott/Roaden Gallery, Dayton Ohio
Davis Gallery, Southern Graphics Print Council, Austin Texas
Ft. Worth Modern Museum, Centennial Prints Exhibition
Tarrytown Gallery, Austin TX
2000
Stages Theater/Art League of Houston
Lomardi Gallery Austin Texas
Red Bud Gallery, Houston Texas
"The Last Waltz" Gertrude Gallery, Malmo Sweden
1999
Buchanan
Gallery, Galveston Texas
William Campbell Gallery Ft. Worth Texas
Susan Broden Gallery Madison Wisconsin
1998
“20 year retrospective” Museum of Modern Art in Viejo” , Belgrade, Yugoslavia
“The Big Show” Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
“Texas Roots” The Center for the Arts, Denton Texas
1996
“Japan and the World-Steps in the Post War-50 Years,” cur. Ichiro Hariu,
Kanagawa, Kenmin Museum of Art, Yokahama Japan, cat.
“Convergence” Barbara Davis Gallery/Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas
SELECTED
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1975-1995 |
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1994
"Trash from Culture” New Gallery, Houston, Texas
”Supermarket” artist of honor Houston International Festival,
installation Museum of fine Arts Houston Texas
1993
“Medarodi Graficni Retrospective,” Museum of Art Ljubliana Slovinia Biennial,
Soulage, Rauchenberg, Tapies, Rothenberg, Salle, Allison; cat.
1992
“Prints, Ft. Modern Museum,” Charles Cowles, New York
“100th Anniversary Exhibition” Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas ; cat.
“American Icons,” Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin Texas
1991
Charles Whitchurch Gallery, Huntington Beach, California
William Campbell Gallery, Ft. Worth, Texas
Huntington Contemporary Arts Center, Huntington Beach, California
1990
Museo Victor Emmanuel, Messina Italy
National Museum of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Budo Tomovic Arts Center, Titograd, Yugoslavia
National Museum of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Cultural Center, Banjaluka, Yugoslavia
Helicon Gallery, Torino, Italy
Chemers Gallery, Orange County, California
Mexic-Arte alterative space, Austin, Texas.
N.R. Gallery, 382 W. Broadway, New York, N.Y.
Chemers Gallery, Orange County, Tustin, California
1989
National Museum of Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Aire Gallery, Austin, Texas
Amarillo Arts Center, cur. Patric McCracken, Amarillo, Texas
Parco Gallery Ltd., cur. Ichiru Hariu, Shabuyu, Tokyo, Japan
Modern Museum, Ljubliana, Yugoslavia
1988
Swartz/Cierlak Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Nancy Teague Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Robiscon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Don Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1987
Chemers Gallery, Orange County, California
1986
Nora Eceles Harrison Museum, Salt Lake City, Uta
William Campbell Gallery, Ft. Worth, Texas
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1985
Kauffman Gallery, Houston, Texas Stone Press Graphics, Seattle, Washington
1984
Amendola
Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1983
Gallery
One, Ft. Worth Texas Juta Clifford Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Charlton Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Fine Arts Ltd., New Haven Connecticut
1982
Performing Arts Center, Tulsa Oklahoma
Design Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Caranchua Art Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas
1981
Dubose Gallery, Houston, Texas Charlton Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas
Don Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
1979
Juta Clifford Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas
Ravell Gallery, Austin, Texas
1976
“Disposable
Circus”, performance/environment; @ Miller Theater, Houston, Texas
“Disposable Circus”, performance/environment; @ Theater Center, Huntsville,Texas
1975
University of Houston Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
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GROUP
EXHIBITIONS 1975-1996 |
1995
“Images From Space” cur. David Brower, Glassell School of Art Houston,
Texas: cat.
1994
“Out of this World” curator Lynn Herbert, . Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
1995
“Ten Texas Printmakers”, Mosely Gallery, University of Maryland,
cur. Wade Wilson, Maryland
1993“Known
and Underknown, Contemporary Sculpture in Texas”,
Allen Center, Houston, Texas
“Texas Select Invitational”, Wichita Falls Museum, Wichita Falls, Texas
“L.A. Art Seen”, Los Angeles, California
“International Nexus 1993”, Dallas, Texas
Gallery artists, New Gallery, Houston, Texas
“Texas Biennial”, cur. Benito Huerta, Chris Cowden, Al Harris, Mayo, Dallas,
Texas
“Animal Attraction”, University of Dallas, Dallas Texas
“20th International Biennial of Graphic Art”, Tivoli Castle Museum,
Ljubliana, Yugoslavia
Rita Chemers Gallery Anniversary Show, Orange County, California
1992
“20th Anniversary”, Waco Arts Center,Waco, Texas
“Texas Printmakers”, Depauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
“100th Anniversary”, Modern Art Museum Ft. Worth, Ft. Worth Texas
Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin Texas
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Sapporo International Print Biennial, Sapporo, Japan
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