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Click here to listen to Mary Vernon's artist talk about her exhibition "Still Lifes and Tables." The talk was held at Valley House Gallery on Saturday, September 12, 2009.
Click here to listen to Quin Mathews' interview with Mary Vernon for WRR's Art Matters about her exhibition "Still Lifes and Tables."
Click here to see a video about the making of the exhibition "Sedrick Huckaby: Big Momma's House."
Congratulations to Vera Barnett who was awarded First Prize for her painting Classical Plastique: Girl in a Field (after Wyeth) in the exhibition Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art which was juried by Shelley Langdale (Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.) The exhibition was held at the Williams Tower Gallery in Houston, Texas, from March 12 through April 17, 2009.
Robert D. Cocke's and Tracy Hicks' work will be featured in Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord between Nature and Society at the Tucson Museum of Art from February 28 through June 28, 2009. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue. For further information see http://www.tucsonmuseumofart.org
Tracy Hicks' work will be featured in More Than This at CADD Art Lab from November 13, 2008 through January 8, 2009. For further information see http://www.caddallas.net
David H. Gibson's work was featured in Transformational Dialogues: Artwork by James Osamu Nakagawa, Reiko Imoto and David Gibson in the East and West Galleries at Texas Woman's University in Denton from September 30 through October 31, 2008.
Tracy Hicks: Global Warming: still/LIFE will be on view at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary through June 21, 2008. For further information see http://www.the-mac.org/TracyHicks
Congratulations to Sedrick Huckaby who was recently awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship. His exhibition Big Mama's House will open in the fall at Valley House Gallery.
Into the Woods: Artwork of Lilian Garcia-Roig will open at The Grace Museum in Abilene on July 10 and will continue through August 21, 2008. For further information see http://www.thegracemuseum.org/
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David Everett: Balancing Act (1991-2007) was on exhibit at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum from September 7 to November 4, 2007. Congratulations to Lilian Garcia-Roig on being
named a 2006 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors
Grant Program Award! Lilian Garcia-Roig's paintings were exhibited in the New Works Space at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas from November 4 through December 16, 2006. Click here to read her statement about the exhibition.
Cindi Holt's series of paintings of the Texas Governor's Mansion were exhibited at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center from January 5 through February 19, 2007. Holt was invited to the Governor's Mansion by then Governor and First Lady, George and Laura Bush. Rooms such as the Library, the State Dining, and Sam Houston Bedroom (pictured) are among those depicted by Holt. Since 2001, this series of paintings has been exhibited at the Galveston Arts Center; The Nave Museum, Victoria; the Grace Museum, Abilene; the Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa; the Irving Arts Center; and the Museum of The Southwest, Midland; but never in her hometown of Fort Worth until now. In his essay for the exhibition catalogue, Clint Willour, Curator at the Galveston Arts Center, wrote: Walking through an exhibition of Cindi Holt's "The Governor's Mansion" is like taking a virtual reality tour with Walt Disney as director, Henri Matisse as cinematographer and David Hockney as set designer. Holt has a way of distilling color to its essence and then bumping it up a notch. She can flatten a three-dimensional space onto a surface in a way that moves your eye through it until you have recreated it into the space you want it to be. Patterns are chalk-a-block: bumping into one another; climbing over each other; jostling for space. Flowers on tables mate with those in the carpet and in paintings on the wall. Furniture takes on human form: chairs bow and tables stand on tiptoe. You fully expect them to break into a chorus of "Be Our Guest" and dance out of the picture. In the midst of it all sit non-human observers - Cowboy the Cat looking strangely akin to the stuffed pillow next to him and Millie's son Spot passing for a porcelain figurine. The only human references appear in the photograph on the desk and portraits on the wall. And, yet, the house feels alive and vibrant. We anticipate the arrival of guests - flowers are fresh and tables are set. It is then that we realize Holt has made us the guests in her magical tour.
Bob Stuth-Wade worked in the village of Ballycastle (on the sea coast of North County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland) through the Artists' Fellowship Programme of The Ballinglen Arts Foundation in 2006. For further information see http://ballinglenartsfoundation.org/
Brian Cobble was awarded the 2006 Herman Margulies Award for Excellence for Machine Gun Fun in the Pastel Society of America's 34th Annual Open Juried Exhibition. This is the 3rd time in four years that Cobble has received top honors from the Pastel Society of America (America's oldest and most prestigious pastel society.) In 2003, Cobble was awarded the Dianne B. Bernhard Gold Medal Award for Hatch Alley and in 2004 he was awarded the Herman Margulies Award for Excellence (silver medal) for Departure. The Awards Ceremony was held on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at the National Arts Club across from Gramercy Park in New York City. At the ceremony, Cobble was named a Master Pastelist for having won his third award from the Pastel Society of America. David H. Gibson's photograph Light and Water Cascade Sequence Two was featured in the exhibition "100 Great American Photographs" from July 1 to August 20, 2006, at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. For further information see www.cartermuseum.org. Lu Ann Barrow's paintings were exhibited from August 19 to November 5, 2006 at the Austin Museum of Art and from September 16 to October 28, 2006 at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, in Longview, Texas. For further information, see www.amoa.org and www.lmfa.org. To see photos from the reception on Friday, August 18, 2006, for Lu Ann Barrow's "Soul-Journers": Friends, Family, and the Fabric of Daily Life at the Austin Museum of Art see http://www.davidbarrow.com/gallery/index.php?gallery=20060818-AMOA&tmplt=dbp-2005. David Dreyer's work was included in the "44th Artists' Invitational: Mixed Media" at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts from July 15 to August 26, 2006. The exhibition was juried by Anne Allen of the Arlington Museum of Art. For further information, see www.lmfa.org. "Sedrick Huckaby: Portraits and Quilts (Paintings and works on paper)" was on exhibit at the Galveston Arts Center from June 3 to July 9, 2006. For further information, see www.galvestonartscenter.org. "Vera Barnett: Classical Plastique" was on exhibit in the New Works Space at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary from March 4 through April 21, 2006. For further information, see www.the-mac.org/ The Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana, exhibited Sedrick Huckaby's work from February 4 to March 5, 2006. For further information contact the Masur Museum of Art at 318-329-2237.
David Everett recently completed a commission of a beloved pet dog named Kouka. This carved and stained mahogany sculpture captures the spirit of the recently departed Kouka on his favorite rug.
Tom Woodward's sculpture was on exhibit from May 3 to July 3, 2005, at The Biblical Arts Center (located on Park Lane in Dallas across from NorthPark.) For further information on "The Art of the Eternal: The Mathematical Sculpture of Thomas Woodward," see www.biblicalarts.org
James Dowell's paintings were exhibited from January 28 to April 3, 2005, at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. For further information on this solo exhibition, titled "Out of the Earth: The Work of James Dowell", see www.samfa.org
Cindi Holt's painting of the Red Room
was reproduced on the 2004 White House Christmas Card that the Bush's sent to 2
million friends and supporters.
David H. Gibson's photographs of Texas were featured on the editorial page of the Dallas Morning News on Thanksgiving Day (November 25, 2004.) The entirety of the editorial page was devoted to eight of Gibson's photographs under the heading "A Texas Thanksgiving." Gibson's photographs were reproduced along with a caption that read: As Americans, as Texans, the land defines us. It draws us, shapes us, tempers us, sometimes defeats us but consistently, blessedly, brings us back to ourselves. This Thanksgiving Day, the Editorial Board is proud to share with you our heritage as Texans, reflected in the art of Dallas photographer David H. Gibson. We invite you to join us in heartfelt thanks for this - our common ground.
Lilian Garcia-Roig's paintings were in a group exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D. C. This exhibition, "Transitory Patterns: Florida Women Artists," was on view through December 19, 2004. For further information, see http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/artists.asp?exhibitid=121. The exhibition will travel to the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, DeLand Museum of Art, and the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science in Tallahassee.
The exhibition "Miguel Zapata: Works from the Texas Studio" was at the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas, from October 14, 2004 – January 20, 2005. For further information see http://www.tylermuseum.org/Zapata.htm.
"The Elemental Nude: Sculpture by Anita Huffington" was on exhibit at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, from September 11 through November 13, 2004. For further information see http://www.waltonartscenter.org/pressroom.story.php?nid=22.
For the second year in a row, Brian Cobble won an award at the Annual Open Juried Exhibition of the Pastel Society of America in New York. In September 2004, Cobble won the silver award and in September 2003 Cobble's pastel Hatch Alley won the Dianne B. Bernhard Gold Medal Award. For further information, see the exhibitions section at http://www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org/
David Gibson was included in a five person exhibition at the University of Texas at Arlington from January 26 through February 28, 2004. The exhibition, titled "Personal Environments," also included the work of Tracy Hicks, Andrea Rosenberg, George Bogart, and Meg Langhorn and was curated by Marilyn Jolly. For further information see http://www.uta.edu/gallery/exhibitions/personal_environments.php.
Brian Cobble was given an exhibition at Dallas' The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in their New Works Space in October of 2003. It was a comprehensive exhibit of his recent charcoal drawings and pastels. A feature article on Brian Cobble's work appeared in the December 2003 issue of The Artist's Magazine. In 2003, one of Brian Cobble's pastels was acquired by The Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, and was included in their 50th anniversary exhibition A Celebration of Creativity: Three Centuries of American Masterworks on Paper.
Lloyd Brown completed a diorama titled The Corner of Marshall and East Eleventh on Sunday May 4th Two Thousand and Three, Thornton, Texas, Population 525 (as seen below) for the Hilton Austin near the convention center in December 2003. This 18 foot long diorama is his largest work to date.
Work by Lloyd Brown and Lilian Garcia-Roig is on view in the Trammel Crow Visitor Education Pavilion at The Dallas Arboretum which opened to the public on October 4, 2003. The Pavilion was designed by Ted Flato of the internationally renowned architectural firm Lake/Flato in San Antonio, Texas. For further information on visiting the Trammel Crow Visitor Education Pavilion at The Dallas Arboretum see http://www.dallasarboretum.org/
The Mystical World of Kelly Fearing: A Sixty-Year Retrospective was organized by the Creative Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin in 2002. The exhibition traveled to The Old Jail Art Center in Albany, Texas, and then to the Arlington Museum of Art in Texas. This exhibition brought together paintings, drawings, prints, and collages by the pioneering Texas artist and professor emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin. A catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition. For further information and photos see the Recent Events and Exhibitions sections at http://www.theoldjailartcenter.org.
Another exhibition of Philip John Evett's work appeared at the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas, from February 5 through April 18, 2004.
Teri
Fitzpatrick was
commissioned by Neiman Marcus to create the design for the cover and first page
David Gibson's photograph Buck Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, Moab, Utah was on view in October of 2003 in the exhibition Ansel Adams and His Legacy at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.
The exhibition A Sense of Place: The Salt Marshes of the Texas Gulf Coast Photographs by David H. Gibson was seen at the Dallas Museum of Natural History from September 26 through November 9, 2003.
In
September 2002, David Gibson
and his late wife Lorine, received the 2002 Legend award in the field of Arts
Patronage from the Dallas Center fo
James
Dowell exhibited a series of his portrait paintings at the McKinney Avenue
Contemporary in Dallas in the
Robert Peterson is one of sixty artists chosen for the book, Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary by Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl, It is now available from Dawn Sign Press. The book features four color reproductions along with a photograph of Robert and a short biography. The book contains over 200 color reproductions, 70 black and white images, 448 pages (Robert's work can be found on pages 261-265), hardcover, 7 x 10. Introductory price $64.95 (plus shipping and handling). Call 800-549-5350.
David Everett has just finished a commission for the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Last year, David Everett finished his commission to carve and polychrome 15 saints for the largest Catholic Church in Tarrant County. The saints fill niches designed into the inner wall of the sanctuary.
In February of 2000, the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas gave Valton Tyler a retrospective exhibition. It was curated by Murray Smither and was accompanied by a catalogue with a forward by Phyllis Kind. Early in 2001, Valton had a one person show at Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York City. A six-page article on Valton’s paintings written by Edward M. Gomez appeared in the summer 2001 issue of Raw Vision Magazine.
Since, Miguel Zapata unveiled his redesign of the doors for the church El Salvador in the old part of Cuenca, Spain; he has received two wonderful commissions. Miguel was asked to design a private chapel for an important Spanish Family and he was commissioned to create a large bronze Bishop for a square outside of Madrid. A portrait of the King of Spain by Miguel was donated to the new Meadows Museum located on the campus of Southern Methodist University. The bronze relief of the king is located in the main entrance just before the grand stairway. He is currently working on a project to create a Texas Door similar to his Passion door for the Church El Salvador
After her Texas Book Festival poster broke records by selling out its second printing in 1999, Lu Ann Barrow was commissioned to produce the poster image for the first National Book Festival. The Festival, organized by First Lady Laura Bush, was held Saturday, September 8th at the Library Congress. Lu Ann is scheduled to have an exhibition at the Biblical Arts Center. | ||||
Lilian
Garcia-Roig's work is featured in Encounters: Lilian Garcia-Roig at
the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama from October 5 through November 30,
2008. For further information see 
Dr. Mark A. Roglán, Director of the Meadows
Museum, will host a reception featuring Barnaby Fitzgerald's painting "Eve"
(shown at right) and its preparatory drawing on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, from
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. with remarks at 6:30 p.m. An exceptional video showing Professor Fitzgerald
creating the painting will be shown during the
reception. Dr. Bonnie Wheeler, SMU Director of Medieval Studies, commissioned this painting to be executed in
the 15th century manner of Spanish painting (egg tempera and oil) as seen in the
current exhibition at the Meadows Museum "Fernando Gallego and His Workshop: The Altarpiece from
Ciudad Rodrigo." Barnaby Fitzgerald consulted with Claire M. Barry,
Chief Conservator at the Kimbell Art Museum, about period techniques and pigments. An RSVP to the Meadows Museum at 
"Valton
Tyler Prints" was on view at the O'Kane Gallery at
The University of
Houston, Downtown, from September 8 - October 13, 2005. For further
information see
The
photography of David H. Gibson was featured in the exhibition "David
McManaway and Friends" at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas from June 10 and
through September 18, 2005.
For further information see 
A
selection of Valley House Gallery artists were featured at the Masur Museum of
Art in Monroe, Louisiana, from May 29 through July 10, 2005. Included in
the exhibition were Vera Barnett, Lu Ann Barrow, Lloyd Brown, Brian Cobble, Henry
Finkelstein, Barnaby Fitzgerald, Lilian Garcia-Roig, David H. Gibson, Sedrick
Huckaby, JunCheng Liu, Bob Stuth-Wade, Valton Tyler, Donald S. Vogel, and Miguel
Zapata. For further information see 
Philip
John Evett was given an exhibition of his recent sculptures and drawings at 
of their 2002 Christmas Catalogue. Neiman's merchandising department used Teri's
designs to create a wonderful range of products and Teri made a special
edition
print of the original cover images. These images can be obtained through her web
site at 
r Contemporary Art.
Also in 2002, Waterous & Company
published a book on David Gibson's photographs of
Utah titled Canyonland Vision: The Colorado Plateau of Southeast Utah.
The book includes an introduction by Dr. John B. Rohrbach, associate curator of
photographs at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. David signed
and numbered each of the books in the edition of 800. The book is
currently available at Valley House Gallery for $65.
fall of 2002. James was given a retrospective exhibition of his portraits,
landscapes and still lifes at the
Tyler Museum of Art from May 15 through July 20, 2003. The museum published a
catalogue with an essay by Charles Dee Mitchell in conjunction with the
exhibition. For information on this exhibition see 