SELECTED AWARDS

2010        Craftsmanship Award, Syncopation Sea, Construction Specification Institute, Houston, TX

2008        Resident Fellowship, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, Ireland

2007        Texas Artist of the Year, Art League, Houston, TX

                Creative Capital Fellowship, Diversworks, Houston, TX  (& 2006)

2006        Artist of the Year, American Institute of Architects, Houston Chapter, Houston, TX

2005        Resident Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Program, Woodside, CA

2004        Resident Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

2003        Texas State Artist of the Year, Three-Dimensional, Texas Commission of the Arts, Austin, TX

                Art in America's Art in Review, recognized Houston Bayou: public art installation of 2002

                Artist of the Year 2003, Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, Houston, TX

                Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County, (CACHH) Houston, TX

                Regional Craftsmanship Award, Houston Bayou; Construction Specification Institute, Oklahoma City, OK

2002        Resident Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA

                Craftsmanship Award, Houston Bayou; Construction Specification Institute, Houston, TX

2001        Individual Artist Project Grant, CACHH Children's' book, Famous Oaks of Houston, Houston, TX 

                Artist Award, American Institute of Architects, Houston Chapter, Houston, TX

1998        PASTA Grant, Public Art: Support for Temporary Art, Freed Foundation & CACHH, Houston, TX

1997, 1993              CACHH Grant, Creative Artist Program, CACHH, Houston, TX

1985        Fellowship, New Jersey State Council of the Arts, NJ

 

SELECTED Commissions

2010        Syncopation Sea, Texas A & M Galveston, Galveston, TX

2009        Live Oak Life, mosaic mural, Houston Medical Clinic, Houston, TX

                Strata, public art mixed media mosaic, The Woodlands, TX

                Tres Aves, mosaic mural, private commission, rural TX

2008        Falaya Staccato, Tile mosaic mural, Chevron Headquarters, Covington, LA

                Treasures from Grandma’s Purse, Waterplay Plaza, Terrazzo and Sculpture Installation, The Woodlands, TX

                Autumn Prairie, Indianapolis Airport, mosaic mural, Indianapolis, IN

2007        Houston Metro projects: Intermodal Station, Bayou Green, and Memorial Station, Houston, TX        

                Ephemeral Everglades, Mixed Media Installation, Miami Dade Art in Public Places, Port Terminal, Miami, FL

2006        At Water’s Edge, Mosaic Installation, The Woodlands, TX

                Wildlife Crossing, Greater Greenspoint Redevelopment Authority, Mosaic Installation, Houston, TX

2005        Texas Landscapes, Federal Reserve Bank, 8 paintings Houston, TX

                Louisiana Swamp, Denis’s Seafood House,, Byzantine Mosaic Mural, Houston, TX

2004        Houston Swamp, Rice University, Painting Installation, Houston, TX

2003        Butterfly Effect, Houston Downtown Management District, Wayfinding System, Houston, TX

                Cypress Swamps, Watershed Public Art Project, Digital Monumental Mural, Houston, TX

2002        Houston Bayou, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Mosaic, bronze, terrazzo installation, Houston, TX

2001        Sun Temple, Sylvan Rodriguez Park,  City of Houston Parks and Recreation Department, Houston, TX

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009        Nature Perceived, Nature Conceived, William Tower, West Gallery, Houston, TX (curator, Sally Sprout)

2008        Moments in Nature, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX

2007        Background: Sketches, Proposals, and Maquettes, American Institute of Architecture Gallery, Houston, TX

                Private Drawings, Texas Artist of the Year Exhibition, The Art League, Houston, TX

                Slice of Life, Stages Gallery, Houston, TX

2006        Portals of Perception, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX  (catalog: essay by Clint Willour)

2005        Altered States, Open Studio, Djerassi, Woodside, CA

2004        Velocity, Open Studio, Houston, TX (catalog: essay by Kathleen Whitney)

                Prairie Paintings, Open Studio, Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL

2003        Dixie Friend Gay New Prints, Tembo Studio, Houston, TX

                Divining, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2002        Shadows, Shack Obscura, Van De Griff Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2001        Shadows of Truth, Grace Art Museum, Abilene, TX

2000        Treescapes, Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, TX

                Sacred Trees, Michelson Museum, Marshall, TX

1999        Sacred Trees, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX (catalog: essay by Eleanor Jones Harvey)

                Sacred Trees, Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

1995        McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX  (catalog: essay by Elizabeth McBride)

1994        Rene Fotouhi East, East Hampton, NY

1993        Sacred Spaces, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX

1991        Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1990        Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

1988        80 Washington Square East Gallery, NYU, New York, NY

1987        Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010        The Presence of Light, William Reeves Fine Art, Houston, TX.

                The Back Room, Nau-Haus Gallery, Houston TX.

                Spider Woman: A Tribute to Louise Bourgeois, Darke Gallery, Houston, TX.

                Terra Infirma, Rudolph Blume Fine Art, Houston, TX.

                The Texas Aesthetic III, William Reeves Fine Art, Houston, TX.

2009        Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX (Juror Shelley R. Langdale)

                The Great Texas Sculpture Roundup, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX  traveled to Art Car Museum, Houston, TX                                                       (curator: Lee Littlefield)

                Amistad II, Texas Art in Peru, Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Arequipa, Peru, (curator: Gus Kopriva, Jim

              Edwards, Max  Boyd Harrison)

2008        Ulterior Motifs AKA Camp Marfa, Crazywood Gallery, Huntsville, TX & Marfa TX (curator: Wayne Gilbert)

                Girls Night Out, G Gallery, Houston, TX

2007        Amistad, Texas art in Peru, National Museum of Peru, Lima, Peru travel to Museum of Modern Art (Museo de Arte Moderno) in Trujillo, Peru (curator, Gus Kopriva, catalog)

                Camp Marfa, Old Fort Russell Building, Marfa, TX (curator, Wayne Gilbert, catalog)

                Opening Exhibition, Robert Hughes Gallery, San Antonio, TX

                Art in City Hall, Houston, TX (curators: Gus Kopriva & Karen Rezai) 

2006        Baroque Visions and Urban Verities: Seven Houston Painters, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX                                                       (curators: by Terri Sultan and Christopher French, catalog)

                Contemporary Houston, Shanghai Museum of Fine Art, Shanghai, China (catalog)

                Ragdale 30’s Anniversary Exhibition, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

                Clean Slate, G Gallery, Houston, TX

                Art in City Hall, Houston, TX (curators: Gus Kopriva & Wayne Gilbert)

                Collectors X 3, Art League Houston, Houston, TX  (curator: Clint Willour

2004        New American Talent 19, Arthouse, Austin, TX (juror: Jerry Saltz)

                Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico

2003        Transformation: Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

                Station of Life, Art Alliance Center, Nassau Bay, TX (2 person)

                Humid, Hot, Sweet, and Sticky, Wheeler Bros. Studio, Lubbock, TX (curator: Gus Kopriva)

2002        Gallery Artists, Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New York, NY

                The 9-11 Show, the Art Community's Response, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY

                Transformation: 911, Kingwood College Fine Art Gallery, Kingwood, TX

                New Artists, Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CA    

                Response, Exit Art, New York, NY

 

COLLECTIONS

Texas A&M Galveston, TX

Chevron, Covinton, LA

Djerassi Foundation, Woodside CA

City of Houston, Houston, TX

Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

Rice University, Houston, TX

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Art Museum South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

Art Museum Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

Art Museum, Amarillo, TX

The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX

Verizon, Dallas, TX               

Huntington Museum of Art, WV

Lester Marks Collection, Houston, TX

Studley, Houston, TX

Group One Automotive, Houston, TX

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Atlanta, GA

Allan Stone Collection, New York, NY

Besthoff Collection, New Orleans, LA

The Barrett Collection, Dallas, TX

The Kienholz Collection, Hope, ID

Duke Energy, Houston, TX

American General, Houston, TX