The drop-off date for the next guest show is April 6th. The show will open with a reception on April 9th. It will be up until May 31st. Pick-up June 1st.
Download Your Form HERE: YourArton12-GuestShow -Apr-May-2022
Robin Griffith is a native Houstonian who currently lives in Huntsville, TX. Having three degrees that include an AA, BFA, and MFA plus over a decade of teaching at the college level, she excels in the creative ability to convey detailed compositions. Her degrees were received from Houston Community College, University of Houston, and Louisiana State University. Past exhibits include shows with Spring Street Studios in Houston and the Conroe and New Braunfels Art Leagues. Art has been a part of Robin’s life since a very young age when she started to practice drawing and communicating the imaginary in a visual way.
Through her studies and teaching she learned that art is a language that is seen through visual representations creating an internal interpretation of time based on the human experience. She believes our minds are given the chance to travel through time exploring another place by documentation and imagination. Connections are made through external and internal beliefs of life experiences.Storytelling has always been a fundamental part of cultural structure bringing together community, family, and teaching the history of an overall individualistic human experience.
For Robin, the work she creates is based upon these above principles. Research of imagery is the foundation to her art. Each image is mentally collaged to form a complete interpretation of the imaginative and underlying a spiritual translation. In building the work in this way the viewer can understand how she feels and how she experiences the world around her. Every picture is given careful thought having a special component and role in the work. The visuals come together like a puzzle and are dependent on one another to form unity transpiring a message of hope, joy, strength, and memory. Detail is important in defining the composition and meaning throughout her work. Robin guides the viewer through different paths helping them develop their own interpretation and hopefully finding their own inspiring story.
Gordon Fowler
Gordon Fowler is a former high school quarterback and a lapsed rock-and-roll musician. As a Marine combat correspondent in Vietnam Cross of Gallantry. (The character named “Cowboy” in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam War movie, “Full Metal Jacket,” is based on Fowler.) He built his father’s small business-Wick Fowler’s Two-Alarm chili-into a multi-million-dollar national company. He opened La Zona Rosa, the popular Austin restaurant and nightclub made semi-famous in 1995 by the #1 country hit song ‘Amy’s Back in Austin”. He’s married to the popular rhythm-and-blues musician and recording artist Marcia Ball. And though it all, for more than three decades, Gordon Fowler has been a painter.
Galleries and Museums Exhibited
Santa Fe/ Kennebunkport/throughout Texas
Awards: West Texas Watercolor Society, Kentucky Watercolor Society, Louisiana Watercolor Society, Waterloo Watercolor Group
Commissions:
Dillard’s Department Stores and the Austin Museum of Art Commemorative watercolor to mark the Austin Museum of Art fundraiser/mall opening.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Art “Stonehouse Farm” oil painting for a museum fundraiser John Sharp “Placedo Hall, circa 1958”
Today, Gordon Fowler teaches painting at the Austin Museum of Art and paints in the Southwestern U.S., in Mexico and in Europe.
Artist Comments:
Sometimes I feel I should price my work by the mile because in making it I’ve driven literally thousands of miles crisscrossing Texas, looking for the perfect set-up, passing dozens of good spots along the way.
You don’t have to look hard to find places of great beauty here in Texas, and I get to go looking more than anyone deserves. The resulting paintings are sort of a back roads travelogue on canvas.
We are now posting video clips on YouTube:
https://arton12.com/videos-from-events/
Our first even in Inter.Sections: Word, Art, & Song, was a delightful and funny event with poetry by Nathan Brown, Music by Dirje Childs, Art by 50+ Artists.
Nathan told stories and read poems that explored the world of teenage daughters, Oh My!, and the perspectives from the different stages of life. He sang with his guitar and Dirje Child played both solo and accompaniment on her cello. Parts were laugh-out-loud and others were songs of serious prayers.
We shot a sample of 60-second clips for our Instagram channel and a 5-minute clip for our Youtube video channel.
Nathan is a nationally-touring singer/songwriter and former Oklahoma Poet Laureate.
Joining Nathan will be Dirje Childs, a beloved and classically-trained cellist.
Word, Art and Song, from this afternoon.
See our new channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu2lLZN8TR1BRaOSTPpfSAQ
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