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Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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The Cyber Art Show
"Bringing the Museum to You"
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“I am inspired by my own travels. Places and people offer me new scenarios and feelings to pour into my painting. Europe, USA, Asia, all cultures suggest diversity, to which I want to be the eye witness. On the other hand, art is a lens that translates the outside world for me to understand it and connect to humanity.
My way to achieve this is either paint on location, or take notes and draw sketches when I travel. I strive to work by memory, which requires a deeper observation; I select only what really reso-nates within. If I use my own photos I draw an edited version of the subject. Then I decide my own color arrangement, according to my mood and pre-mix a limited number of colors on my palette. At this point the brushwork should be (or at least appear) the easiest and most effortless. In other words, the painting should paint itself!
Ultimately I want the viewer to get lost in a timeless story. It's my highest reward. And a bet every single time.”
Gallery #670B
May 24, 2018
Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist
Garrett Middaugh (Born 1953)
- Image of the Day -
"Hofheinz Road"
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Feature Artist Bio
By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the second of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by American painter
Garrett Middaugh (born 1953 in Houston, Texas).
Born in 1953 in Houston, Texas, Garrett still lives there today. He received a BFA in Art Education from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979 and his MFA in Studio Art, specializing in painting, from UT Austin in 1984. He lived in Austin for several years and, during his last semester of graduate school, he was accepted into the Patrick Gallery (now closed) in that city. His work then was figurative, narrative, influenced by other Texas artists such as Melissa Miller, Earl Staley, Lee Smith III, David Bates.
He won several awards in juried competitions and gained significant recognition regionally, but upon returning to Houston in 1987, Garrett decided to give up the narrative work and began painting landscapes. He was accepted into the Harris Gallery in Houston and showed there from the early 90s until the gallery closed in 2016. He was also a graphic designer and worked for many years as Art Director for the marketing department of an oilfield equipment company.
Garrett is an accomplished pastelist as well as oil and acrylic painting and has won several awards, most notably Best of Show in the 2004 Pastel Society of America exhibition. He has been a finalist several times for the prestigious Hunting Art Prize. His paintings can be found in many corporate and private collections throughout Texas and other areas of the United States.
Garrett now shows at the Jack Meier Gallery in Houston, the Davis Gallery in Austin and the Fredericksburg Art Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas. He retired from his position as Art Director at the beginning of 2016 to focus exclusively on painting. While his larger paintings are created in the studio, he travels often throughout Texas and other western states to paint on location.
Exhibitions and Awards
2017
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Pastel Society of the Southwest Annual Juried Exhibition
2016
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Pastel Society of Southeast Texas Juried Exhibition, Houston, Texas, fifth place
2014
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Two person show, Gallery at Round Top, Round Top, Texas
2013
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Finalist, 2013 Hunting Art Prize
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Two person show, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas
2012
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Finalist, 2012 Hunting Art Prize
2010
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Finalist, 2010 Hunting Art Prize
2008
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Finalist, 2008 Hunting Art Prize
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Invitational Exhibition, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
2007
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Pastel Society of America, 35th Annual Pastel Exhibition, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, New York – Florence Prisant Award
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Pastel Society of the Southwest, 26th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition; Irving, Texas – Merit Award
2006
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Pastel Society of the Southwest, 25th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition; Dallas, Texas – 2nd Award of Excellence
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Invitational Exhibition, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
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One Person Show, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas
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One Person Show, The Artery, Houston, Texas
2005
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Pastel Society of the Southwest, 24th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition; Dallas, Texas – 3rd Award of Excellence
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Regional Artist Consortium, 1st Annual Juried National Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“Landscape painting is for me a means of projecting outward, of meditating, examining the here and now of place. The process often feels similar to the satisfaction of solving math equations, calculating distances and realizing accuracy of objects and space and relationships, of light, color, textures.
For the most part I paint Texas. For several years I devoted a significant amount of time to painting the forests near Houston -- the complexity of forest alleviated my sense of horror vacui, the nearness and density of growth was comforting. Lately, though, I have attempted to capture the mesmerizing serenity of central Texas farm and ranchland, and have ventured into west Texas and beyond, especially Utah, for subject matter.”
