Bacon has excelled with his panoramic views of small-town Texas streets and rural scenes. His locations might look lonely to some, but to Texans they manifest the elbow room needed to live large.

Gaile Robinson
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Although realistically painted, Bacon's scenes of rural areas, small towns, highways and railroad tracks have a rich physicality and a palette just otherworldly enough to evoke a mysterious mood.

Douglas Britt
The Houston Chronicle

Bacon reveals the quiet, yet stunning, beauty of what we might otherwise pass by too quickly. He plots the intermediary points along a journey, the places one unthinkingly sweeps through on the way to a more alluring endpoint. As Bacon reminds us with his emotionally poignant paintings, oftentimes the journey is more important — and more intriguing — than the destination.

Catherine Deitchman writes reviews and feature stories for leading Texas art journals including ArtLies and Glasstire.

Bacon seems to be carving a place for himself among Texas regionalists who rose to fame more than 75 years ago.

Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Bacon's paintings offer up bits of recorded and imagined history. They are cinematic in their dimensions — literally mimicking, in some cases, the shape of letterbox film projections — and broach all kinds of mysterious desires to be there, in that time, in that location, in the comfort of a less complicated world.

David Willburn, professor of art and director of the campus gallery at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas

Randy Bacon's paintings are directly inspired by his travels throughout the region – these well-scrubbed, daylit paintings are excellent.

Fort Worth Weekly

Best Local Visual Artist – Reader’s Choice

Fort Worth Weekly
Best of '04

Observers have commented that some of Bacons West Texas landscapes remind them of the opening of a movie. Such comments suit him just fine, the native Texan says, because one of his missions is to make all of his work appear cinematic.

Bonnie Gangelhoff
Senior Editor, Southwest Art Magazine

For the artist, West Texas has long offered a veritable storehouse of memorable subjects and iconic images of The Lone Star State, and there can be little wonder why so many great artists have made pilgrimages there time and again. From Frank Reaugh to Everett Spruce to Randy Bacon, this exciting exhibition brings together master images of West Texas executed by the state's most prominent artists, past and present.

William Reaves
William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, and CASETA co-founder