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Looking south from Fort Griffin
39" x 36"
Oil on canvas, 2008 |
Breckenridge
12-1/4" x 12-1/4"
Oil on canvas, 2008 |
Clear Fork
24" x 48"
Oil on canvas, 2008 |
Between Lamesa and Seminole #5
24" x 30"
Oil on canvas, 2008 |
Waxahachie #1
24" x 48"
Oil on canvas, 2006 |
Comfort
14" x 172"
Oil on canvas, diptych, 2007 |
Near Albany
17" x 60"
Oil on canvas, 2008 |
Paramount
24" x 12"
Oil on canvas, 2007 |
Candelaria
20" x 72"
Oil on canvas, 2007 |
Between Lamesa and Seminole #4
18" x 36"
Oil on canvas, 2008 |
Waxahachie #2
12" x 44"
Oil on canvas, 2006 |
Near Anderson
12" x 36"
Oil on canvas, 2008 |
Patricia
19" x 80"
Oil on canvas, 2007 |
Galveston
12" x 24"
Oil on canvas, 2008
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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, February 17, 2006
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, May 22, 2008
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, September 11, 2005
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
March 24, 2004
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, June 2006
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Randy Bacon has always been attracted to the quality of light, the precise colors and the big skies of his native state.
In communicating a sense of place, Bacon often draws upon the people and venues of his life to bring about work where past, present and future become blended, where memory and reality connect.
Before returning full time to painting, Bacon was president of Stuart Bacon Advertising and Public Relations in Fort Worth, from 1987 to 2002, a full–service agency he co–founded with Jim Stuart.
EDUCATION
Texas Christian University, 2007, MFA, painting
Vermont Studio Center, 2003, summer fellowship, painting
Southern Methodist University, BFA, 1980, journalism, studio art
University of Texas at Austin, 1976-77, studio art |
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Cherry Spring Art Festival
June 12-15, 2008
Opening reception June 12, 6 p.m.
Mansefeldt
Cherry Spring, Texas
Preservation is the Art of the City
September 5 - 27, 2008
Opening reception September 4, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Community Arts Center
1300 Gendy
Fort Worth, Texas
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REPRESENTATION
David Dike Fine Art
2613 Fairmount
Dallas, Texas 75201
214-720-4044
www.daviddikefineart.com
Carter Bowden
4704 Bryce Avenue
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
817-738-6433
William Reaves Fine Art
2313 Brun Street
Houston, Texas 77019
713-521-7500
© 2006-2008 Randy Bacon
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