Alien Baby by James Bettison
Variation is the theme
56 paintings with stylistically little in com
mon. That comprises the Houston Museum of
Fine Art’s exhibit entitled Fresh Paint: The
Flouston School. The exhibit will be on view
through April 7 in the Museum’s Cullinan Hall
and Andrews Gallery. Presented in the exhibi
tion are 44 artists “whose personal visions and
independent styles have been significantly in
fluenced by living and working in Houston.”
Centrifugal Orbit by Dorothy Hood was
painted in 1984. An oil on canvas, it is 10 feet
wide and 8 feet tall. Sharon Kopriva painted
The Bad, Ugly, Proud and Disconcerned in
1983. It measures 8 feet, 2 inches wide and 6
feet tall and is mixed media on canvas. La
Creadon was painted in 1984 by Luis Fer
nando Garza. Painted with enamel and oil on
masonite, it is 4 feet wide and 5 feet, 6 inches
tall. Made of mixed media on terry cloth, Alien
Baby consists of four panels (one shown). Each
panel is 1 foot square and they were painted in
1984 by James Bettison.
/ Luis Fernando Garza
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