About this Artist
Randy Twaddle has maintained a multi-disciplinary visual art practice for over thirty years, exhibiting throughout Texas and the nation since the early 1980’s. He has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Cultural Arts Council of Houston Harris County Artist Award, an Award in the Visual Arts, and an Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award from the Dallas Museum of Art. His work is in the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Brooklyn Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Yale University, and other institutions, as well as numerous corporate and private collections. In 1998, Twaddle co-founded the strategic communications and design firm ttweak, where he served as principal and creative director for 13 years, working with clients such as Zilkha Renewable Energy, Texas Children’s Hospital, MFAH, CAMH, The Menil Collection, and many others. Twaddle was co-creator of the Houston. It's Worth It. campaign, a ttweak project, which published three well-received, crowd-sourced books - HIWI: The Book, HIWI:Ike, and HIWI:Rice. Twaddle left ttweak in 2011 to return to his studio practice full time. Since then he has continued to exhibit drawings, prints and paintings, completed public and private art commissions in various media, designed textiles for Crypton, de- signed a line of Transformer Tiles for LaNova Tile, and a series of Transformer Rugs for Carol Piper Rugs.
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Born in Elmo, Missouri, 1957
Currently resides in Houston, Texas
Education
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, M.F.A., 1996
Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri, B.F.A., 1980
Awards
Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, Artist Award, 1996
Awards in the Visual Arts 9, SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1990
National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Grant, 1987
Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1986
Art Matters, Inc., Performance Grant, 1985
Exhibitions
2007
“Pushing the Envelope”, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas
2007
“CADD Art Fair”, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2007
“A Way With Words”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
2006
“Collectors X 3”, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
2006
“Less is More”, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas
2006
“A.M. In America,” Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo)
2005
“A.M. in America”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
2005
“black + white”, D Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas
2004
“Yet More Art for Marfa: Post 65”, AMVETS Building, Marfa, Texas
2003
“Reversal Drawings”, D Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas (solo)
2003
“Reversal Drawings”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
2000
“Works on Paper”, D Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas
1998
“Contemporary Prints and Drawings: A Decade of Acquisitions”, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
1996
“Texas Modern and Post-Modern”, (selections from the permanent collection), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1995
“Images from Space”, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1995
“Puritan Paintings”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
1994
“Stories”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1994
“Texas Art Celebration”, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas
1994
“Texas Selections from the Art Museum of Southeast Texas”, curated by Clint Willour, Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
1993
“What’s Next!”, SOMA Gallery, San Diego, California
1992
“Recent Drawings”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
1992
"UPC Drawings", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo)
1991
"Recent Drawings: CHPL HL", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California (solo)
1991
"Recent Drawings", Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
1991
"CHPL HL", University Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (solo)
1990
"Recent Drawings", Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
1989
"New Drawings", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo)
1989
"Carnival - A Farewell to Flesh", Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas (solo)
1989
"Carnival", Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
1988
"Carnival", DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo)
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