About this Artist
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Born: 1947, Prescott, Arkansas
Education:
1972 M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1969 B.F.A., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Solo Exhibitions:
2016 Gail Norfleet: The Shape of a Flower, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Gail Norfleet: The Studio, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Gail Norfleet: Looking at Art, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 The Glass Work, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2002 Ghosts, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1999 Cedar Valley College, Lancaster, Texas
1983 DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1976 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1974 Austin College, Sherman, Texas
Group Exhibitions:
2017 TREES: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never
sit in. (Greek Proverb), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2016 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas,
Texas
2014 A Transfer of Spirit: A Selection of Artists Who Studied with Roger Winter, Kirk Hopper Fine Art,
Dallas, Texas
2014 Summer Cut, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2013 Suitable Subjects: Contemporary Still Lifes, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2013 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2012 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2010 Texas Women Printmakers, Texas Women’s University, Denton, Texas, curator: Vance Wingate
2010 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Thank You Fort Worth: An Appreciation from Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2008 Texas Tour: 100 Years of Texas Landscape Painting, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 Shared Visions: Texas Artists Then and Now, curated by Paul Rogers Harris, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas; traveled to Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, and Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
2005 Art in the Key of Green, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 Works on Paper, art fair, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY (Valley House Gallery)
2002 McNay Art Fair, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2002 Beyond the Apple & Bottle: Still Life Invitational, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000 Introductions, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000 Departureturn, Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, Texas
1998 New Texas Talent, Craighead Green, Dallas, Texas
1994 The Easel Artists Coloring Book, Dallas, Texas
1990 Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, Texas
1984 The Gateway Gallery Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, Paul Harris, curator
1983 An Exhibition of Drawings by Seventeen Artists from North Texas, Haggar Center, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
1980 Paperworks, Museum of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
1980 Paperworks, Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas
1979 Made In Texas, University Art Museum, Austin, Texas, Becky Duval Reese, curator
1979 Paperworks: An Exhibition of Texas Artists, San Antonio Museum Association, San Antonio, Texas
1979 Paperworks, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1978 The Mondale Collection, Vice Presidential Mansion, Washington, DC
1978 Big Name Show, 500 Exposition, Dallas, Texas
1978 City Art, City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1977 Texas Drawings, Elmira College, Elmira, New York
1976 Faculty Exhibition, Austin College, Sherman, Texas
1976 St. Valentine’s Show, Frogmore Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1975 17th Annual Invitational Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Longview Museum and Art Center, Longview, Texas, Harry Parker, juror
1975 Appalachian National Drawing Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, Ivan Karp, juror
1975 Fort Worth Tarrant County Annual, Fort Worth, Texas
1975 20th Annual Exhibition of Southwest Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
1975 Texas Drawing Invitational, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1975 Dog Show, University Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1974 Texas Fine Arts Association, Dallas, Texas, John Leeper, juror
1973 Fort Worth Tarrant County Annual, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Jane Livingston, juror
1973 Texas Drawing Invitational, Smither Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1972 Texas Artists’ ’72 Invitational, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
1972 Davidson National Printing and Drawing Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
1972 Southwest Drawing and Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
1972 Drawing Invitational, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1972 1972 Southwest Graphics Invitational, San Antonio, Texas, Byron Kelley, juror
1970 Fort Worth Tarrant County Annual, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Walter Hopps, juror
1970 Images on Paper, Mississippi Arts Association, Jackson, Mississippi, Ida Kolhmeyer, juror
Literature:
Casey Lesser, “The Artist Who Taught George W. Bush to Paint,” Artsy.net, April 4, 2017. Spring #1, Spring #2, and Spring #3 reproduced.
Mimi Swartz, “W. and the Art of Redemption,” The New York Times, OP-ED, A25, March 21, 2017.
Michael Granberry, “Artist Captured Dallas’ ‘Forgotten Environs,’” The Dallas Morning News, Arts section, page 8E, May 22, 2016.
Gail Sachson, “The Dallas Art Fair: The Home Team Had the Advantage,” Art + Seek, KERA North Texas Public Broadcasting, April 15, 2015. Wildflowers and Hummingbird Moths illustrated. Available from http://artandseek.net/2015/04/15/the-dallas-art-fair-the-home-team-had-the-advantage/
“Up Front: Visual Arts,” Arts + Culture TX, October 2014, page 17, Paul, Jan, John, David reproduced.
A Transfer of Spirit: a selection of artists who studied with Roger Winter, exhibition catalogue, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, September 2014, Paul, Jan John, David reproduced on page1 and Hollyhock Dream reproduced on page 35.
Modern Luxury Dallas, December 2009, cover illustration, detail of Butterfly Girl #1.
Lydia Regalado, “Gail Norfleet: Looking at Art,” THE, April 2009, p. 42.
Rebecca Sherman, “Captured on Canvas! (You Might Be One of Them), www.decordallas.com, Friday, March 6, 2009, illust.
Roger Winter, On Drawing, Fourth Edition, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008, pages 62-63, Patriotic Snowman illust.
Janet Kutner, “Art Review: Generations,” The Dallas Morning News GuideLive, June 15, 2006, page 1G and 4G.
Janet Kutner, “”Ghosts” Inhabit Valley House,” The Dallas Morning News, May 29, 2002, page 12, illust.
Mike Daniel, “Quick Sketch: David FeBland, Gail Norfleet, Garrett Speirs,” The Dallas Morning News Guide, April 28, 2000, page 63, illust.
“Dallas City View: Pleased To Meet You,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 28, 2000, page 51, illust.
Bret McCabe, “City Lights: David FeBland stands out at Valley House Gallery’s three-person show,” The Met, May 24–May 31, 2000, p. 28.
Teaching:
2007 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Adjunct Lecturer
2004-2009 Cedar Valley College, Lancaster, Texas, Adjunct Painting Instructor
2003 Richland College, Dallas, Texas
2000 Cedar Valley College, Lancaster, Texas
1976-1979 Richland College, Dallas, Texas
1974-1975 Austin College, Sherman, Texas
Collections:
Atlantic Richfield Company, Dallas, Texas
Bates Container, Dallas, Texas
Continental Bank, Houston, Texas
Coopers & Lybrand, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Fort Worth National Bank, Fort Worth, Texas
Hillcrest State Bank, Dallas, Texas
Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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