August 3 - September 7, 2024
From Kirk Hopper Fine Art:
“These works of mine are narrative drawings that attempt to illustrate some aspects of the duality of being. Let us call them “myth plays.” Most of us are aware of these dualities since we live in a visible and invisible reality. For example, there is the body and the soul, the flesh and the spirit. There is the two-fold experience of reason and passion. My considerations are influenced by myths, philosophy and theology. The effects of auditory processing disorder cause me to process thoughts, not in words, but images. Dominated by the tyranny of the outer and inner eye, I choose poetic logic over scientific reason, though I know full-well that the two must be united. Consequently, my base aesthetic tends to the romantic of more, rather than the utilitarian of less and is shorn up by formal dynamic composition. The problem is that I must find a way in which energetic composition can hold together the many shapes and images as an essence of one.” – Lee Baxter Davis
Lee Baxter Davis is highlighted in the December 2022 Texas Monthly magazine. The article “One of Texas’s Greatest Artists Lives Quietly in East Texas” describes Davis’s art career – going against the grain in the 1970s by making figurative art, his self described “swamp rabbit mysticism”, and his years teaching at East Texas State University. The article names Davis as “an unrecognized master because he’s never played to popular or critical tastes.” Click HERE to read the article.
Reception: August 3, 2024 | 5–7 pm
Kirk Hopper Fine Art (Riverfront Blvd.)
1426 North Riverfront Boulevard
Dallas, 75207 Texas
214-760-9230
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