March 27 - May 29, 2021
From the gallery:
“ANDY DON EMMONS
Andy Don Emmons was born in 1966 in Fairfield, Texas, about an hour south of Dallas. He went to school in Huntsville, graduating from Sam Houston State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. Now, he lives and creates art from his studio in the town of Waxahachie, building a sculpture park on the grounds of an old chicken farm, and commuting to work cattle at his ranch outside Fairfield. His art cars have been shown far and wide, including at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum in Austin, and his work is in the collection of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, in Beaumont.
His life and work are permeated with an outsider sensibility, with rural imagery mining the lineage of earlier Texas regionalists like Otis Dozier and Jerry Bywaters. However, the feel of his work is more eccentric and visionary, in some ways kin to the paintings of Reverend Johnny Swearingen, whom Andy met as a young man. His work also feeds off the psychedelic vibe of bands like Thirteenth Floor Elevators and The Butthole Surfers, so it is no surprise he is a performing musician as well, playing as a part of Outhouse Moan and Inferno Texino.
For his show at Plush, Andy Don will present a grouping of intimate drawings and shamanistic sculptures created during the pandemic. Of this work, he says, “this collection of drawings and sculpture are from a series created during a year of reckoning and adaptation to change. When I awake in the morn, I usually draw out my dreams, memories, or visions that appear to me, with a fresh mind. The unconscious mind is a beautiful thing.””
Reception: March 27, 2021 | 2–8 pm
918 Dragon Street
Dallas, 75207 TX
469-551-3967
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