September 28 - November 9, 2024
From Valley House Gallery:
“Valley House Gallery is honored to present the exhibition John Patrick Cobb: The Chapel Installation and Texas Landscapes from September 28 through November 9, 2024. Join us for the Opening Reception this Saturday, September 28, 6:00pm-8:00pm, preceded by Artist Remarks at 5:30pm. Valet will begin parking cars at 4:45pm.
In 1983, at 29 years of age, John Cobb finished a painting of a priest he started while attending St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He had been dealing with the aftermath of a failed marriage and was in what he called “a dark place.” The priest had helped him start the process of emerging from his depression and rediscovering his faith. Five years earlier, Cobb had been granted permission to paint a mural covering the interior of Chapel on the Dunes, in Port Aransas, Texas. Inspired by that experience, when painting the priest he experienced a calling to create a second chapel, one that would house a series of paintings expressing faith-related experiences. After 41 years, Cobb has declared The Chapel complete. Valley House is pleased to present this monumental tribute to divine devotion.
Texas Landscapes, Montopolis, and Colorado
This exhibition also includes recent small landscape paintings. Between sessions working on the meticulous egg tempera and gold leaf chapel paintings, he takes breaks to go outside and paint on site. John Cobb describes one favorite place: “The nearby neighborhood of Montopolis would have to be considered an outlier of sorts, for its ethnic roots, I suppose. Peculiar individuals still considered local and colorful, city codes often ignored with eruptions of incongruous and expedient architecture, stolen bikes, and ne’er-do-wells, but it is rife with subject matter for the artist.”
John Patrick Cobb: The Chapel Installation and Texas Landscapes will be on view through November 9, at Valley House Gallery, 6616 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, Texas. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Call 972-239-2441 or visit https://www.valleyhouse.com for information.”
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6616 Spring Valley Road
Dallas, 75254 TX
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