October 17 - January 18, 2025
From Nicole Longnecker Gallery:
“We are proud to announce two events with Texas sculptor and artist, Danville Chadbourne: an Artist Meet and Greet Thursday, October 17, 6-8pm and an Artist Afternoon, Saturday, October 19 from 12-2pm, at Nicole Longnecker Gallery, 1440 Greengrass. Dr. The artist will be in attendance at both events. The exhibit continues daily through Saturday January 18, 2025.
Nicole Longnecker Gallery is proud to present “Physical Poetry: New Works in Wood”, a solo exhibition by San Antonio artist, Danville Chadbourne. Featuring large and small-scale sculptures, suspended works, and an expansive series of two-dimensional drawings on wood panels and reliefs, this exhibition highlights the artist’s recent preoccupation with wood as a primary material.
Known for his masterful integration of materials, both found and crafted, these works attest to Chadbourne’s ongoing exploration of organic forms and gestures, his distinctive use of color and primal symbol imagery, the interaction of line, mass and gravity, and the evocative, poetic possibilities that exist at the intersection of the natural and the human-made.
“We are very excited to end the calendar year with a long overdue solo show for Danville Chadbourne,” said gallery owner Nicole Longnecker. “The exhibit shows the breadth of his artistic vision with sculpture, two dimensional pieces and mobiles. Danville has been an important fixture in Texas sculpture and art for nearly five decades, exhibiting all over the world to great acclaim, with work in in numerous museums and important private collections. You don’t want to miss seeing it person.”
ARTIST BIO Primarily a sculptor in clay and wood, Danville Chadbourne works in a range of materials and in both two- and three-dimensional formats. Over the years he has created a complex body of work unified by a primal iconography and an artifact-like quality that emerges from a very personal and consistent formal, aesthetic and philosophical sense.
Chadbourne was born in Bryan, Texas in 1949. He received a BFA in 1971 from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas and an MFA in 1973 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. After teaching studio art and art history at the college level for 17 years at various institutions, Chadbourne quit teaching 1989 to devote himself full-time to his art. He has exhibited extensively at both state and national levels, including more than 100 one-person exhibitions. His work is included in numerous private, public and museum collections. International residencies include ArtSpace India in Calcutta, India and Atelierhaus Hilmsen in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Chadbourne has been the recipient of the Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art and, in 2019 and 2023, was awarded the prestigious Individual Artist Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. “
Reception: October 17, 2024 | 6–8 pm
Reception: October 19, 2024 | 12–2 pm
Nicole Longnecker Gallery (Greengrass Location)
1440 Greengrass Drive
Houston, 77008 Texas
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