General
New exhibit scheduled for University Art Gallery
The University Art Gallery at Midwestern State University will present Danville Chadbourne in the main gallery, Friday, November 2, 2007 through Friday, January 4, 2008. The opening reception will be held Friday, November 2, 2007 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Chadbourne's work is presented in a variety of methods from large scale free standing sculpture to small and vulnerable pedestal pieces. They hang from the wall like colorfully distressed tablets and stand on the floor as monuments from a cryptic past. Primarily made in clay and wood, Chadbourne's work relies on geometric line that is formed through volume and shape. There is a complexity in his design that is reminiscent of an ancient iconography that can't be placed in time. The titles of Chadbourne's work are often paradoxical and tangled in speculation about cultures outside of our own.
Danville 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 60 one-person exhibitions. His work is included in numerous private and public collections.
University Art Gallery
Midwestern State University
3410 Taft Boulevard
Wichita Falls, TX 76308-2099
Gallery hours Monday through Friday
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Contact: Catherine Prose, Assistant Professor/Gallery Director
(940) 397-4304
catherine.prose@msutexas.edu