Photograph: Douglas Timmermeyer
Painting in a moment, based on a lived collective culture, communal memories. I consume, collect visual items, trinkets, and all paraphernalia from old books to parking valet stubs. Referencing modern culture, abstract pop environments, using text, corporate advertising and imagery, song lyrics, literary quotes, history, and along with cultural icons. Everything that interests me and anything that affects me can go into the work. I believe everything has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent.
I’m drawn more to talking about process. How a painting is created.
The relationships developed and built between the elements in a painting. Wanting to read a painting in the literal sense is relegating the work to one dimension. In the sharing culture of today, one feels they’re entitled to understanding the so-called magic of creation. There is an intense need to be validated before one can pass judgment... unwilling to be alone with what one sees. Painting is part of a lived experience, intimately involved with one’s own perception of life. I’m not making conscience choices to confront the audience. What I do is completely intuitive, a trust that creates a visual and emotional environment. My art is an accumulated process of knowledge, memories and perceived experiences.
S.G. Starr, 2018
Exhibitions
* One Person Show
2018
New Paintings *
Winston Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
Curator: David Mcgee
2003
36th Arts International
International Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Jurors: Regina Basha - Curator, Texas Fine Art Assoc.,
Adair Margo - Chair, President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities,
Graciela Nardi - Director, Latino Arts Museum.
Multiple Means
Houston Community College Gallery, Houston, TX
Curator: Douglas Blake
2001
Gulf Coast National
Texas Artist Museum, Port Arther, TX
Juror: Merideth Jack, National Juried Show
Compulsions *
Art Square Gallery, Houston, TX
Assistance League of Houston
Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
Juror: Terrie Sultan - Director, Blaffer Gallery,
National Juried Show
The Dishman Competition
Houston, TX
Juror: Doug Lawing - Director, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
The Big Show
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Juror: Sara Kellner - Executive Director, Diverse Works
Visual Arts Alliance 18th
Best of Show Award
Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
Juror: Lucas Johnson, National Juried Show
2000
Visual Arts Alliance 17th
Sanford Grumbacher Gold Medallion Award
Williams Tower Gallery, Houston
Juror: William Otton - Faculty/CalArts, Valencia, Ca:
Annual National Contributing writer - ArtForum,
Frieze and Parkett, National Juried Show
Texas National
SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin University: Nacogdoches, TX
Jurors: The Art Guys, National Juried Show
Assistance League of Houston
Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
Juror: Bruce Guenther - Former Chief Curator Museum of Art,
Orange County, New Port Beach, CA
Stephen Graham Starr *
Shoe Market Gallery, Houston, TX
1999
The Big Show
Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX
Juror: Lane Relyea - Faculty/CalArts, Valencia, CA
Contributing Writer - Artforum, frieze & Parkett
Laurie Waller & Stephen Graham Starr
Weekend Gallery, Houston, TX
Curator: McKay Otto
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