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TURNING POINT II: This
exhibition will continue the turning point theme as
it features the artwork of James D. “Dusty”
Pendleton. This successful artist’s career was
launched by a scholarship he received in 1964 from
the Kerrville Art Club to attend a workshop at the
Hill Country Arts Foundation. Pendleton’s work is
now seen in galleries across the US as well as
France, Wales, Mexico and Germany.
James D. Pendleton, a
Tivy High School graduate, began painting as a
child. His formal training began in 1964 as a result
of winning a scholarship from the Kerrville Art Club
to the Hill Country Arts Foundation. After taking a
degree in Commercial Art from Southwest Texas State
University in 1970, he married Martha Black.
Together they began a life of travel throughout
North America, Europe and Mexico with their
daughter, Ginger. Dusty has had studios in many
places on both sides of the Atlantic. His work has
been shown in Paris, France; Knighton, Wales;
Oaxaca, Mexico; Hanover, Germany and many galleries
in and around his native Lone Star State. He is
currently living and working in his studio/home in
Bandera.
The paintings in this exhibition reflect an intense
study of the crepuscular light that is unique to the
Texas Hill Country at twilight.
Pendleton’s work, represented in collections in the
United States, Europe, Mexico and South America, is
exhibited locally at The Grotto in Bandera and
River’s Edge Gallery in Kerrville.
Any work that has any honesty and a sufficient
degree of craftsmanship or power eventually finds an
outlet; I have faith in that. That’s as close to a
mantra as it gets for me.
- Tennessee Williams |
