OPENING RECEPTION: Danville Chadbourne Sculptures and Paintings

Opening Reception: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 • 6pm-8pm, Central Library Gallery – 600 Soledad Street, San Antonio TX 78205.

Featuring large-scale ceramic sculptures and a selection of paintings, this exhibition explores the bold colors, textures and forms Chadbourne is known for, emphasizing the continuity between his large-scale physical forms and the layered imagery of the paintings. Referencing both architectural wall fragments and monuments, the works fit seamlessly into the stunning architecture of the Central Library. Exhibition on display June 13 through August 31, 2023.

About the Artist:
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 100 one-person exhibitions. His work is included in numerous private and public collections.

Primarily a sculptor in clay and wood, 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 artifact-like quality emerging from a very personal and consistent formal, aesthetic and philosophical sense. He has lived in San Antonio, Texas since 1979.