SCOTT BARBER
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 16, 1963
Died in Dallas, Texas, April 22, 2005
EDUCATION
1997-98 Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy, Summers
1994 MFA, Meadows School of Art, SMU, Dallas, TX
1991 BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 “Paintings on Polyfiber 1998-2001” Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 “Scott Barber: Selected Works 1995-2005” The MAC, Dallas, Texas
This exhibition will travel to Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas. catalogue
“Works on Paper” Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005 “Scott Barber” Memorial Exhibition, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 "Swell" Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX (September 2003)
2002 "Recent Work" Project Room, MAC, Dallas, TX (February 2002)
"New Paintings" Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX (February 2002)
2000 "Pollinating Gestures" Marina Zakarian, Dallas, TX
1999 "Recent Paintings" Rudolph Poissant Gallery,Houston, TX
1998 "New Work" Conduit/ Annex Gallery, Dallas, TX
1997 "Recent Work" Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
"Allora Che" 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
1996 "Recent Work" Slover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston, TX
1995 "Between the Cultural and the Natural" 500 x Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Sophistry" Cleveland Independent Art, Cleveland, OH
"Pure Pleasure" Rawspace Internet Gallery, WWW
1994 "Recent Work" Mountain View College, Dallas TX
"Scott Barber: Constellations, Randall Garrett:" 500X Gallery, Dallas TX
"MFA Qualifying Show" Hughes Trigg Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 “The Language of Painting” Texas A&M University - Commerce, curated by Michael Odom, Commerce, Texas
2005 “20/20: A 20th Anniversary Exhibition” Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
“Adaptation Syndrome” Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
“Paintings” Artists’ selections from the Algur Meadows collection at the DMA
“Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2004 "Barber/Kincaid/Pomara" Barry Whistler Gallery Dallas, Texas
"Project Marfa 2" Barry Whistler Gallery Marfa, Texas
“Sumer Show” James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Altered States” University of Texas at Dallas, TX
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (cont.)
2003 "Special Edition: New Works in Limited Editions" Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
“Ted Kincaid, Scott Barber, Michael Miller”, Barry Whistler Gallery
"Code Red" Gene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX
"Digitally Assisted" Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
"25" 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2002 "Touchy Feely" Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Wall Power" Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Slide" University of Dallas, Irving, TX
"Jet-Set" University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
"Summer Sweets" Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
"Monochrome, Mostly" Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
"Monochrome, Mostly" Blue Star Annex, San Antonio, TX
"Monochrome, Mostly" Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV
2001 "Something New: Paintings & Photographs" Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
"Color Forms" Lawndale, Houston, TX
"Hand Job" University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
"Surfacing" University of Dallas, Irving, TX
"Hip" NRH Gallery, North Richland Hills, TX
2000 "Cleveland Artist's Cooperative Project" Alumni, Cleveland, OH
"Drive-By" Studio Tour, Dallas, TX
1999 "Real Virtual" Richland College, Dallas, TX
"Digital-ism" North Lake College, Dallas, TX
"Blurring the Lines" University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
"Hot" Arlington Museum, Arlington, TX
"Critics Pix" University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
"Creatures" Richland College, Dallas, TX
"Techno" Lawndale Center, Houston, TX
1998 "Texas Dialogs" Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
"Link" Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Blurring the Lines" University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
"Selected Works" Rudolph Poinssant Gallery, Houston TX
"Scale, Small" Rudolph Poinssant Gallery, Houston, TX
"Lemonade" Houston, TX
"20th Anniversary Show" 500X Gallery, Dallas, Tx
1997 "Main Street Annual" Contemporary Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
"Critic's Choice" Dallas Visual Art Center, Jurors: C. Mitchell and S.Weaver
"Digital Imaging the New Frontier" Richland College, Curator: Paul Harris
"Drawn Together, Cleveland Institute of Art Alumni Show" Cleveland, OH
1996 "1st Texas Annual" Contemporary Art Center, Fort Worth, TX Juror: Dave Hickey
"Scott Barber, Robert McAn, Derrick Saunders" 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Opening Exhibition" Massillon Museum of Art, Massillon, OH
"11th Annual Festival Exhibition" Juror: Barry Whistler, Fort Worth, TX (Best of Show)
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (cont.)
1996 "X-tracted" Members Group Show, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Inviting the Muse" South Eastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK
"Faculty Exhibition" Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
1995 "1995 Members Invitational" MAC, Dallas, TX
"House and Garden" Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
"12X12X12X95" San Jacinto College, Houston, TX
"Dissection" 500X Gllery, Dallas, TX
1995 "Faculty Exhibition" Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
1994 "Rawspace" 3613 Parry, Dallas, TX
"Abstract Matters: Recapitulation and Transcendance" Brookhaven, Dallas
1993 "Texas Biennial Exhibition" Fair Park, Dallas, TX
"Art in the Metroplex" Templeton Art Cente, Fort Worth, TX
"34th Annual Invitational" Longview Art Museum, Longview, TX
"93Current" Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, TX
"4X4 by Eight" GTE Internatinal Headquarters, Dallas, TX
1992 "3-D Co-op Sculpture Show" Art Without Walls, Cleveland, OH
"AW/OW Goes AWOL" Nautica Complex, Cleveland, OH "Recent Work" Boiler Room Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1991 "Tragic Odds & Ends" AW/OW, 620 Prospect AVE., Cleveland, OH
"New Work by Recent Graduates" Fine Arts Association, Willoughby, OH
"AW/OW: La Solon/ The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly" Boat House,
Cleveland, OH
"AW/OW: On the Cuyahoga" The Boat House, 1815 Columbus Rd., Cleveland, OH
"Summer Exhibition" Reinburger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
"Joint Venture" Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Odom, Michael ArtForum, Scott Barber: The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, April 2006
Colpitt, Frances, artUS, Scott Barber: The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, May/June 2006
Odom, Michael, Art Papers, “A Painting of a Picture of a Photocopy”, March/April 2004
Falk, Arianna. “Transfiguration” The Dallas Morning News. July 11, 2004
Las Vegas Weekly, Chuck Twardy, "Blind-alley escape", May 8, 2003
Las Vegas Weekly, Chuck Twardy, November 18, 2002
Paul Parcellin, http://www.retro-rocket.com/archive/monochrome.html
Kristian Lin, fwweekly.com, Ordinary Things, August 29, 2002
The Little Book, Resort 2000, Neiman Marcus, Cover Painting
FW Weekly, July 1-8, 1999, "Speak to Me of Art"
Star Telegram, July 2-8, 1999, "A 'Hot' Time at the Ol' AMA"
The Met, July 21, 1999, "Hot Stuff"
The Dallas Morning News, July 18, 1999 "Abstract Works Go to Extremes"
The Dallas Observer, July 29, 1999, "Not Art?"
The Dallas Observer, December 31, 1998, "Framed, Break it Down"
San Antonio Current, November 19, 1998, "The Sound of One Hand Dialoguing at Blue Star"
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (cont.)
Express-News, November 16, 1998, "Blue Star Finds Artistic Common Ground in Dallas and S.A."
The Dallas Observer, October 1-7, 1998, "Framed, Gallery Reviews"
The Dallas Observer, September 24-30, 1998 "Birthday Blow-Out"
The Met, August 25, 1998, Gallery Preview
The Book, Neiman Marcus, May 1998
The Met, October 28, 1997, "See It"
ARTLIES, Summer, 1997
Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 18, 1997, Arts & Living
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 27, 1997, In the Galleries
FW Weekly, May 22, 1997, Gallery Spot
Star Time, May 23, 1997, This Week
The Dallas Morning News, December 13, 1996, Weekend Guide
The Dallas Morning News, November 1, 1996, Weekend Guide
The Net Magazine, November, 1996, blues pages, Internet Review
The Dallas Morning News, September 20, 1996, Arts Beat
The Dallas Morning News, September 20, 1996, Wekend Guide
Texas Monthly, August, 1996 "The 100 Best Texas Web Sites" #3
The Dallas Morning News, May 5, 1996, Sec. C-8
The Plain Dealer, March 20, 1995, Sec. 3-E
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 20, 1994, Sec. F Pg. 4
The Dallas Morning News, September 27, 1994, 1-C, 11C
Arts in America, April 1994, Pg. 47
The Dallas Observer, December 2-8, 1993, Pg. 41
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH, February 9, 1992
Cleveland Edition, February 7, 1992
Cleveland Edition, January 10, 1992
News Harold, Willoughby, OH, December 15, 1991
AWARDS / GRANTS
2004 Otis and Velma Dozier Travel Award, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1997 Merit Award, "12th Annual Festival Exhibition", Fort Worth, TX
Fellowship, Southampton College, Summer Program
1996 Best of Show, "11th Annual Festival Exhibition", Curator: Barry Whistler, Fort Worth, TX
93-94 Meadows Graduate Fellowship, Southern Methodist University
1991 Lang Painting Award, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH
1990 Stanfield Scholarship for Art, Unitarian Universalist, Boston, MA
(3 awards $3000)
1989 Carl Gaertner Painting Award, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Honorarium, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (3 awards $3000)
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Dallas Museum of Art John Reoch, Dallas, TX
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Joshua Smith, Cleveland, OH
Atsu Kunita, Tsuzu, Japan Jerry and Sammie Gatti, Dallas, TX
Dr. William So, Seattle, WA John When, Houston, TX
Jerome F. Weiss & Associates, Cleveland, OH Southern Methodist University
Eric Neff, Cleveland, OH B.I. Carter & M. Wynne, Dallas, TX
Ms. Lacy, Dallas, TX Victoria Corcoran, Austin, TX
Tom Sime, Dallas, TX Alan Baron, New York, NY
Maria Wynne, & Gayle Humpa, Dallas, TX Doug Davidson, Seattle, WA
Luann Hicks, Dallas, TX Paolo, Castleveltro, Italy
Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX Belo Corp., Dallas, TX
The Wilmington Institute, Dallas, TX John & Angela Howell, Dallas, TX
Robert and Sue Gordon, Dallas, TX George Morton & Karol Howard, Dallas, TX
Sonny Burt & Bob Butler, Dallas, TX Mark Rossman, Washington D.C.
Mathis Dulack, Paris, France John Pomara, Dallas, TX
Kennis Ketchum, Dallas, TX Bill Lenox, Dallas, TX
Lee & Brian Jones, Dallas, TX