Current Exhibition

John Alexander New Paintings and Drawings

 

Artist Reception: Friday, April 18, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Exhibition runs through May 31, 2008

McClain Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new drawings, landscapes, and figurative oil paintings by artist John Alexander. Born and raised in Beaumont, both Alexander and his work have deep ties to Southeast Texas. His compositions range from a vivid cast of characters set amid swampy, moonlit landscapes to naturalistic-inspired sketches of coastal birds, to portraits laden with political and social satire. Alexander has described his art as “highly personal and very much about what my experiences in the world have been, not in an illustrative way, but in a real emotional way that is universal.”

John Alexander is included in many notable museum collections including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.

 

John Alexander: A Retrospective

From December 21, 2007, to March 16, 2008, The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., hosted the exhibition, “John Alexander: A Retrospective,” spanning the artist’s three-decade career. “John Alexander: A Retrospective,” opens at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, on April 13, 2008, and will be on view through June 22, 2008.


 

 
Selected Past Exhibitions  
   
   
Aaron Parazette

New Paintings

February 2008

 

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Texas Made and Option-H

 

John Alexander, Forrest Bess, Mel Chin, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, James Surls, Christian Eckart, Mark Flood, Aaron Parazette

January 2007

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Esteban Vicente

Paintings and Works on Paper

December 2007

 

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Alejandro Garmendia

Curated by Julian Schnabel

October 2007

 

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Renée Lotenero

Ruins of Tiled Fantasies

September 2007

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!China Now!

 

July 2007

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Louise Nevelson

Sculpture and Collage

May 2007

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Peter Halley

New Paintings

March 2007

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Julian Schnabel

Map Drawings

February 2007

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Julian Stanczak

Fourty Years of Painting

June 2006

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Christian Eckart

Purpose Driven

April 2006

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Julian Schnabel

Recent Paintings

January 2006

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Larry Bell

New Works

November 2005

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Cy Twombly

Works on Paper

May 2005

   
   
Frank Stella

Important Works

October 2004

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Andy Warhol

Vanishing Animals

February 2004

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James Rosenquist

Recent Paintings

May 2002