Received B.F.A. Degree from Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, 1968.
Received M.F.A. Degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Lives in New York City.

FELLOWSHIPS
National Endowment for the Arts, 1981; Solomon R Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1984

COMMISSIONS
Original artwork created for “Amerimusica” conceived by Jacques d'Amboise and Ellen Weinstein of the National Dance Institute, presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1992

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Archer M Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
J B Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2006 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2003 Art Museum of Southwest Texas, Beaumont, Texas
2002 Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Bendley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2001 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana
1998 Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York1995 Allen Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Marina Del Rey, California
1994 Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Marlborough Gallery, New York
1993 Erika Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1992 The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Galerid Alfred Wild, Bogota, Colombia
Marlborough Gallery, New York
1991 Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1990 Marlborough Gallery, New York
1989 Art Museum of Southeast, Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Galerid Freites, Caracas, Venezuela
Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1988 Galerie Herv6 Odermatt, Paris, France
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Methodist University, Dallas
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1987 Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
1986 Marlborough Gallery, New York
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985 Galerie Herv6 Odermatt, Paris, France
F.I.A.C., Grand-Palais, Paris, France
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Marlborough Gallery, New York
1984 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Janie C Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas
1983 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Marlborough Gallery, New York
1982 Janie C Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas
Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1981 Doebrick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1980 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1978 Max Hutchinson Gallery, Houston, Texas
Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York
1976 Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas
University Museum, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
1975 Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
"Made in Texas", Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas
1994 "Drawing, 30th Anniversary Exhibition", Leo Castelli, New York, New York
"Flowers", Babcock Galleries, New York, New York
1993 "The Fine Art of Patronage: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from Local Collections", Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
"The Mask In Contemporary Art", Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas
"The Animal in Art", Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
1992 "On Paper", Marlborough Gallery, New York, "An Ode to Gardens and Flowers", Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
"The Eyes of Texas: Prints and Unique Works", Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
"The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art", Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; travelled to Centre for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin; and Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
"Expressive Drawings: European and American Art Through the Twentieth Century", New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
"Marlborough en Pelaires", Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelair Palma de Mallorca, Spain
"The Common Wealth: Twentieth Century American Masterpieces from Virginia Collections", Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, Virginia
"For the Preservation of Nature: The Artist's Response", Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana; traveled to Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis; and Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, New York
"Tradition and Innovation”, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
"Images of Death in Contemporary Art", Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconson
"John Alexander, Frederick Brown, Paul Manes", Leavey Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
"The New Old Landscape", Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
"Private Art/Public Visions", Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
1988 "Directions and Diversities", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
"Amarillo to Zebra: An American Artists' Bestiary", Amarillo Art Center, Texas
"Texas Art: The De Menil Collection", Richmond Hall, Houston, Texas
"Fables and Fantasies - Selections from the Collection of Susan Kasen and Robert D Summer", Duke University Museum of Art, Durham. North Carolina
"The 1980's: A new Generation", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
"Visions/Revisions: Contemporary Representation", organized by Sam Hunter, Marlborough Gallery, New York
"Charged! Places and Things", Sherry French Gallery, New York traveled to The Wichita Art Museum, Kansas and The National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C.
"Surrealism”, Retretti Art Centre, Suomi, Finland
"The Frederick R Weisman Collection: An International Survey", San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
"American Masters: works on Paper from The Corcoran Gallery of Art", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; traveled to The Burling Library, Grinnell, Iowa; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Midland Art Council, Midland, Michigan
"After Pollock: Three Decades of Diversity", Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, California
"The Texas Landscape: 1900-198611, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
"College of the Mainland Faculty Selects ... An Exhibition of Twelve Texas Artists", College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas
"Pasadena Collects: The Art of Our Time", (organized by the Pasadena Art Alliance), Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
"New Works on Paper", Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"Master Drawings: 1918-1985”, Jamie C Lee Master Drawings, New York, New York
"The Foundation Veranneman Invites Marlborough : London, New York and Tokyo", The Foundation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium
1985 "Fresh Paint: The Houston School", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to P S 1, Long Island City, New York, and The Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
"Selections II: Twentieth Century Art", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
"Propaganda, Too!", Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas
"The New Figure", Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
1984 "New Narrative Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York", Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, traveled to Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, and Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Arizona
"American Drawings 1984: from A-Z", Sutton Gallery, New York, New York
"New Landscape Painting", (organized by the metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
"John Alexander, Sam Gummelt, Philip Renteria, Gael Sack", Janie C Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas
"Personal Views", Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“36th Annual Purchase Exhibition, Hassam and Speicher Fund" American Academy and Institute Of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
1983 "Sacred Artifacts and Objects of Devotion", Alternative Museum New York, New York, New York
“Atomic Salon", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts/The Village Voice, New York, New York
"New Work, New York", Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona
"Invitational Exhibition", Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York
"Southern Rim 2: The Narrative Tradition in the Arts", Birmingham-Southern College and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
1982 "War Games", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, New York
"New, New York", Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida; traveled to Metropolitan Museum, Coral Cables, Florida
"Atomic Salon", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
"Recent Acquisitions", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1981 "Southern Monumental Exhibition", University Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee
"The Image of House in Contemporary Art", Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
"New York Gallery Showcase", Oklahoma Art Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
"Made in Texas", University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
"On the Right Bank of The Red River", The Root Art Center, Hamilton, New York
"Fire", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
"On Paper", Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia
"Group Exhibition", Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
"Guest Artists' Exhibition", Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
"Art of Texas", Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
"Painting and Sculpture Today", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
"Four Houston Artists", University Art Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida "The Art of Texas", John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
"Landscape, Cityscape: Survey of Urban and Rural Lands in the 70s", Brainerd Art Gallery, State University College at Potsdam, Potsdam, New York
"Six Painters of the Southwest", Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
"Drawing Exhibition", Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“19th Annual Eight State Exhibition", Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
“1977 Artists Biennial", New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
"The 35th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1976 "Philadelphia-Houston Exchange", Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Annual Exhibition", American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
"Selections for New-old Collections", Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, Texas
"National Print and Drawing Annual Exhibition", Davidson Collection Davidson, North Carolina