Benito
Huerta' s work is a visual autobiography. His imagery
is full of personal references and iconic mages that
symbolize his Mexican- American heritage.
Whereas some pieces are elaborate grids of complex
visual language, other works are distilled to images
and words standing alone as often humorous explorations
of his artistic self and cultural identity. The critic
Lucy Lippard writes, " ( Huerta) has been characterized
as an artist for whom images of Tejano culture, Catholicism,
popular culture, art history and current events come
together with a rigor and
sophistication of a modern master, like Jasper Johns
or Al Held. " Exhibited extensively throughout
the U. S. , Huerta has taught and written about art
for many years, and is currently Curator of the Gallery
at the University of Texas at Arlington. His work
is in numerous collections, including the Albuquerque
Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, The Museum
of Fine Art Houston, the Menil Collection, and the
Art Museum of South Texas.
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A
recently received brown envelope from Frank X. Tolbert
2 is a smudgy scrawl of black crayon decorated with
23 stamps ( seventeen 21- cent buffalos and five 34-
cent flags) . It seems that the value of the postage
is less important than the aesthetics of the stamp
arrangement and the crayon marks. Inspired by his
recent trip to China, Tolbert' s drawings for this
exhibition, images of lilies and monsters, combine
a beautifully controlled surface line with an undercurrent
of ferocity.
Tolbert was born in Washington D. C. , educated in
Texas, and lives and works in Houston. His work
is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art,
the Ft. Worth Museum of Modern Art, the San Antonio
Museum of Art, the Witte Museum, and the Blanton Museum
of Art.
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