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My meticulous depictions of mostly solitary animals
ask the viewer to consider the plight of nature in the face of man's encroachment. With my detailed paint handling, combined
with an astute attention to the nuances of chiaroscuro, I hope to create a look and feel that is unique. I use a minimalist
approach as a re-action to the bombardment of useless and meaningless images and noise generated by the media.
I hope
to bring some kind of order and calm to reflect on what is really important and meaningful in life. For me, realism and simplicity
have a direct link to truth and honesty.
My work often addresses very serious contemporary concerns but I also want
to convey hope and optimism.
My aim is not to harass the viewer, nor do I want to state the obvious threat to the animal’s
habitat destruction too blatantly. I prefer to make my point subtly and quietly in the hope that the lack of aggression that
is normally linked to that subject will give pause for a deeper kind of reflection on the problem.
The emptiness in
most of my backgrounds is a reflection on the increasingly isolated and selfish life that modern society has created and portrays
loneliness as a human condition as well as our “disconnect” with nature.
I signed my work ‘Rouaud’
in memory of my grandmother until June 2008.
All animals are painted life size.
Exhibitions
2009 May 29-June
20, "Flight" Solo show, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe , New Mexico.
2009 April 16 - May 12, Allegro Gallery, "Sol de Agua"
group show, Panama City, Panama.
2009 January 1 - February 14, Byron Roche Gallery, three persons show (du Toit, Hoffman,
Hunter) Chicago, Illinois.
2009 January 1-31, Group Show, 'Reality Check', Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples, Florida.
2008
November 21 - December 31, Group Show 'Object of Desire', Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2008 October 17- November 30,
15th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2008 July 24-27 Scope Art Fair Hamptons, New York,
Pan American Art Projects, Dallas TX.
2008 June 12 -July 18, Summer group show, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2008
May 30 - June 1, CADD Art Fair, Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, Texas
2008 May 10th to June 14th, " Flight" Solo show,
Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, Texas.
2008 March 7 - April 7 "Still life, Objects and other Narratives", group show,
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 February, "Reality Check", group show, Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples, Florida.
2008
Jan 23-27, Los Angeles Art Show, Pan American Art Projects, Santa Monica, California
2007 Dec 6-9, Red Dot Art Fair,
Miami Beach, FL, Pan American Art Projects
2007 October 11th to 14th, Bridge Art Fair, London UK, Wendt Gallery
2007
Septemeber 6 - 19, Solo Show, Wendt Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2007 Sept 8 to Oct 3, Templeton Art Center, TCU,
Art in the Metroplex (juror, Micheal Duncan, Editor for Art in America) Fort Worth, Texas.
2007 July -Summer Salon, Group
Show, Wendt Gallery, Lagun a Beach, California
2007 May 19-20 CADD, Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas Art Fair. Pan American
Art Pojects, Dallas, Texas
2007March 24 - May 6, Group Show, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas.
2007
March 16 - April 20, "Good Question" group show, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2007 February, Group Small Paintings
Show Wendt Gallery, CA
2007 January, Texas Art 2007, Juried competition (Juror: Mr Foster Carter, Curator of Drawings,
Whitney Museum, NY). Williams Tower, Houston.
2006 October, 2 persons show, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas
2006
September, International Guild of realism 2nd Annual juried show, Manitou Gallery, Santa Fee, New Mexico.
2006 July, Summer
Salon Wendt Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2006 July, Vision 11 Summer Group Show, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2006
July, Wendt Gallery Showcase, new works, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 July, Summer Group Show, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
June, Williams Tower group show “Less is More” curated by Sally Sprout
2006 May, Group Show, Wendt Gallery, Laguna
Beach, California
2006 Texas Art 2006, (January) Juried competition (Juror: Jeffrey Grove, Wieland Family Curator of Modern
& Contemporary Art High Art Museum, Atlanta) Williams Tower, Houston.
2005 Harris Gallery, Christmas Group Show, Houston
Texas
2005 December, 2 persons show (Rouaud & Valerie Salem), Exhibit Up Gallery, Tustin California
2005 December, 3
persons show (Rouaud, Paul Hunter & Lari Gibbons), Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005 August, Small Paintings
Exhibition 2005, Wendt Gallery, Laguna Beach California.
2005 August, Summer Group Show, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois
2005 July, Vision 10, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2005 July, Harris Gallery, Houston Texas, group
show.
2005 March, International Guild of Realism, group show, Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005 Texas Art
2005, (January) Juried competition (Juror: Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago) Williams Tower, Houston.
2004
November, Wendt Gallery, Solo Show
2004 October, Wendt Gallery, Laguna Beach, California,”3rd Annual Women’s
Show” (group)
2004 September, Wendt Gallery, Laguna Beach, California,”Modern Art Exhibition Show” (group)
2004
August, Williams Tower, Houston. “Realism Show” (group), selected by Sally Sprout
2004 August, Wendt Gallery,
Laguna Beach, California, “Small Paintings Show” (group)
2004 February, Untitled, Pan American Gallery, Dallas,
Texas (group)
2003 July, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas (2 persons show)
2002 August, Karen Mitchell Frank
Gallery, Dallas, Texas (2 persons show)
2001 Elliott Yeary Gallery, Aspen, Colorado (group)
1999 A Contrasting View,
Elliott Yeary Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo)
1998 Beauty Confined, Elliott Yeary Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo)
Publications
American
Art Collector, July 2009
Studio Visit, May 2009
Studio Visit, Fall 2008
Dallas Modern Luxury, October 2008
ArtScope.net
Review June 2008 (Byron Roche Gallery)
Studio Visit, April/May 2008
New American Paintings, October 2006
D Magazine
(Best of Dallas Fort Worth), January 2006 issue
American Art Collector, February 2006 issue
International Artist August/September,
2005 issue
American Artist, September 2005 issue
Houston Chronicle, July 2003
Dallas Morning News, August 2002
Awards
Gold
Medal award, International Guild of Realism | First Annual Juried Exhibition 2005
2009 Hunting Art Prize Finalist
Education
1993
BFA in Printmaking, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
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