Randy Twaddle
b. 1957



1957
Born in Elmo, Missouri. Currently resides in Houston, Texas
EDUCATION
1996
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, M.F.A.
1980
Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri, B.F.A.
1975-76
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1993-94
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Texas
1990
Visiting Artist, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1996
Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, Artist Award
1990
Awards in the Visual Arts 9, SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1987
National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Grant
1986
Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
1985
Art Matters, Inc., Performance Grant
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
New Drawings, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011
Something To Look At, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2006
A.M. in America, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005
A.M. in America, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003
Reversal Drawings, D Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas
Reversal Drawings, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995
Puritan Paintings, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1992
Recent Drawings,  Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
UPC Drawings, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1991
Recent Drawings:  CHPL HL, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
Recent Drawings, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
CHPL HL, University Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1990
Recent Drawings, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1989
New Drawings, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Carnival - A Farewell to Flesh, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas
Carnival, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
1988
Carnival, DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1987
Changing Nature:  Recent Drawings and Prints, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1986
Early Warning Systems, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas (curator:  Ron Gleason)
1985
Introductions '85, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
“LAYOVER: Houston Airport Portable Artwork Collection”, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston Texas
2007
Pushing the Envelope, A Drawing Show, William Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas.
CADD ArtFair 2007, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
A Way With Words, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas
2006
Less is More, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas (Curated by Sally Sprout)
2005
Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004
Yet More Art for Marfa:  Post 65, AMVETS Building, Marfa, Texas
2000
Works on Paper, D Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas
1998
Contemporary Prints and Drawings: A Decade of Acquisitions, Jack S. Blanton
Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
1996
Texas Modern and Post-Modern, (selections from the permanent collection), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1995
Images from Space, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1994
Stories, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Texas Art Celebration, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas
Texas Selections from the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, curated by Clint Willour, Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
1993
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Tx
What’s Next!, SOMA Gallery, San Diego, California
New Faces, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Landscapes:  Left to Right, Landfall Press, Chicago, Illinois
Making Their Mark, The Houston International Festival, NationsBank, Houston, Tx
Darkness + Light, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas (catalogue)
Everpresent Moment, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
1992
Point of View - Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (catalogue)
Thirty Prints, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Centennial Prints in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Big:  Large-scale Prints & Drawings from the Bank America Collection, Bank of America, San Francisco, California
Texas Art Celebration '92, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas
Presence, CRCA, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
1991
Ship Shapes, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Part Two:
1950-1991, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
The State I'm In:  Texas Artists at the DMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
On Line:  Drawings by Texas Artists, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas
Messages:  Form Follows Content, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Group Show, Landfall Press, Chicago, Illinois
A Sense of Place:  Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Texas Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Two Texans:  Vernon Fisher & Randy Twaddle, Landfall Press, Chicago, Illinois
Vacation Bible School : An Exhibition, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas,Texas
1990
42nd Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
Direct References:  Drawings by Texas Artists, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Tx.
Drawn to Scale-Cynthia Carlson, Michael Glier and Randy Twaddle, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (catalogue)
Ordinary as Extraordinary:  Object as Subject, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Tx.
15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Mid-America Images:  Lone Star Art, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
Awards in the Visual Arts 9, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana;
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The BMW Gallery, New York, New York (catalogue)
This Land:  The State of Texas, Lawndale Art & Performance Center, Houston, Tx.
Tradition and Innovation:  A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Politics in Print:  Acconci, Allen, Arneson, Bulatov, Saul, Twaddle, Wiley, Landfall Press, Chicago, Illinois
1989
Moody Gallery Exhibition, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas
Works on Paper, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Summer Group Show, Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Gallery Artists:  Prints and Drawings, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
1988
Memory, UTA Center for Research in Contemporary Art, Arlington, Texas (curator:  Jeff Kelley)
Texas Artists, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
The First Texas Triennial 1988, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue)
The New Generation, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
Conscience and Content, Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas
1987
A Drawing Exhibition:  The Continuity of Man, Haggerty Art Center, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Paradigms on Paper, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
Invitational, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
Third Coast Review:  A Look at Art in Texas, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (catalogue)
Recent Drawings:  Drake, Hogan, Johansen, Pardo, Pikrasso, Twaddle,
Fox Fine Arts Center, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas
1986
Works on Paper:  An Exhibition by Artists Working Inside Texas, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Artists' Response to Architecture, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas (curator: Jim Edwards/catalogue)
SPECTRUM:  Drawn Out, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (curator: Ned Rifkin/catalogue)
Monumental Drawing: Works by 22 Contemporary Americans, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (curator: Charlotta Kotik/catalogue)
Texas Time Machine, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas (curator:  Joan Robinson/ catalogue)
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (curator:  Douglas Schultz/catalogue)
1985
One Up, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Propaganda, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas
Latent Lingo, DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
John Hernandez, Hills Snyder, Randy Twaddle, The Patrick Gallery, Austin, Tx.
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, California
1984
Sign on a Truck, various locations, New York, New York
Inaugural Show, Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
Four Texas Painters, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Il.
Patterns in Contemporary Art, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas(curator:  Annette Carlozzi)
New Talent in Texas, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas (curator: Susan Freudenheim/catalogue)
Singular Points of View, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas(curator:  Jim Edwards/catalogue)
1983
Borrowed Time, Dallas, Texas (3 person exhibition with John Hernandez and Douglas MacWithey)
PERFORMANCES
1989
Carnival-A Farewell to Flesh, Club Dada, Dallas, Texas; The Chicago House,
Austin,Texas; Southwest Craft Center,San Antonio, Texas, with Anthony Pearson
1988
Carnival-A Farewell to Flesh, Sons of Hermann Hall, Dallas, Texas with Anthony Pearson
1986
Acceptance, Denial and the End of Bravery As We Know It, Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth, Texas
1985
User Friendly Fictions, Sons of Hermann Hall, Dallas, Texas with Ron Perryman and Jimmie Dale Gilmore
LECTURES
1990
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1985
The Artists' Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
PUBLIC WORKS
2000
Allen’s Landing, Text Installation, Houston, Texas, (ttweak and Core Design Studio)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Accenture, Dallas, Texas
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bank of America, San Francisco, California
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas       
Enron Corporation, Houston, Texas
First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota  
Frito-Lay, Inc., Dallas, Texas
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
NYNEX Corporation, White Plains, New York
Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas
Southwestern Bell Telephone, St. Louis, Missouri
Steelcase, Houston, Texas
Taco Bell Corporation, Irvine, California
Texaco, Houston, Texas
Texas Instruments, Houston, Texas
The Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas
The Progressive Collection, Dallas, Texas
The SBC Collection of Twentieth Century American Art, San Antonio, Texas
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas           
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 
CATALOGUES
Art Museum of South Texas, Singular Points of View, Corpus Christi, Texas,1984 (essay by Jim Edwards)
Texas Christian University, New Talent in Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, 1984 (essay by Susan Freudenheim)
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1986 (essay by Douglas Schultz)
Cullen Center, Texas Time Machine, Houston, Texas, 1986 (essay by Joan S. Robinson)
The Brooklyn Museum, Monumental Drawing:  Works by 22 Contemporary Americans, Brooklyn, New York, 1986 (essay by Charlotta Kotik)
The Corcoran Gallery, Spectrum:  Drawn Out, Washington, D.C., 1986 (essay by Ned Rifkin)
Nave Museum, Artists' Response to Architecture, Victoria, Texas, 1986, (essay by Jim Edwards)
Aspen Art Museum, The Third Coast Review:  A Look at Art in Texas, Aspen, Colorado, 1987 (essay by Annette Carlozzi)
Contemporary Arts Museum, The First Texas Triennial, 1988, Houston, Texas, 1988 (curators statements:  Marilyn Zeitlin, David Ross, Marge Goldwater)
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Awards in the Visual Arts 9,  Winston-Salem, N.C. 1990 (essay by Lucy Lippard)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Drawn to Scale:  Cynthia Carlson, Michael Glier and Randy Twaddle, Andover, Massachusetts, 1990 (essay by Jock Reynolds)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Point of View- Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Andover, Massachusetts, 1992
Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Darkness + Light:  Twentieth Century Works from Texas Collections, Houston, Texas, 1993 (essay by Elizabeth Ward)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas: 150 Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, New York, 2000 (Alison de Lima Greene)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Marvel, Bill,Victims' of gallery closing create their own exhibition, Dallas Times Herald, August 16, 1983, Section C, p.1.
Kutner, Janet,Warehouse of Dreams, The Dallas Morning News, September 16, 1983, Section C, pp 1,2. (reproduction)
Mitchell, Charles Dee,Trio Goes Independent and Large Scale inBorrowed Time, Dallas Observer, September 22, 1983.
Freudenheim, Susan,Bold Venture Puts Spotlight on Trio's Art, Fort Worth Star Telegram, October 18, 1983 (reproduction)
Goddard, Danny,AMST'sSingular Points of View, Corpus Christi Caller Times, January 8, 1984, Section C, p. 5.
Fisher, Vernon,Exhibit at TCU Spotlights Unseen Artists, Fort Worth Star Telegram, January 29, 1984, Section D, p. 1.
Kutner, Janet,A New Showplace for Texas Art, The Dallas Morning News Section C, October 23, 1984.
Regan, David and Kevin Noble,Public Address Sign on a Truck, Art in America, January 1985, p. 88.
Everingham, Carol,Introduction '85, The Houston Post, July 6, 1985, Section G, pp. 1-3.
Johnson, Patricia,Introduction '85 a Bold Success, The Houston Chronicle, July 20, 1985, Section 4, p. 1.
Mitchell, Charles Dee,Thoughts on Randy Twaddle, Dallas Observer, September 12, 1985, p. 18 (reproduction)
Everingham, Carol,Propaganda show draws individual, powerful response, The Houston Post, October 19, 1985, Section G, p.3.
Kelly, Moira,About Lawndale's One Up, The Lawndale Inquirer, Oct/Nov 1985, p. 23.
Johnson, Patricia C.,Review:  Texas Time Machine Exhibition, Houston Chronicle,  Saturday, January 25, 1986, Section 4, pp 1,8.
McCombie, Mel,Into the Texas Time Machine, Artscene, Vol. 7, No. 12, Spring 1986, pp. 12-13.
Allen, Jane Addams,Drawing on the Intellect, The Washington Times, November 11, 1986, Section B, pp 1,3.
Richard, Paul,Spectrum of Superlatives, The Washington Post,  November 29, 1986, Section D, pp. 1,16. (reproduction)
Nixon, Bruce,Billboards become signs of art appreciation, Dallas Times Herald, June 11, 1987, Section E, pp. 1,3.
Kutner, Janet,Art in the Fast Lane, Billboards give Dallas artists the ideal exposure, The Dallas Morning News, August 13, 1987, Section C, pp 1-2.
Chadwick, Susan,Artfully Moving in Strange Ways, Houston Post,  November 29, 1987, Section F, p. 3.
Johnson, Patricia C.,Artists' Similarities go Beyond Charcoal, Houston Chronicle, December 9, 1987, Section 4, p. 3. (reproduction)
Kutner, Janet,Two new artists share top billing, The Dallas Morning News, March 16, 1988, Section C, p. 5 (reproduction)
Braff, Phyllis,New Generation Shows Its Colors, The New York Times, May 22, 1988, p. 26.
Johnson, Patricia C,Texas Triennial:  A Host of Artists Presents Personal Points of View in Exhibit at CAM, Houston Chronicle, October 2, 1988, Zest, pp 14-15, (reproduction)
Przyblski, Jerome,Fast Forward, Eleven x Fourteen, Autumn 1988, p. 16 (reproduction)
Tyson, Janet,The Death of JFK, Fort Worth Star Telegram, November 10, 1988.
Ennis, Michael,Prime Canvas, Domain, Winter 1988, pp. 12 & 14.
Bennett, Steve,Putting technology into its most simple form,San Antonio Light, March 30, 1989, Section  D, p. 3, (reproduction)
Roberts, Tre,The First Texas Triennial, Art Papers, May/June 1989, p. 61.              
Hoffman, Donald,Art Journal, The Kansas City Star, July 23, 1989, Section D, p. 4.
Lyon, Christopher,Randy Twaddle/Damon Brandt, ARTNews, September 1989, p. 178.
Tyson, Janet,Galleries display visual, emotional variety in open-house exhibits, Fort Worth Star Telegram, September 23, 1989, Section 4, p. 3.
Kutner, Janet,Looking into the Future:  Randy Twaddle comes to terms with Technology, Dallas Morning News, Saturday, October 7, 1989, Section C, page 5.
Detour Magazine,Randy Twaddle at Barry Whistler, November 1989, p.69-70.
Eckert, Opal,Former Elmo Native Receives One of 10 Prestigious Arts Awards, Maryville Daily Forum, Saturday, December 9, 1989, p. 2.
Kutner, Janet,Texas Artists win Prestigious Awards, The Dallas Morning News, Wednesday, April 11, 1990.
Ennis, Michael,Bold Strokes, Texas Monthly, April 1990, pp. 134, 136.
Chadwick, Susan,A brush with  ecology, The Houston Post, Saturday, April 21, 1990, p. E-2.
Johnson, Patricia C.,Lawndale's down-to-Earth exhibit,  Houston Chronicle, Thursday, April 26, 1990, Section D, pp. 1 & 5.
Robinson, Joan S.,This Land: The State of Texas, Houston Press, May 24, 1990, (supplement).
Green, Roger,In defense of the 'Visual Arts, Times Picayune, Lagniappe section June 1, 1990 (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Chadwick, Susan,Randy Twaddle Recent Drawings at Moody Gallery,  The Houston Post, Saturday, June 16, 1990, Section E-4.
Litt, Steven,New Works with too Few New Ideas,The News and Observer, (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Friday, August 17, 1990.
Vetrocq, Marcia E.,AVA 9, Arts Magazine, September 1990, p. 80.
Maschal, Richard,Dark Visions, The Charlotte Observer, Sunday, September 16, 1990, Arts and Travel, Section F.
Patterson, Tom,Understatement:  Cool is Hot in SECCA Awards Show, Winston-Salem Journal, Sunday, September 16, 1990, p. H 4.
Stapen, Nancy,Drawn to Scale:  A  Glimpse of the '80's Renaissance in Drawing, The Boston Globe, Saturday, November 17, 1990.
Temin, Christine,AVA exhibition steer clear of politics, Boston Globe, Friday, November 23, 1990, pp. 115 and 125.
Silver, Joanne,American arts 'personal touch' on display, Boston Herald, Friday, November 30, 1990, p. S 23.
Unger, Miles,Exhibit at Addison Gallery draws on life, laughter, irony and sorrow, The Boston Sunday Globe, December 2,1990.
Weaver, Suzanne,Messages:  Form Follows Content, brochure essay, University of North  Texas, Denton, Texas, January 1991.
Kutner, Janet,An Unconventional Bible Study, The Dallas Morning News, Thursday, July 18, 1991, Section C., pp. 1,8.
Tyson, Janet,Viewing spirituality from a full spectrum,  Fort Worth Star-Telegram,Sunday, August 4, 1991, Section E, p. 9.
Ennis, Michael,Buried Treasures, Texas Monthly, October 1991, pp 92-96.
Mitchell, Charles Dee,Transforming Art, The Dallas Morning News, Saturday, May 16, 1992, Sec. C, p. 1.
Emenhiser, Karen,Safe Art, Dallas Observer,  May 28, 1992.
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Sherman, Mary,New Faces exhibit reflects different moods, The Boston Herald, Friday, August 6, 1993, p. S 1.
Stapen, Nancy,Summer brings nature into the galleries, The Boston Globe August 12, 1993.
Chadwick, Susan,3 exhibits on abstract painting worth a visit,The Houston Post, Thursday, February 2, 1995, p. D-8.
Barnes, Michael,Lightweight, but not empty, Austin American-Statesman, Saturday, July 29, 2000.
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-----,Art/ New year, new exhibits, Houston Chronicle, Arts, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005, Sec. F, p. 16.
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