Randy Bacon has always been attracted to the quality of light, the precise colors and the big skies of his native state.
 
“When you grow up in West Texas, you have to work a little harder to find the beauty in your surroundings. But it’s there in quiet abundance when you learn to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. It’s a land often caught in a time warp, and I try to capture the timelessness of its isolation.”
 
In communicating a sense of place, Bacon often draws upon the people and venues of his life to bring about work where past, present and future become blended, where memory and reality connect.

Before returning full time to painting, Bacon was president of Stuart Bacon Advertising and Public Relations in Fort Worth, from 1987 to 2002, a full-service agency he co-founded with Jim Stuart.

“Bacon has excelled with his panoramic views of small-town Texas streets and rural scenes.  His locations might look lonely to some, but to Texans they manifest the elbow room needed to live large.”
- Gaile Robinson, Fort Worth Star Telegram, February 17, 2006

“Bacon reveals the quiet, yet stunning, beauty of what we might otherwise pass by too quickly.  He plots the intermediary points along a journey, the places one unthinkingly sweeps through on the way to a more alluring endpoint.  As Bacon reminds us with his emotionally poignant paintings, oftentimes the journey is more important – and more intriguing – than the destination.”
- Catherine Deitchman writes reviews and feature stories for leading Texas art journals including
   ArtLies and Glasstire.

Education

M.F.A. 2007  Painting  Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
2003  Painting  Vermont Studio Center, Johnson
     (September 2003 fellowship)
B.F.A. 1980  Journalism/Art  Southern Methodist University, Dallas
 1976-77 Art   The University of Texas at Austin

Exhibitions/Auctions

2008 

Cherry Spring Art Festival,  Mansefeldt, Cherry Spring, Texas
(group with Jon Flaming and William Young)

 

Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Annual Invitational, Canyon, Texas
(group)  Curator Michael Grauer, Senior Curator of Art at the museum.

Across Texas,  David Dike Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
(group with Jon Flaming  and William Young)

2007 

The Artist’s Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Featured monthly artist for a discussion of works in the Kimbell collection and relevant issues in the artist’s work, moderated by chief conservator Claire Berry. Oil landscape “Patricia” was on view between the two Cezanne paintings.

Preservation is the Art of the City,  Community Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
(group)  Juried by Historic Fort Worth, Inc. committee members. 
AWARD – recipient of Joyce and Bob Capper Award in honor of David Brownlow, one of five equal $500 awards.

David Dike Fine Art, L.P. Presents: An Auction of Texas Art, Dallas, Texas
(catalogue)

Artists Against Aids, Auction, Fort Worth, Texas

Fall Benefit, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
One of 10 featured artists

The Texas Five, Museum of East Texas Culture, Palestine, Texas
 (group with Michael Cangemi, Ann Ekstrom, Jon Flaming and William Young)

Cherry Spring Art Festival, Mansefeldt, Cherry Spring, Texas
 (group with Michael Cangemi, Ann Ekstrom, Jon Flaming and William Young)
 
A Sense of Place, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
 Curator Judy Deaton, Senior Curator at the museum
(five-month solo exhibition attended by 30,000 people)

A Sense of Place, Texas Christian University Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
 (MFA thesis solo exhibition)

The 2007 Hunting Art Prize Exhibition, Decorative Center of Houston, Texas
(prize finalist in group show with 100 contemporary Texas artists)

Sprung, Texas Christian University Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
 (group with Lori Dolan, Clayton Hurt and Alvaro Perez for Spring Gallery Night)

Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Annual Invitational, Canyon, Texas
(group)  Curator Michael Grauer, Senior Curator of Art at the museum

About Painting, Eastfield College Gallery, Dallas, Texas
(group with Elizabeth Bisbing, Paul Booker, Sarah Maxwell-English and Jesse Meraz) 
Curator, David Willburn

Surface, Texas Christian University at the Neeley School of Business,
Fort Worth, Texas
(group)

2006 

David Dike Fine Art, L.P. Presents: An Auction of Texas Art, Dallas, Texas
(catalogue)

The Texas Five, David Dike Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
(group with Michael Cangemi, Ann Ekstrom, Jon Flaming and William Young)

Art in the Metroplex, Texas Christian University Art Gallery
(group) Juror Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Deep Purple, Modern Art Museum,  Fort Worth,
Only featured artist at annual Fine Arts Gala; fund-raising event for TCU School of the Arts.
 
 The Texas Four, David Dike Fine Art, Dallas
 (group with Michael Cangemi, Jon Flaming and William Young)

Plural, Texas Christian University at the Neeley School of Business
 Fort Worth, Texas
(group)

2005 

Road Trip, Carter Bowden Art and Antiques, Fort Worth, Texas
(solo)

David Dike Fine Art, L.P. Presents: An Auction of Texas Art, Dallas, Texas
(catalogue)

Points of View, Texas Christian University at the Neeley School of Business
Fort Worth, Texas
(group)

2004 

Carter Bowden Art and Antiques, Fort Worth, Texas
 (group with John Holt Smith, Blaine Smith and Betty Alcorn)

David Dike Fine Art, L.P. Presents: An Auction of Texas Art, Dallas, Texas
(catalogue)

Randy Bacon: Recent Work, Carter Bowden Art and Antiques, Fort Worth, Texas
(solo)

Visual Stories, Texas Christian University at the Neeley School of Business
Fort Worth, Texas
(group)

Texas Christian University Annual Fine Arts Gala at Bass Hall, Fort Worth, Texas
(group)

Spring Gallery Night, Gallery at Nationwide Floor and Window, Fort Worth, Texas
curator and participant (group with Ann Ekstrom, Mary Clay Hernadez and Mark Doerfler)

Artists Against Aids, Auction, Fort Worth, Texas

Samaritan House Auction, Fort Worth, Texas

Collections

  The Grace Museum, Abilene

  Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Fort Worth

  The John and Bobbie Nau Collection of Texas Art, Houston
  Woodbine Development Corporation, Dallas

  Waterford Capital, Dallas

  Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Jones, Dallas

  Diane Scovell, Dallas

  Brad Heffner, Dallas

  Dick and Marsland Moncrief, Fort Worth

  Neal C. Small, M.D., Dallas

  George Grace, Winter Park, FL

  Dian Owens Stai, Fredericksburg

  Robert McAn, Fort Worth

  Karla Lacey, San Jose, CA

  Moncrief Oil, Fort Worth

  Allen Townsend, New Haven, CT

  Kelly Murray, San Antonio

  Rebecca Richards-Webb, Washington, D.C.

  Brett G. Taylor, Aledo

  Jody and Lannie Lancarte, Fort Worth

  Becky Beasley and Roger Gates, Fort Worth

  Susan and Joe VanderHamm, Fort Worth

  Brian and Lisa Hurst, Dallas

  Debra and Clark Million, Fort Worth

  Gretchen Denny, Fort Worth

  Melissa Thompson, Fort Worth

Bibliography

David Dike Fine Art Auction Preview 2007 catalogue (and Ebay)

Sharon Benge, “A Sense of Place,” radio interview on “Art Matters,”
WRR, 4 p.m. Sunday, May 13 and Thursday, May 17

Brien Murphy, “Bacon finds place amidst West Texas scenery,” Abilene Reporter-News, April 26, 2007

“Native Abilenian to exhibit paintings at the Grace,” Weatherford Democrat, April 25, 2007

Gaile Robinson, “The creative life, Randy Bacon,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 8, 2007

David Dike Fine Art Auction Preview 2006, catalogue (and Ebay)

Bonnie Gangelhoff, “Artists to Watch,” Southwest Art, June 2006

“Museum receives new painting by former Abilenian,” The Abilene Reporter-News, April 5, 2006

Sue Seibert, “North Texas Artistry – Randy Bacon,” Mineral Wells Index, North Texas Star,” March 2006

Gaile Robinson, “In the Galleries,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Friday, February 17, 2006, Preview of Texas Four show

David Dike Fine Art Auction Preview 2005, catalogue (and Ebay)

Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, “Artist brushes up back roads,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sunday, September 11, 2005. Review of solo show

Gaile Robinson, “Legends of the Fall,” Fort-Worth Star-Telegram,

Startime, Friday, September 9, 2005.  Gallery Night Preview

“Best Local Visual Artist, Readers Choice: Randy Bacon,” Fort Worth

Weekly, Annual “Best-of” Edition, 2004

David Dike Fine Art Auction Preview 2004, catalogue

AskART.com, Randy Bacon

Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (ed), “The Artists Bluebook,” 2005

Experience

1987-2002 President, Stuart Bacon Advertising & Public Relations, Fort Worth

1988 Adjunct Professor, Texas Christian University (Advertising Layout, Copy and Design), Fort Worth

1985-1987  Account Executive, PR Texas, Fort Worth

1980-1985  Account Executive, Media Southwest, Abilene