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Don Gahr and Francisco X Mora

Painting and Sculpture for Your Holiday Pleasure

Don Gahr :    Artist Statement            Artist Resume

Francisco X Mora :    Artist Statement           Artist Resume



Views of the Featured Exhibit Area

View of the left side of the Featured Exhibit area from the front of the gallery.
A View of the Right side of the Featured Exhibit Area showing Don Gahr's sculpture - see below for details


Left side of the Featured Exhibit Area showing Francisco X Mora's paintings... see below for details
 
Francisco X Mora
 

Top Row Left: Francisco X Mora, La Nina y el Canario (The Girl with the Canary), 2007
Top Row Right: Francisco X Mora, Perros Corriendo del Volcan (Dogs Running Away From Volcano), 2007
Bottom Row Left: Francisco X Mora, Perro Aplaudiendo (Clapping Dog), 2007
Bottom Row LefRight: Francisco X Mora, Nina Con Luciernagas (Girl with Fireflies), 2007,

Left: Francisco X Mora, La Nina y el Canario (The Girl with the Canary), 2007, Acrylic on paper,
image:10" x 8", frame: 19" x 17"
Right: Francisco X Mora, Perros Corriendo del Volcan (Dogs Running Away From Volcano), 2007,
Acrylic on paper, image:10" x 8", frame: 19" x 17"
 
Left: Francisco X Mora, Perro Aplaudiendo (Clapping Dog), 2007, Acrylic on paper, image:10" x 8",
frame: 19" x 17"
Right: Francisco X Mora, Nina Con Luciernagas (Girl with Fireflies), 2007, Acrylic on paper, image:10" x 8",
frame: 19" x 17"
 


Left: Francisco X Mora, Whistle While You Walk, 2006, Watercolor on paper, image:5" x 8",
frame: 17 5/8" x 20 1/2"
Center: Francisco X Mora, El Gato y Pez (Cat with Fish), 2007, Acrylic & Sand on Linen,
image:30" x 24", frame: 38" x 32"
Left: Francisco X Mora, Going For a Walk Run, 2006, Watercolor on paper, image:5" x 8",
frame: 17 5/8" x 20 1/2"

 
Francisco X Mora, Whistle While You Walk, 2006, Watercolor on paper, image:5" x 8",
frame: 17 5/8" x 20 1/2"
 

Left: Francisco x Mora, Perro Prieto Tiardo en un Tapete Persa (Black Dog Laying on Oriental Rug), 2007, Acrylic on canvas, image 12" x 8"
Center: Francisco x Mora, Perro Con Hueso (Dog with Bone), 2007, Acrylic on Linen, image 30" x 24 "
Right: Francisco x Mora, Perro Prieto Sentado en un Tapete Persa (Black Dog Sitting on Oriental Rug), 2007, Acrylic on canvas, image 12" x 8"

 

Left: Francisco X Mora, Perro Con Hueso (Dog with Bone), 2007, Acrylic & Sand on Linen,
image:30" x 24", frame: 38" x 32"
Right: Francisco X Mora, Nina Y Perro (Girl with Dog), 2007, Acrylic & Sand on Linen,
image:30" x 24", frame: 38" x 32"

 
Francisco x Mora, El Paseo (The Walk), 2007, Acrylic & Sand on Linen, image: 24" x 30"
 

Francisco x Mora, Gato y Pez (Cat with Fish), 2007, Acrylic on Linen, image: 30" x 24"

 

Francisco x Mora, Los Consejos del Perico (Under Advice of a Parrot), 2007, Acrylic and sand on Linen,
image 16" x 12" , frame 21" x 17"
 
Francisco x Mora, Nina Con Gallo Rojo (Girl With Red Rooster), 2007, Acrylic on paper, image 28" x 22"
 
Francisco X Mora, Sirenia (Mermaid), 2007, Acrylic & Sand on Linen,
image:30" x 24", frame: 38" x 32"
 
Francisco X Mora, El Anillo de Compromiso (The Engagement Ring), 2007, Acrylic & Sand on Linen,
image:20" x 16 ", frame: 25 1/2 " x 21 1/2 "

Francisco X Mora, Nina en el Mercado (Girl at the Market), 2007, Acrylic & Sand on Linen,
image:20" x 16", frame: 26" x 22"
 
Francisco X Mora, Flores para mis Primas(Flowers for My Cousins) , 2007, Acrylic & Sand on Linen,
image:28" x 22", frame: 38 1/4 " x 32 1/8 "
 
Francisco X Mora, Oaxaque Nina Con Perico Verde (Oaxacan Girl with Green Parrot), 2007,
Acrylic on paper, image:8" x 8 ", frame: 16" x 15 3/4"
 
Left:Francisco X Mora, Mixteca, 2007, Acrylic on paper, image:10" x 8 ", frame: 20 1/2" x 18"
Left:Francisco X Mora, Banista (The Bather), 2007, Acrylic on paper, image:10" x 8 ", frame: 20 1/2" x 18"
 
Don Gahr - Sculpture
 
Left: Don Gahr, Any More?, 2007, Carved & painted wood
Center: Don Gahr, Blowing in the Wind, 2007, carved & painted wood
Right: Don Gahr, Anticipating, 2007 Carved and painted wood
 
Don Gahr, Any More?, 2007, Painted and Engraved Wood Carving, 30 1/2" x 23" x 11 1/2",
Don Gahr, Blowing In The Wind, 2007, Painted Wood Carving, 26 1/4" x 8" x 19 1/2"
 
Don Gahr, Anticipating, 2007, Painted Wood Carving, 26 1/2" x 29" x 6"
Don Gahr, Begging Puppy , 2007, Painted Wood Carving, 24 1/2" x 11" x 8"
Don Gahr, Looking Back, 2007, Painted Wood Carving, 44" x 17" x 3"
Don Gahr, For The Joy Of Running, 2007, Painted Wood Carving, 46" x 12" x 6"
Don Gahr, Antelope, 2007, Painted & Wood-burning tooled Wood Carving, 16" x 8 3/4" x 3 1/2"
Don Gahr, Red Turtle,2007, Painted Wood Carving, 30" x 18 1/2" x 15 1/2", Below: Detail

Don Gahr, Red Turtle - Detail
Don Gahr, Fish Comb I & Fish Comb II, 2007, Painted Wood Carving, 33" x 5 1/2" x 1 1/2"

Don Gahr, Levitating Woman I & Levitating Woman II, Painted Wood Carving, Above: 30" x 8" x 2 1/2"
Below: 23" x 8" x 2 1/2"
 
Don Gahr, Sun Circle , 2007, Painted & Tooled Wood Carving, 32 1/2"diameter x 1 3/4"
 
Don Gahr, Red Fox Moving, 2007, Painted Wood Carving, 34" x 13" x 2 7/8"

Don Gahr, The Whistler, 2007, Painted & Tooled Wood Carving, 34" x 13" x 2 7/8"

Don Gahr, Owl, 2007, Painted Wood Carving, 27 1/2" x 13 1/2" x 4 1/2
Don Gahr, Oriental Deer, 2007, Painted & Tooled Wood Carving, 26" x 24" x 6 1/2""
 
 


Left: Don Gahr, Regal Green Bird (Detail below), 2007, Painted & Tooled Wood Carving, 38 1/2" x 27" x 6"
Center: Don Gahr, Regal Red Bird (Detail below), 2007, Painted & Tooled Wood Carving, 41" x 21" x 7 1/2"
Right: Don Gahr, Regal Blue Bird (Detail below), 2007, Painted & Tooled Wood Carving, 46" x 22" x 8 "







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Don Gahr   STATEMENT      

The work is in the carving assemblage tradition with the added pleasure of applying paint on wood. There is a concern with sculptural form and painting the work as if it were a canvas. The figures are based on dreams, reality and imagination. There is not a lot of concern with accurate depiction but more an attempt to describe grace and spirit.

Don Gahr RESUME

DON GAHR


Born: St. Paul, MN, 1940

Education

1969 University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1968 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, B.F.A.
1967 Portland Museum Art School, Portland OR
1962 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Exhibitions

2007 Don Gahr - Sculpture/ Francisco X Mora - Painting, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2004 DOGS! Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2003 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2001 Recent Work, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
Fish Tales, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
1998 New Work Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1996 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
BIRDS! Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Nature Reconstructed: Nature Rematerialized The Minneapolis Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
Self as Subject: Artists Portray Themselves Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Object Makers: Seven Minnesota Sculptors, Steensland Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
1994 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1994 The Farm Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
1993 Red Wing Art Center, Red Wing, WI
1992 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Totems Furlong Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Menominee, WI
1991 Birdhomes Catherine G. Murphy Galleries, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
1990 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
University of Wisconsin, Menomonie, WI
Metaphorical Fish, University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1989 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1990 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
1987 Don Gahr and Arne Nyen Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1986 Bless the Beast First Bank System, St. Paul, MN
1984 Beyond Folk Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Mason/Gahr Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1983 Madzo/Gahr Barry Richard Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI
1982 Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
1981 Barry Richard Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1978 University of Minnesota, Morris, MInneapolis, MN
1977 Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
1975 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Collections

Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, Minneapolis, MN
First Bank System, Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN
Opus Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Signal Hills State Bank, St. Paul, MN
St. Jude Medical Center, St. Paul, MN
Instant Web, Minneapolis, MN
Dayton Hudson Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Lutheran Brotherhood, Minneapolis, MN
University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine Facility, Madison, WI

Commissions

Minneapolis Children's Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
Atrium Office Building, St. Paul, MN
First Bank, La Crosse, WI
Minnesota Mutual, St. Paul, MN
First Bank, Brainerd, MN
Shriners Hospital for Disabled Children, Minneapolis
Employment Insurance Company, Green Bay, WI
Wisconsin Education Insurance Trust, Madison, WI

Publications

Art in America, Review of Exhibitions, May, 2003
Hanson, Doug, The Window, January, 1995.
Minnesota Arts Directory, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1996.
Waddington, Chris, Into the Woods, Twin Cities Magazine, January, 1989.
Washburn County Register, December 2, 1982.
 


Francisco X Mora  STATEMENT


There was a time when I had many wonderful dreams, but then I didn’t have a language for my own expression. When I found that language, I knew I could be speaking forever.

Francisco Xavier Mora

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Francisco X Mora RESUME

FRANCISCO XAVIER MORA

Born: Mexico City, 1952

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
During his formative years, he studied traditional and contemporary art with some of the most influential Mexican artists of the time.
In 1979, he moved to the United States to study, live and work. He now divides his time between his United States home and visits his homeland of Mexico.
Currently he is involved with children’s literature and community programs such as the nationally acclaimed Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s A.C.E. Program.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

Museo del Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Mexican Museum, Chicago, IL
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee, WI
Colegio Americano, Mexico City, Mexico
Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha WI
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

SELECTED GALLERY EXHIBITS

Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Martin-Harris Gallery, Jackson, WY
Santa Fe Gallery, Madison, WI
Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Contemporary Southwest Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Jill Spanbauer Gallery, Naples, FL

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI
Cascio Ltd., San Diego, CA
Gareth Stevens Children’s Books, Milwaukee, WI
Harry Nohr Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Platteville, WI
Kellogg Center, East Lansing, MI
McDonald’s Corporation, Chicago, IL
Mexican Museum, Chicago, IL
Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI
Northwestern Mutual Life Co., Milwaukee, WI
Quad/Graphics, Pewaukee, WI
University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, WI
Multi-Cultural Center, Archdiocese of Madison, WI

SELECTED CHILDREN’S BOOKS

“Delicious Hullabaloo”, by Pat Mora, Arte Publico Press, Houston, TX
“The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb”, by Shirley Climo, Clarion Books, New York, NY
“Listen to the Desert”, by Pat Mora, Clarion Books, New York, NY
“Juan Tuza and the Magic Pouch”, by Francisco X. Mora, Highsmith Press, Fort Atkinson, WI
“La Gran Fiesta”, by Francisco Mora, Highsmith Press, Fort Atkinson, WI
“The Legend of Two Moons”, by Francisco X. Mora, Highsmith Press, Fort Atkinson, WI
“How the Indians Bought the Farm”, by Craig Kee Strete, Greenwillow Books, New York, NY
“Fox in the Moon”, A Peruvian folktale, Hampton Brown, Carmel, CA
“La Mas Hermosa”, A folktale from Yucatan, Mexico, Hispanex, Boston MA
“Tiger and the Rabbit”, A Mexican folktale, Children’s Press, Chicago, IL
“Just Listen,” Reading Anthology, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
“Welcome Baby Brother,” by Anne Sibley O’Brien, Macmillian, New York, NY
“How Crow Played a Trick,” A Native American Folktale, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
“Tuko and the Birds,” by Shirley Climo, Henry Holt and Co., New York, NY
“Mr. C’s Dinner,” Reading Anthology, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA

 

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