Sandra York

EDUCATION
     

               BFA 1982 University of Houston, Houston, TX
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
     

2017        York & York:  Midcentury Transitions, Harlingen Arts and Heritage Museum, Harlingen, TX (Curator:  Nydia Tapia Gonzales)

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2011        trueorfalse, Nau-haus, Dan Mitchell Allison, Houston, TX

                Finding Her Feet, The Jung Center, Houston, TX

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2008        Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX

                Tacia Retablos, South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado, AK

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2007        Tacia Retablos, UT Medical School Houston Art Wall, Houston, TX

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2004        Buchanan Gallery, Galveston Island, TX

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1990        Oxymoron:  Open Letter to the Pope, Firehouse Gallery, Houston, TX 

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  

   

2019        Then and Now, Art Car Museum, Houston, TX, (Curator:  Noah Edmundson)

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2014        Southern Exposure, Watson MacRae Gallery, Sanibel, FL

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2014        Concealed / Revealed, Hunter Gather Project, Houston, TX

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2013        A Tender Place, Williams Tower, Houston, TX (Curator:  Sally Sprout)

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2012        God, Art Car Museum, Houston, TX

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2010        Women's Stories, Watson MacRae Gallery, Sanibel, FL

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2009        Spirited Women, Audley Society, Houston, TX (curator: Keith Hollingsworth)

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2007        10 Women Perspectives, The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, Clear Lake TX (curator: Debra Kendrick)

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2000        Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2000, The Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, 

                TX  (curator:  Bruce Guenther)

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1997        Outrageous AARP Salon, Diverse Works, Houston, TX (curator: Harvey Bott)
 
                The Presence of the Absence of the Presence, Davis Gallery/Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX (curator: Lynn Randolph)

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1993        Lawndale Live! A Retrospective 1979-1990, Lawndale Art & Performance Center, Houston, TX 
 
                Conventional Forms/Insidious Visions, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX (curator: Elizabeth McBride)

 

1992        Improvisational Spirit, Transco Gallery, Houston, TX (curator: Doug Blake)
                Group Exhibition, Graham Gallery, Houston TX

 

1989        Common Ground: Beyond Boundaries, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, TX (juror: Marilyn Zeitlin)

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                 Visual Arts Alliance 6th, Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Republic Bank Center, Houston, TX (juror: Michael Peranteau)

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1988         Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX (jurors: Alison de Lima Greene, Edward & Nancy Kienholz, Richard                     Koshalek)

 

1987        Austin Annual 1987, Arts Warehouse, Austin, TX (curator: Pio Pulido)  3 to 5, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

 

1986        Austin Annual 1986,  Arts Warehouse, Austin, TX (curator: Pio Pulido)

 

1985        The East End Show, Lawndale Alternative, Houston, TX     

 

 

SELECTED LECTURES AND PANELS   

 

2009        Art and Illness Panel, Art League, Houston, TX

                Art and Illness, KPFT Radio Living Art (Michael Woodson and Melissa Noble), Houston, TX

 

2008        Tacia Retablos, The Women’s Home Lecture Series, Houston, TX
 
                Interwoven: Coping Through Art, South Arkansas Center on Aging, South Central
               

                Center on Aging, Life Touch Hospice, El Dorado, Arkansas

 

2007        Interwoven:  Dying, Memory and Healing Through Art, Presented by the John P. McGovern, M.D. Center for Health, 

                Humanities and the Human Spirit and the UT Art Wall Committee, UT Medical School,  Houston, TX.

 

1999        End of Life: Coping Through Creativity Panel,  Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
 

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND INVOLVEMENT  

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2012        Artist Internship for Ava Morton, Art student UC Santa Barbara

 

1993        Women’s Drum Corp, Houston, TX

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1990        Treasurer  Houston Women’s Caucus for Art

 

1989        Treasurer Houston Women’s Caucus for Art
               

                Women in Prison Collaborative Workshop, Gatesville State Prison Women’s Unit  

   

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES

   

"Spoken", Houston Chronicle, December 15, 2013

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Sandra York "true or false" Nau-haus Art Catalogue 2011

 

“Artist Mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s Disease behind ‘Tacia Retablos’.”  El Dorado News Times, El Dorado, Arkansas, March 2008

 

“Tacia Retablos take to the Art Wall”,  Scoop, The University of TX Medical School of  Houston, February 2007

 

Jean West Rudnicki, "10 Women, 10 Perspectives Unveiled," Change Magazine, October, 2007

 

Heather Diamond, “Healing Art: TheTacia Retablos,”  The New Crisis, November, 1998

 

Johannes Birringer, “Freedom of Expression,” Public News, June 1990

 

Anne H. Roberts, “Alternative Art Spaces Are Alive & Well,” Public News, May, 1990

 

Jana Vanderlee, “While The Jury’s Out,” The Houston Arts, October, 1988.

 

Donna Tennant, “Houston Galleries,” No Bluebonnets, No Yellow Roses: Essays on Texas

 

Sylvia Moore, “Women in the Arts”, Ed, Midmarch Arts Press, New York, 1988

 

Patricia C. Johnson, “Sensual Enough in Appearance To Intrigue the Viewer” Houston Chronicle, July 12, 1986.

 

Frank Kalmykov, “Sandra York”, The Inquirer, ed., Houston, TX Sept-Oct. 1986

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