Lot 255
RON HOOVER (American/Texas/Houston School 1944-2008) A PAINTING, "Amused-Abused," 1984,
oil on canvas, titled, dated, and signed on reverse, "Amused-Abused / 60" x 48" / 1984 O/C / Ron Hoover;" 60" x 48", framed 61" x 49".
- Provenance: Collection of Gus Kopriva, Houston, Texas.
- Notes: Ron Hoover was a part of the Texas contemporary art scene for decades and took part in the seminal exhibition "Fresh Paint: The Houston School," at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, in 1985. Other Notes: Ron Hoover was born in Liberty, Texas, and he came to Houston to get his BFA at the University of Houston, which he did in 1975. He was a part of the famous 1985 exhibition Fresh Paint at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which was a survey of Houston painters. He showed with Bill Graham, who was an extremely important dealer in Houston in the 80s, who had a very interesting stable of local artists. Graham died of AIDS in 1992, sadly, and it was a blow to a lot of Houston artists whom he represented, including Ron Hoover. Almost all of Ron's work explores a darker side of human society, oftentimes through the dark side of the business world, the dark side of free market capitalism. Environmental damage was a big concern of his. Much of it was an expression of a big, powerful unknown force that's suddenly invading the ancient, pastoral peacefulness of the environment. If you think about it, in the 1970s, that's really what was happening in Houston, as suddenly out of the swamp these crystalline, manmade structures came up in downtown Houston out of nowhere, as an expression of enormous wealth and power. Hoover's early works from the 1970s are great. They're oil paintings on translucent paper, and they owe a debt to Francis Bacon, whom he said was one of his big influences. By the 1980s he evolved towards the style he's most well-known for. Many people call it pointillism, and sometimes you do see the individual dots of a Seurat-like painting in his work, but oftentimes he was splattering the oil paint on the surface with a toothbrush. And that's the case in this work here. Densely layered, the many layers create vague shadowy effects with background shapes. Crosses painted in multiple shades of gray and black, and then overlaying on top of that the spattering, in a bright assortment of colors that, when you step back from them, achieve this muted, gloomy, gray-green. Source: Glasstire.com via "Ron Hoover: Modern Business Shadows" by Rainey Knudson
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Condition:
There are no visible signs of damage or alteration. There are some areas in the lower left next to the leg where the primed canvas is exposed and it is lightly painted (clearly visible in photos). This is intentional by the artist and has been this way since the work was created. There are some other scattered areas where there appears to be small bits of paper on the canvas. It is unclear whether this was intentional by the artist or not.
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