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Paulina van Bavel-Kearney
2582 FM 2434, Weimar, TX 78962

Born 1949, Ames Iowa, Graduate BFA, University of Texas, Austin 1971
Studio located between Austin and Houston, Texas on family ranch
Married to James C. Kearney, currently teaching art at C.H.S., Columbus Texas.

Artwork is represented by Harris Gallery, Houston, TX, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Turner Chapman Gallery, Columbus, TX, Round Top Gallery, Round Top, TX

Selected Awards

Recipient of J. Frank Dobie Paisano Fellowship, 1978-1979
First Place award in Texas Crafts Exhibition, UT Center for American History
Winedale, 1976, 1981, 1990, Third Place, 2003
Winedale – First Place award, 2004
First Place Display Award, Clay Houston Festival, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 2007

Selected Group Exhibitions

Made in Texas, UT San Antonio Art Gallery, curated by Ron Boling, New Braunfels Museum of Art and Music, 2001
Texas Clay II, Southwest Texas University, San Marcos, curated by Michel Conroy
Arlington Museum of Art, 1993
Contemporary Crafts: A Concept in Flux, curated by Helen Drutt English, 1987
New Expressions in Contemporary Crafts, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1981
Texas Crafts, Touring exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, 1979

Gallery and Museum Exhibitions

Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas with Ann Matlock and V. Chin, 2000
Contemporary Craftsman, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1988
Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas 1987
Front Room Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1987
Galerie Ravel, Austin, Texas 1987
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas 1980
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas 1977

Museum and Corporate Collections

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, Florida
Standard Oil of Ohio, Houston, Texas
M-Bank, Houston, Texas
Radisson Hotel, Austin, Texas
Hill Bank and Trust, Weimar, TX

 
   

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