THANKS! and Galleries Talk

Back to Dallas for a gallery talk at the MAC, and one next Saturday at Valley House. When I'm not there yakking, I let the computer do it. Thanks to Angela Morales and Rusty Jackson for refurbishing the website! The wonderful review by Willard Spiegelman is on there, plus the essay by Betty Sue Flowers. The first Little Goody Book by Chlora's Book of the Month Club is online, in excerpts......not to be confused with THE little red catalogue by Rick Brettell. I am busting with pride over that one. He really makes me look good, beginning the Coco Chanel cover. Deepest thanks to you, NOW, THEN AND AGAIN!





At the gallery talk a man asked me how I market my work, and I quipped, "Not very well!" but quickly added my thanks to Valley House Gallery, who recently took me on. Cheryl and Kevin Vogel, plus Laura Green, have been enormous help. They are currently at the Chicago Art Fair and they took Chlora along.




The man pressed on, and I admitted to having part time work that keeps me afloat, at the retreat center Laity Lodge. Many thanks to Steven Purcell and many others there who support the arts and my work there with artists. Then, of course, I have to credit my main patron, Rick Geyer, for 20+ years of underwriting my art-making. My parents, Pat & Earlene Henry also fall in that financial support system, as does my poker-pro son, Adam! And all those who've purchased my work in the past.



I fired the batch of porcelain imprints from the Gilgamesh rolling pin and hope to give these to those who make up my very significant support system. We added one of the slabs to the installation. There is an "edition" of 30 of these in various sizes, called "Gilgamesh on a Roll."
My thank you list IS long, and here are some of those on it:


FROM THE MAC: Liliana Bloch, Emily Cheek, Leslie Connally, and David McCollough. Plus Susan & Claude Albritton who make it all possible!


AND FOR THE BEAUTIFUL INSTALLATION: Gary Cunningham and his crew, especially Michael Bessner... who were underwritten by The McDermott Foundation.



FOR THE CATALOGUE by Rick Brettell, thanks so much to his terrific assistant, Pierrette Lacour, and to the graphic artist Gabriel Dawe.


FOR PR WORK--my professional daughter Larkin Geyer! Also Ben Slade and Adam Rasmus, and Karen Pope. AND PARTY HELP--my sister-in-law Sandy Youman, and FLOWERS--my sisters Wendy Fenn, Linda Dickinson, and Holly Meehan


FRIENDS WHO HAVE CONTINUALLY GIVEN ME PROFESSIONAL GUIDANCE: Mary Cook, Betty Sue Flowers, Kathleen Davis Niendorff, Sherry Smith, Deborah Sokolove, Ron Stevenson, Pam Wagner, Melba & Ted Whatley, Jenny Whitten, and Gregory Wolfe. And so many more...
your names appear on the Acknowledgments Page of the first Chlora book.