During her forty year "art life," Becky Hendrick made and exhibited paintings, installations, and participatory environments; wrote and published numerous texts and hundreds of articles and art reviews; taught a wide range of subjects in both studio and lecture settings in five colleges/university art programs; hosted The Border Art Residency, founded by her husband, sculptor Willie Ray Parish; and, in a 2007 four-part exhibit, officially "retired from the practice of Art to (among other things) pursue amateurism" resulting in poetry, lyrics, essays, blogs, photography, and videos, mostly digital in order to leave less non-biodegradable evidence. More of her creative work can be surveyed at the websites listed below.
WEBSITES
www.beckyhendrickwriting.com (essays, reviews, books; active sight)
www.beckyhendrickfreeideas.com (ideas, projects, examples, lessons)
www.beckyhendrickartlife.ipage.com (art and writing overview; inactive sight)
ARCHIVES
Exhibition catalogs, published works, magazine features, essays, interviews, reviews, articles about and by Becky Hendrick are in the Special Collections of the University of Texas at El Paso Library, El Paso, Texas.
www.beckyhendrickwriting.com (essays, reviews, books; active sight)
www.beckyhendrickfreeideas.com (ideas, projects, examples, lessons)
www.beckyhendrickartlife.ipage.com (art and writing overview; inactive sight)
ARCHIVES
Exhibition catalogs, published works, magazine features, essays, interviews, reviews, articles about and by Becky Hendrick are in the Special Collections of the University of Texas at El Paso Library, El Paso, Texas.
RÉSUMÉ
821 North Main Avenue
Tucson AZ 85705
575-571-8700
bhendrick@zianet.com
EDUCATION
1969 BFA, Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans
1978 MFA, Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
TEACHING
2003-13 University of Texas at El Paso: Whole Arts, Art Appreciation
2002 University of Texas at El Paso: Sculpture 1, Art Appreciation
2001 El Paso Community College: Art Appreciation
1985 El Paso Community College: Art Appreciation, Drawing, Painting, 2-d design, 3-d design
1985-86 University of Texas at El Paso, Survey of Latin American Art, Introduction to Art
1983-84 Anderson University: Art Appreciation
1981-84 Ball State University: Drawing, Life Drawing, Color Theory, 2-d Design
1980-81 Museum School, Mississippi Museum of Art: Painting, Drawing, Art Survey
1979-80 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Drawing, Life Drawing, 2-d, Design, Art History Survey
1972-77 Callaway High School, Jackson MS
PROFESSIONAL
2022. Presentation for "Invoking Light," El Paso Museum of Art
2022 Contributor to "The Mystery of Modern Art," by Robyn Goldfarb Jamison
2017-2022 Photographer for Dunbar/Spring neighborhood annual calendar
2019 Show and Tell presentation, Tubac Center of the Arts
2019 Photography Award, Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission
2019 Presentation for “Black Out,” Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MX
2018 Tucson Contemporary Art Society open studio tour
2017 Juror, Border Art Residency
2016 Public presentation, “Genesis Revisited,” sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, UTEP, El Paso TX
2016 Juror, Border Art Residency
2013 TEDX El Paso presentation
2001-13 Host, Border Art Residency, La Union NM
2012 Reading and exhibition, Baja Hotel, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico
2010 City of El Paso public art selection committee
2010 State of the Arts interview, KTEP 88.5 FM
2010 Guest for the hour, The Lisa D Show, 1150 AM, El Paso TX
2010 Reviewer, Thames and Hudson Publishing
2010 Reviewer, McGraw-Hill Publishing
2010 Juror, Mesita Elementary School, El Paso TX
2009 Reviewer, Pearson Publishing Company
2009 Juror, El Paso Community College exhibition
2008 Juror, Institute of Arts and Letters exhibition, El Paso TX
2008 Juror, Thombaugh Gallery, Las Cruces NM
2007 HGTV “Rezoned: New Mexico Cantina,” featured w/ house/studio
2006 Slide-lecture: “The Muse Resurrected,” Rubin Center, El Paso TX
2006 Juror, Coronado High School
2005 Presenter, ABC Conference, UTEP, El Paso TX
2003 Panelist, El Paso Museum of Art, True Grit
2002 Featured interview, Open Book, Breakfast with the Arts, A & E Network NY
2002 Panelist: Has Post-Structuralism Gone Too Far? College Art Association Convention, Philadelphia PA
2001 Brown Foundation Grant
2001 Guest speaker and juror, El Paso Art Association
2001 Reading, Barnes and Noble, El Paso TX
2000 Reading, Borders Books, Dallas TX
2000 Guest lecture: Mississippi Museum of Art
2000 Guest lecture: Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA
2000 Guest lecture: Carlsbad Arts Resources, Carlsbad CA
2000 Gottlieb Foundation Grant (with Willie Ray Parish)
1997 “New American Paintings,” Open Studios Press, Wellesley MA
1996 Juror: Rio Bravo Watercolor Society, El Paso TX
1994 Visiting artist: University of Central Florida, Orlando FL
1993 “Artists on Art” lecture series, El Paso Museum of Art
1991 Visiting artist: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
1990 Video feature: KCOS Public Television, El Paso
1988 Award for Arts Criticism, Kansas City Arts Alliance
1988 Writing Across the Curriculum, El Paso Community College
1984 Lilly Foundation Curriculum Development Grant
1983 Gallery director, Anderson University, Anderson IN
1981 Director, Creative Exchange, Jackson Arts Alliance, Jackson MS
1980 NEA Art for Public Spaces Grant, Jackson MS
1973 American Film Institute Fellowship, Kent CT
SOLO & FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
2022 INVOKING LIGHT, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
2019 EVIDENCE: Art+Lives (with Ray Parish), Tubac Center of the Arts
2018 EVIDENCE: Art+Lives (with Ray Parish), Gallery 2Sun, Tucson AZ
2016 Genesis Revisited, University of Texas at El Paso
2013 El Paso Public Library, main branch
2012 The Tequila Factory, Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico
2010 Forum Art and Culture, El Paso TX
2010 Xochtl’s, Cholla Bay, Sonora MX
2007 Under the Sun Gallery, El Paso TX
2005 Zane-Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2004 A Show of Gladness, UTEP Union Gallery, El Paso
2003 Post-Traumatic Stress Series, La Union NM
2001 Pennebaker Gallery, Jackson MS
2001 By Invitation Only, La Union NM
1999 Black-White-Other, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso
1997 Local Color: Three Portrait Painters, Adair Margo Gallery
1995 Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas TX
1995 Richland College, Dallas TX
1995 Pattern Language, Women and their Work, Austin TX
1994 Picture, Pattern, Paint, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso TX
1994 Gaier Contemporary Gallery, Orlando FL
1994 Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas TX
1991 Vision/Revision, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso TX
1990 Houston Women’s Caucus for Art, Houston TX
1990 Blanche Beckerman Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
1989 Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe NM
1989 Boon Circuit, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art
1987 Free Speech, Momenta Gallery, Philadelphia PA
1987 One World: A Series of Meditations, UTEP Glass Gallery
1986 Free Speech, Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland OR
1986 Union Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso
1984 Public Exposure, Women’s Building, Los Angeles
1983 Public Exposure, Ball State University, Muncie IN
1980 Gulf-South Gallery, McComb MS
1979 Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian MS
1978 Galleria Pergola, San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Tucson Sculpture Month, unnamed gallery, Copenhagen
2014 New Mexico State University Permanent Collection Exhibition
2013 UTEP Pickaxe Invitational
2010 University of Montana, Bozeman MT
2007 The Mississippi Story, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MS
2007 Border Massive, Under the Sun Gallery, El Paso TX
2007 Biannual Faculty Exhibition, UTEP, El Paso TX
2007 Texas 100, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso TX
2006 Texas 100, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
2006 5X7, Arthouse Invitational, Austin TX
2006 Biannual Faculty Exhibition, UTEP, El Paso TX
2005 El Paso: Past, Present, Future, International Museum of Art
2004 Border Art Residency Site Exhibition, El Paso TX
2004 El Paso: Past, Present, Future, El Paso Chamber of Commerce, TX
2004 Borderlands, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
2004 30th Anniversary Permanent Collection Exhibition, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM
2004 UTEP Department of Art faculty exhibition, El Paso TX
2004 SoQ: Art of Southern New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe
2003 Summer Art Invitational, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
2002 Snapshots, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore MD
2002 Art Windows, El Paso International Airport, El Paso TX
2000 El Paso Museum of Art
1999 Binacional Exposicion del Arte, New Mexico State University
1998 Chihuahua Museum of Art, Ciudad Chihuahua, MX
1997 Binacional Expo, Museum of Fine Arts, Juarez, Mexico
1996 Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso TX
1994 Texas International, University of Texas at El Paso
1993 Texas Biennial, Dallas TX
1993 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso TX
1992 Primarily Paint, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin TX
1992 Sena Gallery, Santa Fe NM
1991 Capirotada: Eight El Paso Artists, El Paso Museum of Art, TX
1991 Texas Art Celebration, Houston TX
1990 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM
1990 Texas Art Celebration, Houston TX
1990 Visions of Excellence, Albuquerque NM
1988 Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso TX
1983 Anderson University, Anderson IN
1982 Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne IN
1982 Ball State University, Muncie IN
1981 Fifty Women Artists, Mississippi Art Association
1980 Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian MS
REVIEWS OF WORK
2012 Desert Modern and Beyond, El Paso Museum of Art
2007 The Mississippi Story, by Patty Carr Black
2007 Mississippi Magazine, article on Elizabeth Johnson
2006 Texas 100 Catalog essay by Christian Gerstheimer, El Paso Museum of Art
2004 Artlies, by Stephanie Taylor
2002 The Northside Sun, Jackson MS
2001 The Tulanian, New Orleans LA, by Jennifer Ellis
2001 Alexandria Times, Alexandria LA, by Alice Story
2000 El Paso Times, El Paso TX, by Rex Koontz
1999 Tacoma City Paper, Tacoma WA, by Alec Clayton
1990 Montrose Voice, Houston TX
COLLECTIONS
Sam Donaldson Center, UTEP, El Paso TX
UTEP Department of Art, UTEP, El Paso TX
Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian MS
Dr. Steve and Carol Johnson, El Paso TX
El Paso Community Foundation, El Paso TX
Stewpot Ministries, Jackson MS
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MS
El Paso Holocaust Museum, El Paso TX
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
Harle Dixon, El Paso TX and San Diego CA
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM
Lone Star Park, Dallas TX
Southwest Properties Group, Dallas TX
George and Ellen Needham, New York NY
Maria Davis, Boston MA
Dr. Karen Houston, Brandon MS
Dr. Peter Polatin and Emily Clark, Washington DC
Ashby Foote, Jackson MS
Museum Concepts, Clinton MS
PUBLISHED WRITING
2022 "In the Shade of a Dead Palm," lulu.com
2021 "In & Out: Free Ideas," lulu.com
2020 “Exhibition: X,” lulu.com
2019 “Art, Seriously,” lulu.com
2019 “Before and After,” lulu.com
2019 “Said and Done,” lulu.com
2018 “Pictures,” lulu.com
2016 “Genesis Revisited; Projects and Ideas,” lulu.com
2013 Online review: Jean Wilkey and Awe
2013 Free Ideas! Website
2010 Online Reviews: Alice Leora Briggs, Arturo Gardea, James Drake
2009 About and Through the Arts (2nd Edition), Kendall-Hunt Publishing
2005 _______ís Book of Beliefs, iUniverse publishing
2005 About and Through the Arts: Lessons and Activities for Creative Teaching and Learning, (1st edition), Kendall-Hunt Publishing
2004 Guest article, El Paso Times
2004 About and Through the Arts (preliminary edition), Kendall-Hunt
2004 “Air Patterns,” Artlies, Houston TX
2004 El Paso Times reviews
2003 “Adrian Esparza,” Artlies, Houston TX
2003 “The Still Point: Kumi Yamashita,” Artlies, Houston TX
2002 Interview, Art Exposure catalog, Kansas City KS
2002 “On the Record,” article, El Paso Inc., El Paso TX
2001 Terese Bauer review, Artlies, Houston TX
2001 Vincent Burke review, Artlies, Houston TX
2001 Hands On! Activities for Creative Teaching and Learning, Luna Pi Books
2001 Review, El Paso Times, El Paso TX
2000 The Book of Kayiané Rebecca, Luna Pi Books
2000 Getting It: A Guide to Understanding and Appreciating Art, Houghton Mifflin Company
2000 “What I Learned: Notes from an Unintentional Author,” Bridge Quarterly,
1999 Getting It: A Guide to Understanding and Appreciating Art, Luna Pi Books
1998 The Mechanics of Memory, El Paso Holocaust Museum
1996 Catalog essay, Transpositionen, Galerie M, Berlin, Germany
1996 “Rodin on the Rio,” guest editorial, El Paso Times
1992 Guest editorial, El Paso Times
1992 Quarterly essays and reviews, El Paso Border Review
1989 Quarterly reviews, Artweek, Los Angeles CA
1988 “Los Esmeltianos,” fall issue, Artspace, Los Angeles
1988 “The Artist as Steward,” Forum, Kansas City KS
1988 Weekly art reviews, El Paso Herald-Post
1988 “Lindsay Holt II,” Artspace Magazine, Albuquerque NM
1988 Quarterly reviews, Artspace Magazine
1987 “Suite Scenes,” Artspace Magazine
1987 “Reality Reconsidered,” Artweek
1987 “The Function of Particular Memory,” Artweek
1987 “A Quest for Cumulative Meaning,” Artweek
1986 “Construction and Spirit,” Artweek