Embodying Big Tex + more with Figurative Painter Brian Keith Jones
Channel: Lisa Rawlinson Art
Date: 2024-02-22

In this bonus video with Dallas, TX-based artist Brian Keith Jones, we discuss:

• Who/what is Big Tex and why Brian started working with that image
• How Brian creates his Big Tex animations
• Press around his Big Tex
• Surface-level reactions to his work
• Navigating value perceptions of art
• Halloween costumes


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GO DEEPER

• Video of Big Tex on fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ZymGBl1Zw&t=22s
• The History of Big Tex from CBS Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzjWJGRm6Ho
• Glasstire’s “Favorite Texas-Flavored Contemporary Artworks”: https://glasstire.com/2020/07/30/top-five-july-30-2020-our-favorite-texas-flavored-contemporary-artworks/
• Glasstire’s review of  Brian’s “Meanwhile…Back in Dallas” show at Ro2: https://glasstire.com/2013/10/18/brian-keith-jones-meanwhileback-in-dallas/
• D Magazine’s review of “…and it burns, burns, burns.” at Ro2: https://www.dmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2020/09/at-ro2-art-big-tex-and-the-world-are-up-in-flames/
• Ro2 Gallery: https://www.ro2art.com
• Brian on Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/show/ro2-art-dot-dot-dot-and-it-burns-burns-burns?sort=partner_show_position
• Chuck and George website: http://www.chuckandgeorge.net
• FOLLOW BRIAN: https://www.instagram.com/chuckandgeorge/



COMPLIMENT this talk with:

• “Voice and Value” with Allen Yu: https://youtu.be/h5ou7XBDd9c
• “Dignity, Integrity, Trust.” With Joel Salcido: https://youtu.be/rlfUJ20b074
• “Experiencing the Other Side in the Everyday” with Renée Núñez: https://youtu.be/OyGpPnY5LSo
• “It Came From Outer Space (Maybe)” with Scott Winterrowd: https://youtu.be/yBkqSLsMqoU


GIVE BACK

In each artist talk, I like to include a link to a charity or nonprofit. Brian suggested Planned Parenthood and I was 100% on board with that. If you are as well, please consider donating today: 

https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org


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