 In this
painting, I tried a more conceptual approach to
communication, still retaining photo-realistic depiction
techniques to build on my discipline.
The windows are recognizable as
part of the decorative stone treatment of the old Cushing
Library section of A&M's Sterling C. Evans Library
Complex.
I wished to conceptually show the
contrast between two of A&M's primary attributes:
academia and sports. During the time I painted this, the
university was suffering from major scandals involving
the football program coached by Jackie Sherill. I was
trying to depict a football game as though it were
reflected from the windows of one of the university's
more recognizable academically-oriented buildings.
The unusual stonework of this
building and a few other classically inspired buildings
around the campus inspired me to produce a number of
drawing and painting studies for some time after. It
amuses me that so many of these stoneworks are all around
the student body as they walk around campus on their
day-to-day duties, and yet they never seem to notice and
appreciate the imagination and workmanship involved in
them until they are taken out of context and presented to
them in unique artworks such as this.
This painting won a Purchase Award
for me in the Wilson Office Products Company's state-wide
Student Art Contest back when I was in college, and later was shown in the company's
offices in major cities throughout Texas.
I do not have prints of this work
available at this time, but if you would be interested in
obtaining a print of this work please drop me a line. If
enough interest in this picture is shown I will have
prints made up.
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