Biography

Jane K. Starks

Nationality: American
Dates: Born 1951
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Recent Press:
 

The Dallas Morning News November 15, 2013
 

The Dallas Morning News November 10, 2013
 

D Magazine
 

Education:
 

 

1999 MFA, Painting, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1985 MS, Community and Regional Planning, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
1974 BA, Anthropology/Archeology, California State University, Long Beach, California
 

 

Exhibitions:
 

2017 TREES: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek Proverb), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2014 Viewshed: Explorations in Landscape, Beatrice M. Haggerty Art Gallery at the University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, two person exhibition with Debora Hunter
2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Summer Cut, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2013 Jane Starks: Plein Air, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2013 Taos Select (juried exhibition), Taos Fall Arts, Taos, New Mexico
2012 Taos Select (juried exhibition), Taos Fall Arts, Taos, New Mexico
2012 Taos Contemporary (juried exhibition), Metro State University Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado
2012 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2011 Taos Select (juried exhibition), Taos Fall Arts, Taos, New Mexico
2011 The Good Earth (a group exhibition), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011 Fresh & Salty (a Valley House Gallery group exhibition), Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2010 Shorelines, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2008 Art + Advocacy: An Auction Benefiting the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center, 333 First Avenue, Dallas, Texas
2008 Texas Tour: 100 Years of Texas Landscape Painting, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2007 Away From Home: Artists Roam and Respond, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005 Art in the Key of Green, Group Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 One person show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 Works on Paper, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
2003 McNay Art Fair, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2002 McNay Art Fair, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2001 USArtists,Tenth Anniversary art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2001 One person show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1999 Masters of Fine Arts Qualifying Exhibition, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1998 Dallas Area Art – Small Works Exhibition, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, Texas
 

 

Awards:
 

1998 Wayne County Fair, Utah, First Place
1997 Texas Visual Arts Association 50th Anniversary Show, Second Place
 

 

Literature:
 

Bonnie Gangelhoff, “An Intimate View, Jane K. Starks helps us look closely at the landscape,” Southwest Art, August 2016, Volume 46, Number 3, pages 82-87.

60th Anniversary Catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2014; Pot Creek, NM, Summer reproduced.
 

Michael Granberry, “Plein Air”, The Dallas Morning News, November 15, 2013, Guide section, page 38, Pot Creek, NM, Fall (2012) reproduced. Available from http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/arts/headlines/20131114-jane-k.-starks-paintings-explore-the-beauty-of-diminishing-wilderness.ece
 

Michael Granberry, “Art Notes: Jane K. Starks admirably carries on Valley House tradition”, The Dallas Morning News, November 10, 2013, Guide section, page 5E, Rio Ojo Caliente, Bosque, Autumn (2008) and Pot Creek, NM, Fall (2011) reproduced. Available from http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/michael-granberry/20131108-art-notes-jane-k.-starks-admirably-carries-on-valley-house-tradition.ece
 

Frederick Turner, “The Eyes of Texas: Texas Art and Texas Light,” American Arts Quarterly, published by The Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York), Summer 2010, Volume 27, Number 3, pages 27-33.
 

50th Anniversary Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, March 5 – 27, 2004, color reproduction.
 

The Dallas Morning News, Texas Living: Today’s Guide, Monday, June 18, 2001, section C, p. 1A, reproduction.
 

“Exhibit of the Month”, D Magazine, June, 2001, p. 25, reproduction.
 

Bucher, Kristen, “Texas and Beyond”, Southwest Art Magazine, June, 2001, p. 80, reproduction.
 

 

Public Collections:
 

Belo Corporation, Dallas, Texas
BNSF Railway, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Country Club, Dallas, Texas
ECM Partners, Dallas, Texas
Smith, Douglass, and McConnico, Austin, Texas
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

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