Press:
John Cobb’s Visions at First Presbyterian, by Jerome Weeks on KERA Art&Seek
John Cobb’s Panel Paintings Hit the Texas Highways, by Ginger Geyer in Image Journal
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Education:
1981-1983 B.A. in Fine Arts, St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas
1975-1976 Independent Study in France, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Italy
1974-1975 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1973 Del Mar Junior College, Corpus Christi, Texas
1972-1973 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
1971 Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas
1968-1971 Private Study with Joseph Cain, Corpus Christi, Texas
1961-1968 Texas School of Fine Arts with Charles Normann, Austin, Texas
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 Seton Cove Meditation Center, Austin, Texas
2018 Chapel Shrine: Paintings by John Patrick Cobb, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas
2018 John Cobb: Italian Sketches, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017 John Cobb: Reclamation, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016 The Two Chapels, Felder Gallery, Port Aransas, Texas
2015 Mary, Full of Grace, ArtReach Gallery, Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas
2014 Vision & Substance: The Art of John Cobb, Ledbetter Gallery, The Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas (catalogue)
2013 John Cobb: The Chapel Series, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
2012 John Cobb: Chapel Installation and Landscape Paintings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2012 John Cobb: The Chapel Series, First Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas
2011 John Cobb: The Chapel Series, Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas
2010 John Cobb: The Chapel Series, Antelope Valley Community College, Lancaster, California
2009 John Cobb: The Chapel Series, St. Mark’s Episcopal, Church, Austin, Texas
2009 John Cobb: The Chapel Series, First Baptist Church, Austin, Texas
2008 John Cobb: The Chapel Series, University of Houston, Medial Library, Houston, Texas
2007 John Cobb: The Chapel Series, HEB Foundation Camp, Kerrville, Texas
2006 John Cobb: The Chapel Series, St. Edward’s University, Maybee Ballroom, Austin, Texas
2005 St. Edward’s University, Fine Arts Gallery, Austin, Texas
2001 University of Texas, Preforming Arts Center, Austin, Texas
2001 Fred Page Art Appraisers, Silver Lake, California
1996 Concordia Lutheran College, Austin, Texas
1987 Texas State Treasury, Austin, Texas
1987 Capitol City Playhouse, Austin, Texas
1987 Bois D’ Arc Gallery, Austin, Texas
1986 University Baptist Church, Austin, Texas
1986 Wimberley Bank, Represented by Mark and Lynn Smith
Group Exhibitions:
2021 We Talk To Colors: A Painting Show Curated By Rachel Koper, Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery, Austin, Texas
2020 On Being Human, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2018 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2018 The Beautiful, CIVA traveling exhibition, opened at Center Art Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
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
2017 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2016 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2015 Mary, Full of Grace Invitational Advent Show, ArtReach Gallery, Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas
2015 Menagerie, Art and the Animal Kingdom, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Masterful Marks: An Exploration of the Medium of Drawing, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2013 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2011 Fresh & Salty (a Valley House Gallery group exhibition), Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2005 M.D. Anderson Medical Library, Houston, Texas
2004 Laity Lodge, HEB Foundation Ranch, Kerrville, Texas
2002 Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
2000 Dell Jewish Community Center, Austin, Texas
1999 Illuminatae, Dougherty Art Center, Austin, Texas
1999 Surfing & Art, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
1999 Square Roots, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
1998-1999 Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibit, Del Mar College, C.C. Texas
1997-1998 Sacred Art, Concordia Lutheran College, Austin, Texas
1996-1998 Chios Gallery, Marathon, Texas
1997 Hogeye Festival, Elgin, Texas
1987 L’Abri Conference, St. David’s Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas
1985-1987 Austin Annual, Arts Warehouse, Austin, Texas
1985 Common Ground Exhibit, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas
1984 Rockport Art Museum, Rockport, Texas
1983-1984 Student Art Exhibit, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas
1983 SOHO Gallery, Austin, Texas
1978 Home of John Anderson, Corpus Christi, Texas
1974 Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
1973 Student Art Exhibit, Art Building, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
1968-1972 Five Invitational exhibits, Peerman Gallery of Fine Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas
Literature:
John Patrick Cobb and William Y. Penn, Jr., John Cobb’s Chapel Ikons: Biblical Meditations on Living the
Spiritual Life in the Modern World, Treaty Oak Publishers, 2020.
“Shade You’ll Never Sit In,” Patron.com, August 17, 2017.
Vision & Substance: The Art of John Cobb, exhibition catalogue, forward by Cheryl Vogel and essays by John Handley, PhD and David A. Lewis, PhD, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, 2014.
60th Anniversary Catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2014; William & His Dog Check’n the Pit reproduced.
Ginger Henry Geyer, “Art on Board: The Chapel Paintings of John Cobb,” Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Volume 9, 2012-2013, pages 71-73, multiple images reproduced.
Jerome Weeks, “John Cobb’s Visions at First Presbyterian,” Art + Seek, April 4, 2012, http://artandseek.net/2012/04/04/john-cobbs-visions-at-first-presbyterian.
Michael Granberry, “DMA’s free admission membership stand alone,” Dallas Morning News, Guide Live 4E M, December 9, 2012. Baptism by Water reproduced.
Frederick Turner, “The Eyes of Texas: Texas Art and Texas Light,” American Arts Quarterly, (The Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center; Hastings-on-Hudson, New York), Summer 2010, Volume 27, Number 3, pages 27-33.
Ginger Henry Geyer, “Art on Board: John Cobb’s Panel Paintings Hit the Texas Highways,” Image: Art, Faith, Mystery, (Seattle Pacific University: Seattle, Washington), Fall 2005, Number 47, pages 33-43, plus color reproductions.
Rachel Koper, “Constructing the Illusion of Depth: Four of Austin’s Master painters Reveal the Secrets of their Craft,” The Austin Chronicle, December 31, 2004.
Awards
1999 Purchase Award, Del Mar College, The Body of Christ
1999 Best of Show, Salinas Art fair, Bastrop Association of Arts, Bastrop, Texas
1996 One Man Show Award, Concordia Lutheran College, Austin, Texas
1992 Art in Public Places, O. Henry Museum, Austin, Texas, O. Henry at Cards
1984 Texas Fine Arts Association State Citation, Elgin Brick Quarry
1983 Grant-in-aid, Austin Art League, Group I.
1983 St. Edward’s Merit of Achievement
1982 St. Edward’s Merit of Achievement
1973 Art Achievement Award, Richard King High School, Corpus Christi, Texas
1972 Art Achievement Award, Richard King High School, Corpus Christi, Texas
