Bill GINGLES

I live in the south by choice. I was born here in Louisiana, left when I was five and returned when I was thirty.

I lived in different parts of the country while growing up and as an adult I spent a decade in Denver. Eventually, I could not resist the urge to come back. Louisiana has a few problems to be sure, but natural beauty is not one of them.

My wife and I bought a beautiful old two-story house built in 1922 surrounded by huge oak and magnolia trees. A building in back has a double garage and an apartment above it. The garage is my studio.

I recently told a friend of mine, only half joking, that I'm not a "local artist": I just happen to live here. Authentic fine art has no real geography in the same way that it doesn't seem subject to the passage of time. In a time of easy travel and the Internet, I think geography is mattering less and less.

In the studio each painting is a starting over, a tacit recognition that after thirty plus years of painting I still don’t know how to make a painting (which is different from knowing how to paint). I just know that I can. Each time the task is to find a way to give myself to the painting so the magic can happen and the painting can stir to life.

Each new painting reveals its own tendencies and surprises as it comes to life. Rather like children from the same parents, they are each at once individuals and siblings. It is because the life they share with each other is the life they drew from me.

Solo Exhibitions

2008

  • Robert Hughes Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2007 

  • Ogilvie / Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Amy Baber Fine Art, Shreveport, LA, New Works

2002 

  • Koelsch Gallery, Houston, Texas, Ancient

1999 

  • Wyndy Morehead Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana, Between Voice and Presence

1998 

  • Taylors' Contemporanea Fine Arts, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, New Paintings and Drawings

1997 

  • East Bank Gallery, Bossier City, Louisiana, Intimations

1996 

  • Casa d' Arte, Shreveport, Louisiana, Other Journeys

1992 

  • The Fountainhead Gallery, Houston, Texas, New Works

1990 

  • The Fountainhead Gallery, Houston, Texas, The Transcendental Realm
  • Turner Art Center, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, Intimate Mysteries

1989 

  • Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Paintings

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 

  • Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia, State Of MInd

2008 

  • Brunner Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA

2007 

  • Ogilvie / Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL, Louisiana Artists
  • Robert Hughes Gallery, San Antonio, TX, Texas and Beyond

2006 

  • Ogilvie / Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Show Featuring the Paintings of Bill Gingles

2005 

  • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 
  • Louisiana Artists: An All Media Competition
  • Stephen F. Austin University Fine Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX, Abstraction in the Gestural Tradition
    (invitational)

2002 

  • Affordable Art Fair, New York, New York

2002 

  • Koelsch Gallery, Houston, Texas, Way Cool

2001 

  • ArtMerge, Dallas, Texas, Desire
  • Koelsch Gallery, Houston, Texas, Small Works

2000 

  • d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Works on Paper
  • Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas, Texas and Neighbors 2000
  • Koelsch Gallery, Houston, Texas, Way Cool
  • Tower Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana, Lynda Benglis and Michael Klein Juried Visual Exhibition
    Jurors: Lynda Benglis and Michael Klein

1999 

  • ArtForms Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ivan Karp Selects
    Juror: Ivan Karp
  • Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas, Best of the Southwest, Juror: Ben Woitena
  • Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, Texas National 99, Juror: James McGarrell

1998 

  • The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Forty-first Annual Delta Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, Juror: Peter Frank

1997 

  • Masur Museum, Monroe, Louisiana, Twenty-fourth Annual Competition, Juror: Christopher Sweet
  • San Jacinto College South, Houston, Texas, 12 x 12 x 12 x 97
    Juror: Howard Fox

1994 

  • Turner Art Center, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, Icons and Iconoclasts

1990 

  • Colorado University Art Gallery, Boulder, Colorado, and Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado, Alternative Works (Traveling Show)

1988 

  • Pirate Contemporary Art Oasis, Denver, Colorado

1987 

  • Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
    County Lines

1986 

  • Abacus Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Group Exhibition
  • Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado, Prisoners of Conscience Invitational

1985 

  • Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, National Midyear Show
  • Cohen Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Group Show

1984 

  • Horizons Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado, Mystery and Light

Education

B. A. Fine Art, 1979, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana

Media


"Bill Gingles - Art After the Ism", A critical review by Michael Harold, 2007
Arkansas Times, "Art Notes", October 13, 2000
Artquotes.net Artist Interview, January, 2006
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, starring Michael Douglas (in theaters 2009), Three paintings featured in the film, .
New American Paintings, Number 22, June/July, 1999

Awards


2008

  • Masur Art Museum, Monroe, LA. Selected to present slide lecture on paintings

2004-2005

  • Shreveport Regional Arts Council Fellowship Grant

Selected Collections

Canyon Ranch Spa Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada
Century Bank, Texarkana, TX
Doubletree Hotels, Skokie, IL
Faulk & Co., Denver, CO
First Capital Bank, Victoria, TX
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview TX
Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA
Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel, Schaumberg, IL
Ronald McDonald House Charities, Chicago, IL
Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, CA
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, Shreveport, LA
Truman Arnold Companies, Texarkana, TX