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Adjunct Instructor
Sam Houston State University, M.F.A.
Art Building D, R102
936.294.3725
bap012@shsu.edu
Teaching Area: Art History
My career as an art historian began as a working artist and has progressed into a curiosity about art from different time periods and cultures that is a study of the expression of people who are also artists of one kind or another. I began with a Masters Degree (MFA) in painting from Sam Houston State (Huntsville), post-graduate work at St Thomas University (Houston), and a trip to Italy in 1999 with SHSU for “Special Studies in Renaissance Art”. I have been teaching Art Appreciation and Art History for 11 years on the college level. I have also taught Fashion History, Drawing and Color Fundamentals at the Art Institute of Houston. Recently, I have developed a class entitled “Africa and Modernism”. This class has lead me on an adventure that continues to unravel itself in the current art trends of Post Modernism. This class has also made me more aware of my own inspirations in artwork that have often looked to cultural traditions outside of my own. Like the Surrealist, I enjoy the surprise and chance associations that come with collage and contrasts. My artwork is an exploration of the conscious and subconscious. The seemingly irrational combinations of figurative, landscape and patterns actually have their origins in a particular experience of the artist at the time of creation. All artworks are essentially self-portraits. It is this belief in the humanism and the spirit of creative expression that informs my philosophy on art history and my personal artwork. Currently, I am teaching at Sam Houston state University, Lonestar college (Willowchase location) and The Art Institute of Houston.
