Salli Babbitt Resumé

Bio

Salli Babbitt is a professional artist with over 30 years of experience who has completed many commissions for clients around the US including 75 works for The Gables in Houston, Dallas, and Colorado, Panera Bread and several Houston-area corporations such as HESS Oil Company, medical offices, and law firms.” Her work is currently displayed at two prominent interior design firms: Mecox in River Oaks and Alyson Jon in the Rice University area. Now she is working on another exhibition for an architectural firm combining her abstract expressionism with constructivism.

Articles about Salli Babbitt:

• 2019 For Television on Demand with Rob Lowe
• 2018 Online magazine “Voyage Houston“
• 2017 Coast Monthly
• 2015 Houston Chronicle Newspaper
• 2010 Houston Lifestyles and Homes
• 2005 Dwell Magazine
• 2005 Houston Arts Magazine

Artist Statement:

Salli Babbitt is a recognize midlife abstract expressionist residing in the Houston Bay Area. Basing Babbitt’s work on the essence of her surrounding environment; she relies on layering lacquered luminosity of colors. Her art offers more iridescent expression through depth of color and layering the paint while exploring her response.

Highly sensual in nature, the larger abstract patterns of color, burst with brightening light and figurative language in the forefront. Her abstract expressionist roots reveal a figurative language that discloses what was formerly unknown. A sustained view draws you into the paintings’ visual properties of the natural environment; from waters, fields, and vegetation. Fresh hues, glazes, and tactile layers build upon each other, increasing the intensity of my illuminated palette.

The technique is apparent in how each painting is capable of standing on its own merits, and yet, they comprise a singular vision of luminosity. These are interactive and delicious paintings that should be explored and savored by the viewer.

Career Experience:

• 2019 David Art Center – Encaustic & Golden Texture Workshop – New Orleans, La
• 2019 Art League Houston – Golden Texture Encaustics – Houston, Tx
• 2019 Houston Club, “Drawing You In” – Houston,Tx
• 2019 Watercolor Society of Houston – Pour Workshop – Houston, Tx
• 2018 Rob Lowe On Demand: Art education & infomercial airing in 2019 – Houston, Tx
• 2018 Imperial Alliance – Encaustic Workshop – Houston, Tx
• 2017 Adjudicator, Episcopal High School – Beliaire,Tx
• 2016 Adjudicator, Episcopal high School- Beliaire,Tx
• 2015 Golden Artist Educator certification – Houston, Tx
• 2015 Sawyer Yards Artist Educator – Houston, Tx
• 2015 The Woodlands Encaustic Workshop – Houston, Tx
• 2015 Conroe Art League Encaustic Workshop – Houston, Tx
• 2015 Art Expo Golden Workshop – Houston, Tx
• 2015 Golden Art Educator Program – New Orleans (September)
• 2014 9th Annual Artist Expo Convention, Encaustic Instructor – The Woodlands, Tx

Solo Exhibitions:

• 2010 Canal Street Gallery
• 2004 Continental Airlines Corporate Gallery, “Tropicals”, Houston, Tx
• 2003 Lower Lobby Gallery, 1600 Smith, “Tropicals”, Houston, Tx
• 2002 500 Jefferson Gallery, “Goal Angels and Power Guides”, Houston, Tx
• Three Allen Center – Gallery 3, “Goal Angels and Power Guides”, Houston, Tx
• 2000 Bodyworks Gallery, Houston, Tx
• Blossom Street Gallery, Café Noche, Houston, Tx
• 511 Main, Houston, Tx
• 1999 Group Four Gallery, “Solo”, Spring, Tx
• Riverway Bank, “The Art of Healing”, Houston, Tx
• 1998 University of Texas, Health Science Center, “The Art of Healing”

Art Exhibitions:

• 2019 Winter Street, Come Together – Houston, Tx
• 2019 Art League Houston, Faculty Show – Houston, Tx
• 2018 Come Together Collaborative Exhibition
• 2018 The Silos at Sawyer Yards – Houston Tx
• 2018 M Architects “Colored Prisms” – Houston, Tx
• 2018 Silver Street Studio, Houston, Tx
• 2018 Celebrates Texas Art, juried exhibition, Assistance League of Houston, Tx
• 2015-2017 Aqua Miami at Art Basel with Perimeter Gallery – Square Box Show – Miami FL
• 2009 “Beam Me Up Scotty”  Sippora Gallery – Houston, Tx
• 2009 “Just War”, Bradford Street Gallery – Kemah, Tx
• 2004 “2004 Christmas Tree Show” – Buffalo Bayou Art Park
• 2004 North Harris County College, “Sculpture Vision” – Houston, Tx
• 2004 “Melting Into One”, Bering & James Gallery – Houston, Tx
• 2004 ‘Touch Me, Feel Me”, Sippora Gallery – Houston, Tx
• 2005 Horse parade Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo – Houston,Tx
• 2003 North Harris County College, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit – Houston, Tx
• 2002 “Red Cross Exhibit”, Red Bud Gallery – Houston, Tx
• 2001 Cow Parade Cow: “Cow Power of Houston” – Houston, Tx
• 2001 Cow Parade Cow: “Chocolate Moose” – Houston, Tx
• 2000 “Sextablos” – Portland, Oregon
• 2000 Houston City Central Library – Houston, Tx
• 2000 Redbud Gallery, “Sextablos” – Houston, Tx
• 2000 City of Houston, City Annex Walls – Houston, Tx
• 1999 Mercury Gallery, Feminine Products, “Good Girls Don’t” – New Orleans, LA

Charitable Works:

• 2010 Art League Houston Donations for Gala
• 5353 Fannin Show for Benefit of ALH Outreach
• Diverse Works Donations
• 2008 Mustang Exhibit Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
• Interfaith Ministries- making wreaths for “Meals on Wheels” with outreach class
• 2007-08  “Empty bowls” with my Outreach class making bowls for the benefit w/ Cindy Babbitt
• 2007 Judge TAACL High School Competition for CCISD
• 2005 Judge, St. Francis School 8th Grade Art Show
• 2001 Cow Parade Cow: “Cow Power of Houston”
• Cow Parade Cow: “Chocolate Moose”
• Surfrider Foundation Art Benefit, Houston, Tx
• The TALA Gala “2001 – An Art Space Odyssey”
• 1999 Curator, K101 Prison Art Show Planet Hollywood
• 2000-2008 Bayou City Art Festival Design High School Sculpture in the Park competition
• Art in Water competition
• Judge 2000-2008
• Juror 2000-2008

Gallery Affiliations:

• 2016 – 2019 Perimeter Gallery, Miami, FL
• 2013 – presernt Alyson Jon Design, Houston, Tx
• 2013 to present Mecox, Houston, Tx
• 2010 Canal Street Gallery
• 2008 – 2010 Sculptures By Design, CityCentre & Greenway Plaza
• 2009-10  Laura Rathe Gallery
• 2005-06  Deborah Colton Gallery
• 2003-04  Bering & James Gallery, Houston, Tx
• 2000 Bodyworks Gallery, Houston, Tx
• 1998-2000  Blossom Street Gallery, Houston, Tx
• 1993-1995  National Art Services Gallery, Houston, Tx

Education:

• 1982-83 University of Texas, San Antonio, Tx; Post Graduate
• 1980-82 Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Tx; Over 40 Post Graduate hours
• 1975  University of St. Thomas, Houston, Tx; BA

Collectors:

• Melissa Aguilar, Houston Chronicle, Houston, Tx
• The Gables, Speer, Co
• The Gables Revere, Houston, Tx
• The Gables, Tanglewood, Houston, Tx
• The Gables, River Oaks, Houston, Tx
• George and Isabella Canjar
• Jack and Beverly Loftis, Houston Chronicle, Houston, Tx
• Bart Truxillo, LLC
• Jack Amschwand, Architect
• Michel Muylle
• Dr Michael Yafi
• Ben and Jean Winkleman
• Houston Art Colony Association
• Chuck & Andrian Cain, Panera Bread
• The Lexington Grill, Houston, Texas
• Wildcat Electric Industries
• SEM Crude, L.P.
• Aqua Foxx Productions, Houston, Texas
• Indigas, Houston, Texas
• Biggers and Biggers  Houston, Texas
• S.J. Hight & Co. Port Lavaca, Texas
• High Country Resort, Crested Butte, Colorado
• Martin, Shannon, Finklestein, & Sayre, Inc. CPA, Houston, Texas
• Hotel ZaZa
• Lynne & Kathy Houston
• Catherine Anspon
• Dr Peggy Delahoussay
• Dr Tom Solis, MD
• Ellen Lube, Attorney at Law
• Deborah Herchman, Attorney at Law
• Carol Gregory, Quality Services
• Diane Hassell, CenterPoint Energy, Sr Director
• Other collectors in New York, Philadelphia, Austin, Denver, Paris, London and Kuala Lumpur

Art Consultants:
Jan L. Avery Designs, ASID
Denise Gaspard
National Art Services
Amy Meyers