Bio

Dixie Friend Gay, Artist

Dixie Friend Gay is an accomplished artist with an impressive exhibition history. Her art has been featured in many galleries and museums including the Bronx Museum, Allan Stone Gallery, and COFA Gallery in New York and the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. Gay’s work is also included in the permanent collections of The Boston Public Library; The Kienholz Collection, Hope, Idaho; Verizon, Dallas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, and the Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont.

For the last 10 years she has been creating art for public projects. One of her most recognized projects is the Houston Bayou at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The installation is comprised of a 73 feet long glass mosaic mural, columns, and the terrazzo floor with bronze inserts. It has won recognition and national awards as one of the best public art projects in the US.

In 2003 she was named Texas State Artist of the Year by the Texas Commission for the Arts and Artist of the Year by Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts. Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, California; Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois; and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts have recently awarded Gay fellowships.

Gay is presently working on public art projects for the Port of Miami, the new Indianapolis Airport, and The Woodlands. She will be included in the Houston Contemporary Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Shanghai, China this summer.

Her exhibition of new work, Portals of Perception, is at Lawndale Art Center in Houston May 19 to July 1, 2006.