Martin Delabano

photo by photographer

Born 1957, Dallas, Texas.

I grew up in an environment full of art. My father, Barney Charles Delabano was the noted Curator of Installation at the Dallas Museum of Art for thirty-three years as well as a gifted painter. Recently I exhibited works along side my late Father's work in a show called, Father and Son: Barney and Martin Delabano. Through my father, I met international artists Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, and Robert Rauschenberg as well as being family friends to important members to the Dallas and Texas art scene, such as Jerry Bywaters, Otis and Velma Dozier, Charlie Bowling and Octavio Medellin.

Family Portrait: 1963." collection of the Dallas Museum of Art.

Barney Delabano as an artist painted portraits, still life and landscapes. He was also an art collector. I grew up in a house full of paintings, prints, drawings, Pre-Columbian, African, and New Guinea sculptures and baskets and all these things have had a profound influence on me.

Another of my biggest infulences was my Grandfather, Harry Lester Taylor. He was a wood worker. I use the tools that he used in his studio to carve bowls and make furniture.

In 1994 I started A Bird in the Hand Productions to sponsor special projects, promote and archive my work.

Besides my artistic efforts, I also teaches fifth through eighth grade art at St. John's Episcopal School and sculpture at Brookhaven Community College in Dallas. I have been teaching since 1990. Before teaching, I was the shop foreman at the Refinery Casting Company in Dallas.

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