Plein air & studio artist chronicling life through paint
- Cloudcroft, New Mexico -
Exhibitions & Accolades
2024 - “Art & Wine in the Cool Pines,” head to Cloudcroft, New Mexico the weekend of Aug. 2 - 4 to see Drew’s art booth at this annual festival and sample wines from throughout The Land of Enchantment
2024 - “2x3” show with fellow Cloudcroft artist Hannah Dean, Black Bear Coffee Shop, Cloudcroft, New Mexico
2023 - AMoA Biennial 600 at Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas. Group exhibition juried by Anna Walker, Executive Director of Lawndale Art & Performance Center
2023 - Small Works group show at Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2023 - New American Paintings west issue 162, juried by Cynthia Woods Mitchell Associate Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston Tyler Blackwell
2023 - Artist of the Month for May, June at Blackbear Coffee Shop in Cloudcroft, NM
2022 - 9th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition by Artspace111 juried by Daisha Board of Daisha Board Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas Read about the exhibition and a summary of Drew’s painting in Glasstire
2022 - 3rd Place for Sunbathers Before the Pleasure Pier at Fort Worth May Fest New Artist Contest hosted by Art Tooth. One of ten selected artists to participate in the contest and gallery.
2022 - Denton Maker’s Fest juried show Judges Choice award for Afternoon at the North Texas Fair and Rodeo, juried by Suzie Baker, president of Oil Painters of America, and the Greater Denton Arts Council
2022 - Embassy Suites by Hilton Denton Convention Center - Greater Denton Arts Council (solo Print exhibition)
2021 to 2022 - showing at A Creative Art Studio gallery in Denton, Texas
2021 - REPRESENT Series Intersections juried group exhibition at TWU Visual Arts juried by John Spriggins of the South Dallas Cultural Center
2021 - Messina Hof winery top 10 artists in Texas Artist Wine Label Competition, Bryan, Texas
2020 - Void Gallery inaugural group show in Denton, Texas
2020 - Sale through Texas Now online exhibition by Artspace 111 Fort Worth, Texas
2020 - Catalina Islander cover art (Volume 106, No. 21)
2019 - Black Bear Coffee Shop and Studio solo exhibition in Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Newest Work
“Horses and Dead Tree at White Sands”
Oil on canvas, 20 x 48in.
This commission piece began on location at White Sands National Park and was then finished in the studio.
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