Jeffie Brewer

BIO

Jeffie Brewer grew up in a small, rural town in East Texas. The son of eccentric junk yard owners, he learned to spot beauty in the mundane, developed an array of industrial skills and discovered he had a knack for drawing. Those early revelations have influenced his artistic trajectory ever since.

Jeffie earned an MFA in sculpture and metals and an MA in sculpture and painting. He also holds a BFA in drawing, printmaking and jewelry making. He taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate level art classes from 1998-2019, from sculpture to typography to expressive drawing.

Since his first exhibition in 1998, his work has appeared in both solo and group shows across North America Central America, Asia, and Europe.

In addition to his academic and artistic career, Jeff has utilized his talents as an illustrator and designer for an advertising firm (Point A Media, 1999-present) and as the founder and president of a design and fabrication company (OCI, 2002-present). He also designed, fabricated and built his own home in 2006.

Jeffie is married to the love of his life, Angie, whom he credits with saving him from impending doom. He resides and keeps his studio in Nacogdoches Texas on 20 acres in the country with no less than two dogs.

Statement

Artist 

Statement

We are given a brief amount of time together. As an artist, I consider it a gift to be able to share my vision and experience. Sometimes it’s serious, sometimes it’s thoughtful and a lot of the time it’s just silly. The shared experience of existing, living, loving, thinking... seeing beauty, knowing fear, feeling passion, and just being is further magnified through art - creating, discussing, collaborating, learning and teaching. I have been privileged to have great mentors, teachers and friends; to continue to share this with viewers is fantastic.

The world can be a very dark place and sometimes it needs a little sunshine.

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EDUCATION

2000  

MFA, Sculpture & Painting, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas

1998  

MA, Sculpture & Metals, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas

1995  

BFA, Studio Art, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas

PROFESSIONAL

TEACHING

2014-2019  

Assistant Professor of Sculpture, School of Art, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas

2007-2013  

Adjunct Professor, School of Art, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas

1998-2007  

Adjunct Professor, School of Art, Angelina College, Lufkin, Texas

2003-2004  

Adjunct Professor, School of Art,  UT Tyler, Tyler, Texas

PROFESSIONAL

NON-TEACHING

2001-Present  

President and Founder, Orange Cat, Inc., Nacogdoches, Texas

SOLO

EXHIBITIONS

2022 apricity, Grogan Gallery, Houston, Texas

2022 New Works, GVG contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2022 Coming Home, Dogwood Art Council, Palestine, Texas 

2021 afterthinker, GVG contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

2020 PDA (public display of art), Lubbock, Texas

2019 Art On The Llano Project, Lubbock, Texas

2018 Tender Barbarian, GVG contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

Idiot Boy, Visual Arts Complex Gallery, Temple College, Temple, Texas

2017 Sculptures and Drawings by Jeffie Brewer, Charles Adams Studio Project - CASP 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, Texas

2017 NO ONE IS WATCHING YOU, CSC Gallery, McLennan Community College, Waco, Texas

SELECTED

GROUP

EXHIBITIONS

2023

Chicago Sculpture Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

Curated by Designer, DK Gallery, Marietta, Georgia 

2022

AcreofArt Biennial Sculpture Exhibition, Sculpture Valley, Appleton, Wisconsin

Yokna Sculpture Trail, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi

18th Sculpture Garden, Kemp Center, Wichita Falls, Texas

Outliers, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, Texas

Richmond Ave. Art Trail, Houston Texas

Abilene Sculptour, Abilene, Texas

Marietta Public Art Program, Marietta, Georgia

2021

Color Field, Public Art of University of Houston, Houston, Texas

55th National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Delmar College, Corpus Christi, Texas (Purchase Prize)

On The Bayou, Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas

2020

Color Field, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida

Midtown Sculpture Walk, Jackson, Mississippi

3D Invitational of Texas-Based artists, Collin County Community College, Plano, Texas

State Fair of Texas Sculpture Show, Dallas, Texas

2019 

Color Field, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Art on the Green, Kemp Center for the Arts, Wichita Falls, Texas

Sculpture Tucson, Tucson, Arizona

True North 2019, Houston Heights, Texas

Boerne Art al Fresco, Boerne, Texas

Assistance League^® of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2019, Houston, Texas 

2018 

Odyssey Exhibition, Purdue Northwest University, Hammond, Indiana

State Fair of Texas Sculpture Show, Dallas, Texas

Andy Brown Art Splash, Coppell, Texas

St. Joseph Sculpture Walk, St. Joseph, Missouri

44 Artists From Texas, LHUCA, Lubbock, Texas

Chautauqua National Juried Exhibition: Transformations, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky

Boerne Art al Fresco, Boerne, Texas

Art Palm Springs, Palm Springs, California

2017 

Boerne Art al Fresco, Boerne, Texas (People’s Choice)

Profusion in the Void, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas

Yokna Sculpture Trail, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi

Blanco Sculpture Walk, Blanco, Texas

Public Arts League of Salado Juried Show, Salado Sculpture Garden, Salado, Texas 

Keller Art Walk, Keller, Texas

20th Anniversary Exhibition, Rebecca Low Sculpture Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas (Featured Artist)

Art on Henderson, Dallas, Texas, Best of Show

Rosemary Beach Sculpture Exhibition, Rosemary Beach, Florida (People’s Choice) 

2016 

Craft Hilton Head 2016, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 

TAIC Exhibition, Nesbitt Gallery, University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, Oklahoma

Palestine Art Tracks, Palestine, Texas

Divergent Unity, GVG contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Place Beyond Image, Jeske Sculpture Park, Ferguson, Missouri

Downtown Expressions - Art in Public Places, Stamford Downtown, Stamford, Connecticut

PERMANENT

COLLECTIONS

Meditation on Looking and Seeing,  Art Council of Midland, Midland, Texas

Dendrite Cell, Cells, NextCure, Inc., Beltsville, Maryland

Cloud Rain, Bee Bum, Tetelestai, The J - Jewish Community Center, St. Louis, Missouri 

YKBH, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Pink Chicken, Delmar College, Corpus Christi, Texas

Flamingo, Maestri Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Three Herons, Canals at Grand Park, Frisco, Texas

Bull, City of Boerne, Texas

Surf Dog, Ruff Range Dog Park, City of Frisco, Texas

Yves Klein Blue Heron, HomeTown, North Richland Hills, Texas

Hawk, The Jimmy Club, St. Rose, Louisiana

Ab’s Chair, Friends of Historic Nacogdoches, Inc., Nacogdoches, Texas

Winking RedBird, City of Kenner, Louisiana

Bunny, City of Ames, Iowa

Cloud Rain, Greeley Art Commission, City of Greeley, Colorado

Void, Mast Arboretum, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas

RedBird, West Canadian Digital Imaging, Inc., Calgary, Canada

References

Elizabeth Regner, Executive Director 

Lubbock Arts Alliance

P.O. Box 5092, Lubbock, TX 79408

806-744-2787, M 806-252-6162

execdir@lubbockarts.org

Mary Woods, Special Projects 

City of Boerne

402 E. Blanco, Boerne, TX 78006

830-248-1617, M 830-431-5833

mwoods@ci.boerne.tx.us 

Blair Vaughn-Gruler

GVG Contemporary

241 Delgado Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

505-982-1494

info@gvgcontemporary.com

Stephen Ross, Public Art Coordinator

City of Frisco Parks & Recreation Department

6827 Main St. Frisco, TX 75034

972-292-6532

sross@friscotexas.gov

GALLERY

AFFILIATION

Adaro Art, Watersound, Florida-

GVG Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico- 

Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas-

Shain Gallery Charlotte, North Carolina- 

Maestri Gallery, Dallas, Texas-

Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, Texas

Gallery Wild, Jackson Hole, Wyoming-

DK Gallery, Marietta, Georgia