Region's Leading Bronze Sculptor, Harry Geffert, to show at Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art of Dallas

On June 8th, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art will inaugurate The Fiery Art of Harry Geffert: The Three Rivers Series, it was announced by the C.E.O. and managing partner, Dr. Edmund (Ted) Pillsbury. Devoted to the recent work of the region's leading bronze sculptor and one of the most influential artists in Texas, the installation will feature thirty major sculptures executed in the past five years by the founder of the Green Mountain Foundry in Crowley, Texas, south of Fort Worth. Occupying the sculpture park and west galleries of the newly-renovated Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art campus at the corner of Cedar Springs and Fairmount in the uptown district of Dallas, one block from the Crescent, the exhibition will continue through July 21st.

Harry Geffert's work is known for its technical proficiency and metaphorical richness. In writing about the work in the illustrated catalogue accompanying the exhibition, Dr. Pillsbury comments: "To engage our attention, the elements are rendered in a most down-to-earth and concrete fashion. Yet they are then welded together in improbable or paradoxical relationships to address some universal theme like Original Sin or a more mundane, but no less pressing, issue such as overpopulation or the depletion of our natural resources. Recently, water and land are overriding themes, whether the growing shortage of water to nourish the soil and sustain life or the devastating effects of wind and seasonal changes to the forests."

Harry Geffert was born in 1934 in the small town of Three Rivers, south of San Antonio, from which the title of the exhibition derives. He attended Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, where he received his B.S. in 1957, and later earned his M.A. from New Mexico Highlands University. For 27 years, Geffert served on the faculty of Texas Christian University. In 1980 he established the Green Mountain Foundry, which was responsible for creating work on behalf of a wide range of artists, from Frances Bagley, Clyde Connell, Joseph Havel, Lucas Johnson, Linda Ridgeway, and James Surls, to Vernon Fisher and Virgil Grotfeldt. Harry Geffert has exhibited widely, and his work is included in major public and private collections, including those of the Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barrett and Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Hanley, both of Dallas.

Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art is located at 2913 Fairmount at the corner of Cedar Springs. The Gallery is open Monday through Friday ten a.m. to six p.m., Saturday eleven a.m. to five p.m., and by appointment. For further information, contact Holly Johnson, Gallery Director, or Courtney Kennedy, Associate Gallery Director, by telephone at 214.969.9410, by facsimile at 214.969.9023, or by e-mail at info@ppfineart.com. For further information on gallery activities and programs, visit our website at www.pillsburypetersfineart.com.