"Art For Hope" Benefit Exhibition for Bering Omega Community Services

"Art For Hope" 

Benefit Exhibition for Bering Omega Community Services

"Jungle Lust X"  2002

I Found This on the Net. I wonder who Owned it. (don't remrmber). Wonder who bought it?

It's the Esperson Building , Downtown Houston from my Downtown Series.

"Eye Candy" pop up show, Spring Street Studios, Saturday April 25, 2015

"Eye Candy" 

Pop up show, Spring Street Studios, Houston, Texas

Saturday April 25, 2015

“Buren Stripes” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 20” x 26”

“We are Fractured”, 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 20” x 26”

“Uncle Rick” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 20” x 26”

On view at The Art Car Museum Exhibition "Reincarnation" through November 2015

“How Old are You” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 20” x 26”

“Where is That” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 20” x 26”

“Your Name” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 20” x 26"

       

“Greener Pastures” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 20” x 26”

“Tennis Elbow” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 20” x 26”

"Wilma Pearls" 2014

“Rotation” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 20” x 26”

“In the Bush” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, diptych, 20” x 52”

“This Bitch is Talking” 2014

Acrylic on Paper, 13” x 20”

On the Bottom Right of each page click on the "Older Posts" to go to the Older pages witch go back about 5 more pages including a statement and resume. Thanks.

Steel Drums with Joe Haden

Houston Artist and Art Car Pro 

Joe Haden

uses his laser cutter on all things metal.  Cars and Oil drums included.

Joe brought some for me,

Richard E. Fluhr

to draw on because my Art has a lot in relation to Wrought Iron or Stained glass. Here are some of the collaborations from the Fall 2014 and works in progress.

Art and Portrait 2014

Art and Portrait 

Spring 2014
Artist Bio

"Self Portrait 2014"

"Girl, I'm Talking" 2014
watercolor on paper

"Confrontation" 2014
watercolor on paper

"Habanero Peppers", 21013
Acrylic on paper

Here is the newest version of the Cirque du Diana Artwork

"Cirque du Diana, 2014
Acrylic on Canvas

Art car T-Shirt loser....but fun anyway:)

Art Car T-shirt Design 2014 entry (above) didn't even make it to the finals.

Artist Bio. 2014 

Richard E. Fluhr

Texas Artist Richard E. Fluhr was born in New York City in 1955 and for the past forty years has been living the artists dream.  He has refined his own visual and conceptual vocabulary that emerged through life experiences recorded in good times and bad; through thick and thin. Chicago’s New Art Examiner says he “combines ritualized dehumanization and alienation with dehumanizing sexual fantasies” (4/86)  while The Montrose Voice, Houston, Tx. (6/88) calls him a “oddly childlike and primitive trendsetting artist”.  “Fluhr…..catches a sense of magic and gaiety on the surface, and the intensity of existence underneath,” says The Detroit Free Press (9/88). He is listed as a “Contemporary Folk Related Artist” with the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi. 

Beginning with ceramics at age 15 and showing at Ola Podrida Gallery in Dallas he moved on to U.T. Austin and received his BFA from University of Houston followed by a MFA in Printmaking at the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He traveled extensively painting life along the way in watercolor, oil, or acrylic usually on recycled materials such as paper bags, pamphlets, and receipts and showing in six galleries in the States and several galleries in Mexico where he also maintained a studio in the late 1980’s. 

Richard’s art has been shown throughout the U.S., Russia, and Mexico and is represented in over 900 private and public collections including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, N.Y., The Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., The Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, Mich., and The British Museum, London, England. Richard  has exhibited in 100’s of group and One Person Shows with work from Spain, Morocco, Italy, Portugal, Great Britton, France, Belgium, Greece, Hong Kong, Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, and all over the U. S. including New York shortly after 9/11.  

He taught at The Art Institute of Houston for 17 years and owned and operated REF Studios, a Houston Art Gallery from 1990 to 2000 at which time illness slowed him down and he semi-retired while collecting art all along the way.

  

His donations in the last 15 years alone has generated over $50,000 for charities including The American Heart Association, Center Development Corporation‘s Art for Life, The Art League of Houston, The Orange Show Foundation, The Aids Foundation of Houston, DIFFA,  The Lawndale Art Center, The San Jose Clinic, Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, and Houston Habitat for Humanity just to name a few. He has served as a Board Member for the Bayou City Art Festival for over 20 years and has worked with The Museum of Fine Art, Houston’s Bayou Bend McGregor Fund for Glass.

Richard lives and works in Houston, Texas.

You can save my QR above to link to this site. 

Spring 2014

Spring 2014

I have neglected the site since before Paris last Sept. and I hope to post the Paris paintings soon as well as some of my other new work. 

The newest work finished last month and based on a work I did in 1992 for a One Person Exhibition at Judy Youens Gallery called "Figuratively Speaking" is being used for the cover art at the:

The Diana Foundation 2014

61st Awards - Cirque du Diana

http://thedianafoundation.org/Gala.aspx

"Cirque du Diana; Neon version" , 2014

 

The painting will benefit local GLBT organizations.

"Grates and Broadway Series " 2013

"Grates and Broadway Series "  2013

Richard E. Fluhr

These new paintings are heavy in texture and dark while loose in line with a view through a grate or a wrought iron like grille, with various back round information relating to man made waste.

"Grate with Yellow; Medical Waste"
acrylic on canvas 22" x 28",  2013

"Side Grate with Yellow;
Medical Waste" 
acrylic on canvas 8" x 16",2013

"Grate Over the Herman Park Pond"
mixed media on canvas 60" x 48", 2013

"Grate; Scene of the Crime" 2013
acrylic on canvas 34" x 48"

"Grate with Deco Pattern;
 Rampart Street"
acrylic on canvas 24" x 46", 2013

"Broadway Series",  Hung as a group to fit the location.

"Grate" Painting in the Studio

"Broadway Series" on display 2013

A group of six
   in Black and White, with shadows, unfinished. 2013

You can view this group of paintings as a movie here if you would like.

Paintings from Hawaii trip

Finished this group of paintings from Sept. 2012 trip to Hawaii with Rudy for the wedding of my niece, Rachel to KC Hammond.  We stayed at The Royal Hawaiian, known as The

 "Pink Palace of the Pacific" 

"Pink Palace of the Pacific" 2013, Watercolor on Arches Paper.

"Royal Hawaii 2" 2013, Tempra and Watercolor on board.

The top painting has palm trees and the others have the Plumeria.

"Royal  Hawaii, 1927", 2013, Acrylic on Canvas.

In this painting I create the feeling of the hotel in its heyday, circa. 1927.
This is a wedding gift for the Bride and Groom.
Congratulations to Rachel and KC

   

 "Royal Hawaii Coaster Group 6",  2013, Acrylic on Bar Coasters

These are painted on coasters from the hotel bar showing the Bell Tower. For more info. on the Royal Hawaiian go here;

Royal-Hawaiian.com - The Royal Hawaiian‎