Featured Artist Crystal Allbright will be exhibiting at TransPecos Bank.

Crystal Allbright made the Big Bend her home in 1990, and has made art responding to the flora, fauna, and landscape of the region ever since.

Her work  in painting, pastel, pencil, photography and video has been displayed since the early 1990s with the Terlingua Artists’ Coop, and in a group show in the Museum of the Big Bend in 1999. Her exhibits have included Gallery Night, Fiesta del Sol, and Artwalk at Kiowa Gallery and Bell Gallery in Alpine, and three years of group exhibits for the Grand Companions Humane Society of Fort Davis (two at Baxter Gallery in Marathon and one in Fort Davis). More recently, dRY BeHINd tHe EARs Productions in Terlingua has included her work along with the many other fine artists of the area.

Allbright’s current work may be seen at Desert Sports in Terlingua, Texas or on her website: www.crystalallbright.com.
Kiowa Gallery in Alpine often carries her pastel drawings, and her photographic notecards are distributed throughout the desert, including Front Street Books, Quilts by Marguerite, Terlingua Trading Company, Big  Bend National Park, and most recently Big Bend Ranch State Park.

She received her Bachelor’s in Music and Art in 1984 from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and a Master’s in Education with an emphasis on Art in 1994  from Sul Ross State University in Alpine.

She counts all the artists of the Big Bend as her influences, including Jean Norsworthy, James H. Evans, Bryn Moore, Paul Wiggins, Roger Cutforth, Collie Ryan, Mark Kneeskern and many others.

 

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102 W. Avenue E