Iris Bechtol
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Iris Bechtol is an artist, educator, and curator living in Oak Cliff - Dallas, TX. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2010 and is currently the Gallery Director and Adjunct Professor of Art at Eastfield College in Mesquite, TX.
Bechtol's work has been included in exhibitions in across Texas, Nashville, TN, New York, and San Diego, CA. She is founder and curator for TERRAIN Dallas, a
temporary public exhibition space with a focus on exhibiting site specific, temporary interventions by established and emerging artists in and around the conventional landscape of a suburban front yard.
Statement
Something ongoing, unfolding, acting – this is how I view my work. With an interest in just about everything, I see the world as a living field – a space that requires a diversity of responses. Avoiding categories that might simplify my work or stifle the breadth of my interests, I refrain from working with only one material or process. Working in a variety of materials, I draw on my examination of the phenomenological or “lived experience” and how it is reflected back through image, object, and place.
solo exhibitions
several, near each other, Anthem Gallery, San Antonio, 2017, curated by Benjamin McVey
Lots (of things), but nothing (I could use), MFA exhibition, UT Arlington, 2010
Sound, Gallery 219, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX, 2008
59 minutes, Gallery West, UT Arlington, Arlington, TX, 2007
Tags, Artruck at Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, 2007
Welcome to Oak Cliff, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, 2005
selected group exhibitions
2017
Identity: I am one, I am many, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX curated by Sunset Art Studios
Super Fantasy Mercado, Red Bird Mall, curated by Taro Waggoner and Mylan Nguyen for Decolonize Dallas
MFA 10th Anniversary Expo, UTA Art Gallery, Arlington, TX curated by Benito Huerta
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2016
Girls Just Wanna, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX, curated by Adrian Zuniga and Ree Willaford
Now What, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN, curated by Tom Williams
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2014
Things that are now visible, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
And then I whirled at the sound of, Oil and Cotton, Dallas, TX, curated by Janeil Englestad
2011
Big and Bright, San Diego, CA, curated by Jessica McCambly
2010
Sustenance, Warehouse in West Dallas, curated by Stephen Lapthisophon
Temporary Occupants, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
2009
Sound Art Exhibition, Galerija 73, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Snezana Petrovic
Rising Eyes of Texas, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX (juried)
2008
Word & Image, Lumenhouse Project, Brooklyn, NY
MFA at CAA, University of North Texas, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX (juried)
Your favorite artist was a member, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX (invitational)
2007
DCCCD at 500X, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Bustillos & Cardona, Kiva Gallery, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
Graduate Student Exhibition, Gallery West, UT Arlington, Arlington, TX
Ojo Dos, Studio Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX, curated by Tina Medina
2006
Jingle Balls, Artruck, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, curated by Brennen Bechtol
Ojo, the Unexpected, Richland College, Dallas, TX, curated by Tina Medina
White Trash Delight, Artruck (two locations 500X Gallery & MFA Gallery), Dallas, TX, curated by Brennen Bechtol
2004
Bodacious Bods, curated by Steve Cruz, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Annual Members Show, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
New Work, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Installation Art, curated by Kathy Windrow, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
2003
X-mas Show and Sale, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Artist Against Aids Auction, Tarrant County Interfaith Network, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
500X 25th Anniversary Show, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Now, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Art League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, juried by Connie Butler, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
2002
5x7, Arthouse, Austin, TX
1+1=16, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Season Opener, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Yield, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Wish! Art Auction, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
2001
Dia De Los Muertos Exhibition, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
Feisty, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Past, Present, Future, Eastfield College, Dallas, TX
EXPO 2001, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, juried by Charles Wylie, Dallas Museum of Art Curator of
Contemporary Art
Annual Juried Student Exhibition, University of North Texas Union Gallery, juried by Dottie Love a
and Tom Sale
residencies
Sunset Art Studios, Dallas, TX, April-May 2017
private and public collections
Marilyn Bechtol, Dallas, TX
Robert Bennett, Dallas, TX
Rick and Lisa Cook, Seattle, WA
Nic Davies, London, England
C.J. Davis, Dallas, TX
Jill Hay, New York, NY
Jessica McCambly and John Lewis, San Diego, CA
Jennifer and Lee Pepper, Nashville, TN
John Reoch, Dallas, TX
Charlotte Smith, Dallas, TX
David Willburn, Fort Worth, TX
Kathy Windrow, Dallas, TX
Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX