About Eliseo

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I’ve always possessed an innate passion for art. As a child, I constantly traced cartoons and illustrations from the newspaper and would make daily trips to the local woodshop to pick up scraps from which I made army tanks, cars, and abstract creations. I never thought of what I was doing as “art:” creating things was simply a part of my nature. It remains so today.

As a professional sculptor, I rely on the simple joy the act of creation has elicited since childhood to design and produce my work. “Create to create” is my philosophy. I make art because I love to make art. This love is what feeds my creative muse and keeps my motivation and energy level high. While my adult works are vastly more complex than my childhood endeavors, I continue to create original works with passion and inspiration. 

For me, the creative process is an adventure in inspiration and imagination. I work in a variety of mediums, including stone, cast bronze, painted steel, and copper. My specialty lies at the juncture of these forms and styles: stand-alone three-dimensional forms accented with a variety of bas-relief applications that I create using techniques that vary from representational to contemporary.   

I combine these styles and forms in order to create works that are unique in both style and substance, and that speak to the importance of the location, events, and people to that they celebrate. When I accent organic and geometrical basic forms with multiple layers of textures, lines, and shapes, I create a play of light and shadow that makes each sculpture a tactile and visual artwork to enjoy, touch, and explore. My works vary in size from tabletop to monumental, and my designs can be reduced or enlarged to fit the scale of their intended location.

 

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• AA, El Centro College, 1971

• BFA, North Texas State University, 1973

      Military Service 

• D/M/WBE Certification Affidavit No. 7083

• 2007  KERA Arts Advisory Group Art & Seek Initiative

• 2005 Lebow Channel Watershed Project Fort Worth Artist Selection Panel

• 2004 Thurgood Marshall Aquatic Center Public Art Project Panelist

• 2003 West Love Field Library Artist Selection Panel

• 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center Artist Selection Panel

• 2001 Julius Schepps Artist Selection Panel

• 2000 The Latin Arts Association of Ft. Worth "Artistas de las America" Committee Member

• 1997-1999 Southern Methodist University Meadows Museum Advisory Council

• 1997-1998 Review Panelist for the Latino Arts Initiatives Program

• 1997 Juror Panel for the DCCCD Foundation Art Competition

• 1998 Martin Weiss Park and Recreation Center Public Art Project Artist Selection Panel

• LA Thompson Gallery, Clifton, Texas  254-675-2787
• The Downey Gallery, 225 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501

• 2010 Abbot Gardens Open House, Dallas, TX

• 2010 Eliseo Studio Gallery "New Works" Dallas, TX

• 2010 Park Cities Presbyterian Church Juried Arts Festival

• 2008  Haley Henman Gallery  Dallas Texas  “Beginnings”  Abstract Sculpture

• 2008  Parks Cities Presbyterian Church Juried Arts Festival “Genesis”

• 2007 Parks Cities Presbyterian Church Juried Arts Festival Psalm 23
• 2006 Wichita Falls Kemp Center for the Arts Invitational Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
• 2006 DECORAZON Gallery "Sculpture with a View" outdoor exhibition Belmont Hotel Dallas, Texas
• 2006 Spring Gallery Show  LA Thompson Gallery  Clifton, Texas
• 2005 Waco Texas Juried Invitational Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition (Sculpture Purchased)
• 2004 Artes Las Americas Gallery, Houston Texas
• 2003 East Side Village Gallery Solo Exhibition Plano, Texas
• 2003 Juried Latino Cultural Center's Inaugural Exhibition Dallas, Texas
• 2003 Juried Centro Cultural de las Americas Exhibition, New Ft. Worth Community Art Center
• 2003 Art in the Courtyard, Solo Sculpture Exhibition Plano, Texas
• 2002 Oranmore House, Solo Sculpture Exhibition, Limestone "New Explorations"
• 2002 Bath House Cultural Center "El Corazon" Group Exhibition
• 2001 Change Chamber Studio Group Exhibition
• 2001 Bath House Cultural Center  Group Exhibition
• 2001-2002 Irving Art Center, Garden Sculpture Exhibition
• 2000 Artistas de las Americas Exhibit. Central Library Arts Gallery
• 1999 Collin County Community College Juried "Outdoor Art Exhibit"
• 1999 Gallery Sculptura, Group Exhibition Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1998 Gallery 209 Group Exhibition "FIGURE WORKS"
• 1997 Gallery 209 One Man Exhibition "Limestone" A study of textural contrast
• 1996 Dallas Visual Art Center presents Mosaics: ELISEO Sponsored by Exxon Corporation and The Dallas Morning News
• 1995 LA Thompson Gallery "Romance in Stone" Exhibition
• 1994 Dallas Visual Art Center Membership Show
• 1994 LA Thompson Gallery One Person Exhibition

      Selected Commissions

• 2013 Newman Village, Frisco, TX

• 2007  Japan-America Society of Dallas /Ft. Worth Texas Sculpture for Sister City SENDAI

• 2001 Designer and Sculptor for VHA (Volunteer Hospitals of America) Awards

• 1997 Designer/Sculptor for Community Council of Greater Dallas “Community Champions” Bronze Sculpture Award

• 1996-2003 Designer/Sculptor for the Bill and Angela Barrett Award for Loving Kids.

• Presented by Meeting Professionals International D/FW Chapter at the MPI Kids Charity Ball

• Marty Brimmage
  Dallas, TX

• Mesquite Art Council
  Mesquite, TX 

• Joan Bareis
  Farmers Branch, TX

• Curtis and Patricia Meadows
  Dallas, TX

• Tim and Nancy Hanley
  Dallas, TX

• Craig Hall
  Dallas, TX

• Chris and Kim Thomas
  Ooltewah, TN

• Bala Shagrithaya
  Dallas, TX

• Cleve and Marian Buchanan
  Dallas, TX

• Jim and Nell Hawkins
  Waco, TX

• David and Linda Hickman
  Dallas, TX

• HALL Financial Group
  Frisco, TX

• Joanne Walgren
  Carrollton, TX

• Bobbe Gentry

          Clifton, TX

• Ron and Gay Morton          

  Dallas, TX