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John Dilandro

A combination outdoor collection display and art environment installation, John Dilandro has been working on his site since 2012. Along Schuenemann Rd on either side of the driveway, extensive strings of lights and spotlights come on and begin to pulse at dusk. John seems to have a special fondness for glass: electrical insulators, plates, and […]

Gary Brewer

In 2006 Gary Brewer, once a high steel been construction worker, now a independent carpentry contractor in San Augustine, Texas started to build a deck over his modest-sized downtown home across from the courthouse square.  With no backyard and a fearless fondness for high places, he’s built himself an escape into nature without leaving home.  […]

Isaac Long

A retired contractor, Mr. Long recalls beginning in the sheet-metal business at 22, becoming a welder and later a general contractor for steel buildings and the construction and remodeling of houses.  He worked for the Halliburton Corporation for about 2 1/2 years.   He’s owned his house since around 1980, and once had a welding shop […]

Loya

After retiring from Levi Strauss factory work in 1995, Rufino Loya Rivas set out to improve the modest family house he and his wife were able to afford in 1973.  With no art or construction training in his background, he taught himself masonry and metalworking skills and has created a spiritually uplifting environment that contrasts […]

Baron

Ho Baron welcomes visitors and his sculpture garden art environment is open for visitors daily. Ho’s website

Art Environments – Southwest

Art environments are typically made by by artists working outside the mainstream of contemporary art.  Exposed to the weather and free for public viewing, the environments have little or no connection to the monetized art-object-based realm of galleries and museums.  Often the ‘artists’ don’t think of themselves as, or like to be called ‘artists’, their […]

Art Environments – Overview

Art environments are typically made by by artists working outside the mainstream of contemporary art.  Exposed to the weather and free for public viewing, the environments have little or no connection to the monetized art-object-based realm of galleries and museums.  Often the ‘artists’ don’t think of themselves as, or like to be called ‘artists’, their […]