Glen Gauthier

​Born in 1965 in south Louisiana, Glen Gauthier is the youngest of five siblings. He was exposed to the art world at age five, when his mother recruited him as a model for her and her artist friends to sketch. Glen grew up in a house filled with his mother Shirley’s artwork and began drawing from a young age. He took a different path in college, majoring in General Studies and Business Management. His first accounting class cured him of that notion. He walked into the first exam, handed the professor his drop slip, changed his major to fine arts and never looked back. Glen’s focus was the Advertising and Design fields, where he still works today, after almost 30 years in the business, currently as Creative Director for a Dallas-based creative firm, as well as his own freelance design business. He started pursuing fine art seriously about 7 years ago, as an artistic outlet to offset his day job. Glen’s collages take his love of drawing, printed ephemera, aircraft, and the Cold War, and combines them in a series of works that both address social issues, as well as just have fun with the medium. He inherited boxes of old documents from his late aunt’s insurance agency, and those documents have found their way into most of his pieces. Garage and estate sales also aid in providing him with the raw material for his work. A road trip from Austin to Los Angeles a few years ago took him past the aircraft graveyard in Tuscon, where he filled his iPhone with images of retired aircraft. Retouched versions of these images serve as the subjects of some of his creations, and will undoubtedly turn up in future pieces. Glen believes art should be something that is engaging to experience on the surface, while inviting the viewer deeper into each piece, to attempt to discern meaning, whether he or she is successful in doing so or not. He hopes his artwork can cross the boundary between past, present and future, acting as a kind of time travel machine, albeit one that doesn’t require the requisite math skills. No doubt why he dropped that college accounting class.

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Exhibitions
Cedars Open Studio Tour, Dallas
Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair NYC, June 2017
Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair NYC, Nov. 2017
One Art Space (Tribeca), Artifacts Group Show, Dec. 2017
Zaha Hadid Condo Gallery Group Show, Dec. 2017
100 Pieces Charity Art Auction, Los Angeles, 2017
Art House Dallas Visual Showcase, May 2018
5th Annual Artspace111 Juried Exhibition, Ft. Worth, TX, 2018