{"id":30646,"date":"2016-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/friends-for-forty-art-exhibit-celebrates-career-of-tarletons-mark-davis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:19:31","slug":"friends-for-forty-art-exhibit-celebrates-career-of-tarletons-mark-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/friends-for-forty-art-exhibit-celebrates-career-of-tarletons-mark-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Friends for Forty’ art exhibit celebrates career of Tarleton’s Mark Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201dFriends for Forty\u201d Art Exhibition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, May 2, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STEPHENVILLE, Texas\u2014The Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery of Art presents a special exhibition\u2014\u201cFriends for Forty\u201d\u2014and reception honoring the career and work of Assistant Professor Mark Davis, who will retire after 45 years of service to Tarleton State University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friends for Forty<\/em> is a collaborative exhibition of Davis\u2019 work along with that of Dublin, Texas-based painter Bob Stuth-Wade. The exhibit kicks off with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, in the Gallery Alcove of the Fine Arts Center and runs through May 11. The reception doubles as a retirement party for Davis. There is no charge, and the public is invited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1986, Davis spearheaded the creation of Tarleton\u2019s art program. Later, he wrote the curriculum for the bachelor\u2019s degree program in studio art. He has taught painting and drawing to generations of students. In 2007, he received the O.A. Grant Excellence in Teaching Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis and Stuth-Wade have been friends for as long as Davis has been at Tarleton. Stuth-Wade approached him with the idea of doing an exhibition together at the end of the semester and, through those conversations, came the idea for \u201cFriends for Forty.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition showcases recent work by both artists, who maintain active studios. Davis\u2019 paintings include compositions that combine flat and two-dimensional shapes with images and iconography inspired by Western themes. His work is included in the collections of numerous individuals and businesses across the state and nation. He received a bachelor\u2019s degree in art at the University of Colorado in Boulder and a master\u2019s in art at North Texas State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stuth-Wade\u2019s work includes expressive representational portraits and landscapes, exhibited across Texas. Recent solo exhibitions took place at the San Angelo Museum of Art, the Grace Museum in Abilene and the Dallas Art Fair. In 2011, he served as a visiting professor at Baylor University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tarleton, a member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven educational experience marked by academic innovation and exemplary service, and dedicated to transforming students into tomorrow\u2019s professional leaders. With campuses in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian and online, Tarleton engages with its communities to provide real-world learning experiences and to address societal needs while maintaining its core values of integrity, leadership, tradition, civility, excellence and service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contact: Dr. Teresa Davidian \u2013 Head, Department of Fine Arts
254-968-9245
davidian@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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