Bio

Gary Webernick was born in Georgetown, Texas in 1948. He currently resides a few miles from Dripping Springs, Texas, a small community near Austin.

Mr. Webernick received an Associate of Arts Degree from Broward College, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, a Bachelor of Arts Degree from The University of Texas at Austin and an Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma.

Webernick is currently a Professor in the Art Department at Austin Community College and is Head of the Three-Dimensional Studies Area and Exhibits Coordinator. Before teaching at Austin Community College he taught at various art schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Mr. Webernick is a recipient of a NEA/Rockefeller Grant for Interdisciplinay Artists, an Individual Artist and Travel Grant from the Alaska State Council for the Artists, and an Installation Grant from The Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas.

Gary Webernick has exhibited extensively nationally and has worked in a variety of media and forms including painting, sculpture, mixed-media sculptural installations, photography, videos and books. His work is included in museum and private collections and in the recent book "Found and Assembled in Alaska" by Julie Decker (Seoul, Korea: Decker Art Services, 2001).

	Bio
	Gary Webernick was born in Georgetown, Texas in 1948. He currently resides a few miles from Dripping Springs, Texas, a small community near Austin. Mr. Webernick received an Associate of Arts Degree from Broward College, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, a Bachelor of Arts Degree from The University of Texas at Austin and an Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma. Webernick is currently a Professor in the Art Department at Austin Community College and is Head of the Three-Dimensional Studies Area and Exhibits Coordinator. Before teaching at Austin Community College he taught at various art schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States. Mr. Webernick is a recipient of a NEA/Rockefeller Grant for Interdisciplinay Artists, an Individual Artist and Travel Grant from the Alaska State Council for the Artists, and an Installation Grant from The Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas. Gary Webernick has exhibited extensively nationally and has worked in a variety of media and forms including painting, sculpture, mixed-media sculptural installations, photography, videos and books. His work is included in museum and private collections and in the recent book "Found and Assembled in Alaska" by Julie Decker (Seoul, Korea: Decker Art Services, 2001).
	Artist's Statement
	Like many of us, I began to draw as a child --- a "doodler" with pencil and paper. In my later youth I painted a few pictures, but never really thought of being an artist; my dream was to be an architect. I realized later that I was probably too "stubborn" to be an architect --- too much structure. I made art instead, but it made sense at times to have the structure, the "design" of architecture at my disposal with the addition or combination of the emotional --- more latitude, more freedom. Painting, drawing and sculpture allowed the option of fusing all of the elements. I never lost my love for architecture; I continue to make connections to its essence. The objects oftentimes become temples, totems and shrines that keep me connected to my personal spirit, but simultaneously, allude to past and present cultures and, perhaps, universal truths.

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Artist's Statement