Jeri Salter (American, 1955)Born in Richmond, Virginia; resides in Austin, Texas A native of Richmond, Virginia, Jeri Salter has spent all of her adult life in Texas. She has lived in Houston, McAllen and Dallas but has been settled in the Austin area since 1994. Primarily a self-taught artist, Salter has taken classes that have improved and inspired her work from the Collin Community College in Plano and the Alfred Glassell Art School in Houston. After working in oils for many years, she discovered pastels. They have become her favorite medium for their immediacy and vibrancy. Workshops with accomplished artists such as Bob Rohm, Kraig Kiedrowski, Susan Ogilvie, Colleen Howe, Anne Templeton, Liz Haywood-Sullivan, Dinah Worman, Desmond O'Hagan and Michael Workman have heightened her skills and influenced her approach to painting. Salter is one of the state’s foremost pastel artists and regionalist painters. Her paintings often parallel images from early Texas artist Frank Reaugh as she derives her inspiration from the vast beauty in nature, highlighting the open skies and rolling plains of the Texas landscape. Most recently, she has found similar beauty in rural buildings and roadways. Salter describes her landscapes as having remnants of humanity, captured in the scenes that feature derelict buildings and worn dirt roads. Salter frequently adventures from her Hill Country home to the Panhandle and West Texas, dedicated to capturing the natural world – its majestic mountains and rolling plains, the ever-changing weather and big skies of Texas, and livestock grazing by the side of the highway. Her paintings capture places frozen in time, often reminding the viewer of their own memories of past journeys and personal experiences in similar lands. As Salter beautifully captures the effect of “the faraway nearby” of the American Southwest in her paintings, it is these remote locales that evoke within her an emotional sense of "searching" and continue to pull her back for more. Since 2004, Salter has had gallery representation and has been honored with numerous awards. Since 2017, her work has been included in two major publications by Texas A&M University Press – Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art and The Art of Texas State Parks: A Centennial Celebration, 1923-2023. Named as one of the thirty-five “Centennial Artists” for the project, Salter captured Palo Duro Canyon State Park, and Caprock Canyon State Park and Trailway. ARTIST STATEMENT I am a landscape painter. I suspect I will always find that to be my center, despite whatever stray tangents present themselves. I am especially drawn to the vast beauty of open spaces, big skies and rolling plains across western landscapes, particularly Texas. It's exciting to find remnants of humanity captured in those scenes of derelict buildings and worn dirt roads. They evoke an emotional sense of "searching" that always pulls at me. A turning point for me was a solo show I did for William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Art Gallery in 2015. Bill Reaves suggested I take on the project of returning to many of the places in Texas that Frank Reaugh painted during his lifetime. Mr. Reaugh is considered one of the premier painters of the Texas longhorns and landscapes during the early years of Texas art. Trying to capture the scenes as they are today while doing it in my own way was daunting and fulfilling. My respect for Mr. Reaugh was greatly deepened as well as a love for the places he painted. It was an amazing journey for me which continues to inspire my work going forward. No matter the subject, examining what draws us to do a painting, or to have a painting, gives us clues to our own thoughts and desires. Whether that be through symbols, or finding the beauty in grand landscapes or even the everyday scenes that surround us. I am continually amazed when the viewing of my work triggers an emotional response in other people. It reminds me that I am not just painting for myself but making a connection with others through a visual language. Jeri Salter (American, 1955)www.jerisalter.comhttps://www.instagram.com/jerisalterartist/ Education1975 Drawing, Pan American University, Edinburg1982 Art History and Drawing, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX1993-4 Oil Painting and Life Drawing, Collin County Community College, Plano, TX2003–2016 Workshops with national renown artists including Robert Rohm, Michael Workman, Ann Templeton, Liz Haywood Sullivan, Diana Worman, and others, Selected Biographical and Career Highlights1955 Born in Richmond, Virginia1974 Moved to Texas1983–84 Glassell School of Art, Houston1994–95 Collin County Community College, Plano2002–present Member, Central Texas Pastel Society2005–08 President, Central Texas Pastel Society2007-present Member, Austin Pastel Society2009 Best in Show, Austin Pastel Society Miniature Show, Austin, TX2009 Best in Show, Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX2010 Pastel Second Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, AZ2010 Mark Chapman Award, Best in Show, Fayetteville Artwalk Competition, Fayetteville, TX2011 Pastel First Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, AZ2012 Pastel Second Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, AZ2012 Best in Show, Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX2014 Pastel First Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, AZ2015 Best in Show, Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX2017 Published in Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art, Texas A&M University Press 2022 Published in The Art of Texas State Parks: A Centennial Celebration, 1923-2023, Texas A&M University Press Resides in Austin, TX Selected Solo Exhibitions2025 Solo, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX (forthcoming)2022 Jeri Salter: Canyonlands of Texas, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX2017 Fleeting Light: First and Last Light Over the Texas Landscape, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX2015 On the Trail of Frank Reaugh: The Pastel Journals of Jeri Salter, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, TX2011 Jeri Salter: Rural Landscapes and Weathered Structures, The Gallery at Round Top, Round Top, TX2007 Solo, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX Selected Exhibitions2024 Painting Across Texas: Four Ranches x Four Artists – Mary Baxter, David Caton, Noe Perez & Jeri Salter, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX2023-24, The Art of Texas State Parks, Bullock Museum, Austin, TX; Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX; Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX; Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX2021 Contemporary Texas Regionalist Landscapes, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas2020 The Texas Aesthetic: Virtual Exhibition, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX2020 Summer Show: Contemporary Texas Regionalists, The V6 Collection Gallery at The Gage Hotel, Marathon, TX, curated by Foltz Fine Art2019 The NEW Show, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas2019 The Texas Aesthetic: Thirty Contemporary Artists Redefining Texas Art, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas2019 State of Contrast, curated by Foltz Fine Art and Kinzelman Art Consulting, Bank of America, Houston, Texas 2019 Storied Lands, Contemporary Texas Landscape Painters, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas2019 Deck the Halls with Texas Smalls, The V6 Collection Gallery at The Gage Hotel, Marathon, TX, curated by Foltz Fine Art2018 The Texas Aesthetic XI: The Search for "Texas" in Contemporary Art & Culture, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas2018 Mountain Oyster Club Art Contemporary Western Art Show and Sale, Tucson, Arizona2017-18 Contemporary Texas Regionalists Winter Show, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas2017-18 Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art touring exhibition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas; Rotunda Gallery at the Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas; The Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas; and The Mayborn Museum at Baylor University, Waco, Texas2017 Rodeo Vignettes: Jeri Salter, Hunter George, John Bernhard & Robb Kendrick, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston (Recent Paintings by Jeri Salter)2017 The Texas Aesthetic XI: The Search for "Texas" in Contemporary Art & Culture, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas2017 AS IS rural realism, The Grace Museum, Abilene2017 Lone Star Legacies in Contemporary Texas Art, Haley Memorial Library & History Center, Midland2016-17 The Texas Aesthetic, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston2016 The Texas Aesthetic X, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas2016 The Lay of The Land: Contemporary Landscape Painting in Texas, curated by Kinzelman Art Consulting, Bank of America, Houston, Texas 2016 Contemporary Texas Regionalism: A Holiday Show, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston2016 Mountain Oyster Club Art Contemporary Western Art Show and Sale, Tucson, Arizona2015-16 Invitational Show, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon2015 Ties that Bind: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Turner House, Dallas2015 Texas Visions: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Nave Museum, Victoria2015 Texas Aesthetic: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2015 The Big Bend of Texas: Interpretations by Seven Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston2015 Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple (Best in Show)2015 As Far as the Eye Can See: 100 Years of Texas Art, Two Allen Center, Houston2015 The Holiday Show with the Contemporary Texas Regionalists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas2014-15 Painting in the Texas Tradition, traveled: Turner House, Dallas; Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring (catalogue)2014-15 Holiday Show featuring the Contemporary Texas Regionalists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston2014 Intersecting Plains: Views of the Texas Coast & Texas Drought, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston2013 Restless Heart: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo (catalogue)2013 Celebrating the Regionalist Legacy in Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts at the Gage Hotel, Marathon 2013 A Tribute to Texas Rivers, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston2013 Hill Country Love Affair: Interpretations of a Texas Heartland, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston2013 Holidays at the Haley, Haley Memorial Library & History Center, Midland2012 Restless Heart: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX2012 Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple (Best in Show)2012 Contemporary Texas Regionalists, traveled: Haley Memorial Library & History Center, Midland; Gage Hotel, Marathon2011-15 The Texas Aesthetic, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston2011 Featured Artist, Fayetteville Artwalk, Fayetteville, TX2010–11 Fort Worth Main St. Festival, Fort Worth, TX2010–11 San Antonio Fiesta Show, San Antonio, TX2010–11 Bayou City Downtown and Memorial Show, Houston, TX2010–11 Cottonwood Art Festival, Richardson, TX2010–11 Art City Austin Show, Austin, TX2010–11 Artscape Show, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas2010-12, 2014 Western Art Show, Phippen Museum, Prescott, Arizona (1st or 2nd Place each year)2010 Artwalk Competition, Fayetteville, Texas (Best in Show)2010 The Presence of Light: Sky and Light in the Texas Landscape, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston2010 Art of the Plains: American Plains Artists 26th Annual Juried Exhibit, Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska2009 Austin Pastel Society Miniature Show, Austin (Best in Show)2009 Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple (Best in Show)2008–09 Texas Wild Bunch, Professional Artists’ Show, Kerrville, TX2007–09 Austin’s Museum of Art’s Laguna Gloria Holiday Show, Austin, TX2006 Lady Bird Johnson’s Wildflower Center Holiday Show, Austin, TX2005–06 Austin’s Artist Harvest Facet Show, Austin, TX2004–05 Art Walk, Georgetown, TX2004–05 Wildflower Art Show, Salado, TX Selected CollectionsBNSF Railroad Collection, Dallas, TXHappy State Bank, Amarillo, TXIcon Bank, Galleria, Houston, TXIcon Bank, Sugarland, TXSan Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TXThe John Nau Collection of Texas Art, Houston, TX