Jeri Salter (American, 1955)

Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Jeri Salter has lived all over Texas–Houston, McAllen, Plano, Round Rock, and currently, Hutto. A self-taught artist, Salter honed her skills over the years through various classes and workshops, focusing her talent on pastel landscapes.

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. In painting these ordinary scenes, she tries to convey an appreciation of the natural beauty and the emotional sense of “searching” evoked therein.

Selected Biographical and Career Highlights

1955 Born in Richmond, Virginia
1974 Moved to Texas
1983–84 Glassell School of Art, Houston
1994–95 Collin County Community College, Plano
2002–present Member, Central Texas Pastel Society
2005–08 President, Central Texas Pastel Society
2007-present Member, Austin Pastel Society
2009 Best in Show, Austin Pastel Society Miniature Show, Austin, TX
2009 Best in Show, Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX
2010 Pastel Second Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, AZ
2010 Mark Chapman Award, Best in Show, Fayetteville Artwalk Competition, Fayetteville, TX
2011 Pastel First Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, AZ
2012 Pastel Second Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, AZ
2012 Best in Show, Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX
2014 Pastel First Place, Phippen Museum Western Art Show, Prescott, AZ
2015 Best in Show, Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX
Resides in Hutto, TX

Selected Exhibitions

2004–05 Wildflower Art Show, Salado, TX
2004–05 Art Walk, Georgetown, TX
2005–06 Austin’s Artist Harvest Facet Show, Austin, TX
2006 Lady Bird Johnson’s Wildflower Center Holiday Show, Austin, TX

· 2007 Solo, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX

2007–09 Austin’s Museum of Art’s Laguna Gloria Holiday Show, Austin, TX
2008–09 Texas Wild Bunch, Professional Artists’ Show, Kerrville, TX

· 2009 Austin Pastel Society Miniature Show, Austin (Best in Show)

· 2009 Central Texas Pastel Society Membership Competition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple (Best in Show)

· 2010 Artwalk Competition, Fayetteville, Texas (Best in Show)

· 2010 The Presence of Light: Sky and Light in the Texas Landscape, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston

· 2010 Art of the Plains: American Plains Artists 26th Annual Juried Exhibit, Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska

2010–11 Fort Worth Main St. Festival, Fort Worth, TX
2010–11 San Antonio Fiesta Show, San Antonio, TX
2010–11 Bayou City Downtown and Memorial Show, Houston, TX
2010–11 Cottonwood Art Festival, Richardson, TX
2010–11 Art City Austin Show, Austin, TX

· 2010–11 Artscape Show, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas

· 2010-12, 2014 Western Art Show, Phippen Museum, Prescott, Arizona (1st or 2nd Place each year)

2011 Featured Artist, Fayetteville Artwalk, Fayetteville, TX

· 2011 Solo, Jeri Salter: Rural Landscapes and Weathered Structures, The Gallery at Round Top, Round Top, Texas

· 2011-15 The Texas Aesthetic, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston

· 2012 Restless Heart: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX

· 2012 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, Marathon

· 2013 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, Houston

· 2013 Hill Country Love Affair: Interpretations of a Texas Heartland, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston

· 2013 Holidays at the Haley, Haley Memorial Library & History Center, Midland

· 2014 Intersecting Plains: Views of the Texas Coast & Texas Drought, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston

· 2014-15 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, Houston

· 2015 Ties that Bind: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Turner House, Dallas

· 2015 Solo, On the Trail of Frank Reaugh: The Pastel Journals of Jeri Salter, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston

· 2015 Texas Visions: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Nave Museum, Victoria

2015 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, Houston

· 2015 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, Houston

2015 The Holiday Show with the Contemporary Texas Regionalists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

· 2015-16 Invitational Show, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon

2016 The Texas Aesthetic X, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas
2016 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, Houston

· 2016-17 The Texas Aesthetic, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston

· 2017 Mountain Oyster Club Art Contemporary Western Art Show and Sale, Tucson, Arizona

· 2017-18 Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, traveled: San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo; Texas Capitol Ground Floor Rotunda, Austin; Witte Museum, San Antonio; and The Mayborn Museum at Baylor University, Waco, Texas (book by same title published by Texas A&M Press)

· 2017 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, Texas

· 2017 AS IS rural realism, The Grace Museum, Abilene

2017 Lone Star Legacies in Contemporary Texas Art, Haley Memorial Library & History Center, Midland

· 2017 Solo, Fleeting Light: First and Last Light Over the Texas Landscape, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville

2017-18 Contemporary Texas Regionalists Winter Show, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas
2018 The Texas Aesthetic XI: The Search for "Texas" in Contemporary Art & Culture, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas
2019 The NEW Show, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas
2019 The Texas Aesthetic: Thirty Contemporary Artists Redefining Texas Art, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas
2019 State of Contrast, curated by Foltz Fine Art and Kinzelman Art Consulting, Bank of America, Houston, Texas
2019 Storied Lands, Contemporaray Texas Landscape Painters, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas
2019 Deck the Halls with Texas Smalls, The V6 Collection Gallery at The Gage Hotel, Marathon, TX, curated by Foltz Fine Art
2020 The Texas Aesthetic: Virtual Exhibition, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX
2020 Summer Show: Contemporary Texas Regionalists, The V6 Collection Gallery at The Gage Hotel, Marathon, TX, curated by Foltz Fine Art
2021, Contemporary Texas Landscapes, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX

Selected Public Collections

BNSF Railroad Collection, Dallas, TX

· Happy State Bank, Amarillo, TX

Icon Bank, Galleria, Houston, TX
Icon Bank, Sugarland, TX
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
The John and Bobbie Nau Collection of Texas Art, Houston, TX

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