Show Residents Resident's Son Gets Texas Art Residency Ben Freestone a young teaching assistant assistant as as- and graduate student in art at atthe atthe atthe the University of Texas has been selected selected se see to spend six months at no the late J J. J Frank Dobies Dobie's ranch near Austin A NATIVE of af Vernal where his parents parents par par- Mr 11 and Mrs Lewis Freestone Sr still resi reside e Mr Freestone plans to do doa doa doa a series of monumental paintings of a size as large as working space will permit permit per per- mit depicting the Texas landscape during during dur duro ing his stay at While at the ranch which is maintained maintain maintain- ed cd by the University as a retreat for writers and artists the artist will hold the Ralph A A. A Johnston Memorial Fellowship The fellowship is supported by three foundations and gifts gUts from a number of individuals MR FREESTONE who graduated with honors from UT Austin in 1970 will begin begin be be- gin his residency February 1 The young artist says he hopes to complete at least 12 large works at Paisana I plan to present a contemporary contemporary panorama of this state as it is isnow isnow isnow now including the effects of history rather than the history itself HE INTENDS to begin the series with witha a self-contained self genesis cycle and to end with an exodus cycle with a replete replete re rep and complex iconography based on historical fact Mr Freestone who is 26 served Inthe in inthe inthe the U U. S. S Army from 1963 to 1966 and was an aide consecutively to General George Forsythe General Fred Weyand Weyand Wey Wey- and and General William Westmoreland Westmore Westmore- land IN 1966 he enrolled at Angelo Angela State University in San Angelo where he spent a year before transferring to UT Austin He lIe also has studied at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and Sciences Utah State University and the University of Utah Winner of a number of awards Mr 1 Freestone has been honored with several one-man one exhibitions The latest opened Wednesday on the campus of Angelo State HE IS represented in such collections as the Arthur Montoya 1 Collection in Long Beach California the Texas Fine Arts Association Permanent Collection at Laguna Gloria in Austin the Collection Col lection of the Tahitian Government the Freed Foundation in Salt Lake City and UT Austins Austin's permanent collection |