Barbra Riley (Corpus Christi)
Untitled Spurs Series (Coyote), 2002

Acrylic, glitter and silver leaf on canvas
36 x 90 in. each

Barbra Riley’s work combines photography with paint and other media. Her fifteen paintings in the AT&T Center were based on original photographs from the Spurs archives. Riley describes how she “manipulated the composition of the photographs with tonal adjustments, color alterations, cropping, and the addition of abstract shapes and forms. My intent is to convey action, excitement and theater. The addition of metallic foil, metallic powders and glitter adds complexity to the surface and creates a three-dimensional effect as the viewer moves and the light is reflected.”

Riley received both a BFA and an MA in painting and photography from California State University in Sacramento. She now resides in Corpus Christi where she has been a Professor of Art at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi for over two decades.

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