An Evening With Rebecca Zook

Rising Stars Art Gallery is proud to present Rebecca Zook, as the featured artist for the May 4th gallery meet and greet. Join everyone in welcoming her to Mineral Wells and Palo Pinto County.

Rebecca knew as a child she was going to be an artist and never strayed very far from that path. Her earliest memories are of spending hours, sitting at a table with paper and crayons and drawing every animal imaginable.

Taking drawing and sculpture classes all through school, Rebecca was fortunate to attend a high school that offered Commercial Art as an elective. This altered her path from fine art to Graphic Design. She received a full academic scholarship to attend Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, where she majored in Advertising Art, gaining her BFA degree. She minored in fine art-taking photography, painting, printmaking, and ceramics courses. She also took computer programming as an elective, unaware of how much this was going to help her years down the road, when the World Wide Web came into the mainstream.

Rebecca has been working as a Commercial Artist for the last 20 years. Most recently for an in-house corporate agency as a Senior Graphic and Web Designer. She turned her attention back to fine art in 2003, though still working a full time day job. Rebecca has worked in many different media, but has settled on painting in acrylics to express herself. She hopes to find time for ceramics again, sometime in the future.

Rather than focusing on a specific subject matter, Rebecca relies on a high level of detail and a strong sense of light to tie her work together.

Rebecca lives in Granbury, Texas, where she shares her time and attention with her bevy of "children", including: dogs, cats, and parrots, as well as an avid love of gardening-concentrating on xeric and/or native plants.

Rebecca was featured in Texas Artist Magazine, in the April 2011 edition, along with a couple of her paintings, including: Lawman, which is currently among the artwork featured at Rising Stars Art Gallery. She was the 2011 Rio Brazos National Juried Show - Winner of "Partners for Enrichment Society Kathy & Russell Smith Award."

Join us for an evening of art, music, food and fun at Rising Stars Art Gallery, located at 113 N. E. 1st Ave., in downtown Mineral Wells.

Adam Hull will be our musical genius for the evening, and Jitter Beans Coffee Company will provide everyone's favorite, Morrocan Mint Tea! Call for more information: 940-325-3133