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Artist Statement:
My husband and I divide the year between Texas and Paradise Valley, Montana, near Yellowstone Park, which suits us fine because I'm a landscape painter and he's a writer. I paint the natural forms around me, plus those I encounter in my travels.
What others are saying about Malou Flato . . .
''There are few Austin artists I admire more than Flato . . . Flato overlaps pale smudges of color - like layered crepe paper - mirroring the play of light, the diaphanous quality of water and the thickness of greenery in western landscapes.''
- Michael Barnes
Austin American-Statesman
''Because they are so accessible and unpretentious, Flato's tile paintings have become very popular.''
- Susan Freudenheim
Texas Homes magazine
''There stand four graceful tiled columns depicting the four missions downriver from the Alamo. Unobtrusive but nevertheless distinctive, the tile images are executed with pebble-like brushstrokes in fresh spring colors.
- Jasmina Wellinghoff
San Antonio Express-News
''Standing before Flato's paintings, you can virtually feel the breezes ruffle your hair.''
- Chris Waddington
New Orleans Times-Picayune
''Flato's imagery comes from the surroundings. 'I paint my life, family, friends, and the stark Texas landscape. I always try to have a camera around for lucky breaks. During a weekend, I usually take about four to five rolls of film; then the next week, I paint what I saw the weekend before.' ''
- Ceramic Monthly Magazine
''Whether she's re-creating a Hill Country river scene or depicting families and communities in gatherings small and large, Malou Flato has a
knack for fluid interplays of light and color in her watercolors. She has also created bright, expansive tile murals for a school near Seattle, a children's hospital in Austin, and a Boston subway station, among other commissions.''
- Domain magazine
''[Malou Flato] successfully combines a painterly approach to realism with a delicate but accurate rendering of the human forms in the work. The elegant hair and skin tones, reflective surface of the water, and whispering light and shadow are notable.''
- Kathryn McKenna Bolger
Austin American-Statesman
Resume:
2004
The Choice Project, Planned Parenthood Austin, TX
2001
Cotswold Project, City of Houston, TX
1997-2001
Central Market, Seven Texas Locations
1996
St. Phillip's Presbyterian Church, Houston, TX
1995
San Antonio Academy, San Antonio, TX
1993
City of Austin, TX
Office of the President, University of Texas at Austin
1992
Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Plano, TX
1991
General Service Administration, Brownsville, TX Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Danbury, CT
Market Square Park, Houston, TX
1990
Logan Airport, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, Boston, MA
City of San Antonio, TX (AIA award)
Police Station/Municipal Court, Corpus Christi, TX
1988
City of Sunnyvale, CA
Brackenridge Children's Hospital, Austin, TX
1987
James Surls, Artist, Cleveland, TX
1984
HEB Corporation, San Antonio, TX
University of Houston, TX
1984
Harte-Hanks, San Antonio, TX
1983
City of Davis, CA
Washington State Arts Commission, Arlington, WA
1980
Ford, Powell & Carson, Architects, San Antonio, TX
Collections:
Allied Bank (Wells Fargo Bank)
American Bank
ARCO
Bickerstaff, Heath, Smiley, Pollan, Kever, & McDaniel
Coca-Cola
Fulbright & Jaworski
Imperial Sugar
UBS PaineWebber
Radisson Hotel
Republic Bank (Bank of America)
The Honorable Ann Richards
Shell Oil Company
SBC
Texas A&M University
Texas Commerce Bank (Chase Bank)
Texas Instruments
Texas State Teachers Retirement System
3M
Transco Energy (The Williams Companies, Inc.)
USAA
First Victoria National Bank
Frank Welch, Architect
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