When worlds collide Painting

Born 1957, United States. I am an artist, teacher, musician, and from time to time build string instruments. I have been exhibiting my art work since 1979 and have been primarily working with found material since around 2000. I believe that I grew up in the most peculiar of situations. More like growing up in a museum than say one of my friend’s home. I grew up in a house full of paintings, prints, drawings, Pre-Columbian, African, and New Guinea sculptures and baskets and all these things have had a profound influence on me. My father, Barney Charles Delabano was the noted Curator of Installation at the Dallas Museum of Art for thirty-three years as well as a gifted painter. Through my father, I met international artists Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, and Robert Rauschenberg as well as being family friends to important members to the Dallas and Texas art scene, such as Jerry Bywaters, Otis and Velma Dozier, Charlie Bowling and Octavio Medellin, all have had a profound influence on me.