Paul Scott Malone
An Arising
Bio
A southerner by heritage, I was born and reared in Houston, Texas. After a time in the military I attended and graduated from the University of Houston. For five years
thereafter I lobored in the fields of newspaper journalism before taking an MFA Degree from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Then began a serious career as a writer of fiction, poetry and criticism, and, with less devotion at that time, the visual arts.. During those years I taught writing and
literature on the college and university levels, mostly part time. Meanwhile, I have published three books of fiction, a novel and two story collections.
In 1994, however, I ended my teaching career. Since then, my time has been devoted entirely to oil painting and writing, though I do little if any writing now. Over time,
my mind has been drawn more and more toward painting, a calling that seems the truest of all my various interests, the one with which I had always felt the greatest
affinity. Eventually I withdrew completely from the written word. Oil painting has been my only way of being for more than a decade.
My home I make in Benson, Arizona, a desert town just outside Tucson.
Exhibitions (Selected)
Ico Gallery of Music & Art, New York, forthcoming, June, 2010
Ventana Medical Systems, Tucson, Arizona, USA, June-August, 2008
Tubac Art Festival, Tubac, Arizona, USA, 2008
Gallery of the Holy Ghost, Tucson, 2007
Bentley's, Tucson, 2002
Nickelodeon Art Gallery, Burbank, California, 2001
Tucson Pima Arts Council, Tucson, 2001
Pages for All Ages Bookstore (a Border's-like establishment), Champaign, 2000
Southlynn Studio and Gallery, Champaign, Illinois, USA, 1999
Border's Bookstore, Champaign, 1999
Artists Against Aids, Champaign, 1998-2000
Parkland College Student Fine Arts Exhibition, Champaign, 1998
State of Illinois Amateur Art Exhibitions (three blue ribbons, one red), 1998
Southlynn Gallery, Champaign, 1998
Gallery & Other Associations
ARTWARGALLERY, Torino, Italy, online, 2009--
Art Review, London, online & offline, 2009--
CultureInside, Luxembourg, online, 2009--
ARTslant, Chicago, USA, online, 2009--
Artbreak, Pittsburgh Institute of Art, USA, online, 2009--
Artists Space (Irving Sandler Artists File Online), New York, 2009--
Central Arts Gallery, Tucson, 2008
Rinconart Gallery, Tubac, 2008 (now online, 2008--)
Gallery of Dreams,St. David, AZ 2007-2008
Art Gallery Worldwide, online, 2007--
El Taller, Austin, TX, 2000
galleryNOW, online, Tampa, FL, USA, 1999--2004
Works of Art in Private Collections
More than thirty works, mostly oils, held in private collections in the United States.
Book Publications
Contributor of artworks and writing. Aesthetics and Contemporary Art II. Cordoba, Argentina: (available worldwide). Forthcoming December 2009.
Short story, "Prize Rope," reprinted in Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows press. 2004.
This House of Women (a novel). Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. 2001.
Memorial Day and Other Stories. Forth Worth: Texas Christian University Press. 2000.
In an Arid Land: Thirteen Stories of Texas. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press. 1995.
Ed. A Student's Guide to Freshman Composition. Edina, Minn: Bellwether Press. 1986.
Other Publications
Dozens of short stories, poems, journalism and literary criticism in numerous newspapers, magazines and university journals, 1978--
Grants, Awards & Honors (Selected)
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, USA, 1990-92
Jesse Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 1996.
Citation of Excellence, Real-Time art magazine, published by Artoteque, London, 2006
My painting, "Bipolar #2," selected by Texas Tech University Press for cover of my novel, This
House of Women, 2001
Four paintings sold, Angel Charity Ball, $6,000 for charity,Tucson, 2006
Tucson Pima Art Council's Public Art Roster,, 2001
Literary papers donated upon request to the Texas Writers' Collection, Texas State University library, San
Marcos, Texas, USA, 2006
The Willa Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction,, Women Writing the West, 2002 (the first man to be
honored with this prestigious prize)
First Finalist, Jesse Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2001
Nominated, 2000 Great Writers of the 20th Century, Cambridge,, 2000
Who's Who in America, 1999--
Nominated, Who's Who in the World, 2000
Who's Who in the Midwest, USA, 1998
Contemporary Authors, 1996
Nominated, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century, Cambridge, England, 2000
Nominated, 2000 Great Writers of the 20th Century, Cambridge, 2000
Selected one of 12 "Fine artists from the Champaign-Urbana Community," USA, 1999
Featured Poet, American Poetry Monthly,October, 1997
Invited, featured author, Texas Book Festival, 2000-2002
Committee Judge, Jesse Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, and the award for best first work, Texas
Institute of Letters, 1996-97
In an Arid Land (my first book) received half-page review in The New York Times Book Review, 1995.
Frank O'connor Memorial Award, Descant magazine, 1994
Black Warrior Review Literary Award in Fiction,1992
Second prize, as judged by Raymond Carver, American Fiction short story contest, 1988
Grant, Society of Southwestern Authors, Tucson, USA, 1986
Several scholarships for Fiction Writing, The University of Arizona, USA, 1985-86
John Huck Memorial Scholarships, UA, 1985-86
First Prize, The Tucson Weekly annual fiction contest, 1985
First place, feature writing, AP Managing Editors of Oklahoma, 1983
First place, interpretive reporting, Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists, 1982
Several awards, Corpus Christi Press Club, 1978-79
Best reporting, Texas Committee on Natural Resources, 1979
Outstanding Journalism Graduate, Unversity of Houston, 1978
Distinguished Graduating Student, University of Houston, 1978
Education
MFA, The University of Arizona,1986
BA, University of Houston, 1978
Courses in visual art, Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois, 1997-1999; Pima Community
College, Tucson, Arizona, 2001-2002
Studio Assistant, artist Jenny Southlynn, Campaign, Illinois, 1997-2000
Current & Previous Employment
Fine arts oil painter (coupled with other media) & literary writer, USA, 1994--present
University / college lecturer & instructor in writing & literature, 1983-1994
Literary critic in fiction, The Dallas Morning News, 1992-1996 / newspaper Journalist, 1978-1983
A southerner by heritage, I was born and reared in Houston, Texas. After a time in the military I attended and graduated from the University of Houston. For five years
thereafter I lobored in the fields of newspaper journalism before taking an MFA Degree from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Then began a serious career as a writer of fiction, poetry and criticism, and, with less devotion at that time, the visual arts.. During those years I taught writing and
literature on the college and university levels, mostly part time. Meanwhile, I have published three books of fiction, a novel and two story collections.
In 1994, however, I ended my teaching career. Since then, my time has been devoted entirely to oil painting and writing, though I do little if any writing now. Over time,
my mind has been drawn more and more toward painting, a calling that seems the truest of all my various interests, the one with which I had always felt the greatest
affinity. Eventually I withdrew completely from the written word. Oil painting has been my only way of being for more than a decade.
My home I make in Benson, Arizona, a desert town just outside Tucson.
Exhibitions (Selected)
Ico Gallery of Music & Art, New York, forthcoming, June, 2010
Ventana Medical Systems, Tucson, Arizona, USA, June-August, 2008
Tubac Art Festival, Tubac, Arizona, USA, 2008
Gallery of the Holy Ghost, Tucson, 2007
Bentley's, Tucson, 2002
Nickelodeon Art Gallery, Burbank, California, 2001
Tucson Pima Arts Council, Tucson, 2001
Pages for All Ages Bookstore (a Border's-like establishment), Champaign, 2000
Southlynn Studio and Gallery, Champaign, Illinois, USA, 1999
Border's Bookstore, Champaign, 1999
Artists Against Aids, Champaign, 1998-2000
Parkland College Student Fine Arts Exhibition, Champaign, 1998
State of Illinois Amateur Art Exhibitions (three blue ribbons, one red), 1998
Southlynn Gallery, Champaign, 1998
Gallery & Other Associations
ARTWARGALLERY, Torino, Italy, online, 2009--
Art Review, London, online & offline, 2009--
CultureInside, Luxembourg, online, 2009--
ARTslant, Chicago, USA, online, 2009--
Artbreak, Pittsburgh Institute of Art, USA, online, 2009--
Artists Space (Irving Sandler Artists File Online), New York, 2009--
Central Arts Gallery, Tucson, 2008
Rinconart Gallery, Tubac, 2008 (now online, 2008--)
Gallery of Dreams,St. David, AZ 2007-2008
Art Gallery Worldwide, online, 2007--
El Taller, Austin, TX, 2000
galleryNOW, online, Tampa, FL, USA, 1999--2004
Works of Art in Private Collections
More than thirty works, mostly oils, held in private collections in the United States.
Book Publications
Contributor of artworks and writing. Aesthetics and Contemporary Art II. Cordoba, Argentina: (available worldwide). Forthcoming December 2009.
Short story, "Prize Rope," reprinted in Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows press. 2004.
This House of Women (a novel). Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. 2001.
Memorial Day and Other Stories. Forth Worth: Texas Christian University Press. 2000.
In an Arid Land: Thirteen Stories of Texas. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press. 1995.
Ed. A Student's Guide to Freshman Composition. Edina, Minn: Bellwether Press. 1986.
Other Publications
Dozens of short stories, poems, journalism and literary criticism in numerous newspapers, magazines and university journals, 1978--
Grants, Awards & Honors (Selected)
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, USA, 1990-92
Jesse Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 1996.
Citation of Excellence, Real-Time art magazine, published by Artoteque, London, 2006
My painting, "Bipolar #2," selected by Texas Tech University Press for cover of my novel, This
House of Women, 2001
Four paintings sold, Angel Charity Ball, $6,000 for charity,Tucson, 2006
Tucson Pima Art Council's Public Art Roster,, 2001
Literary papers donated upon request to the Texas Writers' Collection, Texas State University library, San
Marcos, Texas, USA, 2006
The Willa Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction,, Women Writing the West, 2002 (the first man to be
honored with this prestigious prize)
First Finalist, Jesse Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2001
Nominated, 2000 Great Writers of the 20th Century, Cambridge,, 2000
Who's Who in America, 1999--
Nominated, Who's Who in the World, 2000
Who's Who in the Midwest, USA, 1998
Contemporary Authors, 1996
Nominated, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century, Cambridge, England, 2000
Nominated, 2000 Great Writers of the 20th Century, Cambridge, 2000
Selected one of 12 "Fine artists from the Champaign-Urbana Community," USA, 1999
Featured Poet, American Poetry Monthly,October, 1997
Invited, featured author, Texas Book Festival, 2000-2002
Committee Judge, Jesse Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, and the award for best first work, Texas
Institute of Letters, 1996-97
In an Arid Land (my first book) received half-page review in The New York Times Book Review, 1995.
Frank O'connor Memorial Award, Descant magazine, 1994
Black Warrior Review Literary Award in Fiction,1992
Second prize, as judged by Raymond Carver, American Fiction short story contest, 1988
Grant, Society of Southwestern Authors, Tucson, USA, 1986
Several scholarships for Fiction Writing, The University of Arizona, USA, 1985-86
John Huck Memorial Scholarships, UA, 1985-86
First Prize, The Tucson Weekly annual fiction contest, 1985
First place, feature writing, AP Managing Editors of Oklahoma, 1983
First place, interpretive reporting, Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists, 1982
Several awards, Corpus Christi Press Club, 1978-79
Best reporting, Texas Committee on Natural Resources, 1979
Outstanding Journalism Graduate, Unversity of Houston, 1978
Distinguished Graduating Student, University of Houston, 1978
Education
MFA, The University of Arizona,1986
BA, University of Houston, 1978
Courses in visual art, Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois, 1997-1999; Pima Community
College, Tucson, Arizona, 2001-2002
Studio Assistant, artist Jenny Southlynn, Campaign, Illinois, 1997-2000
Current & Previous Employment
Fine arts oil painter (coupled with other media) & literary writer, USA, 1994--present
University / college lecturer & instructor in writing & literature, 1983-1994
Literary critic in fiction, The Dallas Morning News, 1992-1996 / newspaper Journalist, 1978-1983
(c) Copyright 1997-2010 Paul Scott Malone All rights reserved
Artist's Statement
Art serves as life's shadow reality, its conscience. Art lurks in alleyways and byways ready always to let us know that the beliefs we consider firm and faithful may have
misplaced their righteous natures somewhere along the way. It reminds us that someone must always be plodding along behind the crowd scanning for that lonely
face of truth, which turns away from the false principles we so often embrace. The artist, therefore, must be a steadfast sojourner, prepared to show us again and
again the proper human path ... or at least something close to it.
A sojourner I was chosen to be. My oil paintings I create to enchant and to please -- first myself, then my viewers -- but never to advance a cause or play at some
superfluous theme. The finest art cares nothing for causes or themes. Art is too important for that. I aim to convey only that which I have witnessed with my mind and
heart to the minds and hearts of those who care to look. I beseech them to reach for whatever of virtuous delight they may find in my paintings, and then delight in it.
These are atmospheric abstract oil paintings that allow for the merging of color and ideas and a multitudinous collection of visions. The shapes and the tints and the
lines and the shades are softer than the ones we usually associate with abstract expressionism, with its harsh direct primary colors and its sharp cutting lines. The
artworks here are quieter, calmer. These paintings address that which resides in the deep unseen nebulous souls of us all. They allow for human warmth and love
and beauty as well as the mean ugly elements of life. But they do not scream at us, they do not yell: injustice, cruelty, heartache, surrender, defeat. All of that is
captured in these paintings but, I must confess, that an occasional pretty sunset somehow slips in too.
Still, though, if art is anything it is personal, a personal expression of woe or happiness. I work at the writer's trade because it elicits the highest moments of joy and
ecstasy I have ever experienced. To create truly must be kin to touching the fingertip of god. Deep abiding tides of insight and restfulness follow in mystifying
sensations. Nothing even close to this level of satisfaction and enlightenment could possibly exist elsewhere.
The philosopher Albert Guerard once called art "the solemn joy of voyaging through strange sees of thought alone." A sublime idea if ever one existed! Sometimes, in
a shadowy way, making art is like that too.
Art serves as life's shadow reality, its conscience. Art lurks in alleyways and byways ready always to let us know that the beliefs we consider firm and faithful may have
misplaced their righteous natures somewhere along the way. It reminds us that someone must always be plodding along behind the crowd scanning for that lonely
face of truth, which turns away from the false principles we so often embrace. The artist, therefore, must be a steadfast sojourner, prepared to show us again and
again the proper human path ... or at least something close to it.
A sojourner I was chosen to be. My oil paintings I create to enchant and to please -- first myself, then my viewers -- but never to advance a cause or play at some
superfluous theme. The finest art cares nothing for causes or themes. Art is too important for that. I aim to convey only that which I have witnessed with my mind and
heart to the minds and hearts of those who care to look. I beseech them to reach for whatever of virtuous delight they may find in my paintings, and then delight in it.
These are atmospheric abstract oil paintings that allow for the merging of color and ideas and a multitudinous collection of visions. The shapes and the tints and the
lines and the shades are softer than the ones we usually associate with abstract expressionism, with its harsh direct primary colors and its sharp cutting lines. The
artworks here are quieter, calmer. These paintings address that which resides in the deep unseen nebulous souls of us all. They allow for human warmth and love
and beauty as well as the mean ugly elements of life. But they do not scream at us, they do not yell: injustice, cruelty, heartache, surrender, defeat. All of that is
captured in these paintings but, I must confess, that an occasional pretty sunset somehow slips in too.
Still, though, if art is anything it is personal, a personal expression of woe or happiness. I work at the writer's trade because it elicits the highest moments of joy and
ecstasy I have ever experienced. To create truly must be kin to touching the fingertip of god. Deep abiding tides of insight and restfulness follow in mystifying
sensations. Nothing even close to this level of satisfaction and enlightenment could possibly exist elsewhere.
The philosopher Albert Guerard once called art "the solemn joy of voyaging through strange sees of thought alone." A sublime idea if ever one existed! Sometimes, in
a shadowy way, making art is like that too.
Bio/Resume/Statement
Paul Scott Malone
http://paulscottmalone.com,
paulscottmalone@gmail.com
520-586-7109 (USA)
http://paulscottmalone.com,
paulscottmalone@gmail.com
520-586-7109 (USA)
The excellent Ico Art & Music Gallery of New York City will display some of the painter's work during an exhibition in June called "Disintegrations."
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