BASILIOS POULOS
Born in South Carolina in 1941 to Greek immigrants, Basilos Poulos earned his BFA in 1965 at the Atlanta School of Art and his MFA in 1968 at Tulane University in New Orleans. He then moved to New York City where he won a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Foundation Grant in 1973-74. He came to Houston in 1975 as an artist-in-residence at Rice University; he remained on the faculty there until his retirement in 2008. He’s had solo shows at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (1965); the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia S.C. (1967 and 1984); Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville S.C. (1979); and Galveston Art Center (1994); Lamar Dodd Art Center, La Grange GA (2015). Gallery associations have included Simonne Stern Gallery in New Orleans (1973-1978); Watson/de Nagy and Company (1975-1982); Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco (1978-1982); Heath Gallery, Atlanta (1980-1984); Meredith Long & Company (1992); New Gallery, Houston (1996); Selini Gallery, Athens, Greece (1997); Redbud Gallery, Houston (2007); Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston (2018).
Notes: Pete Gershon interviewed Basilios Poulos on April 10, 2019 at his home-studio in the north part of the Houston Heights. Bas was an eager and engaging interview subject and his years as a lecturing professor are in full evidence here. Afterwards, Poulos displays various recent watercolors to show how his work has evolved. One of the better-recorded interviews in this set.
Further Resources:
Visiting Bas Poulos by Robert Boyd, December 30, 2014, The Great God Pan is Dead
This project was funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance