Name: Time, Aging, and Loss Featuring the artwork of Tom Besson
Start: 2025-11-15T15:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-15T19:00:00-06:00
Location: 114 Depot St , Elgin, TX, United States, Texas 78621

Time, Aging and Loss Featuring the Artwork of Tom Besson:
Join the artist on an exploration of the aging process, from both a self-reflective and observative points of view.
Opening: Saturday November 15th, 3 pm-7 pm. The show will remain on display throughout November.
Biography:
Tom Besson, born in 1951, is a product of Nineteen-Fifties America, and a Czech immigrant subculture. He studied at The University of Houston Art College for 3 years before "dropping-out" and moving to the counter-culture Austin of 1974. Working with Austin area artists led to his involvement with various diverse art organizations including F'Arts Sake, Vanishing Point Art School where he taught life drawing, Alternate Current Gallery and Austin Visual Arts Association.
In the mid-90's Besson retraced his immigrant ancestors journey back to Moravia, Czech Republic where he now maintains a summer studio in Dolní Bečva. He became the first American artist invited to join the Unie Výtvarných Umělců Olomoucka (Union of Creative Artists of Olomouc), an artists' collective in Olomouc, Czech Republic in 2005. In 2017 Besson received honorary citizenship from the city of Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic for propagating awareness of the region across the globe through his fine art.
His involvements with symbolism lead to the creation of a Neosymbolist collective of American, Czech, German, Slovakian and Danish artists. The collective's continuing exhibitions have traveled from the United States across Northern and Central Europe.
Besson's work has been displayed in Valašské muzeum v přírodě in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm and in contemporary art galleries in Texas, Chicago, Denmark, Slovakia, Italy and the Czech Republic. His work is represented in the permanent collection of the University of Houston, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and in private collections in Ireland, Wales, Czech Republic, Canada, Iceland and the United States.
https://www.tombesson.com/