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Donald Moffett’s Aluminum/Watergate is on display at Ruby City. The oil-on-linen piece is part of the Linda Pace Foundation Collection. © Donald Moffett
San Antonio-born visual artist Donald Moffett is among those being honored with the 2025 Texas Medal of Arts Award.
The nonprofit Texas Cultural Trust presents the awards every other year to Lone Star State creatives whose work has “profoundly influenced Texas and beyond.” This year’s honorees also include actor Dennis Quaid, filmmaker Richard Linklater, musician Gary Clark Jr. and arts patron Mercedes Bass.
The awards will be presented Feb. 25-26 at a ceremony in Austin.
Moffett, 69, currently resides in New York and is known for breaking his paintings from two-dimensional convention by puncturing or otherwise altering their canvases. The Trinity University graduate also projects video onto his paintings, which frequently comment on politics and the natural world.
Moffett’s works appear in the permanent collections of the New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art along with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. What’s more, he’s part of the exhibition “Unsettled Eye” at San Antonio’s Ruby City, which runs through April 27, 2025.
Past Texas Medal of Arts honorees include San Antonio residents Tommy Lee Jones and Eva Longoria and Alamo City-based grocery company H-E-B, which was recognized for its arts patronage. Willie Nelson, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Dan Rather and Miranda Lambert are also among those who have won the award.
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