Around 50 resplendent works await North Texans willing to travel down Interstate 35.
His deeply allegorical work was included in the inaugural exhibition of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016. There was a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2005. And curator Dave Hickey selected him for SITE Santa Fe’s fourth International Biennial in 2001.
Born into a family of ranch workers in Refugio, Texas, in 1943, Oliver would go on to study at Texas Southern University in Houston. Having decided against a career in teaching, and although exhibiting with Houston galleries, he took a job with the U.S. Postal Service. In 1984, he and his family moved to Waco. He continued to paint, and he continued to work for the Postal Service.
Now, his hometown has mounted a comprehensive survey of his work, “Kermit Oliver: New Narratives, New Beginnings” at Art Center Waco. This is the first exhibition for the center at its new location, and around 50 works spanning Oliver’s career are displayed through a somewhat cumbersome series of spaces.
The resulting scarves are encyclopedic poems for America and often specifically Texas. A corpulent and regal turkey occupies the center of, surrounded by a bestiary of Texas creatures — jackrabbits and armadillos, owls and egrets — their cameos braided by arabesques of Texas flora., Oliver talked of his delight at finding foreign stamps while working at the Postal Service and how they provided an insight into other cultures and their art.
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