Bob Nunn: A Retrospective

Irving Arts Center presents a career retrospective of Dallas artist and art educator, Bob Nunn featuring more than 80 paintings and works on paper spanning over five decades of work.

Nunn’s roots in the local scene extend back to Deep Ellum in the 1970s where he was one of the community’s most influential, pioneering artists. The biannual open studio events he helped organize at the Continental Gin Building are now legendary. A much revered professor at North Lake College (now Dallas College North Lake Campus) for more than 30 years, his impact on numerous students and younger artists as a teacher, mentor and friend is an impressive legacy. In 1995 he was selected to receive the first ever Moss/Chumley Award, given by SMU’s Meadows Museum in recognition of his lifelong dedication to community arts advocacy .

Nunn’s award-winning paintings and drawings have been exhibited, collected and published around the world. His work was featured in the inaugural exhibition of a new wing of the Dallas Museum of Art and has been exhibited in other museums, multiple galleries and in countless exhibitions and competitions. Known for creating finely rendered and imaginative scenes which appear at once familiar and strange, Nunn delights in this playful deception. His paintings and drawings transplant the viewer into a place that’s almost recognizable… then not.

On exhibit in the Arts Center’s Main Gallery, September 11 – November 13, 2021.

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