Ho Baron, Art Gallery, Sculpture Garden

Round Two of My Art Sale. My sculptures are of all sizes. I make, model and I exhibit my sculpture outside and within my gallery. My Ho Show is a unique sight to see. I’m once again inviting visitors to sign up for an appointment to see my unique offerings for sale for reasonable prices. My style is original and timeless, and possibly you’ll spot a favored work to help send it on its way through history.
I can’t travel any longer at 83, but I’m wishing for my sculptures to begin their move through time. My bronzes are particularly indestructible, forever and I need your help to begin their travel through time.
I’ve been enjoying my meetings with interested viewers the last few months, and I hope to hear from more of you, my special invitation. I am continuing to have my gallery and garden open to sell my remaining artworks (sculptures, drawings, books, and assemblages.) Work prices range from $50 for some of the drawings/books/assemblages to $5,000 or more for my bronze sculptures. This will be done by appointment only. In order to schedule an appointment, please complete the form at the link provided, and I will call to work out the viewing details with you.

Appoint scheduling form: https://forms.gle/wJYxCXS7KkkqEbaj6

More details about me and my art journey follows. My sculpture is a give and take intuitive procedure, and the details develop without preconceptions. My art is a gut-like statement produced with no audience intended. Call it art for art’s sake, and my imagery is consequently like none other, most in fact being one of a kind. My creative endeavors grew from a literary background, a masters in English in fact, but it was limitless photo possibilities that captured my imagination. I sent my black and white film through my camera twice to produce double exposure imagery I excitedly printed in my dark room.

I enjoyed pen and ink drawing, too, and I did hundreds of them. I also began drawing my characters directly on my printed photos. I even photographed outdoor scenes in my hometown El Paso, and with large skies, I drew my abstracted figures on my cityscapes. My resulting book is entitled “El Paso: a Hoverview.”

When modelling my sculpture, I aesthetically form faces within faces, and my caricatures are atop my larger recognizable form. It’s a unique conscious subconscious style that I’ve pursued for many years. My sculpture is a personal, child-like involvement whereby I play with my soft oil-based clay, and it’s like toying with mud so to speak. My sculpture story is tongue-in-cheek and entitled “Gods for Future Religions.” Who knows how and where my bronzes will travel in the years to come?
Round Two of My Art Sale. My sculptures are of all sizes. I make, model and I exhibit my sculpture outside and within my gallery. My Ho Show is a unique sight to see. I’m once again inviting visitors to sign up for an appointment to see my unique offerings for sale for reasonable prices. My style is original and timeless, and possibly you’ll spot a favored work to help send it on its way through history.
I can’t travel any longer at 83, but I’m wishing for my sculptures to begin their move through time. My bronzes are particularly indestructible, forever and I need your help to begin their travel through time.
I’ve been enjoying my meetings with interested viewers the last few months, and I hope to hear from more of you, my special invitation. I am continuing to have my gallery and garden open to sell my remaining artworks (sculptures, drawings, books, and assemblages.) Work prices range from $50 for some of the drawings/books/assemblages to $5,000 or more for my bronze sculptures. This will be done by appointment only. In order to schedule an appointment, please complete the form at the link provided, and I will call to work out the viewing details with you.

Appoint scheduling form: https://forms.gle/wJYxCXS7KkkqEbaj6

More details about me and my art journey follows. My sculpture is a give and take intuitive procedure, and the details develop without preconceptions. My art is a gut-like statement produced with no audience intended. Call it art for art’s sake, and my imagery is consequently like none other, most in fact being one of a kind. My creative endeavors grew from a literary background, a masters in English in fact, but it was limitless photo possibilities that captured my imagination. I sent my black and white film through my camera twice to produce double exposure imagery I excitedly printed in my dark room.

I enjoyed pen and ink drawing, too, and I did hundreds of them. I also began drawing my characters directly on my printed photos. I even photographed outdoor scenes in my hometown El Paso, and with large skies, I drew my abstracted figures on my cityscapes. My resulting book is entitled “El Paso: a Hoverview.”

When modelling my sculpture, I aesthetically form faces within faces, and my caricatures are atop my larger recognizable form. It’s a unique conscious subconscious style that I’ve pursued for many years. My sculpture is a personal, child-like involvement whereby I play with my soft oil-based clay, and it’s like toying with mud so to speak. My sculpture story is tongue-in-cheek and entitled “Gods for Future Religions.” Who knows how and where my bronzes will travel in the years to come?

I made sculptures large and small over more than 20 years, easily more than 100 different pieces. There was no holding back my passion to model and cast three dimensional figures. Once with a mold, I’d often cast the figure in three different materials, too, all in bronze but in white cement, too, and occasionally in resin, a plastic type substance.
I made groupings of my sculptures: full forms, heads, reliefs and even small sets such as this one I called my Lizard Series, being of four different ‘lizard’ figures. Notice one of the bronzes is missing in this picture, sold, and also one of the very thin resin lizards seen in the picture, also previously sold. With acrylic colors, I unconventionally highlighted the remaining lizards with human features.
An entire set of the ‘bronze’ lizards, all four were donated to the Keystone Heritage Park on Doniphan in El Paso. Near Keystone’s entrance notice the tiny figures on the boulder in the center of the setting. They’re my little lizards, beautifully anchored on the boulder’s four sides and photographed in their setting by Kerry Ann. For me, I’m excited to have added this sweet touch to this fascinating natural botanical garden open to the public. My Lizards each follow ….

I am opening my studio to sell my remaining artworks, my sculptures, drawings, books, and assemblages. Art prices range from less than $100 for my drawings, books and assemblages to much more for my cast bronze sculptures. Cast stone works of course cost less.

This will be done by appointment only so in order to schedule an appointment, please complete the form at the link provided, and I’ll call you to work out the viewing details.

The appointment scheduling form follows: https://forms.gle/wJYxCXS7KkkqEbaj6

My sculpture is a clay give and take intuitive procedure, and the details develop without pre-conceptions. My art is a gut-like statement produced with no audience intended. Call it art for art’s sake, and my imagery is consequently like none other, most in fact being one of a kind.

My creative endeavors grew from a literary background, a masters in English in fact, but it was limitless photo possibilities that captured my imagination. I sent my black and white film through my camera twice to produce double exposure imagery I excitedly printed in my dark room.

I enjoyed pen and ink drawing, too, and I did hundreds of little drawings. I also began drawing my characters directly on my printed photos. I even photographed outdoor scenes in my hometown El Paso, and with large skies, I drew my abstract figures on my cityscapes. My resulting book is entitled “El Paso: A Hoverview.”

When modelling my sculpture, I aesthetically form faces within faces, and my caricatures are atop my larger recognizable form. It’s a unique conscious, subconscious style that I’ve pursued for many years. My sculpture is a personal, child-like involvement whereby I play with my soft oil-based clay, and it’s like toying with mud so to speak. My sculpture story is tongue-in-cheek and entitled “Gods for Future Religions.” Who knows how and where my bronzes will travel in the years to come?

Seven of my cast stone (white cement) sculptures were delivered by the Kohler Foundation and installed behind El Paso’s Archeological Museum on Transmountain Road. I’m so flattered museum director Sebastian Ribas-Normand asked for my work for permanent exhibition.
My style of roughly modeled imagery, faces within faces, has a timeless quality about it, seemingly of a culture long passed. My work, particularly here in black and white, depicts the sculptures as weather-worn artifacts of an ancient civilization. Future talking, the sculptures may still be there when the city is gone, and my figures and the freeways will be remnants of years passed.
Some time, any time on Transmountain, stop by to say hello to my kids since they're like none other. Gate is closed, park and walk around it.

The curator of Roswell’s Art Museum, Aaron Wilder, visited my art opening at the El Paso Art Museum more than a year ago. He wrote me the following note soon after, and I’m just answering him now: “One thing I thought was unbelievable when we visited your exhibition at the EPMA was that you are a self-taught artist in the field of bronze sculpture. How does one teach themselves to sculpt in bronze?! The very idea boggles my mind!” Here’s my story, Aaron.

Art’s a passion like cooking, gardening, making music, dancing, writing, reading, but good luck getting paid for any of these, especially if you’re breaking norms.

While a librarian in Philly in the late 70s, I took a night course in sculpture in an art school. In a couple months, students clay modeled a small reclining figure then a head. We made flexible molds of our pieces, then we cast plaster into the molds, positive to negative back to positive. The process and end result intrigued me, so when I returned to El Paso the following year, I enrolled in sculpture courses at UTEP for some semesters where I learned the foundry process, the foundry there now defunct.

I discovered Vladimar’s Art Foundry in Juarez and had scores of my bronzes cast there over many years, more involved in the foundry process there. It’s the same process dentists use in making teeth, plastic bumpers are made for cars, anything plastic, etc., positive to negative back to positive. That great instructor in Philly turned me onto the process, and I’ve since modeled and cast over 100 works.

My cast figurative sculpture breaks newish ground in surrealism. My characters are timeless and primitive like, and they tell a story. I start with a form then randomly but aesthetically cover it with my imagery, giving and taking, like playing with mud. My camera duplicates reality, while my modelling in clay forms 3D imagery that exists but can’t, like bygone figurative forms from civilizations of the past.

I’ve sold small sculptures, but I’ve donated all my life-size works in what seems a geographic arc around El Paso. Long ago I gave ‘A Novel Romance’ to the El Paso Public Library, and later I donated to Las Cruces, Silver City, Albuquerque and Roswell. Neighboring Georgetown and Round Rock near Austin also display my large figures, a result of frequent visits to the Texas Society of Sculptors there.

Kohler Foundation recently found my sculpture worthy of museum preservation, and El Paso’s Museum of Art and El Paso’s Archeology Museum both have my work via the Foundation. Recently, so do Odessa and Midland’s art museums have my sculptures. ‘Kohler Foundation is committed to the preservation of art environments and important collections. It encompasses … art preservation, art environments and important collections, grants, scholarships and the performing arts.’

My art and style grew as I aged, intuitive and imaginative, of faces within faces, from photography into drawing into 3D outsider figurative forms in cast stone and bronze. My figures are primitive, naïve and fluid like, excessive and complex with no negative space, tribal maybe, unreal, cosmic and baroque. While the camera duplicates reality, my intricate characters depict an alternative tale, reflective of what Karl Jung called the universal collective unconscious.

I’m a satirist, and I collectively label my bronzes “Gods for Future Religions,” and it’s also the satiric title of my book and my story. My bronze characters will one day take on biblical like roles as a Ho religion grows across the continents. Signed only by ‘Ho,’ worldwide speculations and resonating chants will ring loud: ’Ho the hell is who?’

'The Distortionists' was picked up the other day by the Kohler Foundation, a dramatic event, destination uncertain. Where the guys will land, nobody knows so Chapter 2 follows!

Hello ALL! My exhibit at the El Paso Art Museum will be closing the end of this week. The museum is open Wed-Sat then all comes home, and its unlikely I'll be re-opening my gallery. My garden will of course remain open for a while, that is unless the big works in the garden find a new home. If you haven't stopped by, please do!!!!! The short critique attached is an interesting intro to my passion for creating sculpture intuitively.
https://southwestcontemporary.com/ho-barons-50-year-retrospective-of-outsider-art-in-el-paso/

https://www.theprospectordaily.com/2022/09/20/meet-ho-baron-the-artist-behind-gods-for-future-religions/

Meet Ho Baron: The artist behind ‘Gods for Future Religions’ There are many words to describe the sculptures made by Ho Baron. Eerie, elegant, bizarre and beautiful are just a few that capture the true essence of his work. Born in Chicago in 1941, Baron moved to El Paso as a young child and considers the city his home. Throughout his life he has made...

Nice article in UTEP's school newspaper, front page, readable story insider tales lifted from my 'Gods for Future Religions' mild harangue, ironically no mention of my this evening's opening at the EP Museum of Art.

Meet Ho Baron: The artist behind ‘Gods for Future Religions’ There are many words to describe the sculptures made by Ho Baron. Eerie, elegant, bizarre and beautiful are just a few that capture the true essence of his work. Born in Chicago in 1941, Baron moved to El Paso as a young child and considers the city his home. Throughout his life he has made...

Announcing … a public invitation to all this fall to the El Paso Museum of Art. See 100s of my drawings, paintings, multiple exposure photos, and dozens of the Ho sculptures of all sizes. In fact and fiction, the performance of my ‘Gods for Future Religions’ is like none other. The show is accompanied by Salvador Dali’s traveling prints of the Dante’s Divine Comedy, and it opens Sept. 22 for four months.

Gods for Future Religions - El Paso Museum of Art Ho Baron, One, 1994. Bronze, 67 x 22 x 16 in. El Paso Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 2009.6. Photograph by Marty Snortum.