Bruce Lee Webb
American
American, b. 1966
Bruce Lee Webb has been a very prolific artist since the early 1980s and is an important figure in contemporary Texas art, not only as an artist, but researcher, collector, and artist promoter/champion. Webb incorporates his love of hobo lore, train graffiti, folk traditions, and music to create works of art. Often executed on materials that had former lives as book pages, bed linens, tarps, and musical scores, he creates “memory vessels” to expose others to his eclectic interests. Webb’s extensive travels to visit Southern folk and visionary artists have had a profound influence on his personal style and approach to image making. Webb is a researcher and collector of fraternal lodge art and co-authored the book As Above So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society with Lynne Adele and published by University of Texas Press. Webb grew up in Dallas where in the 1980s he discovered the skateboarding and punk rock scenes. He and his wife Julie co-own Webb Gallery in downtown Waxahachie, TX and Webb's Fair and Square in Fort Davis, TX.