Title: Glossie Location: Whitney National Bank: Smith and Pease Artist: H.J. Bott Sponsor: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Glossie was inspired by a specific conceptual system that uses a given pattern to layout a quilt arrangement. The cow and the quilt are both symbolic of mid-America. Upon close inspection, one will realize that the patterning of the quilt itself has an overlay of stripes that continually alternate at the border of each of the quilt pattern fragments. These pattern fragments represent counties or governmental entities that are found to have their own color but in finite stripes that are separating the black and silver stripes. The stripes, per se, have to do with the fact that we are all of a different stripe. And, certainly, Glossie is of a different bovine stripe. The title, Glossie, is characteristic of the eyes that are patterned after an eye covering that Cleopatra wore when she was her glossiest. H.J. Bott’s work has been exhibited nationally and throughout Europe and Mexico for more than 50 years. He attended USC, NYU, Art Center School of Los Angeles and Art Students League of New York before living in Bamberg, Germany. He returned to New York and exhibited at David Findlay Gallery throughout the 1960s. He spent the 1970s on Galveston Island where he developed and brought to life Loft-on-Strand, a total artist’s atelier, the first such project on The Strand. He has exhibited in more than 100 solo exhibitions, hundreds of group shows, installations and ROBOTT performances. He will create a deep space/perspectives installation for International FOTOFEST in February at HCC-Northline and another in March 2002 at Pascal/Robinson Galleries.				This cow was sold in Flight 2 of the internet auction hosted by Amazon.com that ran from December 8 - 14, 2001. Send a Postcard

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