Damian Priour Biography
Austin, Texas, artist, Damian Priour, best known for his elegant sculptures created from limestone and glass, passed away on September 15 at age 61 after a long battle with cancer. A seventh generation Texan, Priour was born on Padre Island, where the Gulf tides and weather became an influence on his artistic career. In the 1970s Priour made his first sculpture from fossil-laced native Texas limestone and glass. Priour writes, “In my sculpture, glass becomes a metaphor for water. It alternatively pools in rivulets and in powerful current flows that join together to carve up immense slabs of limestone.”
Priour received a B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1972 and completed studies in design at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. His work has been exhibited and collected throughout the world, including the Corning Museum of Glass; Columbus Museum of Art; Blanton Art Museum, Austin; City of Austin Convention Center; Corpus Christi International Airport. It is in the corporate collections at McDonald’s World Headquarters and Equitable Company, New York; as well as private collections. He has taught classes at the Pilchuck Glass.
