Arty Facts - Robert Hoffman - Eugene McDermott
If you pick up a copy of today's Dallas Morning News you will see a cover story on the front page about the DMA and a few people who have donated their art collections to the Dallas Museum of Art. I love all things creative and so I picked up the paper and as I looked closer at the picture of one of the couples I realised, "I know them!". Much to my surprise it was Robert Hoffman, the same man that owns Custom Food Group, who used to own Coca-Coloa Distributing Southwest. And, if you have known me for very long then you know that I use to be the IT Manager for Custom Food Group. The crazy thing about being the IT Manager for Custom Food Group also meant that you were the computer gopher for the Hoffman's. The Hoffman's office is located on the 33rd floor of the Harwood Building in downtown Dallas. I used to have to go down and fix Mr. Hoffman's computer on occasion, he was rarely there, but I do remember some of his artwork. I remember quite vividly one painting of a guy that had been shot laying face down in a pool of blood. Then there was a large black and white photo that was enlarged to be about 5 foot by 5 foot of a clown giving some guy the finger, and if those two weren't bizarre enough, there was a 7 foot by 7 foot piece of art work that was nothing more than a bizarre paragraph about a man that got held up at a gas station, I remember that when I read it the first time I didn't get it, and I was shocked to see the word "shit" in a piece of "art".
I now work for Texas Instruments and Eugene McDermott was one of the founders of TI. He also has a library named after him at the University of Texas at Dallas - McDermott Library, and a street in Allen, Texas, McDermott Road. In our building there are some really cool pieces of art lining the hallways, I don't know that I would personally buy any of them, but it is nice that there is something hanging on the walls.
Hope you don't mind a little name dropping...
Love you.
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i used to work in a building that had this piece of art that was 3-D, and in the center was a naked baby, and surrounding the baby spelled out in a circle were the letters I T S A B O Y and from each letter little spider legs led to different possibilities of what the boy would grow up to be - an image of a businessman, a military man, a postal worker, etc.
it was really weird. i always wanted to knock it off the wall when i walked by.
The two of you have weirdo art in your workplace. Right now we have still lifes painted by the 4th - 6th graders on our walls and seascapes drawn by the 3rd graders. That's real art, no babies with spider legs or men in pools of blood. Someone in your companies is a mental breakdown waiting to happen.
i grew up in allen. our property backed up to old man mcdermott's.
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