Bruce Houston is an American Postwar & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1937. Their work was featured in an exhibition at the Barry Whistler Gallery. Bruce Houston’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $750 USD to $5,625 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Nationality: American

Bruce has been truckin’ along with art for 25 years or so, but he never thought he would be delivered by miniature trucks with Mondrian trailers.

“Mondrian saved me, and I feel very grateful,” he said, standing amid his show of improbable truck sculptures at the Jan Baum Gallery. “I’d been so down. I hadn’t really worked for a year and a half, but I didn’t tell anyone. I had lost my passion really, and I was devastated by it.”

An assemblagist with a rare gift for constructing epiphanies of plastic toys and cake decorations, Houston decided he needed a rest from the struggles of making a living as an artist. What he really needed was to open his eyes to the organized chaos of his pack-rat’s studio.

As a poet of plastic, a teller of large truths based on small throwaways, he had accumulated mounds of raw materials. Among the tiny brides and grooms, flamingos, soldiers, cigarette lighters and colored candies awaiting marriages with other foundlings in some yet-to-be-created assemblage, was a batch of toy truck cabs.