Charmaine Locke

Charmaine Locke was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1950 to an Air Force family that moved to Okinawa, California, and eventually Bangkok, Thailand. Her family later moved from Boston, Massachusetts, to Bethesda, Maryland, and then to Dallas, Texas, where Locke received her B.A. in Psychology from Southern Methodist University in 1974.

Her move to Splendora, Texas, in 1976, with artist James Surls, was pivotal. Located near the Houston art scene, Splendora provided the setting in which Locke developed her artistic language. She exhibited widely throughout Texas and nationally, as well as internationally at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing; the Museo de la Nación in Lima, Peru; and in Baroda and Delhi, India.

In 1997, she and her family relocated from Texas to Basalt, Colorado, later building a home and studio near Carbondale, Colorado. She has exhibited her sculpture, drawings, and prints at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado; Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado; the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado.

Locke’s work can be found in public collections, including the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado; the City of Corpus Christi in Texas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in Houston, Texas; Republic Bank in Houston, Texas; and the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work is also held in private collections ranging from Laguna Beach, California, to Providence, Rhode Island, and Aspen, Colorado.