FRESH FRIDAY: Kristen Cochran
Kristen Cochran wants to speak in tongues. This might not be apparent at first, but as you spend more time with her work you realize that she’s not merely experimenting with and synthesizing materials, she’s also intuiting a lexicon of private iconography. Her latest show, “stutter slip stack,” at Wanda Dye’s RE gallery, offered an [...]
Review: Henry Finkelstein
Explosions of color and expression are de rigueur for the work of painter Henry Finkelstein. His fifth solo exhibition at Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden in north Dallas opened last weekend with their annual garden party and runs throughout May. What better place to see gorgeous art than Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden [...]
Eye of the Beholder
Cindy Sherman is arguably the preeminent living photographer in contemporary art history and, on March 17, the Dallas Museum of Art opened its latest blockbuster exhibition, a retrospective of Sherman’s work, which will run through June 9, 2013. Dallas is the final stop for Cindy Sherman, which premiered at The Museum of Modern Art, New [...]
Top Honors
Finding a venue to show one’s work is a challenge for any visual artist. Nine young artists at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts recently received such an opportunity from Lola Lott, the CEO and Co-Founder, with Jack Waldrip, of charlieuniformtango, one of the [...]
The Women’s Movement
Galleri Urbane’s current show, Allie Pohl’s Ideal Woman, is more than meets the eye. Upon first glance it struck me as a show so entrenched in our current vacuous culture that I was tempted to dismiss it. I was wrong. I met Pohl and struck up a conversation that made it quite clear that she [...]
Exploring an Odyssey
In 1977, Romare Bearden (1911-1988), one of the most powerful and original artists of the 20th century, created a series of collages and watercolors based on Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. Rich in symbolism and allegorical content, Bearden’s Odyssey series created an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African American culture. The works conveyed a [...]
SMU’s Spanish Art Symposium
On May 1-2, 2013, the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University will bring together an international panel of museum professionals and university professors to lead a symposium titled “From the Other Shore: Narratives and Perspectives on Spanish & Latin-American Art.” The aim of the symposium is to analyze the various ways in which ideas and [...]
DMA’s Poetic New Work
The Dallas Museum of Art has recently acquired an early work by the French painter Guillaume Guillon Lethière (1760–1832), one of the first major artists of African descent in the history of European art. The painting, Erminia and the Shepherds, was shown at the Salon of 1795 in Paris [...]
Review: Roger Winter
Venerable artist Roger Winter shows new oil portraits and a decade or more of collage and photomontage works at Kirk Hopper Fine Art this month. His ease working in various media and with various levels of abstraction is demonstrated beautifully. The show contains three large new [...]
New Gallery Opens
Dallas has another new art space in Deep Ellum. Liliana Bloch, the former director of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) and later gallery director for Kirk Hopper Fine Art, swung open the doors of her own gallery last week. The gallery’s its inaugural exhibition [...]
