Love Public Art
The new terminal at Dallas Love Field Airport is now open to the public, and with it a new collection of public art. The Love Field Art Program unveiled seven new commissions last week. Four additional pieces will be installed over the summer. The Love Field Art Program is part of the modernization of the [...]
Spring Into Art
The Dallas Art Dealers Association is proud to present its annual DADA Spring Gallery Walk April 18–20, 2013, featuring thirty-five of DADA’s leading member galleries, museums, and nonprofit art spaces. The three-day event includes Panel Discussions, a Gallery Walk, DADA Docents [...]
Maximum Overdrive
Every once and awhile you have to get a little outrageous. Tone down the seriousness, take a break from the theoretical, throw back a few beers and just let things be awesome… like an awful 80s movie kind of awesome. This is exactly the kind of excess Kevin Todora and friends have served up at [...]
FRESH FRIDAY ART: Whimsical Use of the Line
Holly Johnson Gallery is the site for Sharon Louden: Simple Strokes, an exhibition of recent painting, sculpture and animation by the celebrated New York artist. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 6, from 6:00-8:00 pm. The exhibition continues through June 22. For nearly twenty years, the common denominator and backbone of Louden’s [...]
Panoptics
Impressive works require sensible aspects that either allure or intrigue, and a conceptual couching that enhances or plays upon those sensible aspects. Put another way: you walk in and immediately enjoy or are pleasantly perplexed by what you see, and then, as you start to discuss it, think about it, maybe read some literature [...]
Urban Explosion
The colors, grit, and spirit of San Francisco provide the foundation for its native Barry McGee’s extraordinary artistic arsenal. With the freedom of the moniker Twist, McGee celebrated the disestablishmentarian mentality of the Mission District. “Tagging is a way of letting a lot of people know you exist, similar to how corporations do massive ad [...]
Annual Art Fair Weekend
At the ripe old age of five, the Dallas Art Fair is becoming as sure a sign of April in Texas as wildflowers blooming along the highways – albeit one with a more contemporary edge. More than 80 galleries representing cities from Miami to Milan will set up shop April 12-14 in the Fashion Industry [...]
Uncharted Frontiers
An interview with photographer Frank Rodick Acclaimed Canadian photographer Frank Rodick is a man who examines the dark underside of the human psyche fearlessly, and with an honesty that is as mordant as it is refreshing. He first began his explorations while working as a therapist in his adopted home city of Toronto. In this [...]
The Big Picture
Big Pictures, on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art until April 21, is a splendid opportunity to parse our emotional — and, therefore, psychological — relationships with large-scale images. As the museum’s press materials point out, many people believe that a movement toward out-sized prints is a new phenomenon; however, that’s not [...]
Art Preview: Kathy Boortz
Kathy Boortz developed her affection for the natural world early in life, spending carefree summers on her parents’ dude ranch in Kerrville, Texas. During the school year she was an introverted shy child in Houston, but from Memorial Day through Labor Day she led an idyllic life roaming the hills, riding horses, swimming, and playing [...]
