Seeing Red
It is 1958 and New York City is on the rise, literally and figuratively. With the influx of immigrants at the turn of the last century and the subsequent wave of artists and architects fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe, the cultural quotient of the city erupted exponentially. Mark Rothko belonged to this post-war generation of artists. He [...]
Get Looped
A 4,000 mile journey, a baby-smuggling clown and a post-modern Medea: Out of the Loop returns to Addison March 7-17, for 10 days of theater, dance, visual art and for the first time opera. This year’s “Loop” will be focused on local performing groups and host theater WaterTower Theatre will produce a mainstage show of [...]
Review: Jay Shinn
Minimalism is easy to enjoy. Such works, as privations of fussiness and excess, usually educe somewhat sublime responses. Somehow when an artist pairs simplicity of form with a sense of craft and staging, something smart steps forward. And Jay Shinn’s show, “Highlight,” at Marty Walker Gallery, carries on this tradition nicely. It ought to be [...]
Review: Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine”
While some works are made with a wide audience in mind, others are addressed toward smaller communities, like fellow artists. And for both better and worse the content and presentation of Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine,” in the Project Room at Conduit Gallery [...]
The Price of Beauty
Because of the caliber of the Nasher Sculpture Center, it is one of the three museums in this country — and the only sculpture museum — to host Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, featuring over 100 of Price’s sensual, brilliantly colored and exquisitely finished ceramic sculptures. The show ends May 12. In its close to [...]
Ken Price Sculpture
Nine hundred enthusiastic art lovers filled the Nasher Sculpture Center last week for a “grand” opening well worth the attention. For many months to come, visitors will be treated to Ken Price’s highly imaginative sculptures gracing the entrance and displayed in the first floor galleries and down the stairs in the gallery below. The Nasher’s [...]
Review: Michael Miller “Out of Commerce”
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas The MAC’s Square Gallery Show – Michael Miller: Out of Commerce – is a colorful cartoon-filled room of happiness. Michael’s work generously reaches out to draw you in and reassure you that whatever you see, it’s O.K. His technique is loose and repetitive; made decorative with squares of fabric attached [...]
Review: Jennifer & Matthew Guest
Jennifer and Matthew Guest: Doing Wrong Right Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas January 12 – February 24, 2013 Cracked Magazine, Garbage Pail Kids, and an ebullient colorful technique all come together as fine art in El Centro professor Matthew Guest’s paintings at Mighty Fine Arts in Oak Cliff this month. Matthew’s style involves thousands of brush [...]
Review: “Environs”
Cohn Drennan Gallery, Dallas “Environs” presents the work of three artists and it’s readily apparent that one is wholly unique and, in fact, outstrips the other two. Put bluntly, Ron Clark and Betty Sewell work on large canvases that are muted and unremarkable. They’re not shocking; they’re not lucent. They offer no spark or burn. [...]
Review: Victor Vasarely
“Optical Spaces: The Art of Victor Vasarely” MADI Museum, Dallas Victor Vasarely, who was born and died in Paris (1906-1997), founded Op Art (or Optical Art), a style based on optical illusions, always geometric and abstract. His work shows how this style is intentionally related to how vision functions in the use of vibrating pattern, [...]
