Chalk it Up to Creativity
New York-based artist Gary Simmons is known for his “erasure” technique, which he began using in the early 1990s. Initially creating semi-erased works with chalk on blackboards, the artist has evolved to works on paper, paint on canvas, and murals that mimic smudged chalk. The resulting blurred and ghostly images often refer to intersections of [...]
Read MorePainting of All Excuses
When the gallery is quiet, after the buzz of the show is over, the art hangs in poetic contradiction. The muted tones with the absence of brush stroke juxtapose the vibrant painterly works which, just hours earlier, brought everyone together in conversation and fellowship. Thus is currently the scene in Deep Ellum, where “Painting of [...]
Read MoreArt as Home Life
For husband and wife visual artist team Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen, art is a family affair, where their work draws upon the rich Fluxus practice of incorporating humor, performance, video, and everyday objects. “Fluxus was a movement where people could make the ordinary very extraordinary. Mary coined the term ‘Suburban Fluxus,” says Stephan Hillerbrand. [...]
Read MoreREVIEW: Scottie Parsons
Scottie Parsons: Selected Works From The Artist’s Estate 1925-2011 Currently on view at William Campbell Contemporary Art is the life work of Texas artist Scottie Parsons, Selected Works From The Artist’s Estate (1925-2011). Carrying the vestiges of the likes of Ellen Frankenthaler and Richard Diebenkorn, Parsons dedicated her life to the field of abstraction, using [...]
Read MoreREVIEW: Randy Twaddle, New Drawings
Art has many purposes and distinctions. The most significant recurring theme states that There Is Beauty To Be Found In All Things. Houston artist Randy Twaddle has elegantly reminded us to keep looking, with his new work at the Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas. Jewel thieves and snipers know that most people rarely look up. [...]
Read MoreReview: Archie Scott Gobber – “What I Meant to Say”
The work at Marty Walker Gallery is sometimes refreshing and sometimes soporific. Archie Scott Gobber’s show, “What I Meant to Say,” unfortunately falls into the latter category. It’s so bleak that, sadly, the most virtuosic thing about the show is the gallery’s press release. Rather than stay tethered to reality, I wish I could attend [...]
Read MoreReview: Mary Vernon Paintings
Mary Vernon Paintings is a large, luxurious collection of recent drawings and paintings from the prolific artist and long-time SMU faculty member. It is likely the most joyously colorful show of paintings you’ll see all year. Vernon’s work is all of these wonderful things at once [...]
Read MoreThe Meaning of Life
Ann Glazer is a New York and Dallas-based artist intrigued by the unconscious. Her installation, Wellhead, now showing at Kirk Hopper Fine Art, includes a little of everything from narrative to collage to video, creating a single piece. The gallery describes the experiences as [...]
Read MorePoetry by Design
Pablo Picasso renders twenty portraits to accompany sonnets by the Spanish poet Luis de Gongora y Argote On view this fall is Vingt Poëmes (Twenty Poems), Pablo Picasso’s tribute to arguably one of Spain’s greatest poets, Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627). The exhibit [...]
Read MoreReview: The 99 Names of God
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas November 3-December 8, 2012 The 99 Names of God is a collaborative social commentary art project by artists Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet. Much of the show is comprised of 5 large and intricate bird’s eye view drawings of US airports. These, we learn, are the airports used by terrorists [...]
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