You Had to Be There: Performance Art in the Age of Instant Dissemination
My collection is not a commentary on or criticism of performance art itself. I do not know anything more about these performances than the single image.
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Field Trip Dallas, Part 2
CentralTrak is one of the only university-backed residencies in Texas. With a steady gallery program, and a sense of community through constant creative activity, there is professional energy bubbling. -
The Art Barn’s Last Dance
This iconic and storied Houston art space ain’t going out without a bang. -
Jason Villegas: Salon Style
Lacoste, LeTigre and Louis Vuitton are his imaginary friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. -
Michael Sieben: It Will All Happen Again
Peppered with mischief, Sieben's skateboard ramp, clubhouse, and campfire pit explore the brink of childhood, when adolescents begin exploring a bigger, adventurous subculture.
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David Bates: Dual Retrospectives in Dueling Cities
It feels like a high-wire act; Bates' best works feel intuitive, almost accidental, because the accumulation of decades of experience has afforded him that leisure.
Ricky Yanas: Out of the Archive
By bringing these images and ideas to the present, the viewer is able to engage with a time when people saw political action as a tangible thing.
Women in Film, Dallas
Are women’s films still not receiving the same amount of attention as men’s?
Lux, Lumens, and Candelas: Adela Andea at WATW
Andea’s work has a powerful presence that sparks a sense of uneasiness that is washed down with a bit of self-discovery.
FOCUS: Fred Tomaselli
Having grown up in the shadow of Disneyland, Tomaselli transforms the everyday into landscapes of whimsy that are both cosmic and moody.
No Free Reading: Annabel Daou at Conduit Gallery
Daou just manages to steer clear of the saccharine, a quality that stalks elegance in general.
Interns on Video: Christina Macal
She wasn't hired as a security guard, but ended up as project assistant for the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive at the MFAH's Bayou Bend Collection.
Field Trip Dallas, Part 2
CentralTrak is one of the only university-backed residencies in Texas. With a steady gallery program, and a sense of community through constant creative activity, there is professional energy bubbling.
Vishal Jugdeo’s A Weight Dangles Above Your Head / A Shaky Picture Has No Weight
I walked into a conversation about the size of an undisclosed man's penis. Jugdeo's installation at the Lora Reynolds Gallery in downtown Austin is worth sticking around for.
DB14 at Oliver Francis
The exhibit was gratefully, blindingly, direct and free of pretense.
Lone Star Performance Explosion: Some of Night 2
Abel Azcona's Utero was far and away the most powerful piece I saw, but parts of it should not have happened.
Homemade Hollywood / Epic Childhood
One can’t help but think about the lives beneath the story and between the shots, and marvel at what must have been a sort of filmmaking Lord Of The Flies situation in the backyards of Gulfport throughout the 80s.
Morals Clause: Believe it Anyway! at McKinney Avenue Contemporary
There is nothing old hat about going to the Bible for source material. Certainly not the way Paul Bryan uses it.
Nathan Green at Art Palace
It’s akin to that moment in a sceney restaurant when you hear the fifth song that is also on your iPad and you realize…oh, they’re marketing to me.
The Art Barn’s Last Dance
This iconic and storied Houston art space ain’t going out without a bang.
Alexandra Grant: Century of the Self
An internal dialogue between the values Grant believes she's supposed to uphold and the internal thoughts that may or may not contradict them. The viewer is just listening in.
