In 2004, siblings Amy and David Niles gifted nine works of art to the University of Texas at El Paso. The works were given to the Niles’ late father, who…
May 19, 2011
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Rigoberto A. Gonzalez paints hit men, Federales, dead bodies and other scenes from contemporary life on the border in the dark, moody style of that similarly violent era, the Italian…
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Candid black and white snaps of New Orleans jazz culture by French photographer Oan Kim, frontman for the rock band Film Noir. As a bonus, Kim will present a thirty…
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Hugo Garcia-Urrutia’s installation Making A Killing, curated by Charissa N. Terranova, reflects on the violent changes to Mexican society, drawing attention to the harrowing number of people that have been…
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Xiaoze Xie: Transient Memories is the artist’s first show with Dunn and Brown. 10 ink works on rice paper (go figure!) and one painting depict political events in China’s recent…
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Six monumental paintings from Fisher’s monumental thirty-year career: visions, revisions, typos and strikeovers give these early-ish pieces “a halting quality as if the product of an anguished mind.”
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Argentine-born master of mid-century kinetic art Luis Tomasello is having his fourth solo show at Sicardi Gallery, including a Chromoplastique Mural and some Atmosphère Chromoplastiques and Objet Plastiques created since…
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The legendary, monumental, stupefying and unbelievable, best, biggest, and most famous Art Car Parade in all the world is in Houston this weekend. Besides the parade itself, which runs along…
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Skin Freak, organized by art historian Frances Colpitt (who wrote the show’s illustrated catalog) includes finish-fetish paintings by four artists who craft seductive surfaces with elegantly refined textures, carefully honed…
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New York painter Jackie Gendel illustrates contemporary social life in urbane, sometimes witty paintings, loosely inspired by Fables in Slang, a book by turn of the (19th) century Twainish humorist…