Carefully edited views of the familiar, this time in far West Texas, courtesy of Dallas-based photographer Allison V. Smith.
May 2014
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From James Magee, the man behind the iconoclastic The Hill in far West Texas, come discreet minimalist objects made of different colored scraps of car steel. Curated by Rick Brettell.
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“The artist reemerges from obscurity into Corsicana, Texas, with infrastructure-dreams about our successors: relief maps of Ur Dallas abstracted from the concrete.” Hot diggety!!
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Myers‘ fantastical biomorphic/celestial drawings hearken to those of Lee Bontecou.
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Better than most is Rachel Cox‘s series of photographs of county fairs, livestock shows, and agricultural competitions throughout the southeast.
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Large scale photographic collages by Tim Best.
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Works by Erica Wickett that represent a map of her thoughts as she “engages, actively processes, and remembers her mental state in phases of internal conflict.”
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Unchopping a Tree was published this year by Trinity University Press. Ward’s delicate silverpoint drawings are strongly informed by natural history and the environmental crisis, making her a natural choice…
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NEXT 2014 is the major exhibition of PrintHouston, the annual summer-long celebration of original prints, the artists who create them, and the people who collect them.
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Lovely, delicate installations of hand-colored and hand torn intaglio prints on Loktah paper by Jill Parisi.
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An interesting and unexpected grouping of printers and mid-career/established Texas artists, including Brian Curling, Francesca Fuchs, Aaron Munoz, Gissette Padilla, Tanja Softic, Julie Speed, James Surls, Takeshi Takahara and Karl Umlauf. Curated by Techang.
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New works from Nicole Charbonnet and Rosemary Barile, both of whom work and rework the surfaces of their paintings to create a faded effect.
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Large format black and white photos taken in Dallas and Austin in the 1980s and 1990s, creating a portrait of the denizens of punk, rockabilly, gothic, riot girl, dance clubs…
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New prints and collages from the Austin-based artist and poet.
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Works by Raul Gonzalez & Julon Pinkston that either use everyday materials such as bits of plastic, cardboard, and duct tape, or replicate those materials using acrylic paint to show…
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A group show focusing on the theme of endings, as artists look at life and death, relationships, and the apocalypse. Featuring works in a variety of media by Dwayne Carter,…
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With works in a variety of media by artists including Ansel Adams, Gustave Doré, Alexis Rockman and Spencer Tunick, Vanishing Ice considers diverse and stunning landscapes through art history within…
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“Victoria says, ‘The bed can represent an object of comfort and solace as well as a ritual marker for the passing of each night.’”