To like Yrjo Edelmann’s paintings is to admit you’ve been suckered, but there it is; I like them.
Bill Davenport
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It’s her best show ever: gone are the half-obscured figures and cryptic, wiseass inscriptions; Hecker’s heart is on her sleeve. Loss, despair, anger, and confusion are spelled out in crystal…
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The first question with Agnes Martin is, are you a believer, or a dissenter?
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Rachel Ranta’s Pedestals is the first show in the revitalized and book-free Texas Gallery, and it’s good to see the best white cube in Houston fully functional once again. Ranta’s…
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Jeremy Blake’s abstract videos are more than just animated paintings.
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Fun and chaotic as a barrelful of monkeys, Slumber House is a series of installations in a flood damaged building next door to the Poissant Gallery in the West End.…
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Victor Brauner’s art is typical of a man driven by a personal vision rather than public perception. Brauner was thinking of his subject, the morphed and mutated human figure, and…
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Lawndale has got to be the busiest artspace around. With four simultaneous shows, it’s almost too much to see all in one visit.
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It’s Christmas again, time for many galleries to trot out their less expensive items in jumbled group shows titled Deck the Walls, Xmas Expo, etc. in hopes of sparking some…
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Public art rarely expresses public feelings, but two temporary works on Houston’s streets capture the spirit of the moment with disturbing clarity. September 11 left us all shocked and horrified,…
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The genius of Bernard Brunon and Jade Dellinger’s To The Trade exhibit at DiverseWorks is in adapting the trade show genre, designed to display information on business products and services,…
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The music we listen to defines our shared identities even more poignantly than the books we read. There is no more challenging question than the seemingly casual “what music do…
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Even from behind, I couldn’t mistake the stringy, leather-jacketed silhouette of Hills Snyder, watching the World Series at a bar in Terminal D. Turns out we were taking the same…
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Mixture, the new gallery owned by Dan Fergus of Brasil coffeehouse fame and directed by Paul Arensmeyer of Diverseworks fame, opened its inaugural show on Friday with flowers. Chuck Ramirez‘s…
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In East Gloucester, Massachusetts there is a shelf nailed to a telephone pole. A sign above it reads: TRADE HERE / NO CRAP. When I passed by last summer, there…
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Conceived in the placeless, idealized world behind the screen of a computer monitor, Engelstein’s works are closer in spirit to the harsh grid-based constructivism of Burgoyne Diller or Georges Vantongerloo…
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one saw; the other saw by Jennifer Steinkamp scintillates at the front of Rice Gallery like the portentous monolith in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Alaska, by Justin Kidd and Jeffry Mitchell is a low-budget theme park which uses Styrofoam, mirrored Plexiglas, and polyester batting to simulate a stage-set version of an icy wonderland.
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As someone who builds a lot of stuff, poorly, I have a technical interest in Jeff Shore’s works.
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Introducing Orilage by Monica Vidal rings Lawndale’s mezzanine gallery with a row of 6 cut paper swatches in gay floral colors. The unbroken line of similar pieces, all at eye…