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…
Bill Davenport
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Ironically, I ran into Mark Flood at the SUITS show, like the ghost of Banquo turning up at supper to remind the Art Guys where the body’s buried. In 1991…
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As usual, I spent last Saturday looking at art. First, I went to the MFAH to see the Cos Cob Art Colony show, because my great-grandfather ran a boatyard there…
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Note from the eds: This was the first “thread” of discussion on Glasstire responding to something we published, and inspired us to launch the longstanding Message Boards. – January 2007…
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It’s a good-looking show.
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Moody’s glass-walled back room is perfect for Hilary Harnischfeger’s kooky, glitter-laden installation, Ni Chomei. Named after a street in Japan where she lived as a child, the show mixes the…
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Spirited, energetic, and well executed, The Sweet Girls: Idleness and Mischief at Lawing Gallery isn’t great art, but it is great fun.
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Even the title is too good to be true. Like a sweaty, over-hearty handshake, Miller’s show has a faked exuberance covering desperation. Each painting is captioned with an effusive compliment…
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As the first paragraph of the Menil’s brochure mentions, Tanguy’s paintings have been criticized for their uniformity.
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Brad Tucker’s Drum Solos show at Inman Gallery is part kindergarten playroom, part bandstand.
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Usually it’s easy to see where an artist is coming from; good work states the artist’s viewpoint clearly, bad work mostly falls into some recognizable category. Parody is the exception.…
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Spring is in the air; DiverseWorks” Big as Texas show mixes new work from new artists and some peppy contributions from the usual suspects. Refreshing. Despite the inevitable peaks and…
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Uta Barth’s simultaneous shows at the CAM and Lawing Gallery present a comprehensive retrospective of her work for the past ten years. The two shows are complementary; the five painting/photo…
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Last Saturday I was in San Antonio, and here’s what I saw:
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The just-closed Core Fellows 2001 show at the Glassell School was a Core circus: sound, video, performance, or movement featured in six of the eight Core Fellows’ works. In Duncan…
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The new Live Oak Friends Meeting House has a rectangular hole in its ceiling, through which the changing sky is seen. The hole and the room it’s in are Skyspace,…
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Summer is here: having been beaten to the punch reviewing Dario Robleto’s simultaneous CAM and Inman Gallery shows, and with the most recent round of shows on Colquitt St. a…
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Colorforms were fun: sticky vinyl shapes in bright colors one could adhere to a shiny black board to make glowing hard-edged images. A precursor to the computer paint program, they…
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I confess: I myself show at Inman Gallery, so if you feel that this invalidates my opinion of other work shown there, you can stop reading now.
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Pleasurscape, Karim Rashid’s installation at Rice University Art Gallery, is a grid of glistening white plastic modules on the floor of an intensely orange room. Each module is studded with…