The good old days come back to haunt us as father/son nostalgia-art duo Randy and Bryan Welborn capture life growing up in Beaumont during the 1950s for AMSET’s Café Arts…
Bill Davenport
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Sean FitzGibbons, son of Blue Star director Bill FitzGibbons, returns to San Antonio after a career in politics. His reclaimed-steel sculptures share Joan Grona Gallery with with Brianna Burnett‘s misty,…
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The first independent video documentary to delve into the work of the renegade 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo.
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Drawings and sculptural objects which employ modulation, progression, memory, erasure, and reference by Nicholas Wood. Mr. Wood is a professor of studio art at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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A music/potluck/dance/performance party beginning at 7pm at labotanica in Houston. From 7-9pm are music performances by Carlos Pozo, VRS, Damon Smith & Sandy Ewen, and bellydance by Y.E.Torres. From 9-11pm…
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The MFAH’s Ninth Annual Eleanor and Frank Freed Lecture brings Bill Arning, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, to offer insights into the work of Charles LeDray and the…
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Rino Pizzi had 16 Austin women artists practice smiling like the Mona Lisa, then photographed them in settings of their choice. Then the sitters made their own art pieces, based…
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University of Houston architecture students, challenged to design some practical, low-budget containers, display some startling results at PEEL Gallery: Jamie Tirpak and Aatique Shaikh’s wicked “grenade” packaging explodes design’s habitual…
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Drawings, prototypes, photographs, and objects illustrate the genius of earnest mid-century designers like Gilbert Rohde, Ray & Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Steve Frykholm, Bill Stumpf, Don…
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Randy Twaddle’s first solo show at Moody since 2005 marks the urban-scene lover’s return to gallery art after a long stint growing ttweak, a design and marketing firm which he…
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Tomorrows presents media artist Liz Rodda’s most recent videos, photographs, and sculptures, existentially musing on fate, control, free will, etc. In one piece, Triple Possibility, three filmed segments display different…
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Aurora Picture Show and the General Consulate of Colombia collaborate on a program of contemporary Colombian experimental video titled “El Gesto en el Momento (The Gesture in the Moment),” at…
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Austin artist Jamie Panzer, “through bizarre acts of synthesis and displacement,” makes artistic practice into a science experiment. Materials are dismantled and rearranged to manifest creations that have peculiar new…
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Slick, an animated short by Sabra Booth, satirizes the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf Coast. Though the film’s narrative follows actual events, a mixture…
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Modernism’s creation myth retold in 16 paintings and 20 works on paper by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
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A region-wide exhibition of works by Dallas lawyer-turned-junk-sculptor George Tobolowsky blankets the West Texas Triangle of Museums this summer: the Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa, the San Angelo Museum…
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Flow: Dalton Maroney 1982 – 2011 is a survey of 29 years of UTA professor’s work. 17 Pristinely crafted boat-like wooden sculptures from an avid fisherman who spends his summers…
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Will Henry re-contextualizes selections from his 2009 Devin Borden/Hiram Butler show in Houston at the Old Jail Art Center. Signs, stars, and little fires punctuate vacant plains and distant mountains…
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Informed by melancholic music and dystopian sci-fi films, Michael Guidry‘s semi-abstract, eerily clean paintings are generated via camera and computer to read as both geometric abstractions and fractured, alien landscapes.…
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Burning Flipside: Bad Idea is a regional art and music festival inspired by Burning Man. Crowds of “Flipizens” express themselves experiment with community building, lasers and other substances in an…