Things Come To Light: Rolando López, “Dark After Art”
This is activist art of the best sort. The overall effect is one of incantation, vigil and ritual.
Altered States, Part Four
The abstract truth of “driving through America” has fundamentally shifted in the 14 months since I was on the road gathering photographic material for the project.
Comes To Light: Rolando López, ‘Dark After Art’
I’m going to stop right there. Please stop reading and go.
Jesse Amado: Becoming
Amado's fascination with felt has been like a slow-drip I.V. as determined by his daily engagement with process—a certain amount each day is enough when it is all you do.
Altered States, Part Three
It’s an interesting undertaking, to set out on what you are doing without knowing what it is.
Altered States, Part Two
The unseen possibility lies like a snake that has swallowed a yard stick, pointing due north as would a prophecy, or the lost needle of a compass.
Altered States, Part One
It’s a true paradox: objects and events get larger under indirect observation, as if memory and imagination were themselves the sixth sense.
Glasstire Series Debut: Hills Snyder’s “Altered States”
The introduction of a new travelogue serial narrative by San Antonio artist Hills Snyder.
An Interview With Bryson Brooks
"I live in a world that cannot afford the luxury of progress. There are so few homes where the buffalo roam that they discontinued the nickel."
Jesse Amado: “30 Day RX”
Jesse Amado calls on many forms and precedents for his current show — Pop art, Minimalism, Color Field painting, Conceptual art—as well as his recent experiences with illness and treatment.
What A Cowboy Can Reveal
A telling image of a young Doug sitting on the bumper of a 1941 Buick Roadmaster holding his Gibson ES175: he’s already brimming with confidence and charisma — He knew he had it.
Panhandle South Plains Laissez-faire
Just two weeks ago, it was reported in the Wall Street Journal (Sunday, Jan 3 -4, p. D11), that “Text as Decor” is, as of now, passé. Not that Jeff Wheeler and Maisie Alford care.
Until That Goodbye
The remains of sea urchins and lost vinyl LPs become memorials to lost signals, disappearing space probes, fading heartbeats in Dario Robleto’s installation at the Menil Collection.
Wish What You Watch For
Chris Sauter, like Jesus, invites you to stick your hand in a hole. His inter-related projects examine the false dichotomies between religion and science.
The Real Thing: Ivor Shearer at ArtPace
Hills Snyder visits Ivor Shearer's haunting real world re-shooting of The Road: "You are left with that which cannot be escaped. And it follows you out the door."
Gary Sweeney: How To Disarm Just About Anyone
1. What’s your favorite merit badge? My favorite merit badge was the “Fingerprinting” badge, which I’m sure they don’t even have anymore. My father was...Read More
“Silence” at the Menil Collection
The Program Will Begin Shortly… Silence is Toby Kamps’ first major exhibition at The Menil Collection since becoming curator of modern and contemporary art two...Read More
Something This Way Comes: Randy Wallace’s “Postdimensionalman”
I’m a lucky guy. I’ve already outlived Doc Holliday by twenty-four years and just the other day I came upon a new Randy Wallace piece,...Read More
Flying Around In The Rain (for Chuck Ramirez)
Just days after Chuck Ramirez’s death in early November 2010, Glasstire approached me to write a remembrance of him. My first impulse was that this...Read More
“Matthew Ronay: Between The Worlds” at Artpace
For The Trees Matthew Ronay’s Between The Worlds, at the Hudson (Show)Room, Artpace, appears alternately rooted and nomadic. Yurt, grotto, hall of mirrors, night wood,...Read More
