Author: Lucia Simek

http://paperweightblog.blogspot.com

Lucia is an artist and writer based in Dallas. She is a frequent contributor to D Magazine's arts blog, FrontRow and a contributing editor and art adviser for D Home. She is also a founding member of the The Art Foundation, a Dallas-based artist collective that formed as an investigative endeavor that aims to cultivate artistic dialogue through concise critical and aesthetic explorations in the form of exhibitions, interventions and the written word. She is currently pursuing her MFA in sculpture at Texas Christian University.

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Matias Faldbakken at the Power Station

Walking through the first floor of Matias Faldbakken’s exhibit, Oslo, Texas, at the Power Station is an exhilarating hazard — spent bullets are strewn all over the [...]

Matias Faldbakken at the Power Station

Forrest Bess 100 Years at Kirk Hopper

So, remember how a few weeks ago I wrote about how Dallas galleries need to mount more shows with: ”contemporary work by a handful of emerging [...]

Forrest Bess 100 Years at Kirk Hopper

How to Raise the Bar on Dallas’ Scene?

Last week, a Facebook friend of mine — an artist living in Dallas whom I’ve never actually met – caught my attention when he posted this on Facebook [...]

Thomas Demand's show at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

An homage to Gaffes and Informations at FWCA

Gaffes and Informations at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts features the singular and collaborative work of Kevin Todora and Jeff Zilm. Enter dim gallery. Startled by digital [...]

An homage to Gaffes and Informations at FWCA

Local fare at the Nasher (shop)

I recently learned that the gals who run the Nasher Sculpture Center’s store, Heidi Smith and Carolyn Spinelli, have been showing work by local artists [...]

work by Jonathan Cross, on view in the Nasher store during the Tony Cragg exhibit

Au Naturale: New Texas Talent 2011

This year, New  Texas Talent at Craighead-Green Gallery, juried by Marcie Inman, Director of Exhibitions for the Irving Arts Center, has the odor of a world [...]

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