Summer is most often a down time for galleries in Texas, shirking the usual solo shows of their roster in favor of group shows of new talent. Expectedly, these shows…
Review
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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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Make love, not war: Even as young Americans proudly advertised that mantra on their person more than 30 years ago, some of their peers knew that equally as many people…
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Sometimes you got to give credit where credit is due. Though the McKinney Avenue Contemporary still occasionally holds some curious exhibitions as sister shows to those at Pillsbury Peters Fine…
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Dave Hickey is right: beauty counts. No matter how important a statement art makes, first and foremost, it has to be visually compelling. Only then do you need to decide…
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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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Response to Bill Davenport's Tire Iron 8: Live Oak Friends Meeting House
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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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Ask a random sample of Americans what theme best expresses life at the dawn of this 21st century, and chances are they’ll respond with some pre-packaged cliché — the age…
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The work of New York-based, British artist Matthew Ritchie propels his audience into familiar yet foreign universes. Using a combination of paintings and drawings on canvas and walls to create…