Contemporary Texas Prints
El Paso Museum of Art
March 31 through September 15, 2013
West Texas
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Ongoing
Gene Flores: Proverbios and Dichos Chicanos
Last Chance - January 6 through May 26, 2013
Whimsical and surreal visualizations of traditional Chicano proverbs or sayings by the El Paso native printmaker.
Rashid Johnson: New Growth
March 8 through June 7, 2013
New steel and shea butter sculptures and starscape paintings in an installation exploring African-American intellectual history and pop culture.
Art of the Pot Invites…
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
April 19 through June 23, 2013
A ceramic exhibit celebrating the tenth anniversary of Austin’s Art of the Pot Tour, a series of studio tours, public lectures and gallery and museum exhibitions begun in 2004 by Lisa Orr and Claudia Reese. The annual Mother’s Day weekend Art of the Pot Tour invites 11 regionally and nationally known ceramic artists to share the hosts’ studio space and present their work. As of this year, Art of the Pot will have invited over 110 artists to Austin. Featuring Chris Campbell, Lisa Orr, Keith Kreeger, Claudia Reese, Rebecca Roberts, Marian Haigh, Ryan McKerley, Rick Dunn, St. Louis, Missouri (invited by Chris Campbell), Allegheny Meadows, Carbondale, Colorado (invited by Lisa Orr), Mark Shapiro, Worthington, Massachusetts (invited by Keith Kreeger), Sandy Simon, Berkeley, California (invited by Claudia Reese), qwendolyn yoppolo, Penland, North Carolina (invited by Rebecca Roberts), Finn Alban, Fredericksburg, TX (invited by Marian Haigh), and Lorna Meaden, Durango, CO (invited by Ryan McKerley).
San José Tiles from the Collection of Susan Toomey Frost
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
April 19 through June 23, 2013
Ethel Wilson Harris and Fernando Ramos became the driving forces behind three art tile factories known collectively as the San José Workshops, operating between 1931 and 1977 in San Antonio, reviving a dying Mexican art.
Ceramics from the Collection of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
April 19 through June 23, 2013
The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts has been collecting contemporary ceramics since its beginning in 1985. Thanks to a very generous recent donation by major collectors, Robert and Irene Sinclair, the acquisition of a selection of works from the International Academy of Ceramics, and the continued generosity of John and Darlene Williams and Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio, SAMFA has recently added more than 50 more masterpieces of ceramic art to its growing collections.
Contemporary Texas Prints
March 31 through September 15, 2013
Contemporary printmaking in Texas from the collection of the El Paso Museum of Art.
Our Lady of Sorrows
April 28 through November 30, 2013
The latest in the series of themed exhibitions from the Museum’s growing collection of retablos is Nuestra Senora Dolorosa/ Our Lady of Sorrows. Established in the late 14th century the theme of Our Lady of Sorrows is meant to show homage to the suffering of Christ’s mother over the death of her son.
Recents Posts
CineMarfa 2013 (Part 1: The Festival)
Last week, I hit the long road west from Houston to Marfa to see some films. I didn’t know much about the CineMarfa festival to [...]
Jimmy James Canales at the UTSA Satellite Space
The exhibition lies in two explorations which converge in the space itself. The physical space acts as a metaphor for the process that an artist [...]
Tête-à-Tête 3: Interview with Matthew Metzger
Former North Texas artist Matthew Metzger recently responded to Tête-à-Tête, offering some insight into his calculated and beautifully detailed paintings. Matthew lives and works in Chicago. He received his BFA [...]
Tête-à-Tête 2: Interview with Alan Reid
Alan Reid was one of my first students when I arrived to teach at the University of North Texas. Since he graduated, many years ago, [...]
