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SUSTENANCE, Site-Specific Art Exhibition
337 Singleton Blvd.
Opening Day- Saturday, September 11, 11am-10pm, Open on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am-7pm through the duration of the exhibition
Through October 3.
Curator Stephen Lapthisophon, with the help of organizer Anne Lawrence, has brought together two dozen artists, all making site-specific installations for an abandoned two-story building in West Dallas. Lapthisophon explains that the exhibition's title, Sustenance, related to the "need to create - to fill up, to adorn, or embellish." Artists included Brian Fridge, former Houstonian Darryl Lauster, Tom Orr, Ludwig Schwarz, and Jeff Zilm among many others. Come, look, and be sustained.
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Gabriel Dawe: Plexus No. 3
GuerillaArts
Opens Friday September 10, 7-9 pm
Through October 8.
(857) 222-5217
GuerillaArts presents a massive site-specific installation by Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe. This impressive freestanding installation is composed of thousands of feet of multi-colored thread. Plexus No. 3, at GuerillaArts is his most ambitious project to date and looks like it's going to be a stellar show. Conduit Gallery recently showed his work this past spring and The Dallas Contemporary will be showing Plexus No. 4 opening Friday, September 17. Dawe a second year graduate student at the University of Texas at Dallas and is also in the Centraltrack artist residency.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock: Work While It Is Day For When Night..
Dunn and Brown Contemporary
Opens Friday, September 10, 6-8 pm
Through October 23.
214-521-4322
Trenton Doyle Hancock takes over Dunn and Brown's main and project spaces with his new exhibition, Work While It Is Day For When Night Cometh No Man Can Work. The title's a mouthful and if we've come to expect anything from Hancock, we're sure the exhibition will be an eyeful too. Following the close of the show in October, the work will be included in a one-person museum exhibition at the USF Contemporary Art Museum.
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Repeat Offenders, Recent Work by the Visual Fine Art Faculty
H. Paxton Moore Art Gallery, El Centro College
On view Monday, August 23, Reception Thursday, September 9, 4–6 pm, Gallery Talk, 5 pm
Through September 17.
(214) 860-2115
H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery presents the exhibition Repeat Offenders, an exhibition of new works by the Visual Fine Art Faculty of El Centro College. The exhibition features works in mixed media, digitally altered media, metal works, ceramics, and traditional/non-traditional painting and drawing by the Visual Fine Art Faculty of El Centro College, Dallas, Texas. Faculty artists featured in this exhibition are Michael Anthony, Barbara Armstrong, Omar Hernandez, Chaitra Linehan, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Andy Myers, Eddy Rawlinson, and Julie Shipp.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock: Work While It Is Day For When Night..
Dunn and Brown Contemporary
Opens Friday, September 10, 6-8 pm
Through October 23.
214-521-4322
Trenton Doyle Hancock takes over Dunn and Brown's main and project spaces with his new exhibition, Work While It Is Day For When Night Cometh No Man Can Work. The title's a mouthful and if we've come to expect anything from Hancock, we're sure the exhibition will be an eyeful too. Following the close of the show in October, the work will be included in a one-person museum exhibition at the USF Contemporary Art Museum.
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Gabriel Dawe: Plexus No. 3
GuerillaArts
Opens Friday September 10, 7-9 pm
Through October 8.
(857) 222-5217
GuerillaArts presents a massive site-specific installation by Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe. This impressive freestanding installation is composed of thousands of feet of multi-colored thread. Plexus No. 3, at GuerillaArts is his most ambitious project to date and looks like it's going to be a stellar show. Conduit Gallery recently showed his work this past spring and The Dallas Contemporary will be showing Plexus No. 4 opening Friday, September 17. Dawe a second year graduate student at the University of Texas at Dallas and is also in the Centraltrack artist residency.
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SUSTENANCE, Site-Specific Art Exhibition
337 Singleton Blvd.
Opening Day- Saturday, September 11, 11am-10pm, Open on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am-7pm through the duration of the exhibition
Through October 3.
Curator Stephen Lapthisophon, with the help of organizer Anne Lawrence, has brought together two dozen artists, all making site-specific installations for an abandoned two-story building in West Dallas. Lapthisophon explains that the exhibition's title, Sustenance, related to the "need to create - to fill up, to adorn, or embellish." Artists included Brian Fridge, former Houstonian Darryl Lauster, Tom Orr, Ludwig Schwarz, and Jeff Zilm among many others. Come, look, and be sustained.
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500X Gallery Members Show
500X Gallery
Opens Saturday, September 11, 7-10 pm
Through October 3.
(214) 828-1111
500X Gallery kicks off the Fall season with the 500X Members Show opening Saturday, September 11. The exhibition features work by 500X members- Christine Bisetto, Rebecca Carter, Matt Clark, Mark Collop, Shelby Cunningham, Thomas Feulmer, Nate Glaspie, Scott Hilton, Clayton Hurt, Joel Kiser, Leslie Murrell, Kerry Pacillio, and Tiffany Wolf. Members of 500X are emerging artists from the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the show offers a preview of the upcoming season of exhibitions at 500X.
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Jim Malone: The Border Land
Artspace III
Opens Saturday, September 11, Fall Gallery Night, Call 817.692.3228 for more information
Through October 20.
(817) 692-3228
Known for his drawings of West Texas, Enchanted Rock, and celestial and terrestrial maps, Jim Malone displays his work in a new exhibition opening at Artspace111. In the exhibition titled the The Border Land, you'll find works on paper depicting landscapes of the Big Bend desert region of Texas on view.
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Michael Miller: Today I am Thankful for All I Have
Barry Whistler Gallery
Opens Saturday, September 11, 6-8 pm
Through October 9.
(214) 939-0242
Barry Whistler Gallery presents Michael Miller’s new series of work that includes 49 paper pieces which were worked on simultaneously in his studio. Today I am Thankful for All I Have also includes six larger canvases and a catalogue featuring an essay by Alison De Lima Greene will accompany the exhibition. This exhibition also marks the 25th anniversary of Barry Whistler Gallery so come on out and celebrate!
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Ruben Nieto: POW! La Revolución!
Centraltrak
Opens Saturday, September 11, 6–8 pm
Through October 2.
CentralTrak, the University of Texas at Dallas’ Artists Residency, celebrates the Mexican Bicentennial with an exhibition of work by Ruben Nieto, a current artist in residence at CentralTrak. POW! La Revolución! showcases Nieto's comic abstractions in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence, co-sponsored by the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies and the UT Dallas ATEC program.
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Cohn Drennan Contemporary
Opens Saturday, September 11, 6-8 pm
Through October 9.
214-708-8051
A new gallery in the Dallas Design District opens this Fall! Representing regional, national and international contemporary artists, Cohn Drennan Contemporary unleashes an inaugural group exhibition this September. Capital features artists working in the Washington, DC area including John Brown, Jr., David Carlson, Richard Dana, Frank Hallam Day, Jerome Deppe, Janis Goodman, Jim Harrison, and Betsy Stewart. Come out and welcome them to their newly opened space!
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Vincent Falsetta, Justin Quinn, and Michelle Blade
Conduit Gallery
Opens Saturday, September 11, 5:30-8:30 pm
Through October 2.
(214) 939-0064
Texas artist Vincent Falsetta's recent abstract paintings at Conduit Gallery deliver textured surfaces that contain underlying grid patterns that determine the movement of paint across the canvas. Also on view are Justin Quinn's prints, collages and drawings in This Spanish Ounce of Gold. Using Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick as source material, Quinn transforms letterforms to explore ideas of space. In the Project Room, Michelle Blade's series of three dura-lar abstract paintings is inspired by the Rothko Chapel in Houston. This is her first exhibition in Texas.
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Esther Ritz and Jorge Misium
Haley-Henman Gallery
Opens Saturday, September 11, 6-10 pm
Through October 16.
(214) 749-1277
Haley-Henman Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Esther Ritz along with Jorge Misium's inaugural exhibition at the gallery.
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Mark Sheinkman: Manhattanville Project
Holly Johnson Gallery
Opens Saturday, September 11, 6-8 pm
Through October 9.
(214) 369-0169
Holly Johnson Gallery launches the Fall season with the opening of Manhattanville Project, an exhibition of new paintings by Mark Sheinkman. His paintings delve into the richness of graphite while illustrating line as ghostly ribbons of white that appear to float in space. The exhibition title refers to the location of the artist's studio, located in an area of West Harlem called Manhattanville while referencing the infamous Manhattan Project. The titles of individual works come from street names in Upper Manhattan and Manhattanville/Harlem.
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Pard Morrison: New Works
Marty Walker Gallery
Opens Saturday, September 11, 6-8 pm
Through October 9.
(214) 749-0066
Pard Morrison's new works at Marty Walker Gallery push the boundaries between painting and sculpture with a selection of aluminum configurations. Using the process of ‘patination,' Morrison's work draws from minimalism and geometric abstraction. The results portray 3-D game pieces similar to those found in Tetris or a Rubik’s Cube.
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Hot Dogs, Lobbies, Football and Ouagadougou + Marc Riboud
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
"Hot Dogs, Lobbies, Football and Ouagadougou" opens Saturday, September 11, 5-8 pm, Reception for Marc Riboud- Saturday, October 2, 6-8 pm
Through November 13.
(214) 969-1852
Two different exhibitions kick start the Fall at PNNB Gallery with Hot Dogs, Lobbies, Football and Ouagadougou, a group exhibition featuring four artists focused on a single subject. Three of the artists in this show were discovered at this year's Fotofest Biennial in Houston, through October 9. Marc Riboud's exhibition, in conjunction with the Crow Collection of Asian Art's show of his Tibet photographs, offers an in-depth look at his career as a Magnum Photo Agency photographer. Riboud was mentored by Henri Cartier-Bresson, founder of the Magnum photo agency.
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Richard Thompson- New Landscapes: Horizons and Prairies
William Campbell Contemporary Art
Opens Saturday, September 11, 2-9 pm
Through October 16.
(817) 737-9566
New Landscapes: Horizons and Prairies is an exhibition of new works by Richard Thompson at William Campbell Contemporary Art. The show will feature more than a dozen new oil paintings, along with several watercolors, that address the artist's ongoing fascination with the American landscape and what he calls its "still life quality."
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El Greco: Pentecost + Spanish Muse + Sultans and Saints
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University
On view Sunday, September 12
Through February 6.
214-768-2516
El Greco’s monumental masterpiece Pentecost will be installed at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, marking the beginning of a multifaceted three-year partnership with the Prado Museum in Madrid. Pentecost will serve as a focal point for the reimagining of the museum’s installation of its permanent collection, acting as a gateway between the Old Masters and the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. In conjunction with this presentation, the Meadows has organized two companion exhibitions, Spanish Muse: A Contemporary Response (through Dec. 12) and Sultans and Saints: Spain’s Confluence of Cultures (through Jan. 23), both exploring the history of Spanish art and its contemporary influence. Don't miss works by Thomas Struth and Eve Sussman in Spanish Muse.
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Madeline Djerejian: slide the doors open/Your Secret Admirer
The Reading Room
One day only- A reading accompanied by photographs Sunday, September 12, 4-6 pm
Through September 12.
kerxw@aol.com
On Sunday, September 12 from 4 to 6 pm The Reading Room will present a reading and photographs by Madeline Djerejian, an artist living and working in New York City. slide the doors open is a brief and evocative soliloquy recalling a room and its contents. The reading of slide the doors open will be accompanied by photographs from Your Secret Admirer, a series of still-life images of white flowers stained by projections of light.
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TWU Faculty Exhibition
TWU Department of Visual Arts Galleries
On view Monday, August 16, Closing Reception Tuesday, September 14, 4-6 pm
Through September 15.
(940) 898-2533
The faculty of the Department of Visual Arts at Texas Woman's University present new works in the East and West Galleries of the Fine Arts Building on the Denton campus of TWU. The featured artists are Dr. John Calabrese, Susan Kae Grant, Colby Parsons, Jana Perez, Corky Stuckenbruck, Tanya Synar, Gary Washmon, Don Radke, Laurie Weller, and Vance Wingate. Works include sculptural ceramic sound environments, paintings and drawings in traditional media, new media digital prints and mixed media sculptures and paper works.
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Private Collections II, Curated by Benito Huerta
The Gallery at UTA
On view Wednesday, September 8, Reception Friday, September 17, 6-8:30 pm, Gallery talk by Art Historian, Benjamin Lima- Wednesday, September 22, 12 pm
Through October 16.
817-272-3143
The Gallery at The University of Texas at Arlington presents Private Collections II: Works from four Metroplex private collections, curated by Benito Huerta. Huerta visited four different collections including Susan & Claude Albritton (Dallas), Phyllis & Bob Fenton (Fort Worth), Karol Howard & George Morton (Plano) and Robyn Menter & Martin Posner (Dallas) and selected twenty works to showcase. Works shown include artists Diane Arbus, Louise Bourgeois, Vernon Fisher, Roy Lichtenstein, Yasumasa Morimura, Robyn O'Neil, and more.
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Billie Giese and Shari Hornish
Norwood Flynn Gallery
Opens Saturday, August 21, 6-8 pm
Through September 11.
(214) 351-3318
Check out watercolors by Billie Giese in his exhibition Resonance and new oils by Shari Hornish in her exhibition Birdsong at Norwood Flynn Gallery.
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The Hot Shop Summer Juried Show
Mighty Fine Arts
Opens Saturday, August 7, 6-9 pm
Through September 12.
(214) 942-5241
It is hot out there in Texas in this month of August and it just got hotter with The Hot Shop Summer Juried Show selected by Benito Huerta at Might Fine Arts opening on Saturday, August 7! Featured artists include Lisa Barker, Michael Benson, Evan Blakely, Nancy Brown, Ally Carrill, Lou Chapman, Kurt Dyerhaug, Peggy Epner, Chris Berquist Fulmer, Barbara Hoffman, Laura Jennings, Stephanie Koenig, Erik Mantle, Patricia Murphy, Nicole Norton, Eddy Rawlinson, Bruce Schiefelbein, Michael Joachim Westfried Soriano, and Courtney Woodlief.
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Different Tempers: Jewelry and Blacksmithing
UNT Art Gallery
Through September 18.
(940) 565-4005
Curated by Suzanne Ramljak and organized by The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, a regional center of the University of North Carolina, Different Tempers explores the distinctions and commonalities between jewelry and blacksmithing. Including 40 objects by 14 national artists, together these objects reveal the range of work arising from both the jeweler's bench and the blacksmith's forge.
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Graduate Student Art Exhibition
UT Dallas Visual Arts Building
Opens Friday, August 27, 6:30-8:30 pm
Through September 18.
(972) 883-4329
The School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas presents a graduate student art exhibition featuring the work of Arts and Technology (ATEC) MFA candidate Sheila Cunningham, ATEC PhD candidate Robert Galindo, and graduating Art and Performance senior Jennifer Snyder.
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Revival: Helen Burkhart Mayfield & Robb Kendrick
Webb Gallery
Opens Sunday, August 15, 2–5pm
Through September 19.
(972) 938-8085
Bruce and Julie Webb of Webb Gallery, an outsider art wonderland in Waxahachie, brings together the work of Helen Burkhart Mayfield and Robb Kendrick in the exhibition, Revival. Mayfield started the 6th street art market in Austin in the 1970’s and the first interpretive dance troup in Austin. Her ink drawings (this one is an untitled drawing from 1975) are on view alongside Kendrick's tin types that are processed from a rare 20” tin type camera. Don't miss the homemade ice cream contest, celebrity judges, and DJ Rid playing at the opening reception and be sure to check out Christina Patoski's review- Glass Houses 21: Julie and Bruce Webb.
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Jonathan Brooks: Taking In
Magnolia Gallery
Opens Thursday, August 12, 8-10 pm
Through September 22.
(214) 520-0025
Dallas artist Jonathan Brooks has an exhibition of new mixed media works titled Taking In at the Magnolia Gallery through September 22. Intrigued by the human form, Brooks's recent work consists of dripping paint onto the canvas in combination with a recent obsession of adopting abandoned objects.
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MUSEUM STAFF ONLY
Art Corridor (Tarrant County College Southeast)
Opens Thursday, September 2, 4–6:30 pm
Through September 24.
(817) 515-3406
How are artists working in museums influenced by the works around them? Artists Jesse Sierra Hernandez, Chad Cook, Terri Thornton, James Lassen, Greg Bahr, and Les Cargot Hofheinz answer this question through their paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations in MUSEUM STAFF ONLY.
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Richie Budd Featuring Personal Victories
Richland College Brazos Gallery
Opening Reception & Performance Event Friday, September 3, 7-9 pm
Through September 25.
(972) 238-6339
Not to be missed, Richie Budd teams up with Personal Victories in their third collaboration for a new exhibition at Brazos Gallery at Richland College and a one night only performance on Friday September 3 from 7- 9 p.m! Functioning almost as a concert, the multi-sensory opening night brings together not only a light show, but music/sound, performance, and sculpture. As with Budd and Personal Victories's previous performances, this exhibition promises "everything one is willing to receive."
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New Vision: Ballpoint Drawings by Il Lee
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Crow Collection After Dark Modern Twist: Japanese Pop- Friday, July 16, 6 pm-12 am
Through September 26.
(214) 979-6430
The Crow Collection of Asian Art brings together the work of New York artist Il Lee. For over 30 years he has been exploring drawing and painting in his chosen medium of ball point pen. Lee's canvases are created with looping and energetic lines and explore how the medium depicts light, line, and form.
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Michelangelo's First Painting: The Torment of Saint Anthony
Kimbell Art Museum
Through September 26.
(817) 332-8451
Believed to be Michelangelo’s first known painting, "this work was executed in oil and tempera on a wooden panel in 1487–88, when the artist was only 12 to 13 years old. It is the first painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) to enter an American collection, and one of only four known easel paintings generally believed to come from his hand. The others are the Doni Tondo in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery and two unfinished paintings in London’s National Gallery, The Manchester Madonna and The Entombment."
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Jane Helslander, Winter Rusiloski & Cecil Touchon
Gallery 76102 (UT Arlington/Fort Worth Center)
Opens Thursday, August 12, 6-8 pm
Through September 30.
817-272-0365
Three Fort Worth artists are highlighted in the new exhibition at Gallery 76102. Working the vein in abstraction, artists Jane Helslander, Winter Rusiloski, and Cecil Touchon experiment with various media, including paint, collage, photographs and found images. The exhibition is curated by Mark Thistlethwaite of Texas Christian University. Touchon recently had a solo exhibition exhibition at William Campbell Contemporary that was pretty nice so be sure check out his work in this show.
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COMMUNITY: Jim Hastings and John Skibo
RISING Gallery
Opens Friday, August 27, 6-9 pm
Through October 2.
214.634.6262
The exhibition COMMUNITY features drawings by local Dallas artist Jim Hastings and paintings by Brooklyn based artist John Skibo. The exhibition will run through October 2, 2010. Skibo's series Change of Context revolves around the ways in which modern-day organization of housing affects community.
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Hadar Sobol: Kairos / Otis Dozier
Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden
Opens Saturday, August 28, 6-8:30 pm, Artist talk Saturday, September 11, 11 am, OTIS DOZIER exhibition on view Monday, August 30
Through October 2.
(972) 239-2441
Valley House Gallery presents the work of Israel born Hadar Sobol in her first exhibition at the gallery. By combining thread and drawing, Sobol work explores her own identity as an artist and new mother in a new country in Kairos (the supreme moment). Also on view beginning August 30 is twelve major paintings by early Dallas artist Otis Dozier (1904-1987).
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Pinnacle Heat
bows and arrows
Opens Saturday, September 4, 7-10 pm
Through October 21.
214-828-2697
bows and arrows amps it up with a group exhibition that includes new work by Willie Binnie, Zachary Broadhurst, Tamara Coleman, Lanie Delay, Sally Glass, Kate Kernan, Crisman Liverman, Nic Mathis, Hunter Moehring, Rachael Rodenkirk, Lizzy Wetzel, and Tiffany Wolf. Grab your sunglasses because the participating artists in this show are asked to interpret "neon" in each of their works on view in Pinnacle Heat!
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Dreams of Flight: A Journey through Air and Space
The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future
Through October 31.
(214) 915-0860
The Women’s Museum presents the exhibition Dreams of Flight: A Journey through Air and Space beginning Friday, July 23. More than 40 women are featured in the exhibition, including Amelia Earhart, Bessie Coleman, Jaqueline Cochran and Jeana Yeager, to science and space innovators such as Barbara Askins, Patricia Cowings and Jerrie Cobb. In conjunction with Dreams of Flight, the Museum opens two other exhibits Fly Girls and Women and Flight. Women and Flight is an exhibit of selected images from the Women and Flight collection, which originally toured as a SITES traveling exhibition and was created by photographer Carolyn Russo.
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Revelation: The Art of James Magee
Nasher Sculpture Center
On view Saturday, September 4
Through November 28.
(214) 242-5100
Revelation: The Art of James Magee marks the first major museum exhibition of the artist's work in 18 years. Organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center, the exhibition features approximately twenty relief sculptures. A major new monograph accompanying the exhibition includes The Hill, a monumental installation project in the desert east of El Paso that has been under construction for more than 30 years and is due to be completed in 2025. Working with an array of found and castoff materials, Magee (aka Horace Mayfield and Annabel Livermore) creates powerful sculptural reliefs that are often framed in steel boxes.
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México 200- José Guadalupe Posada:The Birth of Mexican...
Dallas Museum of Art
On view Friday, June 18
Through December 26.
(214) 922-1803
México 200 is the Museum-wide celebration of the bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence and the DMA presents the special exhibition- José Guadalupe Posada: The Birth of Mexican Modernism. Posada was a prolific printmaker and is now considered the most influential Mexican artist of the beginning of the 20th century. His images of costumed skeleton characters, or calaveras, anticipate Mexican mural painting of the 1920s and 30s which he used as a medium for political and social satire.
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Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
Kimbell Art Museum
On view Sunday, August 29, Symposium- 10am-4pm, The lectures are free and no reservations are required
Through January 2.
(817) 332-8451
Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea explores the importance of water to the ancient Maya. At the Kimbell Art Museum, over 90 works, many recently uncovered and never before seen in the United States, are part of the exhibition which offer insights into the culture of the ancient Maya. A broad range of media used by Maya artists is highlighted including carved stone monuments, hieroglyphs, painted pottery vessels, sculpted human and animal figurines, and an assortment of precious goods crafted from jade, gold and turquoise. The exhibition is organized into four sections- Water and Cosmos, Creatures of the Fiery Pool, Navigating the Cosmos, and Birth to Rebirth and is organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
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México 200- Tierra y Gente: Modern Mexican Works on Paper
Dallas Museum of Art
On view Friday, June 18
Through January 9.
(214) 922-1803
As part of the Dallas Museum of Art's celebration of the bicentennial of Mexico's independence, the exhibition Tierra y Gente: Modern Mexican Works on Paper is drawn from the DMA's collection of mid-20th-century Mexican works on paper. The selection of prints, drawings, and photographs reflect on political issues in the years following the 1910 revolution. Many of the major artists highlighted in the exhibition were strongly influenced by José Guadalupe Posada and show significant moments in the history of Mexican art.
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African Masks: The Art of Disguise
Dallas Museum of Art
On view Sunday, August 22
Through February 13.
(214) 922-1803
African Masks: The Art of Disguise consists of approximately fifty objects from the Museum’s collections and on loan from local collectors. The Dallas Museum of Art presents a variety of masks from several different sub-Saharan peoples as well as full masquerade costumes, performances recorded on film and contextual photographs. The exhibition is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and curated by Roslyn A. Walker, Senior Curator, The Arts of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas, and The Margaret McDermott Curator of African Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. Dr. Walker is the author of the book The Arts of Africa, the first catalogue dedicated to exploring the Museum’s collection of nearly two thousand African objects.
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