Taro-Kun: It’ll Be Worth Something Someday
The Public Trust
May 5 through June 2, 2012
DFW
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EIR: Student Work from Abilene Christian University
Last Chance - May 3 through 26, 2012
Work from students at Abilene Christian University's, Art Department’s Professional Practices course featuring works by Morgan Hallmark, Jay Hendrick, Kimmy McNiece, Stacy Olsen, Anna Pinson, Leah Rama, Lauren St. John and Katie Stumbo.
Homecoming: Hands on an Art Body
Last Chance - May 12 through 26, 2012
A one-night endurance competition: on May 19, attendees are invited to place their hands on any work they desire on display within the gallery and remain with it throughout the evening. The last participant left in contact with their piece at the end of the night acquires the work.
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
Last Chance - March 4 through May 27, 2012
A wide-ranging exploration of American art from the decade between World War I and the Great Depression, organized by the Brooklyn Museum.
Christine Bisetto and Tiffany Wolf present: Crushes
Last Chance - May 5 through 27, 2012
Explores infatuations, both material and immaterial, with a modicum of lightheartedness and glee.
Trish Igo and Jill O'Brien: Creature Comfort
Last Chance - May 5 through 27, 2012
A dreamlike exposé of our haunted relationships to animals in mixed media vignettes.
Tails of the Exotica
Last Chance - May 5 through 27, 2012
Artist-submitted visual interpretations of the personal ownership of exotic animals as pets in a 10"x10"x10" format, organized by Clayton Hurt and Elaine Pawlowicz.
Frame Count: Timothy Harding and Christopher Blay
Last Chance - May 5 through 27, 2012
An installation reminiscent of a film editing room that talks about the construction of images.
Anthony Thompson Shumate: Novus Ordo Seclorum
Gallery 76102 (UT Arlington/Fort Worth Center)
April 12 through May 31, 2012
Novus ordo seclorum (Latin for “New Order of the Ages”) appears on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, first designed in 1782 and printed on the back of the American dollar bill since 1935.
Solvent: Working Title
May 1 through 31, 2012
An art happening that encourages a lineage of Dallas artists to engage in evolutionary and collaborative art creation. The "first generaton" of the three-part show includes artists Yaseen Benhalim, Spencer Brown-Pearn, Mark Lauman, Zachary Morriss, Jason Parry, Adnan Razvi, Jack Sheely, Janan Siam, Frank Tringali, and Kia Wright.
Lauren Kirchner: Imago Animi
April 21 through June 2, 2012
Large-scale prints and print installations form maps that interpret the image of the brain, our most vital and enigmatic organ in Kirchner's MFA thesis exhibition.
Taro-Kun: It'll Be Worth Something Someday
May 5 through June 2, 2012
The Public Trust’s Small Room will be transformed into a card shop featuring over 200 re-purposed sports individual painted cards, as well as t-shirts, prints, ‘zines, pins and a collectible pennant.
Glenn Ligon: America
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
February 12 through June 3, 2012
The first comprehensive, midcareer retrospective of Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and curator Scott Rothkopf, in close collaboration with the artist.
Richland College Student Photo/Imaging Exhibition
Richland College Brazos Gallery
April 19 through June 3, 2012
Juried by Richard Doherty, Associate Professor of Photography, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth.
Glenn Downing: The Showdown
April 28 through June 3, 2012
Glenn Downing is "the most under appreciated genius hillbilly artist from Waco"
Brian Ryden: Artificial I.D.
May 12 through June 7, 2012
Abstract paintings by Brian Ryden, with an installation by Brandon Behning and paintings by Eugene White. In the project space: "Dwayne Carter: Madness"
Friends and Neighbors: The Art of Photographing People
February 10 through June 9, 2012
Photographs by Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Michael Nye, Jecko Vassilev, Eduard Gladkov, Marion Post Wilcott, June Van Cleef, Annie Noggle, Bill Wright, Dennis Fagan and others selected from The Grace Museum's permanent collection.
Sergio Garcia: Social
May 11 through June 9, 2012
Includes Heat, Garcia's new series of silk-screen prints, and gunpowder.
Humano
May 11 through June 11, 2012
The grand opening of the new Nerv Gallery and Studios in the Dallas warehouse district, features 16 artists including Mary Mecca, Jonathan Foisset, Zavier Lachia, Matt Goolsby , Oscar Chacon, John Calabrese, Chance Foreman, Abby Roccaforte , Linda Tien, Francisco Josue Alvarado Araujo, Chad Hoberer, Elisa Guardiola, Chelsea Brock , Ray Pratt, Sandi Stein, and Debbie Duncan focusing on the human condition.
Kate Colin: Hyperchromagragh
April 30 through June 15, 2012
Large-scale paintings surround viewers with 360 degrees of abstract elements to create an expansive space inspired by mathematics and the infinite universe.
Linear Landscape: Ink Drawings by Jacob El Hanani
March 31 through June 16, 2012
The artist, a tireless and meticulous mark maker, will show ten recent ink drawings, each measuring 18 x 18 inches.
Mark Smith: The Earth Below
William Campbell Contemporary Art
May 5 through June 16, 2012
Paintings reflecting Smith's long-running interest in scientific processes, ecology and humans' negative effects on the planet. A portion of sales will benefit the Clearity Foundation, an organization that provides patients with molecular profiling of ovarian cancer tumors.
Kevin Cooley: Skyward
May 10 through June 16, 2012
A video portrayal of Los Angeles’ manufactured landscape.
Jeremy McKane: New Photographs and Video Installation
May 12 through June 16, 2012
Underwater photographs by commercial and fashion photographer Jeremy McKane, who was instrumental in developing the collection of Dallas art for the Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel.
Phillips & Rogers: Spring into Summer
May 12 through June 16, 2012
Mixed media paintings (Phillips) and underwater photography (Rogers).
Murielle White: Letters from Home
May 12 through June 16, 2012
Large, colorful paintings featuring an invented script based on White's culturally diverse family.
Surface Pattern
May 12 through June 16, 2012
A group show featuring works by Dean Monogenis, Kirath Ghundoo, Pepa Prieto, Misato Suzuki, Thomas Spoerndle, Morgan Blair, Lucas Martell, John Guthrie, James Roper, Jessy Nite, Eddie Villanueva, Books Bischof, and Maxomatic.
Heyd Fontenot: Homosexuals are Ruining My Life
May 12 through June 16, 2012
Trademark figurative portraits in a fabricated environment that pays homage to his love of decorative design while commenting on attempts at "nesting" and status lifestyles.
Stephen Knapp
May 12 through June 16, 2012
In conjunction with Master Glass 2012, Massachusetts based sculptor Stephen Knapp will install one of his signature Light Paintings in the Conduit Gallery Project Room.
Margaret Meehan: Hystrionics and the Forgotten Arm
May 12 through June 16, 2012
Victoriana, pugilism, medical anomalies and barren landscapes. Hystrionics and the Forgotten Arm was installed at Austin’s Women & Their Work Gallery in October 2011 and will be remounted with new works for Conduit Gallery.
Focus: Ged Quinn
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
April 22 through June 17, 2012
British artist Ged Quinn's paintings combine landscapes in the vein of Claude Lorrain with fragments of history, art history, and mythology.
Glass 2012 Part I: Master Glass
May 5 through June 19, 2012
12 Dallas venues feature glass works in honor of the Dale Chihuly extravaganza at the Dallas Arboretum. Jordan roth of Ro2 Art has generously listed them on his blog.
Betsy Williamson: Rewriting Art History
May 17 through June 23, 2012
Williamson appropriates images and sentences from Art Forms, a textbook, to investigate the viewer's experience and interpretation.
Robert Hamilton and Cynthia Mulcahy: Seventeen Hundred Seeds
May 16 through June 30, 2012
Farming as street theater: 1700 Aztec Gold sunflowers will grow to heights of five to seven feet with eleven-inch flower heads in an empty 1.6-acre lot in the heart of South Dallas.
City Zoo
May 18 through June 30, 2012
Brand 10 art space opens a new annex gallery called "and x" at 3511 Locke Street, with an installation of work by Scuba, the collaborative duo Crockett Bodelson and Sandra Wang from Santa Fe, NM. The new space, on the east side of Railhead BBQ, facing north on 1-30, will be used for exhibiting installation works of artist collectives and collaborative projects.
City Zoo
May 18 through June 30, 2012
Brand 10's bi-location City Zoo show continues with works by Frances Bagley, Susi Brister, Clayton Hurt, Victor Romão and Tanya Eakins Spolans. The show looks at artist's use of animals or animal-like elements to create empathy, sentiment, nostalgia, tenderness, curiosity and admiration.
Georganne Deen: Song of Myself
April 22 through July 1, 2012
In the upstairs gallery: new work by Silke Thoss & Bob Tooke
Sightings: Erick Swenson
April 14 through July 8, 2012
New sculptures present fantastic vignettes of animals ensnared in strange, sometimes devastating circumstances.
Jacob Kassay: No Goal
April 11 through July 13, 2012
Jacob Kassay is an emerging contemporary American artist whose practice includes painting, sculpture, site-specific installation and video.
Adam McEwen
April 13 through July 28, 2012
McEwen’s work resides somewhere between the celebratory and the funereal. It identifies strands of European melancholy in the Pop object, and the scuffs of history and consumerism on the sheened surfaces of minimalism.
From Moscow with Love
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
May 12 through July 28, 2012
Gallery Director Burt Finger took part in Russia's first International Photography Portfolio Review in Moscow, and found works by Dmitri Beliakov, Gregori Maiofis, Ivan Mikhailov, Valery Samarin, Vitaly Smirnov, and Eugene Zaluzhny.
Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business
April 13 through August 1, 2012
Large sculptural works created specifically for this exhibition focus on the home or dwelling.
Zoe Crosher: Mae Wested
April 13 through August 1, 2012
The new Mae Wested series is part of Crosher's The Michelle duBois Project, inspired by the impossibility of knowing oneself through photographs.
Freefall: Paintings by Jackie Tileston
May 12 through August 4, 2012
Ten paintings from 2006 to the present.
Unplanned Growth
May 22 through August 4, 2012
An ongoing site specific installation organized by Michael Little, Manager of Programming, UNT Art Galleries.
Modern Mexican Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University
April 29 through August 12, 2012
80 fundamental works by Mexican artists of the early 20th century from an esteemed collection. Organized by Museo Colección Blaisten of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Artist - Teacher: Selections from the Albritton Collection
May 10 through August 16, 2012
Three generations of artistic cross currents among Texas artists/teachers and their artist/students.
Loren Mozley: Structural Integrity
May 10 through August 16, 2012
Important works by Texas modernist Loren Mozley (1905-1989) dating from the late 1930s through the 1970s.
Brian Cobble: Being There
May 10 through August 16, 2012
Pastel paintings imbue suburbia, carnival arcades, city store windows with a mystical, almost surreal, quality.
Don Parr: Vectors: Abstractions in Aviation Art
May 4 through August 17, 2012
Abstract paintings and constructions with aviation themes by Don Parr, a Dallas financial advisor and artist.
Dale Chihuly: Recent Work and New Forms
May 12 through August 18, 2012
Fantastical glass sculptures by the undisputed glassmaster, who is also showing large envoronmental pieces at the Dallas Arboretum.
Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas
May 20 through August 19, 2012
In 1952, Leon Harris, Jr., the young vice president of the Harris and Company department store commissioned expatriate German dadaist Grosz to create a series of paintings illustrating the landscape, economy, and society of Dallas for the store’s 65th anniversary celebrations. Twenty works from the series, accompanied by historic photographs of Dallas, document the city as Grosz discovered it.
Ernesto Neto: Cuddle on the Tightrope
May 12 through September 9, 2012
Everyone's international favorite stretched-nylon environment artist creates a new work at the Nasher, via a team of assistants. Let's hope it's light-fast!
Chihuly at the Dallas Arboretum
May 5 through November 5, 2012
Dramatic glass sculptures throughout the 66-acre Dallas Arboretum at White Rock Lake.
Recents Posts
350 Words: Jackie Tileston at Holly Johnson Gallery
Jackie Tileston’s latest exhibition Freefall at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas includes paintings from 2007 to present. I’ve followed Tileston’s work for the past ten years and I never get tired of looking at it. The artist draws inspiration from a variety of sources including abstraction, physics, traditional eastern imagery and contemporary visual culture. Co-mingling [...]
Found Art: Serbian Groom Trolls for Bride
The image above and those below were pasted in a document that opened with the following (loosely translated) text: “To all unmarried ones who would like to spend their life by my side and within all the beauties of my home. Please look below at all the magic of my home that I have decorated [...]
90s Nostalgia: Lamenting the loss of the mega bookstore while loving the iPad
During the 90s, I worked at Hastings. Similar to other major retail entertainment chains (Borders, Blockbuster, Tower, etc.), Hastings sells just about every form of consumable media, and can be found in mid-size cities and suburbs across the country. Going there as a kid (the nearest one being a half hour’s drive) was an important [...]
Zona MACO México 2012
The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind in Mexico City. The annual art fair, in its eighth year, Zona MACO took place last week and sent the art world into a tizzy of openings, events, dinners, 1pm brunches, and cocktail hours that left us all reeling. In all the art fairs that I [...]
