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Homecoming: Hands on an Art Body

Oliver Francis Gallery

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.

Tails of the Exotica

500X Gallery

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.

Solvent: Working Title

Ro2 Art Downtown

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

Start Gallery

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

The Public Trust

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.

Brian Ryden: Artificial I.D.

Plush Gallery

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"

Humano

Nerv Gallery and Studios

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

Mokah Art Gallery

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.

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.

Surface Pattern

Circuit 12 Contemporary

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

Conduit Gallery

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

Conduit Gallery

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.

City Zoo

and x

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

brand 10 artspace

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.

Jacob Kassay: No Goal

The Power Station

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

The Goss-Michael Foundation

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.

Zoe Crosher: Mae Wested

Dallas Contemporary

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.

Unplanned Growth

UNT Art Gallery

May 22 through August 4, 2012

An ongoing site specific installation organized by Michael Little, Manager of Programming, UNT Art Galleries.

Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas

Dallas Museum of Art

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.

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