Napkin Sketches

AIA Center for Architecture, Ft. Worth

November 3, 2014 through January 31, 2015

The cocktail napkin is an age-old medium to convey inspirational ideas over dinner and drinks. The Center for Architecture solicited the Fort Worth architectural community to donate napkin sketches for the exhibition.

Time and Places: Where Light Resides

Bath House Cultural Center

December 6, 2014 through January 31, 2015

Dallas-area artists Dan Richard Barber, Philip Goodman, Essie P. Graham, and Sharon O’Callaghan Shero use alternative photography and image manipulation methods in exploring ideas and stories related to time, space, and light.

Levitas: A Photographic Investigation of Weightlessness

Bath House Cultural Center

December 6, 2014 through January 31, 2015

This thematic, group show based on ideas of lightness and gravity defiance features small photographic prints by Lori Bandi, Tatyana Bessmertnaya, Chris Burt, Gabrielle Castañeda-Pruitt, J R Compton, Misty Dean, Jacque Forsher, Sandra Freeman, Peta Jones, Elizabeth Mellot, Sharon Neel-Bagley, Jana C. Perez, Sam Reeves, Shawn Saumell, Kathleen Wilke, Angilee Wilkerson and Mary Kathryn Wimberly.

Pierre Durand: Night On The Silk Road

Haley-Henman Gallery

January 10 through 31, 2015

Pierre Durand's paintings on silk, installed in the form of a tent, convey an unfolding silk road journey spanning Asian and European cultures.

Ryan Goolsby and Timothy Harding: Telephone

500X Gallery

January 10 through February 8, 2015

For this unique collaboration, artists Ryan Goolsby and Timothy Harding had only weekly exchanges, with no direct knowledge of each other’s production. The resulting works carry elements of chance and improvisation as well as combine Goolsby’s practice of woodworking and construction with Harding’s abstract painting.

Fresh Perspectives: Works on Paper by Benito Huerta

Amon Carter Museum

July 8, 2014 through February 10, 2015

Susan Cheal and Paula Whelan: Useless

Cliff Gallery - Mountain View College

January 20 through February 13, 2015

Artists Susan Cheal (Denton, TX) and Paula Whelan (Seattle, WA) create paintings, sculptures, and installations by manipulating found objects and materials. Plungers, toys, bags, shoes, spoons, brooms–all creatively rendered useless.  

Carolyn Sortor: Seismic Hive

The Reading Room

January 17 through February 14, 2015

Videos from Sortor's Hive series and new, excessively long prints on vintage seismic graph paper from the Los Alamos Laboratory.

Studio Visit 1.2

Cris Worley Fine Arts

January 17 through February 14, 2015

Centering on the experience of artist studio visits, this group show includes work by Kristen Cliburn (Houston), Robert Lansden (New Orleans), Rusty Scruby (Dallas), Colette Copeland (Dallas), Timothy Harding (Fort Worth), and Patrick Turk (Houston).

PRTY PPL

Circuit 12 Contemporary

January 10 through February 14, 2015

New works by Ted Gahl, TJ Donovan, Keith J Varadi, Luis Miguel Bendaña, Carmen Price, Cody Tumblin, Ron Ewert, Tisch Abelow, Cody Hudson, Jim Drain, Chloe Seibert, Bea Fremderman, Mike Rea, Arthur Peña, Brian Scott Campbell, Steven Vainberg, Francisco Moreno, Geoffrey Todd Smith, Sofia Leiby, Henry Gunderson, John Phillip Abbott, Austin Eddy, Greg Ito, Ryan Travis Christian, Scott Wolniak, Ethan Gill, Eric Fleischauer, Jessie Edelman, Eric Shaw

Robert Jessup: Recent Paintings

Conduit Gallery

January 10 through February 14, 2015

New, large-scale paintings by Denton artist Robert Jessup, shown in both of Conduit's two main galleries. These have less representational imagery than his earlier work, yet still have a narrative in feel.

Chris Larson: Heavy Rotation

Conduit Gallery

January 10 through February 14, 2015

A solo show of videos and drawings by St. Paul, MN based artist Chris Larson, featuring the video Heavy Rotation which was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

Randy Guthmiller: Shape Room

The Safe Room at Texas Theater

January 16 through February 14, 2015

This show of work by Dallas artist and zine publisher Randy Guthmiller transforms the Safe Room into a “Shape Room”

Gregg Coker, Jackson Hammack, Chris Mason

Craighead-Green Gallery

January 10 through February 14, 2015

A three-artist exhibition featuring new paintings by Gregg Coker and Jackson Hammack and sculpture by Chris Mason.

KEITH ALLyN SPENCER: Boys Do Cry

RE Gallery and Studio

January 16 through February 16, 2015

A show of new works by artist Keith AllYn Spencer.

States of the Union: Highlights from the TCU Art Collection

The Moudy Gallery @ Texas Christian University

January 20 through February 19, 2015

The first public exhibition of selections from TCU’s permanent art collection explores issues that our country has faced historically that are relevant concerns today. Features works by Will Barnet, Alice Neel, Lee Krasner, Romare Bearden, Larry Rivers, McKie Trotter, Andy Warhol, Bill Mauldin, Luis Jiménez, Antonio Alvarez and Jane Stuart.

Jeffrey Cortland Jones: Movement, Substance, Technique

Galleri Urbane Dallas

January 10 through February 19, 2015

Jeffrey Cortland Jones’ abstract paintings and drawings are subtle and layered–inspired in part by the common, urban phenomenon of blocks of wall paint covering graffiti.

James Watral: It's About Today

Gallery 219 at Eastfield College

January 23 through February 19, 2015

A show celebrating the late ceramic artist James Watral, including works spanning two decades of his career as well as the famed napkins that preserve his ideas and drawings.

Michael Just: What's Done Cannot Be Undone

CYDONIA

January 9 through February 20, 2015

Berlin-based artist Michael Just’s process merges artistic production and curatorial practice. This solo show is comprised of screen-printed images of cultural artifacts and laser-cut text works and sculptures.

Experimental Photography

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery

November 22, 2014 through February 21, 2015

Since the very beginning of photography, artists have been manipulating the medium in all sorts of ways (and more to come!). Featured artists: Gyory Kepes, Carlotta Corpron, Ida Lansky, Barbara Maples, Luigi Veronesi, Robert Erickson, Carlos Jurado, Harold Edgerton, and Eadweard Muybridge.

Whoaa There!

THE ANT COLONY

January 24 through February 21, 2015

Line-driven, fine and un-fine art by Miguel Aguilar, Justin Jackley, Larry Carey, Brad Albright, Matty Brinston, Barrett Bryan, Max Kraken, Ollie Gee, and Ryan R. Thies.

Gallup Motel Butchering

CentralTrak

January 17 through February 21, 2015

In this new, four-channel video installation by artists' collective Postcommodity, a Navajo woman uses a motel room as a temporary space to butcher a sheep for a family feast. The work examines contested tribal space, tradition, globalism, commerce, cultural continuity and cross-cultural opinion.

Vincent Falsetta: Agendas

UNT on the Square

January 26 through February 21, 2015

A retrospective of paintings made by artist and UNT studio art professor Vincent Falsetta over several decades–from early, meticulous acrylic paintings (1970s through mid-1990s) to more expressionistic contemporary oil works.

The Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese Fashion

Crow Collection of Asian Art

October 22, 2014 through February 22, 2015

Baskett avidly collected and wore avant-garde Japanese fashion, then little-known outside of Japan. In the 1970s and 1980s, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo shocked the fashion world with their post-modern “anti-fashion,” although they often reference elements of traditional Japanese dress.

Lindsay McCulloch: Interference

Carillon Gallery - Tarrant County College South

January 29 through February 26, 2015

Artist Lindsay McCulloch’s first solo show in Texas features her new series of silk screens and oil paintings.

Lucy Kirkman and Justin Hunter Allen: old f_ags & chicken shits

Homeland Security

January 9 through February 27, 2015

Ignotus artis.

New Work: Diaz-Ayala, Garcia, Harnden, Mathis

Kirk Hopper Fine Art

January 17 through February 28, 2015

A painting-based exhibition featuring works by Alejandro Diaz-Ayala, Sergio Garcia, Luke Harnden, and Nicholas Mathis, with concepts and curation by the exhibiting artists themselves.

Texas Abstract

Barry Whistler Gallery

January 17 through February 28, 2015

Russell Ellison and Linda Murray: Studio 1 and Studio 2

Center for Contemporary Arts - Abilene

January 8 through February 28, 2015

A retrospective celebrating the long-time collaboration of artists Russell Ellison and Linda Murray, who occupied the two largest studios at the Center for 11 years.

Chase Turk: Plastic

Center for Contemporary Arts - Abilene

January 8 through February 28, 2015

Collages by artist Chase Turk reflect challenges of modern society.

Sara Cardona: Read Between the Lines

Mighty Fine Arts

January 17 through March 1, 2015

Inspired by music, Cardona combines found images from vintage books and maps with her own drawing and watercolor painting.

Karl Umlauf: A Lifetime of Creativity

Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University

January 20 through March 1, 2015

An exhibition of paintings by Karl Umlauf–largely inspired by structural land forms and industrial piping systems–celebrates his 25 years as Artist-in-Residence and Professor at Baylor University.

Israel Lund

The Power Station

January 17 through March 3, 2015

The grids and abstracted images of these paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Israel Lund were created through a process mixing digital and analogue techniques.

Jesse Morgan Barnett: Personal Life

The Goss-Michael Foundation

January 23 through March 6, 2015

Dallas based artist Jesse Morgan Barnett’s installation designates categories of objects, images, and text according to aesthetic and conceptual relationships.

Jeff Gibbons: Auto Relativity Kinetotron

The Goss-Michael Foundation

January 23 through March 6, 2015

Exhibition by mixed media installation artist Jeff Gibbons–a recent artist in residence at CentralTrak and co-organizer of the Deep Ellum Windows series of pop-up exhibitions.

1-7

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts

January 16 through March 7, 2015

Works by current TCU MFA students Amanda Arredondo, Mason Bryant, Courtney Hamilton, Alyssa Hawkins, Fernando Johnson, Layla Luna, and Max Morris–all responding to the idea of algorithms in art-making practice.

Dallas Medianale

McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)

January 9 through March 7, 2015

An ambitious series of video installations, screenings, and intermedia performances, including work by Bruce Nauman, Joe Sola, Francis Alÿs, Gary Hill, Owen Kydd, John Whitney, James Whitney, Jennifer Reeder, Kyle Evans and James Connolly (Cracked Ray Tube), Sean Miller, Liz Larsen (LZX Industries), William Sarradet, Andrew Blanton, and others. More info HERE.

AMERICANA

ART7 Crockett Community Gallery

January 12 through March 7, 2015

The first of five juried group exhibitions showing varied perspectives in works by participating artists from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico.

Call and Response

McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)

January 17 through March 7, 2015

Part of the ongoing Dallas Medianale, this video installation show features work by Francis Alys, Gary Hill, Owen Kydd, Bruce Nauman, Tara Nelson, Joe Sola, and Micah Stanstell.

Lost In Trans

UNT Art Gallery

January 29 through March 7, 2015

Part of UNT Art Gallery’s “Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations” series, guest curator Tempestt Hazel (co-founder of the Chicago-based Sixty Inches From Center) has pulled together varying works from College of Visual Arts and Design collections, including work by contemporary artists Jeffrey Michael Austin, and Derric Clemmons, and Annette Lawrence.

Matthew Sontheimer: Some Old Gum, Some New Gum, Some Chew Gum

Talley Dunn Gallery

January 15 through March 14, 2015

Sontheimer’s stream of consciousness artworks are iterations of his internal dialogue on a variety of topics, rendered through interrelated hand-writings, printed text, and images. “Do you think this is angry man work?”

Loris Gréaud: The Unplayed Notes Museum

Dallas Contemporary

January 18 through March 21, 2015

The first US exhibition of work by cinema-influenced, French conceptual art star Loris Gréaud, whose meteoric rise includes installations at the Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, and the Venice Biennale. “It will be a really challenging show," he promises of the exhibition. "A genuine experience of art." Sounds a little pompous, but probably true.

Kim Cadmus Owens: Purposely Distorted for Clarity

Holly Johnson Gallery

January 17 through March 28, 2015

New paintings and a suite of letterpress prints in which artist Kim Cadmus Owens brings nostalgic imagery of structures, signs and words into contemporary contexts.

Ludmila Pawlowska: Icons in Transformation

St. Matthew’s Cathedral Arts

January 18 through April 5, 2015

Abstract paintings and sculptures created by contemporary artist Ludmila Pawlowska over the past decade.

Beili Liu: STRATUS

Grace Museum

January 22 through April 25, 2015

Artist Beili Liu’s large-scale installation–a hovering, cloud-like mass of granite and wax-coated sheets with motion sensitive lighting–is a rumination on water crises, and specifically, the current statewide drought.

Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books

Irving Arts Center

January 24 through April 26, 2015

An extensive exhibition of original illustration art from the beloved American picture-book series, Little Golden Books, launched in 1942.

Audubon’s Beasts

Amon Carter Museum

January 15 through August 2, 2015

A selection of hand-painted prints by famed scientist and artist John James Audubon (1785–1851)–some of his greatest depictions of North America’s four-legged animals in their natural habitats, from swamps to savannahs.

India, Art, Time and Place

Crow Collection of Asian Art

January 24 through October 18, 2015

A selection of art works from India from the Crow Collection of Asian Art, dating from between the 1^st through 19^th centuries.