Chase Turk: Plastic
Center for Contemporary Arts - Abilene
January 8 - February 28, 2015
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Opening
UNT Art Gallery
5–7 pm
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Karl Umlauf: A Lifetime of Creativity
Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University
5:30–7 pm
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Artist talk
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
2–3:15 pm
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Cassie Phan: Are you frustrated with me?
Last Chance - December 7, 2014 through January 30, 2015
Founded by local artist, educator, and curator Iris Bechtol, TERRAIN Dallas, a new exhibition space in Oak Cliff, will focus on exhibiting site specific, temporary interventions. First up: Cassie Phan.
Kalee Appleton: Looking Back at Saturn
Last Chance - January 5 through 30, 2015
Dealing with digital processes and relationships between the past and present, Appleton's works on view use publicly submitted images and the breakdown of photographic digital code.
K. Yoland: Foreign Affair
Last Chance - January 17 through 30, 2015
British artist K. Yoland explores personal and public perception of migration, invasion, and refuge with new photography and video work.
Napkin Sketches
AIA Center for Architecture, Ft. Worth
Last Chance - 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
Last Chance - 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
Last Chance - 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
Last Chance - 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.
Joachim West: Mother Earth is a Dirty Whore
Last Chance - January 3 through February 1, 2015
Inspired by the suicide of a close friend, artist Joachim West’s new body of work questions whether or not humanity is inherently violent.
Tales Neither True Nor False
Last Chance - January 10 through February 1, 2015
This group show delves into the ambiguous nature of identity through autobiographical accounts and fabricated realities in the work of artists Sheryl Anaya, Jessica Fuentes, Laura Garcia, and M. Kate Helmes.
Diane Durant & Devyn Gaudet
Last Chance - January 10 through February 1, 2015
Paying homage to Eleanor Antin and her 100 Boots journey in the early 1970s, this installation documents Texas artists Devyn Gaudet and Diane Durant 50 Boots across their home state—halfway to Antin's Southern California and back.
Supranatural Realistic
Texas Woman's University East Gallery
January 12 through February 4, 2015
Sculptural and assemblage works by Helen Altman, Celia Eberle, Kana Harada, Beverly Penn, and Linda Ridgway use nature, natural materials, and human nature as a springboard.
JooYoung Choi: C.S. Watson and the Cosmic Womb
Richland College Brazos Gallery
January 20 through February 6, 2015
40 works featuring the heroines, monsters and supernatural beings from the imaginary world of Houston artist and current Lawndale Studio Resident JooYoung Choi.
Ryan Goolsby and Timothy Harding: Telephone
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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.
The Mary Baskett Collection of Japanese Fashion
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.
Lucy Kirkman and Justin Hunter Allen: old f_ags & chicken shits
January 9 through February 27, 2015
Ignotus artis.
New Work: Diaz-Ayala, Garcia, Harnden, Mathis
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Matthew Sontheimer: Some Old Gum, Some New Gum, Some Chew Gum
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
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
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
January 18 through April 5, 2015
Abstract paintings and sculptures created by contemporary artist Ludmila Pawlowska over the past decade.
Beili Liu: STRATUS
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
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
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
January 24 through October 18, 2015
A selection of art works from India from the Crow Collection of Asian Art, dating from between the 1st through 19th centuries.
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