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Claire Ashley: Fluorescent Pop

H. Paxton Moore Art Gallery, El Centro College

Last Chance - January 26 through February 23, 2012

Five large-scale inflatable sculptures, each tinged with expressive spray painted patterns and duct tape. Ashley, an MFA graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Hyde Park Art Center.

Town and Country

brand 10 artspace

Last Chance - January 13 through February 25, 2012

Work by a collection of Texas-based artists: Mark Collop, Josephine Durkin, John Frost and David Willburn and two artist collaborations by Joel Kiser + Todd Hayes and Benito Huerta & Janet Chaffee traces the terrain where urban merges with rural.

Joseph Havel: Plus or Minus

Talley Dunn Gallery

Last Chance - January 14 through February 25, 2012

Tens of thousands of shirt labels presenting the simple text, “nothing" pinned to the gallery wall. Also stacked bronzed objects and a series of minimally rendered watercolors entitled "Variations of White Nothing".

Michael Bise: Epilogues

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts

Last Chance - January 21 through February 25, 2012

Large-scale, meticulous drawings circle the hard truths of Bise’s youth growing up in a bible-belted, suburban sprawl of hypocrisy and identity crisis. Bise’s life-threatening heart condition and impending heart transplant make his chosen title, Epilogues, a particularly grim satire.

Five Photographers

Haley-Henman Gallery

Last Chance - February 4 through 25, 2012

Features the work by David Clanton, Lee Albert Hill, Alan Robertson, Brett Schneider, and Kitty Alice Snead.

Max Fields: Window Front

A Space

Last Chance - February 5 through 25, 2012

An interactive video installation by Max Fields is featured at the Grand opening of Commerce, TX's new not for profit gallery, A Space.

Se-ven

The Fort Worth Community Arts Center

Last Chance - February 3 through 28, 2012

Joe LaBerge, Joyce Martin, Gerry Wissler, Terry Horn, Pam Stern, Brenda Benson and Lori Thomson are a new group of seven artists working in three dimensions.“If we could work in seven dimensions, we probably would,” Martin said about the group of sculptors.

Benjamin Terry: Not Really There

Ro2 Art Uptown

Last Chance - January 28 through February 29, 2012

New paintings which combine representational images and the chaos of ephemeral composition.  Working with memory, fantasy, dreams, and time, the artist uses multiple selves to creates a narrative sequence reflecting on ideas of internal conflict, self doubt, and emotional trauma.

Brent Kollock: Painting as a Metaphor

Norwood Flynn Gallery

Last Chance - February 4 through 29, 2012

Brent will speak about the comparison of the literary metaphor and the visual metaphor of painting, and exhibit paintings and drawings. No one could be more adept in speaking about this topic than Brent, he has been “painting and writing his whole life, since he could pick up a pen.”

A Fraudulent Desire to Exist

Steve Paul Productions

January 14 through March 3, 2012

An exhibition of photographic/video installation works by six emerging contemporary female artists, curated by John Pomara and Greg Metz. Featuring Cassandra Emswiler, Danielle Georgiou, Emily Loving, Hillary Holsonback, Robin Myrick, and Sally Glass. The works illustrate the complicated beauty that results from the process of affirming one's existence.

Cecila Shikle: Where She Sleeps

Mokah Art Gallery

February 4 through March 3, 2012

23 women of all ages are photographed alone in their bedrooms, a place that they feel most at rest and in control, to discuss issues of domesticity, feminine space, and disintegrating relationships.

Marko Kratohvil: Sculpture

Cohn Drennan Contemporary

February 9 through March 3, 2012

Marko is a recent transplant to Oklahoma City from Belgrade, via the United Kingdom where he has been living and working since 1991.  He's a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Michael Henderson: Tunnel

Mighty Fine Arts

January 21 through March 4, 2012

Says Henderson: "I was watching a King Kong movie. In this movie, a beautiful Japanese scientist holds up a drawing of a tunnel . . . I knew that it would be the model for a series of drawings. The images for these drawings come from movies, photographs of railroads, mines, and an ancient quarry in Crete where stones for the Labyrinth were carved into tunnels."

Looking at Animals

Gallery 219 at Eastfield College

February 13 through March 9, 2012

We eat them, pet them, study them and collect them, and sometimes we make art about them. Artists Buster Graybill, Allison Hunter, Jules Buck Jones, Trish Igo, Jill O’Brien, and Raychael Stine examine the complex relationship between animal and man.

Andrea Goldman: Madness Q & A: The Watery Part of the World

The Reading Room

February 11 through March 10, 2012

Goldman creates videos, drawings and songs that enact dialogues between brilliant animals, canonical authors, children's choirs, ideological bodies and other doppelgangers. TRR will present a work that engages Melville's Moby Dick, Foucault's History of Madness and a family vacation.

Jesse Morgan Barnett: Tour

Marty Walker Gallery

February 18 through March 17, 2012

Large-scale inkjet prints and a video follow highway road medians, documenting tire burns that appear not unlike giant brushstrokes in the moving landscape, while simultaneously dramatizing the often unnoticed relationship between cinematic experiences and automobiles as a means of viewing American landscape.

Paper in Space

University of Dallas Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery

February 3 through March 18, 2012

Using handmade paper as their principal medium, artists Jane Ingram Allen, May Babcock, Nancy Cohen, Melissa Jay Craig, Joan Hall and Aimee Lee manipulate natural fibers to create installations, sculpture, books and prints. Curated by Professor Juergen Strunck, and assisted by Sarah Francis and Nicholas Cladis.

C.J. Davis: A New Kissed Out Red Float Boat

Plush Gallery

February 18 through March 24, 2012

Dallas artist C.J. Davis' second-ever solo show. Among other multimedia works, a stereo will play a set of musical selections throughout the evening and Oliver Francis Gallery owner/director Kevin Rubén Jacobs will perform exuberant solos on his 2003 Pearl Export series drum kit, for precisely one minute at the top of each hour during the reception.

Erin Curtis: Album of the Conqueror

Conduit Gallery

February 18 through March 24, 2012

A collection of intensely handmade paintings and drawings that span continents and condense timelines, with an interest in anthropology and an eye toward architecture and decoration.

Ludwig Schwarz: Taos (Taos Thrift Shop)

Conduit Gallery

February 18 through March 24, 2012

A series of six-foot square paintings, found object sculpture and an 18-minute musical composition titled Taos described thus: "Welcome to Taos Thrift Shop . . . currently open 24/7 from this day until the end of time . . . Things, once again, will be rearranged. Our subtlety can only be matched by your indifference . . . if necessary please email me directly at zabol186@gomel.org and forward your bank account number. Discretion will be to offer this to non and only for the aid of and your potential fortune with no risk. You are helping."

Paul Manes: Recent Paintings

Cris Worley Fine Arts

February 18 through March 24, 2012

Born in Austin in 1948, painter Paul Manes currently lives and works in New York. His subject matter varies from swampy landscapes, inspired by living in Beaumont, TX, to WWII airplanes, and still-lives of tumbling bowls.

Frank and Kristin Lee Dufour: Acoustic Shadows

Dallas Museum of Art

December 8, 2011 through April 12, 2012

Using video projection and three-dimensional sound that reacts to the viewers' presence and movements, UT Dallas professor Frank Dufour, with his wife Kristin Lee Dufour, depict Orpheus surrounded by shadows of the underworld. The piece made its debut at The Vasarely Foundation in Aix-en-Provence, France, earlier this year.

Groove

Webb Gallery

February 12 through April 15, 2012

A record album release and art show with Jad Fair, David Fair, Will Johnson, Tim Ker, and Dan Phillips in conjunction with Good Records Recordings

Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae

Nasher Sculpture Center

January 28 through April 22, 2012

11 imposing mixed-media collages—or bulletin boards, as he sometimes calls them, highlighting Hundley's investigations of the ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae by Euripides.

Border

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery

February 18 through May 5, 2012

Three PDNB Gallery artists document the U.S./Mexico border. Delilah Montoya’s Trail of Thirst series reveals the migrant border crossings through the O’odham Tohono Nation reservation. Belgium based photojournalist, Teun Voeten, photographs the  Ciudad Juárez drug wars, and Jeffrey Silverthorne documents the infamous Boy’s Town culture in Nuevo Laredo.

The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries

February 5 through May 13, 2012

A set of four important 15th-century Gothic tapestries commemorating the conquest of the North African cities of Asilah and Tangier by King Afonso V of Portugal visit Dallas on their US tour to show off their recent restoration.

Bill Davenport: Old Junk Art Center

Old Jail Art Center

February 4 through May 20, 2012

High art, low craft, and bargains galore as Bill Davenport's mid-career retrospective appropriates the cells of the Old Jail Art Center as a working junk store, stocked with quirky marvels selected from the past 20 years.  Davenport will man the shop personally during museum hours on Feb 4-5 and again on May 19-20.

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.

Michelle Rawlings: Empathicalism

Oliver Francis Gallery

January 21 through October 4, 2012

Rawlings takes the experience of growing up in suburban North Dallas as a jumping off point to examine the role of cultural institutions such as school and church on an adolescent sense of identity. Normalizing influences are evidenced in everything from the artist’s high school yearbook page, (enlarged as a giant wall tapestry), to playing Mary as a teenager in the Nativity pageant.

Recents Posts

Smudge Studio

350 Words: “In the Interest of Time” at Brazos Gallery

The exhibition In the Interest of Time presents three projects by the Brooklyn collaborative Smudge Studio, comprised of artists Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse. Their primary subject is the landscape, and their approach includes embodying the roles of scientist, historian, anthropologist and, of course, artist. Their process is a performative journey, navigating, investigating and documenting [...]

Armando Miguélez, Estudio Artes Mientras me Caso (I will study art until I get married), Printed on a sticker

Mientras me caso…

There are few times that I complain about living in Mexico.  There are even fewer things that bother me about living here.  Generally, I love everything about the country and the city.  However, at times living in Mexico is like confronting gender roles as they were in the 1960s.  Here it is normal to live [...]

“Michael A. Morris: It’s Just Meant to Be” at Oliver Francis Gallery

“Michael A. Morris: It’s Just Meant to Be” at Oliver Francis Gallery

“It’s Just Meant to Be” is remarkably barebones for a film nerd’s nirvana. It is also visual art for people who wanted Walter Isaacson’s biography Steve Jobs for Christmas and got it. And it’s a little like standing in the much-missed And/Or Gallery once again – smart new media-type stuff in a tiny space that [...]

Wonderful Thing: Indian Fly Whisk

Wonderful Thing: Indian Fly Whisk

This Mughal Dynasty (mid-18th c.) fly whisk is on view in the MFAH’s Indian art galleries. It’s an outstanding object which alone merits a visit to the museum. The MFAH purchased it in 2009, at the time of the opening of the Indian art gallery. The handle is a remarkable example of ivory carving, but [...]