Sorolla And America
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University
December 13 - April 19, 2014
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Barnabaccio (1953-1980): things outside art
Carillon Gallery - Tarrant County College South
November 14 through December 12, 2013
Barnaby Fitzgerald curates objects by the outsider artist. Also in the press release: "The displayed objects are not for sale. They belong to a private collection in Italy." ok.
Walead Beshty: Fair Use
Last Chance - October 25 through December 13, 2013
Collages of Mexican newspapers, a cold-war era films screening, and ceramic sculpture by red-hot LA art phenom.
Video Days
Southern Methodist University Pollock Gallery
Last Chance - November 1 through December 13, 2013
A film and video exhibition featuring Larry Clark, Florian Drexel, Spike Jonze, Nicolas Provost, Christopher Samuels, and Ryan Wolfe that addresses social stereotypes and human conditioning. Curated by James Cope
Jackie and Main Street
H. Paxton Moore Art Gallery, El Centro College
Last Chance - November 11 through December 13, 2013
An examination of the influence of Jacqueline Kennedy on fashion retail during the early 1960s.
Sadie Hawkins
Last Chance - October 26 through December 14, 2013
First popularized by the Li'l Abner comic strip in 1937, Sadie Hawkins Day is an American folk event involving a foot race in which a man is forced to marry his suitor if he is unable to outrun her. In honor of this kitschy tradition, CentralTrak will display Sadie Hawkins, a group show curated by Leigh A. Arnold consisting of women artists whose work focuses on challenging traditional gender expectations. Participating artists include: The Bridge Club, Celia Eberle, Linda Finnell, Susan kae Grant, Margaret Meehan, Nina Schwanse, and Faith Wilding.
American Painting Now
Last Chance - November 2 through December 14, 2013
Curated by Erin Joyce and featuring the work of HENSE, Nicholas Galanin, Adnan Razvi, Jacques Cazaubon Seronde, and William Ambrose, this is an exhibition of contemporary painting.
The Artists’ Commission
Last Chance - November 1 through December 14, 2013
Dallas/Fort Worth and national artists examine the multiple legacies of the 1963 assassination of JFK. Participants include: Mary Wallings Blackburn, Christopher Blay, Celia Eberle, Heyd Fontenot, Ann Glazer, Annette Lawrence, Susan Magilow, Louis Mallozzi, Francisco Moreno, Kurt Mueller, Ruben Nieto, Savannah Niles, Laray Polk, Ryder Richards, Vincent Ramos, Carolyn Sortor, Noah Simblist, Susan Teegarten, Terri Thornton, Vance Wingate. The exhibition is curated by Dallas artist Sally Warren.
Vernon Fisher: Flaubert’s parrot Schrodinger’s cat hey look monkeys throwing shit
Last Chance - November 2 through December 14, 2013
These paintings continue Fisher's exploitation of a wide range of pop cultural and literary references that resist interpretation.
Kate Gilmore: Between A Hard Place
Texas Christian University Art Gallery
Last Chance - November 2 through December 14, 2013
Gilmore's videos and performances involve constructions that are demolished or made to self-destruct.
Robyn O'Neil: WE SPOKE MIRAGE
Last Chance - October 28 through December 14, 2013
Robyn O'Neil has really shaken things up with her new works which are generally smaller and now in color with oil pastel. Bold moves.
untitled: Eli Walker
Last Chance - November 15 through December 15, 2013
Walker writes, teaches and curates - activities that inform his painting.
Kim Squaglia: Gossamer
October 12 through December 21, 2013
October 12 - December 21, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 12, 6 -8 pm Also on view M A T T R I C H through November 16 For Immediate Release (Sept 28, 2013) Holly Johnson Gallery presents "Kim Squaglia: Gossamer", an exhibition of new paintings by the Sacramento based artist. Kim Squaglia's new works consist of biomorphic forms, webs, and tendrils.
PRKD/Subject to Change
October 18 through December 21, 2013
Featuring work by Jesse Morgan Barnett, Bradley Brown, Brandon Kennedy, Ludwig Schwarz and Lucia Simek. Curated by Brandon Kennedy. RSVP to kelly.coppock@dallasartfair.com
Bethany Johnson: Forces, The Will and the Weather
McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
November 9 through December 21, 2013
Johnson's work is from an ongoing body of drawings, including two site-specific large scale works, that render a variety of natural sources with an exacting process.
Jenny Vogel: Before Our Eternal Silence
McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
November 9 through December 21, 2013
Vogel is a multi-media artist whose work explores the world as viewed through new media technology using web-cameras, blogs and Google searches as source material.
Paul Anthony Smith: Walk Bout
McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
November 9 through December 21, 2013
Walk Bout is an ongoing series of works on paper and paintings that examines Smith’s identity as a Jamaican-American artist and the social struggles of his native country using found and historical photographs and a technique termed picotage.
Georg Herold, Faile, Kevin Todora, Kristen Cochran and Lucia Simek
September 21 through December 22, 2013
The massive Dallas Contemporary has all the room in the world and they're using it all to open the fall season with five exhibitions. And the artists are: Georg Herold, Faile, Kevin Todora, Kristen Cochran and Lucia Simek.
The Artists' Commission
November 22 through December 22, 2013
As a memorial of the 50th anniversary of JFK's death, Dallas/Fort Worth and national artists investigate topics such as memory, mourning, and celebrity. Artists include: Celia Eberle, Heyd Fontenot, Annette Lawrence, Kurt Mueller, Noah Simblist, Vance Wingate and others. Curated by Sally Warren.
Acquavenezia: Julie Lazarus
William Campbell Contemporary Art
November 23 through December 28, 2013
This show features oil paintings and glass sculptures informed by the artist's travels to Venice and her interest in the light, atmosphere and landscape there.
amalgam d(8): A selection of Denton's best emerging artists
December 6 through 30, 2013
A new showcase of Denton’s emerging artists which will include installation, video and new media. Artists include: Kaitlyn Arnold, Maren Henson, Caroline Irvin, Maxx Martinez, Jordan Miller, Justin Nguyen, Catherine Parkinson, Katie Vallee.
Clark Goolsby: Shatter
November 23, 2013 through January 2, 2014
Gooolsby has created 12 paintings in which he confronts his emotions triggered by the excess of information.
Elements Altered: Jessica Drenk
November 23, 2013 through January 3, 2014
Drenk takes everyday objects and turns them into caverns, sprawling forms or undulating structures.
Pleasure Tempest: Bonny Leibowitz and Winter Rusiloski
November 23, 2013 through January 4, 2014
Bonny Leibowitz and Winter Rusiloski combine two recent bodies of work. Leibowitz creates three-dimensional work while Rusiloski makes a series of paintings that continue her exercises in the physicality of oil on canvas.
Fresh Dozen
November 23, 2013 through January 4, 2014
Red Arrow Contemporary has partnered with Texas Sculpture Group with twelve artists including: Ken Little, TJ Hilton, Steve Murphy, Glenn Downing, Erin Cunningham, Tommy Gregory, Brooke Gassiot, Katie Pell, Steve Brudniak, Kurt Dryhaug, Ed Wilson and Susan Plum.
Harry Geffert: Studio Dreams
November 23, 2013 through January 4, 2014
Studio Dreams examines Geffert’s obsession with the natural world through replications of delicate details in bronze. Some pieces are tree formations on pedestals while others are wall- mounted casts the replicate color field painting.
Susie Phillips: Still Crazy
November 23, 2013 through January 4, 2014
Susie Phillips moves between pastel drawing and cut paper collage in the newest works.
Color! American Photography Transformed
October 5, 2013 through January 5, 2014
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art opens Color! American Photography Transformed, an examination of how color has changed the nature of photography. Color! includes more than 70 photographs by as many photographers. image: The Fence (Lake Kickapoo, Texas) Trevor Paglen (b. 1974)
México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
September 15, 2013 through January 5, 2014
México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990 is one of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions in over a decade to examine contemporary art of central Mexico and Mexico City from the 1990s to the present day. Organized by curator Andrea Karnes, the exhibition is the first of its kind to be presented in North Texas.
Possessed²: Kevin Parmer and Clay Stinnett
November 13, 2013 through January 5, 2014
What this has to do with the 1984 film by David Lai we're not sure but the left half of this image looks an AWFUL lot like AL Souza's movie poster collages from a few years ago. The show consists of collages by Parmer and paintings by Stinnett.
FOCUS: Terry Haggerty
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
November 17, 2013 through January 5, 2014
Haggerty draws on the vocabulary of abstract art to create his illusory paintings and large-scale wall works.
Creative Differences: 35 Years at 500X
December 7, 2013 through January 5, 2014
500X is one of the oldest artist-run galleries in Texas. This exhibition features a variety of media, including painting, photography, installation, assemblage, video, drawing, and performance by a selection of over 30 former members.
Objectified
December 6, 2013 through January 6, 2014
An exhibition featuring Robin Ragin, David W. Van Ness, and Joy Ude + More!
UNT on the Square
December 5, 2013 through January 9, 2014
Presented for the first time in two venues, the Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibition showcases artworks in all media by the artists working in the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design.
Dornith Doherty, Vincent Falsetta, Robert Jessup and Lesli Robertson.
December 5, 2013 through January 11, 2014
The inaugural exhibition of UNT Artspace Dallas features work created by four faculty fellows of the UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts. The program grants UNT faculty one semester off from teaching to focus on research and work on projects. Featured artists: Dornith Doherty, Vincent Falsetta, Robert Jessup and Lesli Robertson.
Sedrick Huckaby: Everyday Glory
December 4, 2013 through January 11, 2014
All the people in Huckaby's paintings and drawings are from the neighborhood: family, friends, and regulars at the Waffle House, barber shop, bar, and convenience store.
Allison V. Smith: Ship to Shore, Photographs of Maine
December 7, 2013 through January 11, 2014
A collection of Smith's most recent photographs of Maine, capturing its light and coastal life.
Gideon Bok: Studio Paintings
December 7, 2013 through January 11, 2014
This will mark Bok’s first show at the gallery. His layered works are figurative but also rooted in abstraction. The paintings in this exhibition depict studios he has had.
CVAD Annual Faculty Exhibition
December 5, 2013 through January 11, 2014
The University of North Texas and College of Visual Arts and Design presents the inaugural ArtSpace Dallas, a gallery that will showcase works of CVAD’s students, faculty and alumni. Featured artists: Dornith Doherty, Vincent Falsetta, Robert Jessup, and Lesli Robertson.
Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take
October 6, 2013 through January 12, 2014
The DMA will premiere a traveling exhibition and the first comprehensive survey to be organized in the United States on the work of contemporary American artist Jim Hodges, a former TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art honoree. Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center, Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take explores the artist’s twenty-five-year career.
MacGuffin: presented by and x and HOMECOMING! Committee
November 8, 2013 through January 18, 2014
Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Mir?, Noguchi, and Picasso
September 21, 2013 through January 19, 2014
Responding to a variety of personal impulses and historical circumstances, these artists produced bodies of work in fired clay that engaged the material in inventive ways. General Admission: Adults $10. Seniors $7. Students $5. Free for Members and children 12 and under.
ac-qui-si-tions: A Selection from the Past Decade
September 28, 2013 through January 19, 2014
Celebrating the museum's acquisitions over the past decade, the Old Jail Art Center will feature a selection of works highlighting the breadth and depth of this endeavor.
Artifacts From the Adventures of Florence Nightingale: collected by Tom Sale
November 3, 2013 through January 29, 2014
Sale has been working with the subject of Florence Nightingale for over 3 years, with international travels to follow her path. He has collected information and images to create an exhibition about her life. featuring works by Penny Nichols & Richard Saja
Carol Ivey: In a Good Light
December 6, 2013 through February 1, 2014
Ivey’s subject matter consists of found objects which are transformed through her serene compositions.
West Texas Club Woman 1880-1950
September 11, 2013 through February 15, 2014
The American women’s club movement began in 1868 when Jane Cunningham Croly, a professional New York journalist, was denied admittance to an all-male press club event honoring Charles Dickens. In response, she formed a club for women called Sorosis, a Greek word meaning “an aggregation; a sweet flavor of many fruits.” The West Texas Club Woman 1880-1950 exhibition features club woman fashions and artifacts and presents the story Abilene women's organizations contributions to West Texas culture and education.
Revisiting Latin America
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
November 23, 2013 through February 15, 2014
This exhibition will include many Latin American artists exhibited at PDNB who have established themselves as significant artists in the U.S. and their own countries.
John Adelman: One of Two
November 23, 2013 through February 15, 2014
In these new drawings on paper and panel, Adelman adheres to rules that determine their outcome.
Nasher XChange
October 19, 2013 through February 16, 2014
The Nasher Sculpture Center's anniversary public art exhibition: 10 newly-commissioned works by 10 contemporary artists at 10 sites citywide.
Journeys: Arthur Meyerson
September 14, 2013 through February 18, 2014
Arthur Meyerson is recognized as an important photographer. Since 1974, this native Texan has traveled throughout the world, creating advertising, corporate and editorial photographs, as well as fine art imagery.
John Albok's Neighborhood
September 21, 2013 through February 23, 2014
John Albok (1894–1982) was a tailor by profession and an artist by passion. He emigrated from his native Hungary to New York City in 1921 and became an American citizen. By day, he made dresses and suits from his Upper East Side tailor shop. In his free time he photographed the activities of his neighborhood and other areas of the city. He printed his images in a small darkroom in the back and proudly hung them around the shop.
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold
September 14, 2013 through March 2, 2014
The Crow Collection presents Ai Weiwei's series of animal-head sculptures depicting each of the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac. The sculptures are finished in gilding and each animal is rendered to have a distinct personality and anthropomorphic expression.
Concentrations 56: Stephen Lapthisophon—coffee, seasonal fruit, root vegetables
October 27, 2013 through March 30, 2014
In his first U.S. museum solo show, Dallas-based artist Stephen Lapthisophon investigates how language and mark-making are linked to the formation of self-identity. His installations incorporate everyday objects such as furniture and foodstuffs.
The Jerry Lee Musslewhite Collection of Korean Art
September 14, 2013 through August 15, 2014
Drawn from works belonging to a Texas born collector and long time docent at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Jerry Lee Musslewhite collection of Korean Art is comprised of exceptional examples of ceramics, furniture, clothing and painting.
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