Ludwig Schwarz: Taos (Taos Thrift Shop)
Conduit Gallery
February 18 through March 24, 2012
DFW
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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.
The Illustration Show: TCU Student Illustrators
The Moudy Gallery @ Texas Christian University
Last Chance - February 6 through 24, 2012
The first-ever all-student illustration exhibition held at the university.
Lane Banks: Concentric Squares
Fort Worth Community Arts Center
Last Chance - January 6 through February 25, 2012
Insistently abstract, mathematical, conceptual, and geometric paintings, constructed entirely from numerical rhythms and proportions.
Town and Country
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
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
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.
Liz London: Seeking Infinity
Last Chance - January 19 through February 25, 2012
Allegorical representations of Dallas artist London's personal adventures.
Five Photographers
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
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.
Michael A. Morris: It's Just Meant To Be
Last Chance - February 11 through 25, 2012
A new 16mm film installation, alternative process photography, audio installation, and video considering the difficulty of assigning meaning to a given event or situation, how people's lives are preserved in media, and how those media can be decoded.
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.
Persistence of Self: Paintings by People with Dementia
The Fort Worth Community Arts Center
Last Chance - February 3 through 28, 2012
The Alzheimer’s Association presents an exhibition of watercolor paintings by participants in an art program for people with dementia.
Triple Exposure
The Fort Worth Community Arts Center
Last Chance - February 3 through 28, 2012
A visual examination of the female in society from a woman’s perspective.
Benjamin Terry: Not Really There
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
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.”
In the Interest of Time: An Installation by Smudge Studios
Richland College Brazos Gallery
February 2 through March 2, 2012
Smudge Studio, comprised of NY artists Jamie Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth, investigates and documents convergences between humans and the land through phots and video.
A Fraudulent Desire to Exist
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.
White Steel, Blue Skies: A New Icon for Dallas’ Skyline
January 20 through March 3, 2012
Seven North Texas Latino photographers aim their lenses at Santiago Calatrava's new Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Including works by Sibylle Bauer, Gabrielle Castañeda-Pruitt, Maria Rosa Jaral, Frank Lopez, Cristina Nava, Maria Olivas, and Valerie Ontiveros.
Cecila Shikle: Where She Sleeps
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
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.
Horndeski: The First Thirty Years
February 11 through March 3, 2012
A retrospective of the first 30 years of Dallas/Santa Fe artist Gregory Horndeski.
Michael Henderson: Tunnel
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."
500XPO 2012
February 18 through March 4, 2012
500X's annual roundup of a herd of up-and-coming Texas artists, juried by Aaron Parazette. Get your brand on 'em while they're still roped!
There Are No Straight Lines in Nature: New Photos by Monique L. Roberts
Magnolia Gallery at the Magnolia Theater
February 2 through March 7, 2012
Roberts is a self-taught Dallas photographer. As a pedestrian in a car-centric city, she finds her inspiration from what others may view as the mundane to-and-fro of everyday life.
Peter Helms Feresten: . . .My Mind Wanders to the South Side of Town
Art Corridor (Tarrant County College Southeast)
February 2 through March 8, 2012
A composite vignette of Peter Feresten’s labyrinthine portfolio, curated by Christopher Blay. Feresten arrived in Fort Worth in 1975, and developed a program for the serious study of photography at Tarrant County College.
Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press
Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University
January 21 through March 9, 2012
Printmaking from the esteemed Austin printshop.
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
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.
Brandon McLean, Clark Goolsby, and Rocky Grimes: Amazing Isn't Enough
February 11 through March 12, 2012
Three artists explore the pressures of manhood, the fragility between life and death, and the triumphs, desires, and disasters that occur socially, worldly, and personally.
Steve Murphy
William Campbell Contemporary Art
February 18 through March 17, 2012
Houston artist Murphy's geometric, three-dimensional forms of welded steel, lead, and wood.
Jesse Morgan Barnett: Tour
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.
Forrest Solis: Self and Sex Series: What A Young Woman Ought To Know
February 18 through March 24, 2012
Solis’ paintings contain a fragmented canvas, juxtaposing lessons from early 20th century storybooks next to realistically rendered images of adult women performing daily tasks. Influenced by psychoanalytic art theory and cites Freud, Jung, Lacan, and Bakhtin as part of her source material and inspiration.
Inside Out: New Paintings by William Betts
February 18 through March 24, 2012
Betts' signature precision-machined paintings of both outdoor and interior spaces created by drilling hundreds of thousands of holes in the back of acrylic mirrors and filling them with white paint drops.
C.J. Davis: A New Kissed Out Red Float Boat
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.
AC/OC: New Paintings by Winter Rusiloski, Carmen Menza and Cathy Drennan
February 18 through March 24, 2012
Rusiloski's landscape fusion paintings, Menza’s ongoing jazz influenced compositions and Drennan's new textural studies based on her earlier series incorporating international symbolism.
Bill Haveron: Optic Nerve
February 18 through March 24, 2012
Large works on paper representing struggles of good, evil and the sacred versus the mundane.
Leigh Anne Lester: Family Portraits
February 18 through March 24, 2012
Lester's Family Portraits examine a new facet of family portraiture associated with the advancement of genetic testing.
Joe Mancuso: Recent Works
February 18 through March 24, 2012
Large scale floral forms play with the boundaries of sculpture and painting.
Erin Curtis: Album of the Conqueror
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)
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
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.
Jackson Hammack, Chris Mason, Leslie Tejada
February 18 through March 24, 2012
The 11th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Juried Photography Exhibition
TWU Department of Visual Arts Galleries
February 21 through March 28, 2012
28 artists chosen by juror Anne Lyden, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
José Velazco: Family Pictures
TWU Department of Visual Arts Galleries
February 21 through March 28, 2012
A photographic exploration of Velazco's family.
Corey Gossett: There’s No Sun Shining Through
Gallery 76102 (UT Arlington/Fort Worth Center)
February 9 through March 31, 2012
An installation exploring feelings of frustration, despair and disappointment as they relate to life in a superficial, postmodern society aims to surround and bombard the viewer to reveal a search for meaning and the active struggle against a life of staid consistency.
Frank and Kristin Lee Dufour: Acoustic Shadows
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.
Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments
January 15 through April 15, 2012
Enigmatic and evocative sculptural objects and tableaux by acclaimed Dutch artist Mark Manders, as his work makes its first major North American tour, co-organized by Aspen Art Museum and the Hammer Museum in LA.
Groove
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
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.
Mind, Body & Spirit: Sculpture and Paintings by Kevin Renner
September 10, 2011 through May 7, 2012
Opens Saturday, September 10, 6–8 pm Bold, organic, clay sculptures by Kevin Renner, a Highland Park High School Graduate, who obtained his BA from UTD and his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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.
The Reclusive Image: Works from Texas Museums
February 4 through May 20, 2012
Objects rarely, or never, seen by the general public emerge from the inner vaults of Texas institutions. Accompanying each work is a short description explaining the piece and its reason for infrequent exposure.
Bill Davenport: Old Junk 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.
Friends and Neighbors: The Art of Photographing People
February 10 through June 9, 2012
Photographs by Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Michael Nye, Jecko Vassilev, Eduard Gladkov, Marion Post Wilcott, June Van Cleef, Annie Noggle, Bill Wright, Dennis Fagan and others selected from The Grace Museum's permanent collection.
Michelle Rawlings: Empathicalism
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
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 [...]
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
“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
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 [...]
