Jeff Gibbons: Chee$e = Milk’s 4th State of Matter, Chances Are, Intermission, The Brite Sun
Oliver Francis Gallery
May 18 through June 18, 2013
DFW ART EVENTS
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Georgeanne Deen: Forever Eve
Last Chance - April 5 through May 25, 2013
Elegant, sad and often hilarious portraits of eve as everywoman imprisoned by indecision, pride, meanness but ultimately by the inability to quit thinking so much.
Ryan Sarah Murphy: Parameters
Last Chance - April 6 through May 25, 2013
The inaugural show at the new Liliana Bloch Gallery features New York artist Ryan Sarah Murphy's collaged works on paper made from found, colored cardboard and graphite.
Forever Eve: Georganne Deen
Last Chance - April 5 through May 25, 2013
Forever Eve by Georganne Deen is organized by the brand 10 + and x art space founders and team of collaborative artists/curators Heagan Bayles, Christine Bisetto, Matthew Clark and Kathy Webster.
Keri Oldham: Space for all Endings
Last Chance - April 20 through May 25, 2013
Keri Oldham’s watercolor paintings explore film narratives, death, space and memory.
Roger Winter: collages 1968-2012, Portraits: 2013
Last Chance - April 20 through May 25, 2013
A trove of small, intimate portraits based on casual pencil drawings of the faces he sees on the streets and in the subways of his adopted NYC. Winter, born in Denison, Texas, currently lives and works in Santa Fe and New York. He holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a MFA from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He returned to Texas in 1961 where he taught drawing and painting at Southern Methodist University for twenty six years.
Eduardo Portillo: An Allegory of Humor
Last Chance - April 20 through May 25, 2013
Colossal, multi-colored sculptures create a sense of awe and curiosity similar to the feelings evoked in him when viewing the circus for the first time.
Collage Now Then & Again
Last Chance - April 20 through May 25, 2013
Barry Whistler Gallery presents Collage: Now Then & Again, an exhibition featuring the work of fifteen artists with Texas roots. The work is influenced by the beginnings of Collage that began with the Cubists.
Texas Impressionism: Branding with Brushstroke and Color, 1885-1935
Last Chance - February 10 through May 26, 2013
Experience the beauty of Texas Impressionism.
Chagall: Beyond Color
Last Chance - February 17 through May 26, 2013
Co-organized by the DMA and Musée La Piscine de Roubaix, the exhibition showcases little-known works including ceramics, collages, sculpture, and performance by the famous painter. Tickets $16 (with discounts for studets and others) at the "free" museum.
Marie Cosindas: Instant Color
Last Chance - March 5 through May 26, 2013
Cosindas tested a new instant color film for Polaroid before they marketed it. She took to the process and proved instrumental in revealing the artistic potential of color photography.
Drawing You In
Last Chance - April 28 through May 26, 2013
The Fort Worth Drawing Center presents its second exhibition, Drawing You In. The exhibition features three artists – Caitlin Allen, Sean Robert FitzGerald, and Marco Raparelli. Often perceived as a solitary or isolated practice, drawing is explored by these artists as an active medium through multiple figures or interactive installation. Drawing You In is curated by Visiting Curator Alexander Unkovic, the McDermott Curatorial Intern for Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art.
Kate Carr: Joinery and Allie Pohl: Ideal Woman
April 6 through June 1, 2013
Carr explores joinery techniques as metaphor and practice. Pohl’s work comments on the pressures which women face living in contemporary society.
Aran: New Paintings and Drawings by Sam Reveles
April 20 through June 1, 2013
Abstract painter Sam Reveles shows twelve paintings and works on paper that explore the abstract possibilities inspired by landscape . The exhibition’s title references the Aran Islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland.
Violent Motion: Frederic Remington’s Artistry in Bronze
February 28 through June 2, 2013
11 of Remington’s action-filled sculptures of horses and their riders, juxtaposed with Remington’s paintings to demonstrate how his artworks reveal action in a two-dimensional versus a three-dimensional medium. Curated by rick Stewart, former Director of the Amon Carter Museum.
FOCUS: Barry McGee
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
March 31 through June 2, 2013
McGee emerged in the early 1990s as part of the graffiti boom in San Francisco.
The Color Black: A Conversation In Three Parts
May 11 through June 2, 2013
Featuring: L.E. Doughtie, Diane Durant, Timothy Harding
Justin Ginsberg: Mesophase
May 3 through June 4, 2013
Ro2 Art welcomes Justin Ginsberg for his solo exhibition, Mesophase.
Cindy Sherman
March 17 through June 9, 2013
A nationally touring survey of the influential artist, known for photographing herself in a range of guises and personas that are by turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting. Cindy Sherman requires a special exhibition ticket of $16 for adults, with discounts for students, military personnel, and seniors; DMA Partners and children 11 and under are free.
Stephen Lebowitz: Second Dialogues
April 6 through June 15, 2013
Work by an architect and contemporary realist painter.
Resurrected Dreams: Cowboys, Aliens and Espionage: Randall Reid
William Campbell Contemporary Art
May 10 through June 16, 2013
Resurrected Dreams is the first body of Reid’s work focused on specific themes. Informed by a personal interest in television series, movies, and 1960s sci-fi, the work explores collective pop-cultural history. The exhibition features mini-installations of antique toys including model stagecoaches and riders on horseback, plastic guns, alien figurines and paintings.
Jeff Gibbons: Chee$e = Milk's 4th State of Matter, Chances Are, Intermission, The Brite Sun
May 18 through June 18, 2013
Oliver Francis Gallery presents a (pre-opening sneak peek) press reception for Jeff Gibbons'' four solo exhibitions. There will be an opening to the public on Saturday, May 18. Jeff Gibbons is currently finishing his MFA in Intermedia at the University of Texas at Arlington and with four solos under his belt at once! Nice CV strategics!
Sharon Louden: Simple Strokes
April 6 through June 22, 2013
Three animations: Carrier, The Bridge, and Hedge, and two wall sculptures based on Merge, a site specific installation inspired by the Frank Gehry designed addition Louden made for the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.
Scene of the Crime II
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
April 20 through June 22, 2013
PDNB Gallery presents its second exhibition of crime scene photographs. Photographs of Mob characters, including Albert Anastasia, will be featured as well as actual crime scenes in visceral detail.
Frayed elements, Surface Tension and Eye Candy
May 18 through June 22, 2013
Cohn Drennan Contemporary presents three series of paintings from three artists, Giovanni Valderas, Michael McKenzie and Allison Gregory. Valderas incorporates mixed media to depict ambiguous objects in his paintings. Gregory uses found objects and toys from Hobby Lobby and Michaels in her work, while cultural symbols and dream imagery inform McKenzie's paintings.
Joey Brock, Heather Gorham and Danna Ruth Harvey
May 18 through June 22, 2013
SAID, Student Work from Abilene Christian University
May 18 through June 22, 2013
SAID (Student Artists in Dallas) is a selection of student work from Abilene Christian University (ACU), Art Department’s Professional Practices course. The artists represented in this exhibition are Hortencia Flores, Asja Leznina, Paris PLR and SM Tracy. This exhibition is the second in an annual series of gallery collaborations with university students and professors to advance the development of the next generation of artists and art professionals.
Anne Ferrer
May 18 through June 22, 2013
Red Arrow Contemporary features the inflatable sculptures of Parisian artist Anne Ferrer. Ferrer uses brightly colored sailcloth to create billowing forms that suggest undulating creatures. The exhibition also features several watercolor paintings.
Steve McCurry: The Unguarded Moment
May 18 through June 22, 2013
Laura Rathe Fine Art announces the Dallas debut of photographer, Steve McCurry, in a solo exhibition. Recognized for his works featured on the covers and pages of National Geographic, McCurry has captured worldly landscapes and drawn awareness to cultures abroad.
Beyond Abstraction: Recent Works by Six North Texas Artists
McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
May 18 through June 29, 2013
The MAC presents an exhibition of works that test the boundaries of abstraction featuring six North Texas artists including David A. Dreyer, Vincent Falsetta, David McCollough, Michael Osbaldeston, Ricardo Paniagua and Michael Tichansky. The exhibition is curated by David McCullough.
Robin Ragin: Homage to a Mentor
McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
May 18 through June 29, 2013
The MAC introduces Robin Ragin with her first solo exhibition. Twenty years ago, Ragin began working in the studio of artist David McManaway. Ragin presents her own interpretations of McManaway's assemblage works.
Andrew Douglas Underwood: The Fall of Bonnie and Clyde
McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
May 18 through June 29, 2013
The MAC presents The Fall of Bonnie and Clyde, an exhibition by Andrew Douglas Underwood. The story of Dallas outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow is overlaid with symbolic imagery primarily relating to the fall of man.
That Mortal Coil: Rebuking the Ideal in Figurative Art
May 11 through June 29, 2013
CentralTrak presents That Mortal Coil: Rebuking the Ideal in Figurative Art, a group exhibition curated by Heyd Fontenot. The cultural preoccupation with beauty has led many contemporary artists to confront idealization of the human figure. This group exhibition examines the frailty of flesh. Rather than rejecting beauty, these artists search for beauty in the varied appearances of the human condition. Artists: Seth Alverson (Houston), R.E. Cox (Dallas), Brian K. Jones (Dallas), Denise Prince (Austin), Ari Richter (New York), Nina Schwanse (New Orleans/Los Angeles) and Taro-kun (Japan). Viewer Discretion is Advised - this exhibition features "adult content"!!!
Impressions of Europe: 19th-Century Vistas by Martín Rico
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University
March 10 through July 7, 2013
The Prado Museum and the Meadows Museum present the first-ever monographic exhibition on the work of Spanish painter Martín Rico y Ortega (1833-1908). Rico’s luminous, plein air landscapes enchanted some of the greatest American collectors of the era.
Pack a Wallop: Mark Todd, Fred Stonehouse, Thynon Sykes
April 28 through July 14, 2013
If you've never been to Webb Gallery in Waxahachie make the trek. It's fun, a little crazy and all Texas. This one should definitely be worth it as it features entertainment by Quintron and Miss Pussycat. Google 'em.
Dan Rees
April 12 through July 27, 2013
The Foundation’s First Artist in Residence, British-born artist Dan Rees has been invited to live for a time in Dallas and create original work. Area art students will be invited to meet the artist and watch the process of production. For one of his works, A Good Idea Is A Good Idea, Rees reproduced famous oeuvres by Malevich, Mondrian, and de Kooning, among others, on several copies of the Beatles’ White Album covers.
Group Show
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
May 18 through August 3, 2013
The summer heat is around the corner which means it is time for the ubiquitous summer group shows. In the past, PDNB Gallery has presented themed group shows, however, the upcoming Group Show, simply stated, will illustrate the breadth of the gallery's offerings without a special theme.
John Pomara: Wipe Out
April 12 through August 9, 2013
Dallas legend John Pomara deconstructs social media through digitally altered tumblr pictures. Curated by DC Director Peter Doroshenko.
David Aylsworth: Five, Six, Seven, Eight
May 18 through August 10, 2013
Holly Johnson Gallery presents an opening of new work by H-Town's own David Aylsworth. To celebrate Aylsworth's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery a catalogue will be available. Pinks, yellows and whites dominate this group of recent oil on canvas paintings, which to reference the gaiety of Broadway numbers and choreographed performances.
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
May 18 through August 11, 2013
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey is an exhibition of nearly 50 artworks by Romare Bearden (1911-1988). The collages, watercolors and prints in the exhibition are based on Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey." The exhibition is the first full-scale presentation of these works outside of New York City and is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). Admission is free - and that's how it should be!
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University of Dallas Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery
May 10 through August 18, 2013
The University of Dallas Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery presents 8, an exhibition of recent works by University of Dallas Art Department Graduate Students curated by Erin Cluley of the Dallas Contemporary. This exhibition will feature ceramic, painting, printmaking, and sculptural works. Artists: Mike Farmer, Rani Rautela, Maryssa Moczan, Rachael Anderson, Jessie Martinez, Eliana Miranda, Austin Deal, Seth Trent.
SONER
April 12 through August 19, 2013
Dallas graffiti artist SONER gets his first institutional show, curated by Dallas Contemporary’s director, Peter Doroshenko. Two major wall paintings and one interactive community art work where visitors will be able to create their own graffiti writing inside the museum.
Walter Van Beirendonck
April 12 through August 19, 2013
Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck exhibits his spring 2013 collection of one-of-a-kind pieces on a series of motorized pedestals, allowing audience members to experience the garments from all angles.
Gold On Black: Japanese Lacquer from the Jacqueline Avant Collection
March 2 through September 15, 2013
Lacquerware, inlaid with tiny flakes of gold, silver, and mother of pearl, was one of the highest forms of art among aristocratic Japanese families; it was used in gifts and dowries, family heirlooms, and collections.
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