Joseph Phillips: Reconciling the Gulf
cactus bra SPACE
May 3 through June 1, 2012
San Antonio
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Al Souza: More Fundamentals
Last Chance - April 19 through May 26, 2012
New mixed media collages and cut paper “bookworks” from five recent bodies of work by Al Souza.
Laurel Gibson: String Theory
Last Chance - May 12 through 26, 2012
Designs based on Medieval Islamic tiles.
Ricardo Romo: Family Traditions: Easter in Brackenridge Park
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Photographs, curated by Arturo Infante Almeida.
Texas Photographers: Descriptions of China
UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures
Last Chance - April 7 through May 27, 2012
Joseph Phillips: Reconciling the Gulf
May 3 through June 1, 2012
Naive plans for potentially grand or impossible constructions that hint at our desires and fears, our capabilities and our limitations.
3 From Texas: John Dyer, Lionel Sosa, Diane Mazur
May 10 through June 9, 2012
Featuring Photography by John Dyer, and Paintings by Lionel Sosa and Diane Mazur.
Baroque to Bauhaus: Designs from the Tobin Collection
January 18 through June 10, 2012
Contrasting aproaches to theater design in two antithetical styles: the spare, clean lines of the Bauhaus challenging the painterly illusionism of the Baroque.
Cathy Cunningham-Little: Chewing The Tail End of Reflection
May 4 through June 10, 2012
Continues her exploration of light from her recent show at Blue Star art space.
The Chinese Art of Cricket Keeping: The Ernest K.H. Lee Collection
December 23, 2011 through June 15, 2012
Crickets have been kept as pets in China for at least 1,000 years. Dr. Ernest Lee'S large, diverse, and impressive collection of cricket cages and implements in gourd, tortoiseshell, jade, ivory, cloisonné, silver, Peking glass, porcelain, and even coconut. Other cricket-keeping objects include agitators used to prepare crickets for fighting, cricket-catchers, fighting arenas, cricket coffins, and even cricket beds – don't miss it!
Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves
February 17 through June 30, 2012
A presentation of Julien's 2009 work, co-comissioned by the Linda Pace Foundation. Ten Thousand Waves was filmed on location in China and poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient past and present. The work explores the movement of people across countries and continents and meditates on unfinished journeys.
Three Painters: Sylvia Benitez, Eva Bovenzi, and Henry Leo Schoebel
May 19 through June 30, 2012
Dennis Olsen: Retrospective
May 11 through July 6, 2012
From 1972 self-portrait etchings to the fictitious intaglio portraits from 2009-2012. Dennis Olsen is a Professor of Art at UTSA and the founder and director of The Reparata School of Art, Florence, Italy.
What is a curator?
May 18 through July 7, 2012
Guest Curator, Chad Dawkins asked 75 artists, critics, curators and collectors, "what is a curator?" via email, and made this exhibition.
New Works Now: Alex de Leon, Katrina Moorhead, Katie Pell, Juan Miguel Ramos, Lordy Rodriguez
May 10 through September 9, 2012
Five former residents from Texas. Following its closing at Artpace, New Works Now will travel to the Dikeou Collection in Denver, Colorado.
Thomas Cummins
May 10 through September 9, 2012
Cummins juxtaposes a large-scale panorama of a bridge in St. Louis with an image of his own abandoned studio at the former Blue Star Silos in San Antonio, merging his personal history with that of another man by the same name.
Adam Schreiber: Flanagan – Tiravanija
April 14 through December 15, 2012
New photographs by Chicago-based artist Adam Schreiber based on research at LindaPace's CAMPstreet penthouse apartment.
Art in the Garden 2012
March 23, 2012 through March 1, 2013
Curated by British sculptor Phillip King, Art in the Garden 2012 is a 12-month exhibit that will feature a dozen sculptures by members of the Texas Sculpture Group and the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance.
Recents Posts
Found Art: Serbian Groom Trolls for Bride
The image above and those below were pasted in a document that opened with the following (loosely translated) text: “To all unmarried ones who would like to spend their life by my side and within all the beauties of my home. Please look below at all the magic of my home that I have decorated [...]
90s Nostalgia: Lamenting the loss of the mega bookstore while loving the iPad
During the 90s, I worked at Hastings. Similar to other major retail entertainment chains (Borders, Blockbuster, Tower, etc.), Hastings sells just about every form of consumable media, and can be found in mid-size cities and suburbs across the country. Going there as a kid (the nearest one being a half hour’s drive) was an important [...]
Zona MACO México 2012
The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind in Mexico City. The annual art fair, in its eighth year, Zona MACO took place last week and sent the art world into a tizzy of openings, events, dinners, 1pm brunches, and cocktail hours that left us all reeling. In all the art fairs that I [...]
Thomas Kinkade, Disney, and NASCAR
The world lost Thomas Kinkade more than a week ago, an artist whose importance during his life was measured by product placement and marketing prowess. Kinkade’s work always fascinated me, not because his formulaic shuffle of cottages, lighthouses and waterfall gardens appealed to my taste, but because he seemed like a conflicted character. Many remember [...]
