By Matthew Bourbon on March 27, 2013
Former North Texas artist Matthew Metzger recently responded to Tête-à-Tête, offering some insight into his calculated and beautifully detailed paintings. Matthew lives and works in Chicago. He received his BFA [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged art, contemporary art, matthew bourbon, painting, Tête-à-Tête |
By Matthew Bourbon on March 7, 2013
Alan Reid was one of my first students when I arrived to teach at the University of North Texas. Since he graduated, many years ago, [...]
Posted in Blog, Matthew Bourbon, Uncategorized | Tagged alan reid, art, artist's interview, contemporary art, italo calvino, matthew bourbon, Monica Vitti, Moritz von Oswald, painting |
By Matthew Bourbon on February 7, 2013
Todd Kelly and I once had studio spaces next to each other in graduate school. With the passing years I have watched his paintings [...]
Posted in Blog, Matthew Bourbon | Tagged abstract painting, art, contemporary art, matthew bourbon, painting, Tête-à-Tête |
By Peter Lucas on October 7, 2012
Celebrating the legendary de Menil years of the Rice Museum and Rice Media Center. The Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this year has had me thinking [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged andy warhol, art, film, menil, rice media center, rice university |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2012
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super [...]
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By Peter Lucas on August 11, 2012
Experimental Eye and The Sounds of Silence. The next 6 weeks bring Houstonians rare opportunities to see some of the most dynamic experimental films in [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged animation, art, aurora picture show, experimental eye, film, menil collection, rice media center, sounds of silence, video |
By Rachel Hooper on July 6, 2012
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to assist with the jurying of Lawndale Art Center’s annual Big Show. I have volunteered for this event [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, contemporary art, Houston, Lawndale Art Center, lawndale big show, marco antonini, NURTUREart, Texas, Walter Hopps |
By Rachel Hooper on February 24, 2012
In many ways, Nancy Zastudil was the inspiration for this series of interviews about sustainable practices. We worked together at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged A+C Houston, andrea polli, Ariane Roesch, art, blaffer art museum, contemporary art, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, ISEA2012, nancy zastudil, pland, residency, sustainability, the lightning field |
By Rachel Hooper on February 19, 2012
There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, camh, contemporary art, devin borden gallery, G gallery, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, mfah, Moody Gallery, Sicardi Gallery, Wade Wilson Art |
By Rachel Hooper on February 11, 2012
It takes a lot of creativity to make a new idea happen and quite a bit of sacrifice to keep it going. Inspired by Glasstire’s [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, art criticism, contemporary art, robert boyd |
By Rachel Hooper on February 9, 2012
Josh Bernstein‘s exhibition “Man Corn” is the third exhibition in Rice University’s newest art venue– EMERGEncy Room. Located on the second floor of Sewall Hall, [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, Cabeza de Vaca, contemporary art, EMERGEncy room, galveston, Houston, josh bernstein, karankawa, man corn, rice university, rice university art, sculpture, woodcut |
By Robert Boyd on February 5, 2012
W.E.B. Du Bois created the term “double consciousness” in 1897 to describe the way African Americans split themselves into two personas, one for each side [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, barkley hendricks, fanboy, geek culture, mundanes, nerd culture, oba, robert boyd, robert pruitt, star trek, w.e.b. du bois |
By Rachel Hooper on February 4, 2012
Four years ago, Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch opened a studio on an upper floor of an outdated and slightly ominous looking office building [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged adela andea, Ariane Roesch, art, Brian Piana, carl sudath, chin xaou ti won, chris akin, contemporary art, contemporary art houston, emily sloan, haden garrett, jim nolan, mary magsamen, nancy douthey, rachel hecker, sasha dela, Skydive, stephan hillerbrand, Terrell James |
By Rachel Hooper on February 3, 2012
My blog, Wax by the Fire, is sort of a love letter to Houston and the intelligent, diverse, and friendly community of creative people who [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, art criticism, box 13, Houston art, Jonathan Leach, rice university art history, rirkrit tiravanija, Walter Benjamin |
By Claire Ruud on January 23, 2012
Long gone are the days when a CEO could simply cut a company check to his favorite charity. Now that it has become clear that [...]
Posted in Blog, Claire Ruud | Tagged art, arts organizations, contemporary art, corporate philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Strategic CSR |
By Sarah Fisch on December 27, 2011
Justin Boyd’s Window Works installation at Artpace is called “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence.” This title struck me as maybe unnecessarily long [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Artpace, Artpace Window Works, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Chupacabrona, field recordings, Glasstire, grackles, hills snyder, Justin Boyd, San Antonio artists, Sarah Fisch, sound art, Soundcloud interview, Texas wildlife |
By Andrea Grover on December 5, 2011
In his 2011 non-fiction book, Moonwalking with Einstein, author Joshua Foer befriends the professional “memory athlete” Ed Cooke who suggests to him that you can [...]
Posted in We Have The Technology | Tagged art, art science interdisciplinary inquiry, hybrid art, science, technology |
By Peter Lucas on November 21, 2011
The new Sundance Cinemas open this Wednesday, in time for the long holiday weekend. Located Downtown at Bayou Place, Sundance promises to more than fill [...]
Posted in Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged art, cinema, film, hugo, into the abyss, j. edgar, melancholia, movie, my week with marilyn, Sundance |
By Sarah Fisch on October 27, 2011
So, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is over. (Which gives me an excuse to post the above image. This particular Rachel Hecker piece is impactful [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged art, Artpace, austin, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, chandeliers, crochet, Glasstire, Houston, impenetrable narrative, monofilament, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, taxidermy, texas contemporary art fair, Texas Gallery, wolves |
By Michael Bise on October 16, 2011
There’s a person somewhere in Houston. They are healthy, just entering the prime of their life. They’ve left childhood but haven’t entered old age. They [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged art, artist, heart transplant, life, Michael Bise, mortality |
