By Rachel Hooper on March 11, 2013
Picasso Black and White has all the ingredients of a blockbuster exhibition. The featured artworks are historically significant examples from the best known periods of [...]
Posted in Article, Blog, Feature | Tagged drawing, guernica, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Pablo Picasso, painting, sculpture |
By Rachel Hooper on January 27, 2013
This week’s theme was: overwhelming. Many of the artworks and exhibitions I saw were so ambitious and large-scale that I felt consumed by the artist’s [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged ceramic conference, collages, damaged romanticism, drawing, emily peacock, houston center for contemporary craft, Kent Dorn, landscape, Lawndale Art Center, leipzig, McClain Gallery, michael j strand, misfit cup liberation project, painting, photography, rosa loy, sublime, teresa currea, Xochi Solis |
By Rachel Hooper on January 20, 2013
Saw a lot of amazing art this week. Not only were the works themselves curious, mysterious, visceral and fascinating in so many ways, but in [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged Art League Houston, camh, comic, curtis gannon, dance, davide savorani, diverseworks, drawing, el rincon social, galveston artist residency, galveston arts center, installation, jesse bransford, josh bernstein, Kathryn Kelley, mandala, mark ponder, patrick renner, performance, sculpture, slide jam, text, tony feher |
By Rachel Hooper on December 29, 2012
There has been a lot of excitement about painting in Houston this year, with Aaron Parazette’s In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery and a big [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged aaron parazette, Ariane Roesch, Art Palace, box 13 artspace, camh houston, carl suddath, clarence chun, Debra Barrera, devin borden gallery, drawing, eric zimmerman, front gallery, Gallery Sonja Roesch, galveston arts center, graphite, ink, kerry inman, kia neill, Laura Lark, linda darke, mark lombardi, mark ponder, McClain Gallery, Michael Bise, Moody Gallery, pen, redbud gallery, robert pruitt, Robyn O’Neil, unit, william witte |
By Rachel Hooper on October 7, 2012
After a two-year stint in New York and Nebraska, Eric Zimmerman returns to Texas with the multi-site project Endless Disharmony & Telltale Ashes at Art [...]
Posted in Review | Tagged ashes, atlas, bemis center, bison, buffalo, collage, cosmos, coyote, drawing, endless disharmony, eric zimmerman, exploration, graphite, houdini, manifest destiny, roy orbison, sound installation, sublime, telltale ashes, trompe l'oeil, tumblr, utah, void, works on paper, Yellowstone |
By Dan R. Goddard on January 6, 2012
Providing a behind-the-scenes peek at the work of San Antonio artists, Donna Simon, a retired Brackenridge High School art teacher, conducts guided tours of [...]
Posted in Alamo City, Blog | Tagged artists' studios, David Shelton Gallery, Donna Simon, drawing, glass art, Jake Zollie Harper, jayne lawrence, Seeing Art San Antonio, Zollie Glass Studio |
By Lucia Simek on December 16, 2011
Lawrence Lee and Jonathan Cross are art dopplegangers. While they look nothing alike, the trajectories of their art careers have played out in very similar [...]
Posted in Blog, Shelf Life | Tagged barry whistler, ceramics, drawing, Jonathan Cross, Lawrence Lee |
