“A lot of people think I’m trying to be clever, [but during lockdown] all I wanted to do was to try and make beautiful things."
Oliver Francis Gallery
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An interview with Kevin Rubén Jacobs on the space's resurrection.
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We received a semi-mysterious email today from the address connected to the Dallas gallery that once was OFG.XXX (née Oliver Francis Gallery, a.k.a. PUSHKIN & GOGOL), founded and run by…
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Morris has turned to a kind of religious and artistic formalism, while cultivating a perhaps fanatical relationship with outdated technology, language and phenomenology.
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Vélez's work at Oliver Francis Gallery has a simple aesthetic: angry and loud.
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I enjoy seeing my art scene wearing its Sunday best.
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Just as man evolved from apes, each new work is another instance of Schwarz applying Schwarz, like barbecue sauce, to new situations.
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The exhibit was gratefully, blindingly, direct and free of pretense.
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Glasstire first-responders fish valuables from the onrushing flood of Spring Art Activity across Texas!
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Some weeks, in the sun-beat end of the Texas summer, you can count really good shows on one hand, with some fingers left over to scratch. But this week, the drought is over.
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Skim Milk: Oliver Francis Gallery at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekI don't really care about Dallas for Dallas and all of that talk. I want to fully exploit the potential of exoticism that the word Dallas brings to mind to people outside of the state.
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The recession brought to the city a concentration of young, energetic, like-minded creatives. Now, how do we keep them here?
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East Dallas Gallery Day is all day today (well, 12-8 PM) but, if you get there early, you can grab a gift bag (each gallery has them for the first…
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Jeff Gibbons: Chee$e = Milk’s 4th State of Matter, Chances Are, Intermission and The Brite Sun
Overall, Jeff Gibbons’ show(s) at Oliver Francis Gallery in Dallas is great—please go see it. It feels a little disjointed, but dealing with it by apologetically making the exhibition into…
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I recently traded the gritty Houston humidity for the strange sibling rivalry of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Somewhere in the center of this familial spat is the University of Texas…
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Over the weekend I had the amazing pleasure of visiting Dallas. Yes, that’s right, pleasure! Aside from the major Dallas institutions, I was fairly ignorant of the existing arts scene…
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Despite all that’s wrong in this society it’s the responsibility of the new artists to occur. The explanation that the times and the society are bad is pointless. Probably they’ve…
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On Saturday, June 16, eight galleries located in the Deep Ellum and Expo Park kick off the Summer together with East Dallas Gallery Day. Barry Whistler, The Public Trust, Kirk…
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“Michael A. Morris: It’s Just Meant to Be” at Oliver Francis Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy Lewis“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…
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This last April I attended a curators’ symposium in Austin during the Texas Biennial. It was a day-long series of panel discussions and presentations hosted by Arthouse, right around the…