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 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 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 Rachel Hooper on February 13, 2013
This is officially the season of painters’ painters. Three major exhibitions curated by Houston-based painters have opened in the last five months– “In Plain Sight” [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged aaron parazette, artist's interview, common objects, Daniel Anguilu, David Shelton Gallery, Geoff Hippenstiel, houston arts alliance, Howard Sherman, in plain sight, Lane Hagood, lynn randolph, Marcelyn McNeil, michael guidry, nathan hayden, painting, robert ruello, shane tolbert, ted gahl, tudor mitroi |
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 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 December 9, 2012
We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged ann wood, Artpace, benjamin h mcvey, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, brian fridge, catherine anspon, claudia schmuckli, claudio dicochea, dikeou collection, Esteban Delgado, ethan moore, gabriel diego delgado, gary schafter, Goya, ivan salacido, jon pylypchuk, Jonathan Leach, justin randolph thompson, liza littlefield, McNay Art Museum, Michele Monseau, nancy douthey, painting, photography, royal art lodge, sculpture, susan plum, University of houston, utsa, video, vincent valdez |
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 Rachel Hooper on August 17, 2012
For Part I, click here. For Part II, click here. Why do certain artworks have such a lasting impact? To stay with me, artworks usually [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged Architecture, black monks of mississippi, camh, documenta 13, etal adnan, huguenot house, kassel, menil collection, mount tamalpais, painting, performance, site-specific, theaster gates, tino sehgal |
By Laura Lark on July 18, 2012
Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack [...]
Posted in Blog, Laura Lark Loves You | Tagged Al Herrmann, Al Herrmenn, amyl nitrate, artist, Australian citizen, beach, bikini, BLDGBLOG, Brooklyn, Captain Morgan's, Carl's Jr., cars, Claremont., coast, collector, curator, Dan Flavin, Dwell Magazine, Eric Niebuhr, Geoff Manaugh, GIVE UP, hiram butler, hologram, hors d'oevres, Houston, james turrell, Kennedy, Koresh, LACMA, live oak friends meeting house, Los Angeless, Machine Project, Made in LA, madonna, mark allen, menil collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, New York City, ocean, painting, pooping, public facilities, Rice, Rich's, San Francisco, schnapps, Sky Space, Southern California, sunset, Texan, The Hammer, Tijuana, toby kamps, Trader Joe's, TV |
By Rachel Hooper on May 22, 2012
Box 13 ArtSpace on the east side of Houston just opened their first set of summer exhibitions featuring a roster of artists from around the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Wax by the Fire | Tagged Ariane Roesch, box 13, britt ragsdale, ei jane janet lin, emily peacock, harry dearing iii, miao jiaxin, painting, performance, radu runcanu, shanghai, video, william witte |
By Margaret Meehan on January 8, 2012
Finding this image: Made me think of this: Which reminded me of another book cover: Which made me think of Austin’s own: A family needs [...]
Posted in Melba Toast | Tagged laurie simmons, Louise Bourgeois, painting, Paul McCarthy, robert gober, seth alverson, Sterling Allen, zz top |
By Laura Lark on September 20, 2011
Big cities with vibrant art scenes have big art fairs, right? Sure. So it stands to reason that Houston, home of lots of great art, [...]
Posted in Blog, I'm with stupid, Uncategorized | Tagged Armory Show, Art League, austin, bad art, Bill Davenport, Brick Tamlind, crack house, dead squirrel, distressed, Donald Sultan, drag queen, Dubuffet, fiberglass insulation, food, food art, funky, gentrified, George R. Brown Convention Center, hellhole, Houston Antique Dealers Association, houston fine art fair, inane chitchat, Insperity Golf Experience, invisibility, Kelly Klaasmeyer, Manhattan, marshall lightman, miniature golf, minimalist, Montrose, neighborhood, painful social interaction, painting, parking, Pulse Fair, Ron Burgundy, rustic, Scope Fair, slutty, soulless jerks, SUV, taco truck, Veronica Corningstone, Victoria Lightman, Volta Fair, weird |
By Eric Zimmerman on August 15, 2011
When it comes to art, using the word ‘crisis’ is always a massive overstatement. Between the crises in painting, criticism, and photography you’d think that [...]
Posted in Blog, Eric Zimmerman | Tagged art, audience, crisis, criticism, painting |
