Travis Kent inventories his life, landscapes, tableaux, flora, family, friends, events mournful and silly, objects majestic and mundane, in low-fi snapshots with a garage band aesthetic, if he remains true…
June 2011
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The Joanna’s Cody Ledvina does his first-ever live performance during the opening reception of at Box 13, seeking “a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of…
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In her 2010 video “Me Time” San Antonio artist Joey Fauerso passionately makes out with hand puppets including a policeman, a firefighter, and a construction worker. In “The Clearing,” a…
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In upper-class Ming and Qing China, beds were private spaces for slumber, frolicking, and reproductive get-togethers. Dream Chamber features examples of hardwood furniture that might comprise a bed chamber in…
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Terri Thoman presents a personal expression of domestic abuse 26 original monotypes entitled Death of a Woman, for sale in a custom handmade box. David Mitchell Dillard’s Paralytic Compulsions are…
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A real life field day, with water ballon fighting, three-legged races, and generic Kool-aid, luring participants to explore ideas around artistic collaboration and ethics, and encouraging them to form a…
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The exhibition samples Gonzalez‘s work from early, traditional renderings in graphite; later explorations into abstraction; and more recent images of social commentary.
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“The hardware store that doesn’t sell hardware” is hosting the next in a series of grassroots, ragtag craft markets, loosely organized by Hello Lucky, just across the street from the…
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Vox Culture, an “arts and advocacy network” that has a warehouse space in Houston, is holding a social mixer that includes “creative pieces” on the theme “Hope,” including an art…
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Jenny Schlief Stock Photography is an ongoing project where Houston artist Jenny Schlief models everyday situations from stock photos. The Woman series is based on a search in shutterstock and…
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In the front downstairs gallery at Box 13, Romanian-born artists Tudor Mitroi and Dumitru Gorzo, both living in the US, focus on their status as at once participants and spectators…
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The MAC has undertaken a three-year collaboration with the MFAH’s CORE fellowship program to travel CORE exhibitions to Dallas. This first show includes CORE Fellows Nick Barbee, Lourdes Correa-Carlo, Fatima…
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“Meander among the many artists” for “eye candy never seen before” at the first-ever HAC Extravaganza by the Houston Artists’ Collective (HAC), a group of 700+ (?!?) Houston-area artists. This…
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The Dallas Arts District annual Summer Block Party, combining the DMA Late Night, ‘til Midnight at the Nasher Sculpture Center, and Crow Collection After Dark. This month, the DMA kicks…
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Tech-happy artist-engineers Johnny DiBlasi, Steven Kraig, Patrick Renner, Sam Singh and Eric Todd have created a living organism which responds to viewers in the gallery out of large-scale theremins, mechanical…
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Works on paper by: Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Sherrie Levine, Vic Muniz, Elizabeth Peyton
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Got a short attention span? These less-than-three-minute films or less are sure to keep you engaged. It’s Aurora Picture Show‘s 14th Annual Extremely Shorts Film Festival, juried by Brent Hoff,…
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The Reading Room‘s Bloomsday celebration begins at 6 with a screening of Harrell Fletcher’s Blot Out the Sun in which a very condensed version Ulysses is staged in a service…
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Works by Trinity University assistant professor Jon Lee, a master craftsman both in the U.S. and his native Republic of Korea. Lee, who makes his own inks, paper, and tools,…
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Thirty drawings by abstract artist Burgoyne Diller, representing his long career, from early Cubist experimentations in the 1930s to severe, geometric studies for sculptures in the 1960s. The first complete…