Barbara Purcell talks with Dallas-based self-taught artist Jammie Holmes about his life, his career, and his current exhibition on view in New York.
Barbara Purcell
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Interview
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Barbara Purcell on a solo exhibition of work by longtime Austin artist Sarah Canright, on view at DUSTY.
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Review
Review: “We the People: The Radical Notion of Democracy” at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Barbara Purcell reviews an exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that confronts perceived notions of America's history.
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Barbara Purcell talks with artist Henry Horenstein about his solo show at grayDUCK Gallery, his thoughts on digital versus film photography, and his interest in animals and Texas' music scene.
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Essay
Objects of Deployment: Blue Star Contemporary Presents “The Veterans Book Project” and “Travel Distance”
Barbara Purcell on two exhibitions at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio that feature artwork about and by U.S. service veterans.
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Review
Greetings from the Land of the Sun: Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas’ “The Blessings of the Mystery”
Barbara Purcell on an exhibition that examines the wide-ranging effects of land use in West Texas
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Barbara Purcell reviews "The Whispers" by Tarek Atoui, the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize winner, at the Contemporary Austin-Jones Center
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In "Drawing Conclusions," on view at Northern-Southern in Austin, artist Tyeschea West offers up ten colorful photographic paintings that create a sort of double exposure of what is known and what is felt about the individuals in her work.
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Barbara Purcell reviews the 2022 edition of the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
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Barbara Purcell talks with Houston artist Christopher Cascio about his current solo exhibition at Ivester Contemporary in Austin.
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Barbara Purcell reviews the book "Plagues and Pencils," written by Edward Carey and published by the University of Texas Press.
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Though abstract in nature, there is something familiar, and often figural, in the rhythmic lines of Herrera’s work: joyous, dancerly, tousled.
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Red Star’s artwork is an autobiographical revelation, both personally and culturally, offering up lesser-known parts of our history through a living, breathing heritage.
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Review
Live Forever: Donald Moffett’s “Nature Cult (early freeze, late sleet)” at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
There is a shellacked magic to Donald Moffett’s resin paintings, an edibility of cured color that satisfies the eye like candy.
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Barbara Purcell interviews the founders and directors of Really Small Museum, a small but mighty new exhibition space in Austin.
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Barbara Purcell reviews Nick Barbee's solo exhibition at the Galveston Arts Center. This is the first solo show by the artist in Galveston in the ten years he has lived and worked there.
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Barbara Purcell reviews Terry Allen's exhibition "MemWars" at the Blanton Museum of Art at UT Austin.
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Lauren Winchell Bechelli firmly believes in the impossibility of specificity. Her artworks are undecipherable composites of old ideas made new again.
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In "Espejo Quemeda" Donna Huanca evokes geologic time and metaphoric place through a series of paintings, sculptures, and soundscapes inspired by the West Texas region.
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Mao's site-specific installation at Co-Lab brings together an affinity for steel, ceramics, and leather, with a refined sense of melding materiality into a multivalent metaphor — in this case, the symbolic, dualistic nature of the serpent.