Here's my list as of today, with some comments: Bill Davenport (go figure) Francesca Fuchs (ditto) Katrina Moorhead Brad Tucker (on provisional status: he moved to Austin) Susie Rosmarin (back…
Bill Davenport
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Last week I went on safari in Grapeland, Texas. In true Texan style, I didn't get out of my car. I paid $5 and was turned loose to chase gazelles,…
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If there was ever a show you need to see in person, it's Courbet: Birth of the Modern Landscape at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gustave Courbet's landscapes and…
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Standing Man with Dead Man and Volcano is Alverson’s best. A man in a striped shirt stands over the body of a similar man in a green shirt in a…
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Ripped From the Pages is one of a series of shows at CACHH's gallery 125 showcasing the work of the latest crop of individual artist grant recipients. CACHH bundles an…
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The poster by Josh Smith for Take One at the Glassell School's upstairs project space was a sheet of used newspaper, but it should have been a bag. 25 pieces…
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Despite the sculpture, the video, the radio controlled car, the diorama, and the coloring book, Seth Mittag’s Gun Play at Poissant Gallery is a drawing show with trimmings. That’s good:…
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It's a group show of sculpture by four guys on a really big, low table. The sculptures are nice, but first, let’s talk about the table. Like all truly paradigm-setting…
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“Taping up windows is a waste of time because tape isn't going to keep your neighbor's garbage can – which he should have stashed in a place where the wind…
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Thursday, September 8, was this year's Downtown Stomp Around, a less extensive and more upscale version of the infamously sweaty warehouse art crawl.
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The 2006 IKEA catalog has an art section. It’s about what you would expect: flowers, rocky seashores, childlike abstraction.
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Summer is the silly season, when museums twist their mission statements all to hell in search of blockbusters, and the public, desperate to hide out from another infernal Houston afternoon,…
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Dan McCleary paints everyday people and happenings with a low-intensity psychological realism, building calm, careful cardboard simulations of everyday life, a dollhouse where his characters play out scenes of control,…
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Like a drawer full of mismatched socks, shows like Absolute Destiny Apocalypse make me itch to organize.
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I like Lubbock on Top’s generous circle-the-wagons sense of community: if these artists weren’t all in Lubbock, they would never show together.
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For pristine grid paintings, they’re quite yucky. Melissa Thorne takes three afghans and a quilt and renders them in immaculately smooth acrylic paint on canvas, making a straightforward translation of…
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Like a staged civil war battle, Kennaugh paintings are complete to the smallest detail, except for the blood.
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Hip detachment is usually a cover for insecurity. This isn’t necessarily bad, as insecurity is the defining emotion of our uncertain culture. With unusual honesty, Brent Steen’s show at Inman…
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It’s spring, which means it’s time to drag the Core Fellows out of their studios and put them on display. Always highly anticipated, the Core program’s ever-increasing prestige means the…
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The action in Chas Bowie’s still lives exists in-between the pictures and their sentence-long titles: there’s a gap which the viewer must bridge by imagining a story, like those psychological…