Charles Dee Mitchell

When I feel like feeling old, I like to drop by And Or Gallery. It's not that the artists on view are often young enough to technically be my offspring.…

There was a launch party Tuesday evening for the CADD Art Fair. CADD is the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas, a group that broke off from the Dallas Art Dealers'…

I finally made it out a couple of weeks ago to see Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies at Science Place in Fair Park.…

The Land Remains is Robert Dale Anderson's first painting exhibition since 1992. The UT Austin professor has spent the intervening years focusing on very small graphite drawings. Had I been…

I was on a panel this past weekend sponsored by the Dallas Art Dealers' Association. It hadthe unpromising and curiously punctuated title, How Important Are We: Dallas Fort Worth: The…

Creative Time: The Book, by Anne Pasternak, introduction by Lucy Lippard, edited by Ruth Peltason. Princeton Architectural Press. Over the past three decades, Creative Time has sponsored more than 300…

Eastern Europe was making a strong showing in Austin when I was there last week. Lora Reynolds Gallery was hosting Eastern European Painting Now, with two painters from Poland and…

It is not as though any of us need more things to read on the internet, but I have one recommendation. Check out HeyOka Magazine. It is the brainchild of…

I was in Austin for a couple of days last week. Benito Huerta, Betty Moody, and I were on a panel honoring the career of Luis Jimenez. Texas Folk Life…

I caught the 9:17 AM showing of Jennifer Steinkamp's Ring of Fire a couple of days ago. There were three of us in my group, and except for a couple…

This is the last week to see the Lois Dodd exhibition at the Pollock Gallery. It closes on Saturday, March 31. I think these are the first of her paintings…

Andy Sidaris died on March 7th. I first heard about it a week or so later when he became a topic on the NPR game show, Wait Wait Don't Tell…

The Women's Museum in Fair Park is usually below my radar. Since it opened in 2000, I had been there only once to see an Alma Thomas exhibition. Then it…

Dallas Art Newsletter by Charles Dee Mitchell March 2007

Monica Pierce builds a lot of history into her small abstract paintings on wood panels. You can sense if not actually see the evidence of one or two other paintings…

Monica Pierce builds a lot of history into her small abstract paintings on wood panels.

A patch of animal fur on one painting was what first caught my eye. When I read the title, Still Life with Buffalo Fur, I was hooked. At 6 x…