Weird, dreamlike forms that seem to be melting or vibrating, extreme color and kaleidoscopic space are characteristic of psychedelic art, which has usually been seen as the product of popular…
Dan R. Goddard
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Steve Brudniak, the artist as mad scientist, or maybe vice versa, has invented a new “emanating reflection optical lens,” a dark, reflective glass that appears to project hologram-like images when…
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Working somewhere between abstraction and representation, Robert Moskowitz isolates silhouettes of familiar objects in his paintings, reducing them to minimalist essentials. But you can always see evidence of the…
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Philadelphia sculptor Donald Lipski suspended giant, lighted longear sunfish under an I-35 underpass. Bill Fontana of San Francisco amplified the sounds of the San Antonio River, from bird calls to…
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Jack Gron’s macabre, medieval-looking cast-metal toys include a wheelbarrow heaped with skulls, the chilling curves of a hydrogen bomb and a grinning death’s head that make three-dimensional the folly and…
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Albert Paley’s “archisculpture” ranges from the portal gates of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery to a fanciful 130-foot-long archway for the St. Louis Zoo. But he’s also known for his large-scale…
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A century ago, American artists looked to France for instruction and inspiration. The brilliant colors and fractured brushwork of Impressionism charted a new, more modern and urbane course for the…
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They have flown The Bower, but Joey Fauerso and Michael Velliquette have reunited for “Exotic Matter” at the David Shelton Gallery through May 8. Fauerso explores the existential human condition…
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Buster Graybill had unexpected visitors to “Tush Hog,” several metal sculptures resembling NASA-designed Mars airbag landers that the Huntsville artist spread around a South Texas pasture as part of Artpace’s…
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A beautiful woman in sunbathing attire floats over the dark, glittering panorama of Los Angeles. The image is part of the diptych Wish You Were Here by Vincent Valdez. In…
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One of England’s best avant-garde filmmakers, John Smith isn’t adverse to narrative or humor. But his work is often anti-illusionist and tends to make viewers conscious of the artifice…
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Anita Valencia is a queen of recycling, creating large-scale public sculpture from aluminum soda and beer cans as well as intimate “paintings” from bottle caps, which she’s debuted at…
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Using text in art can be tricky. Visual artists are usually more concerned about the way letters look than what they might mean when lumped together. Alejandro Cesarco goes beyond…
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As an artist, Bill FitzGibbons has an international reputation for his light installations using computer-programmed, architectural LEDs. Recently, he created a dramatic light installation in Iceland on the colonnade of…
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CAM is dead. Long live CAM. Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, but in temperate March rather than broiling July.…
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San Antonio artist Danville Chadbourne’s weathered ceramic and painted wood assemblages might be the ancient artifacts of an unknown civilization. Made with clay, wood, stone, fiber and bone, the organic…
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Disclaimer: I am so confused, do you go by Robert or Rob? CLICK ON THE LINKS OR YOU MAY NOT GET THIS ONE AT ALL Two weeks ago I…
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New technologies and the Internet, as well as improved ceramics education and scholarship, have pushed ceramic artists beyond the familiar landscape of vessels and decorative ware, changing the way ceramics…
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In 1940, the influential Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, his wife Desi and their one-year-old son Edo fled the invading Nazis on a cargo ship bound for England. But…
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Though a plane crash ended his life prematurely at age 46, San Antonio businessman and philanthropist Tom Slick Jr. had enough adventures for several lifetimes. He founded the Southwest Foundation…