Jules' Airstream in East Austin may not be a mystic cave of the ancients, but with his tropical shirt glowing, he really embodies a little bit of what keeps Austin weird.
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Debra Barrera
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The Houston photographer has a knack for being vulnerable and tough at the same time.
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Houston artist Tony Day believes in freedom. Not bald-eagle-laser-etched-on-your-Ford-truck-‘Murica freedom, but freedom of expression. Day is a Yosemite Sam for the creative process.
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Made from humble materials, the exhibit has a suspenseful, Romantic quality as if Caspar David Friedrich had built sets for a Japanese horror movie.
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Simultaneously chaotic and comforting, Anne and Steven's home is like hanging out on the Pee Wee Herman set in the middle of a good rain storm.
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In the latest of her Glasshouses series, Debra Barrera talks with Angel Oloshove about pop culture, transcendence, and Kokeshi dolls.
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Both artists are consciously flippant in their grandiosity—despite an interest in simulacra, photorealism, and op-art, the crux of Elrod's work is its archaic presentation as grand painting.
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Davide Savorani and Michelangelo Miccolis, Savorani’s technical and performative assistant, have been working on a series of projects including a room-sized installation in Savorani’s studio space at the Galveston Artist Residency for…
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Say you were living in medieval Europe, drinking mead and passing out on a stone table, when a hologram of Carl Sagan beams in and says: “In the year 1961, Yuri…
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Newly renovated Blaffer exterior About three years ago I installed my Master’s Thesis Show at the Blaffer Art Museum. Every piece in my exhibit was ready-made sculpture and vinyl…
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A twister sweeps across a sepia-toned Kansas and suddenly Dorothy enters Technicolor. In Victor Fleming’s 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” Dorothy, opening the door into Oz, along with…
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The original “TRON” movie, PC gaming in the early ‘90s and the struggles of high school geometry came to mind when I first saw Houston artist Jonathan Leach’s sleek-lined paintings…
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On Black Friday, while millions were buying iPads for their six-year-olds and guns for their holsters (handgun sales broke an all-time record this year), I was staring at art in…
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Geoff Hippenstiel is a Houston-based painter whose work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Devin Borden Gallery, two years after receiving his MFA from the University of…