Glasstire

“We each find tonal shifts in the skin we inhabit... isolating a swatch of color from our bodies and remixing various samples create an overall palette and allow an insight into the complexity of our identity, our heritage, and the social weight both carry."

"Letitia Huckaby’s 'Beautiful Blackness' taps deep into the historical entanglements surrounding African American life in the rural American south."

"This exhibition gives students an opportunity to display their artwork within the gallery and compete for top honors and prize money."

A show of works by Kari Englehardt at Wrong Gallery/Do Right Hall in Marfa.

Brandon Zech, Christina Rees, and Christopher Blay show and tell their favorite Texas art books to hunker down with during these shelter-in-place days. 

Curator of Galveston Arts Center, Dennis Nance, gives himself a haircut at home. He's chosen "Home Remedy Mixtape #1" as his background music.

Featuring works by Richard Armendariz, Nate Cassie, Andrés Ferrandis, Cisco Jímenez, Katie Pell, Ethel Shipton, and Gary Sweeney.

"Karl E. Hall is best known as a painter and printmaker, active since the 1970s, and the exhibition includes painterly portraits and compositions relating to Hall’s brand of 'Gospel Surrealism.'"

"Modern Cowboy" features contemporary, western-inspired works by the Dallas artist Jon Flaming.

This exhibition focuses on the key material and fundamental motif the artist Mark Bradford employed early in his career and has returned to periodically over the past two decades: end papers.

"The exhibition sees Sullivan closing in on his objects at varying scales that reflect his meditation on the body and its relation to objects."

This video is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits and artist-run spaces across the state of Texas send us video walk-throughs of their current exhibitions.

"Max Kuhn is a true traveler in every sense of the word."

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees discuss the hurdles faced by museums and nonprofits, the government stimulus bill, and the possible closure of art schools as a result of the pandemic.

A permanent installation at the Art Museum of South Texas showcasing Spanish Colonial, pre-Columbian, and contemporary works.

A tour of three current exhibitions at the Old Jail Art Center in Albany.

Thomas Dewing, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Elihu Vedder: "Dewing • Saint-Gaudens • Vedder"; and Alice Leese: "Way Out West" 

"The modern woman of many cultures today—Chicana, Latinx and Black Womxn’s worlds—are shattering the mold to put their own expressions out into the world."

As far as many Texans are concerned, Ulterior's founder, Takako Tanabe, will always be an honorary Texan.

The first major survey to focus on Texas women working primarily in the mode of abstraction, the exhibition includes ninety-five works in painting, sculpture, installation, and works on paper by seventeen artists from different generations.