The outlines of teeth and lips are faintly visible across the works, but Jones’s paintings remain tantalizingly amorphous, and hover between abstraction and figuration.
Lauren Moya Ford
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Davidoff's sincere concern for nature is matched by the pleasure of capturing it in her artworks.
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Webb’s work gives us a glimpse of what these lands look like to someone who comes from so far away.
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Even though the works in Peña’s current exhibition were all made in 2019, they feel sharply prophetic of our grim, lockdown days.
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"I wouldn’t be able to make the work I’m making if I hadn’t left my hometown. I wouldn’t be able to see it and understand it without the perspectives I now have."
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Here Lauren Moya Ford is in conversation with curator and artist Jesus Treviño and artists Cande Aguilar, Jessie Burciaga, and Samantha Isabel García about how a current show at UT Austin speaks to the Borderlands and its soulful hidden currents.
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It’s thrilling to see artworks up close and unframed, and viewers seem to slow down in the pop-ups’ intimate, informal atmosphere.
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I’d guess that not many Texans have seen a live Kabuki theater performance, but for the next few weeks at Houston’s Asia Society, you can get pretty darn close.
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From Tokyo, Nikko, Kanazawa, Kyoto, Nara, Koyasan, Kawazu, and back to Tokyo again, the thoughts and stories played in my mind as I’d draw.
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Thomas shows you something that, if it touches your own experience, grabs you so tightly that your memories come tumbling out.
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The artist has learned the rules, and now he can break them.
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Rosales’ current exhibition follows his artist residency at the Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology in Houston.
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"There is no excuse for institutions to continue excluding these communities, because they are here and now."
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Interview
Detention Nation, the Colonial Body, and the Latinx Community: A Chat With Delilah Montoya
"Rules are made to be broken, and borders are drawn to be crossed."
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This article is published concurrently with the Spring of Latino Art and the Latino Art Now! (LAN) national biennial conference and related programming taking place in Houston during the springtime of 2019.
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"I admire the reverence indigenous art forms have toward the natural world. My work explores surface design that only tries to capture the perfection that already exists in nature."
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These works document the time and motion that’s passed between body and material, like a private performance or a choreography in thread.
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By bringing these images and ideas to the present, the viewer is able to engage with a time when people saw political action as a tangible thing.
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Mexico City is buzzing with energy, and its creative citizens are busy taking chances and negotiating life and history. There’s something in the ether right now about making art from potted plants.
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UT MFA graduate Adriana Corral talks about using her art to fight the silence surrounding acts of violence.