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Renée Lotenero received her MFA in sculpture from UCLA in 2004. Her work has been featured in various group shows including Almost 30, a 2006 exhibition at the Ulrich Museum…

Brit artist Tracey Emin is a woman’s woman. She cuts a clear path through the bush — the weeds of yesterday’s feminism, the “ism” without which we’d be nowhere.

Marie Lorenz fabricated a small, precarious kayak and floated down the San Antonio River along the Riverwalk. She consistently revisits themes surrounding waterways, boats and navigation. The New York-based artist…

This year the Creative Research Laboratory (CRL) mounted the traditional summer grad show, except it shifted the structure around: Where typically a two-part exhibition splits the students into two groups,…

Margo Handwerker interviews curator Valerie Cassel Oliver about Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, on view at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston.

Collecting is a family affair for Houston collectors Robert, Jereann and Holland Chaney, who began assembling their diverse collection of cutting-edge art over 15 years ago. Early on they developed…

Sterling Allen, an Austin artist and co-founder of the gallery Okay Mountain, first came to Glasstire's attention in the Austin Museum of Art's 2005 triennial, 22 to Watch. The following…

Cairo-based Basim Magdy has created two giant installations both inside and outside of Okay Mountain in the most ambitious show to date for this one-year-old artists space.

There is a lot going on in Smile Forever, your current show at Art Palace: paintings, drawings and one giant sculpture. Across the board, your subject seems to be, for…

As the next guest curator to make a mark on Artpace’s residency program, I wonder if you could help me introduce you as a curator to your first Texan audience.

Rita Gonzalez sits down with Adrian Esparza to interview him about his work. Esparza will be included in an upcoming exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art entitled…

Gilbert Vicario is assistant curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was chosen to curate the United States entry in the 10th Cairo International…

I was introduced to Michael Phelan when he bought a sculpture made by a friend of mine. In the work, a tiny, handwritten message on a stick is propped on a concrete block resting on an old piece of linoleum. I considered it her best work to date and was glad to know that someone else appreciated it as well.

If, as Heraclitus pronounced centuries ago, 'you can't step into the same river twice,' then the Austin Museum of Art's recent joint exhibitions entitled Over + Over and Again +…

Joey Fauerso's residency in Roswell, New Mexico, has given her time from her job as an art educator to focus on her art. I asked her to share her experiences…

Dr. Michael Tomor recently became the new director of the El Paso Museum of Art. Born and raised in El Paso, he attended Penn State University for his undergraduate degree,…

New York painter Brendan Cass participated in the exhibition Monster Painting this fall at McClain Gallery.

Like a number of photographers before her, Nauman's work exposes a very specific group of people that some would describe as fringe or underground.

GlassTire Video Interview 3: David McGee

An ongoing conversation between Terrell James and Virgil Grotfeldt in April 2005