Review

Big Medium rounded up more than 800 artists for this year’s EAST, Austin’s annual art-pocalypse, which stretches out across the city’s storied East Side for two very full weekends.

The Blanton’s exhibition speaks to the contradictions — cultural, geopolitical, historical — of living on the border between the United States and Mexico. 

Lubbock is kind of on a roll right now.

The setting of 'The Uncolonized' precedes us by a few centuries, but the discourse doesn’t seem too distant. 

The work has traveled to Amsterdam, New York, London, and Frankfurt. Now: Lubbock.  

These pieces are beautiful, dynamic sculptures that activate a lingering disquiet that they should… do something.

It is simply amazing how “something” takes up residence in “nothing” if one is able to surrender to it.

In showing the world the Ella Watsons and the Red Jacksons whose lives are lived invisibly, and in images that normalize the beauty, intellect, and heroism of his subjects, Parks' 'New Tide' washes ashore some of the things our history tries to keep buried at sea.

There should be a certain degree of murkiness from which an artist thinks and makes.

Both of these shows speak to the slippery and amorphous nature of systems, how they replicate and cannibalize their opposition.

Disparte adopts the grid as an artistic convention while simultaneously disavowing it.

In taking up the ancient problem of representing the vitality of time in an unchanging medium, with three distinct solutions, these three artists seem to be voting for hope, for a life of meaning beyond the current atmosphere of death spiral. 

These young artists are driven by the realities of a broken social contract, and they work for a better way to find social and political understanding through creative navigation.

All three current Artpace resident exhibitions in San Antonio address freedom and constriction of the individual, nature, and culture.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about these forms as hauntings, and the idea of a haunting as something that exists between time.” 

Favela's show at HCCC sifts through the complications, appropriations, and mutations of what is most Texans' favorite food group. 

The show is a stunning collection of greatest hits from Texas art history, supplemented with wild cards that surprise, challenge, and delight.

Shows by Emmanuel De Sousa, Jesus Treviño, Alán Serna, and the Wheeler Brothers wrap up this long Texas summer.

The current solo show by Adrian Armstrong at Co-Lab Projects in Austin directly addresses mental health issues often overlooked in African American culture.

The motivations for artistic self-representation range from mere convenience to profound exploration.