Review

Often art either asks the audience to ignore their surroundings or references the site as an afterthought — it really thrills me when a site-specific work utilizes the nature of a site to successfully drive a concept home.

Fashion is psychology. It deserves respect as the most personal of design fields, and the most operative visual expression of an individual’s identity.

Carol Bove is a magician. She cleverly reinvigorates the tradition of gigantic, supposedly heroic, and weighty commercial steel sculpture, subverting the usually orotund voice present in this type of artwork.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk’s exhibition of sculptures, many of which are from this year, follows the artist’s credo: to explain invisible things.

Here's a short list of publications that stood out to our staff in 2021. 

Bold is taking a risk in asking her audience to welcome work that looks traditional when it is always marching forward, like the nomadic culture it honors and grieves.

Wayne Thiebaud may very well be the best painter of the 20th century.

Prospect.5 proposes ways of transcending past traumas through art and spiritual mediation to envision an equitable future where all peoples thrive.

In "Espejo Quemeda" Donna Huanca evokes geologic time and metaphoric place through a series of paintings, sculptures, and soundscapes inspired by the West Texas region.

The show turns the question of territory inward to “here,” to Smith's origins in Brownsville.

Glasstire's staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2021.

The exhibition's pieces feel like they’re whipping your retinas around at high speeds. The man’s running — from something, and toward something, too.

Performa commissions new works by artists, and also restages seminal works from performance history.

'Color Scheme' is a brilliant, smart examination of how we think about color, how material medium informs color, and how these ideas have changed over time.

Mao's site-specific installation at Co-Lab brings together an affinity for steel, ceramics, and leather, with a refined sense of melding materiality into a multivalent metaphor — in this case, the symbolic, dualistic nature of the serpent.

This exhibition considers how the concept of home is expressed in works from the Stark Museum's Southwestern Art collections.

The drawings featured, like the show’s curation, are exquisite and precise, and ask the viewer to reconsider how they understand Pop and its contemporary applications.

William Sarradet on the work of Trey Burns, Gerald Bell, Heyd Fontenot, Jeremy Biggers, Jeff Gibbons, and Summer Aquino.

This exhibition is about the deep marrow of a Mexican-American family that immigrated to and settled in South Texas.

The exhibition reminds audiences implicitly and explicitly that Pop art was much more than just Warhol’s soup cans and Marilyns.