Review

With such a relatively small selection of works comes the expectation that the show would be exceptionally tight — and it isn’t.

Featuring some 150 artworks and artifacts, the exhibition also includes Ruscha paintings, drawings, and photographs that were produced as material for the books or were later instigated by and/or retooled from book project contents. 

The sculptures themselves are described not as installations, but as three-dimensional paintings, or in some cases, “situations.”

A visitor’s experience at Inner Space should not be one of passive absorption, but one of response and critical dialogue.

There are sections of paintings that wobble in double vision, figures fading in and out of scenes, and impossible combinations of each.

Photographer Luther Smith bids farewell to 35 years of teaching in a finely-honed “mini-retrospective” of his work at TCU’s Moudy Gallery in Fort Worth

These works document the time and motion that’s passed between body and material, like a private performance or a choreography in thread. 

Heath's photographs are a vivid reminder of how the most memorable art of our time conveys a universal message about human existence

Dierks is interested in the fraught state of the human condition in a time of mass consumerism, technological mediation, and industrial production.

Laarman uses his technology as a true collaborator — a dancing partner, if you will — for his dreams. 

The works are melancholic and incisive, charged with a wisdom of the world and its cruel machinations.

These are great paintings and sculptures, and taken together add up to a powerhouse of a retrospective.

There is an urgency for a show in Houston that centers around the bare honesty present in Thibodeaux's artist statement — that delves into women’s reproductive rights in a way that is comprehensive, authentic, multivalent — that reaches beyond the same self-congratulatory liberal clap-trap that shows up over and over and over again in the arts community.

If we agree that artistic inspiration, in the formal art world context, springs from mysterious sources in the mind, emotions, and senses, then creative impulses that find an outlet outside that context are mystery ad infinitum.

The plot twist is that the critique is less about humans exercising control of their environment, and more about the repercussions of chemical resistance that follows monoculture.

Artists throughout Latin America engaged in revolutionary DIY art as their own particular expressions of the conceptual art-think that zoomed around the continents in the 1960s.

STEEL SHARPENS STEEL epitomizes soulless art-fair schlock. And there’s already plenty of schlocking that goes on in Houston.

In what may be an unsubtle overcorrection, the Dallas Museum of Art is currently sporting all-woman contemporary shows in three of its four quadrant galleries.

It’s clear that Schenck has soaked up more of the big-sky psyche than the fella called Drella. But there wouldn’t have been a Billy Schenck if there hadn’t been an Andy Warhol.

To be able to research an artist, genre, or process in depth, without having to deal with a lot of administrative red tape, is pretty special.