Review

Steeped in technique, Murray’s aim is contemporary. His target? The news.

This is activist art of the best sort. The overall effect is one of incantation, vigil and ritual.

In Starwars’ work, you get exactly what you’d expect from a Laurel, Mississippi-based artist: melting ice cream cones, gators, wood-paneled interiors, and banjo playing goats.

This is a deeply emotional and visual show, with some pieces that stop one in awe.

It’s dizzying and dense, strangely erotic, and mildly exhausting.

Horn’s translucent forms continue the artist’s long-held preoccupation with reflection, and culminate in a show that playfully fudges the line between objective and subjective art.

The artists in 'Daydreams and Other Monsters' turn their social critique back onto us to expose the demons lurking within our society.

The effect of this show is like walking into a tight, hot political pressure cooker, but with a safety valve of humor.

"...be on the watch for the interval, the place where you are given a choice and a chance to add goodness to the world.”

How to make art in this operatic ambience and grim reality of actual deportations, bombings, and general governmental reactionary cruelty?

I’m going to stop right there. Please stop reading and go.

My silly prodding created an opportunity for a profound and provocative response from the museum.

For three artists so deeply tapped into the cultural consciousness to collectively experience an event as monumental as the election of Donald Trump, bonding and the sharing of a common sense of urgency seems inevitable.

For all the controversy that comes along with using Toby Kamps as juror, the payoff is huge.

Curtis may have achieved the impossible, but the project broke him physically, mentally, and romantically.

When Houston really begins to believe in its own artists and puts more of its money where its heart is, Gulf Coast art might just light up like flaming oil on the surface of dirty water.

I did feel a pang of longing looking at this show despite the latticed dread it conjured.

The show is one of the best testaments I’ve seen to artists’ intellectual curiosity and need to challenge convention, and all the while feeding their own impulse to make beautiful and compelling things.

This current show in Austin gathers wisps and glimmers of the songster’s fugitive saga and summarizes recent discoveries, and loving gestures of homage.

Through these narratives Louden attempts to correct the course of what an artist can be, and how they contribute to society at large.