There is an alchemic energy in the pieces, the collage of disparate materials fuse into mysterious and enticing portals. The white walls of the gallery space become infinite.
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Valenzuela's current show continues the exploration of her familial ties from her perspective as a first-generation American born to Mexican immigrant parents.
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This show in Dallas explores the way three artists transform found materials through surprising and minimal interventions.
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The show is both a document of Divecchia’s process, and the origin story of an artistic project.
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Painted at a feverish pace, it’s as if Bernhardt is trying to outrun the banality of her subjects, stamping them onto the canvas over and over again until meaning collapses onto itself.
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More than anything, this is exactly the kind of show that can blowtorch away any calcified, received ideas around the kind of art that you should be looking at.
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This is not a straight polemic, but rather something more removed and elusive.
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I don’t need or expect or even necessarily want the individual works I’m engaging with to want to change the world, or even try.
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Finding some poetry in a Motorbunny is the kind of problem-solving puzzle I’d like to think all good artists would tackle with real intent.
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CineMarfa is simply a series of unique cinematic experiences, laid out over four days in May as a montage of creative nudges and existential echoes.
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They were exceptional artists and were a community of friends, and that seems like reason enough to put together this show.
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“The drive to Prairie View,” both literal and figurative, is a journey many people make.
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Simões’ newest sculptures at Lora Reynolds Gallery leave us with his more human and humane idea of Brutalism.
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The show begins to tell the story of Modernism in a new way, and it's one we all would benefit from knowing.
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His work’s jumping-off point is his deep disdain for systems—for the nuclear family, for institutions and communities and religions that we’re all pushed through in an endless gauntlet.
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The show has a torque to it, an energy, like a suspension bridge.
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Amado's fascination with felt has been like a slow-drip I.V. as determined by his daily engagement with process—a certain amount each day is enough when it is all you do.
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'Trigger Town' is a series of huge eyeball kicks.
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It is fitting that the modest yet noble Rice Gallery should conclude its run with a show that really demonstrates how much you can do with a single room.
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This show echoes the vacillation between release and restraint inherent in the experience of grief, and the sense of both empathy and detachment as we encounter the grief of others.