Response to Bill Davenport's Tire Iron 8: Live Oak Friends Meeting House
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Ask a random sample of Americans what theme best expresses life at the dawn of this 21st century, and chances are they’ll respond with some pre-packaged cliché — the age…
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Summer is here: having been beaten to the punch reviewing Dario Robleto’s simultaneous CAM and Inman Gallery shows, and with the most recent round of shows on Colquitt St. a…
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Colorforms were fun: sticky vinyl shapes in bright colors one could adhere to a shiny black board to make glowing hard-edged images. A precursor to the computer paint program, they…
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I confess: I myself show at Inman Gallery, so if you feel that this invalidates my opinion of other work shown there, you can stop reading now.
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Breathe, Sarah Nix Ginn’s new show at Diverseworks’ Subspace Gallery, departs from the sculptural works featured in her last few shows to struggle with process art and installation, using her…
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The work of New York-based, British artist Matthew Ritchie propels his audience into familiar yet foreign universes. Using a combination of paintings and drawings on canvas and walls to create…
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Drop “Krazy Kat” creator George Herriman into America at the dawn of this 21st century and he’d marvel at the prevalence of comic book imagery that surrounds him. You can’t…
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Los Angeles has a way of transforming its non-native inhabitants into its most articulate chroniclers. German filmmaker Billy Wilder became one of the most daft and deft raconteurs of American…
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Pop Art: US-UK Connections at The Menil Collection is destined to disappoint people looking for a hit parade of the usual American pop-art stars.
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Pleasurscape, Karim Rashid’s installation at Rice University Art Gallery, is a grid of glistening white plastic modules on the floor of an intensely orange room. Each module is studded with…
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Stephen Fox Responds to Our Reviews of KARIM RASHID: Pleasurscape
by Stephen Foxby Stephen FoxEd note: the following is a response to the first article published on Glasstire, a review of Karim Rashid’s exhibition Pleasurscape by Rainey Knudson. You can also see a response by Carl Gustav Horn…
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James Gallery, like several other Houston galleries, is a house converted into exhibition space. Cropduster cleverly puns the space’s former identity, playing with the subtle distinction between sculptural objects and…
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Lisa Ludwig’s show Stupor, at Moody Gallery, is romantic in the classic sense: evoking a feeling of sentimental fragility centered on traditionally feminine images such as flowers, candy, fruit, and…
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Al Souza has been making mosaics from jigsaw puzzles for a while now, but these are his best yet.
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From Leonardo’s landscapes based on cracks in plaster walls to Jean Arp’s scattered paper collages, artists have always sought fresh visual forms by inventing systems that distance themselves from their…
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Drawings are a housebroken art form with separate rules from other art. Since it is difficult for a drawing to compete with paintings and sculpture on the basis of sheer…
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Ed note: the following is a response to the first article published on Glasstire, a review of Karim Rashid’s exhibition Pleasurscape by Rainey Knudson. You can also see a response by Stephen Fox…
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Last week, visitors to the Rice University Art Gallery got to take off their shoes and indulge in the pleasure of Pleasurscape, designer Karim Rashid’s groovy new installation. Sitting in…