Houston-based artist and activist Rick Lowe was in downtown Dallas last night, delivering a sort-of inaugural address for a new series of design-focused lectures for the buildingcommunityWORKSHOP, a non-profit that works to remake struggling communities through design. To which you might say, “Great, another week-night lecture by a dude I’ve…
Anyone casually familiar with American art of the past half-century will recognize the eerie, erotically menacing, character-driven photographs that Cindy Sherman began producing in the late 1970s. See also: – At the Nasher, Ken Price’s Ceramics Are Big and Bold and, Lord Reltny, a Little Dirty – At the Amon…
“It takes a village,” goes the saying. But what if the village is under-developed, infested with violence and depleted of resources from years of neglect and misappropriation? That’s the question Rick Lowe has been addressing since he founded Project Row Houses in Third Ward, a neighborhood that’s been pondering those…
Jeremy Turner, founder of the Vintage Mobile store and purveyor of 3,000 holiday sweaters last Christmas, is taking on another sector of the mobile economy: art. Turner says he has purchased a 1955 Spartan trailer and plans to convert it into an art gallery. “I want to show art by…
Much of Big Pictures, the Amon Carter’s large-format photography show, is about drama. It’s approached from an oblique perspective and covers lots of historical ground, and it would have you believe (if you read the little essays posted on the exhibition walls) that the camera-recorded moment — the still shot…
Early 90s in Dallas, you could creep to the train yard in Oak Cliff and see tags from Kaws and Barry McGee, a ghetto gallery-on-wheels for street art. For the Donjuan boys — three broke brothers from the hood — it was the seed to survival. Before the brothers became…
We don’t see too many artists from China in Dallas, but Galleri Urbane likes to gather from underutilized sources. Currently, they’re showing an exhibition by Florida-from-China artist Kirk Ke Wang, who turns wall-sized canvases into politically supercharged paintings. He does it through lovely subversion, shape-shifting the images from representational symbolism…
Just up the street from Lee Harvey’s in the Cedars neighborhood of South Dallas is the home of a young couple that doubles as an art gallery called Homeland Security. An exhibit there, Windows, Walls and Screens: New Paintings by Brendan Carroll, sees the work of the smart young Atlanta…
In the diverse exhibition Chagall: Beyond Color, the Dallas Museum of Art offers enticing works of art among less noted pieces by one of the 20th century’s most famous artists. Marc Chagall, like the Coen brothers today, proudly deployed his Jewishness in his art. As with the Coen brothers’ body…
It’s hard to do justice to the freewheeling radiance of Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Suffice it to say that you should see the work of the late Mr. Price for its combination of cheeky razzmatazz and idiosyncratic imagination. As the second stop on a…
Julia Kunin’s “Sculptures” and Leslie Wilkes’ “Double Take,” now on view at Deep Ellum’sBarry Whistler Gallery, deliver a fresh and primal combination of earthen flora-psychedelia-art that suggests, at times, having fallen through Alice’s rabbit hole. See also: – The Strange, Funny Art of Fort Worth Drawing Center’s Contemporary Drawing Today…
In its inaugural exhibition, Fort Worth Drawing Center features 20 works by 20 artists under a very, very liberal definition of drawing. The gallery is the front room of Francisco Moreno’s studio in a cluster of warehouses on an industrial street. You will think you’re in the wrong place, but…
Over the weekend, the local Instant Film Society hosted one of its regular PolaWalk events, wherein photographers wandered the streets in search of scenes worth of their sepia-toned attention. Read about the PolaWalks here, and see some of the best photos from this weekend’s event below. See also: Share Your…
The Texas Fashion Collection at the University of North Texas has an annual series that showcases a specific theme. A moving exhibition called The Joy Losee Collection: Art and Dress Along the Silk Road tries to bridge the beauty of women’s ornamental garments to the cultural fears and prejudices associated…
Photo by Julius Pickenpack at the Nasher. Via Twitter…
Red Arrow Contemporary, a young, cutting-edge art gallery, has shown work by famous artists like Banksy and Shepard Fairey. The new show, visibletraces, is an intense and thoughtful look toward the future with a group of young Texas artists. See also: In Du Chau’s Color of My Memory at Kirk…
Du Chau, the ceramist and teacher at several local colleges (Brookhaven, SMU), tries his hand at printmaking in an undeniably lovely exhibition at Kirk Hopper Fine Arts. The artist uses a mix of techniques to emphasize life and energy in clear defiance of war and violence and, for balance –…
“To See As Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection,” in its final week at the Amon Carter in Fort Worth, moves through a tidy, accessible chronology of 20th century art. It doesn’t delve into anything you’d be embarrassed to look at it with kids or grandparents, but it…
The sculptor William Cannings is a professor at Texas Tech, but he has a long history with Cris Worley going back to her days at Pan American Art Projects. That an Englishman as accomplished as Cannings ended up in Lubbock instead of New York may seem like a fluke or…
Mixmaster art critic Betsy Lewis picks her favorite works of the year: BEST PIECES “Aragh,” Morehshin Allahyari and Richie Budd, from “Monstrous Coupling” at UT-Dallas Allahyari’s and Budd’s “Aragh,” from UT Dallas’ high-spirited exhibition “Monstrous Coupling,” mixed political commentary with simplicity of execution and a complex concept. Three mundane objects…
As we hit mid-December, here is an unconventional art show that has nothing to do with the “scene” and everything to do with real life at its harshest. Every fall, the art program at the Stewpot heads to the central branch of the Dallas Public Library to exhibit pieces created…
Conduit Gallery opened three solo shows last weekend, so this is a review in three acts. Robert Barsamian’s canvases are proportionally like television screens: Some are square, like the little sets propped on kitchen counters, and some follow the mold of the mini-movie screen. He has mastered a great range…
