Cast: Photographs by Jin-Ya Huang In her photographs, Jin-Ya Huang turns fuzziness and blur into a visual vocabulary of the indecipherable. The illegibility of her images is by no means frustrating. The combined result of the artist's secret prop choices and photo-digital process, these images will keep you guessing while visually enthralled by their beauty. Is "Vortex" her pudenda or a flower? Is "Circuit" the vertebral column of a robot or miniature television sets on fire? Through July 10 at Mulcahy Modern, 408 W. Eighth St., 214-948-8595. Reviewed June 3. (C.T.)
Ellsworth Kelly in Dallas This show should be called "Dallas Collects Ellsworth Kelly." It would be more honest, not to mention more intriguing. This dainty collection of top-quality painting and sculpture by the mid-20th-century artist does little service to the importance of Kelly. Kelly's brightly colored and experimentally shaped opaque canvases are the bridge between the postwar angst of Abstract Expressionism and the in-the-world politics of the everyday in Pop art and Minimalism. Unfortunately, this intellectual nugget goes largely lost on the Dallas Museum of Art. Thankfully, the peculiar intellectual anemia of this show doesn't entirely detract from the work on display. Through August 22 at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St., 214-922-1200. Reviewed June 17. (C.T.)
