In DFW, a few sign painting artisans have made a living working on hundreds of signs for local businesses. It takes years of experience to become an expert sign painter — Sean Starr and Roy Warren Lunt explain the process of becoming a master and the highs and lows of the trade.
Walking up to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s second-floor galleries, you’re greeted by a phone booth pulsating with light. The Wi-Fi-controlled sculpture nods to a less convenient time when apologies, laments and assuring words were spoken publicly on street corners as others waited nearby, impatiently. It breathes like…
Confused: how Haylee Ryan felt when PurePoint, a new digital bank, asked her to create murals about money. “Typically, if I’d heard I was going to do a mural for a financial company, I would have said no,” she says. “Because that doesn’t sound interesting. I love nostalgia, and I…
The LineSite 131 131 Payne St. 12 to 5 p.m. Fridays and by appointment The Line, a new exhibition curated by Site 131 co-founder Joan Davidow, has quite the diverse roster of characters. See if you can keep up. First we have Texan Kristen Cochran’s suspended fabric wall drawings, whose…
Katherine Bernhardt Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth Ongoing through July 9 By incorporating graffiti elements into her vibrant and youthful paintings, which are heavy on sketched outlines and spray paint, artist Katherine Bernhardt is also coating them in the defiant attitude of a graffiti…
“Power Lines” Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole St., Suite 120 Opens 6-8 p.m. Saturday Frank Stella’s mastery of line and form has been felt in the art community en masse since the early 1960s. His interest was spurred by a 1957 trip to Colorado. There he visited tiny copper mining…
MakeShift PhotoRama – Significance ImposedKettle Art 2650 Main St. Opening reception 7-10 p.m. Thursday Twelve Dallas photographers paired up with 12 Dallas writers and took a Texas-soaked road trip. Significance Imposed is the collection of photos, landscapes, characters and words that resulted from the statewide jaunt. Prediction: There will be…
Ahead of her stop at Samuel Lynne Galleries Saturday night for the opening reception of Buddha Goes Punk, Miami-based artist Metis Atash tells us what inspires her to create her pieces, which contain up to 24,000 Swarovski crystals, and weave her love of fashion and pop art from the 1970s…
Allison Proulx – Choosing Heroes Ro2 at the Magnolia Theater 1501 S. Ervay St. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday Staten Island native Allison Proulx’s works feel like hazy dreams within dreams, or scenes from Lost in Translation. Her background working as a Disney animator shines through in each of her…
Tony Conrad – Completely in the PresentTexas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. 7:30 p.m. Thursday One of several ways to be completely present is to be naked, which is exactly what artist Tony Conrad is on the poster for Tyler Hubby’s documentary Completely in the Present. It chronicles the life…
This week, the Dallas Museum of Art opened its Keir Collection Gallery, and in doing so it’s exhibiting more than the third largest collection of Islamic art in North America: It’s also exhibiting a great sense of timing. Islam is one of the most frequently maligned religions today, and now…
Simeen Farhat – Blood Shot Is Blood Loved Cris Worley Fine Arts 1845 E. Levee St. Ongoing through May 6 Blood is one of those things that you need for survival. Pakistan native Simeen Farhat has taken this intrinsic component to living to the next level with Blood Shot is…
The family of Dallas County Sheriff R.A.
“Smoot” Schmid donated several items from the infamous couple’s life.
Super Fantasy Mercado 2 Southwest Center Mall (formerly Red Bird Mall) 3662 W. Camp Wisdom Road Ongoing through April 30 If you think Southwest Center Mall, now anchorless and populated by the likes of “Body Bang” and “Eargazum/Xperience,” is a solid venue for an art show, gold star for you!…
April is always a really good month for the arts in Dallas — so good that Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings decided to ordain it “Dallas Arts Month” — and the Dallas Art Fair from April 6-9 is one of the chief attractions. Against at least a few odds, the fair…
For creative duo Marie Boone and Matthew Brinston, their relationship is finally coming full circle. Art was the reason they got together in the first place, and ultimately the reason they got married. The 22- and 24-year-olds are about to celebrate their first anniversary. They said their vows in Vegas…
Today the Dallas Art Fair opens to the public, but work by at least six artists is already off the market. For the second year, the Dallas Museum of Art has raised money to acquire works from the fair. The acquisition program is intended to support the visiting galleries who…
Dallas Art Fair Fashion Industry Gallery 1807 Ross Ave. Through Sunday This weekend is your yearly chance to check out the Dallas Art Fair, which features collections from namedrop-worthy national and international galleries and art dealers. Modern and contemporary works across a wide range of subjects and media are showcased…
Simeen Farhat: Blood Shot Is Blood Loved Cris Worley Fine Arts 1845 Levee St., No. 110 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday Artist Simeen Farhat uses cast resin and acrylic to create sculptures that play with form and shadow. For the pieces in this exhibition, the show’s notes…
As a young artist, Valton Tyler would leave his work on the streets of Dallas. Today, his creations are hanging in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. “Probably, my best paintings, I put them in an alley or threw them over the fence,” the self-taught artist says. As volunteer…
It’s been six months since Agustín Arteaga took over the directorship role at the Dallas Museum of Art, the crown jewel of the Arts District. The position was left vacant for nearly a year after the sudden, perplexing departure of the previous director, Maxwell Anderson, in September 2015. There were…
Howard Sherman — Shifting Fancy of the CrowdCircuit12 Contemporary 1811 E. Levee St. Opening reception 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday Howard Sherman is the line leader of a new generation of bombastic contemporary painters within the Texas art scene. His background as a cartoonist manifests heartily in his human-scale canvases,…
