5 Art Events for Your Weekend: January 6-8

Greg Piazza — Painted Lens Wall Gallery 1529 Dragon St. Opening reception 5 p.m. Saturday Greg Piazza is a minimalist among minimalists. It’s simple and pure geometry, the raw, sharp-jawed photographs he captures via his own style of streamlined gusto. Now he’s translated his inspired snaps into canvas paintings that…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: December 30-January 1

Anna Elise Johnson — Inner WorkingsCris Worley Fine Arts 1845 Levee St., Suite 110 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday Anna Elise Johnson’s three-dimensional collages use photographs of political, economic and diplomatic meetings to create small-ish mise-en-scéne containing ambiguous yet striking narratives with characters frozen in time. Delicate mists of spray…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: December 23-25

Gordon Young: CollageCedar Valley College – Educational Art Gallery 3030 North Dallas Ave., Lancaster Closing Friday Artist Gordon Young builds digital photomontages from an amalgam of photographs of his personal environment fused with imagery appropriated from digital media. With the objective of combining the daily flow of electronic-media detritus and…

Sun to Moon Gallery Shines a Light on Fine Art Photography

Only a few years ago, the Design District silently hosted one or two art and photography galleries at best. Little traffic made its way down Dragon, Glass and Levee streets. But thanks to some creative minds around town, the area has become known for galleries that appeal to collectors and…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: December 16-18

Extreme Ornament Help-CreateVetro Glassblowing Studio & Gallery 701 S. Main St., Grapevine Ongoing Wednesday through Dec. 31 It’s like Etsy but saucier: Back by popular demand, the Extreme Ornament Help-Create series allows participants temporary immersion in the ancient art of glassblowing with a jolly, seasonal twist. Each participant selects colors…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: December 8-11

Media Burn 2016 Streamed live here 6 p.m. Thursday Well, this is interesting. On Monday, a mysterious email began circulating around the Dallas art community. In part, the short message reads, “On December 8, a group of Dallas college students will attempt to destroy the internet from [redacted location].” The…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend, December 1-4

FEATURE: Goode, Tanchak, Winkler Goss-Michael Foundation 1305 Wycliff Ave., Suite 120 Opening reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday For the debut of Goss-Michael’s FEATURE series, the space will transform into a shrine devoted solely to three Texas-based artists: Jenaro Goode, Keer Tanchak and Paul Winker. Each is interested in surface,…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: November 17-20

Courtney Hamilton: Kickin’ the Tire 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday Eastfield College — H100 Gallery 3737 Motley Drive, Mesquite How do we decide what is worth keeping and what is disposable? Like most of us, artist Courtney Hamilton’s answer is equal parts aesthetic preferences and fuzzy sentimentality. Influenced by an…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: November 11-13

Radioee.net: Solario 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday The Pollock Gallery at SMU 6101 Bishop Blvd. Radioee.net is a nomadic, online, bilingual radio transmission dedicated to themes like mobility, migration and transportation. The program is set to occur in tandem with the…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend, November 4-6

Synecdoche: Midge LynnHaley-Henman Gallery 422 Singleton Blvd. 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday Dallas-based Midge Lynn chose the title Synecdoche to describe her process of capturing a particular moment in the life of the model. Lynn is a conceptual artist who plays with the world of everyday objects and people, the…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: October 28-30

Cellular Level6 to 8 p.m. Friday William Campbell Contemporary Art 4925 Byers Ave., Fort Worth Cellular Level, an exhibition of new works by acclaimed Fort Worth artist John Holt Smith, opens Friday at William Campbell Contemporary Art. While any mention of “stem cells” is often surrounded by controversy, Smith’s paintings…