Jeff Baker Makes Photographs That Don’t Look Like Photographs

In 2009, when Jeff Baker retired from a 35-year career as a commercial photographer in New York City, he moved back to his hometown, Dallas, and began to feel directionless. He also began to feel portents of death in the form of three serious diseases: atrial fibrillation, macular degeneration in…

Weird Things We Saw at the Dallas Art Fair

Yesterday we learned that attendance for the Dallas Art Fair last weekend broke the record, with 12,500 people passing through the halls of the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue. In its eighth year, the fair seemed more vital than ever.  As we mentioned in our coverage of the fair…

5 Art Exhibitions to See this Weekend

Hey Sunshine at Liliana Bloch Gallery From Providence, Rhode Island, Lynne Harlow’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally for 15 years. In her latest show, she continues a reductive exploration of light, color and material, placing added emphasis on the behavior of light in relation to color and space…

5 Art Exhibitions to See this Weekend

Bearings Down at The Goss-Michael Foundation Paula Crown serves on President Obama’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities. Balancing traditional studio time while engaging technology, her art is about mapping experiences. Crown’s work centers on places and landscapes, exploring how they can exist as objects. This is an immersive installation…

5 Art Exhibitions to See this Weekend

We Are All Homeless at The MAC Willie Baronet started collecting signs made by homeless individuals in 1993. Now with more than 1,000 signs, the project has developed into an exhibit called We Are Homeless. This attempt to confront an often ignored and uncomfortable issue has been exhibited nationally and…

5 Art Events to See this Weekend

FOUND at Level Gallery After seeing pollution in the ocean and researching the effects, longtime underwater fashion photographer Jeremy McKane decided he wanted to do more than take pretty pictures. McKane uses his art to raise awareness of this urgent issue. FOUND is McKane’s latest ocean conservation exhibit featuring eleven…

5 Art Exhibitions to See this Weekend

American DirtArtists’ using found objects, or trash, in their work is old hat, but that’s not what photographer Jeff Ferrell does. Nope, he documents his dumpster dives photographically. This weekend, the Reading Room (3715 Parry Ave.) teams up with Gavin Morrison and Fraser Stables/Atopia Projects to present American Dirt, a…

5 Art Exhibitions to See this Weekend

Doris Salcedo:Plegaria Muda Last year, the Nasher Sculpture Center announced Nasher Prize, a $100,000 award for a contemporary sculptor, in the vein of the Pritzker Prize. It signaled the Center’s serious exploration of the future of the art form, but it also threw Dallas onto the international map in a…

J.M. Rizzi Makes Art Larger than Life

J.M. Rizzi and his eight-year-old daughter love to look at graffiti together. In the car they will slowdown to take a look at something or watch it go by on a train. But as much as she enjoys the art his daughter is sure that he would never do graffiti…

5 Art Events to Attend in Dallas this Weekend

Joachim West Mother Earth Is a Dirty Whore – In Color and Uncensored Artist Joachim West weaves a tangled web of humanity’s darkest obsessions. His paintings and drawings portray the grotesque underbelly of society, turning metaphor into reality. His work will fuck your mind up and leave you wrestling with…