The box set sitting under glass at Holly Johnson Gallery isn’t your standard rock compilation. And while its contents resemble CDs in their size and shape, they are actually custom 5-inch vinyl records — little palm-sized things, complete with sleeves, album art and liner notes. Housed inside their grooves is…
“The camera, for me, is a weapon,” Richard Andrew Sharum says. “Every time I pull that shudder is like pulling a trigger.” Sharum is a photographer and activist who has been shooting professionally for 12 years. He’s taken photos all over the country as well as abroad, but for the past…
Eric Miller and Lin Wang moved to North Texas from Brooklyn in 2010, with no particular interest in Texas art. But once they got here, they immediately found themselves with questions. They noticed gaps in knowledge of local art history, particularly from the late ’60s until the early ’80s, and…
Works On Paper & William Wegman: Good Dogs On Nice Furniture at Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole Street, No. 120 Through August 13 Two new exhibitions are currently on display at Barry Whistler. Works on Paper features artists Terrell James, Otis Jones, Lawrence Lee, Michael Miller, Dan Rizzie, Andrea Rosenberg, Lorraine…
For the last five years, WAAS Gallery has exhibited a blend of emerging and established artists in a space on Logan Street, near Fair Park. As director, founder, owner and curator Brandy Adams and her new curating partner Emma Saperstein took the gallery into 2016, they promised radical changes on…
Concealed Fauna at The Public Trust 2271 Monitor St. Through July 30 Do not miss this unique show with works priced to sell at The Public Trust. Daria Lapto is a sculptor based in Ulyanovsk, Russia. Her figurative sculptures are both sweet and feral in nature, often combining childlike human characteristics…
In 2013, Sergio Garcia was curating a group show of photorealistic paintings at Kirk Hopper Fine Art when he was inspired to create something totally outside of his typical media of painting and street art: a series of little red tricycles sculpted into impractical shapes. By the time of the…
The Sun Shines Blue and Backyard Daoism at Galleri Urbane 2277 Monitor St. 6 p.m. Saturday For The Sun Shines Blue, painter Danny Rose studied natural landscapes and rock formations. These works are rooted in observation, awareness of time and appreciation of the surrounding world. Reflecting both the external and…
As a painter, Izk Davies has mainly passed on the gallery scene in favor of making a living with public murals. Now Davies is taking his preference for public art even further by painting realistic animal portraits on plastic wrapped around trees. A longtime muralist, Davies is always looking for…
Kettle Art is a clubhouse for artists, and artists really need a clubhouse, especially in moments of self-doubt. Artist and Kettle Art owner Frank Campagna has provided that nurturing space in Deep Ellum, and now the dozens of artists he has given a platform to since the gallery opened in…
Gomela/To Return: Movement of Our Mother Tongue at South Dallas Cultural Center 3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave. 7 p.m. Friday Gomela/To Return: Movement of Our Mother Tongue is a multi-disciplinary performance piece featuring award-winning poet Sunni Patterson. Vibrant and percussive movements and stories breathe life into African dance and drumming, as well…
Savages (a slight return) at Kettle Art 2650 Main St. This love letter to artist and Kettle Art owner Frank Campagna was originally a two-day pop-up event on Dragon Street. It was also one of the most lively shows of the year, drawing huge, extroverted crowds on both days and…
Last year, Giovanni Valderas started making art that mimicked real estate signs using traditional piñata techniques. After months of painstaking work, he decided to apply for a public art grant aimed at revitalizing downtown Houston. He submitted his new works to be considered for a 40 x 60 foot image…
Figures at Nasher Sculpture Center 2001 Flora St. Part of Soluna Music and Arts Festival, Figures is a performance by artist Mai-Thu Perret. Originally performed at the 2014 Biennale of Moving Images in Geneva, Perret’s performance will function as a series of happenings throughout the Nasher and its garden. Figures reflects…
Through August 21, visitors to the Nasher Sculpture Center have the chance to visit one of the most poetic uses of Renzo Piano’s light-filled gallery in quite some time. American sculptor Joel Shapiro rose to prominence alongside Frank Stella, Carl Andre and Tony Smith as part of a movement in…
Deep Eyellum at Epocha Shoe Gallery2540 Elm St. Native Texan graphic artist and painter Miguel Ibarra will paint one of his extraterrestrial flora murals onsite and exhibit his latest series of small “Eye-bud” paintings. Ibarra’s “green” mural series and paintings are inspired by nature’s potential to both revitalize and destroy…
Three New Films by Richard Bailey at the Margo Jones Theatre1121 1st Ave. Richard Bailey made a couple of 16mm films after finishing film school. But he started focusing on poetry and short stories once the expenses of filmmaking caught up with him. After digital advances drove down the costs,…
SOLILOQUY: Jason Salavon at The Public Trust 2271 Monitor St. The SOLILOQUY series puts the focus of an entire art gallery on one work of art for a month. Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on…
The first thing multimedia artist K. Yoland brings up over coffee in her second floor apartment in the M Streets is the Ku Klux Klan. For the British-born artist, who now divides time between Dallas and Marfa, the strong historical presence of the white-hooded terrorist group in Texas was quite…
If PEZ Dispensers never struck you as works of art, pay a visit to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and you’ll see them differently. One of the most visually enticing displays in its new exhibit, Eye of the Collector, shows hundreds of Kermit and Princess Jasmine sugar-delivery mechanisms…
trapped in the fjord, so we had to walk everywhere at the Magnolia Theatre 3699 McKinney Ave. Ro2 Art presents a new exhibition by Fort Worth-based multi-disciplinary artist Dannie Liebergot. The show, trapped in the fjord, so we had to walk everywhere, features new photographs inspired by Liebergot’s six-week residency…
Bubble and Rooftop Gardens at PDNB Gallery 154 Glass St., No. 104 Stuart Allen’s explorations of light and color continue with photographs of bubbles. These amorphic shapes against the sky reveal colors we cannot see with the naked eye. Bubble opens with an artist’s reception Saturday from 5-8 p.m. PDNB’s other…
