An important part of running a gallery is observing people at your shows, reading the room, noticing who is engaged with the work, and talking to people. You notice body language: the way perspective buyers keep circling back to a certain piece while others are there to appreciate the work…
This new series connects visually the work of national and international artists with the work of artists living in Dallas. H. Schenck’s H is for Human, M is for Mud @ 500X For H. Schenck mud is identity, humanity, substance and substrate. The work at 500x is elegantly presented as…
It was enough to scare people away. The soft sculptures were looming, abstract but not geometric, elements that were not plain so much as creepy. In the 1970s, Gillian Bradshaw-Smith was living in a New York City loft. Several other artists lived in the building and many of them opened…
Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots You’re going to need multiple trips to the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood St.) to fully see the stunning new exhibition, Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots. In collaboration with the Tate Liverpool, this is the ONLY time all of these works will share a room,…
In the corner of a secluded, street-facing gallery in the Nasher Sculpture Center a young Indian man sits under a sign that reads, “I am hear for you. I will listen to you.” He’s Maneesh, aka “the listener,” and he’s inside Piero Golia’s social sculpture, Chalet Dallas, to do exactly…
Sherwin R Tibayan/IndexYou ready for a bit of mind-blowing trivia? Susan Sontag’s tour de force, On Photography, doesn’t have an index. I know, it sounds impossible, but if you dust off your copy from college, you’ll find that it’s true. Although, I suppose in some ways that bit of trivia…
Monet, Degas, Cezanne, and Renoir are all familiar names to even the casual art lover. Impressionism remains extremely popular and no other museum in the area has given viewers more opportunities to see some of the masterpieces of the movement than the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth. And they’ve done…
Lorem Ipsum When an art director or graphic designer wants to see what text will look like on the page or in an online post, they will often use the Latin words Lorem Ipsum as placeholder text. Sometimes the text is used because a writer has blown a deadline for…
Frank Campagna gives a quick description of Deep Ellum ten years ago: “Dead.” This is when he opened Kettle Art Gallery in Deep Ellum, which celebrates its double digits birthday Thursday. But he’s been involved with the neighborhood since 1981 and knew that it falls and rises. He opened…
In an ongoing series for the arts blog, artist Randy Guthmiller attempts to visually connect exhibitions from elsewhere with art being made in Dallas. Most days, you can find Guthmiller either in the studio working on his art, which manifests in sculptural relief Shapes, or working in the Nasher gallery…
Lily Hanson’s new exhibit is inspired by punk rock. It is not something you would guess about a work that seems playful and whimsical at first glance. “The Once Over Twice” takes its name from the title of a song by X, the Los Angeles punk band formed nearly four…
Dennis Gonzalez is better known for being a free jazz trumpet player and educator, but he is also an artist. Saturday night he will have his first exhibit in a decade, a one night only pop show that will also feature music from his longtime band, Yells At Eels. The…
Shiki: Landscape and Beyond There is a pine tree that has seen more of the world than most humans. Well, it’s mostly a pine tree; the trunk is real, the leaves are handmade from resin by floral sculptor Azuma Makoto. In an exhibition, titled Shiki:Landscape and Beyond, this tree suspended…
Nothing stays put. The world is a wheel. All that we know, that we’re made of, is motion. -Amy Clampitt For approximately 90 minutes Tuesday night, two projectors set at random cast video onto a small web of white screens. One scene, vivid and floral, quickly becomes disorienting, the flowers…
Aurora The ephemeral nature of the biennial event, Aurora, gives the whole night a sense of magic. It also requires something of visitors: clear the calendar and show up. Starting at 7 p.m. Friday, 19 city blocks will be filled with light, video and music to create a sometimes messy,…
Local underwater fashion photographer Jeremy McKane will have an installation that interacts with your mind at the inaugural show at the MAC’s new location in The Cedars. It’s called Lucid and he refers to it as a living installation that addresses toxicity in the ocean. His mind-controlled digital video projection…
Have you ever thought it would be fun to view Earth from space, the whole world seeming so small and delicate you could hold it in the palm of your hand? Well, you can simulate that experience and party while you do it at the fourth Diorama-o-Rama from 4-8 p.m…
If you’re not making the pilgrimage to Marfa for Chinati International Pop If I told you to name an artist from the Pop Art movement, it’s more than likely you’d mention names like Warhol or Lichtenstein. In fact, most of the artists who come to mind for most people are…
In Dallas these days, there’s no shortage of “can’t miss” events. It’s almost impossible to plan a weekend. Looking down a list of events to decide what to do with your weekend can be paralyzing. It’s much easier to sit at home watch Netflix and wait for your friends to…
Alicja Bielawska: Reference Points for Potential Constellations If the work on display in Cydonia Gallery this week seems familiar but you just can’t quite put your finger on it, you’re engaging with what the artist considers the “limits of the past,” or exactly how our perception is tied to to…
In the sunny main gallery of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a single tree branch seems to be growing out of a marble column. Or perhaps it has been trapped that way, memorialized in this regal way. Then, upon closer inspection, you’ll see this branch, and the others like it, aren’t…
Maybe you avoid the art scene because you think it’s boring, or perhaps you think that your own art skills and knowledge just aren’t up to snuff. Either way, you’re probably wrong. Still, everyone can stand to get a little better at art, even those that don’t find themselves particularly…
