Justyna Gorowska: FWJG Photographer Francesca Woodman was fascinated by the female body. During the late 70’s she shot black and white portraiture, often of women in the nude, playing with the camera to blur or smudge the image further submerging the subject into the medium. Woodman’s photographic self-awareness, her sensitive…
It’s near the end of Thursday night’s Dallas Art Fair gala and I’m wandering through the polished halls of the Fashion International Gallery when my companion asks a loaded question, “How many black people have you seen here tonight?” I thought for a second, and local artist and writer Darryl…
A smart gallerist wants the work they show to be in conversation with the contemporary international art market, but much of the year it’s more likely you’ll speak in Dallas terms. You’ll compare one Dragon Street space to another. Perhaps this is why it’s quite wonderful to wander the Dallas…
You’re going to hear a lot of people telling you what #DallasArtsWeek and the Dallas Art Fair mean for the city this week. No matter what they say, roll your eyes, sip your champagne, and adopt the most blasé tone you can muster and say, “Vous sentez come le boeuf…
This weekend is an odd one in Dallas art land. With the Dallas Art Fair opening next weekend, quite a few galleries are squeezing in opening receptions so as not to lose patrons to the upcoming signature Fair events. And in a large number of this weekend’s openings there’s an…
What is reality? How do we build the one we live in? Have you ever asked yourself this? How real are the places you visit? What about the places you haven’t been? You’ll never see all of the natural world, and you’ll only really know the places you’ve been. The…
I’ve been slacking when it comes to seeing all the exhibitions happening in and around Dallas. I don’t know if it’s been the weather, or what you might call being in “a funk,” but I’m slowly emerging from my shell to see everything out there. This list is a healthy…
John Alexander nearly presses his nose against a charcoal image of a lobster and laughs when he says looking into the drawing’s eyes reminds him of his dog. We’re in the downstairs gallery where a series of drawings serve as a prelude to the exhibition at the Meadows Museum, Human/nature…
Joy Laville, Chuck & George, and Flor Garduño Three very different artists take over the McKinney Avenue Contemporary this weekend. Mexican-based artist Joy Laville’s paintings return to Dallas for her first exhibition in 30 years, featuring work from five decades of painting. In the square gallery, Dallas-based collaborative duo Chuck…
Kevin Todora’s photographs don’t resemble any you’ve seen before. In fact, much of his work on display at Erin Cluley Gallery doesn’t look like photography at all. The images suck you in with their 3-dimensional quality, compelling you to examine alongside Todora the boundaries of photography’s language…
If you do only one thing on Sunday, visit the Dallas Museum of Art. You may very well need all day. Currently, in addition to its large permanent collection, the DMA has not one, not three, but five killer exhibitions…
Have you ever wanted more from your visit to a gallery? A show that will make you feel invigorated or well rested? If you’re able to sleep intimately with strangers on the questionably clean floor of a gallery space, you’ll want to clear your schedule Friday night and head to…
Mark Tribe: New Landscapes At the intersection of art and technology, the leading figure is Mark Tribe. An early adopter of new media, in 1996 Tribe started Rhizome.org as an online resource for anyone with similiar curiousity about how emerging technology affects culture. In his artistic practice, he’s interested in…
An artist’s process starts long before he picks up a paintbrush, or in the case of HG, a can of spray paint. In her latest video, Kathy Tran stops by the studio to see what Dallas-based street artist HG is up to, capturing him as he tries things out, brain…
Cutie & The Boxer Artists Noriko and Ushio Shinohara earned international acclaim for their 2013 documentary Cutie and the Boxer, which was nominated for an Academy Award. The film explored the couple’s relationship and their artistic practices, following the way they’ve intertwined life and careers as Japanese artists living in…
There’s not much in your way of typical exhibition openings, so you’ll only see one of those on this list. If you’re looking to get your art fix you’ll have to be a bit more adventurous. Check out one of these five events to attend. We lead off with one…
It’s 4 p.m. on a Wednesday and I’m climbing into the body of a 1975 Datsun Z, receiving instructions that amount to “flip this switch and jiggle that one” with the warning that “just know, it will actually be quite startling.” I’m sitting on a false seat in the driver’s…
“I wanted to have a group show with myself at different stages of my career,” explains Vincent Falsetta, as we walk through Agendas — Several Decades of Painting, on display at UNT on the Square in Denton. He hesitates to call the show a retrospective, although in many ways that’s…
Stephen Lapthisophon, Jeff Gibbons, Vincent Ramos Conduit Gallery presents exhibitions by three artists who couldn’t be more different. Stephen Lapthisophon is one of Dallas’ veteran artists, who incorporates surprising materials into his work on canvas, including spices, coffee grounds, or pigmented animal fats. Concurrently there will be an exhibition by…
Five decades is likely more than half a life. That’s more than 18 thousand days and nearly a half-million hours. It’s a long time to live. It’s a long time to be creating art. To see an artist’s work spanning 50 years is to stand in the presence of mastery;…
Two of the most beloved characters in the Dallas art scene are known together collaboratively as Chuck & George, in daily life as “The Brians” or individually as Brian Keith Jones and Brian Scott. For more than two decades, these two have been working together or in tandem on art…
For the Love of Kettle A lot of people love Kettle Art Gallery. This Deep Ellum staple run by artist Frank Campagna and his partner, Paula Harris, is a haven of emerging and established Dallas artists whose work varies from painting to photography to the phallic sculpture garden I saw…
