5 Art Events for Your Weekend, October 21-23

Jay Shinn: Air Space Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole St., Suite 120 6 to 8 p.m. Friday If you know what a decahedron is, you are probably either A) a high school geometry teacher or B) the artist Jay Shinn. Shinn uses the 10-faced, three-dimensional wooden shapes as canvasses for…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend, October 14-16

FIVE: Ties That Bind The Art Room 2712 Weisenberger St., Fort Worth 6-9 p.m. Friday Sibling rivalry. Mommy issues. Crazy aunts. Local artist Deedra Baker explores these themes and more at FIVE: Ties That Bind, a one-night show featuring portraits, still lifes and landscapes that document the nexus of three…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: October 7-9

Closing: Ryder Richards’ Invisible Hand and Artists Anonymous7 p.m. Friday Beefhaus 833 Exposition Ave. Friday night is the last chance to catch Ryder Richards’ Artists Anonymous at Beefhaus. This particular breed of AA is an open session where addicts (the art kind) who’ve hit rock bottom (in the art sense)…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: September 29-October 2

José Parlá: INSTINCTS6:30 p.m. Thursday  Goss-Michael Foundation 1305 Wycliff Ave., Suite 120 Free Opening this week at the Goss-Michael Foundation on Wycliff Avenue is INSTINCTS, an inaugural solo exhibition featuring works by the critically lauded artist José Parlá. Parlá, a Brooklyn-based artist whose talents include painting, sculpting, architecture and photography, created…

Meet the Artist Couple Behind Creative Powerhouse Exploredinary

The Dallas Observer has recently been collaborating with a team of videographers known as Exploredinary. (Perhaps you’ve seen this video they made about a party store in Oak Cliff selling Donald Trump piñatas, or this one about Leon Bridges.) We thought it appropriate to tell you a little bit more about…

Kid NES Paints Murals That Bring 8-Bit Characters to Life Size

Many kids today probably don’t know this, but street art didn’t receive mainstream acceptance until Banksy became a household name in the mid-2000s. Before then, graffiti was widely seen as an eyesore created by an unsavory population. Countless tags were covered and movies like Demolition Man envisioned a squeaky clean…