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…
In 2013, we profiled 3D printing company Captured Dimensions, a Richardson-based company whose goal is to provide people with a futuristic way of making memories. And their technology has only gotten better. Now, the company uses more than 80 DSLR cameras arranged in a 360 degree array to take a…
Melvin Edwards: Five Decades Melvin Edwards has spent the last five decades working in steel. His most famous body of work is a series of small, steel reliefs titled “Lynch Fragments.” These 3-dimensional pieces, which Edwards has been making for much of his career, aren’t overwhelming in size, but carry…
Last Friday afternoon, I stepped into the Dallas Contemporary galleries with select members of the press to get an early view of Loris Gréaud’s The Unplayed Notes Museum, an exhibition meant to fill the mammoth warehouse space — roughly 26,000 square feet of emptiness for the artist to play in…
Dallas Medianale, an experimental film festival programmed by the Video Association of Dallas, has been going on at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (3120 McKinney Ave.) since January 9. I went to the opening night, which featured screenings and a series of intermedia performances, including an awesome display by a duo…
Jesse Morgan Barnett & Jeff Gibbons It’s a rare opportunity to see two of the smartest artists working in Dallas in the same venue. Which is why you’ll want to head to the Goss Michael Foundation’s exhibition openings from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Jesse Morgan Barnett mines his own life to…
Carolyn Sortor’s Seismic Hive In a city with far too little video art, and an audience with little to no understanding of how to wade into the small pool that does exist, this weekend brings us exciting exhibition. Intermedia artist Carolyn Sortor works in whatever medium catches her interest. For…
Flowers of War In grad school I spent one winter break in Los Angeles, which of course required a trip to Malibu to visit, among other sites, the Adamson House, known in some circles as the “Taj Mahal of Tile.” Since then, I’ve moved back to Dallas and fallen eyes…
