What do you get if you mix rainbows and sprinkles, unicorns and starbursts, with a little country-and-western Texas realism? Well, Jennifer Moreman is the woman to ask. Now living in Tyler, Moreman grew up in Dallas, where she graduated from Trinity Christian Academy before taking a BFA from Baylor. She…
Again, this isn’t safe for work. If you don’t already e-stalk Hennesy Youngman, awesome-up your life by getting hip to him. He has an answer to every artistic dilemma. This new video gives solid advice for anyone giving a tour of their work space, namely: Serve quesadillas. Follow the Mixmaster…
While it isn’t clear how one discovers a talent in the balloon arts, those competing at Sunday’s Festival of Balloons were well-versed in the trade. Roughly 600 sculptors from 50 countries gathered at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel to flex their elastic prowess and construct colossal balloon sculptures. Birds of prey,…
We can infer a few things about this car’s mystery driver: an appreciation for elegant, if mature, BMWs; the desire to snarf some Chipotle, as evidenced through this sweet ride’s location last night on Lemmon; and an ambition toward counter-cultural paint jobs with a gentle, perhaps unintentional, nod to the…
Special effects make-up guru Kevin Kirkpatrick is very much our kind of dork. He’s structured the gore for everything from Tron to True Blood but still managed to squeeze in time to make these amazingly creepy human-like renderings. That’s laced with a bit of irony: Kirkpatrick spent three years perfecting…
If you want to hear about Michelle Rawlings’ dad, you should head over to Unfair Park. The Dallas blogosphere went into a four-alarm, screaming alert last week at the announcement that the “Mayor’s Daughter” had been chosen for a solo show at Oliver Francis Gallery that, it would seem, contains…
Artist and musician Sally Ackerman was spotted yarn bombing trees along N. Bishop Avenue last Sunday afternoon. She explains that what started as a “love bomb” for a friend at Artisan’s Collective turned into a gig when TV producers from the show Dallas hired her to knit up four more…
I knew a girl in South Florida with a highly unfortunate tattoo. The over-sized, Old English back piece read: “MOEW.” I asked her about the word’s significance and she replied, “It’s supposed to say ‘MEOW.'” Ouch. The artist, she explained, put the letters on individually and showed ’em to her…
Celebrity and consumerism build the flavor base for Decade of Aggression, the new exhibit by Austin street artist, Failure. Continue on to witness Failure’s gritty world of nipples and gas masks…
Never has there been an event as catastrophic or storied in maritime lore quite like that of the Titanic. It is the story of an impermeable ship with giant expectations. It sought to revolutionize the way goods were shipped; improve and increase the transportation of immigrants; and change the game…
Today’s FLP (or FLPs) come from the Joel Cooner Gallery. They’re called door boards, and they are exactly what they sound like: boards that are hung over and around doors. Or the openings to homes, anyway. These are from the Star Mountains in central Papua New Guinea from the Ok…
Are you an artist searching for that perfect, unbuffable wall (aka: The Holy Grail of graff writers)? How about putting your name on something permanent by taking your skill set indoors? Your mom would be so proud…Local graffiti art collective, Gallery Bomb, is experimenting with new Dallas talent. The crew…
Well, here’s your cool timelapse video of the day… Over on Dallas’ Reddit page this morning, caught an exciting piece from local artist Andy Buchanan. The two-minute plus video chronicles the construction of Buchanan’s action-y, three-dimension-y mural “Rescuing Freedom.” According the YouTube vid, the piece took three weeks to complete…
People can be, shall we say, incredibly emphatic when they talk about religion. But, sometimes, they’re a little too emphatic. Enough that you can’t help but wonder what they really feel.Today’s FLP, “Fanatic Aunt” by r. mateo diago, one of four pieces in a series titled “iChat God Talk,” examines…
Sculptor Shawn Smith likes to take stuff apart so he can put it back together–pixel-by-pixel. He finds images online, and then crafts them into 3D reality: One little piece at a time. He starts with a Google image, usually nothing more than a thumbnail. He zooms in until the image…
Some art leaves a singular, momentary impression. Other work sets the mind afire. Michael Reafsnyder’s paintings definitely fall into the latter category. In this week’s FLP, “I’ve Got a Feeling,” Reafsnyder takes the eye on an amazing race through every scrape, swirl, and, dribble and blob.Get close enough–we swear–and your…
Look who’s got some brand spankin’ new shoes. Like the rest of us, the Deep Ellum “Traveling Man” sculpture’s been a little chilly this week. And being made of metal, can you imagine how much worse that must be? Finally, someone took pity on his big robot feet and sized…
Steven Culbert is one of those artists who eschews the idea that there’s any limit to the number of ways you can paint. You can see that in his current show, Big and Small, at Jacques Lamy Gallery. Upon viewing the show, you might not even guess that all of…
While the rest of us are freaking out about what to buy Aunt Fern for the holidays, Conduit Gallery is basically blowing up with shows. There’s Jeremy Red’s solo show of unconventional portraits, Catching Up — his first here since he moved from Denton to Seatle, WA in 2003. There’s…
The piece is called Lake Austin Motel, Room 133. But as soon as I hear the title, I think of Lake Austin Spa Resort. I imagine the reclining figure is taking a much needed break after taking Nia classes and kayaking in the lake all day long. The black and…
Quilts have long been misunderstood. People have considered them craft, pretty blankets sewn by women with too much time on their hands. Although many quilts are quite beautiful, they are also incredibly powerful. Frontier women crafted them to shelter their families from the dangerous cold. Slaves created them as creative…
It was pretty damn magical Friday night in the Arts District. The galleries were open late and light, video, and sound installations of one kind and another dotted the streets as part of Aurora. The Nasher hosted the final ‘Til Midnight of the season with The Bright playing on the…
