It felt a little dangerous and inappropriate to be viewing English-born artist Nigel Cooke’s work, as if as viewers we had slipped inside his head to see insecurities, dark humor, questions and answers — some of which it was difficult to feel as if we had the right to see…
Her name is Stacey Maynard but she calls herself Lucky Girl. And rightly so. Maynard, unlike way too many people, is actually doing what she loves — creating art. The high school art teacher working in a variety of media hails from Australia, but she’s celebrating her first solo exhibition,…
What do clocks, a desk, logs, cardboard boxes, equipment of one kind or another, buildings, a train, meters, fans, a chair, radios, a tractor, a bed, blocks, toy trees, a dollhouse, a telephone, an electrical outlet, Saturn, record players, cut pages from a children’s book,a grandfather clock, train cars, cash…
Irritation and pity are not the expressions I imagined a shark would wear upon being captured or killed. But that seems like precisely the expression it has in Dallas and Union Valley, Texas artist Pamela Henderson’s piece “One of Eight part of the series Ellipsis and Hatchet Acrylic.”Three people, presumably…
Outside of Murray Street Coffee Shop in Deep Ellum a neon spray painted mannequin sits, chained to the base of a tree. Aurora is spelled out across her chest and right leg in stickers, and a presumably once legible date sits across her upper abdomen. There’s a QR code smack-dad…
In “Fall,” part of a series, not surprisingly titled “The Seasons,” Olga Polunin personifies the season as a beautiful, young, Asian woman. She is bare breasted and the composition ends just beneath them, reminiscent of any number of European paintings, in particular the School of Fontainebleau piece “Gabrielle d’Estrées and…
Outside Tranquilo Yoga Studio in Bishop Arts the community is encouraged to add their own answer in chalk. So far there are some good answers and some great ones. I asked a friend that’s an art teacher what his would be and he said, “Convince a kid that has had…
It’s literally the elephant in the room. Only in Kirk Hayes’ “Protective Covering Smoldering,” someone is trying to cover him up. Desperately. But they’re doing a terrible job of it. Terrible. The pink blanket silhouettes what is clearly an elephant. Except, it’s not just an elephant. It’s also some sort…
Last night I ate the art at the Dallas Contemporary. Everyone there did. It was an installation/performance art piece, one of the Contemporary’s LEGENDARY events, called Made in Texas and created by New York artist Jennifer Rubell, and the point was not just to see the art, but also to…
It’s nearly 2012 and still women are not represented in art, history and any number of other realms as prominently as they should be. As we slowly remedy that, we do what I like to call “add women and stir.”…
You can’t help but wonder who it is that’s being trained on this particular day. At once fanciful and thought-provoking, Heather Gorham’s work, “Training Day,” challenges the viewer’s expectations. The sky is mottled and the horizon line drips down. It looks as if you could wipe away the white and…
We’re not gonna lie: We love the Los Angeles-based artist that is Brandon Bird and have for years now. We love that his favorite thing to eat is meals (followed closely by snacks)” and we ordered our first set of Law & Order valentines around five years ago. When an…
Sure, we’re no Vegas, but Dallas is known for some iconic neon signs, perhaps more so for the ones that have gone dark, like the original Pegasus and the Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts signs. The Alamo closed in 2008, and last summer Unfair Park toured the vacant property days before…
Abstract paintings can appear so abstract that it’s difficult to interpret meaning from the crowded geometric shapes or intersections of paint splashes and splotches. Abstract painter David Collins layers abstract images on each other in his works, but the result is not an onslaught of imagery that leaves one looking…
No matter what the season or climate, White Rock Lake is always a serene destination in our otherwise bustling city. This year the lake turns 100, an anniversary that’s been celebrated this summer with a festival, guided tours and plenty of champagne toasts at sunset. White Rock Lake Museum is…
A sheep and a dragon. A devil and an angel. A tiny icon of sweet dreams. These are the pieces Julia McLain blocks together in a way reminiscent of those puzzles where you slide the pieces around until the picture is whole. Only in “Peace and War,” the lack of…
On August 6, Andy Warhol would have turned 83, and to commemorate the iconic artist’s life, LuminArte Design Gallery installed a collection of works from modern artists inspired by Warhol. What Would Andy Do? is an exhibition of works from local, national and international artists who apply Warhol’s pop stylings…
Thanks to the popularity of artists like Banksy, graffiti is becoming a more accepted form of art rather than just the unsolicited tagging of newsstands and buses. Local artist Carlos Donjuan has elevated graffiti, and his works, along with other members from the art collective SourGrapes, can be seen in…
Torches aren’t only used for Olympic ceremonies anymore. Fort Worth resident and artist Helen Altman uses torches to create stunning works, many of which are on display as part of the Firewalls exhibition at Talley Dunn Gallery. Inspired by nature, Altman uses fire on wet paper to create drawings of…
You could say a printer is the most important tool for Texas artist Terry Hays. After years of teaching scenic painting at SMU’s theater department, Hays left to pursue his own art full-time, and now his work, along with the work of his wife, Kathy Robinson-Hays, is on display at…
Create your own wall of fame with these fine, only marginally frightening works of art currently for sale at two of our favorite Dallas thrift stores. As of yesterday afternoon, all of these paintings were still looking for homes. Most could be had for less than $60. We found them…
Thousands of country-music-lovin’ Americans came out Monday to celebrate the most patriotic of holidays at the most patriotic party this side of the Mason-Dixon Line: Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic. The crowd at Billy Bob’s braved the heat for some honky-tonk from Willie and his friends, but it truly…
