Anyone who needs to be forced out of those “comfortable” preconceived notions of identity should see Genevieve Gaignard’s exhibition In Passing at the Houston Center for Photography, on view through Oct. 22....
The mucky brown waters had barely begun to recede when artist David McGee’s mother reminded him of the title of his upcoming exhibition at Houston’s Texas Gallery. ...
Depending on one’s frame of mind, the new exhibitions on view through July 16 at San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art—created by three very different artists in three divergent mediums—offer either hopeful or apocalyptic visions of landscapes....
My recent visit to Project Row Houses’s 46th round of exhibitions, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter at Project Row Houses, on view March 25 through June 4, introduced me to a new way to consider empathy: As an ultimatum....
In the front hallway of the 6th Ward’s MECA building, you can scan a QR code and hear the creaky strains of an old violin from the Veracruz region of Mexico. Another digital scan of a jumbled-looking square produces a complex tapestry of rapidly overlapping strings known as El Siquisiri. The style of music is known as Son Jarocho, and it is a blend of “musical and dance tradition from the Sotavento, the southern regions of Mexico’s Veracruz state.”...
“It’s always been my dream to be a full-time artist.” I spoke to Floyd Newsum in his studio in the basement of the UHD campus, a short train-ride from Planter and Stems, as he prepared for a show of new paintings at the Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Jan. 14-Feb. 18, 2017. ...
Blake Rayne’s Cabin of the Accused, on view at Blaffer Art Museum through March 18, 2017, is a survey of works that “rearticulate specific elements, organizational attitudes, and pictorial procedures” in the artist’s oeuvre....
“Do you know the stereotype that any male who’s approaching his mid-30s becomes really interested in World War I or World War II?,” Shayne Murphy laughs sheepishly, including himself in this group....
“I’m not a sarcastic painter,” Marcelyn McNeil tells me near the end of our conversation in her east Houston live/work space. She has just finished explaining the title of her upcoming solo effort at Dallas’ Conduit Gallery. Love and Theft, on view Sept. 10-Oct. 15, is a nod to her commitment to the old-school practice of painting and an acknowledgment of the constant appropriation and regeneration of formal abstraction in today’s teeming art world. ...
