TX Studio: Gael Stack
“They’re either very big or very small,” Gael Stack says as we stand before her latest set of canvases.
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TX Studio: Joseph Cohen
To get to Joseph Cohen’s studio, you have to walk up. He makes his paintings on the third floor of his Houston Heights living space.
Broad Visions in a Narrow Time: FotoFest 2018 Biennial Focuses on India
Houston’s FotoFest reconvenes, March 10 through April 22, with its biennial exhibition and region-wide gallery focus on all things photographic.
Show Up: Michael Golden
“I was like a waiter at a wedding,” Michael Golden laughs, recounting the process of creating some seventy new collages to be exhibited at the Galveston Art Center.
TX Studio: Jimmy James Canales and Megan Harrison
In her description of her artist/partner, Megan Harrison says Jimmy James Canales is “kinda like a cat. He brings in a dead bird from the yard, and I’m like ‘I can do something with that.’”
Show Up: Nathaniel Donnett
It’s not easy to describe Houston artist Nathaniel Donnett’s studio.
A Decade of Surprises: The Refined and Undefined Appeal of Luminaria
San Antonio’s expansive, one-night-only arts festival is turning 10 this year. In a city that wears its culture on its sleeve, Luminaria is unique, a carefully choreographed explosion of site-specific art events attended by an average of 10,000 patrons.
Let Your Flowers Grow: Anthony Sonnenberg in Bloom at Conduit
About a year and a half ago, I spoke to Anthony Sonnenberg for Arts + Culture. He was in the midst of a residency at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center, preparing for a whirlwind of exhibitions. What I was most curious about that time (in advance of his upcoming solo at Conduit Gallery in Dallas) was whether he’d taken some time to stop and smell the proverbial roses.
Genevieve Gaignard’s Passing Identities at HCP
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.
Moving Forward, Looking Back: David McGee at Texas Gallery and HMAAC
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.
Show Up: Trenton Doyle Hancock
I have a theory that artists have the most interesting art collections.
Unpeopled Landscapes: Esteban Delgado, Tom Turner, and Victor Pérez-Rul at Southwest School of Art
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.