“I think about how a traditional painting is compressed unto itself,” Nathaniel Donnett explained. “The object, ground, surface, texture, subject or non-subject, and the process of applying a substance that could be considered as paint.”
Swimming pools, tennis courts, a bridge, an arch, her daughter’s toy blocks are all recurring images in Iranian-born artist Farima Faloodi’s paintings and installations.
Parker Davis Gray is not afraid to be weird. The SMU theater grad has played silly, sinister, sympathetic, and sometimes just plain psychotic on basically every professional stage in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2016; if he’s not taking a risk, he’s not satisfied.
There are certain moments in life that we look back upon and realize how pivotal they were. For Héctor Guzmán, it happened one evening in his early 20s after giving a performance of an organ concerto.
MOON MOTH BED (2023), is not your typical nature documentary. Austin-based artist Virginia L. Montgomery created this video for EYE MOON COCOON, her fall 2023 exhibition at Austin’s Women & Their Work, who invited her to create a large immersive installation that referenced Texas and the Texas ecosystem.
From Francis Bacon’s chaotically smeary Dublin hovel to Georgia O’Keefe’s airy New Mexico retreat, the way that artists use, arrange, divide, and negotiate their studios is as individual as the work that emerges from these spaces.