Ruffling the Fringe
WOULD YOU ATTEND YOUR OWN funeral? Would you let a stranger wash your hair? Would you put your art in the fridge? Consider also four-hour artist mini-residencies that run ’round the clock [...]
Visual Art
Cut and Paste
IN A 1929 PHOTOGRAPH BY RUSSIAN avant-garde artist El Lissitzky, an extreme close-up of an eye stares out at the viewer, one dark, bristling eyebrow hovering over the oculus. The subject’s pupil has [...]
Strait To Houston
IRINA CHMYREVA AND EVGENY Berezner do not rush to answers. After each question, there is a moment when they allow themselves a glance, and perhaps a few words in Russian. They then launch into long, [...]
Creating In Motion
Sublimation Simulacrum January 7–February 11 Cohn Drennan Contemporary www.cohndrennancontemporary.com If there’s anything Dallas born sculptor Kit Reisch loves, it’s a challenge. Whether it’s living abroad or offering gallery-goers a provocative multimedia experience [...]
Review: Antonio Murado
Antonio Murado Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas January 7–February 11, 2012 Some shows transform a gallery space into a new environment, or they challenge gallery goers’ aesthetic, political or social sensibilities, or they showcase the subtle or striking development in an artist’s recent work [...]
Review: Joseph Havel
Joseph Havel Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas January 14–February 25, 2012 When art places us squarely within the ambit of mystery, we’d be foolhardy to ask for more. Joseph Havel’s exhibition, “Plus or Minus” at Talley Dunn Gallery, does precisely that. Like great literary works [...]
Review: Luther Smith
We may not take the time to notice, but there are patches of wilderness that exist quietly between our expanding developments and highways. Luther Smith’s collection of photographs “Where I Live” reveals these natural oases within a sprawling suburban landscape that seems to grow [...]
Review: Angel Fernandez and Kit Reisch
Variety of style and reference, scale and medium, motivation and effect — with Angel Fernandez and Kit Reisch’s “Sublimation Simulacrum” and Cande Aguilar’s “The Mericle Paintings,” Cohn Drennan Contemporary offers two shows that work together as an eccentric motley [...]
Review: KAWS
KAWS Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth December 11, price 2011–February 19, 2012 The Modern gained a...
SURVEYING THE SCENE
A statewide preview of some interesting new shows GLENN LIGON: AMERICA Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth...
POPAGANDA: Shepard Fairey
Punk rock skateboarder turned infamous street artist, Shepard Fairey moves beyond guerrilla-style art to forge an identity as a heroic figure in today’s pop culture.Shepard Fairey will be in Dallas participating in a citywide mural project [...]
Review: Where Will We Live?
If Kafka and John Burger had a baby, it would be New York-based artist Matthew Buckingham, whose work is full of pith and wit. An impenetrable bronze box states “May be opened after August 10, 3007 [...]