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 [...]
Visual Art
Review: McArthur Binion
“Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion” is one of two recent exhibitions to open at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Organized by senior curator Valerie Cassel Olivier “McArthur Binion” features 12 [...]
Review: Observed Imagined Abstracted
“Observed Imagined Abstracted” At Hiram Butler Gallery January 14 - February 25, 2012, three different approaches to landscape painting make for an intriguing show of small works that ask us to reflect on our interactions with the Earth [...]
Review: Jade Walker at Lawndale Art Center
As the exhibition title, “Contact,” implies, Jade Walker’s current installation in the large John O’Quinn gallery space at Lawndale Art Center is suggestive of a contact sport. Like her earlier work, the objects assembled in “Contact” [...]
Leaving the Silo: Artists on Seeing Other Disciplines
BEING AN ARTIST IS AN ALL ENCOMPASSING job, illness with time and money often in short supply. Yet,...
John Sonsini Men at Work
THE PHRASE “PAINTING FROM life” can bring to mind a host of images produced by the working artist...
Moments of Respite
Understated Elegance Triumphs in Yoshio Taniguchi’s Asia Society Texas Center HOUSTON IS NOT KNOWN FOR its grand...
Laura Lark – All the Pretty People
February 11–April 3, price 2012 “The Liveable Forest” Preview: Friday, Feb. 10, 6–8 p.m. Opening reception: Saturday, Feb....
Signs of Power
THIS SPRING, THE CONTEMPORARY Arts Museum Houston hosts the nationally touring exhibition “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973- 1991” on view until April 15. Helaine Posner, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator/deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Neuberger Museum of Art [...]
Works of Note: December 2011
AURORA 2011 Dallas Arts District October 28, 2011 With the public art festival Aurora, Dallas appropriated the Parisian...
Colorful World of Artist Rex Ray
You could call him a punk rock post-modernist artist. Rex Ray is a visual musician, inviting you into his lyrical world through intricately painted collaged art works. Ray, a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, has been immersed [...]
Public Art at the Texas Discovery Garden
“Look Up! Look Up!” The young girl commanded her parents as she entered the Texas Discovery Garden for the “Dallas Green Festival.” The entrance to the building welcomed them with a sculpture suspended from the ceiling [...]