Spectacles of Power and Faith draws from the Dallas-based Thoma Foundation’s extensive collection. In present-day Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, an ethos of painting emerged that captured the cultural complexity of South America in all its glory.
A needle passes through a sheet of paper and leaves behind a wound no wider than its point. Light catches along the raised fibers. Repeated hundreds of times, these punctures gather into a composition: marks made not by adding material to the surface, but by breaking through it.
This August, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art will unveil The Statue of Liberty from Bartholdi to Warhol, a sweeping exploration of how one of the world’s most recognizable symbols has been reimagined, reinterpreted, and reclaimed by artists over 150 years.
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas is among the godmothers of her craft. Since the early 2000s, the Garland, Texas native has set the standard for how to integrate human specimens in art. All she’s using is hair.