Texas Studio: Angel Oloshove
I visited ceramicist Angel Oloshove at her studio in the Houston Heights to talk about her process, what’s on the horizon, and how she got to where she is.
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Texas Studio: Marshall Harris
The 2013 Hunting Art Prize winner describes the entire universe of a body or an object with subtle tones and pencil marks on translucent Mylar—a surface so delicate that one swipe of his hand could smudge it irreparably. In this way it is reminiscent of Buddhist sand mandalas, an effort of time and “intense study,” as the artist puts it.
Bold Cinema: Houston Iranian Film Festival at the MFAH, Rice Cinema and Asia Society
At the MFAH’s Houston Iranian Film Festival, now in its 26th year, the seats are always full. The festival, established by the MFAH and Rice Cinema, runs Jan. 18-26, with screenings at both venues and at Asia Society Texas Center.
REVIEW: Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955-1975 at the MFAH
In five sections, Contesting Modernity surveys twenty years of work in Venezuela by numerous artists, some of whom a Houston audience will already know from curator Mari Carmen Ramírez’s extensive catalog of groundbreaking, research-driven exhibitions at the MFAH.
REVIEW: Tammie Rubin, Everything You Ever at Women & Their Work
Tammie Rubin’s exhibition at Austin’s Women & Their Work (through Jan. 10) ostensibly takes the Texas ball moss as its subject.
REVIEW: Nicolas Moufarrege at the CAMH
The story of Nicolas Moufarrege is a sad one. Lost to the AIDS crisis in New York City at the age of 36, the artist had only been in practice for a decade and undoubtedly had much left to produce. Curated by Dean Daderko and on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through Feb. 17, 2019, Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign is the first solo museum exhibition for Moufarrege.
REVIEW: Ghada Amer at Dallas Contemporary
Fingers hover over lips and breasts, hair cascades over and around faces, kisses are blown and shared, pleasure is given and received: Ghada Amer’s ceramic sculptures shiver with ecstatic encounter.
Invoking the Body: Jasper Johns at Menil Drawing Institute
On view through Jan. 27, The Condition of Being Here at the newly-inaugurated Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) in Houston includes a selection of Jasper Johns’s drawings dating from 1954 to 2016, many of which get at the fragility of the body and its musings.
Dialogues Between Art and Music/Soundings: New Music at the Nasher
Listen to music in a roomful of visual art, and your eyes and ears may pick up parallels thanks to sheer serendipity.
Art for All at Austin’s SAGE Studio
Even though Katie Stahl enjoyed painting when she was growing up, she earned her college degree in psychology. Later, a friend’s suggestion led her to visit Creativity Explored, a San Francisco art center with a special mission: helping people with developmental disabilities become working artists.
Texas Lens: Artwork is Work
One recent Friday evening, my kitchen was filled with artists. Drinking, commiserating, and laughing, we all compared gigs.
REVIEW: The Nature of Arp at Nasher Sculpture Center
At Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center through Jan. 6, The Nature of Arp considers Jean (Hans) Arp’s diverse production through his processes, linking them to the processes of the natural world.