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John Pomara has a solo show at the Barry Whistler Gallery titled off_Key2 comprised of new paintings and photographs incorporating miraculously manipulated images derived exclusively from the computer. Pixel forms floating in isolated color fields somehow eliminate the presence of the artist and defy understanding the technique that [...]
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Culture Clash

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In preparation for his upcoming exhibition at Dallas’ Circuit 12 Contemporary, arts writer Robin Dluzen recently visited the studio painter Ron Ewert, one of the four Chicago-based artists who will be presenting their work in White Noise this November at the Dallas gallery [...]
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“Not What They Saw in the Movies”

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MFAH’s WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY Surveys Combat, from Advent to Aftermath Standing over a model of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Upper Brown Foundation Gallery, MFAH photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker reaches into one of the dollhouse-sized rooms to pluck out one of hundreds of miniature copies of war-related photographs [...]
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Review: Floyd Newsum

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At Wade Wilson Art, Floyd Newsum presents his latest body of richly-hued, heavily-worked, densely-layered paintings. Many of the paintings are influenced by Newsum’s ongoing interest in the arts of Sirigu, a village in northern Ghana. Throughout the exhibition, collaged elements [...]
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Review: James Brown

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James Brown: The Distinct Connection Texas Gallery September 20-November 3 Ivory and dense– black forms dance across the walls at Texas Gallery. Vibrating with stillness, James Brown’s painting series Planets: The Distinct Connection offers us a meditation on the cosmic and metaphysical. Brown creates a rhythm of hundreds of spots that [...]
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