Review: Jasper Johns, Two Flags & Prints
Hiram Butler Gallery April 14-May 19 www.dbhbg.com For some painters, printmaking is merely a means of reproducing their...
Visual Art
Review: Utopia/Dystopia
Review: Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 11-June 10 www.mfah.org A woman in a white dress her lower half anyway, floats dreamily against the backdrop of a hazy Manhattan skyline; her head and torso eclipsed [...]
Review: Artifactual Realities
Station Museum Through May 13 I had difficulty grasping the curatorial remit of Artifactual Realities when I first learned of the exhibition. Billed as part of the Fotofest Biennial, the exhibition featuring the work of eleven artists purports to explore the Occupy movement and tenets of [...]
Review: Garth Clark & Mark Del Vecchio Collection
Review: Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 4-June 3 www.mfah.org You may know Lucio Fontana as the Italian painter whose slashed canvases echoed the devastation of World War II while violently activating the space behind the surface [...]
Review: Contemporary Asian Art
Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections Asia Society Texas Center April 14–September 16 www.asiasociety Considering the fact that the...
Review: Yasuaki Onishi’s Reverse of Volume RG
Reverse of Volume RG Rice Gallery 13 April- 24 June 2012 Nebulous Mountains hover in space. Yawning caverns...
Worth the Trip
Currents: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival New Mexico is known for artists and scientists, not just...
High Art and Low Riders: Art Car Parade at 25
The giant roach car. The one that looks like a dragon. The one with all the fish and lobsters on it. These are just some of the rolling sculptures that cruise through Houston’s [...]
Unmapping Houston
Artists navigate the city’s geography You hear people say Houston is a hard city to love. But, it’s also a hard city to see. When you imagine Houston, at times [...]
Pump Up the Volume
The Quiet Genius of Harvey Bott and the DoV “All ‘straight’ lines bend through space,” Harvey Bott tells me. That sounds like something having to do with math, and [...]
Review: Adam McEwen
One of the most intriguing things about the Goss-Michael Foundation — and there are many — is their willingness to ruffle feathers. They stir things up. Because they concentrate on British art, their contemporary shows often allude to Western mythological stories and archetypal [...]
Review: Roberta Harris
Eighteen new paintings by Houston artist Roberta Harris find inspiration in geometric forms in her recent show at Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Deep Ellum. Harris paints bold, textured, edgy, and haphazard paintings. She leaves a trail of her work process — drips, splats, impasto elements [...]