Review: Hilary Wilder, A Northern Tale
J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich and the Hudson River School understandably come up a lot in discussions of...
Visual Art
Review: David Katz, Systemic Expansion
Spindles and webs of organic shapes span the hallway like an alien garland, interlinking peculiar bulbous nodes. Hard ceramic cages squinch and shape the interlinked tumorous forms. The bone-like lattices that festoon the hallways of the Artists Gallery at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft comprise Systemic Expansion, the latest [...]
Review: Oscar Muñoz
at Sicardi Gallery Fire, water, dust, and light. Though modern science has moved well past the classical theory of elements, there remains some category of pure substance [...]
Arts Aid
Houston Arts Alliance Launches the Inaugural Houston Arts Resource Fair Being a professional artist is not for the...
A Frame Shop With Curatorial Caché
Ariane Roesch’s UNIT Looks for Print Collectors Online As PrintHouston continues through the summer with its sprawling calendar...
Light – Hold the Pickle Juice
James Turrell on the Trouble With Holograms A month after the unveiling of Twilight Epiphany, James Turrell’s skyspace...
The Conductivity of Collectivity
Houston Artists Find Power in Numbers “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to...
Gray Boxes
Sicardi Gallery’s New Building Extends a 10-Year Trend About ten years ago I was intrigued by the construction...
Growing an Arts Community
Ashley Clemmer Hoffman in action at Rothko Chapel Growing up in a country store and volunteer fire department...
Getting (Not Too Far) Away From It All – To Work
Galveston Artist Residency Offers Time, Space and a Bike For artist Nick Barbee, a two-year resident with the...
Review: Rusty Scruby, Cube Network & Cherry Blossoms
The disparate influences informing Dallas-based artist Rusty Scruby’s photographic reconstructions and folded-paper constructions include knitting, piano composition and mathematics. You can see evidence of all three in Scruby’s mastery of structure, harmony and tension in Cube Network and Cherry Blossoms, his second [...]
Review: Jason Yates, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Tightly structured and composed of hatch marks drawn into dozens of petal-like shapes, Los Angeles artist Jason Yates’ abstract paintings seem to be of two minds, cultivating patience, on the one hand, through meditative repetition, while expressing impatience, on the other, with the limitations of their medium [...]