Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter
The latest exhibition to grace the Louisa Stude Sarofim Gallery at Asia Society Texas Center introduces an ensemble of Asian and Asian-American artists exploring such themes as personal growth, home, and broader social complexities of Asian and American cultural confluence. Organized by the [...]
Expanding the canon, combating ‘myopia’
Radical Presence curator decries view that CAMH shows too many black, gay artists Contemporary Arts Museum Houston senior curator Valerie Cassel Oliver’s latest exhibition, Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, explores how black visual artists have used performance since the 1960s. She talked with A+C visual arts editor Devon Britt-Darby about the show and [...]
“Not What They Saw in the Movies”
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 [...]
Worth the Trip: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
I didn’t get around to making the pilgrimage to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art – the Bentonville, Arkansas, institution founded by Walmart heiress and collector Alice Walton that opened just shy of a year ago – until mid-October, when it launched its new exhibitions. So I can’t give you the lowdown on which [...]
Review: Floyd Newsum
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 [...]
Review: Strange Eggs
What lies inside of an egg? The shape of a chicken’s egg does not itself give us a hint as to the shape of a chicken, nor upon cracking the smooth and featureless shell does the color or consistency of the yolk clue us in to the complex organism that might have gestated within. These [...]
Review: Tony Feher
Blaffer Art Museum October 13-March 17 In 1987 Tony Feher had a revelatory experience: Chancing upon a collection of red marbles in a shop window, he was struck by their shininess, their combination of translucency and opacity, and their varying shades. For Feher, it gave him the sense that “anything was a possibility; no shard [...]
Joey Fauerso at David Shelton Gallery
Rich oils and delicate watercolors don the walls of the newly opened David Shelton Gallery. Verdant foliage and cascading waters are juxtaposed against interior scenes. A nude man lounges in a rose colored daybed, looking to the viewer. Joey Fauerso’s Interior addresses us personally and invites us into a softer, symbolic world. Fauerso sets out [...]
Review: James Brown
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 [...]
Review: There is no archive in which nothing gets lost
When nothing becomes something, things get interesting. Such is the situation in There is no archive in which nothing gets lost, a video exhibition curated by Sally Frater, a critic-in-residence at the Glassell School of Art and an A+C contributor. The show consists of three video works, installed in separate areas of the gallery, that [...]
Gallerists Who “Actually Like Each Other”
Texas Contemporary art fair touts camaraderie among dealers With the second iteration of the Houston Fine Art Fair in the rear-view mirror, it must be time for round two of Texas Contemporary, one of several fairs produced by New York-based artMRKT Productions. A+C visual arts editor Devon Britt-Darby caught up with artMRKT managing partner Max [...]
At Home in the World
The Everyday Innovation of Craft As I write, a large-scale international art and technology symposium is taking place in the Southwest region: organizations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are hosting conferences, festivals, exhibitions, workshops, educational programs, and more. All this technology has me thinking about craft [...]
