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 [...]
Taking a Bow and Sharing the Stage
Artist of the Year Aaron Parazette Presents New Work – His and Others’ A confluence of fortune has brought together two related painting exhibitions this fall: the 2012 Texas Artist of the Year exhibition at Art League Houston, FLYAWAY: New Work by Aaron Parazette [...]
Review: 10 Decades at Architecture Center Houston
On the occasion of the centenary of the Rice School of Architecture, a fascinating exhibition documenting its history is currently on display at the Architecture Center Houston downtown. It is rare to see an architectural exhibition in Houston that is open to the public [...]
Review: Danny Rolph at Barbara Davis Gallery
There’s a classic look and feel to London artist Danny Rolph’s new paintings. With shards of color that jostle alongside sinewy curves and biomorphic forms in a whirlwind of shattered rhythms, they look like something James Rosenquist might paint if he gave up popular-culture source [...]
Review: Mike Beradino at Emergency Room
As sculpture physically occupying Emergency Room, a snack-sized exhibition space at Rice University, Mike Beradino’s Lode Runner is more of a curiosity than a feast for the eyes. It looks like what it is: a DIY computer, assembled from salvaged parts, whirring and humming atop a similarly [...]
Review: In Appropriation at HCP
In Appropriation at the Houston Center for Photography is one of the strongest exhibitions currently showing in the city. Curated by SeeSaw Magazine founder and editor Aaron Schuman, it includes the work of seven artists who incorporate appropriation methodologies into their practices [...]
Review: Eric Zimmerman
There’s a lot going on in Eric Zimmerman’s latest Art Palace exhibition, which is itself part of larger goings-on: a dialogue with another, now-closed Zimmerman exhibition at the Reading Room in Dallas and with the website endlessdisharmony.tumblr.com [...]
Review: James Drake
Now based in Santa Fe, James Drake is perhaps best known for his dark, large-scale drawings and for his engagement with the politics of his former residence on the Juarez-El Paso border. That darkness has given way to an airy, ethereal lightness in James Drake: Red Drawings & White Cut-Outs now on view at Moody [...]
Art-Making in the Here-and-Now
The Mitchell Center Calls Great Artists and Attention to Houston As many readers know, Forbes recently named Houston “America’s Coolest City” thanks in large part to our superb arts organizations. Defining itself amongst these, the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts is dedicated to groundbreaking collaboration [...]
Worth the Trip: Ralston Crawford in New Orleans
Since the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston unveiled its acquisition of Ralston Crawford’s 1942 painting Red Barge, No. 1 – a fine example of the Precisionist depictions of the American industrial landscape for which he is known – I’ve been on the lookout for Crawford sightings in other museums. I got more than an eyeful [...]
