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 [...]
Read MoreReview: 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 [...]
Read MoreReview: 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 [...]
Read MoreReview: 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 [...]
Read MoreReview: 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 [...]
Read MoreArt-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 [...]
Read MoreWorth 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 [...]
Read MoreReview: Jane Alexander at CAMH
Jane Alexander’s motley cast of characters alternately attracts and repels. Her figurative sculptures of near life-size human-animal hybrids are simultaneously grotesque and sympathetic, quietly aggressive and compellingly beautiful. They are also altogether human in their interactions. Throughout the main gallery of the Contemporary Arts Museum [...]
Read MoreBack to the Booths
Houston Fine Art Fair Returns, Emphasizes Local Scene Once upon a not-so-distant time – less than two years ago, in fact – gallerists, collectors and civic boosters wondered aloud whether the art world really needed another fair and whether Houston could support it. Months later, a rift between that fair’s organizers spawned the birth of [...]
Read MoreBlaffer’s $2 Million Makeover
WORKac’s renovations aim to boost UH museum’s public presence The University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum has long been awkwardly positioned in Houston’s art scene, both because of its tucked-away location and from the difficulties imposed by its quirky floor plan on the first and second floors of the main campus’s Fine Arts Center. Ever [...]
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