Light – Hold the Pickle Juice
James Turrell on the Trouble With Holograms A month after the unveiling of Twilight Epiphany, James Turrell’s skyspace at Rice University, Hiram Butler Gallery is presenting a body of work from 2010 that posed a very different challenge for Turrell: how to get rid of the “pickled light” effect found in most holograms. Below, he [...]
Read MoreThe Conductivity of Collectivity
Houston Artists Find Power in Numbers “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African proverb All co-operatives are collective but not all collectives are co-operative. All collaborations are collective, but not all collectives collaborate. And co-operatives do not necessarily collaborate, collectively. Confused yet? Whether formally [...]
Read MoreGray Boxes
Sicardi Gallery’s New Building Extends a 10-Year Trend About ten years ago I was intrigued by the construction of what was then Evelyn Gorman’s avant-garde boutique, Mix Modern Clothes, which was on Colquitt Street across the way from where I worked at Val Glitsch Architect. (It is currently the home of Laura Rathe Fine Art.) [...]
Read MoreGrowing an Arts Community
Ashley Clemmer Hoffman in action at Rothko Chapel Growing up in a country store and volunteer fire department in rural Virginia might seem like an unlikely start for a career trajectory that has taken Ashley Clemmer Hoffmann to two of Houston’s most admired art institutions, Project Row Houses and the Rothko Chapel. But Clemmer Hoffmann, [...]
Read MoreGetting (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 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Core Program at the Glassell School of Art offered a studio in the shadow of an encyclopedic museum, invaluable professional connections, and plenty of contact with other artists. Sometimes too much contact. [...]
Read MoreReview: 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 [...]
Read MoreReview: 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 [...]
Read MoreArt: Briefly Noted
Houston’s in “so much art, so little time” mode as galleries wrap up their spring seasons with a flurry of strong shows. Make sure you include these stops on your June art-hopping itinerary. Table Top. If this group show of diminutive sculptures had cheeks, you’d want to pinch them. Even the title is adorable. But [...]
Read MoreReview: Round 36 Project Row Houses
Round 36 is the latest series of artist projects at Houston’s Project Row Houses. As the first of recent rounds to feature installations that are not bound by a particular curatorial remit, one might expect the grouping of projects to feel uneven and disjointed. While it is true that there is not necessarily a unifying [...]
Read MoreReview: Heavy Hitters at Peveto
Peveto may be the new kid on the Colquitt Gallery Row, but there’s no kidding that Heavy Hitters packs a wallop. Featuring more than 60 artists including Bill Fick, Jenny Schmid, Kurt Kemp, and Tugboat Press (Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth), the exhibition is overwhelming in the breadth and quantity of prints represented — from [...]
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