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Intersections at UNT on the Square
In downtown Denton, UNT’s satellite gallery is showing works from Professor Robert Jessup’s graduate painting class. The theme of the exhibition, “Intersections,” pairs up students for collaborative...
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The New Navy: RE-thinking Materials at RE Gallery
Separator 1 Samantha McCurdy and Alex DiJulio both studied Interdisciplinary Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art and use nontraditional methods and materials. For their show The New Navy,...
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Robyn O’Neil vs. Vernon Fisher at Talley Dunn Gallery
Vernon Fisher is one of the more important contemporary artists that Texas lays claim to. He’s known for conceptual, multimedia works dating back to the 70s that combine painting, sculpture and text....
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Vincent Falsetta’s Agendas
Vincent Falsetta’s painting process has undergone various stylistic changes throughout the past four decades. A recent exhibition at UNT on the Square in Denton offered a small cross section of his...
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Building a Bigger Picture: Jason Salavon at The Public Trust
All the Ways (Couch Gag)Jason Salavon is the fourth artist to participate in The Public Trust’s ongoing series of exhibitions under the title Soliloquy, which feature a single artwork by a selected...
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Sign Language: Giovanni Valderas’ ‘Forged Utopia’
Dallas artist Giovanni Valderas has a group of objects occupying the brick shell of a building that will eventually be remodeled as part of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary’s ambitious new compound in...
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Head Space: Matthew Zefeldt at Circuit 12
Matthew Zefeldt’s work feels right at home in Circuit 12’s newish location in the Design District, in Dallas. His show is bright and slick and ambitiously current. It consists of around 15 medium-sized...
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Frank Stella: The Promises and Problems of Abstraction
What’s made Frank Stella a household name many times over isn’t necessarily what makes him important. He’s been swept up in a number of styles and modes that couldn’t exhaust his inquiry. His ambition...
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The New Photographers: Allison V. Smith, Kevin Todora, and Kalee Appleton
Kevin Todora’s ManifestationJust as painting has continued to find things to do after it was relieved of its duty to mime the world, photography as an artistic discipline is finding new questions to...
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‘México: 1900-1950’ at the Dallas Museum of Art
José Clemente Orozco, The Women Soldiers (Las soldaderas), 1926, oil on canvas (óleo sobre tela), Museo de Arte Moderno, INBA, Mexico City.The Dallas Museum of Art’s hyped exhibition, México 1900–1950:...
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Double Take: Ed Blackburn at the Tyler Museum of Art
Red Ryder, 1983. Acrylic on canvas, 13” x 16 1/2”. Collection of Betty Moody, Houston, Texas.In East Texas this summer, in the cozy space of the Tyler Museum of Art, there’s a small show of works by...
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Bryan Florentin at Kirk Hopper Fine Art
I like gallery shows that get deep enough into an artist’s practice to show their ideas getting traction and to unearth some of the broader questions that drive their work. If you missed Bryan...
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Mary Vernon at Valley House Gallery
Hermit Shelter, 2017, oil and graphite on yupo, 35 5/8 x 60 inches Mary Vernon is not a “Landscape Painter.” Neither is she not a landscape painter. Her current show at Valley House Gallery in Dallas,...
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Adam Fung at Ro2 Art
Adam Fung, iceberg quinacridone X. Adam Fung’s Iceberg X at Ro2 in Dallas, a series of paintings based on photos and video taken during a unique residency in the Arctic Circle, brings together and...
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Katherine Bradford at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Alison Hearst, the Associate Curator at the Fort Worth Modern, has been keeping painters happy with her FOCUS series of exhibitions. These are usually installed in the museum’s project space, and...
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‘Molly Larkey: Utterance’ at Gallery 12.26
Molly Larkey, Utterance 6. All photos by Kevin Todora, courtesy Gallery 12.26 L.A.-based artist Molly Larkey’s pet-sized constructions are milling about Hilary and Hannah Fagadau’s new space, Gallery...
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Come Together: “Whole Cloth” at SITE131
Installation view: work by Wu Jian’an at SITE131. All images courtesy of SITE131. SITE131 director and curator Joan Davidow shows strong, new work in her Dallas space — often by young artists, grouped...
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“Le Système des Objets”: Francesca Fuchs’ Paintings and Mugs at Talley Dunn...
Installation view of Francesca Fuchs’ show Paintings and Mugs at Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, 2020 In her recent show at Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas, which unfortunately spent most of its run...
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Logocentric: Alicia Eggert at Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas
For the past decade and some change, Alicia Eggert has placed language at the center of her sculpture practice, usually taking the form of signage, which tries to account for the materiality of its...
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The Slicker Side of Punk: Benjamin Terry at Galleri Urbane, Dallas
Installation view: Benjamin Terry’s“Bits and Bobs” at Galleri Urbane, Dallas, 2021. Images courtesy of the gallery. Ben Terry’s painted wooden wall objects hide their intelligence behind a feigned...
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