Art
Semigloss: Sparkling Prose
A locally produced art magazine? Bradly Brown and Sally Glass have got you covered.JIMMY FOWLER
Fort Worth new media artist Bradly Brown has had the kind of “urban artsy” college-and-career trajectory that the twentysomething characters on an HBO show often enjoy. The El Paso native studied photography as an undergrad...
Colorful Memories
Alzheimer’s patients put their brushes to canvas and access sparkling depths.JIMMY FOWLER
Lisa Buck, coordinator of the Memories in the Making art therapy program for the Alzheimer’s Association’s North Central Texas Chapter, remembers a particularly striking watercolor work she saw created in the program. The a...
Frank’s Arrival
Is Chris Blay now an establishmentista?ANTHONY MARIANI
He wouldn’t have ditched the event, but there’s a part of him that may have wanted to. Waiting for Christopher Blay at the Meadows Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University last week were dozens of North Texas a...
Carol Ivey’s Illuminations
Think twice before labeling this Fort Worth painter’s work “decorative.”JIMMY FOWLER
Fort Worth painter Carol Ivey knows exactly when she fell in love with natural light. In the early 1980s, she was awarded an arts fellowship to work for 11 weeks on a small island called Ossabaw off the coast of Georgia. There ...
Uplifted Spirit
Heavy-handedness keeps Jerry Smith’s exhibit from achieving glory.ANTHONY MARIANI
In the annals of Fort Worth contemporary art, Vernon Fisher probably looms the largest. And for good reason. The veteran multimedia artist and painter is a complete badass. There’s really nothing that pops up in his head that...
In Living Color!
Amon Carter’s new exhibit isn’t comprehensive but still says a lot.CHRISTOPHER BLAY
The new exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art contains all of its color in a black box. The entrance and exit to the galleries are darkened, resembling a camera obscura or dark chamber. These contraptions were used ...
Flying Down the Road
Beautifying a highway calls for some natural art.EDWARD BROWN
In 2005, the Fort Worth City Council adopted the Southwest Parkway Master Plan, which outlined how the city would use art to blend features of the proposed Chisholm Trail toll road into the existing urban environment. Running f...
HOMECOMING! Takes Flight
The most significant art collective in town isn’t hamstrung by costs — but needs help.ANTHONY MARIANI
Earlier this year, three entities interested in public art began a first-ever collaboration. The 13-member art collective HOMECOMING! Committee, Downtown Fort Worth Inc., and the taxpayer-funded nonprofit Fort Worth Public Art ...
Best Of Culture 2013
FORT WORTH WEEKLY STAFFTop Five Artworks “Attention Retention” by Bradly Brown Exhibited as part of his TCU MFA thesis at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Brown’s simple yet beguiling found-object piece –– three multicolored beach balls held a...
Plastic Nature, Naturally
Painter Ann Ekstrom shines at Artspace 111ANTHONY MARIANI
Inspired by her mother, the late painter and printmaker Beth Lea Clardy, Fort Worth’s Ann Ekstrom has spent most of her professional life reconstituting trinkets, jewelry, and toys into quietly extravagant paintings. Her new ...