Author: Bill Davenport

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Gunilla Klingberg

Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg will cover Rice Gallery’s floors, walls, and windows with an ornate mandala of supermarket, fast food, and big box store logos

Gunilla Klingberg

Performance: Kalup Linzy

One of Kalup Linzy’s newest characters, Kaye, a forlorn artist coming to terms with a series of failed relationships, debuts.  Using the video as a backdrop to Kaye’s experiences, Linzy will perform the soundtrack created for the Romantic Loner project (a feature length film), accompanied by a five-member band. Co-presented by Houston Museum for African [...]

Performance: Kalup Linzy

Sunday Peoples: A Group Exhibition for the Love of Bicycles

A group exhibition and pop-up store featuring the work of: Magnificent Beard: Matt Brinker & Connor Hill, Kyle Confehr, Brian Gibb, Taro-Kun, Gina Mayes, Favio Moreno, Mylan Nguyen, Brent Ozaeta, Brendan Polk and Emily Stoker. The exhibition will focus on the artist’s collective love for bicycles and bike culture.

Sunday Peoples: A Group Exhibition for the Love of Bicycles

Art Hotel Collective: La Boheme

Sit, sip, enjoy dessert, stimulating conversation, poetry reading, music, and original art by Steve Danner, Roberta Masciarelli, Sherry Houpt, Laurie Mahoney, Sharon Neel Bagley, Jacque Forsher, Melissa Wertz, Karen Gray, April Greenlee, and Johanna Roffino Hulsey.

Art Hotel Collective: La Boheme

Upshot X 3

Beautiful photographs and silverpoint images created using the destructive and explosive force of gunfire.

Upshot X 3

Artopia 2013

Houston Press Artopia returns to Winter Street Studios with musical performances by Bang Bangz, Bagheera and Poor Pilate, two fashion shows, live performance art, works from over 25 local artists, and the 5th annual Houston Press Mastermind Awards: during the event, Houston Press will award a $2,000 grant to three progressive individuals or small organizations [...]

Artopia 2013

Performance: Danny Tisdale

In Transitions, Inc., Danny Tisdale becomes Tracey Goodman, the head of a fictitious company that specializes in transforming one’s physical appearance for the purpose of greater social access and financial reward.  In 1992, Tisdale spent two days standing on a crowded street corner advertising and promoting his company, whose tagline is “we turn minorities into [...]

Performance: Danny Tisdale

(Wo)manorial Presents: Susan/Elizabeth

Susan/Elizabeth presents artists addressing feminine relationships. Including works by Kristin Aardsma, Hanna Andrews, Marisa Crawford, Becca Klaver, Krystal Languell, and Caolan Madden; Haley Kattner Allen; Holly Andres and Grace Carter; Kat Bossi; LauraLee Brott; Courtney Brown; Jennifer Chan; Rebecca Carter and Andrea Goldman; Cornelia Hediger; Hillary Holsonback; Jessica Iannuzzi Garcia; Mariya Kozhanova; Natalie Labriola; Alisa [...]

(Wo)manorial Presents: Susan/Elizabeth

Raul Cordero and Michel “El Pollo” Pérez: Painting of all Excuses

Raul Cordero and Michel “El Pollo” Pérez both represented Cuba in the Havana Biennial in 2012, but this will be their premier exhibition in Dallas. Cordero, a 2012 CentralTrak artist-in-residence, and Pérez will present artworks based on photographs and miniature models, respectively.

Raul Cordero and Michel “El Pollo” Pérez: Painting of all Excuses

Leslie Wilkes: Double Take

Ten new works in her signature abstract geometric style: five intimate gouaches along with five large oil paintings based on the same symmetrical patterns.

Leslie Wilkes: Double Take

Valentin Popov: Pempimentor

Numerous examples of Popov’s tour-de-force photo-realist painting techniques, including his latest proto-Dutch still-lifes.

Valentin Popov: Pempimentor

Jesse Bransford: The Fourth Pyramid

For GAR’s first anniversary, Brooklyn-based artist Jesse Bransford’s drawings and numerical symbols transform the GAR gallery into a three dimensional incantation. Under the influence of these symbols, the wind whispers to the wasted land, the images flash: sunrise, sunset, sulphur pit, the foaming tide, a hand traces patterns on sun drenched sheets, the mouth opens [...]

Jesse Bransford: The Fourth Pyramid

Julia Kunin

In Julia Kunin’s ceramic sculptures, shells, flowers, octopi, snakes and butterflies create anthropomorphic amalgamations at once visually striking and grotesque.

Julia Kunin