Working somewhere between abstraction and representation, Robert Moskowitz isolates silhouettes of familiar objects in his paintings, reducing them to minimalist essentials. But you can always see evidence of the artist’s touch – a sprinkling of fingerprints in the white spaces. In his last show in San Antonio in 2007, the New York artist [...]
Philadelphia sculptor Donald Lipski suspended giant, lighted longear sunfish under an I-35 underpass. Bill Fontana of San Francisco amplified the sounds of the San Antonio River, from bird calls to droning insects. British artist Martin Richman created a light show on the surface of the river using prismatic strips suspended from the bottom of a [...]
Jack Gron’s macabre, medieval-looking cast-metal toys include a wheelbarrow heaped with skulls, the chilling curves of a hydrogen bomb and a grinning death’s head that make three-dimensional the folly and futility of war. As anyone who watches the Antiques Roadshow knows, cast-iron toys are highly sought after, and Gron’s toys have the look of collectible [...]
Albert Paley’s “archisculpture” ranges from the portal gates of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery to a fanciful 130-foot-long archway for the St. Louis Zoo. But he’s also known for his large-scale abstract sculpture. Recent commissions include a 100-foot tall new work, “Evanesce,” for Monterrey, Mexico, and a monumental 70-foot-high steel-and-bronze sculpture, “Sentinel,” for the Rochester Institute [...]
They have flown The Bower, but Joey Fauerso and Michael Velliquette have reunited for “Exotic Matter” at the David Shelton Gallery through May 8. Fauerso explores the existential human condition in her cosmic figurative paintings, while Velliquette is making exquisitely detailed masks and totems using the child’s craft of colorful cut construction paper. After meeting [...]
Buster Graybill had unexpected visitors to “Tush Hog,” several metal sculptures resembling NASA-designed Mars airbag landers that the Huntsville artist spread around a South Texas pasture as part of Artpace’s International Artists-in-Residence 10.1 projects. Filled with corn, the pieces attracted the expected feral hogs, but joining them was the unexpected surprise – wild rams. “The [...]
One of England’s best avant-garde filmmakers, John Smith isn’t adverse to narrative or humor. But his work is often anti-illusionist and tends to make viewers conscious of the artifice and construction of film. Fascinated by the power of language, he focuses on the ambiguity of meaning, showing how context in a film can change [...]
Anita Valencia is a queen of recycling, creating large-scale public sculpture from aluminum soda and beer cans as well as intimate “paintings” from bottle caps, which she’s debuted at the Cactus Bra Gallery as part of Contemporary Art Month. Next door at Three Walls, Hills Snyder has recycled carpets from an exhibit he curated [...]
As an artist, Bill FitzGibbons has an international reputation for his light installations using computer-programmed, architectural LEDs. Recently, he created a dramatic light installation in Iceland on the colonnade of the Reykjavik City Hall as part of the city’s Museum Night. As an arts administrator, FitzGibbons oversees the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, which is [...]
CAM is dead. Long live CAM. Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, but in temperate March rather than broiling July. A new generation of artists is in charge of the citywide celebration that began in July 1986 after a local museum canceled a much-anticipated show [...]
San Antonio artist Danville Chadbourne ’s weathered ceramic and painted wood assemblages might be the ancient artifacts of an unknown civilization. Made with clay, wood, stone, fiber and bone, the organic materials suggest a lost culture closely tied to nature. Representing a vast, sprawling world of the imagination, Chadbourne’s serene, abstract forms evoke a wide [...]
Disclaimer: I am so confused, do you go by Robert or Rob? CLICK ON THE LINKS OR YOU MAY NOT GET THIS ONE AT ALL Two weeks ago I went to see my friend Robert A. Pruitt’s exhibition, The Forever People at Hooks Epstein Gallery and on view through February 13, 2010. Robert based [...]
