Randy Twaddle: New Drawings
Holly Johnson Gallery
January 12 through March 16, 2013
Holly Johnson Gallery
January 12 through March 16, 2013
Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University
Last Chance - November 29, 2012 through January 17, 2013
A touring exhibtion and concert responds to the generative poem Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot. Featuring paintings by Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman, along with Composer Christopher Theofanidis (Yale University) and theologian Dr. Jeremy Begbie (Duke University). The show is closed between December 15 and January 2.
Last Chance - September 29, 2012 through January 20, 2013
In Carol Benson’s paintings the house, bowl and cocoon forms symbolize containment, security and fortitude, but the artist allows for various interpretations of the works.
Last Chance - September 29, 2012 through January 20, 2013
During the mid-twentieth century there were just a handful of artists exploring Modernist approaches to making sculpture in in North Texas. One of those pioneers was Gene Owens. With few fellow artists to draw from for technical information as well as an absence of art foundries, Owens' experiments resulted in some of the most unique and innovative bronze sculptures created in Texas.
Last Chance - October 14, 2012 through January 20, 2013
Beginning with the early designs of Jules Chéret, the exhibition explores the earliest days of the affiche artistique (artistic poster) and its flowering in Paris, first under Chéret in the 1870s and 1880s, and then with a new generation of artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, artists who brought the poster to new heights in the 1890s.
Last Chance - October 20, 2012 through January 20, 2013
The Nasher has commissioned Eva Rothschild to create a site-specific sculpture for the museum’s entrance bay.
Last Chance - November 18, 2012 through January 20, 2013
Autobiographical paintings about Watson's wacky childhood growing up with a Father obsessed with the idea he could build a flying saucer and sell it to NASA or Ross Perot. Also: music, puppets and photos by Quintron and Miss Pussycat and the premiere of their new film: The Mystery in old Bathbath.
Abilene Center for Contemporary Arts
December 4, 2012 through January 25, 2013
The Texas Photographic Society, founded in 1985, is a nonprofit organization of amateur and professional photographers dedicated to supporting contemporary photography as a means for creative expression and cultural insight.
September 15, 2012 through January 26, 2013
Flora and fauna of Texas inspire Austin sculptor David Everett and Fort Worth painter Billy Hassell. Curated by Grace Museum curator, Judy Tedford Deaton.
September 15, 2012 through January 26, 2013
Texas landscapes by Dallas based Photographer David H.Gibson.
September 15, 2012 through January 26, 2013
Over 100 paintings dating 1885-1935 challenge the perception that Impressionism in Texas was provincial and outside the mainstream of American and European art. Organized by art historian and curator Michael Grauer of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX. Including works by Julian Onderdonk, Robert Onderdonk, Jose Arpa, Edward G. Eisenlohr, Ella Koepke Mewhinney, Dawson Dawson- Watson, Seymour Thomas, Lucien Abrams, E. Richardson Cherry and Frank Reaugh.
December 7, 2012 through January 26, 2013
Large-scale paintings depict dense forest scenes. Trees and tangled underbrush alternate with dappled or streaming sunlight. Viewed from a distance, the paintings and prints are alive with pictorial clarity. Up close, the surface teems with abstract shapes.
Artes de la Rosa @ Rose Marine Theater
December 1, 2012 through January 27, 2013
Gonzalez explores unsung heroes using the iconic imageries of construction workers, utility men, landscapers, and street vendors.
July 7, 2012 through January 30, 2013
The DMA’s iconic barrel vault and surrounding galleries, filled with contemporary art from the permanent collection, some on display for the first time.
The Fort Worth Community Arts Center
January 4 through 30, 2013
Thirty works about stimulating thought and forcing the viewer to question and solve. Remember, “Say the name-See the big picture”.
October 19, 2012 through January 31, 2013
A large group of Linder's characteristic collages from the collection of George Michael and Kenny Goss and new large-scale photographs displayed in light-boxes. Age Suitability: 21 and up
January 12 through February 2, 2013
Ideas about: remembrance, ephemera and happenstance (Bisetto); history, gender politics and the macabre (Copeland); the act of forgetting in relation to time and the use of symbolism (Page); struggle and humor (Hurt).
January 12 through February 2, 2013
Abilene Center for Contemporary Arts
January 10 through February 5, 2013
Renaissance + sauce= irreverent fun.
January 7 through February 6, 2013
New work by Southern Methodist University Assistant Professor Brian Molanphy: three groups of ceramics called "trim", "carrés encadrés", & "square cubed", exploring the physical and imaginary implications of enclosure and concealment.
January 12 through February 7, 2013
Using three separate phone numbers which will be posted in diverse geographic locations of the city, Pierce, co-founder of the experimental art collective Homecoming!, will output the data from the calls into one continuous scrolling printout in the gallery. The data will then be compiled into a book as part of his investigation of technology and information and its influence on human behavior and quotidian activities.
December 18, 2012 through February 8, 2013
Musician Bryan Adams captures intimate images of a cross-section of international celebrities in the entertainment, fashion and art industries.
January 5 through February 9, 2013
A tribute to the strength, resourcefulness, creativity, faith and traditions from previous generations.
William Campbell Contemporary Art
January 12 through February 9, 2013
Selected works from the estate of acclaimed Texas artist Scottie Parsons.
TWU Department of Visual Arts Galleries
January 14 through February 15, 2013
Artists books selected by Ruth Rogers, Curator of Special Collections, Wellesley College.
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
December 1, 2012 through February 16, 2013
Kenna's signature long-exposure black and white photographs present the landscape as something that cannot be seen with the naked eye, abstracting reality.
December 1, 2012 through February 16, 2013
Photographs from many repeated meditative field trips - yielding serene images of sky, twigs, water, detritus, and small quirks in the environment.
January 12 through February 16, 2013
January 12 through February 16, 2013
New minimalist paintings, drawings, and books by prolific artist and architect Gail Peter Borden
January 12 through February 16, 2013
Three artists who offer otherworldly interpretations of our reality.
January 12 through February 16, 2013
Trey Egan's first solo exhibition with Cris Worley Fine Arts is also his MFA Thesis exhibition with UNT's College of Visual Art and Design.
January 12 through February 16, 2013
Bodycomb’s figurative paintings capture modern-day Greece and, in many ways, a universal humanity, with an undertow of sadness.
January 12 through February 16, 2013
Bas-relief rose paintings by Dallas artist Angela Kallus, a master of paint as sculpture.
January 12 through February 16, 2013
After its grand opening in December, Alan Simmons Art + Design presents its first show of 2013, mixed media pieces on board, canvas, and paper by David McGlothlin.
Magnolia Gallery at the Magnolia Theater
January 10 through February 17, 2013
Photographs dedicated to the movements of dancers of The Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet Company, presented by Ro2 art.
January 12 through February 23, 2013
A group exhibition, featuring the work of Julie Bozzi, Vernon Fisher, Joseph Havel, Linda Ridgway, Matthew Sontheimer, Erick Swenson and Xiaoze Xie explores the idea of the library as a place for imaginative exploration, a point from which to dive into the worlds of cherished interests, dreams, and imaginary places.
January 10 through February 23, 2013
A renowned American artist paints female figures entirely from imagination. Posed sitting or standing in strange interiors and gazing directly at the viewer, they appear as weightless apparitions in their imaginary spaces.
January 12 through February 24, 2013
An assortment of unlikely but familiar objects imbued with sly mystery and purpose and eye-imploding hallucinatory mind-altering art, full of profound and profane references to culture high and low. This is the first show in the new MFA Gallery space at 409A N. Tyler just a few doors down from the old space!
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
January 13 through March 14, 2013
Works on paper, paint on canvas, and murals that mimic smudged chalk. The resulting blurred and ghostly images often refer to intersections of pop culture, race, and class.
January 12 through March 16, 2013
Silhouetted electrical transformers and their distribution lines turn into calligraphic drawings or alternative music scores, executed in black drawing ink and coffee
October 19, 2012 through March 17, 2013
Artists old and new with one thing in common, drawn from the DMA's collection. Curator Jeffrey grove poses the question, “What’s the difference, and does it matter?”
October 19, 2012 through March 17, 2013
Transforming light, fragile, often impermanent materials into powerful sculptures of commanding scale and presence.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
January 13 through March 24, 2013
Shonibare explores colonialism through life-size sculptural tableaux featuring staged, headless mannequins dressed in elaborate period garments.
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
January 12 through March 30, 2013
Vintage photographs by a Hungarian-born New York photographer display his search for art in the most common places of the densely populated city of New York.
Museum of Geometric and MADI Art
January 11 through April 7, 2013
Curated by artist Orna Feinstein.
Sensory Substitution, Devices, Perception, Alternative Displays, Bone Conduction Hearing, Parametric Sound, Tactile Visual Displays, HipHop, Gastronomy, Echolocation, Accessibility, Hardware, Physiology, Bionics, Tongue Display Unit, Electrode Vibrotactile Stimulation These are the keywords listed in Aisen Caro Chacin’s MFA thesis on sensory substitution. In the year and a half since she left Houston for The New School, [...]
Lynn Barber lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. She has degrees in microbiology and law, and intermittently works as a patent attorney. She enjoys playing the hammer dulcimer and the concertina. She’s married to a shy guy named Dave, who holds advanced degrees in meteorology and theology. Both are members of the ACLU and are [...]
Lauren Kelley creates animated videos that often feature Barbies altered by clay and confectioner’s sugar and that evoke a complex commentary on race, youth and desire. Kelley’s works also engage materiality and the craft of making miniatures. Her show True Falsetto is currently up at Women & Their Work through January 17th. I sat down [...]
The Goss-Michael Foundation’s zesty, celebrity-filled exhibition of Canadian pop star Bryan Adams’s photography embodies the essence of escapist entertainment that Dallas confuses with reality. I have a history of bashing this gallery for pandering to fame, but Adams is a sensational photographer, and I suspect his famous subjects—including Mick, Posh and Amy Winehouse—were all the [...]