DISCLAIMER: This has been carefully edited by Sean. This weekend I went to the Kathy Womack Gallery, located in the River Oaks Shopping Center. There is a Kathy Womack Gallery in Houston, there is a Kathy Womack Gallery in Austin, and there will soon be a Kathy Womack Gallery in Las Vegas, as well as [...]
DISCLAIMER!!!: This is not a review, and in fact I did not know I wrote it. In 1993, shortly after Rick Lowe and some other people, who nobody seems to mention anymore, discovered the block and a half of abandoned homes in Houston’s Third Ward, those houses now commonly referred to as Project Row Houses, [...]
Fifteen days ago I saw two beautiful exhibitions at Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery: School’s Out, with photographs by Dallas-base photographer Allison V. Smith , and New Works on Paper. featuring what I just said by Houston’s own Brooke Stroud. While I was taking a look see, Hiram, as always the consummate host, invited me in [...]
DISCLAIMER: You know the drill, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Last week I went to the Station Museum of Contemporary Art where I met the clumsiest man alive, Carlos Runcie-Tanaka. This poor man breaks more plates than the Earth’s lithosphere, which doesn’t actually break plates, but shifts them, which is beside the point. Before we [...]
DISCLAIMER! This is not a review, this is one part truth, two parts lie. I live in the Heights. Redbud, G Gallery and Nauhaus Gallery are within walking distance, or they would be if it weren’t so damn hot. In a car, even in a heavy, blinding rain, it takes me about six minutes to [...]
DISCLAIMER! This is not a review, really, I swear it isn’t, o.k., I lied Skydive, and Lawndale Art Center. Last week, as five of you may have noticed, I did not update my weekly column, Every Friggin’ Gallery in the Whole Damn Town. This certainly was not for lack of trying on my part, not [...]
Disclaimer!! This is not a review. This is an adjective. Wind Water Gallery By Beth Secor A couple of weeks ago I went to Wind Water Gallery on 19th Street in the Heights. This was before the Great Monsoon of 2009, so you can imagine how excited I was to not only go to another [...]
Disclaimer!!!! This is not a review, rather ceci une pipe! 18 Hands Gallery 18 Hands Gallery is an art space in the Heights founded by five clay artists, one of whom I believe is, if I have done my math correctly, Parvati, wife of Shiva in the divine form of the Warrior Goddess Durga. (8 [...]
Day One: Part Two H Gallery Within the same block of 19th Street as Galley M Squared is H Gallery. H Gallery is under the guidance of a former student of Amy Blakemore , Heidi Powell-Prera, a photographer who is assisted in her endeavors at the gallery by a group of volunteer artists. According [...]
There are at least 100 galleries, if not more in Houston, and I would fathom a guess that few among you, my dear readers, have even visited 25 of those, if that many. And why is that? Why don’t we go to more galleries? Is it because they are too far away and gas is [...]
For those of you who are just starting out as artists, the opening night reception of your exhibition can be a bit daunting. What do you wear? How do you price your work? Who should you invite? These are just some of the questions you might have. To help you succeed, I have consulted with [...]
Please Never Say That Again or I Am Going to Have to Kill You Every one of us who has ever entered a juried show or had an exhibition or applied for a grant has had to write an artist statement. Some may argue the validity or purpose of the artist statement, but I think [...]
I have made many bad pieces of art in my lifetime, and so it is difficult to decide which of those artworks truly deserves to be called The Worst Piece of Art I Ever Made. Since I can’t make up my mind, I have decided to concentrate on a few select pieces from two early, [...]
