Author: Bill Davenport

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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

Scott Eastwood: They Never Die They Just Go To Sleep One Day

New drawings, sculptures, and installations focusing on images and forms that mirror one another, formulating equations—living tissue and dead matter, something with nothing, and the jumble of the material world forced into equivalence with the void.The first show in MASS’ new space at 507 Calles Street, Suite 108.

Scott Eastwood: They Never Die They Just Go To Sleep One Day

Scott Gelber: DOOM II: Hell on Earth

Gelber’s work in video, performance and sculpture combine shamanistic and spiritual imagery with the tropes of consumer culture. At 8 pm on the opening night, Gelber will launch the exhibition with a special performance. The first show in MASS’ new space at 507 Calles Street, Suite 108.

Scott Gelber: DOOM II: Hell on Earth

DZINE: Victory

Chicago-based, Dzine is a self-taught, mixed media artist who investigates Kustom Kulture and its relationship to art, sub cultures and the institution. Victory is the artist’s largest exhibition to date.

DZINE: Victory

Los Americanos

A six-chaptered reflection on Texas through cinematic metaphor, curated by Dallas Contemporary’s Director, Peter Doroshenko. The exhibition will feature the work of Morehshin Allahyari (Dallas), Joshua Bienko (College Station), Chivas Clem (Paris), Hillary Holsonback (Dallas), Bogdan Perzynski (Austin), and Jason Reed (New Braunfels). Each artist has been commissioned to create his or her own independent [...]

Los Americanos

New Beginnings

New artworks, new directions, new hopes, new ideas, new beginnings by Mic McAllister, Chris Grant, Cathy Graham, Eric Holst, Bonnie Blue, Irina Vivsyanaya, Judy Dekan, Scott Cravens, Lenora Palacios, Scott Tarbox, Gabriel Lehman, Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya, Kelly Moser, Sarah Devlin, Mike Fisher, Caroline Truong, James Myres, Chris Morgan, Tatsiana Saleh, Allison Currie, Regina Lee Parkinson, Shae [...]

New Beginnings

Bringing It All Back Home

Art League Houston and El Rincon Social, one of the most popular and exciting artist-run collectives in East End’s warehouse district, present a group exhibition organized by ERS’ Founding Director Juan Pablo Alonzo featuring works by six of El Rincon Social’s resident artists: Darwin Arevalo, Dylan Conner, Oscar Rene Cornejo, Alex Larsen, Patrick Renner, and [...]

Bringing It All Back Home

Charles Mayton: Two-Step

New York-based artist Charles Mayton is a conceptual painter whose practice is at once object-oriented and theoretical. His paintings are witty and physically sumptuous “allegories of painting” (cf. Jeffery Weiss on Jasper Johns). They take as their subject the history, procedures, emblems, potential, and limitation of painting, using all this as the basis for an [...]

Charles Mayton: Two-Step

Jasmyne Graybill: Flourish

San Antonio artist Jasmyne Graybill sculpts polymer clay into minute colonies of fungus, lichen, and mold that graft onto existing manmade objects.

Jasmyne Graybill: Flourish

Michael Miller: Out of Commerce

A celebration of Michael Miller and his 20 year career as an influential artist, painting professor, and Director of Studio Art Graduate Studies at Texas A&M University, Commerce. Featuring the work of Michael Miller and including a group exhibition with former students and Commerce alumni Trenton Doyle Hancock, Daniel Kurt, Lawrence Lee, Robyn O’Neil and [...]

Michael Miller: Out of Commerce

Kathryn Kelley: The Uncontrollable Nature of Grief and Forgiveness (or lack of)

Kelley explores feelings of grief, forgiveness, and the thresholds of change they bring about through large scale installation made up of reclaimed wood, sewn innertubes, and family portrait-like frames that suspend from the ceiling, creating a floating bridge-like structure that spirals throughout the gallery space.

Kathryn Kelley: The Uncontrollable Nature of Grief and Forgiveness (or lack of)