Wesley Harvey: Afternoon Delights
Gay sexuality expressed through cute porcelain figurines and animals. According to the artist, it’s like watching a car wreck: you don’t want to look, but can’t help it.
Margaret Meehan: Hystrionics and the Forgotten Arm
Boxing, werewolf syndrome, and pretty white dresses meld in Margaret Meehan’s photographs and installations derived from 19th c. cabinet cards.
John Webb: Bodies of Work
Artist and architect John Webb’s sculptures juxtapose the classical human form with mechanical chassis, exploring and contrasting the relationship between man and modern technology.
Louise Schlachter: Petit Mort Moths
Louise Schlachter has always been curious about “the Little Things. Hidden things. Discarded things”, and she “pleasures herself” by reproducing those “wandering death-birds,” moths.
Panel Discussion: Translating the Museum
Two architects and two museum clients debate the opportunities and challenges of museum commissions. Panelists are Jim Furr, of Gensler architects; Cindi Strauss of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dan Wood, cofounder of WORKac architects; and Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson, director of the Aspen Art Museum.
Window into Houston: Dennis Harper
Dennis Harper transforms two window bays into a fanciful underwater nightclub, with portholes, even! Remember, there’s free street parking downtown after 6 p.m.
WORKac: all cultural
Renderings, models, and images of seven other projects designed by Work Architecture Company (WORKac), the firm Blaffer has hired to design their renovation.
Tom Walsh: New Works
Tom Walsh’s latest crop of brightly clored, energetic abstractions on wooden panels. Walsh contends that paintings are “the quintessential potential energy, a breath away from motion or drama.”
Christine Bisetto: Forever Becomes Everyday
Bisetto’s newest body of work explores time: days, months and years are recorded poetically on folded paper, mirrors, and in song lyrics.
Clare Little
Little explores the tame and the feral by constructing floral animals in fantastical woodland landscapes.
Chinese Architecture Lecture Series: Pei Zhu
Educated at Tsinghua University and UC-Berkeley, Pei Zhu brings his long concern with both Chinese philosophy and contemporary architecture to his award-winning designs, including the control center for the Beijing Olympics.
Art + Present: Gifts from the Peter Norton Family
Since 1988 collector and software entrepreneur Peter Norton has commissioned an art edition to celebrate the holiday season. The Norton Family sends these objects as holiday gifts to friends and members of the art community. In 1994, the McNay began receiving them, and presents 17 works dating from 1994 bycontemporary artists including Anna Gaskell, Christian [...]
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: David Diao
Oct. 5 at 6:30 p.m. Third Floor Screening Room, #3531 Greer Garson – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus in Dallas (75205).214-768-2489. David Diao digests modernism modernism, with a dash of wit and poetry in the third floor screening room, #3531 Greer Garson – Owen Arts Center, on the SMU campus, [...]
Tuesday Evenings Lecture Series: Jayson Musson
Jayson Musson is an artist and writer living and working in Philadelphia. For Tuesday Evenings, he shares his multifaceted body of work, which includes provocative performances, drawings, and writings, as well as Art Thoughtz by his “cousin” Hennessey Youngman.
Fade In Film Series: Pandora’s Box
A rare treat: a small ensemble of UT jazz students, under the direction of faculty composer Dr. John Mills, will provide improvisational musical accompaniment to Pandora’s Box, Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s iconic 1929 film on the Southeast Lawn of the Art Building.
Regina Silveira: Limits
Prominent Brazilian bug artist Regina Silveira shows an installation work in cut vinyl titled Gone Wild Reversed about man’s encroachment on nature, and a two screen video projection, titled Lunar, about cycles. Curated by Kate Bonansinga, director of UTEP’s Rubin Center.
Loli Kantor: And If A Voice Was Heard
Fort Worth artist Kantor documents the complexities and remnants of Jewish life in Eastern Europe after the Holocaust and a tumultuous century of the rise and fall of the Soviet regime with a collection of images anchored in history, loss and survival.
Judy Rushin: Fever Panels
Landmark Arts at the Texas Tech University School of Art will host Judy Rushin, an artist working across and between the disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Rushin teaches in the Department of Art at Florida State University.
