By Rachel Hooper on December 29, 2012
There has been a lot of excitement about painting in Houston this year, with Aaron Parazette’s In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery and a big exhibition planned for the CAMH’s 65th anniversary. But what about good old drawing? Often more humble and imaginatively evocative than painting, there have been some outstanding drawings shown in Houston [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged aaron parazette, Ariane Roesch, Art Palace, box 13 artspace, camh houston, carl suddath, clarence chun, Debra Barrera, devin borden gallery, drawing, eric zimmerman, front gallery, Gallery Sonja Roesch, galveston arts center, graphite, ink, kerry inman, kia neill, Laura Lark, linda darke, mark lombardi, mark ponder, McClain Gallery, Michael Bise, Moody Gallery, pen, redbud gallery, robert pruitt, Robyn O’Neil, unit, william witte |
By Rachel Hooper on October 7, 2012
After a two-year stint in New York and Nebraska, Eric Zimmerman returns to Texas with the multi-site project Endless Disharmony & Telltale Ashes at Art Palace in Houston, The Reading Room in Dallas and online at endlessdisharmony.tumblr.com. His fragmentary integration of myths and systems of understanding with his exquisite drawing technique makes for an engrossing [...]
Posted in Review | Tagged ashes, atlas, bemis center, bison, buffalo, collage, cosmos, coyote, drawing, endless disharmony, eric zimmerman, exploration, graphite, houdini, manifest destiny, roy orbison, sound installation, sublime, telltale ashes, trompe l'oeil, tumblr, utah, void, works on paper, Yellowstone |
By Dan R. Goddard on January 6, 2012
Providing a behind-the-scenes peek at the work of San Antonio artists, Donna Simon, a retired Brackenridge High School art teacher, conducts guided tours of the city’s studios, artist-run spaces, galleries and museums, which she organizes through her Web site at www.SeeingArtSanAntonio.com. On a cold day in early December, she led a small group of [...]
Posted in Alamo City, Blog | Tagged artists' studios, David Shelton Gallery, Donna Simon, drawing, glass art, Jake Zollie Harper, jayne lawrence, Seeing Art San Antonio, Zollie Glass Studio |
By Lucia Simek on December 16, 2011
Lawrence Lee and Jonathan Cross are art dopplegangers. While they look nothing alike, the trajectories of their art careers have played out in very similar ways, in no small part due to Barry Whistler’s good nose about the two of them. The two artists had never met until the opening reception of their shows at BWG [...]
Posted in Blog, Shelf Life | Tagged barry whistler, ceramics, drawing, Jonathan Cross, Lawrence Lee |