By Joshua Fischer on December 21, 2012
As the holiday season arrives, we all have a little reprieve from the busy slate of art openings, lectures, performances and other events. I have used this mini-break to do something I started this past summer, which is to branch outside of my immediate Montrose/Rice Village area. My trips started with an attempt to work [...]
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By Leslie Castro on October 27, 2012
Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to Houston for the second annual Texas Contemporary Art Fair. I was impressed, and the fair deserves a pat on the back. Considering this fall is only in its second year, the caliber of work was impressive (albeit still mostly local galleries from Texas), the artist projects were [...]
Posted in LMC y Pensamientos Pochosos, Uncategorized | Tagged Art Fair, Houston, Texas Contemporary |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2012
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian Andy Campbell invited New York- and Stockholm-based artist Emily Roysdon to take over the VAC’s Vaulted Gallery for the fall semester. I first heard of Roysdon in [...]
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By Laura Lark on July 18, 2012
Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack of an umlaut in the word “uber”–if anyone knows how to do that kind of stuff here, please don’t hesitate to contact me. 1. James Turrell, The Art World’s Original [...]
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By Rachel Hooper on July 6, 2012
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to assist with the jurying of Lawndale Art Center’s annual Big Show. I have volunteered for this event for the last three years, and it has become a cherished annual ritual for me. When I arrived on Saturday, the galleries were filled with nearly a thousand artworks submitted [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, contemporary art, Houston, Lawndale Art Center, lawndale big show, marco antonini, NURTUREart, Texas, Walter Hopps |
By Sarah Fisch on March 29, 2012
Continued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of the same concerns, and is deeply interested in Chicano art and culture. But he’s a Mexican artist living (legally, understand) in the United States. He [...]
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By Sarah Fisch on March 22, 2012
I. Some Art Context I have so much to show you. This is the first painting I ever saw by Rigoberto Gonzalez. It appeared in the Virginia Rutledge-curated Texas Biennial show of 2011, and it stopped me cold. The marriage of subject matter and technique felt shockingly fresh. This is a hell of an accomplishment; [...]
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By Rachel Hooper on February 19, 2012
There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions featuring abstract painters, and there are several galleries featuring solo exhibitions by painters– Zachariah Rieke at Wade Wilson Art, Michael Kennaugh at Moody Gallery, Geoff Hippenstiel at Devin Borden Gallery, [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, camh, contemporary art, devin borden gallery, G gallery, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, mfah, Moody Gallery, Sicardi Gallery, Wade Wilson Art |
By Rachel Hooper on February 9, 2012
Josh Bernstein‘s exhibition “Man Corn” is the third exhibition in Rice University’s newest art venue– EMERGEncy Room. Located on the second floor of Sewall Hall, where Rice Gallery is also housed, the project space is dedicated to showing emerging artists in a small room with a front, glass wall through which one can see the [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, Cabeza de Vaca, contemporary art, EMERGEncy room, galveston, Houston, josh bernstein, karankawa, man corn, rice university, rice university art, sculpture, woodcut |
By Peter Lucas on November 11, 2011
I want to call attention to one film in the Cinema Arts Fest that, while nestled quietly and rather buzzless in the schedule between exciting premieres, audiovisual performances, and parties, is a truly amazing work of grand cinematic spectacle, and one of the festival’s rare opportunities. The 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi, showing tonight at 7:30 the [...]
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By Peter Lucas on November 8, 2011
This Wednesday evening, the third annual Cinema Arts Festival Houston launches five days of film screenings, multimedia performances, video installations, and artist talks in venues around the city. CAFH is unique in the film festival world because it’s not so much a celebration of movies as it is an exploration of film’s relationships with all [...]
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By Sarah Fisch on October 27, 2011
So, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is over. (Which gives me an excuse to post the above image. This particular Rachel Hecker piece is impactful and funny in-person, too.) So I’m still processing everything I saw, PLUS I’m recovering from a bout of dog-days writer’s block, which I blame on 9/11, heatstroke and having watched [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged art, Artpace, austin, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, chandeliers, crochet, Glasstire, Houston, impenetrable narrative, monofilament, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, taxidermy, texas contemporary art fair, Texas Gallery, wolves |
By Sarah Fisch on October 23, 2011
Look, these are all gonna be iPhone photos. I’m sorry about that. Soon as I can, I plan to purchase a real camera, but meanwhile, this is what I’ve got to work with. Also, I’m posting this as fast as I can because it’s timely. Part 2 will come this evening, as I have to [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged champion contemporary austin, david shelton, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, jules buck jones, Kelly Klaasmeyer, miniature horse, Sarah Fisch, sonia dutton, texas art fair, Texas Contemporary, vincent valdez, western wear, white people, working animals |
By Peter Lucas on October 19, 2011
It. Is. On! A heated battle is brewing on the big screen as two big, new dance films come to Houston theaters. In one corner, the new remake of ‘80s classic Footloose, which opened here and around the country this past Friday. In the other corner is Pina, director Wim Wenders’ new 3-D film honoring [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged cinema arts festival houston, dance, film, Houston, pina, wim wenders |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2011
Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Hey North Texas: if you missed Eric Zimmerman’s recent shows at the Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace Gallery, or the Southwest [...]
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By Christina Patoski on September 1, 2011
Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of fine art galleries to visit. The Museum of Fine Arts was a long way from becoming one of the largest museums in the United States. And the Contemporary Arts Museum [...]
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By Beth Secor on July 22, 2011
In my younger days, between my divorce in 1985 and my return from Baltimore in 2004, I moved many, many a time. Each time I moved, I would cull through the shelves, and drawers and cabinets of my house and get rid of the old band aid papers, and tags and spare thread and extra [...]
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By Bill Davenport on July 16, 2011
Finally! The enormous main-street facing wall of Houston’s Lawndale Art Center is getting the mural it has been aching for for years. For the 2011-2012 season artist Daniel Anguilu will paint Lawndale’s north exterior wall with a mural on view through June 2012. Anguilu’s clean, crystalline semi-street-art style can be seen on buildings and vehicles [...]
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By Glasstire on July 14, 2011
Glasstire audio slide show profiling Michael Bise. The artist talks about drawing from old movies, Disney vs. religion and why art should be hard.
Posted in Uncategorized, Video | Tagged art about fundamentalist religion, art and religion, autobiographical art, dallas, Disney, Drawings, Flagstaff, Houston, Michael Bise, Moody Gallery, Pentecostal |
By Kelly Klaasmeyer on June 27, 2011
So you may have heard, Houston is getting an art fair. Um, actually two art fairs. There has been a ridiculous amount of controversy surrounding these fairs, a classic tempest in a teapot involving leaked email, competing fair organizers and collectors and galleries picking teams and various board members from the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, [...]
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