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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 [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged a useful life, A Wrinkle In Time, aaron landsman, aaron parazette, amoa, Andy Campbell, Andy Coolquitt, animals, Ann Stautberg, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Annenberg Space for Photography, archetype, Architecture, art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, arthouse, Artpace, austin, austin museum of art, BEAUMONT, ben lima, Benito Huerta, Beverly Penn, blaffer, box 13 artspace, Brooklyn Museum, bureaucracy, Burt Long, Canis Familiaris, Carter Ernst, Cathy Cunningham-Little, Charles Jones, Charmaine Locke, children, Chinati Weekend 2012, chris powell, claes oldenburg, Co-Lab, Co-Lab Projects, Colby Bird, collage, Colombia University, commercial images, Conduit Gallery, contemporary, coosje van bruggen, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corinne Jones, Cornelia Parker, cosmopolitanism, culture, dallas, DB12: Volume 2, denison university, Día de los Muertos, diverseworks, DIY, Documentary, East Texas, Ed Hill, el paso museum of art, El Paso Public Library, Elizabeth Akamatsu, Emily Roysdon, erika osborne, Eugene Binder Gallery, Eva Rothschild, exhibition, Federico Veiroj, film, Fl!ght gallery, fort worth, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, found objects, Frank Tolbert, FringeNYC, front gallery, glassblowing, Global Lens, Gregg Bordowitz, hair, Harris Lieberman Gallery, Harry Geffert, Hilary Harnischfeger, House Lamps, Houston, installation, james surls, janeil engelstad, Janet Chaffee, Jeffers Theatre, Jerolyn & Roger Colombik, jesus moroles, Joan Batson, joe rosenthal, john wilcox, Judy Rushin, Julie Bozzi, Justin Parr, Ken Little, kia neill, Kris Pierce, Kristin Gamez, Lawndale, Lesbians to the Rescue, Letitia & Sedrick Huckaby, Liam Gillick, Linda Ridgway, Liza & Lee Littlefield, local government, LTTR, Manuel Carrillo, Marfa, mari hernandez, Marianne Green, Mario Ybarra Jr., mark cole, Mark McDaniel, Martha Rosler, más rudas collective, Más Triste San Antonio, menil, menil drawing institute, mexic-arte, mfah, michelle white, mitchell center, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, modernism, modular design, Mona Hatoum, Moody Gallery, multimedia, multimedia storytelling, museum of fine arts, Nasher Sculpture Center, natalie zelt, New York International Fringe Festival, nut milk, NYIFF, off-the-grid, Otis Jones, painting, panhandle, Paul Kittelson, paul strand, performance art, Photographic Society of America, photography, piero fenci, pop art, public action, Randy Twaddle, Rebecca Drolen, Renzo Piano, richard wentworth, rio grande valley, robert kinmont, Ruth Leonela Buentello, San Antonio, Sarah Castillo, sauerkraut, Shannon & William Cannings, Sharon Engelstein, Sightings, silkscreen, Slanguage, sol lewitt, south texas underground film, SRO Photo Gallery, Stephen Lapthisophon, Susan Budge, sustainable farming, Suzanne Bloom, technology, terri thornton, Terry & Jo Harvey Allen, Texas, Texas State University Galleries, texas tech, The Dallas Bienniel, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, the Menil Collection, The Reading Room, The Sleepy Border Town Insomniacs, Tommy White, TRR, Unit B, university of georgia, university of texas pan american, UT Arlington, UTPA, VAC, Vernon Fisher, Vincent Falsetta, virtual, Visual Arts Center, Waiting for Godot, war, whole foods, will michels, William Campbell Contemporary, window works, women, women & their work, worm farm |
By Leslie Castro on August 22, 2012
I was falling asleep slowly around 1:30 am when I heard the chime of a Facebook chat message. I debated about just ignoring it, but my Facebook obsession kicked in and I decided to jump up and see who could possibly be messaging me so late. It was Anjali Gupta writing to inform me [...]
Posted in LMC y Pensamientos Pochosos, Uncategorized | Tagged alternative spaces, artist run spaces, austin, barbara perea, Casa Chuck, sala diaz, San Antonio |
By Sarah Fisch on August 20, 2012
There’s this faction of contemporary artists who seem to feel at pains to jargonize, obfuscate and otherwise Other-ize their own work. If you need to have read Derrida and to have seen the whole canon to get what an artist is doing, that’s cool. But cool is a value of middling worth. The pernicious cycle of [...]
Posted in Article, Review | Tagged african american contemporary art, atlanta, DNA, henry louis gates jr, high museum of art, knock knock joke, McNay Art Museum, memory as medicine, middle passage, morley safer, Radcliffe Bailey, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch |
By Laura Lark on July 27, 2012
Questions? Comments? Opinions? Send them to Laura Lark Loves You: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Mary asks, If you could describe and suggest a daily routine (things to read, do, act, etc) what would you suggest? Also, what type of resources (advice) would you suggest in trying to figure out how to market [...]
Posted in Blog, Laura Lark Loves You | Tagged andy warhol, Ann Taylor, Art Papers, beyonce, Jackie Kennedy, Kobe Bryant, Law and Order, Luca Buvoli, Madame Tussaud's, Mathilde ter Heijne, Mc Nay Museum, Oleg Cassini, San Antonio, Stuart Horodner, TNT, Toyota Camry |
By Bill Davenport on July 13, 2012
The NEA has selected UTSA’s College of Architecture for a $50,000 grant to develop a transit stop near the redeveloped Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio. The grant will fund a seres of public discussions in the fall aimed at developing concepts for the new transit center. According to the city’s press [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged NEA, our town grant, riverwalk, San Antonio, tobin center julian castro |
By John Aasp on April 29, 2012
Let’s talk about Art Fairs for a second. When I say Art Fair, most Glasstire readers probably think of big-convention center events with gallery-booths representing contemporary artists. Usually the work is expensive, but there are cocktails. However, if I was to mention an art fair to an average family of four, I have a hunch [...]
Posted in Blog, John Aäsp, The Open Blog | Tagged art fairs, Fiesta, San Antonio, The Southwest School of Art |
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 [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged baroque on the border, border issues, Christina Rees, chupacabrona world tour, Ciudad Juarez, corridos, delilah montoya, figurative painting, harlingen, Houston, ican artist, jennie ash, la llorona, mcallen, me, Reynosa, rigoberto gonzalez, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, social realism, spider-man, Tamaulipas, Tejano culture, The art league of houston, the Rio grande Valley, University of houston, video |
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; [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged baroque on the border, border issues, Christina Rees, chupacabrona world tour, Ciudad Juarez, corridos, delilah montoya, figurative painting, harlingen, Houston, jennie ash, la llorona, mcallen, mexican artist, Reynosa, rigoberto gonzalez, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, social realism, spider-man, Tamaulipas, Tejano culture, The art league of houston, the Rio grande Valley, University of houston, video |
By Sarah Fisch on March 6, 2012
Basketball season brings out the aggrieved San Antonian in me. I am a Spurs fan, of course. Not a basketball enthusiast, necessarily, but a Spurs fan. This is a congenital condition. It’s brought on not just because San Antonio has no other major league sporting teams to diffuse our ardor, but because San Antonio is [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged amanda alejos, au naturale, Chupacabrona, chupacabrona tour, contemporary art, douglas clark, Glasstire, marilyn careen, mass media texas, mcallen, phillip field, rio grande valley, San Antonio, san antonio spurs, Sarah Fisch, south texas college, south texas identity, tom matthews, university of texas pan american |
By Dan R. Goddard on February 2, 2012
Russian-born Mark Cheikhet is a master violinist who also paints, seeking to fuse the arts into something that Wassily Kandinsky called “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or the total work of art. With a palette that conjures Marc Chagall, Cheikhet creates abstract paintings of shimmering colors and vibrating bands of white that he considers part of his struggle for [...]
Posted in Alamo City, Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged abstract painting, abstract sculpture, Enrique Gutierrez, Ernesto Ibanez, Esteban Delgado, Gallery Nord, Mark Cheikhet, San Antonio |
By Margaret Meehan on January 13, 2012
How I wish I could be in 2 places at once this weekend- DFW and Austin/San Antonio. My apologies to the rest of Texas but these two locations are where I live these days and they alone are hard enough to wrangle. I guess until I read the book above I’ll just do my best [...]
Posted in Melba Toast | Tagged austin, dallas, fort worth, San Antonio |
By Sarah Fisch on December 23, 2011
This is Guillermina “Gisha” Zabala, an artist and filmmaker from Argentina who makes her home in San Antonio with her Uruguayan husband Enrique Lopetegui, music editor of the San Antonio Current, and their daughter Shanti. You can watch an excerpt of her San Antonio Artist Foundation Award-winning film, F-Watch, here. “I, Me, Light,” Zabala’s [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged accordion, art education, emileigh potter, enrique lopetegui, guillermina zabala, juanito's lab, San Antonio, san antonio artist foundation, San Antonio Current, Say Sí, tejano music, the dream, united states artists |
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 22, 2011
Aaron Forland, San Antonio visual artist, SA’s unofficial DIY/underground/punk rock historian and creator of the “Keep San Antonio Lame” meme, has been and continues to extol the paradoxical and decorate the prosaic. Some of my favorite “undocumented” works by Forland, the clandestine installation of small but potent abstract works affixed to the doors on [...]
Posted in Blog, Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged Aaron Forland, detroit, guerilla public art, Potter Belmar Labs, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch |
By Dan R. Goddard on October 21, 2011
Lucky has been anything but. A 46-year resident of the San Antonio Zoo, the sixtyish, female elephant became a cause célèbre for animal rights activists after her longtime companion Alport died in 2007, leaving Lucky alone. Since then, she’s gained a new friend, Boo, but Lucky remains, as she has been since she was captured [...]
Posted in Alamo City, Blog | Tagged Book, elephant, Lucky, Michelle Monseau, Mirror images, San Antonio, Unit B, video, zoo |
By Dan R. Goddard on September 28, 2011
Somewhere between childhood wonder and adult disillusionment, Kelly O’Connor is creating a psychic landscape from fragments of familiar movies, TV shows, vacationlands and fairy tales. While she’s been making the collages mined from her childhood pop culture for years, O’Connor’s “Post-Utopia” show at the David Shelton Gallery seems more intimate and introspective, inspired by a [...]
Posted in Alamo City, Blog | Tagged collages, David Shelton Gallery, Disney, Kelly O'Connor, Post-Utopia, San Antonio, Willy Wonka, Yellowstone |
By Dan R. Goddard on September 9, 2011
For 21 days representing all the societal and environmental abuse of 21 centuries, San Antonio artist Carla Veliz beat, scraped, tore, kicked, stomped on and generally tormented a soft, innocent piece of silk. Then she spent another 21 days trying to undo the damage to create “XXI: Who We Are and Who We Could Become.” [...]
Posted in Alamo City, Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged Carla Veliz, Fotoseptiembre, Gallery Nord, photography, Ramin Samandari, San Antonio |
By Sarah Fisch on September 7, 2011
Who am I kidding with the asterixes? Anyway, several months ago I began to write a review about San Antonio Draws, a “night of a thousand stars” variety show at the McNay Art Museum. Then I stopped writing it for reasons that are completely emotional and not rational at all. I’ll tell you why at [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged contemporary Texas drawing, jayne lawrence, karen mahaffy, katie pell, kimberly aubuchon, Lawson Print gallery, Lyle Williams, McNay Art Museum, Nate Cassie, Palo Alto College, Regis Shephard, Rene Barrilleaux, San Antonio, San Antonio contemporary art, San Antonio contemporary artists, San Antonio Draws, Southwest School of Art and Craft, St. Philip's College, vincent valdez |
By Sarah Fisch on September 6, 2011
EXTRA FALL RECOMMENDATIONS! If I had my druthers, the climate of Central-South Texas would chill the fuck out starting September 1st. We’d all wear long sleeves and closed-toe shoes, and brrrr cheerfully from under our wool hat brims, our noses tingled by keen breezes a-glitter with wintry promise as the foliage turns (not-literally) to flame… [...]
Posted in Blog, Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged 1906 SMART space, Albright-Knox Gallery, Anne Wallace, arthouse, Beto Gonzales, Bihl Haus Arts, By Permit Only, CHRISTEENE, Chupacabrona, Devon Dikeou, ethel shipton, Fotoseptiembre, Gabriel Bernal, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Hana Hillerova, Instituto Cultural de México, John Bowman, Joshua Bienko, Leslie Moody Castro, Luminaria Arts Night, Mary mikel Stump, Michael Mehl, MIXMASTERS: This Is Who We Are, patty ortiz, Rodolfo Choperena, San Antonio, San Marcos, Susie Rosmarin, Texas State, UNAM, vincent valdez |
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 [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged AIDS, ALBANY, Ann Stautberg, Anne Wallace, annette lawrence, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, ashley hunt, austin, Austin contemporary art, AutoBody (Featuring North of South, Ballroom Marfa, BEAUMONT, Beili Liu, Beto Gonzales, Bill Davenport, Calatrava, Charlotte Smith, CHRISTEENE, Christina Rees, Chuck Ramirez, Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque, climate change, Communograph: Mapping Through Creative Action, Connections: Haley-Henman, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, dallas, dallas contemporary, Dan Havel, David Schalliol, David Schalliol: Isolated Building Series, David Shelton Gallery, David Taylor, Dean Ruck, Devon Dikeou, EL PASO, el paso museum of art, Elisa d’Arrigo, Ellen Frances Tuchman, eric zimmerman, ethel shipton, Fall Preview, Fifth Ward Jam, fort worth, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Frances Bagley, fucked up shit, Gabriel de la Mora, Gaffes and Informations: Kevin Tedora and Jeff Zilm, George R. Brown Convention Center, Haley-Henman Gallery, Hana Hillerova, HCC Central Fine Arts Gallery, HJ Bott, Houston, Houston Art Fairs.Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston Art League, Houston's Third Ward, Hung Liu, jason villegas, Jayne Lawrence: New Drawings and Sculpture, Jayne Lawrences, Jeff Zilm, Jennifer Rubell, Jesse Lott, John Adelman, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Jonathan Whitfill, josef helfenstein, Joshua Bienko, Kevin Tedora, Landmark Arts at Texas Tech University, laura mcphee, Laura McPhee: River of No Return, Lauren Levy, Leigh Anne Lester, libby black, Linda Ridgway, Linnea Glatt, Louise Bourgeois, LUBBOCK, lucia simek, MacDowell Artists Colony, Madeline O’Connor, Marco Maggi, Marfa, Marfa local punk band Solid Waste, margaret meehan, Mary McCleary, Mary mikel Stump, Mel Chin, Mel Chin: The Funk and Wag from A to Z, menil collection, Meredith Danluck, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Modern Ruin, Nasher Sculpture Center, New York musician John Carpenter, Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from The Victoria and Albert Museum Tyler Museum of Art, Obsessive Worlds, patty ortiz, Paul Booker, Perry House, Perry House: Movin On, peter doroshenko, Project Row Houses, queer states, rainey knudson, Ray Carrington, Rick Lowe, San Antonio, San Antonio contemporary art, San Marcos, Sarah Fisch, Sawzall-equipped beavers, shawn smith, Silver: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, SRO (Standing Room Only) Photography Gallery, Stephen Fox, Susie Rosmarin, texas contemporary art fair, Texas State, The Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, The Gallery at University of Texas at Arlington, the guadalupe gallery, The Nave Museum, The Old Jail Art Center, The River of No Return, The Southwest School of Art, Tom Orr, Tony Cragg, Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, TYLER, Vernon Fisher, Victor Zamudio-Taylor, VICTORIA, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Vincent Falsetta, Walter De Maria, Walter De Maria: Trilogies, West of East), Women and THeir WOrk, Working the Line: Photographs by David Taylor |