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Drawings!: My Favorites From Houston 2012
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 [...]
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Eric Zimmerman: Endless Disharmony & Telltale Ashes at Art Palace
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 [...]
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The Professional Artist
By Claire Ruud on January 31, 2012
When I ask Mark Goodman, Graduate Academic Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Austin, what he wishes he could tell his 25-year-old self about a career as a visual artist, he pauses. In his early twenties, he wasn’t an artist, he was a photographer. It was the early 70s. Photography wasn’t [...]
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2011 Fall Preview
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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Zimmerman named new editor of Might Be Good; Vogel resides in Bad Ems
By Bill Davenport on August 1, 2011
Itinerant, yet New York-based artist and writer Eric Zimmerman, an occasional Glasstire contributor, has been named editor of Fluent Collaborative’s journal . . .might be good, replacing Wendy Vogel, who, after a year-long tenure at the post, has gone off to Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems, Germany to pursue independent projects. A former Austinite, [...]
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Similar but Different #18: Cold as Ice
By Margaret Meehan on June 8, 2011
Officially the first day of summer is not until June 21st, but according to my thermostat and our electric bill it’s already too hot. Similar but Different #18: Cold as Ice is a wish list for an Arctic chill and freezing ice. I’ll start with a few Texas references and then throw in some notables [...]
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