What the White Hides, It Also Reveals: David Aylsworth at Inman Gallery
David Aylsworth has debuted a subtle and beautiful new group of canvases, in which the color white carries paradoxical tensions of opaqueness and translucency, form and space, content and blankness, erasure and revelation of what lies beneath. Aylsworth’s paintings typically have globs, chunks and ridges of paint built up on their surfaces that hint at [...]
“Texas Biennial” at 816 Congress: Office Space
You still have time to see the Texas Biennial 2011! It’s up until May 21, extended by a week. At least the main exhibition — curated by Virgina Rutledge, copyright attorney/art historian/former special counsel to Creative Commons — is still up in this large office building at 816 Congress. I think this is sort of [...]
“You’re never gonna make it flat, anyway:” Jung Mun and the Sala Diaz effect
I’ve seen the Sala Diaz effect encourage unprecedented audacity more than once. More than ten times. The secret is, to a large extent, the flip-flop of the usual S.A. gallery show, in which an artist hangs finished work in the course of one or two days, and that art hangs or stands in there for [...]