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By Katie Geha on November 22, 2012
I’ve long thought of clay as a very specific medium. By “medium specific” I’m recalling the critic Clement Greenberg’s term as he defined it in his 1961 essay Modernist Painting. According to Greenberg, what defined modernist abstract painting was its ability to criticize itself, therefore “to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence.” [...]
Posted in Katie Says, Uncategorized | Tagged Ben Brandt, Fabio J. Fernández, Fort Worth Contemporary, Kate Gilmore, margaret meehan, tom lauerman |
By Christina Rees on May 10, 2012
You must have noticed, if you live in DFW, that there’s some pretty exciting artwork bobbing all over its various surfaces. Local artists are getting busy, many on their own terms or under new conditions forced by a stagnant economy. This has me jonesing; I want and I want. I have the eye for collecting, [...]
Posted in Blog, Christina Rees, Uncategorized | Tagged barry whistler, bradly brown, brett slater, c.j. davis, chris powell, christopher blay, clayton hurt, conduit, dfw artists, frank artsmarter, gregg ruppe, kerry pacillio, M and Elliot Johnson, margaret meehan, marty walker, peter ligon, plush gallery, scott winterrowd, shamrock hotel, terry thornton, todora, zilm |
By Christina Rees on November 9, 2011
Look. We have a problem here that creative people are learning to circumvent. The economy is awful, and while auction-house prices are staying weirdly 1%-er high, the rest of the art world—discrete art scenes, city by city—are still experiencing a hell of a financial sinkhole. This is when artists do what Tina Fey writes about [...]
Posted in Blog, Christina Rees | Tagged Angus Fairhurst, Christina Rees, margaret meehan, pauline kael, samuel beckett, Women and THeir WOrk |
By Lucia Simek on September 30, 2011
It’s State Fair time again. I haven’t been in nearly a decade, but I’ve promised my small people I’ll go this year. I look forward to it with a kind of glee mixed with fear – a potent cocktail born of memories of sickness and stickiness and the smell of livestock. In honor of those [...]
Posted in Blog, Shelf Life, Uncategorized | Tagged claes oldenburg, elizabeth crawford, janine antoni, jeff kooks, lindee climo, margaret meehan, martin paar, neo rauch, peter saul, Rebecca Warren, state fair, texas state fair, william eggleston |
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 |