Last year, Giovanni Valderas started making art that mimicked real estate signs using traditional piñata techniques. After months of painstaking work, he decided to apply for a public art grant aimed at revitalizing downtown Houston. He submitted his new works to be considered for a 40 x 60 foot image…
Figures at Nasher Sculpture Center 2001 Flora St. Part of Soluna Music and Arts Festival, Figures is a performance by artist Mai-Thu Perret. Originally performed at the 2014 Biennale of Moving Images in Geneva, Perret’s performance will function as a series of happenings throughout the Nasher and its garden. Figures reflects…
Through August 21, visitors to the Nasher Sculpture Center have the chance to visit one of the most poetic uses of Renzo Piano’s light-filled gallery in quite some time. American sculptor Joel Shapiro rose to prominence alongside Frank Stella, Carl Andre and Tony Smith as part of a movement in…
Deep Eyellum at Epocha Shoe Gallery2540 Elm St. Native Texan graphic artist and painter Miguel Ibarra will paint one of his extraterrestrial flora murals onsite and exhibit his latest series of small “Eye-bud” paintings. Ibarra’s “green” mural series and paintings are inspired by nature’s potential to both revitalize and destroy…
Three New Films by Richard Bailey at the Margo Jones Theatre1121 1st Ave. Richard Bailey made a couple of 16mm films after finishing film school. But he started focusing on poetry and short stories once the expenses of filmmaking caught up with him. After digital advances drove down the costs,…
SOLILOQUY: Jason Salavon at The Public Trust 2271 Monitor St. The SOLILOQUY series puts the focus of an entire art gallery on one work of art for a month. Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on…
The first thing multimedia artist K. Yoland brings up over coffee in her second floor apartment in the M Streets is the Ku Klux Klan. For the British-born artist, who now divides time between Dallas and Marfa, the strong historical presence of the white-hooded terrorist group in Texas was quite…
If PEZ Dispensers never struck you as works of art, pay a visit to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and you’ll see them differently. One of the most visually enticing displays in its new exhibit, Eye of the Collector, shows hundreds of Kermit and Princess Jasmine sugar-delivery mechanisms…
trapped in the fjord, so we had to walk everywhere at the Magnolia Theatre 3699 McKinney Ave. Ro2 Art presents a new exhibition by Fort Worth-based multi-disciplinary artist Dannie Liebergot. The show, trapped in the fjord, so we had to walk everywhere, features new photographs inspired by Liebergot’s six-week residency…
Bubble and Rooftop Gardens at PDNB Gallery 154 Glass St., No. 104 Stuart Allen’s explorations of light and color continue with photographs of bubbles. These amorphic shapes against the sky reveal colors we cannot see with the naked eye. Bubble opens with an artist’s reception Saturday from 5-8 p.m. PDNB’s other…
In 2009, when Jeff Baker retired from a 35-year career as a commercial photographer in New York City, he moved back to his hometown, Dallas, and began to feel directionless. He also began to feel portents of death in the form of three serious diseases: atrial fibrillation, macular degeneration in…
Standing out as an artist in the comic book industry seems like a near impossibility. Not only does the medium have more artists than it needs but it can be difficult to develop a unique style when editors expect another rehash of muscle-bound superheroes and bosomy superheroines. Robert Wilson IV…
Yesterday we learned that attendance for the Dallas Art Fair last weekend broke the record, with 12,500 people passing through the halls of the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue. In its eighth year, the fair seemed more vital than ever. As we mentioned in our coverage of the fair…
Frank Stella: A Retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth The first of its kind in over three decades, the latest exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features 100 works that showcase the highlights of Frank Stella’s 60-year career. Starting…
Along with humor, nostalgia and fantasy, Erin Stafford’s new work references the aesthetics of decay. She thinks about the past: fantasies she had as a kid, the greatest times of her life, and what point she would like to revisit if she had the chance to go back. But she…
The latest exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth started with a simple question: Which great living artist had not had a retrospective in over two decades? Frank Stella has a 60-year career and is ingrained in contemporary art. A young art star, he actually had a retrospective…
Debora Hunter is standing in front of the windows of Neiman Marcus peering in. It’s an overcast Wednesday morning just days before the Dallas Art Fair where Hunter, a longtime Dallas-based photographer, is the 2016 honoree. With that title comes an opportunity to give a talk at a pre-party for…
Irving Penn achieved great artistic and commercial success and became one of the most iconic photographers of the 20th century. A touring exhibit organized by the Smithsonian and presented by The Dallas Museum of Art, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty is the first retrospective of his 70-year career in nearly two…
Hey Sunshine at Liliana Bloch Gallery From Providence, Rhode Island, Lynne Harlow’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally for 15 years. In her latest show, she continues a reductive exploration of light, color and material, placing added emphasis on the behavior of light in relation to color and space…
On April 7, two of rock history’s star witnesses will be sharing their life stories at The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. Pattie Boyd is music’s Helen of Troy; she has inspired many epic guitar wars. Her first husband, George Harrison, immortalized the way she moved in the Beatles’ “Something,”…
Bearings Down at The Goss-Michael Foundation Paula Crown serves on President Obama’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities. Balancing traditional studio time while engaging technology, her art is about mapping experiences. Crown’s work centers on places and landscapes, exploring how they can exist as objects. This is an immersive installation…
We Are All Homeless at The MAC Willie Baronet started collecting signs made by homeless individuals in 1993. Now with more than 1,000 signs, the project has developed into an exhibit called We Are Homeless. This attempt to confront an often ignored and uncomfortable issue has been exhibited nationally and…
