Many kids today probably don’t know this, but street art didn’t receive mainstream acceptance until Banksy became a household name in the mid-2000s. Before then, graffiti was widely seen as an eyesore created by an unsavory population. Countless tags were covered and movies like Demolition Man envisioned a squeaky clean…
The Dallas Art Fair has established itself as a world-renowned and respected fair, exhibiting galleries and artists of international repute. Starting in 2017, the fair will evolve and expand under new leadership. Kelly Cornell, who began working at Dallas Art Fair as an SMU student intern in 2011, was just…
Frustrations with the recent closings of art spaces by the fire marshal reached a boiling point on Tuesday as nearly 100 artists, gallerists and others close to the matter assembled in the auditorium at the Central Public Library. The discussion got heated as some artists lashed out at city officials…
Fort Worth artist and writer Christopher Blay spent the past few years working out an idea he had during a CentralTrak residency in 2014. Training his imagination on an actual conspiracy theory about a time machine inside the Large Hadron Collider, Blay places the stories of seven black victims of police…
You might say that Nikola Olic is an engineer. It’s what he studied at University of Texas at Arlington and he’s been working at a healthcare software company he co-founded, Doctor Alliance, since he received his degree. But you might also say he’s a classical pianist, a professional BMX flatlander…
Durational art like film forces its creators to imagine how viewers will perceive it. How long do you have to communicate your message before something else calls their attention and they walk away? It’s a problem inherent to all contemporary art, but one to which film is especially susceptible. Lip service…
There’s a shop full of motorcycles in various states of disassembly at the intersection of Highways 183 and 35E. The inside looks like a motorcycle graveyard but it’s really a place for resurrection, where bikes are taken apart, repaired, painted and put together under a completely new skin. Two guys…
Everyone from Dallas City Council members to the mayor have gushed over Dallas’ arts community in recent years. It has seen a lot of growth, with the establishment of the Nasher Prize for sculpture, micro-grants being offered to up-and-coming artists by the Office of Cultural Affairs and the opening of…
Reciprocated Salvage at CentralTrak800 Exposition Ave. 12 p.m. Saturday This show is all about emotional expression. Melanie Bonajo’s work. is influenced by programming algorithms, mathematical formulas and physics. Emotional outbursts are salvaged from interfaces such as iPhone photostream and reciprocated in compilation. Vivian Fu examines how self-portraiture has moved from…
Ten months ago, the Dallas Museum of Art lost its director of four years when Maxwell L. Anderson resigned in order to accept a job as director of grant programs at New Cities Foundation in his hometown of New York City. In Anderson’s absence, president of the board Walter Elcock served as…
The box set sitting under glass at Holly Johnson Gallery isn’t your standard rock compilation. And while its contents resemble CDs in their size and shape, they are actually custom 5-inch vinyl records — little palm-sized things, complete with sleeves, album art and liner notes. Housed inside their grooves is…
“The camera, for me, is a weapon,” Richard Andrew Sharum says. “Every time I pull that shudder is like pulling a trigger.” Sharum is a photographer and activist who has been shooting professionally for 12 years. He’s taken photos all over the country as well as abroad, but for the past…
Eric Miller and Lin Wang moved to North Texas from Brooklyn in 2010, with no particular interest in Texas art. But once they got here, they immediately found themselves with questions. They noticed gaps in knowledge of local art history, particularly from the late ’60s until the early ’80s, and…
Works On Paper & William Wegman: Good Dogs On Nice Furniture at Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole Street, No. 120 Through August 13 Two new exhibitions are currently on display at Barry Whistler. Works on Paper features artists Terrell James, Otis Jones, Lawrence Lee, Michael Miller, Dan Rizzie, Andrea Rosenberg, Lorraine…
For the last five years, WAAS Gallery has exhibited a blend of emerging and established artists in a space on Logan Street, near Fair Park. As director, founder, owner and curator Brandy Adams and her new curating partner Emma Saperstein took the gallery into 2016, they promised radical changes on…
Concealed Fauna at The Public Trust 2271 Monitor St. Through July 30 Do not miss this unique show with works priced to sell at The Public Trust. Daria Lapto is a sculptor based in Ulyanovsk, Russia. Her figurative sculptures are both sweet and feral in nature, often combining childlike human characteristics…
In 2013, Sergio Garcia was curating a group show of photorealistic paintings at Kirk Hopper Fine Art when he was inspired to create something totally outside of his typical media of painting and street art: a series of little red tricycles sculpted into impractical shapes. By the time of the…
The Sun Shines Blue and Backyard Daoism at Galleri Urbane 2277 Monitor St. 6 p.m. Saturday For The Sun Shines Blue, painter Danny Rose studied natural landscapes and rock formations. These works are rooted in observation, awareness of time and appreciation of the surrounding world. Reflecting both the external and…
As a painter, Izk Davies has mainly passed on the gallery scene in favor of making a living with public murals. Now Davies is taking his preference for public art even further by painting realistic animal portraits on plastic wrapped around trees. A longtime muralist, Davies is always looking for…
Kettle Art is a clubhouse for artists, and artists really need a clubhouse, especially in moments of self-doubt. Artist and Kettle Art owner Frank Campagna has provided that nurturing space in Deep Ellum, and now the dozens of artists he has given a platform to since the gallery opened in…
Gomela/To Return: Movement of Our Mother Tongue at South Dallas Cultural Center 3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave. 7 p.m. Friday Gomela/To Return: Movement of Our Mother Tongue is a multi-disciplinary performance piece featuring award-winning poet Sunni Patterson. Vibrant and percussive movements and stories breathe life into African dance and drumming, as well…
Savages (a slight return) at Kettle Art 2650 Main St. This love letter to artist and Kettle Art owner Frank Campagna was originally a two-day pop-up event on Dragon Street. It was also one of the most lively shows of the year, drawing huge, extroverted crowds on both days and…
