…meaning for other people tends to be a projection of their own romance. -Vija Celmins A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has
It is possible that the infrastructure a particular culture develops and utilizes in unseen ways can provide a different kind of mapping, one that describes personal interactions and taboos, rather
The film The Bikeriders is a period piece that follows a Chicago-based motorcycle gang from its inception in 1965 to its predictable demise in 1973. Based on a seminal work
Avoid Highways, the lovely and well-conceived show of paintings on view now at the West Loop HCC gallery, is in part described by its artist, John Forse, as renditions of
Concerns about renewable energy resources and performative art are not usual bedfellows, but in Faces of Sun and Wind, the two make for a natural coupling. In the work, the
I met Nestor Topchy about ten years ago, during meeting at a Thai restaurant that was meant to garner interest in his HIVE project, an artist community concept Topchy has
The prolific output of the artist William Kentridge is easy to admire. His confident hand abounds with life in his drawings, animations, and sculptural works. His expressionist tendencies are apparent
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton. -Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra from Don Quixote
Wayfinding (or way-finding) encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place. ―Wikipedia Whatever in creation exists without
Performative art has the ability to activate an audience in a way inaccessible to the strictly visual realm. Of course, it is visual too, but its engagement to time is
The late, great John Baldessari once said “I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.” It is a sentiment most artists can relate to. On the one hand,
Josef Kristofoletti was born in Nagyvarad, Transylvania. His work is primarily made up of mural paintings that address ideas about nature, technology, space, and architecture. He was an artist in
Art in the time of plague. Not a whole lot of viewing going on. Virtual exhibits lack any real visceral quality. Substance digitized. Fake news. On the flip side, you
Matthew Bourbon populates his paintings with figures handpicked from a variety of sources; viewing them is akin to channel surfing through the vast array of human folly available on late
Lucas Johnson: Drawings 1971-1990 at Moody Gallery presents the artist’s mid-career works, lyrical renderings of the natural environment Johnson immersed himself in before his untimely passing in 2002. The pen-and-ink
An interesting work of art can do many things. First and foremost, it can reveal a secret about the world in a way that is both fresh and stimulating, creating
Ali Fitzgerald – Swan School; The Matriculation Art Palace April 18 – June 7, 2008 Depictions of adolescent angst can be powerful—think The Catcher in the Rye. But in the
As a visual language, abstraction can be as predictable as it is iconic. Depending on your take, the results either seduce with their meditative surface or bore you to tears.
Texas Gallery, arguably the bluest-chip gallery in Houston, harvesting talents such as Tony Oursler, Chuck Close and Elizabeth Murray among many others over the years, presentes the blandly titled Lines,
Piotr (pronounced “Peter”) Chizinski’s show Jerry-Rigged Co-Op, at Redbud Gallery successfully combines a microscopic view of white-trash culture with a lovingly crafted display of quirky commentary.
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