“I was just being a punk back then,” says Josué Del Fresco, reflecting on his young art school dropout days. “Dada, anti-art, just anti-everything.” The artist, dressed in a colorful
When Choey Eun Young Cho was in grad school at Ohio State University, she started collecting bananas. She bought bunch after bunch, day after day, and let the bananas pile
Beginning in 2010, Courtney Kessel — recently divorced, single mom, student, artist — devised a performance that embodied the balancing act that was her reality. Perching her then-five-year-old daughter Chloe
Yo no nací para aguantar a nadie (I wasn’t born to put up with anyone), emblazoned on a pink floral blanket in florid blue glitter script — also the title
We came in through the studio gallery that day, rather than the main entrance, and the garage doors were open wide to let in the air and the visitors from
Artist, curator, and poet Danielle Demetria East has arrived in Lubbock, and hopes to make some magic happen. Originally from La Grange, Texas, East came to Lubbock after completing her
Lubbock is kind of on a roll right now. Like tumbleweeds borne on the high plains wind, an influx of new visiting and tenure-track professors have rolled into TTU, along
Using repurposed fabric scraps, old crocheted rugs, used packaging materials, and other domestic detritus, Blake and Hannah Sanders, an artist couple also operating under the name of Orange Barrel Industries,
In the short time I’ve lived in Lubbock, there have been three major exhibitions here featuring the work of Bryan Wheeler: a retrospective along with his brother Jeff’s work at
The Museum of Texas Tech University is an apt embodiment of the university as an institution: impressive from the outside, it’s a jumble of competing interests on the inside, from
The “native” vegetation of the South Plains seems primarily to consist of pricklies, stickers, and pokeys: plants that grab you, stab you, and don’t let go. These tough weeds evolved
Ed Ruscha, traveling on Route 66 between California and his family home in Oklahoma City, would pull off the highway in Amarillo, Texas. “You had to stop and gas up,”
“1979 was a year that created orphans,” Tarrah Krajnak writes in the artist statement for her photographic series Sismos79, titled in reference to the seismic impact of that year in
An outsized landscape is the setting of Victor Estrada’s recent paintings: the sprawling desert lying between Los Angeles and El Paso. This land — all but empty it would seem
The SRO Photo Gallery is located in the sub-basement of the Texas Tech School of Art building in Lubbock. In fact, it’s in the hallway of the sub-basement of the
Sometimes a work of art, developed over years, can become premonitory in unexpected and unsettling ways. When sculptor Cody Arnall began work on the installation Who’s Got a Price on
The conflation of photography and truth goes back to the medium’s beginning, and we still have trouble separating them, even though we know damn well that images are only constructs,
Most marriages between visual art and poetry fail. One will overpower the other, making both look weak. Or, worse, they will appear too closely linked, sinking into didacticism and literal-mindedness,
Plainview, Texas. Population 22,000. As its name suggests, it’s a town smack dab in the middle of the plains, situated equally far from Amarillo and Lubbock. It doesn’t seem a
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