Day Jobs Busts Myths, Raises Questions at the Blanton Museum of Art
This Blanton Museum of Art exhibition highlights how day jobs feed art practices by providing artists with materials, production methods, and ideas.
May 19
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May 03
Work in Progress with Betelhem Makonnen
Betelhem Makonnen of Austin expands the silences of history and develops work and language to describe nonlinear time.
Mar 28
The Outsized Presence of Luis Jiménez in the Southwest
Luis Jiménez’s monumental sculptures are found all over the country. Why is the artist not more well known?
Mar 15
A Generous Proposal at Ballroom Marfa’s Ecstatic Land
Ecstatic Land at Ballroom Marfa proposes an expanded definition of the landscape genre by assembling a transgenerational group of artists for this exhibition and film series.
Mar 10
Janette Terrazas: An Artist’s Fight to Preserve Water at the Border
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Janette Terrazas utilizes her artistic practice to protest against water contamination in the El Paso-Juárez binational region.
Mar 03
Gabriel Martinez
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Houston-based artist Gabriel Martinez's artworks explore social, political, economic, and historical issues through charged found objects, such as radioactive trinitite.
Mar 03
On Holly Street
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The stories of Marie Lorenz’s Charøn CrosSing and the power plant cooling pond, located on the same street in Austin, Texas.
Mar 03
Postcard from the Fair Park Lagoon
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Artist Trey Burns on the Fair Park Lagoon, an iconic, yet overlooked, land art work by Patricia Johanson in Dallas, Texas.
Mar 03
Immersive Abstractions
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Immersive Abstractions showcases Laura Turón's visual and social practices at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso.
Mar 03
Jack Bowers
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Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.
Mar 03
Accidental Beauty in Unexpected Shapes: María José Crespo, the River, and Artistic Research
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Writer and artist JD Pluecker writes about the Artpace exhibition of María José Crespo and their joint trip to the border to do artistic research around Del Rio, Texas.
Mar 03
The Mesquite Mile: Erin Charpentier, Kim Karlsrud, Travis Neel, and Daniel Phillips
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For this social practice collective in Lubbock, Texas, the mesquite tree has become a charismatic icon for water conservation and urban afforestation.
Mar 02
Stranger(s) in the Village brings Gary Burnley to the Amarillo Museum of Art
Gary Burnley's collages explore representation, memory, and an image’s meaning through contrast in the exhibition Stranger(s) in the Village at the Amarillo Museum of Art.
Feb 20
Michael Anthony García: “Grounded in a Utopian Projection of Positivity”
Michael Anthony García, an Austin-based artist and curator, creates installation, video, and sculptural work that explores personal questions of identity and cultivates community.
Feb 09
Work in Progress with Bryan and Jeff Wheeler
The Wheeler Brothers—Bryan of Lubbock and Jeff of San Antonio—employ maximal methods influenced by humility, music, hidden hot springs, and breakdancing in the Texas Panhandle.
Jan 11
Alternative Worlds of What Ifs, Brought to You by Angel Cabrales
Angel Cabrales, a devotee of science, sci-fi, and his own cultural heritage based in El Paso, creates alternate worlds that are more playful than the serious and broken one we live in.
Dec 12
Local Texas Gift Guide 2022
From handcrafted boots to an indispensable indigenous cookbook, here are giftable gems for that special Texan in your life.
Nov 28
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Reunion Reckons With Annihilation While Dreaming of the Future
Cannupa Hanska Luger melds past and future in an Amarillo Museum of Art exhibition that pays tribute to millions of massacred Plains bison.
Nov 23
Artists Turn to Text for Concise Social Messages at the Rubin Center in El Paso
In (RE)CONTEXT at the Rubin Center in El Paso, ten contemporary artists integrate text into their practices, recontextualizing and reappropriating words to create tools of social change.
Oct 10
Ho Baron’s 50-Year Retrospective of Outsider Art in El Paso
Ho Baron: Gods for Future Religions at the El Paso Museum of Art is an uncanny blend of maximalism, surrealism, the ascetic, and the interstellar.
Aug 26
What Waterfall? Finding Landscape in the Metroplex
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Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park explores the manufactured landscape of North Texas and its echo natures.
Aug 23
Work in Progress with Austin Uzor
Dallas-based artist Austin Uzor blends the figure and the Southwest landscape in oil paintings that blur the boundaries of figurative painting.
Jul 26
Review: Borna Sammak: america, nice place Tackles U.S. Cultural Touchstones
Borna Sammak’s exhibition america, nice place at Dallas Contemporary conceptually and materially questions popular American archetypes and the redundancies of cultural consumerism.
Jun 22
Review: Bottomland Artist Brook-Lynne Clark at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park
At Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Brook-Lynne Clark finds signs of her life on the Blackland Prairie in Big Tex is Burning, which tracks her relationship with embedded histories of Dallas.
Jun 20
Curator Profile: Laura August of the Rubin Center in El Paso
Laura August joins the Rubin Center and builds on a program that nurtures connections between art and artists in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.
Jun 15
Yvonne Force Villareal Launches Brite Force in Marfa
Curator Yvonne Force Villareal inaugurates Brite Force, a new arts initiative in Marfa, Texas, with an exhibition of surreal Western paintings by Will Cotton.
Jun 13
Fort Worth’s Kinfolk House Draws Artists and Neighbors Together
Kinfolk House’s entry to social practice art is meant to investigate community, culture, and isolation in the venue’s neighborhood of Polytechnic Heights and beyond in Fort Worth.
May 19
Miraflores: San Antonio’s Mexican Garden of Memory by Anne Elise Urrutia
Drawing on public and private archives and fifty years of personal documentation, Anne Elise Urrutia’s book Miraflores brings to life her great-grandfather’s San Antonio garden in unmatched detail.
Apr 20
Impractical Spaces: 5 Alternative Art Venues in Houston
A book series diving into historical and current alternative art establishments in major stateside cities visits Texas in Impractical Spaces: Houston. Here are five current H-Town favorites from the book.
Apr 05
Work in Progress with Nick Barbee
Galveston, Texas artist Nick Barbee uses the process of abstraction in recounting American history and personal experiences in his paintings, sculpture, and installation.
Mar 18
Juntos Art Association Humanizes and Celebrates the Borderlands
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El Paso, Texas-based Juntos Art Association tackles the power of place and the “who is heard” component of storytelling in its multi-faceted project, Icons and Symbols of the Borderland.
Mar 14
Curator Profile: Suzanne Zeller of Foto Relevance, Houston
Houston curator Suzanne Zeller uses their curatorial platform to promote underrepresented queer narratives in contemporary photography.
Mar 07
Good Grief: Theresa Chong, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Repositioning Grief
Writer and poet Laura Neal visits Theresa Chong's Dallas exhibition dedicated to the organization of grief, and finds the power in the familiar and heavy emotion.
Feb 25
Raul Rene Gonzalez
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Raul Rene Gonzalez is a San Antonio, Texas-based artist whose work is largely autobiographical in nature, exploring topics such as fatherhood, gender roles, labor, identity, pop culture, and abstraction.
Feb 25
Gary Sweeney
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Gary Sweeney, a San Antonio-based artist, presents a collaborative project that challenges the Eurocentric standards of beauty promoted by the Famous Artists School, a correspondence course popular in the 1960s.
Feb 25
Patrick O’Shea + Jose Villanueva
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Rio Meander Map, a collaborative project between Jose Villanueva and Patrick O'Shea, traces the meandering flow of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo.
Feb 25
Sarah Aziz + J. Eric Simpson
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Tumbleweed Rodeo, led by artists Sarah Aziz and J. Eric Simpson, tracks the non-human journey of tumbleweeds through the Llano Estacado.
Feb 25
Review: Crit Group Reunion
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At The Contemporary Austin’s Crit Group Reunion, a generic and disjointed overview muted the spirit of what’s happening now in the city.
Feb 25
Ghislaine Fremaux + Lando Valdez
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Collaborative works by Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez concern the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, desire, and the concomitance of all of these.
Feb 25
Studio Visit: Phillip Pyle, II
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Houston-based artist and graphic designer Phillip Pyle, II upholds a tradition of collaboration in the historic Third Ward neighborhood.
Feb 22
Work in Progress with Angelica Raquel Martínez
Laredo, Texas native Angelica Raquel Martínez continues her familial legacy of storytelling in works on paper and textile installations.
Jan 27
McKay Otto’s Fascinating Journey to Now
Texas artist McKay Otto creates ethereal, geometric paintings on translucent canvases that evoke lightboxes.
Jan 21
San Antonio’s Presa House Celebrates Five Years of Supporting Artists
Presa House Gallery in San Antonio, Texas focuses on Latinx artists across south Texas, the Rio Grande region, and Mexico—and skirts that whole "artists-must-make-sales" model.
