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ReviewTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Ja’Tovia Gary, I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD
Ja’Tovia Gary’s I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD at the Dallas Museum of Art positions daily life, ritual, and cultural traditions on the center stage.
September 01, 2023
ReviewTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Ja’Tovia Gary’s I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD at the Dallas Museum of Art positions daily life, ritual, and cultural traditions on the center stage.
Laura Neal • September 01, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Fernando Andrade, an artist based in San Antonio, paints vibrant scenes of Latinx fiestas on styrofoam plates, reclaiming the material as a transmitter of joyful origins rather than disposable mementos.
Gina Pugliese • September 01, 2023
Vol. 8 Medium + SupportArtistsTexas
Dallas-based artist Narong Tintamusik explores themes of personal and cultural heritage while acknowledging the corporeal relationship between humanity and waste.
Joshua Ware • September 01, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Bella Varela’s colorfully irreverent interdisciplinary practice disfigures the facade of the American Dream to betray the weaknesses in the foundation of Western visual culture.
Justin Duyao • September 01, 2023
Hayley Labrum Morrison’s eerily provocative work invites viewers to contemplate the formation of identity, gender, and body politics within über-religious patriarchal systems.
Scotti Hill • August 28, 2023
I Am Not Your Mexican at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio explores how Mexican and Mexican American artists have expanded the limitations of Post-Minimalism.
Emma S. Ahmad • August 25, 2023
Tamara Johnson’s exhibition House Salad at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin examines the absurdity of daily domesticity with mass-produced kitchen items turned into one-of-a-kind sculptures.
Barbara Purcell • August 04, 2023
Pencil on Paper Gallery extends the line of Black-owned galleries that trace the foundational practices of accessibility, inclusivity, and representation among art spaces in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Laura Neal • July 05, 2023
NewsCollectivity + CollaborationMexicoTexas
La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea in Mexico City and Familia Printshop in Dallas engage in a long tradition of Mexican printmaking. The two print shops also illustrate the power of collaboration.
Ania Hull • July 04, 2023
This Blanton Museum of Art exhibition highlights how day jobs feed art practices by providing artists with materials, production methods, and ideas.
Thao Votang • May 19, 2023
Betelhem Makonnen of Austin expands the silences of history and develops work and language to describe nonlinear time.
Thao Votang • May 03, 2023
Luis Jiménez’s monumental sculptures are found all over the country. Why is the artist not more well known?
Natalie Hegert • March 28, 2023
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.
Alana Wolf-Johnson • March 15, 2023
Finding Water in the WestMexicoTexas
Janette Terrazas utilizes her artistic practice to protest against water contamination in the El Paso-Juárez binational region.
Edgar Picazo Merino • March 10, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Houston-based artist Gabriel Martinez's artworks explore social, political, economic, and historical issues through charged found objects, such as radioactive trinitite.
Joshua Ware • March 03, 2023
FeatureTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
The stories of Marie Lorenz’s Charøn CrosSing and the power plant cooling pond, located on the same street in Austin, Texas.
Emily E. Lee • March 03, 2023
EssayTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Artist Trey Burns on the Fair Park Lagoon, an iconic, yet overlooked, land art work by Patricia Johanson in Dallas, Texas.
Trey Burns • March 03, 2023
ReviewTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Immersive Abstractions showcases Laura Turón's visual and social practices at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso.
Edgar Picazo Merino • March 03, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.
Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023
FeatureMexicoTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
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.
JD Pluecker • March 03, 2023
Studio VisitTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
For this social practice collective in Lubbock, Texas, the mesquite tree has become a charismatic icon for water conservation and urban afforestation.
Natalie Hegert • March 03, 2023
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.
Amarillo Museum of Art • March 02, 2023
Michael Anthony García, an Austin-based artist and curator, creates installation, video, and sculptural work that explores personal questions of identity and cultivates community.
Thao Votang • February 20, 2023
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.
Hills Snyder • February 09, 2023
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.
Joy Miller • January 11, 2023
From handcrafted boots to an indispensable indigenous cookbook, here are giftable gems for that special Texan in your life.
Natalie Hegert • December 12, 2022
Cannupa Hanska Luger melds past and future in an Amarillo Museum of Art exhibition that pays tribute to millions of massacred Plains bison.
Natalie Hegert • November 28, 2022
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.
Edgar Picazo Merino • November 23, 2022
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.
Steve Jansen • October 10, 2022
FeatureTexasVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park explores the manufactured landscape of North Texas and its echo natures.
Trey Burns • August 26, 2022
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