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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 11, 2023
From handcrafted boots to an indispensable indigenous cookbook, here are giftable gems for that special Texan in your life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
August 26, 2022
Dallas-based artist Austin Uzor blends the figure and the Southwest landscape in oil paintings that blur the boundaries of figurative painting.
August 23, 2022
Borna Sammak’s exhibition america, nice place at Dallas Contemporary conceptually and materially questions popular American archetypes and the redundancies of cultural consumerism.
July 26, 2022
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.
June 22, 2022
Laura August joins the Rubin Center and builds on a program that nurtures connections between art and artists in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.
June 20, 2022
Curator Yvonne Force Villareal inaugurates Brite Force, a new arts initiative in Marfa, Texas, with an exhibition of surreal Western paintings by Will Cotton.
June 15, 2022
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.
June 13, 2022
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.
May 19, 2022
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.
April 20, 2022
Galveston, Texas artist Nick Barbee uses the process of abstraction in recounting American history and personal experiences in his paintings, sculpture, and installation.
April 05, 2022
Collectivity + CollaborationTexas
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.
March 18, 2022
Houston curator Suzanne Zeller uses their curatorial platform to promote underrepresented queer narratives in contemporary photography.
March 14, 2022
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.
March 07, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
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.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
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.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Rio Meander Map, a collaborative project between Jose Villanueva and Patrick O'Shea, traces the meandering flow of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Tumbleweed Rodeo, led by artists Sarah Aziz and J. Eric Simpson, tracks the non-human journey of tumbleweeds through the Llano Estacado.
February 25, 2022
ReviewTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
At The Contemporary Austin’s Crit Group Reunion, a generic and disjointed overview muted the spirit of what’s happening now in the city.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
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.
February 25, 2022
Studio VisitTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Houston-based artist and graphic designer Phillip Pyle, II upholds a tradition of collaboration in the historic Third Ward neighborhood.
February 25, 2022
Laredo, Texas native Angelica Raquel Martínez continues her familial legacy of storytelling in works on paper and textile installations.
February 22, 2022
