Much of the past ten months have been spent in quarantine and that has changed just about everything. Social gatherings including concerts, museum exhibits, and gallery openings have been canceled. We've tried to make up for some of it with an online experience. By now, we are used to watching the live stream of performances, … Continue reading The Art Through the Five-Inch Screen
If contemporary shows have anything in common, it's white walls. Benjamin Terry questioned this and created a site-specific installation for his Galleri Urbane show. Before I entered the gallery space, I could already see a dark wall of Victorianesque floral patterns. “That’s all from fabric.com," Terry says. "Thirty-six yards of it.” Also in the room … Continue reading Beyond the White — Benjamin Terry at Galleri Urbane
On the night of Blue Norther when Dallas saw its first hard freeze of the winter, the cold was not the only surprise hailing from the North. At Kirk Hopper Gallery, Roger Winter connects his present New York circle of friends with his Dallas buddies of the past through a show of collage and assemblage. … Continue reading Roger Winter Curates Collage and Assemblage Show at Kirk Hopper Gallery
Art doesn't have to reflect the times, but some of the most interesting art does. If you aren't sure whether angry white men have been a part of the tumultuous recent past, I'd say you haven't been paying attention. These are angry times. Everyone seems a little angry. But anger has not been on display … Continue reading When Anger is the Zeitgeist
Colorful, life-sized and vibrant are words that may describe the artwork of Ann Wood. They may not, however, describe what you expect from a gallery show called Deathbeds on view at Kirk Hopper Gallery in Dallas. Most of the works on view, as was explained at the gallery, were created after the death of the … Continue reading Knowing Life: The Works of Ann Wood at Kirk Hopper
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