"Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now”
“Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now” is both a historical exploration and a recognition of the place Native American artists presently occupy in the contemporary art world. It helps us grasp the cultural revitalization that we are in the midst of. More...
Ellen George
Ellen George deploy a unifying vertical line for their jumping off point. A sun-bleached quality permeates this body of work, as if the whole lot had been left out to cure for months or years under the glare of high-desert light. More...
Jane Rosen
Jane Rosen's current show concentrates on animal forms - birds, horses, etc. - that are evoked in often minimalist forms. More...
Agnes Pelton
Spirituality, desert landscape and early modern ideas about abstraction form the aesthetic core of this Agnes Pelton survey. More...
Mildred Howard
“TAP: Investigation of Memory” is an expansive installation carpeted with over a thousand gleaming silver shoe taps imported from Mildred Howard’s dream. Beyond a dreamscape about tap dancing, its military formation feels like a somber journey. More...
A Tale of Two Art Sites
Between the recently opened Ed Paschke Art Center and the much ballyhooed Lucas Museum of Narrative of Art to be opened in four years, which do you suppose tells us more about Chicago? More...
“A Patterned Language”
Fist-size found objects, by artist Matt Magee, sit atop a white oblong panel supported by four sawhorses. Albert Chamillard's cross-hatched ink drawings allude to the earliest written language. Placed along wood carvings from Papua New Guinea they connect language, narrative and history in new ways. More...
Carmen Menza
Carmen Menza's latter day take on light and space bathe the gallery and the eye in bold color and sound. More...
Alejandro Diaz
Alejandro Diaz popularized the satirical variant of the '60s cliché "Make Tacos Not War." Common materials and witty phraseology make for running visual commentary on South Texas and Mexican culture, the art market and other social and personal issues. More...
My Own Private Artspeak
Everybody claims to hate artspeak, and most of us art critics will offer full-throated denials that we sink to using it. Anyone who writes about art professionally is bound to use certain words and phrases that strike lay ears as esoteric. More...
Matthew Porter
Matthew Porter’s “Skyline Vista” combines hilltop cityscapes, dripping with golden-hour sunlight, and flying muscle cars. More...
“Docufiction”
“Docufiction” highlights three artists -- Drew Leshko, Julie Blackmon and Travis Walker -- who distort what our eyes tell us is true in slyly humorous and even enigmatic ways. It feels like it reflects some core truths about the confusion of our time. More...
Ward Schumaker
Moving from large canvases to book-size paintings on cardboard, Wade Schumaker's felt epiphanies open us up to our own. More...
“The Body is Work”
“The Body is Work,” featuring Hale Ekinci, Shir Ende and Mayumi Lake, is a take on Donald Judd’s idea of a “specific object,” works that exist between conventional genres. This exhibition highlights processes that identify their practitioners as complex makers. More...
Derek Boshier
That British pop artist Derek Boshier pops up in a Houston gallery reminds us that he resided and taught here during the 1980s and 90s. More...
“Contemporary Artists Explore Opera”
“Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera” examines the stories, traditions and themes of this most highly refined musical form, as well as the aesthetics, social influence and cultural impact of performance. It’s an immersive experience of luxury and decadence. More...
Leigh Merrill
Leigh Merrill manufactures a sense of uncertainty from a photo-collage technique that results in completely fabricated realities drawn from monochromatic architectural studies and all-over foliage. More...
“Art in the Age of the Pilchuck Glass School”
“Metaphor into Form: Art in the Age of the Pilchuck Glass School,” could be the first of numerous exhibitions drawn from the Rebecca and Jack Bearoya collection. The selection here provides an able introduction to the Pilchuck phenomenon. More...
Javier Valle Pérez
Javier Valle Pérez' visual narrative blends a childlike style with brilliant color and vigorously interacting forms. More...
Dancing Across Genres, Medium Serving Message
When artists have something intensely personal to express, sometimes they do so in a medium different from the one they're most associated with. Richard Speer cites painter Sherrie Wolf's dance choreography and Marne Lucas' shift from photography to film as exceptional examples of just such a leap. More...
