Kent Boyer is a Dallas-based writer, designer and lifelong learner. He practices neighborhood photography and is interested in using art to create community and promote social justice. Keep up with his work at www.doorknobstudio.com.
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Zapotec 2012 by Alfredo Calderon (photo by Kent Boyer)
Antifaz
Bath House Cultural Center
Through April 21, 2012
Mention the word “mask” in the spring of the year, and most people’s imagination conjures up Mardi Gras masks complete with beads, feathers, sequins, and glitter.
Well, not the artists who submitted works to Enrique Fernandez Cervantes’ latest visual soiree at the Bath House Cultural Center. Oh, he got a few of those – some really great ones too – but he got a whole bunch of other masks, too. …continue reading Antifaz at the Bath House Cultural Center
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Where the End Starts by KAWS, 2011 (photo courtesy KAWS Studio)
KAWS was born Brian Donnelly and grew up in New Jersey, where he began his art career as a graffiti artist – defacing billboards and ads with his characteristic X marks. He’s a BFA graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC and currently lives in Brooklyn.
I’m increasingly interested in street artists who move so fluidly between graffiti, illustration, fine art, and product design. KAWS was obviously influenced by cartoon characters – probably grew up drawing them like most boys who are artists – but has taken iconic characters like Mickey Mouse and SpongeBob to another level with his unique signature twists. …continue reading Review of KAWS at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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Clearstory Blue d by David Collins (image courtesy Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden)
David Collins: Clearstory
Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden
Through September 24, 2011
David Collins: Clearstory is the current show at Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden. The show runs through September 24, 2011.
This is the first Dallas exhibition for NYC-based Collins, who grew up in Dallas and graduated from Jesuit High School. You’ll find his work very personal and autobiographical. He creates spaces with paint for his viewers to explore – spaces we’ve never seen before, but may have dreamed about. His works are atmospheric and deep and inhabitable. …continue reading David Collins: Clearstory at Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden
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The Hack by Cuyler Etheredge
Fictional 2
Bath House Cultural Center
Through August 6, 2011
Fictional 2, the current gallery show at the Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake in Dallas, runs through August 6, 2011. The exhibit coincides with – and takes its life from – the Thirteenth Annual Festival of Independent Theatres (FIT) running this month in the Center’s black-box theater. …continue reading Fictional 2 at the Bath House Cultural Center
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Nothing Is What It Seems Anymore by Carlos Donjuan
Influence: Carlos Donjuan, Sedrick Huckaby, Marilyn Jolly
Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Through September 9, 2011
Influence: Carlos Donjuan, Sedrick Huckaby, Marilyn Jolly opened recently at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center and runs through September 9, 2011.
The show is aptly named; all three artists are “peddlers of influence” both as faculty members at University of Texas at Arlington and as busy exhibiting artists. …continue reading Influence: Carlos Donjuan, Sedrick Huckaby, Marilyn Jolly at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center
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Mère du Senegal by Lois Mailou Jones, 1985 (courtesy of the Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël Trust)
Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color
The Women’s Museum
Through July 23, 2011
Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color is in it’s final month hanging at The Women’s Museum in Fair Park. The show comes down July 23, so hurry to see it.
This exhibition was developed by the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, in collaboration with the Lois Mailou Jones Pierre-Noel Trust and toured by International Arts & Artists. …continue reading Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color at The Women’s Museum
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The Outsider by Alejandro Diaz Alaya (image courtesy of Kirk Hopper Fine Arts)
Just Between Us: New Works by Alejandro Diaz Ayala
Kirk Hopper Fine Art
June 4 through July 9, 2011
Just Between Us: New Works by Alejandro Diaz Ayala is the current show at Deep Ellum’s Kirk Hopper Fine Art gallery.
Alejandro Diaz is a Dallas visual artist in his mid-twenties who has produced 11 pieces for the show. All but one of them are paintings – oils and acrylics with other sketching media incorporated. …continue reading Review of Just Between Us: New Works by Alejandro Diaz Ayala
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We Are the Nearest to the Sun by Dedron, 2009 (photo courtesy the Crow Collection)
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Through September 11, 2011
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond can be seen now through September 11 at the Trammel and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas. The exhibit was organized by the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City.
I don’t know if I enjoy Asian art so much because of the Crow Collection or if I like visiting the Crow Collection so much because I enjoy Asian art: the two are inseparably intermingled in my mind. The Crow continues to bring spectacular exhibits to Dallas. Why, just in the past year there has been New Vision: Ballpoint Drawings by Il Lee, Black Current: Mexican Responses to Japanese Art, 17th -19th Centuries, Tibet: The Land Closest to the Sky, Photography by Marc Riboud, and Soaring Voices: Recent Ceramics by Women from Japan, among others. …continue reading Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond at the Crow Collection of Asian Art
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Labels by Esteban Vicente, 1956 (photo courtesy the Meadows Museum)
Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente
Esteban Vicente in America: Collage, Color, and Somewhere In Between
Meadows Museum
May 15 – July 31, 2011
Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente at the Meadows Museum is an impressive and comprehensive (80 works dating from the last half of the 20th century) show dedicated to the collage and sculpture work of Abstract Expressionist-era powerhouse Esteban Vicente. …continue reading Esteban Vicente at the Meadows Museum
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Lenard Brown: Earth Amma Series
South Dallas Cultural Center
May 14 – July 30, 2011
There are several ways to enjoy the Lenard Brown show Earth Amma Series, now in the Arthello Beck Gallery at the South Dallas Cultural Center.
Brown is a Houston artist with a long list of shows to his credit. This show reads almost like a retrospective in that Brown has presented here a variety of styles of work from the past several years. It’s sometimes hard to pull this kind of show off as a young artist, but Brown does just that. …continue reading Lenard Brown: Earch Amma Series at the South Dallas Cultural Center
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Traditional Loteria Cards
Loteria, Loteria! (Tres)
Bath House Cultural Center
April 30 through June 4, 2011
First, to catch everyone up to speed, Loteria is an old game of chance played in Mexico at fairs and in homes. It’s like Bingo in that you mark on your game board(s) whichever card the dealer draws. When you have four in a row you holler “Loteria!” to win. Rather than using letters and numbers, Loteria uses pictures of common things – the crown (lit. “la corona”), the mermaid (“la siren”), the musician (“el musico”), the ladder (“la escalera”), and so on. There are 54 image cards total. …continue reading Loteria, Loteria! at the Bath House Cultural Center
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Texas Family by Rene Alvarado
Rene Alvarado: Memories from El Manantial
Latino Cultural Center
May 12 – August 20, 2011
Walk into the east gallery at the Latino Cultural Center – into the Rene Alvarado show – and it seems immediately obvious Alvarado is a portrait painter. Spend some time really looking at these paintings, though, and you see that the magic of Rene Alvarado’s art is that he is a consummate visual storyteller, decorative artist, and beautifully technical painter as well. …continue reading Rene Alvarado: Memories from El Manantial at the Latino Cultural Center
