Phyllida Barlow: Tryst If the Nasher Sculpture Center has taught Dallas one thing (and surely the number is vastly larger), it’s that sculpture transforms its environment, and vice versa. Fill a white walled room with golden balloons and entering it becomes an adventure; fill the same room with technicolor dirt…
Three years in the making, Francisco Moreno’s The WCD Project was open to the public as an exhibit on Friday and then fully realized with a 5-minute performance piece on Saturday night at a Trinity Groves warehouse. Part of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural Soluna Festival, Moreno’s study of cultural…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro This week is has been bittersweet. This is the last in this series of articles,…
truly, madly In a conversation with gallerist Brian Gibb, he shared that one of his biggest professional regrets was a missed chance for The Public Trust to be the first exhibitor of a now big-name artist. It’s one of the reasons he pounced on collaborative photographers, Kasumi Chow and Desiree…
Saturday evening, PDNB hosted the opening reception for France, its fourth solo exhibition for Michael Kenna, a master of modern landscape photography. Following the release of his latest book of the same name, the exhibit showcases work from the past four decades representing several different projects. Kenna now operates on…
This weekend the Dallas Museum of Art opens Inca: Conquests of the Andes. On the surface it’s one of those historical art exhibitions filled with antique knick-knacks of which you can buy knockoffs on that adventure vacation you’re planning with your super-rich-hipster-adventure husband. No, I’m not jealous of your imagined…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro I have learned a lot in my time in Dallas. This is a beautiful and…
This weekend is packed with art to see in Dallas. It seems everyone on Dragon Street and beyond is opening an exhibition. Limiting this list to just five is impossible, so there are a few more than that here, plus additional shows to see when you’re out and about this…
For nearly a quarter century, Brent Kollock has been painting and drawing with a unique visual language that cannot be confused with anyone else. He is also an accomplished writer of short stories and poetry. But in the last few months, Kollock may have found his true calling as an…
At the center of an enormous, lushly green landscape sits a bright white sheep, head cocked in interest, staring directly at the onlooker. The animal is on the other side of a metal fence. Separate from the flock, the animal couldn’t have known that when Letitia Huckaby captured him through…
The title of the Nate Lowman’s exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary is the punchline to a joke: Why is everyone always saying “God Bless America?” Because America Sneezes. It’s a simple introduction into the brain of an artist whose work as a painter often emerges from observations about American culture…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro Dallas has been an incredible learning experience. I never expected that canceling an exhibition would…
Josephine Durkin: Maps, Flora and Highlighters Sculptures come in all shapes, sizes, colors and beautiful packages. Especially in the art of Josephine Durkin, a Greenville, Texas-based artist whose colorfully abstract sculptural pieces will be on display in a solo exhibition at Erin Cluley Gallery (414 Fabrication St) that opens at…
By Jeremy Hallock Throughout his career, Phillip Collins has focused on giving African-American artists exposure. An accomplished art historian and curator, he established himself as an important voice in the Dallas arts community and then used his position to re-cast the spotlight. In his 60s, he retired from his Chief…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro I liken my job in the arts to a long-term relationship. It has the ups,…
Ark Festival Last year Fort Worth-based artist and Dallas Observer Mastermind Christopher Blay collaborated with bc Workshop to erect an ark in Oak Cliff — a project meant to bring a neighborhood together. Created as a gathering space and temporary gallery installation, the ark sat on East 10th Street between…
By Jeremy Hallock These days, Viola Delgado is an artistic inspiration in Dallas-Fort Worth. But since she was just a kid living in South Texas near Corpus Christi, she knew she wanted to be an artist. “My mom was really the first one to give me my tools to become…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro I wish I could photograph people’s faces when I tell them that I cancelled the…
Kent Dorn: Into the Night Houston-based artist Kent Dorn swims upstream for his exhibition at The Safe Room that opens this weekend. Er, he rolls up the highway at least. Then he climbs the stairs up into the hidden gallery space at the Texas Theatre (231. W. Jefferson Blvd.), paintings…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. Telling my story By Leslie Moody Castro I have a longstanding inside joke that I bounce around regularly with…
Leslie Moody Castro arrived in Dallas with an idea for an exhibition. Moody Castro, a curator based in Mexico City and Austin, is currently a resident at CentralTrak, the University of Texas at Dallas’ artist residency program in Exposition Park. While there, she was planning to curate an exhibition filled…
Justyna Gorowska: FWJG Photographer Francesca Woodman was fascinated by the female body. During the late 70’s she shot black and white portraiture, often of women in the nude, playing with the camera to blur or smudge the image further submerging the subject into the medium. Woodman’s photographic self-awareness, her sensitive…
