July Exhibit at South Side on LamarJanette Kennedy Gallery 1409 S. Lamar St. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Thursday Janette Kennedy Gallery, the creative space that’s free to its artists, kicks off its July exhibit featuring the works of three local photographers. Jessica Bell’s theme is “Modern Day Prostitution,” a series…
Jay Wilkinson — Everyone PoopsFort Works Art 2100 Montgomery St., Fort Worth 6-8 p.m. Friday Jay Wilkinson was dyslexic as a kid, so his mom gave him comic books. It’s a good thing she did because that’s how he started drawing. Everyone Poops explores the human condition and the qualities everyone…
Some Dallasites may be surprised to find that there is a sculpture garden and art gallery north of LBJ Freeway that has been presenting the work of contemporary artists to a faithful following for more than 60 years. In 1953, Donald and Peggy Vogel bought a creekside, wooded lot in…
Amber Crimmings — Bound Matriarchs Mighty Fine Arts 409A N. Tyler St. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Saturday Printmaking goddess Amber Crimmings sees something incongruous about the way fairy-tale literature both needs and adores women while also viewing them contemptuously. She’s channeled her feelings toward these conflicting realities into her new…
A new exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art delves into the creative side of an invention that made life’s fun and fleeting moments instantly tangible. The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology showcases the work of more than 100 artists through 175 images and…
Sister’s Sticker Collection Ro2 Art at the Magnolia Theatre 1501 S. Ervay St. 12-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays beginning Wednesday, June 14 Free Like a tween dream hopped up on Pixy sticks, Adam Palmer’s solo exhibit Sister’s Sticker Collection is throwing it back to the ’90s, the decade whose progenies…
Justin Clumpner — Sacred Kettle Art 2650-B Main St. Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday In his first solo exhibition at Kettle Art, Justin Clumpner continues to posit America as a Christian nation. Employing newspapers and advertisements as his materials of choice, he paints and collages his works into religious narratives…
In DFW, a few sign painting artisans have made a living working on hundreds of signs for local businesses. It takes years of experience to become an expert sign painter — Sean Starr and Roy Warren Lunt explain the process of becoming a master and the highs and lows of the trade.
Walking up to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s second-floor galleries, you’re greeted by a phone booth pulsating with light. The Wi-Fi-controlled sculpture nods to a less convenient time when apologies, laments and assuring words were spoken publicly on street corners as others waited nearby, impatiently. It breathes like…
Confused: how Haylee Ryan felt when PurePoint, a new digital bank, asked her to create murals about money. “Typically, if I’d heard I was going to do a mural for a financial company, I would have said no,” she says. “Because that doesn’t sound interesting. I love nostalgia, and I…
The LineSite 131 131 Payne St. 12 to 5 p.m. Fridays and by appointment The Line, a new exhibition curated by Site 131 co-founder Joan Davidow, has quite the diverse roster of characters. See if you can keep up. First we have Texan Kristen Cochran’s suspended fabric wall drawings, whose…
Katherine Bernhardt Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth Ongoing through July 9 By incorporating graffiti elements into her vibrant and youthful paintings, which are heavy on sketched outlines and spray paint, artist Katherine Bernhardt is also coating them in the defiant attitude of a graffiti…
“Power Lines” Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole St., Suite 120 Opens 6-8 p.m. Saturday Frank Stella’s mastery of line and form has been felt in the art community en masse since the early 1960s. His interest was spurred by a 1957 trip to Colorado. There he visited tiny copper mining…
MakeShift PhotoRama – Significance ImposedKettle Art 2650 Main St. Opening reception 7-10 p.m. Thursday Twelve Dallas photographers paired up with 12 Dallas writers and took a Texas-soaked road trip. Significance Imposed is the collection of photos, landscapes, characters and words that resulted from the statewide jaunt. Prediction: There will be…
Ahead of her stop at Samuel Lynne Galleries Saturday night for the opening reception of Buddha Goes Punk, Miami-based artist Metis Atash tells us what inspires her to create her pieces, which contain up to 24,000 Swarovski crystals, and weave her love of fashion and pop art from the 1970s…
Allison Proulx – Choosing Heroes Ro2 at the Magnolia Theater 1501 S. Ervay St. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday Staten Island native Allison Proulx’s works feel like hazy dreams within dreams, or scenes from Lost in Translation. Her background working as a Disney animator shines through in each of her…
Tony Conrad – Completely in the PresentTexas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. 7:30 p.m. Thursday One of several ways to be completely present is to be naked, which is exactly what artist Tony Conrad is on the poster for Tyler Hubby’s documentary Completely in the Present. It chronicles the life…
This week, the Dallas Museum of Art opened its Keir Collection Gallery, and in doing so it’s exhibiting more than the third largest collection of Islamic art in North America: It’s also exhibiting a great sense of timing. Islam is one of the most frequently maligned religions today, and now…
Simeen Farhat – Blood Shot Is Blood Loved Cris Worley Fine Arts 1845 E. Levee St. Ongoing through May 6 Blood is one of those things that you need for survival. Pakistan native Simeen Farhat has taken this intrinsic component to living to the next level with Blood Shot is…
Super Fantasy Mercado 2 Southwest Center Mall (formerly Red Bird Mall) 3662 W. Camp Wisdom Road Ongoing through April 30 If you think Southwest Center Mall, now anchorless and populated by the likes of “Body Bang” and “Eargazum/Xperience,” is a solid venue for an art show, gold star for you!…
April is always a really good month for the arts in Dallas — so good that Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings decided to ordain it “Dallas Arts Month” — and the Dallas Art Fair from April 6-9 is one of the chief attractions. Against at least a few odds, the fair…
For creative duo Marie Boone and Matthew Brinston, their relationship is finally coming full circle. Art was the reason they got together in the first place, and ultimately the reason they got married. The 22- and 24-year-olds are about to celebrate their first anniversary. They said their vows in Vegas…
