Erin Cluley, exhibitions director of the Dallas Contemporary, announced this week that she would be opening an eponymous gallery in Trinity Groves. And the narrative emerging (via CultureMap Dallas & Glasstire) is that we have a psychic to thank for the development. Certainly it’s true that when Cluley sat down…
Dallas is the city everyone wants to leave. Well, artists at least. Most people dream of Los Angeles or New York City, or maybe Chicago. But the widely-belief is that anywhere is better than this city, especially during August. Take Sally Glass, for example, who earned her MFA at UTD…
What’s that saying about tides and ships? As the arts scene in Texas swells, the opportunity for cross-city collaboration. Whether it be sending Dallas artists to Austin, or bringing Houston artists here, as is the case with Draped Up & Dripped Out, which opened at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center…
Even paintings need to get out town for the summer. If you are driving through Dallas during the month of August, you might notice a few luminaries stopping by for a visit. Willem de Kooning is splitting time between Oak Cliff and the Cedars; Edward Hicks found a Peaceable Kingdom…
When you walk up the secret staircase at the front of the lobby of the Texas Theatre, you’ll be taken up to a room with a simple, small window and a strange looking safe. This is The Safe Room. At different times throughout the year, it is made to look…
Technically, a museum is a building. Attendants patrol the halls to protect the art, the white walls offer a distraction-free setting to look at paintings, which curators position and explain on placards, giving visitors an organized, insightful experience of an exhibition. But art -and the experience of it – has…
Alika Herreshoff is addicted to painting. It’s the art form he can’t let go of and he’s not planning to try anytime soon. In the early 2000’s, Herreshoff was a member of Dearraindrop, an art collective that was based at that time in Virginia Beach. He worked alongside the other…
Some Dallas residents don’t even know it exists. The Great Trinity Forest, a lush 6,000+ acre woodland, is a hideout worthy of Robin Hood’s Merry Men that sits just beyond East Dallas. And it’s one of the subjects of the photography exhibition that opens at Sun to Moon Gallery this…
The contemporary art world has arrived in Dallas and it’s landed at Zhulong Gallery. Jeremy Couillard is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work in different media for Viscous Valley transforms this Dragon Street space into a futuristic landscape that is like stepping into an abstracted video game.Toss what you thought you…
What’s not to love about tens of galleries throwing open their doors, cranking up the A/C, serving cold beer, and inviting you to look at the art on the walls? Design District Gallery Day is a party without a guest list and you’re sure to meet interesting people, discover art…
Who are Soner and Patricia Rodriguez? What does their work entail? Is it just graffiti or is it something more? With Urban Nature, Kirk Hopper Fine Art is opening up its walls for these two artists to redefine and contextualize how we view graffiti, a form of expression and language…
Dan Colcer doesn’t just paint the canvas. The 38-year-old surrealist tattoos it like a skin artist from Elm Street Tattoo. Each image seems to grow out of the paint, an extension of another image that only appears the longer you meditate on the painting. He doesn’t plan the images. He…
By the time Iván Navarro’s “This Land is Your Land” was installed in NorthPark Mall, he’d already discussed the piece’s themes of immigration and industrialism. The piece, originally commissioned for placement in Madison Square Park, is a series of three small water towers, which viewers stand underneath to see neon…
To step into the Dallas Museum of Art this summer is take a peek into the mechanics of a large-scale museum operation. Curators at the DMA are airing out vaults, scouring private collections and presenting new acquisitions, allowing visitors to take pride in the masterpieces in Dallas, but also to…
In the fine arts world, printmaking often gets a bad rap. Whether it’s a design mass-produced on T-shirts or Andy Warhol’s poppy screenprinted Marilyn Monroe heads, critiques range from “simple” to “unoriginal.” Yet much of the art form of printmaking — both the process and the history — has fallen…
Who is Bozo Texino? I have no clue. But The Public Trust plans to help answer that question at 7 p.m. Tuesday when they host artists Ralph White and Bill Daniel, who are currently on tour with their traveling exhibition, Tramp Species of the American Southwest…
It’s a Thursday night in Expo Park and a quick duck into the Amsterdam Bar accidentally becomes an art experience. A small group has gathered on the sidewalk in front of Beefhaus (833 Exposition Avenue) to watch a projected video of lobsters staring back at them. It’s part of Gregory…
By Scott Mitchell Walking around the streets of Dallas Saturday afternoon at East Dallas Gallery Day spaces, you may have been getting a few mixed signals. For starters, the area around Deep Ellum and Expo Park was dominated by the Elm Street Tattoo and Music Festival the entire weekend. So,…
Sally Glass is an artist with a wicked sense of humor. There’s a handmade sign outside her CentralTrak resident dorm that says, “Nevermind, I started my period.” We’ve had a love affair with this chick since she burst onto the scene with her art zine, semigloss. She just graduated with…
By Scott Mitchell Inside the modest digs of one of the newer galleries in Expo Park, Cohn Drennan Contemporary houses a new round of art from local photographer Dan Allen. Today, Allen appears as a stark contrast to his documentary photography hanging on Drennan’s walls. The exhibit, which consists of…
Matthew Mahon had his first sexual experience with a prostitute at the age of 14, an encounter that was paid for by a friend’s uncle. At the time, he couldn’t have imagined that his career would someday take him to seedy motel rooms, where he would spend hours working with…
The story of how the Meadows Museum came to host its current exhibit starts somewhere in the 17th century when a group of Spanish artists decided to establish an academy in Seville. Or perhaps, it would be more accurate to begin the story in the 18th century when the academy…
