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I’m living on an island. I don’t know anyone, and I spend most days alone. I came here with the goal of writing more than I’d ever written before. After months of imagining what it would be like, I’ve finally arrived. But I find myself mostly unable to write. I feel like I’m holding a book close against my nose, and all the text is too blurry to read. I realised that I will probably have to wait a few months before putting any of my impressions on paper. I won’t be able to write until I can look back at the island from far away, from a place where I lose all the details that make today so sharp, crunchy, and hard to digest. That’s when I’ll be able to abstract this experience into something worth reading...

Jackie Tileston News - In early 2018 the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired three paintings by Jackie Tileston. The three paintings were created during the Artists-in-Residence Program at the Joan Mitchell Foundation in the Spring of 2017. Tileston previously was a grant recipient in 2011...

The exhibition catalogue from Ana Esteve Lloren’s solo show at Las Cruxes, “Correspondence,” reads like poetry.

“You are actually inside of the memory in a way. It emanates from you. To meditate on it helps me think.” 

Compiled from emailed fragments exchanged with a long-time friend — New York-based writer Amira Pierce — over the course of Esteve Lloren’s planning for the show, the catalogue exposes the artist’s history, motivations, personality and feelings without staunch academicism...

I met Ana Esteve Llorens in her Austin studio on the last morning of August, on one of those summer days when you are already sweating before you get out of the car. It was hot, but the tranquil beiges, whites, and light blues in her studio made me forget about the comforts of AC. Esteve Llorens herself is just as refreshing, and is someone I’ve wanted to meet for a while now. Like myself, she lives and works between Texas and Spain, and I’m curious about how these two places inform her practice. And so I was excited to catch the artist’s new exhibition Correspondence at Las Cruxes in Austin before returning to Madrid...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Jackie Tileston: Instructions for Dissolution, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper. An opening reception for the artist will be held November 17, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition continues through Saturday, January 26, 2019...

TWO X TWO X TWENTY celebrates the 20th anniversary of TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, an annual art auction hosted by Cindy and Howard Rachofsky with proceeds equally benefitting the DMA and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research...

The MAC and The Cedars Union present Built Environment*, a one-night-only outdoor new media exhibition including three Dallas-based artists: Julie Libersat, Kim Cadmus Owens, and Andrew Scott on Saturday, November 3, from 7pm-12am.

Artists will light up host venues in the Cedars neighborhood including the Gulf Cone Building and Four Corners Brewing Company. Through video and light-based works, artists communicate concepts of collective cultural ideals, human relationships with their surroundings, and historical and contemporary issues inherent to our region.

In addition to Built Environment, The MAC and The Cedars Union are partner venues for AURORA EXPANDED. Don’t miss Sean Miller: 144° at The MAC and Jim Lively: Still Mad as Hell at The Cedars Union.

AURORA 2018: Future Worlds takes place less than half a mile away at Dallas City Hall on November 3, 7PM-2AM

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of, JOYRIDE, an exhibition of new paintings by Kim Squaglia, a Sacramento based artist.  An opening reception for the artist will be held Saturday, October 13, from 5 to 8 pm. The exhibit continues through Friday, December 21, 2018.

Kim Squaglia’s paintings have a distinct sense of topography, created by a technique of separating multiple layers of paint between alternating coats of resin. The paintings span multiple historic references from Surrealism to midcentury modernism to dense patterned ornamentation. Delicately rendered biomorphic forms, webs, and tendrils create spaces with cavern-like depths or deep ocean trenches...

Visitors to the University of Houston-Victoria will be captivated by a new installation by internationally known artist Margo Sawyer. “Synchronicity of Color: Victoria” now hangs from the ceiling in the three-story high atrium of the University North building.

The artwork consists of seven hand-painted laminated glass elements suspended from the ceiling.  Positioning of the artwork adjacent to the staircase allows observers to experience the rich color, textured patterns, subtle movement and the contemplative nature of the artwork from varying perspectives.

 “They unite an array of complex and unexpected unions of color,” said Sawyer, a 2018 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. She describes it as “an optical color play, transparency, reflectivity, luminosity, physicality, materiality, perceptual, material and the psychological effects of color as a window into our emotions.”

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of DELUGE, an exhibition of new photographs and hydrographs by Dornith Doherty. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition and includes an essay by Irene Klaver, PhD (available mid-September). An opening reception for the artist will be held September 8th, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition continues through Saturday, November 10, 2018...