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Dornith Doherty’s Mesmerizing Photos Capture the Contradictions of Seed Banking. “Archiving Eden,” now at the National Academy of Sciences, shows how guarding against an ecological catastrophe is both optimistic and pessimistic.

Dornith Doherty’s photographs of seedlings and the facilities where they’re conserved are full of plant life, and yet they were inspired by a seemingly inhospitable place: a below-zero, highly secure vault in a remote Norwegian archipelago...

Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden exhibition will be on display at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. from February 15, 2019 - July 15, 2019.

Since 2008, Texas-based photographer Dornith Doherty has traveled around the world to photograph the spaces and contents of seed banks. By focusing on the pleasing aesthetics of seeds and the buildings constructed to conserve biodiversity, she has constructed a visual meditation on the planet’s botanical diversity...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of the penumbra tow, a solo exhibition of new work by James Buss. The exhibition is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. An opening reception will be held for the artist Saturday, February 16, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. The exhibit continues through April 27...

48 page fully illustrated catalogue published on the occasion of "Jackie Tileston: Instructions for Dissolution" at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas. The catalogue features an essay by Helene Furján and Lee Nentwig, as well as the sixteen works from the exhibition held November 17 - January 26...

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Moonlight on the River, a solo exhibition of new work on paper by Stuart Arends. An opening reception for the artist will be held Saturday, January 5, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition continues through Saturday, March 16, 2019...

Jackie Tileston: Instructions for Dissolution at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas through January 26. A show of new paintings and works on paper by artist Jackie Tileston. “Tileston’s paintings are heterotopic spaces in which diverse strategies and nomadic thinking create complex images that investigate the contemporary sublime and states of being.”

Dornith Doherty is an artist whose work stimulates conversations around the world’s ever-changing ecology. A native of Houston, she obtained her BFA from Rice University and her MFA in Photography from Yale. She currently resides in Southlake, Texas and is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas, where she has been on the faculty since 1996. Dornith is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow and has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Japan Foundation, and the United States Department of the Interior, among many others. In addition, she was recognized by the Texas State Legislature as the 2016 Texas State Artist for 2D work. Doherty’s work has been exhibited extensively domestically and abroad and can be found in the permanent collections of prominent institutions such as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Her project entitled “Archiving Eden” looked at the infrastructure around the preservation of the world’s plant life through the utilization of seed banks, as well as looking at the inner beauty of the seeds themselves. That work drew the attention of major media outlets and resulted in a host of artist talks around the world, including TEDx Monterey.

I recently sat down with Dornith at her current show at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas where we discussed....

Today we’d like to introduce you to John Adelman. Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours? I grew up in a small town in northern Ohio, majored in drawing, painting, and printmaking at The Ohio State University. Worked in a t-shirt screen printing factory, where I produced approximately 12 million images in 11+ years. Moved to TX in 2003, and began my graduate studies at UNT in Denton, which was initiated by my sister, Amie, full professor, program coordinator of the Fibers Dept... 

The textiles in this solo show map a negotiation between the weaver and her surroundings, a lattice charting stretch and slack over time. The structure of a woven textile starts simply enough, the warp stretched taut vertically, like harp strings. But then comes the weft, and with it a slew of considerations and intricacies. At Las Cruxes, Ana Esteve Llorens displays a selection of deceptively simple weavings....