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John Adelman’s artistic skills are fully in evidence in eleven new drawings completed this year, each executed on canvas in gel ink and acrylic.  They illustrate a wide range of formal approaches through which Adelman follows a strict set of rules to achieve his pictorial goals. This might be regarded as conceptualist process, but the result of his meticulous technique feels more important than the actions used to complete the pieces. He repeatedly uses text and certain shapes like nails traced on the surface while taking a tally. Many of the pieces, like the ethereal “38724," have the number of nails rendered over the surface as their title...

A black circle fills the frame; a dark void within which small white flecks float. These white specks are plant seeds captured with an X-ray, their ghostly white shells and tails caught in a black petri dish. The piece, by the artist Dornith Doherty, is titled Finite and is part of an ongoing series from her project Archiving Eden; the eponymous show is on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art until Jan. 14, 2018....

Tommy Fitzpatrick’s current exhibition Crystal Cities, on view through Nov. 4, includes ten compelling, colorful, acrylic-on-canvas paintings of interlacing planar forms that command the main space of Holly Johnson Gallery.   A separate area features a wall-mounted shelf of small-scale Plexiglass maquettes with interchangeable parts, which Fitzpatrick used as models for his paintings...

Given our political moment, this may not be the best time to ask the question “What do Americans fear most?” But if you finesse that question a bit and instead ask “What do Americans find most thrillingly creepy and spooky?,” you’re going to have a much more friendly conversation. And Misty Keasler, the Dallas-based photographer, would be a great person to ask, seeing how she’s spent so much of the last couple of years photographing our nation’s most acclaimed commercial haunted houses...

Can a photograph be scary? Better yet, what makes anything scary? And why are so many Americans chasing a good scare? Traces of these questions materialize in Dallas-based artist Misty Keasler's "Haunt," a photographic exhibition that starts Saturday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth...

Hiking through a dense bamboo forest isn't easy, a fact that Dallas artist Joan Winter quickly realized while winding through the towering green shoots on Awaji Island. The experience was one adventure on a recent six-week trip to Japan she took for both artistic inspiration and a weeklong woodblock-printing class in Kyoto...

Texas-based artist Tommy Fitzpatrick has been focused on architecture as the subject of his paintings for the past twenty years. And since 2013, he has been creating sculptural motifs made of transparent plastics—assemblages based on the ideas of the Russian constructivists. Crystal Cities through November 4, is a selection of new paintings and sculptures inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s unrealized 1940 project of the same name...

SF: Your solo show Clear Light Day – Soft Dark Night at Das Esszimmer with new works from this year, 2017, feels very familiar to me, like something one knows already for a long time – on a first glance. Rothko comes to my mind, though your work is rather distinct and just lately some of your colour gradients reminded me on paintings by Turner I had seen ages ago in London. Is it only me or do other people react similar to your works in terms of familiarity?

EC: Rarely, as viewers respond and interact with the works in such different ways, but I really like it when it does. For me, familiarity makes me feel comfortable, and I look at things differently when I feel comfortable, especially if this comfort can grow and combine with an excitement with what I’m looking at. Not always an easy combination with the nature of my work, as it takes time, so it feels good when people give it time - even more so when this happens early on...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of, Drawing: Attn, an exhibition of new ink drawings on canvas by John Adelman. An opening reception will be held Saturday evening, October 14th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. This exhibition continues through Saturday, December 23.

Drawing: Attn is Adelman’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and it continues to explore the material qualities of ink. Accumulative and compulsive, his compositions are strictly defined by a series of rules that the artist sets for himself. The works are diverse in scale, subject, and resources, and all created in a formula driven manner...