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Much has been made – by me as well as others – of the way Houston artist Geoff Hippenstiel moves between figuration and abstraction in paintings that combine over-the-top impasto with metallic silver or gold spray paint. In his second solo outing at Devin Borden Gallery, Hippenstiel turns that movement into a five-part narrative on the progression of a dark yet colorful portrait of a human skull into a gold, abstract monochrome – with the caveat that each “installment” of the story is itself a finished painting...

Feminist Art Movement pioneer Stack has taught in the School of Art for 40 years...

28 page fully illustrated exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of "Theresa Chong: Drawings" from February 23 - May 11, 2013 at Holly Johnson Gallery. Includes an essay by Mark Harris.  

Available at the gallery and on Blurb.

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Theresa Chong - Drawings...

For most of his career, John Adelman has explored the material qualities of ink on paper, creating works of art that take on an incredible physical and visceral presence after successive layers of ink have been industriously applied. His compositions are strictly defined by a series of rules that the artist sets for himself. As others have noted, they follow – if a little peripherally - in the footsteps of minimalist and conceptual rule-based art that saw the likes of Sol LeWitt or Josef Albers, and a post-structural interest in art as text, rife with connotative value...

Why would a contemporary artist with an international career live in the middle of nowhere, in Willard, New Mexico? The artist in question, Stuart Arends, as a joke, greets one of his visitors to Willard in Italian, saying that he hopes she will be entertained. Speaking Italian may seem odd in front of the Willard Cantina, but it’s not so strange when Arends is in Italy on one of his frequent trips there for an exhibition. Or perhaps the artist’s signature painted objects or his aluminum wedges are scheduled for a show in Germany or Switzerland. When he is back in the desert, though, Arends lives off the grid in a house he built. And there the artist is surrounded by the silence of his own 90 acres plus the thousands of others that don’t belong to him. That land comes with the aridity of a high and dry life with little rainfall and virtually no snowfall, and in the far distance are the Manzano Mountains off to the northwest with the occasional line of a freight train passing slowly on its way to or from West Texas; the train looks like a long, shiny snake moving slowly on the horizon…

This exhibition of 13 acrylic paintings by Tommy Fitzpatrick, all from 2012, presented close up views...

Tommy Fitzpatrick's exhibition "Electric Labyrinth" consisted of...

Art has many purposes and distinctions...

Not once, not twice, but too often have been told by my Dallasite friends...