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Casey Williams + Randy Twaddle in ModernDallas.net...

Throughout his thirty year career Randy Twaddle has been interested in the physical structures associated with industry and technology...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to present "Within" a new body of work by Casey Williams...

The Texas artist is captivated by the North and the histories captured in its ice cores, which provide the subject matter of her new watercolors and silverpoint drawings currently up at Moody Gallery. In light watercolors and silverpoint, Ward depicts the ice cores, which are like the rings in tree trunks, except they record climate conditions over thousands of years via accumulations of snow and ice...

In Liz Ward’s series of watercolors on paper, glacial forms slowly diffuse and vanish, “ice balloons” condense and reverberate in intensifying concentric rings of color and detailed silverpoint drawings capture the delicate striations of ice core layers that record, like tree rings, climatic change. Contemplative, sublime and melancholic, Ward’s series resonates with the natural processes they depict through a sensitive and meticulous making, begging the bigger questions: What do we lose when we accelerate the destruction of our natural world, in this case the melting glaciers? Can art help us empathize with the natural world and perhaps even help restore our sense of connection to it?...

32 page fully illustrated exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of "Tommy Fitzpatrick: Electric Labyrinth" from September 8 - November 24, 2013. Includes review by Frances Colpitt. Originally published by Art in America, February 2013. Courtesy BMP Media Holdings, LLC.

Available at the gallery and on Blurb.

In Electric Labyrinth, Fitzpatrick's inspiration is a 1968 print of the same name by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki...

Houston-based photographer Casey Williams records images that others blindly pass by...

...Influenced by painting giants Luc Tuymans, Robert Ryman, and Georg Baselitz, Hippenstiel spends his time layering paint onto canvas in a 1200-square-foot studio in downtown Houston, just across from the new soccer stadium...

Seeing the ten examples of Jacob El Hanani's Linear Landscape series at Holly Johnson Gallery is a special event...