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With the revival of interest in the Washington Color School now underway, the idea of showing new paintings...

In December 2005, Mike Osborne began making photographs inside the Austin American Statesman printing facility...

For a long time, I could not detect the swallow that would herald a sculptural spring in Houston. The best artists always emigrated; some gave excuses - no propitious climate, no inspiring culture, no public understanding...

Representation is a process of enumeration, a series of descriptions of people and things that seeks to establish a coherent narrative or a sense of place... 

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Constant Rhythm, an exhibition of new work by Virgil Grotfeldt

Standing 6’4” tall and a habitual smiler, Aylsworth resembles the vibrant, large-scale canvases that adorn the walls of the Holly Johnson Gallery, a new venue located in the Dallas Design District.

Constantly recurring in the paintings of David Aylsworth are references to show tunes from Broadway musicals - specifically in the titles of his work. Wide, gestural brushstrokes immediately offer a playful appearance and an obvious pleasure in the artist’s handling of paint.

Take a wintertime dip into these rippling watercolors and silverpoint drawings by artist Liz Ward. Her art is based on either plant-cell structures drawn in a delicate, concise, and rhythmically soothing way or on underground rivers, rendered in more ravishing watercolors. Ward began with the silverpoint drawings 13 years ago, then added watercolors 10 years ago. She latched onto a topographical image in a newspaper and began painting aquifers. About half the aquifer pieces are based on real maps, though eventually she began to let the warping of the large papers influence the composition of her works. This is coolness. She is able to listen to the paper, take direction from the materials themselves. In the richly layered and quietly provocative show at Women & Their Work, Minor Aquifers (Deep Blue) demonstrates her mapping technique coming together with the linear qualities of her silverpoint petri dishes. It is the most recently completed work in this vividly consistent progression of works...

Almost perforce, drawing surveys feature work not made on paper or with...