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THE END OF AN ERA FOR 500X by Todd Camplin It was a real blow to the Dallas art community when the news came out that 500X lost its lease to the exhibition and meeting space that they’ve had for 42 years. The historically long-running artists' co-op has impacted the art community in incalculable ways. Their eviction illustrates the fragility the Dallas art scene seems to continue to face....

featured image: Sarah Williams, Colfax Road, Oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Talley Dunn Gallery must see shows before they close by Todd Camplin 1 Last month I visited several galleries and I ran into some of the usual suspects. I saw Jules Buck Jones and Conduit Gallery, Heath West and Rachel Hellmann at Galleri Urbane, and Sarah...

I never would have imagined an artist embodying the spirit of Art Nouveau while combining it with the softly edged geometric forms of High Modernism until I met John-Paul Philppe and saw his work. The Art Nouveau spirit is the idea that all things flow together to fully form a building, design, sculpture, or painting. All the arts complement each other. By the time Modernism reached its zenith, many of the...

The Tate Modern is exhibiting a retrospective of Dora Maar. Maar’s art was obscured by her relationship with Picasso.  The Dallas Museum of Art closed in February a show featuring Ida O’Keeffe. Ida had been overlooked because of her sister casting a long shadow. Back in 2013, I wrote about Paul Fontaine at the Martin Museum in Waco. In Fontaine’s case, as with many artists after their death, a...

image: Human Concretion I have been a fan of Arp's work for quite some time now and was very excited to see this exhibit since I had only seen a piece or two here and there over the years, and never a whole collection all in one place where you can really take the time to sit back and take it all in. Arp was a major contributor to the history of art by making purely abstract forms with little reference...

Near my Jefferson, Texas studio lies a boardwalk that winds through the forest and connects to a park near downtown. In the forest, a large art installation has risen up off the ground. This art piece is made of wire and shiny glass. The structure is hollow with wires weaving like vines all around. Over a thousand little glass objects balance like miniature kinetic sculptures. This ambitious project is the...

image: Once Charming - Matthew BourbonWhere can you find two seemingly unrelated artists in one show, The University of Texas at Arlington of course? When I think of contrasting shows I often think of the Alberto Giacometti and On Kawara exhibition at the Yoshii Gallery in New York several years ago. The contrast was quite stunning. Those flat date paintings of On Kawara in contrast with the Giacometti...

image: Heath West. Villa Goldstein (2018), acrylic and oil on linen, 52x48 in. Galleri UrbaneSeptember began last Saturday, but many of the galleries are waiting until this weekend to launch their openings. Both the Dallas and Fort Worth areas have some worthy shows launching. I have made my list of must-sees for this season’s gallery openings. First on my list of must-visits is the EMERITA: A...

featured image: Kathy Robinson-Hays | Short shift 3, 2018 Tea, ink & acrylic on silk & mdf 8 × 10 in Why Chaos Matters   Year after year, RO2 has this crazy show of more than a hundred artists’ artwork hung on their walls. These small works can be a great introduction for gallery goers. I have been introduced to artists from the DFW area and hundreds of miles surrounding the Metroplex...

Brick and mortar galleries tend to have thin profit margins. Many commercial galleries live on a feast or famine model, because of the hit or miss nature of the market. Galleries have to try things in order to survive. The art fairs have, for some galleries, been a great way to reach out to new collectors. However, the expense has also sunk other galleries. A traditional approach is to work at least a...