ART

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...

image: Don Matheson FWCAC - The Fort Worth Community Arts Center is a great place to see concentrations of art. Emerging artists can get their feet wet here. The Center can act like a lab for a conceptual show that a commercial gallery might not be willing to risk their space. The show rotates quickly, so there are opportunities to see a great deal of work. Many local MFA shows have found a place at...

Another exciting summer Dallas Gallery Day is upon us. July 14th from noon to 6 PM several galleries around town will be open for the city to see some art on the walls. Maybe a few on the floor too. That is right, all participating galleries will have a t-shirt and other goodies for the first 15 visitors to each venue. The Brooklyn Brewery will be having an after party from 6-8. 23 galleries are...

Allison Gildersleeve, Anne C. Weary and David Collins Valley House Gallery has embraced the forests this month with the works of  Allison Gildersleeve and Anne C. Weary. Meanwhile across town, the gallery has a show by their artist David Collins at the Jesuit Dallas Museum. His works are more geometric and architectural in nature. I was fortunate enough to get a preview of both shows and now that these...

In defense of the strip, Barry Whistler Gallery has organized an exhibition of Linear Abstraction. The show includes Frank Badur, Alain Biltereyst, Nathan Green, Ellsworth Kelly, Matt Kleberg, Alicia McCarthy, and Kenneth Noland. When writing about the idea of a strip, I mean a wide line that is often in color. This show uses strips in varying degree of complexity, but essentially these paintings celebrate...

This is the last weekend to see one of the more ambitious exhibitions in Dallas. If you’re familiar with Francisco Moreno’s art, then you will understand that he is interested in outdoing his previous shows with something even more epic. In the last show at Erin Cluley Gallery, Moreno managed to blow up the city with his exploration of the shape of the iPhone as paintings and sculptures. I read so...

Beaudry Gallery is shaking it up with their new gallery curator Michael Francis. I know Michael from his paintings and passion for art. He has a strong sense of economy of line and form in his own work so I am excited to see how this translates to his curating shows. Lucky we don’t have long to wait because this weekend he is opening the gallery to a group show. Titled Fannie Brito Abstract Show, the...

image: Robert Sagerman 15,873, 2018, oil on canvas, 60 x 54 inches How does Cris Worley have such beautiful shows one right after another? Not pretty, which is just surface art, but rather beauty that takes into account the good and complicated. Not kitsch, because the art in these shows has a high level of thought and process. Beauty has been making a come back because the understanding of the...

The era of #metoo was launched in late 2017 and those that have perpetrated bad or despicable behavior have been put on notice that the world is watching. In response to this text based movement, Kathy Lovas has created a Lifeguard chair built with slats of wood with text relating to terms associated with the #metoo and the tag itself. Where else would you see an art piece that has such strong conceptual...

The Dallas Art Fair has arrived. Today through Sunday, several local galleries and art galleries from the far reaches of the United States will be showing works by their artists. A few international spaces also grace us with their presence. Art fairs are a great spectacle for the whole family. Although space is limited at the F.I.G., so bring a small stroller if you need one. The venue for all these...