DALLAS GALLERY DAY by Todd Camplin I have been on a week-long state of euphoria after spending time seeing so much art during Dallas Gallery Day. Take out all the driving, and I had the feeling I was at a mini art fair. The Dallas Art Fair opened up their gallery space, which reinforced my feelings. So many familiar faces, with masks, moved in and out of the art spaces. The Dallas art scene was...
ADRIAN ESPARZA at Cris Worley Fine Arts by Todd Camplin Because Cris Worley Fine Arts’ gallery space is split into three sections, she has had staggering openings and closings of solo shows for her artists. This Saturday on December 5th, the gallery will feature the mesmerizing work by Adrian Esparza. Robert Lansden’s show ends December 19th, while Ruben Nieto ends January 2nd. This heavy rotation...
Kristen Macy at Barry Whistler Gallery by Todd Camplin Imagine you are driving outside the city. Behind you, all you can see is the glow of light pollution. You are far enough from civilization to see no other soul, yet the stars are not quite peeking out clearly because of the light on the horizon. A light event might occur in this zone of black inky space where the ground and sky can’t be...
THE WINDS OF CHANGE FOR MARY TOMAS GALLERY by Todd Camplin | Mary Tomás Gallery is closing. Not because of the pandemic, which is likely to put some mid-tier galleries out of business, but rather this husband and wife team were planning on retiring this year before world events occurred. So, although I lament the closing of a gallery with such a unique vision, this article is really a celebration of...
On July 21st, Holly Johnson Gallery will be celebrating 15 years with an all-women artists exhibition. Another milestone is that the gallery had its longest-running show. Joan Winter had art on the wall from early May to the present and the art will be coming down on August 8th. With such a long-running show, it would be a shame to miss it. I find it easy to call or email the gallery to make an...
Matthew Bourbon - My City ( Remembered, Forgotten, Invented) 2019, Acrylic On canvas 60x60 inches. Kirk Hopper Fine Art Gallery in Dallas. by Todd Camplin I hope everyone is taking quarantine seriously. Watching a few things on streaming video, catching up on piles of magazines and books, and having meetings on Zoom might be your way to cope with this strange moment in time. But if you're tired of...
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...
featured image: Marjorie Norman Schwarz, untitled, 2020, water soluble oil on canvas, 36 x 20 inches I am plotting out the gallery openings I plan to visit on January the 11th and I hope you will join me in seeing these new shows this weekend. A lot of these spaces are the usual suspects, but these galleries have a good track record in launching strong and thoughtful shows. However, Gallery 12.26 is a...
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...
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