Archive for the ‘ Exhibitions ’ Category
Old trooper, I see your child’s red crayon pass, bleeding deletions on the galleys you hold under your throbbing magnifying glass, that worn arena, where the whirling sand and broken-hearted lions lick your hand refined by bile as yellow as a lump of gold. [ READ MORE ]
Through April 17th, Roswell Museum and Art Center will be showing new works by Ryder Richards in an exhibition titled Conflicted. Ryder, who received his BFA in painting and drawing from Texas Tech in 2001, is currently a fellow at the RAiR program in Roswell, NM. Drawing equal inspiration from his upbringing and his travels [ READ MORE ]
Talley Dunn Galley recently held its first exhibition of new work by Dallas-based artist Ted Kincaid. Called The Terrible Truth/ The Beautiful Lie, the exhibition showcased five bodies of work in which Kincaid explores the veracity of the photographic image. I had the opportunity to interview the artist over email last week. My questions (in italics) [ READ MORE ]
Zach Nader (2008 BFA from Baylor University and 2011 MFA from Texas Tech) “comb[s] the current torrent of images… in search of new possibilities of perception.” On Monday, January 28th Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, New York held the first solo-screening of his video works. Called great times are waiting, the videos, which were compiled over the last three [ READ MORE ]
Donna Howell-Sickles was in Lubbock in late January for the opening of a retrospective exhibition of her paintings at the National Ranching Heritage Center. She graduated from Texas Tech’s School of Art in 1972. In the years following, when she had to negotiate being both an artist and a mother, she would regularly begin [ READ MORE ]
David Dubose (1986 BFA Printmaking and Drawing, MFA from Louisiana State University) is a favorite printmaker in the Taking Home With You exhibition at the Belfast Print Workshop Gallery through mid-February. In this exhibition, Dubose is joined by School of Art faculty Sang-Mi Yoo, associate professor in Foundations, and Stacy Elko, associate professor in printmaking, [ READ MORE ]
Corey Escoto (2005 BFA in Painting, with an MFA from Washington University, St. Louis), a Texas native currently living in Pittsburgh, PA, has a solo show at Regina Rex in Brooklyn, NY through February 17th. This exhibition includes photographic sculptures and a grouping of instant-film photographs (think Polaroids) that defy immediate comprehension. Reviewing the exhibition [ READ MORE ]
Shannon Cannings, adjunct instructor at School of Art and one of only two Texas artists west of I-35 to be curated into the 2011 Texas Biennial, will be in a two- person show, with Ann Wood, at the Anya Tish Gallery in Houston. Cannings has the following to say about her recent work: As an [ READ MORE ]
Larry Bamburg (1997 BFA painting and sculpture; MFA from U-Mass) has a solo exhibition at GRIMM Gallery in Amsterdam through May 8th. Bamburg, who lives in Brooklyn, culls images and idiosyncratic details from the natural world to produce kinetic installations. Titled Bamberg (sic.), the exhibition has been reviewed by Andrea Alessi for ArtSlant Amsterdam[ READ MORE ]
Studio art seniors graduating in 2011 have staged a group exhibition of their final work in the Studio Gallery for the School of Art Open House. The reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday, March 4th from 5:00-7:00 PM, immediately following the open house. The exhibition was covered by the Lubbock Avalanche Journal [ READ MORE ]