First Sculpture
Nasher Sculptuer Center — Dallas — Handaxe to Figure Stone January 27, 2018 – April 28, 2018 Lost It One of her gifts was a poem that I thought was written only for me, once, on this scrap of paper that had been previously printed with news about the paper folding workshop she’d attended where…
Memory, Mind, Matter
Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, TX — Eduardo Chillida — February 4 – June 3, 2018 — Bruckner and Phillip Glass, Dallas Symphony Orchestra — February 3, 2017 How little sound can still be music? How little sound can remain in a concert hall and we, the silent audience, still hear music? How low and few the notes keep us…
KAWS
What do we learn from repetition? KAWS WHERE THE END STARTS Oct 20, 2016 – Jan 22, 2017 Fort Worth – Three versions of the same image start a large exhibit of 2- and 3- dimensional work by KAWS at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Six different colors make three different combinations that…
Bodacioussss with Frank Stella
Denver- Museum of Contemporary Art – Oct. to Jan 2017 Instead of using his easel to prop up a window on the world, Kandinsky used it to support a windshield moving through the universe. –from Working Space by Frank Stella. I went to the MCA to take a second look at a show of 20…
Much Wider than a Line
SITE SANTA FE – July 16, 2016 – Jan. 8, 2017 – SITEline 2016. The boundary of a place, generations of a people, time – all these are much wider than, say, a pencil line. But borders, family trees and time are often drawn with single lines. The 2016 biennial exhibition at SITE Santa Fe,…
Stella Retrospective
– Ft. Worth – July 2016 – Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth – “Das Erdbeben der Chili is one of the most recent paintings, and next to it … one of the earliest,” I overheard a tour guide say to her group standing at the first painting in the retrospective of Frank Stella’s work at…
Women of Abstract Expressionism
June 12th through September 25, 2016 – Denver – If you watch our Intro to Women of Abstract Expressionism, you can feel the power and beauty of Abstract Expressionism. Add to this the knowledge that Abstract Expressionism was the first American movement to received international acknowledgement. Take it from me personally, when I saw a…
Mabel Dodge Luhan & the Moderns
Harwood Museum of Art -Taos – June 10, 2016 – From Native Americans, the Spanish to Artists Modern & Post-Modern I have only lived in New Mexico for a month at a time at most, but visit often. It is like the family cabin from your youth that still influences you. My husband has memories…
John De Puy – Harwood Museum of Art
Taos – Saturday, February 13 – Sunday, May 1, 2016 John De Puy: Painter of the Apocalyptic Volcano of the World TO JOHN DE PUY Madman and seer, painter of the apocalyptic volcano of the world— Compañero, I am with you forever in the glorious fraternity of the damned. —Edward Abbey There is something about…
Frottages
Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now Houston: Sept 11, 2015 – Jan 3, 2016 The deMenil Collection in Houston filled their whole current exhibition space with rubbings. Frottages is the title in French, which makes the activity sound like something exotic enough to fill such a prominent museum. The Menil’s changing exhibition spaces…