Will Nelson
Gallery director and old friend Greg Metz said he'd send us a list matching our numbers with students' names and titles for the show that'd "just been put up," but not yet identified. (But he never did.)
UTD PR says the show had been up for a whole week, but numbers were still just stuck willy-nilly through most of the competitive show for Texas students in grades 10 to 12.
We know Will Nelson did the colorful abstract above, because he signed it. Most work, however, was not signed, probably on purpose, though I don't know what purpose. Unless they didn't want judges to see names.
We're stumbling in the dark without the names.
Kathy especially liked the yellow-green and expression in this... self-portrait?
We enjoyed much of it — and loved seeing a big batch of kid art all in one place. I took lots of pictures, and we'll gradually comment on more of the more interesting work, now that Kathy has finished her Hickey talk story.
She is, however, working so many part-time art jobs that it feels like full-time to all of us. So it might take again a little while.
I didn't know what I was looking at till I blew it up. It's flowers. Kathy liked them immediately, even though they were on the floor, only leaning on the gallery wall. #1258
As usual, we agreed on some and disagreed on others.
Kathy liked the supple subtlety of
this drawing of clothes by #2293
Oh, gosh. DARts won't even list a show without artists' names, how could anybody hang a show of student's work and not credit all the work?
South Grand Prairie high student Geoff Worling's
Fragility colored pencil on drywall (I know, because
I could photo the back of this one) spoke to me,
although art teacher Kathy was not that impressed.
I also like all the teen faces in the background.
Especially at a school where they paid Dave Hickey to tell them to make their curriculum student-centered.
And how am I going to ever get the identifications if I keep saying snide things about their show?
Life as we know it is so very strange.
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