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See the full AiM Show review with lots more pictures.

The Templeton Art Center (named for the street in Fort Worth, not the city in Texas) volunteers who were checking in artists, had only two lists of the 75 participating artists, and they were busy using both of those.

Besides, it's traditional at this show that the full roster of artists isn't listed anywhere till just before the opening.

One of the first things noticeable about the neither completely delivered pieces nor even begun to be hung show I saw that Saturday afternoon, was the platoon of war images.

The 'dragonflies' above are among the more benign species in this classification, but there were others.

Damon Ryder Richards - Reliquary
digital print on canvas

Charlotte Smith - Boom, acrylic on board (detail)

Boom, above, looked like it fit neatly into the burgeoning category of corpuscle art Kathy and I have been noticing a lot lately — until I learned the name. It's an explosion of layered acrylic shapes on a field of bright — flame? colored — orange.

Not explicitly violent, but the name is surely explosive.

Jane A Baker - Breathing Room
acrylic on canvas

Pulling someone's perhaps swallowed tongue out of their mouth constitutes an overt act, if not exactly a violent one.

Margaret Ratelle - Deck III,
spit bite etching

And this guy looks at least pensive, if not downright worried, silhouetted dark on a scratchy field of what looks like words and diagrams, pacing headlong into his own concerns.

Kyle Wadsworth - Great One with Fish, 2003
urethane with small plastic fish

I'm not sure what to make of this guy, smothered with little plastic fish that I overheard the artist say were only available in quantity (and a decent price) from Germany.

Uh, oh. They're all guys — Norman Kary, Chase Yarborough, Kyle Wadsworth and Robert Boland, who both have a piece in the show — See Robrt Boland's fabulous Running Spiral performance elsewhere on this site, in which photographs he has a lot less hair.)

Billy Hassel - Purple Finch, 2001
encaustic on panel, 40 x 36 inches

One of the first things I was pleased to notice was that Billy Hassel had a nice, thick, painterly bird in an orange tree in this show. Rather more calm images than some there.

JM Moudy Building interior at the main front door

More information after the show opens this Saturday...