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Art space info's on Gallery Information.  From here reviews move to Short Shows 2010.

 Exhibitions through March

Paintings by Bernice Montgomery at Northlake College through March 9

Konstantinos Zannetos   Fairy Tale   oil on canvas and gold leaf   118 x 98 inches

Step by Step - Konstantinos Zannetos and Arcadia: The Recent Paintings - Bill Komodore at Decorazon, through March 9

So...how are things? - Lloyd Lowe Jr. at Rising, 4631 Insurance Lane in Dallas, through March 12

In Times Past - Randall Reid at William Campbell, through March 13

How We See It -Terry Cockerham and Deanna Wilson at UT Southwestern Library, through March 15

Warnings & Instructions - James Gilbert at Dallas Contemporary, through March 18

Skip Noah   Chiron Serenading The Autumn Woods    2009
acrylic on canvas   28 x 22 inches

Other Worlds, the Dream Paintings - Skip Noah at Dahlia Woods Gallery through March 19

 Barometer- John Adelman at University of Dallas Upper Gallery through March 19.

I Fell 37 Miles to Earth 100 Years Ago - Wayne White at Marty Walker through March 20

Memories and Transformations - Virgil Grotfeltd at Holly Johnson through March 20

Bill Fegan, Harry Ally and John Hathorn at Craighead Green through March 20

James Sullivan and Al Souza; Brett Rees in the Project Room at Conduit through March 20

Performance/Art focuses on "six contemporary artists from around the world who include elements of theater, opera and performance in their work" including Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, Canadian sculptor David Altmejd, Finnish video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila, British-Nigerian sculptor and media and installation artist Yinka Shonibare and Dallas-based sculptors Tom Orr and Frances Bagley in the Quadrants at the Dallas Museum of Art through through March 21

See our popular story about Tom Orr and Frances Bagley's work on a visit to their studios, Exploring Tom Orr and Frances Bagley

Art, Architecture and Abstraction - Photographs by Lyndall Dyer, Jack Luehrs, Nelson Spencer and Alan Whiteside at The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 2719 Routh Street through March 25

Diane reader Dorn   Wall Cloud on the Plain   2009
encaustic on panel   11.75 x 11.75 inches

members Dallas Wax: Fusion - Ivonne Acero, Karen Chaussabel, Rhonda Daniel, Linda Disosway, Diane reader Dorn, Brett Dyer, Peggy Epner, Nancy Ferro, Carolyn Fox-Hearne, Caryl Gordon, Antoaneta Hillman, Teri Lueders, Cheryl McClure, Junanne Peck, Michelle Pryor, Susan Sponsler-Carstarphen, and Deanna Wood at Pfamily Arts, 4017 Preston Road, LakeSide Market, Plano, Texas, 75093, through March 26.

Photojournalism of the Civil Rights Movement: A View of the Cold War – Home Front with work by Bernice Abbott, Dawoud Bey, Andreas Feininger, Benedict J. Fernandez, Leonard Freed, Ernst Haas, Matt Herron, Earlie Hundnall, Jr., Arthur Leipzig, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michaels, Charles Moore, Inge Morath, Gordon Parks, Flip Schulke and Dan Weiner at UT Dallas, reception and gallery talk by curator Matt Hinckley 2 pm Tuesday, February 9, panel discussion on collecting photography, 7:30 Thursday, February 25, through March 26.

Pasted Graphic

Sonogram Drawings - Andrew DeCaen at Norwood Flynn through March 27.

new A Printmaker's Ceramics - Thomas Seawell at Tarrant County College Northwest, Lakeview Gallery, 4801 Marine Creek Parkway, Fort Worth, Texas, closing reception 11-2 Saturday, March 27

Don Taylor

Rick Maxwell, David Newman, Don Taylor at University of Dallas, Haggerty Gallery, through March 28

Free Afternoon - Clayton Hurt, Outskirts - Sarah Williams, The Mustard Gas Phantasies of Wilfred Owen - Scott Hilton, The Labors - Mario Galicia and Captain Joel Kiser at 500X through March 28

Two images of Sarah Williams' glowing paintings included on Art Here Lately

new Scrap Can Be Beautiful - metal sculptures by Booker T. Washington High School students Elizabeth Andrews, Ivan Arellano, Belinda Baltazar, Evan Beck, Jordan Clark, Trevor Donaldson, Antonio Equia, Alexandria Henry, Ana Laura Juarez, Leigh Garcia, T'Zabrean Green, Gloria Fernandez, Ana Hernandez, Erika Holland, Dylan King, Jake Ledbetter, Chloe Lemons, Josseline Lopez, Jack Mayner, Greer McDonald, Kelsey McKinney, Erin McStravick, Jeff Muncy, Raul Najera, Danielle Rule and Jackson Stein, in Bryan Tower lobby, 2001 Bryan Street, up Monday, March 1, reception 6-8 Tuesday, March 9, through March 31

Carroll Swenson-Roberts   Flower   2009   sharpie on clayboard   36 x 24 inches
DallasArtsRevue.com photo by J R Compton

member The March Show - Carroll Swenson-Roberts and Emilie Tee Butz at the Dallas Public Library Downtown in the Bradshaw Gallery, up March 3, reception 2-5 Sunday, March 14, through March 31
 

Through April

Building Character - Jeru Gabriel, C. Kirk and Hatziel Flores at 4th Wall through April 3

The Loneliest Road in America - Lloyd Brown at Valley House, artist talk 11 am Saturday, March 20, through April 3

new Uncommon Ground - Debbie Carroll, Gina Dunn, Michelle Stroescu and Kate Wickham at Artisan Style, reception 6-9 Friday, March 12, through April 3

Reflexivity Hum - Mary Benedicto, Gregg Biermann, Robert Flowers, Potter-Belmar Labs, Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsaman at Mighty Fine Arts through April 4

new Southern Graphics traveling exhibition in the Forum and Todd Anderson in the Studio at Brookhaven College, reception 6-8 Thursday, March 11, through April 8

Depravities of War - Sandow Birk, Barquitos de Papel/Paper Boats - Muriel Hasbun and of Wrath and Proxy Wars - Jessica Benjamin and Sirajski at the MAC through April 10

mentioned briefly, with one image, on Art Here Lately

new Jonathan Fischbach, Dinah Ihle, Michael Nourot, Ann Corcoran, Jennifer Umphress, Elizabeth Johnson at Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass, opening 1-5:30 Saturday, March 13, through April 10

Reflections - Carmen Menza at Belmont Hotel through April 13

Michele Mikesell   Black Sheep   2010    oil and enamel on canvas   15 x 15 inches

new Chapter 1: Allegory - Michele Mikesell, Maria Jose Concha at Decorazon, reception 6-9:30 Saturday, March 13, through April 13

new Lisa Grossman at Marty Walker, opening 6-8 Tuesday, March 23, through Saturday, April 17

new Sweet Acrobatics: An Artistic Study of Motion - Penelope Bisbee, Tomas Bustos, Sergey Chernomorets, James Crowe, Sheila Cunningham, Eliseo Garcia, Juan J. Hernandez, Sara Lovas, David McCullough, Cap Pannell, Guy Reynolds, and Christopher Stewart, SPACE II: Accenting the Positive and Negative Recent - T. Stone at the Bath House Cultural Center, opening 5-7 Saturday, March 13, through April 17

Steven Hopwood-Lewis   Untitled   (detail) i
ink on paper   9.5 x 6 inches

Drawings - Steven Hopwood-Lewis at The Public Trust through April 17

Transitive Pairings: Body Object - Russell Buchanan/Sunny Sliger, Gary Cunningham/Gabriel Dawe, Sharon Odum/James Gilbert - Undercover - Kristen Cochran at Centraltrak through April 24

new Super-Duper Serious - Carlo F. Zinzi at UT Dallas, Meszzanine Gallery, Visual Arts Building, opening 6:30-8:30 Friday March 26, through April 24

new LA 19 (God's Daughters) - Letitia Huckaby at South Dallas Cultural Center, Arthello Beck opening 5-7 Saturday, March 13, through April 24

Jeanne Sturdevant   Collector of Dreams   2008    digital painting Edition 1/5 16 by 20 inches

new 7th Annual Hecho en Dallas — Jeanne Sturdevant, Oscar Duran, Chris Bingham, Keirston Jacobs, Jeff Parrott, James Michael Starr, Katherine Colin, Sharon Bernard, Kristine Byars, Rosalinda Trevino Stone, Bob Dreier, Daniel Rivera, Roberto Mungia, Marta Azevedo, Michael Mahler, Joel Sampson, Angel Cabrales, Julia McLain, Chris McHenry, Suzy Moritz, Cat Snapp, John David Tisdale, Brandon Thibodeaux, Rita Barnard, Frank Lopez, Natalia Ferber, Francisco Moreno, Marilyn Jolly, Bernardo Cantu, Guy Reynolds, Solange Mariel, Mariande Lefeld, Adriana Martinez Mendoza, Martin Campos, Ingrid Scoble, Jack Brockette, Humberto De Garrio, Kim Cadmus Owens, and Michael Maurer at the Latino Cultural Center, reception 7-9 Thursday March 11 through April 24

Through May & Beyond

new Labyrinth - Madeline Terry at Haley-Henman, opening 6-9, Saturday, March 10, through May 1

Dogma of Color and Other Idiosyncrasies - Jason Willaford, Urbane Landscape - Liz Kerrigan at Galleri Urbane through May 1

White Rock Lake Through the Looking Glass - photographs by Dan Richard Barber at the White Rock Lake Museum in the Bath House Cultural Center through May 27

new Shine On - Pamela Nelson, RE: Constructions - Heather Marcus at Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, reception 6:30-8 Friday, March 12, through June 6

Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: Charles IV of Spain, Patron and Collector, Goya and Lopez: Court Painters for Charles IV and Contours of Empire: The World of Charles IV at SMU's Meadows Museum, through July 18

See also Series below and the exhibitions list for more talks
and our Art Space Information Page for new or unfamiliar space

new ArtCycleTx Exchange - a day of eco-spirited recycling and creative company. Bring unused (or gently used) art-related items to this community event. Be inspired by the possibilities, share ideas on what to make from a large variety of items. You may also donate items for the Free bins (free pick-up available) or set-up a vendor space for $15. E-mail artcycletx@gmail.com or call 214 839-7689 to reserve a spot. More information at ArtCycleTx.blogspot.com, 235 Murray Street, Dallas, TX 75226, between Commerce and Canton, 10-5 Sunday, March 14

new Pacesetters in American Art and Culture - a panel discussion featuring Kimberly Davenport, Director, Rice Gallery, Tyler Green, Art Critic, Modern Art Notes and Sedrick Huckaby, Artist and Art Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, artists who found success in the visual arts as young adults, and discover how they continue to keep the creative process alive as their careers progress.

This program also includes a look at artists featured in the exhibition American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art who excelled at a young age, including Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence at The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. A reception follows the program. Reservations required, 817 989-5030 or education@cartermuseum.org, 6-7 Thursday, March 25

new Ultra Xtra Arts Mix - a future-themed fundraiser for the Greater Denton Arts Council at Center for Visual Arts, 400 E. Hickory, Denton, Texas, live music, dance, film, interactive art, visual art and theater, $15, 940 382-2787, 7-11 Friday, March 26

new Wish '10 Art Auction at Dallas Contemporary, Premier Peek 7-10 Thursday, May 13, Auction 7-11 Saturday, May 15

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Classes

Glassblowing at Bowman Glass

Paper Works by Paper Nerds - Coptic binding, 1-4 February 28, Flip books, 1-4 March 28, Paper marbling, 1-4 April 25, Screen printing, 1-4 May 23

Schools & Universities all have classes, and they're listed on The Schools page.

Dallas Artists Out of Town

Send us your out-of-town art show info per the pink box on the bottom of this page of this page.

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TJ Mabrey   Sliced Okra   at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas

member Anticipation - TJ Mabrey and Eliza Thomas at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's McDermott Learning Center in Austin, through March 7

Click Member's links to see their work.

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Community

As always on this site, comments are by J R Compton, owner and publisher of DallasArtsRevue. The opinion parts are usually rendered in gray text:

Georf Hager video

Big-time New York graphic artist Milton Glaser on What is Art, and What is Not? including his Advice to Young Artists and other topics. Thanks Fannie.

Juanluis Gonzalez installs work at Henderson Art Project (Facebook).

Story on NPR pits Fort Worth and Dallas' so-called arts districts, happily ignoring Dallas and Fort Worth artists, of course. I couldn't listen to the whole thing for the smarm and stereotyping them big city boys gush on us and our sister city to the west... –JRC

She got it moved to Glass Street near the Trinity River, now Dallas Contemporary Director Joan Davidow is retiring. Read the following press release with a boulder of salt. I always have to wonder what planet these people are from. They don't know who they are or where they are going. Except where they lie again about their founding, the following is verbatum, and the punctuation and grammar is all their own:

"Dallas, TX - February 17, 2010 - Dallas Contemporary today announced Joan Davidow will retire from the position of executive director effective May 31, 2010. The institution will shortly begin a national search for a new director. Davidow will continue in a consulting role until the end of 2010."

It is interesting to this curious student of local art organizations' histories that after claiming that Patricia Meadows alone founded that group in 1980, then that she and Judy Smith Hearst founded the group, the board of directors of the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, more recently known as The Contemp — though many of us just call it The Contempt, because it has ignored its founding purpose, to create an art center for Dallas artists and craftspersons, while refusing to show local artists who have not achieved stardom — now cites that it was "cofounded in 1978 by Patricia Meadows and two [unnamed] arts leaders."

In 1978 there was no D-Art. There was only the Artists Coalition of Texas (ACT), the organization that Mary Wachoviak Ward approached to help her sent up a center for Dallas artists. ACT became D-Art. Although Patricia Meadows was clearly instrumental in popularizing the organization and worked tirelessly in its behalf later, she did not found D-ART. Mary Washoviak Ward did.

Ward was fired in 1982. See DallasArtsRevue writer Julia Frazier's interview in 1982 with Mary Ward after she was fired.
See also the Index of The History of D-Art stories on DallasArtsRevue.
 

Veronica De Anda Tosten died Wednesday, February 3. Her husband, Erik, said that it was "after a six-year battle with pancreatic cancer. It was a long and painful struggle, and its a comfort to know that she is now free of her suffering. She was an artist, wife and good friend." Veronical wrote the following eulogy that was presented at the memorial service February 13 at 500X:

"This of course wasn’t easy to write, but, heck, at least I didn’t have to read it aloud in front of all of you. By the way, thanks for coming. I appreciated everything you did and continue to do for me and Erik. I feel so fortunate to have had such a wonderful family and friends. You all made my life rich and exciting and worth living.

I always said that attending UNT was the best decision I made and I meant it. Besides meeting the love of my life there, I made wonderful life-long friends (even though my life was not as long as I thought it would be, go figure).

But, enough about you all, this is about me, and how great I was, right? Erik said I was a great artist and I couldn’t argue with that. Almost each artwork I made was praised and lots of it sold, too. Even though I was shy. I wasn’t afraid to express myself through my art.

What else … what else … oh!, even though I was short, I still looked great in my leather boots and form-fitting dresses.

Well, the good thing about my life being so short is that I didn’t have time to make any major mistakes or have many regrets. Of course I regret that I was not able to grow old with Erik, but he’s a great catch and will make a great husband again some day. Especially now that I’ve smoothed out all the rough edges. I hope his next wife likes beards.

The best I can hope for now is that my body, which I’m donating to medical science, helps others live longer, healthier lives. I also hope that at least some of my viable organs like my eyes can be reused, too. That would be kinda creepy and cool, for someone to be walking around with my eyes. Anyway, I hope you all consider checking that organ donor box on your driver’s license and donating your body to medical science as well. Thanks."

Vimeo Slideshow
 

Dallas artist Pat Forrest died on January 30, 2010. Details of a scholarship in her name to come.. She requested there be no memorial service.

member Susan Lecky is on June Mattingly's blog that went up February 5

Randall Garrett on Art in Dancing Ganesha

member Kathy Robinson-Hays is in issue 84 of New American Paintings, where each artist gets three images, bio and small photo. Recurring Dreams 1, 3 and 5 on her member page are included.

David Hickman on YouTube.

Centraltrak's founding director Charissa N. Terranova, PhD, has announced her resignation from that institution. Her replacement — if that is even possible — is Kate Sheerin, whom San Antonio's Witte Museum calls "an expert on early Texas Art," will be the new director of the University of Texas at Dallas art residency program housed in a building beneath elevated Central Expressway in Deepest Elm, near where the depot of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad tracks used to be.

As Terranova states in her public resignation letter PR, she brought artists from "France, Germany, The Netherlands, Argentina, Russia, Mexico, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to work in our avant-garde compound on Exposition Avenue." Her stated reason for stepping down is to "focus all of [her] energy on teaching at the university and [her] scholarly writing, in particular the completion of [her] manuscript Automotive Prosthetic: The Car, Technological Mediation, and the Conceptual Turn in Contemporary Art."

Terranova "will continue working at UTD in the capacity of full-time tenure-track assistant professor," and in the best news of all to Dallas artists, she "will also continue work as freelance art critic." Hooray for that! We need her unfettered art opinions, despite the complicated Marxist theories. — J R Compton

More, Older News is on the News Page.

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Series/Ongoing 

Free Museums

The Nasher - 5-10 pm Thursday nights and 10 am till 2 pm on the First Saturday of each month

Entrance into The Dallas Museum of Art is free - First Sundays and 5-9 every Thursday, although some shows still cost.

SMU's Meadows Museum is free after 6 pm on Thursdays
 

Tours & Series

Dragon Street galleries and shops remain open til 8 pm on First Thursdays

Exposition Avenue First Thursdays - On the First Thursday of each month galleries along Exposition Avenue (from Fair Park's main entrance up to 500X) has a First Thursday Night. They invite the community out to enjoy art, food and drinks on the Fist Thursday of every month. Involved are Van Ditthavong, 832 Exposition, Canvass at 824, the Art Club at 823, Expo Park Cafe at 841, Daddy Jack's at 3106 Commerce (more than a little walk away),

A free walking tour of our so-called downtown Arts District at 10:30 am First Sundays (and parking meters are free), meeting at Olive and Flora.

The Uptown Off the Wall gallery stroll is the first Friday of every month, when all participating galleries, museums, bars, antique and map stores and restaurants stay open till 9 pm. For full info, visit the Near North Dallas website.

Norwood Flynn presents Artful Wednesdays, open "late" till 7 pm Wednesdays in March for wine, cheese and, one supposes, art
 

Sketching in the Galleries/Life Drawing

Drawing from the Masters - for adults and students ages 15 and older, drawing materials available, attendance limited to 20 on a first-come, first-served basis, Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop, SMU campus, free with admission, 214 768-4677, 1-2:30 Sundays, March 14 and 28, April 11 and 25

Life Drawing at The Cedars (1114 South Akard Street, 214 421-2982) 7-10 Thursday evenings and 1-4 Sunday afternoons. $20 each. "no one is too inexperienced to enjoy the experience."

7-8:30 Thursdays at the bof Asian Art; 7-8:30 Thursdays at the DMA; and sketch works from the permanent and special collections at the Meadows Museum. Visitors 12 and up, open to artists of all abilities. Paper and drawing materials provided. Free but reservations required 214 768-4993 beginning one month in advance.

Lectures

Artist lectures At the MAC Wednesdays at 6:30 but check with them first.

Dallas Architecture Forum has lectures but changes the times and dates faster than i can keep up.a

Some Art Talks are listed with their exhibitions. Many area art galleries
are listed in Art Space Information or the Museums and Art Centers pages

DallasArtsRevue Resources include geographic, phone and link information for area galleries and other places that show art, museums, schools and visual art groups and HOW TOs including How To Start Showing Your Work, How to Design and Distribute an Invitational Post Card and How to Photograph Art, among other topics.

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Other Places

Many art venues have so much going on we could never catch up, so we link their sites, and you can discover for yourself.

museums

Amon Carter (current exhibitions), Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Meadows Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, The Women's Museum. All of Dallas' best art museums are in Fort Worth — except the amazing MADI. — JRC

More information about area art centers and museum on our Museums & Art Centers page.

other

Dallas Architecture Forum are often doing something, sometimes really interesting, but they're expensive and their events are primarily for their membership. We usually avoid groups' membership-only events.

Shows with a are probably more interesting, but I often do not get around to using it. From here, short reviews go to the Short Shows 2010 & old news goes to the old news page  Red quotes " indicate a quote from another source, usually the gallery. Unless noted, images are from postcards or email attachments (greatly appreciated, unless it incorporates words, which are difficult to squeeze out.)

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