DallasArtsRevue
Visual art news, views & reviews in Dallas, Texas, USA

Home  Index  Calendar  Other Members  Join  Resources  Feedback  Contact us  Reviews  SSiT  Submissions  Search

The Editor's Page 

Curb Markings - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

J R Compton       Curb Markings      July 17 2010

 

 

 

 

Du Suervo as Asterisk - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

J R Compton      DuSuervo As Asterisk      July 15 2010

 

 

 

 

Neon Orange Quarter Round - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

J R Compton      Neon Quarter Round      July 7 2010

 

 

 

 

Plaid Stripes - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

J R Compton   Plaid Stripes   June 26 2010

 

 

 

 

 

Upstairs Squares - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

J R Compton       Upstairs Squares       June 26 2010

 

 

 

 

 

Parking Garage Entrance 001 - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

J R Compton       Parking Garage Entrance 001      JUly 10 2010

 

 

 

 

Parking Garage Entramce 002 - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

J R Compton       Parking Garage Entrance 002      JUly 10 2010

 

 

 

 

Parking Garage Entrance 003 - Photograph Copyright 2010 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

J R Compton       Parking Garage Entrance 003      JUly 10 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

I carry a camera almost wherever I go, and photograph when I see something. I'd been thinking about a series of downtown parking garage entrances for a long time. Then last night wandering around to galleries, we passed these, so I shot them.

The top two images were shot at MFA gallery June 26 2010, and the rest are long exposures on July 4 2010 that I'd originally thought did not work out, at all

 

vitae

I publish DallasArtsRevue, which I've been making in this medium all this century and before that on paper since December 1979.

I've been a photographer since 1963, had photographs published in Life, Jet, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, Dallas Observer and a bunch of other rags and in more than 90 exhibitions, a couple museums and even had a photograph of Mel Farner in a floppy black hat and polka-dotted shirt sandwiched between two other photos collaged on the cover of Grand Funk, Grand Funk Railroad's best-looking LP cover.

In the 1970s, I published underground newspapers, including Dallas NOTES from the Underground and HOOKA (I was Editor and Publisher of both of those as I am of this now), Instant Karma Komix and later worked at Fort Worth's Trinity River Messenger, The Austin Rag, The Austin Sun and San Antonio's River City News. In 1974 I published a newsprint magazine called armadilla about nine-banded armadillos (which publication begat, five years later, DallasArtsRevue). I also photographed for, designed, then co-published Texas Jazz.

My publications generally have to do with creating a sense of community.

Since graduating from the University of Dallas, I've spent most of my life in Dallas, Texas, USA. I know where things are, and I can usually find my way there — and back.

D-Magazine, who claimed (correctly) that I've been been publishing stories about art longer than anybody else in Dallas, called me "Dallas' best local arts promoter."

To support my media habits I've done a variety of jobs:

  • Night Watchman at a Massage Parlor,
  • Yellow Cab Driver
  • Worker Bee at Mary B's Barbeque
  • Secret Film Courier in Viet Nam,
  • Instructor of Desktop Publishing
  • Macintosh Computer Tutor
  • Webmaker for artists and galleries,
  • Photographer of work that is art and
  • Photographer of other artists' work.

Sample photographs are all over this and my personal site.

I have also been on several boards of directors, which is why I do not have one of those and do not wish to have one, and this website will stop when I do.

I have been:

  • Editor/Producer for the Artists Coalition of Texas. I'd already self-published some issues, but they contracted with me to publish more. Later, they insisted I change the name to Texas Arts Revue. Then they broke our contract by ordering me not to publish stories about other art forms, so I took it back. After Mary Washoviak Ward proposed they become a center for art in Dallas, ACT became D-ART, D'art, Dallas Visual Art Center, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art and The Contemporary.
  • The P R Guy and Founding Board Member of Dallas Artists Research & Exhibition (DARE, which became The MAC, kinda, a little, maybe, but usually not much, although they think it did. They're wrong.)
  • I was also on the board of the trailing edge of Allen Street Gallery, which disappeared off the face of the earth shortly after they fired me. Nyaaah-nyaah!

    I was their Program Committee Chairperson, and they did not find anyone else to do that job, so their benefactor took "their" building away when they stopped planning exhibitions. Those idiots fired me because I warned them about nepotism, a lot of which was going on at the time. It got worse.

     
  • Before that, I was a board-member of Electronic Graphic Artists of Dallas (EGAD!), a Macintosh Users Group, for which I had previously been the Disk of the Month (DOM) Guy — a much more interesting, important and fun job — distributing fonts, utilities and other programs on floppy disks I either gave away or sold for one dollar.

    Now I know better than to get involved with any boards of directors. DallasArtsRevue is not a nonprofit organization primarily so I won't have to kowtow to a bunch of idiots telling me what to do. As it is and shall be, I do what I want when I want, mostly.

JRCompton.com has many more photographs — and ideas, including some you might not expect from whom you may think I am. There's my words about philosophy, psychiatry and romance — as if I knew anything about any of those. My resume, list of exhibitions and exhibitions produced and lots else, too.

That's also where you'll find my Amateur Birder's Journal usually about White Rock Lake — I been writing about and photographing birds in that blog since June 2006.

See also How to Photograph Art, Cameras & Lenses Useful for Photographing Art, my s90 Journal, ThEdBlog, How to Start Showing Your Art and How to Design & Produce An Invitational Postcard on this and my personal websites..
 

Index of DallasArtsRevue Member Pages

Dallas Arts Revue needs you, too. Support DARts by
becoming a DARts Supporting Member
and get your
own one or two pages of web space to show off your
art or Join as a DARts Subscriber and get access
to the very informative Members-Only pages.

Visit all our Supporting Members' pages via the
very popular Membership Index page.

x