Posts Tagged ‘paintings’
The Houses that Benson Built
Fort Worth artist Carol Benson sees the archetypical house as much more than a structure — or concept.JIMMY FOWLER
Fort Worth painter Carol Benson has a show up now at William Campbell Contemporary Art of paintings of houses, and since she grew up in the 1950s in a small East Texas town, we could be forgiven for thinking that we’re in Tho...
At Home With Carol Benson
Jimmy FowlerThis week’s ”Art” page features a chat with Fort Worth painter Carol Benson. Her current show at the William Campbell Contemporary offers semi-abstract images of houses that trigger all kinds of questions about stability,...
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Leslie Lanzotti has long been obsessed with James Whale’s Frankenstein films from the early 1930s. Now her series of Rembrandt-influenced paintings of scenes and shots from those films is up at Artspace 111. Hurry, though: Th...
How Vernon Fisher Came to K-Mart Conceptualism
The Fort Worth artist is the subject of an invigorating career survey at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.ANTHONY MARIANI
Fort Worth artist Vernon Fisher figures he escaped the bland certainties of a traditional rural Texas life through a crack in the façade between Protestant denominations –– his mom was a Baptist and his father a Methodist....
Bo Powell:
His life is as sprawling and colorful as his artwork.DAN MCGRAW PHOTOS BY ROBERT HART
Out behind Lola’s Saloon, Bo Powell is staring at the mural he finished recently for the bar’s new outdoor stage — there’s the Trinity River green space, a Fort Worth skyline, and F-16 fighter jets shooting past.
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GalleryBarcelona native Karlo Henry is currently enjoying his first art show ever at Firehouse Art Gallery. His paintings revolve around a heart theme and address the organ’s place in culture and the popular imagination.
Sharing a Constructive Spirit
Amon Carter shines a light on abstract art in North and South America in the early 20th century.ANTHONY MARIANI
Modernism is sexy. And not just because Mad Men is set during the period of the style’s apex, the early 1960s, though there’s no denying the show’s appeal. No, Modernism conjures up an era, one in which father still knew ...
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Hurry and catch Pedro Escamilla’s paintings at Rose Marine Theater. Unusually for an art show, this one is closing down on Thursday instead of staying up through the weekend, so there’s only two more days to see these works...
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Michelle Brandley’s self-portrait paintings are no academic studies. The blackly comic images of her surrounded by food draw their inspiration from Baroque painting.
Andy Warhol in the ’80s
The Modern’s current exhibit explores Andy’s most prolific period.ANTHONY MARIANI
There are a lot of Andy Warhols. The Campbell’s-soup-can-reproducing Andy. The tedious filmmaking Andy. The celebrity Andy. But there’s also an Andy that few casual art lovers know: the unboundedly creative and prolific And...