Monthly Archives: September 2010

Willie Birch: Looking Back, 1978 – 2003

Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present a selection of paintings and papier-mâché pieces by Willie Birch completed between 1978 and 2003. The exhibition will be on view from October 2 – October 30, 2010 at the Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street. The gallery will host an opening reception to meet the artist on Saturday, October 2, from 6 to 9 pm, in conjunction with Art for Art’s Sake.

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Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

An enormous television made of wood dominates the small back gallery at the Austin Museum of Art. On its larger-than-life screen runs a 28-minute continuous video loop that resembles inveterate channel surfing. Snippets of footage flash by: low-budget infomercials, self-serious history programs, blundering local news reports, didactic educational cartoons, exploitative reality shows.

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“Jesus Moroles,” Houston Regularmain

The internationally esteemed sculptor, Jesus Moroles, although brought up in Dallas lives and works in Rockport, Texas, that is when he’s not on his way to Shanghai to finalize designs for a sculpture, lighting and landscaping commission or to Santa Fe for a one-person celebratory 200-year anniversary exhibition (2010) at the Mexican Embassy.

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