“Jesús Moroles: 30 Years of Sculpture” at the Nave Museum
“Jesús Moroles: 30 Years of Sculpture” Exhibit at the Nave Museum in Victoria, Texas – March 21st – May 5th.
Monthly Archives: March 2013
“Sculpture for New Orleans is a plus for Poydras Street,” Times-Picayune
“Standing Vase with Five Flowers” by James Surls on Poydras Street near St. Charles Avenue. The Texas sculpture star’s surrealistic still-life design fits beautifully on the narrow Poydras Street median. Notice that Surls has provided each copper-green flower petal with an eye to watch the traffic crawl by. “Standing Vase with Five Flowers” is a whimsical companion for Surls’ somewhat more sinister sculpture “Me Life, Diamond and Flower,” a few blocks uptown on Camp Street outside of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
“Nave Museum features granite sculptor Jesús Moroles,” Victoria Advocate
“Jesús Moroles: 30 Years of Sculpture” Exhibit at the Nave Museum in Victoria, Texas – March 21st – May 5th.
“James Surls’ Expressionist Sculptures are Inspired by Nature,” County Line Magazine
As a child growing up in East Texas, James Surls spent a lot of time making things. He didn’t call it art; it was just stuff he made because he was passionate about it. As an adult, he’s been called “one of the most important sculptors working in America today,” recognition he’s proud of but embraces with a bit of humility.
“An artist’s centennial: NOMA exhibit a retrospective on Ida Kohlmeyer,” Southern Jewish Life
Ida Kohlmeyer’s love for her native New Orleans and in some instances her Jewishness comes out in her abstract expressionist art. The New Orleans Museum of Art is honoring her memory with “Ida Kohlmeyer: 100th Anniversary Highlights.” The exhibit features significant pieces of hers from NOMA’s permanent collection in an exhibition running through April 14.
“El Paso Museum of Art Announces Contemporary Texas Prints,” Dallas Art News
The El Paso Museum of Art announces Contemporary Texas Prints, an exhibition of contemporary printmaking in Texas. The exhibition includes woodcuts, etchings, aquatints, lithographs, linocuts, serigraphs and mono-prints by artists such as David Bates, Luis Jimenez, Donald Judd and James Surls. Contemporary Texas Prints opens Sunday, March 31, 2013, in the Gateway Gallery.
“12 Must See Painting Shows: March 2013,” Huffington Post
Troy Dugas’s exhibition “The Shape of Relics” at Arthur Roger Gallery featured in “12 Must See Painting Shows: March 2013,” by Steven Zevitas, Publisher, New American Paintings
“Lesley Dill: E is for Ecstasy,” A Blade of Grass
Lesley Dill’s interdisciplinary practice combines sculpture, literature and, more recently, opera. She works with text, with the material of words, the way others carve rock. We had the pleasure of attending a Buddhist retreat together at Poets’ House in Tribeca during June 2012. We bonded over our mutual love for silent walking, and devotion. Since then, we have been meeting monthly to converse about deep practice, dreaming up future performative collaborations, which can only be described as gift giving. Dill has been on the road for the past six months with several major exhibition projects. I catch her as she returns from her show, Poetic Visions: Sister Gertrude Morgan & Shimmer at the Halsey Institute in Charleston, South Carolina. She is about to receive a lifetime achievement award in printmaking from the Southern Graphics Conference International, where she will also launch a new collaborative book, I Had A Blueprint of History.
“New Kids on the Block | Far Out with Lisa Sanditz,” ART21 Magazine
In 2005, a 64-foot-tall billboard in Lower Manhattan showed a van driving down a mountain against a psychedelic sky. The display was a giant reproduction of the painting “Tie-Dye in the Wilderness” by artist Lisa Sanditz. The cosmic landscape, composed of real and synthetic elements, was a cuckoo complement to its urban environs in New York City, where, to my chagrin, tie-dye has fallen out of favor. Sanditz likes to travel, see faraway places, and then paint these places in far out ways.
