“James Surls: Recent Sculpture”
Rugged, blue jean clad and with a speaking style somewhere between Joseph Campbell and Johnny Cash, James Surls may be the most famous Texas artist.
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“David Bates’ Landscape Of Grief,” Pitch
As the death of the Gulf Coast ecosystem comes gushing blackly from the Macondo Prospect oil field 5,000 feet underwater, Dallas painter David Bates is in Kansas City for the opening of The Katrina Paintings, his exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
“Re-Seed,” Urban Glass
Walking into Gene Koss’s studio in Belle Chasse, Louisiana—a corrugated metal industrial building a half hour’s drive across the river from central New Orleans—the first thing you see is a sculpture model.
“Some Things Borrowed, Some Things New: Three Artists Offer a Respite From Minimalism,” D Magazine
At the McKinney Avenue Contemporary last night I was thinking about repetition. I had to: the three artists on display—Jacqueline Bishop, Ginger Geyer, and Kenneth Hale—either work in series of multiples, or else pay homage to earlier artists, repeating both themselves and their precursors with always interesting effect.
James Surls 2010
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent sculpture by James Surls. The exhibition will be on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street, from May 1st – June 27th, 2010. Mr. Surls will be in attendance at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, May 1st, from 6 to 8 pm.
“Prestidigtations & Permutations,” New Orleans Art Review
Prestidigitations & Permutations By Karl F. Volkmar In one of the more curious moments in nineteenth century Europe’s fascination with spiritual phenomena and the occult, Alphonse Louis Constant, under the…
“Whitfield Lovell: Autour Du Monde,” Nka
Whitfield Lovell: Autour Du Monde BY JULIE L. MCGEE, Nka I wonder where is all my relations / Friendship to all and every nation. David Drake The American artist Whitfield…
“Strange Alchemy,” Gambit Weekly
Strange Alchemy By Eric D. Bookhardt, GAMBIT WEEKLY The objects on view are all too familiar, though not necessarily reassuring. Wrecking balls, ladders and water, lots of water, offer no…
“Gallery Walk,” New Orleans Art Review
Gallery Walk James Surls at Arthur Roger by Karl F. Volkmar, New Orleans Art Review The organic, monumental wood and steel sculptures of James Surls dominate the main gallery at…
“Sculptor James Surls Puts A Magnificent Seven On The Rice Campus,” Houston Press
James Surls, the sculptor who had seven of his art pieces installed at Rice University last month, enlightened a crowd there recently about his art philosophy and the ideas behind his plant-like sculptures.