Press & Media
“Patterns of Perspective,” N.O.A.R.
“John Alexander at Corcoran Gallery of Art,” Express Night Out
Political careers aren’t the only kind born in D.C. Painter John Alexander credits the city with starting his ascent in the art world. He displayed his work at the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s 35th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting in 1977, after then-Corcoran curator Jane Livingston visited Texas and saw his work.
“Sacred Grove,” Ind.com
John Geldersma is quick to lead you around the room, explaining the purpose of his totemic sculptures, inverted poles that stand like serpents rearing on their tails which have sprouted archaic geometric heads. “See that slit?” He points to a vertical slot carved into the head of a piece. “It’s a sight.”
“Fierceness and Fragility: A Conversation with Lesley Dill,” Sculpture
Lesley Dill’s sculptures made an impression on me some years ago at Graphic Studio in Tampa, particularly a tea-stained, paper dress that popped outward to become three-dimensional. A large traveling exhibition of her work—recently shown at the Saint Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and on view at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina through January 3, 2011—features numerous sculptures made of metal, paper, photographs, and fabric with seamless transitions from one medium to another. Dill integrates words, myth, and ideas with a variety of materials to attract and involve the viewer.
“Dimensions of optimism: Pard Morrison creates ways of ‘Love’,” Rocky Mountain News
The title of Pard Morrison’s show – “50 Ways to Fall in Love” – may put a song in your head, the pessimistic but funny Paul Simon tune about how to get out of a relationship, not into one.
Okay Mountain Collective
Seventeen minutes into the Okay Mountain Collective’s (OKMT) new work at AMOA, Water, Water Everywhere So Let’s All Have a Drink (2010), a woman appears. So far the interlaced segments of the 28-minute looped video have been filled with images one would find while channel surfing late on a six-pack-filled Saturday night.
“Willie Birch and Paul Ninas,” Gambit Weekley
Featuring work made between 1978 and 2003, Willie Birch’s Looking Back expo provides a fairly comprehensive sense of what this 67-year-old African-American artist has been doing for the past few decades.
“After the Storm,” Modern Painters
As I’ve meditated on this sad anniversary and the art Katrina inspired, I’ve found myself thinking mostly about three artists whose work is ambitious and very much about Katrina but also transcends that single event in addressing the broader themes of suffering and disaster. I’ve been thinking about David Bates, Mark Bradford, and Robert Polidori.
“Artist’s Bold Katrina Portraits Capture Survivors’ Strength,” Knoxville News Sentinel
Dallas artist David Bates was about to show some paintings depicting the beauty of the Gulf Coast he loves when he instead became a reporter with a brush and canvas.