Last year at the first Dallas Art Fair, David Bates was everywhere, in person and in paint, in numerous galleries. The second Dallas Art Fair opens Friday and, this time, Bates may again be the most overexposed artist – or he may be more discreetly low-profile. “After last year, it’d be OK to be the invisible man,” he says. “I was proud, but … “
Nineteen years ago, David Halliday moved to New Orleans to be a chef in a food-obsessed city; now he’s a photographer. As it turns out, his path between the kitchen and the dark room is deliciously short.
Katrina On Film And Canvas David Bates Since 1982: From Everyday To Epic By Eric Swanson, AUSTIN DAZE BOOKING David Bates, a Texan by birth and still a Texan by…
Those who love to be out in nature won’t mind going inside the Austin Museum of Art to see David Bates Since 1982: From the Everyday to the Epic. In large paintings such as The Rookery, we’re encompassed by the cacophony of the bird world. The swampy landscape is devoid of people, glorious and dangerous: A snake eyes a bird in the marshes, the trail of alligators swimming registers.
Art: Creator of highly manipulated photographs of clouds and trees that he hangs in suites. He presents the individual photographs in interdependent grids that tend to generate sales of multiple images to single collectors.
Each spring, when the magnolias bloom, artist David Bates paints a still life of the white, waxy flowers.
A few years back while exploring place-making with intersections between art and landscape architecture, I experienced a deeper understanding of sculpture through the art of Jesús Moroles. His remarkable ability to combine art and spirit of environment captured my attention and illustrated an ever-prevailing interest about the forces that bind nature and human beings.
In 2006, off the back of their much lauded “Athlete” and “Athlete/Warrior” series, photographic duo Anderson & Low were invited to photograph this circus troupe between performances of their show Eclipse in Blackpool. The full series of around fifty images opens at The Lowry next week.
With few exceptions, the 26 paintings and sculptures by David Bates at the Austin Museum of Art represent a fine and familiar overview of the artist’s oeuvre.
Notice the poor little man splashing around near the bottom of Luis Cruz Azaceta’s painting “Swimming to Havana.” Even if he were to somehow escape the high cement walls of the angular pool of water that contains him, he’d still be trapped in the maze of jagged abstract shapes that twine around the edges of the canvas. There’s no way out. Not physically. Not psychologically.