Open Call For Mayflowers: Homeland Security wants your floral art. There’s more info here. You have until May 3. Consider this my entry:
THURSDAY
“Perishable, She Was Long Gone, Compliance” at Deep Ellum Windows – April 4: 7-10 p.m. 2646 Main St 2625 Main St. 2650B Main St. Dallas, TX 75226.
This block long stretch of Deep Ellum is quickly becoming a regular venue, which is one of those deals that makes artists and developers happy enough (the former for the space, the later for the foot traffic, and swelling value that comes with it). This latest crop of shows features yet another Kevin Ruben Jacobs project, this one with support from 303 Gallery in New York, presenting a sound installation by Kristin Oppenheim. A second show features three artists from three cities: Pierre Krause (Dallas), Nick DeMarco (NYC), and Luis Miguel Bendaña (Chicago). A solo show by Hannah Hudson, who is pursuing her MFA at UTA, rounds out the series.
NEXT TOPIC with artist Rebecca Carter at CentralTrak — April 4 from 7-9 pm. 800 Exposition Ave Dallas, TX 75226.
FRIDAY
“forever eve” by Georganne Deen at Brand 10 Art Space – April 5: 5-9 p.m. 3418 West 7th St. Fort Worth, Texas, 76107.
Deen is a Fort Worth native who decamped for Los Angeles some time ago and now lives in The Joshua Tree. Her work has seemed to sop up something of those locals, mixing imagery that is at times surreal, carnivalesque, or evoking early cinematic tropes, fantastically bewildering, suggestive, and riddled with interpersonal angst.
“Groundwork” by Kelly Kroener at RE Gallery + Stuidio – April 5: 6-9 p.m. 1717 Gould St. Dallas, TX 75215.
Kroener’s show opened a few weeks ago. This is a closing reception.
“KITSCH & FLOW” at The Arts Council of Fort Worth – April 5; 6-9 p.m. 1300 Gendy St., Fort Worth, TX 76107.
“Nine Artists” with Jesse Morgan Barnett, Cassandra Emswiler, Thomas Feulmer, Francis Giampietro, Kevin Rubén Jacobs, Michael Mazurek, Francisco Moreno, Arthur Peña, and Michelle Rawlings. at Blow Up Gallery – April 6: 7-11 p.m. 8060 Park Lane, Suite 126 Dallas, TX 75231
From the exhibition materials, this show sounds like a curatorial project that is shirking curation, or at least a kind of assertive, “creative” curation that seeks to use artists’ work as means to provoke an exterior thematic conceit as organized by the curator. Still, I think the most intriguing aspect of the show is its location: The kids have been handed the keys to a gallery across from North Park. You’re moving up.
SATURDAY
“Parameters” by Ryan Sarah Murphy, at the Liliana Bloch Gallery – April 6: 5-8 p.m. 2919 Commerce Street, Suite C, Dallas, Tx 75226.
Liliana Bloch used to work at Kirk Hopper. Now she’s struck out on her own, and her stable of artists include Mayra Barraza, Du Chau, Ann Glazer, Letitia Huckaby, Vince Jones, Mona Kasra, and Ryan Scott Murphy. Scott Murphy gets the inaugural exhibition this weekend.
Are you ready for your pre-Art Fair round of Design District openings? Here you go:
“Observations” by Gregory Miller, at the Alan Simmons Art + Design – April 6: 5-8:30 p.m. 1415 Slocum Street, Suite 105, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“Texas Sculpture Association 30th Anniversary” by Jan Ayers, Betsy Bass, Ariel Bowman, Karmien Bowman, Lauren Browning, Linda Chidsey, Annelies Christian, Artyce Colen, Tony Collins, Robert W. Dobbs, Jerry Dodd, Lori Dudley, David Duncan, Jerry Freid, Art Fairchild, Kate Firth, Deana Hinchcliff, Brandon Jarrett, Jim Mace, Nan Martin, Jason Mehl, Rene Muhl, Jeff Seidel, Sabine Senft, Scott Shubin, Pauline Smart, Stan Smith, Ashok Srikantappa, Gisela-Heidi Strunck, Fancy Tanner, Robertus J Van Der Wege and Dottie Whiplash, at the Cohn Drennan Contemporary – April 6: 6–8 p.m. 1107 Dragon, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“Remains” by James Sullivan, and “If I Knew I Would Tell You” by W. Tucker, at the Conduit Gallery – April 6 : 6-8 p.m. 1626 Hi Line Drive, #C, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“Group Show” by Heather Gorham, Steve Seinberg, Paul Abbott, Phil Shore, Norman Kary, Bill Weaver, Leslie Tejada, Ursula O’Farrell, Marly Ray, Mark Smith, Connie Connally, David Brown, Natalia Ferber, Carlyn Ray, Orna Feinstein, Frank Morbillo, Marianne Gargour, Andy Myers, Pearl Dick, Carole Pierce, Joey Brock, Rich Bowman, Pam Nelson, Chris Mason, Jay Maggio, Marci Harnden, Shawn Smith, Kevin Box, Abhie Ghuge, Jerry Cabrera, Steve Steinberg, David Crismon, Jamie Harris, Raymond Saa, Winston Mascarenhas, Carolyn Brown, Marla Ziegler, Kenda North, Kendall Stallings, Kirk Tatum, Linda McCall, Thom Jackson, Michelle O’Michael, Denise Brown, Krista Harris, Devorah Sperber, Peter Burega, Jeanie Gooden, Jack Hammack, John Hathom, Arturo Mallman, Carolyn McAdams, Danna Harvey, Miroslav Antic, Gregg Coker, Christopher DeGasperi, Yrjo Edelman, Brad Ellis, Marcus, Harry Gold, Tracey Harris, Jeri Ledbetter, Gary Schaffler, Steve Seinberg, and Isaac Smith, at Craighead Green Gallery – April 6: 5-8 p.m. 1011 Dragon Street, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“motherf” by Celia Eberle, and “New Paintings” by Isabelle du Toit, at Cris Worley Fine Arts – April 6: 6-8 p.m. 1415 Slocum Street, #104, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“COEXIST” by Allie Pohl and Kate Carr, at Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas – April 6: 5-8:30 p.m. 2277 Monitor Street, Dallas, Tx 75206.
“Anke Schofield” at the Galerie Zuger – April 6: 5-8 p.m. 1215 Dragon Street, Dallas, Texas 75207.
“Simple Strokes” by Sharon Louden, at the Holly Johnson Gallery – April 6: 6-8 p.m. 1411 Dragon Street, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“Duality” by Roi James, at the Laura Rathe Fine Art Gallery – April 6: 6-9 p.m. 1130 Dragon Street, Suite 130, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“New Works” by John Borys, Charles Coldewey, Grethe Haggerty, Walter Gray Lamb, Bill Nimelman, Tom Ortega, Blair Vaughn-Gruler, and Neil Walker, at the Mary Tomas Gallery – April 6: 6-9 p.m. 1110 Dragon Street, Bldg. 1080, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“Pat Klamm” at the Marshall-McPhail Gallery – April 6: 1-5 p.m. 11450 Sprowles Street, Dallas, Tx 75229.
“The BEST, Featuring MFA Graduate Students from UNT, SMU, UTD, UTA, UD, TCU, and TWU” at the Red Arrow Contemporary – April 6: 6-9 p.m. 1130 Dragon Street, Suite 110, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“Reality to Euphoria” by JD Miller, at Samuel Lynne Galleries – April 6: 5-9 p.m. 1105 Dragon Street, Dallas, Tx 75207.
“Second Dialogues” by Stephen Lebowitz, at the Smink Gallery – April 6: 5-8 p.m. 1019 Dragon Street, Dallas, Tx 75207
“TIDES” by Alison Shaw, at Sun To Moon Gallery – April 6: 5-8 p.m. 1515 Levee Street, Dallas, Tx 75207.
SUNDAY
“New Territory” by Bob Nunn, at the Goodrich Gallery at the First United Methodist Church – April 7: 12:30-2 p.m. 1928 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Tx 75201.
“Pizzicato Porno” by Danielle Georgiou and Justin Locklear at Ro2 Art – April 7: 7 p.m. 110 N. Akard St., Dallas, TX 75201
It’s the weekend, and so, naturally, Danielle Georgiou dances. This time with beau in hand.
Image: James Sullivan, What Remains, 2010-2013, mixed media, installation detail (at Conduit Gallery)
