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In the last year, border apprehensions dropped by 40% in the El Paso Sector, which includes West Texas and New Mexico, according to a report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Currently on view at Link & Pin in South Austin is Synchronicity, a collection of recent portraits by painter Cheryl Finfrock and photographs by Eva Weiss dating back to 1972. On a crusade for universality, the exhibition ties the artists’ breadths together through their common subjects, which focus on the inelegance of being human. This candid exploration of people before and between performances or seminal moments combines incredibly similar but independently created works — a meaningful coincidence.
After being sealed for three years, the autopsies for two teen girls who died in a Nov. 20, 2020 apartment fire, have been made public.
Hilda Gurrola, 34, of Fredericksburg, was fatally stabbed following an argument with her husband, Nov. 21 in Dallas County, according to WFAA News in Dallas.
Fredericksburg resident Zoe Sophia Williams, an 18-year-old babysitter in Gillespie County, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography on Friday, Oct. 20.
The San Antonio Crimes Against Children Squad of the FBI (CACS) gave a presentation to a full audience of educators, first responders, parents and residents on a serious topic - threats to children through the Internet.
Youth suicide is on the rise, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). Counselors across the county have established initiatives to aid youths’ mental health in schools and DSHS plans to discuss with schools what can be done.
The Colored People’s Section of Der Stadt Friedhof was approved for a Historic Texas Cemetery Marker and an official plaque will arrive in the coming weeks.
Bat populations are declining rapidly across North America from White Nose Syndrome (WNS). Although the Mexican free-tailed bats are not suffering from the disease, Cave myotis bats have decreased in population by 75% since the fungus was first detected in Texas Panhandle bat habitats in 2017, according to both Bat Conservation International (BCI) and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD).
Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper is an exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas featuring work from the monumental sculptor’s more than sixty-year career. Remaining tethered to poetic themes of humanity are 30 sculptures and over 40 drawings and paintings. Color erupts in his images, which constantly change with perspective. The largest exhibition of di Suvero’s work since his solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975, here his abstract futurist gestures continue to lean towards optimism and joy — a contained, frenetic energy.
Opening June 24, 2023, is Latent Constructions, a solo exhibition of works by Paho Mann, presented by Galleri Urbane. The show will consist of 8 digitally constructed still-life prints made with 3D scanning software and photographs. Using this state-of-the-art technology, Mann creates abstract images of 19th and 20th-century cameras and flowers as a metaphor for the constant transition of photographic and imaging technology. The exhibition collapses the boundaries between perceptions into a single experience.
Beginning this fall, Fredericksburg High School will no longer offer upper-level German courses. The language, once a first language for many Fredericksburg residents, has been declining in use since the first World War. The absence of the course is a part of the question of the preservation of the Texas German dialect.
Galleri Urbane welcomes Hungarian painter Aron Barath for his first solo exhibition in the United States. Color is the dope is a chromatic experience featuring canvases of bold, gossamer strokes of paint. Following his inclusion in the gallery's 2021 group summer show, RIPE, and a list of presentations across Europe, Barath introduces a broader array of hues in his ongoing investigation of color for this exhibition.
A myth and biblical narrative, The Tower of Babel follows the endeavor of society to build a structure so glorious it could bring them in touch with the heavens. However, when understood as a threat toward God, the single language of humankind was divided, shattering efforts to finish the construction. The myth tells us that unearned glory was the Babylonian’s demise. Artist Gabriel Dawe says their pursuit was an “epic exercise in futility.”
Galleri Urbane welcomes back sculptor and ceramicist Sam Mack for their second solo show with the gallery, buff. This follows their inclusion in the gallery’s 2020 summer collective and their 2019 solo exhibition, Pass.
Limbo, a group show curated by Simon Okoro and Tobias Jacob, will be held on Nov 12. The exhibition features Dallas-based artists working in photography, painting, and interactive sculpture. Limbo bridges mediums and alters traditional displays, bringing the show into a disorienting realm.
Galleri Urbane welcomes back Austin-based artist Tammie Rubin for her debut solo show with the gallery, I Pick up My Life. She presents an exhibition surrounding Black Americans' metaphysical, physical, and spiritual relocation. Following her inclusion in the gallery's 2020 winter group exhibition, Rubin brings together family images, coded symbols, and historical maps to visually contextualize.
Galleri Urbane welcomes back Chicago-based artist Michelle Wasson for her debut solo show Proto Grove. Since her inclusion in the gallery’s 2021 summer group exhibition, RIPE, Wasson has migrated into a lighter and breathier environment with this new body of work.
Far from her roots nestled in the central California valley, Natalie Wadlington makes her institutional debut at Dallas Contemporary with the solo exhibition Places that Grow. The show displays precise narrative paintings of childhood excursions on enormous, vibrant canvases. Set in highly domesticated spaces, the scenes lean heavily on the atmosphere of youthful wonder and innate care for the Earth, all set upon backdrops of dramatic Texas skies.
Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce our 7th annual group show, Intersections, an exhibition featuring the work of Gail Peter Borden, Peter Frederiksen, Chase Barney and Benjamin Terry, and welcoming Amelia Briggs, Karen Navarro for the first time. This show is composed of recent works from the artists which examine intersections of culture and identity along with themes of convergent artistic elements and mediums.
On view at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, until May 7 was, Nothing Goes to Waste, an exhibit complete with works of reused materials. Existing vinyl was collaged for the title at the opening of the gallery, setting precedent for the pieces in the exhibit. Commenting less on the need for sustainability, reused materials are the mere impetus for the show’s focus on the curiosity of past lives of various mediums used in artworks.
Galleri Urbane welcomes back Indiana artist Rachel Hellmann for a solo show, The Shape of Color, featuring fluorescent-painted relief sculptures, paintings, and an analogous mural. This body of work echoes her recent paintings and installation at the Rockwell Museum (Rockwell, NY), Leaning Toward the Sun, which will be up through March 2023. These pieces provoke ephemeral conversations of light and assumed dimensionality between various mediums.
Galleri Urbane is delighted to welcome back Chicago artist Anna Kunz for her highly anticipated solo show, Naked Light. Completed in 2022, this series of paintings asks viewers to experience the warmth of light, represented by color, as a purveyor of society. These paintings galvanize conversation between both viewers and color upon canvas while confronting the emptiness and lack of connection from physical distancing.
The exhibit’s artworks cataclysmically combine color, shape, texture, and form to create visually disconcerting pieces that compel viewers to stoop and investigate.
The beauty, though imposed, is “held in suspension,” showing the delicate tension between fashioning one’s self into what society wants a woman to look like versus self-expression free of these expectations.
This Deadly mountain whale has been devouring tourists, lumberjacks, and miners alike while sweeping through the trees and all other natural life in its’ path for over 100 years, that we know of.
Also seen in the Denver Clarion
Saoirse Ronan, the 25-year-old actor, earned her fourth Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role, playing Director Greta Gerwig’s Jo March in “Little Women” (2019). She is the youngest four-time nominee in history, second to Jennifer Lawrence who was only four months younger when she received her fourth nomination for “Joy.”
Also seen in DARIA Magazine
At the Dairy Block, a few blocks from Union Station, artist Scott Young’s studio/gallery is filled with massive, collaged paintings, a giant hand sculpture, an immersive room, and, of course, Young’s neon art (and more). From every angle in the space, works of art in the group exhibition KNOCKOUT: Pop Art Is the Future of Everything shout out over one another, vying for viewers’ attention, asking us to question the state of the world and the legacy of Pop Art.
Ebbing and flowing through PVC piping, sponges and buckets, spilling over the brims of containers, running across rain gutter drain extenders, and up through a hose hung at the ceiling, Morris personifies the sensation of being in a sloppy romance.
The 17th Thin Line Festival in Downtown Denton had a theme that declared it was “a different kind of festival,” backed up by a slew of films and musical performances. Artists of all kinds shared their work across more than 10 venues across town last month, continuing the festival’s efforts to broaden beyond the documentary programming it’s long been known for.