Glasstire | December 20, 2021 Glasstire’s staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2021. William Sarradet Andie Flores at Presa House, San Antonio and Welcome to My Homepage, Austin. The theater of reality has been hard to top for a couple…
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by Lauren Moya Ford | December 19, 2021 Though the area has been at the center of recent border wall debates, its complexity and diversity have been politicized and oversimplified for centuries. South of the Checkpoint / North of the River at Presa House Gallery offers an intimate, pensive view…
By Michael Agresta | December 13, 2021 The Rio Grande Valley is not one of the easier places in America to build a career as a contemporary artist. The strip of predominantly blue-collar border towns and cities from the Gulf Coast and Brownsville up the river to Edinburg, McAllen, and…
Joseph Bravo | November 28, 2021 The Context of the Landscape In the contemporary era, one in which digital communities are emerging that seem to transcend our sense of place and where identities are formed in geo-ambiguous cyberspace, the landscape itself, let alone its representation in art, may appear anachronistic;…
by Liz Kim | November 27, 2021 This small but immense show begins inside Presa House Gallery’s entrance hallway, which squeezes you in between two clashing walls: on the left are a number of small prints on colorful handmade paper, and on the right is a single, incomprehensibly large print…
by Glasstire | November 25, 2021 Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. 1. Ann Stautberg: Times ChangeBarry Whistler Gallery (Dallas) | November 13 – January 8, 2022 From Barry Whistler Gallery: “Stautberg currently lives and works in Houston where she survived the pandemic but says that…
Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas this week. 1. Gabriel Martinez: Desire Lines
September 11 – October 16, 2021 | Anya Tish Gallery (Houston)…
Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas this week. 1. Alexa, Take Me Home! August 7 – September 4, 2021 | Anya Tish Gallery, Houston. “An exhibition spotlighting the work of four cutting-edge Texas artists…
There’s a decent chance you’re unfamiliar with the name John Guzman — but the San Antonio artist is quickly developing into a hometown success story. Raised on the South Side…
Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas this week. 1. Francisco Moreno: Demons
July 10 – September 4 | OFG.XXX (Dallas) “A solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Francisco Moreno…