Fantasy Life
As soon as I saw her, I LOL’d. A cigarette dangling precariously from the side of her mouth, her tangled strawberry-blonde hair matted against...
Fall Gallery Night
Before the lockdown, Fall and Spring Gallery Nights raged. Local exhibition spaces invited the community into their art-filled embrace, and we responded by tippling...
Surrealism and Us
Walking through Surrealism and Us, there’s a part of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth where the new exhibit and the building tease...
Flowers ’n’ Sh*t
Dominique Ransom knew she had a cute shop. After all, she had designed Lilac Tattoo Studio with the “divine feminine” in mind. Her bright,...
Delightful ‘Details’
Photographer Dontrius Williams felt like he had to pick a lane about 10 years ago, so he “went straight to film. To me, digital...
Between ‘Worlds’
Viewers bring their own preconceptions to visual art even as the creators have their own fully formed ideas and messages in mind. Bridging the...
Reaching Out
When Amanda Blake launched the Carter Community Artists in 2017, she did so based on lessons she learned from her previous work at the...
Feats of Clay Stinnett
I don’t know how else to put this: Making sense of Clay Stinnett’s paintings in his solo show Honky Tonk Lagoon at Fort Works Art...
Mapping Time and Space
“War Horse in Babylon” captures a horrifying scene. The large oil painting by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith centers on the gray silhouette of the animal...
Escape to Reality
The works of Western artists have long oscillated between escapism and the minutiae of daily life. While the otherworldly paintings of Salvador Dali and...
