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Glass Houses 24: Geoff Hippenstiel
Geoff Hippenstiel is a Houston-based painter whose work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Devin Borden Gallery, two years after receiving his MFA from the University of Houston....
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Black Friday in LA
On Black Friday, while millions were buying iPads for their six-year-olds and guns for their holsters (handgun sales broke an all-time record this year), I was staring at art in Los Angeles. Since most...
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Glass Houses 26: Jonathan Leach
Jonathan Leach’s studio at Box 13 ArtSpace in Houston, TX The original “TRON” movie, PC gaming in the early ‘90s and the struggles of high school geometry came to mind when I first saw Houston artist...
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The Artist’s Palette: Primary Colors on Paper
Color in the Land of Oz (not included in the exhibition!) A twister sweeps across a sepia-toned Kansas and suddenly Dorothy enters Technicolor. In Victor Fleming’s 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz“...
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35th Annual Master’s Thesis Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum
Newly renovated Blaffer exterior About three years ago I installed my Master’s Thesis Show at the Blaffer Art Museum. Every piece in my exhibit was ready-made sculpture and vinyl wall text, however,...
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Glasshouses 27: Patrick Turk and Claire Webb
Say you were living in medieval Europe, drinking mead and passing out on a stone table, when a hologram of Carl Sagan beams in and says: “In the year 1961, Yuri Gagarin will be the first man to see...
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Glasshouses 28: Davide Savorani and Michelangelo Miccolis
Davide Savorani and Michelangelo Miccolis, Savorani’s technical and performative assistant, have been working on a series of projects including a room-sized installation in Savorani’s studio space at...
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Jeff Elrod and Jeremy DePrez at Texas Gallery
Jeff Elrod, Echo Painting (b/w), UV ink on canvas In 1989, Flying Toasters became a computing phenomenon. The screensaver typified personal computing in the nineties as toasters flew across monitors...
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Glasshouses 29: Angel Oloshove
Angel Oloshove is relatively new to Houston but has already garnered attention for her unique whimsical ceramics. In 2012, Oloshove was Lawndale Art Center’s Big Show winner and soon after, some of...
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Glasshouses 30: Anne J. Regan and Steven Hook
Paintings by Anne Regan Anne J. Regan and Steven Hook’s home is like hanging out on the Pee Wee Herman set in the middle of a good rain storm. Simultaneously chaotic and comforting, these two artists...
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Margaret Meehan: we were them
night (left) and songbird (right) at we were them Many documentaries open with a montage: extreme close-ups and Philip Glass piano riffs cue the drama of fixed-gear bike culture or the rise of...
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Glasshouses 31: Anthony Day
Houston artist Tony Day believes in freedom. Not bald-eagle-laser-etched-on-your-Ford-truck-‘Murica freedom, but freedom of expression. Day is a Yosemite Sam for the creative process, but he’s not...
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Glasshouses 32: Emily Peacock
Little is more sacred than the moments spent at home being pissed off at your family. Most everyone has memories of early morning nagging, loud “discussions,” or even fantasizing about pulling a...
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Glasshouses 33: Jules Buck Jones
High on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains of Columbia there is an indigenous tribe called the Kogi. Stories reveal that when a child was born to the tribe, he spent his first years of life in...
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