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‘I try to borrow the souls of my subjects,’ says state 2D artist of the year Gaspar Enriquez
Every year, Texas honors artists across the state in categories like poetry, music and visual art. This year, the state artist for two-dimensional art is Gaspar Enriquez, an artist from El Paso. Enriquez’s portraits are deeply rooted in Mexican-American culture, and he’s known to draw inspiration from his El Paso community. At 81 years old,…
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‘Super Natural’ John Alleyne at VAR Gallery
Right out of the gate the current show at VAR Gallery on Fifth Street offers a touch and a flare that feels to be from beyond the Great Lakes drainage basin. The black and red palette; the gestural use of screen printing, the hip piles of supplemental apparel—all of it smacks of something warm-blooded, sweet-and-savory,…
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County honors Auburn’s Postmark Center for the Arts
From start to finish, the City of Auburn took seven years to transform the old post office and King County Health Clinic into the Postmark Center for the Arts. The Postmark opened Sept. 13, 2023, as a vibrant public space for visual arts exhibits and classes, public programs, performing arts, and other cultural gatherings. The…
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Belltown Has a New Gallery, with Another on the Way
Seattle’s art scene shouldered some big blows this year. A collapsed sewer line closed Museum of Museums ahead of the rainy season. MadArt announced it would wrap things up next summer. After 40 years, Linda Hodges shut down her gallery in Pioneer Square, while James Harris moved his to Dallas. XO Seattle blew up after…
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The best of 2023: Our picks for the top films, TV, music, theatre and art of the year
Open this photo in gallery: The Globe and Mail Visual Arts Open this photo in gallery: Magdalene Odundo vase The celebrated British potter Dame Magdalene Odundo turns clay into living things, curvaceous vessels that slyly evoke the human body. In the current show of her work at the Gardiner Museum, one standout is from the…
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Gallery Glances: Stella’s ‘Maker’s Market’ a last-minute shopping option
Well, dear readers, it is time for my holiday hiatus. Just in case you thought Gallery Glances was randomly published, it does, in fact, typically run on the first and third Friday of each month in The News Herald’s TGIF and prior to that at News-Herald.com. Mystery solved. That means you will not hear from…
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Newburyport Art presents ‘Pleinly Noted’
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } NEWBURYPORT — Newburyport Art (NAA) presents “Pleinly Noted,” a featured artist exhibition by member Maria Nemchuk. “Pleinly Noted” is on view in the Hills Gallery through Dec. 22. Her exhibition focuses on her en plein air work that she…
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Leading Irish artworks on public display
Artwork from renowned Northern Irish artists such as Colin Davidson, Oliver Jeffers and Graham Gingles are on display in a specially curated exhibition in Ards Arts Centre. The Collection features a specially curated selection of work from the Arts Council Northern Ireland’s Collection in its Georgian Gallery. As well as featuring renowned artists such as…
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At DMA, an encyclopedic show explores ‘Afro-Atlantic Histories’
“Afro-Atlantic Histories” is one of the few exhibitions that can open a viewer’s mind to an entire field of study, and set up a lifetime of looking and thinking. The original exhibition debuted in Brazil with over 400 works; the U.S. version (scaled down, but still encyclopedic, with over 100 pieces) came to the National…
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Poughkeepsie’s Art Effect helps young people ‘develop their creative voice’
The Art Effect of the Hudson Valley gives children a space to express themselves through art, while building their skillset and connecting them with their community. “At the heart of it, we’re helping young people develop their creative voice,” said Nicole Fenichel-Hewitt, the executive director of The Art Effect. The Art Effect of the Hudson…