Texas by Georgia

How O'Keeffe Adopted the Lone Star State

"...information she had gathered in Texas in nearly every painting and drawing she produced. Can Texas claim her as..."

March 20, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

"Pillow" Talk

Terri Thomas on what's behind the sex in her Big Medium art show

"...strategies, such as artifice, digital inversion, the mask, masquerade (painting in wigs, props, childlike sexual codes of dress, tapestries,..."

June 5, 2014 Arts Post by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Naomi Schlinke and Sydney Yeager

The two artists talk painting and the turbulence that's common to their work

"...Schlinke and Sydney Yeager ply the waters of abstract painting in different boats, each using different stars to navigate...."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Art

Art Openings

"...This time the subject matter of the acrylic wall painting focuses on Texas Health workers and the services they've..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature

Our Murals, Ourselves

"...A first of its kind in Austin, the fresco-style painting was erected in 1950 by then-University of Texas professor..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Watching Art Grow

"...Audiences are encouraged to explore the making of a painting as well as view the artist's end product. At..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

How Austin Musician Gina Chavez Became the Subject of the City's Latest Mural

The story of an L.A. muralist creating a 12-foot-tall portrait of a local musical star

"...of similarly minded artists across the Southwest and Southeast, painting murals in communities along the way. But then a..."

April 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Phillip Wade and Friends on the West Austin Studio Tour

The artist has some creative friends show in his Clarksville home

"...has been creating ever since. For most of her painting career, she has done hazily rendered oil works, mostly..."

May 11, 2018 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

A Tug of War Between Art and Morality

Andrew Shea's Portrait of Wally follows the trail of Nazi plunder

"...in the late summer of 2010, a 98-year-old oil painting by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele sat in a warehouse..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Tom Russell's Sound and Vision

"...“Painting and songwriting are very closely tied to me, emotionally,..."

Feb. 14, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Spanking the Figurative

A new Austin gallery captures dancers with paint

"...him, the walls are covered with sketches, with new paintings and old from numerous artists, with hand-lettered posters for..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Looking Over His Shoulder

‘Alex Katz: Small Paintings’ brings you unexpectedly close to the artist

"...in your mind when you turn away from the painting, a glow that can compensate for the lack of..."

March 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Haitian Vacation

AMOA's Downtown Exhibition Offers a Cool Getaway

"...wander through an exhibition of beautiful objects and figurative paintings and sculpture with complex patterns and pleasing surfaces. Fanciful..."

June 6, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

City Theatre's Art

Macho arguments about taste abound in Yasmina Reza's dramatic comedy

"...The entire plot of Art revolves around a white painting. As we are told (repeatedly), the piece is 3..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Arts Review by Cat McCarrey

Secrets to Tony Bennett’s Success

What keeps the crooner going? Loving his job, and painting

"...him eat right and stay fit. And there's his painting, which has been a major creative pursuit of his..."

Jan. 16, 2014 Music Post by Robert Faires

Studio Visits: Sam Sanford

This painter logs long hours at his easel in an open, airy space at the front of his apartment

"...successful framing business, mentors a select group of Austin-area painting students, and makes his own works all within the..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

Letters at 3AM: Reveries

Beauty is something you don't have to deserve

"...glass. Stand where you will, transparent reflections coat the painting. But there is something correct about this: You must..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Model Citizens Bland and Keffer

Striking Poses in the Name of Art

"...Among the various women featured in the paintings (to be precise: the stunning and gorgeous paintings) by..."

March 21, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dark Insinuations

Ray Donley steps from the shadows to talk about his art

"...In this painting by Ray Donley, as in so much of his..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Covert Stories

Wally Workman Gallery presents the transgressive art of Ian Shults

"...say "disarmingly" because of the skill evidenced in his paintings and the paintings' sense of history: You expect to..."

July 23, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Art for Days

Can you handle two weeks' worth of the East Austin Studio Tour?

"...a variety of art from ceramics and textiles to painting, collage, and jewelry...."

Nov. 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New Art in Austin 2008: The 20 to watch

AMOA names the 20 Austin artists for its next 'New Art in Austin' exhibition

"...Yoon Cho, photography; Meggie Chou, mixed-media installation; Ali Fitzgerald, painting, installation; Alyson Fox, painting on mixed media; Buster Graybill,..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Christopher Schade: Islands

When a painting can make you seasick – as the ones in Christopher Schade's Islands series can – you have a work that's worth a look and a look again

"...It's not often that my initial response to a painting is a feeling of seasickness, but that's exactly how..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley

EAST, at Ease

The 2006 East Austin Studio Tour reveals 86 studios and one stacked pod art city with a shared alphabet

"...and commonalities between enterprises and families. It's incredible how paintings and drawings of real beauty and a tangible sense..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

From Stuff, Art

The 21st 'New American Talent' exhibition features a whopping 72 works of art, many of them created from everyday objects

"...Molt, proximity to the wall draws immediate comparisons with painting, but the point here seems to be the artist's..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Goya

Robert Hughes' description of Goya is tinged, unconsciously, with the image he himself presents to the public: the art critic as macho, for whom the acuteness of response to the occasions of sensibility becomes one of the fine tests of masculinity.

"...made the headlines by claiming that Goya's so-called "Black Paintings" were fakes, painted by his son Javier. This is..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Books Review by Roger Gathman

The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist

"...question. He sets out to track "changes in how painting and sculpture were evaluated during the early Renaissance, both..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Review by Tim Walker

Exhibitionism

The Suida Manning Collection: the Renaissance Is Here

"...made their local debut. Walking among the immaculately kept paintings that the university purchased late last year for $35..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Review

A Painter's Work

"...is only one thing that makes him unusual: his painting. Plain and simple, it's damn good...."

Jan. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Hana-Bi (Fireworks)

"...-directed films, TV and radio shows, newspaper columns, novels, painting, poetry, and lord knows what else. But until now,..."

May 22, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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