“Naomi Schlinke: What You See” at Flatbed

The vibrant colors, organic forms, and transparency in the show’s captivating ink on paper works offer exotic archipelagos to explore

"...to go, and there it settles, bleeding into the paper to make what is to my eyes a chaotic,..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Ann Conner: Symphony Suite

These colorful prints of graphic shapes over wood grains are playful and celebratory of hue and texture

"...book and while away the hours filling in outlined shapes with the brightest, lushest colors in my box of..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Arts Review by Robert Faires

“Katy Horan and Teruko Nimura: Residual” at ICOSA

In their joint show, the two artists use paper crafts as a medium for exploring how traces of the past disrupt the present

"...A diamond-shaped cascade of folded paper sculptures, pink, red, and white, tumble from the ceiling..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

deEP end

deEP end

"...A working definition of the Paper Shapes: Paper Chase neurosis shredded with the post-punk delinquency..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

Free Week Speed Dating

"...added oddball electro-rock of the Hype Machine variety, while Paper Shapes closed with the driving, linear post-punk spasms from..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

Page Two: Proposition Puzzle

A series of shapes that all fit together, although not like jigsaw pieces

"...different ideas, ambitions, ideals, and emotions that drive the paper. Serving our readers is one of the most important...."

Oct. 31, 2008 Column by Louis Black

For the Love of the Line

In the exhibitions “Old Master Drawings From the Suida-Manning Collection” at the Blanton Museum of Art and “Selected 20th-Century Master Drawings” at the Norwood Gallery, we can indulge our eyes in samples of art spanning five centuries.

"...always begins, the empty space of a sheet of paper or parchment, a canvas or block of stone. What..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Jan Heaton: New Watercolors"

When a true artistic talent is at home with watercolor, the results are stirring, and so it is with Jan Heaton

"...(usually) light paints and the unexpectedness of water on paper, the results are stirring. So it is with Jan..."

July 23, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Jade Walker: Merriment

This solo show explodes with shapes that have big personalities and enough color combinations to make your eyes reverberate

"...human than inanimate objects. Bright orange, blue, and red shapes are either stacked or falling down from what looks..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

Annette Lawrence: Free Paper

Artfully crafted stacks of junk mail address time, the environment, and much more

"...'Annette Lawrence: Free Paper'..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Not Too Tight at All

The disciplined abstracts of Helmut Barnett

"...many works rendered on stretched canvas and fine thick paper: posed on easels, stacked in corners, hung on walls,..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Get Back

Francisco Matto created bold modern art with the timeless graphic style of the past

"...face. Not the most detailed mug ever put to paper obviously and not even boasting all the features we..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Balm: New Paintings by Bradley Kerl

Painter Bradley Kerl leads us from inside to outside and beyond

"...sunset colors, the varied greens are contained in discrete shapes – flattened versions of their three-dimensional shadings in nature...."

June 18, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hour Has 22 Minutes

Pop quiz on Canada, with a SXSW 07 musical cheat sheet

"...drunken Castle Project, the New Pornography Immaculate Machine, and Paper Bag labelmates Uncut and Tokyo Police Club, whose bouncy,..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

More From 'Iconoclast' Country

W. Leon Smith on freedom of speech, peace, and Crawford

"...spotlight again recently when The New York Times and papers across the country reported on the controversy swirling around..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Entrance to the Scriptorium: Landscape of Epitomes

Local Arts Reviews

"...an arrowhead placed on a hand-lined grid. Using mulberry paper, gold leaf, oil, and ink, Maisner punctuates Nin's words..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...Chung THE TENTH MUSE Alyssa Cole A Prince On Paper Matthew Cordell EXPLORERS Martha Cotera VOICES FROM THE ANCESTORS..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

"Erin Shirreff" at Lora Reynolds Gallery

The artist blurs the line between photography and sculpture, creating a stunning result

"...piece Lacquer, pocket is a collection of large, flat shapes that look like sheets of scrap paper placed in..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Review by Marisa Charpentier

Sydney Yeager: Moving Parts

These busy abstracts create visual fields that are active, festive, and seductive

"...shifting hues as thousands of tiny scraps of multicolored paper float and flutter, catching the light – a visual..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'LeWitt x 2'

Austin Museum of Art's exhibit is successful in revealing nuances of LeWitt's work, but less so in showing art by his peers

"...able to explore within art's most basic elements: lines, shapes, structures, and the cube. These became the axes for..."

July 11, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

Exhibitionism

"...notice some large canvases painted in acrylic with geometric shapes raised-off the surface and slivered open like secret pea..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Arts Review

Holiday Wish Lists 2005

Give 'til it helps: part one

"...Musical instruments and art accessories of all shapes and sizes..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Features Feature by Anne Harris

'Paper 2'

A thoughtfully hung show that draws one deep down a river of paper-based beauty

"...'Paper 2'..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Poetry of Pain

The Fires

"...was maddeningly unmoved, even glossed with a faint cheer, shapes curved into smiles."..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Review

Mercedes Wanguemert-Peña's Grand Obsession Stuck Inside Cuba

"...is printed a zillion times or more on newsprint paper used to wrap palm trees, luggage, a bed, a..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...to parse. In college, I wrote my first research paper on Victorian children’s literature, memorized “The Jabberwock” in French,..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers'

Marrit Ingman's new memoir: an excerpt

"...best writer in town, and her writing strengthens this paper every week. She writes about film, primarily, but also..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Dude Descending a Staircase

Four for the Read

"...ideas floating around this pair of panels with enigmatic shapes painted on them, he gently puts the idea before..."

May 8, 1998 Books Feature

Why, a Duck!

What You Did See at AMOA's Art Guys Exhibition

"...astonishingly sharp graphic sense, obvious in every work on paper in the museum. They are also smart. And they..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Claus & Effect

The holiday how-to guide for the perpetually perplexed

"...loved one beforehand to get an idea of what shapes and styles appeal...."

Dec. 15, 2006 Features Feature by Meredith Barnhill

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