Flowers Cover Everything at the Stephen L. Clark Gallery

Letscher fingers do the walking among these gardens of delight

"...1. This review is a collage, let’s say, although of course we’re considering it textually..."

April 8, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kate Breakey: "Black Tulips & Dead Flowers"

This exhibition focused on specimens of the plant kingdom is like a series of windows into arcane botanical memories

"...September of last year already seems like part of some long-dead past...."

June 19, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Kate Breakey: Ornithology" at Stephen L. Clark Gallery

Where late the sweet birds sang, where now resides the egg and eye

"...Sing a song of light and shadow, the complex melodies of particle and wave..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Keith Carter: Notes on the Universe" at Stephen L. Clark Gallery

This solo exhibition shows the photographer in pursuit of whatever unseen cosmic force animates us

"...The hound's head is tilted toward the sky and, judging by the shaggy fur..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

CAMIBAart Gallery's Troy Campa

Troy Campa left behind a successful career in architecture to develop a new creative life with CAMIBAart Gallery

"...If you could reinvent your life, what would it look like? What..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

A Sense of Place

For two decades, Stephen L. Clark's gallery has made a home for photographers of the region

"...Pictures at an exhibition: the grizzled actor on the movie set, perched on the porch..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Art of the Business of Art

Gallery owners David Berman, Wally Workman, and Steve Clark talk about their lives promoting artists and selling art

"...Visual artists of all ilk have a thing with money. Most don't have..."

July 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Show and Sell

Austin art is getting national buzz, but is anybody buying it?

"...Austin is a city proud of its talents and wares, and we try to buy accordingly. There..."

March 14, 2008 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

New Works: Jack Spencer

Nashville-based photographer Jack Spencer is such a maestro in the darkroom that the prints he creates have the mysterious, almost shrouded look of Old-West silver tintypes

"..."New Works: Jack Spencer" Stephen L. Clark Gallery, through May 10..."

March 26, 2004 Arts Review by Sam Martin

A World Slowly Liquefying

Rocky Schenck comes home for celebrations of his dreamlike art photography.

"...The photographer says, "My approach is rather simple: I record on film what I see and what..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Top Ten Art

The Best Art Shows in 1997 That I Never Reviewed

"...(IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) by Rebecca S. Cohen..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Arts Feature

Fierce, Fierce Beauty

The title for Keith Carter's exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art, "A Poet of the Ordinary" describes the photographer to a tee, a man who takes subjects from the everyday world and takes pictures of them that tell their story with the distilled purity of expression that characterizes great poetry.

"...The room was packed to triple capacity, some 230 people squeezed into corners, doorways, aisles,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Eye Wide Open on Lance Letscher

With two major solo shows and a new documentary about him, the Austin collage artist readies to be seen in a new way

"...At work in his kaleidoscopically colorful home studio in Central Austin, artist Lance Letscher..."

March 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Sean L. Malin

A Mutual Respect

Russell Lee's documentary photographs of the Great Depression helped fashion our collective visual memory of that era, but his greatest achievement may have been the trust he engendered in his subjects.

"...I wish I had known Russell Lee in the Sixties, when he taught photography at..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Turning the Lens on Us

Austin is hosting the 40th national conference of the Society for Photographic Education, which aims to consider how the United States has been represented by photographers in the past and where photographers need to focus their attention in the future.

"...you may be noticing, there are a few more people than usual milling around Austin this weekend. They aren't..."

March 21, 2003 Arts Feature by Erina Duganne

Sean Perry: Fairgrounds

Exquisitely toned black-and-white images transport us to a twilight world of thrills

"...Stephen L. Clark Gallery..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Let Me Show You Something You May Have Missed

Sean Perry's photographs offer to show you familiar settings in a whole new light

"...Does the world need another photograph of Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium?..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Two 'Hot' for Your Eyes

The 187-artist Red Hot • Red Dot Sale at Women & Their Work brings together artwork from a diverse swath of Austin's creative community

"...I like big art shows, so I really enjoyed previewing the..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Made Pictures

The Photos of the Wittliff Gallery & Mariana Yampolsky

"...Marco Antonio Cruz, "Ciegos en Mexico," 1990 (The Blind in Mexico)..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Fire Aid

Assistance has been organized for the more than 70 artists and arts organizations affected by last week's fire at the Guadalupe Arts Center

"...the more than 70 artists and arts organizations who lost artwork, materials, equipment, office space, archives, personal items, and..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Critics Table's Grand Tales

The winners of the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...attended previous awards ceremonies hosted by the Austin Critics Table – most often, lengthy affairs that make marathons seem..."

June 4, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Summer Fun: Texas Surf, Turf, and Tequila

Kenny Braun celebrated the release of his 'Surf Texas' this Saturday

"...There ain’t no party like a Texas Surf party, ’cause a Texas Surf party..."

May 13, 2014 Arts Post by Lizzie Jespersen

Summer Fun: Last Call for Surf Texas

Autumn's a few weeks away; it's not too late to catch some last Summer Fun

"...Our 2014 Summer Fun issue, released back in May, caught us rolling in the Texas..."

Sept. 3, 2014 Chronolog Post by Nina Hernandez

Art

Art Openings

"..."Dance Show," Skylight Gallery (Mar 4); "Definientia II," Gallery Lombardi (Mar 4);..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature

"Inside/Outside: Work by Texas Women Photographers"

The Women & Their Work exhibition "Inside / Outside: Work by Texas Women Photographers" finds established Texas artists alongside newcomers, and what this important exhibit reveals are new and older generations in step with one another, the future and the past side by side.

"...& Their Work -- it is a stamp not only of the gallery's maturity but also its continuing relevance...."

March 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

1999 Critics' Table Nominations

"...The Austin Theatre Critics' Table has released the nominations for its seventh annual awards..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature

Swell!

Surf Texas: It's not a question, it's an invitation. Just ask Kenny Braun.

"...Kenny Braun grew up surfing the Texas coast. The culture grabbed him by his beach baggies and never let..."

May 16, 2014 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Playback: Next Big Buzzes at SXSW 2018

Forecasting this year’s breakout acts

"...Pretending you knew about an artist before they blew up is a time-honored custom amongst music snobs. That's..."

March 9, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

'Surf Texas'

UT Press makes waves with 'Surf Texas,' a book of photographs by Kenny Braun

"...Longtime Austin photographer and surfer Kenny Braun has spent years..."

March 21, 2014 Arts Feature

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