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D-Art, a Timeline — the fact-based herstory of D-Art from the Artists Coalition of Texas to Dallas Visual Arts Center and a little beyond, but not quite to The Contemp, which its founding mothers, Mary Albrecht and Mary Ward, would never have dreamed of or wanted to imagine.

There's at least one historical document behind every fact, but we've got the true story from 1977 through the mid-1980s, and still collecting more.

Accompanying the timeline comes the parable,
The Squeaky Wheel — The Noise that Just Won't Go Away,
about you-know-who saying you-know-what.

Found Art

Tom Jenkins   Kinetic Object (title unknown)   Part One
wood, nails, screws, bolts, wheel, pulley and motor
30.75 inches long. Table without wheel or pulley is 12.5 inches high.

Photographs + Stories by J R Compton

When I saw this on my front porch, I knew it had something to do with my friend, Dallas artist and Urban Archeologist Alex Troup, but I couldn't twist my mind into believing it was his art, which is usually smaller, finer crafted, often involves text, carefully finished colored surfaces and, lately, muted tones. It did not fit what I know of as his style. Whatever or whoever's it was, I liked it immediately. Next thought, where to put it.

There's a corner in the living room that I'd considered for Jim Starr's spider before parking that piece into a much bigger space in another corner. I hefted this heavy object onto the plastic wagon Anna gave me to haul groceries and pulled the ungainly thing into my home. Anna helped steady the unbraked wagon to lift the object into. Later, when she'd gone and I'd positioned the wagon into the corner and unloaded it, I nearly dumped the top-heavy clunk into a glass bookcase and worried it might crash through the front wall.

Continued on the ThEdBlog page.

 

Tom Orr - Scratch   2010   deconstructed cabinets

It was going to be a bank but the bank died before it opened, some enterprising young curators made it into an amazing art space for two days, then artists took back what they could, and the powers that are razed the building to the ground. Read the words and see lots of pictures of unique installation art at

WAMU/Modern Ruin
on Art Here Lately.
 

by Jim Dolan

Fannie Brito   Volverte a ver ( looking forward to seeing you)   2009
pigments and acrylics   36 x 36 inches

If there was such a thing as a lens that could look into the Unconscious, then looking at a Fannie Brito painting would give one a sense of what that might be like. Nebulae of color coalesce in the foreground, sometimes offering inclusions of text, more often than not in Spanish, her native tongue. Tangles of thought and image, bound in color, refer to emotions and act more as suggestions than as hardened ideas.

A three dimensional space vaults, depths are plumbed. The foregrounds of color suggest neural nets, or perhaps vast shapes of space dust roaming intergalactic nothingness. The work always seems to imply or depict the nanoseconds just before or just after creation or destruction.

Noting the strong sense of deep space, I asked Brito, a physician by training with an interest in psychiatry, if she was aware of this, and if so, in what dimension does it exist? (I know, I know, kind of a heavy question, but I wanted to see what she would say) ...

Continued inside with more yellow-red,
red-yellow and burnt umber, too.
 

Retiring Director Joan Davidow and Contemp Board Member  cutting the cake at the grand opening of The Contemp's new space and opening of LA artist James Gilbert's Warnings & Instructions

Art Here Lately includes Modern Ruin (the WAMU bank building that never was a bank but for three glorious days served as a filled-up art space, then they demolished the whole thing after artists removed their amazingly diverse installations) February 20 & 22; The Dallas Art Fair (February 2-7) and the grand opening of the ginormous new Contemporary (just before Joan Davidow announced her retirement), art talk, concepts, miscellaneous attempts to understand trends, fads, a cake-cutting, drawings, color schemes and other momentary dalliances.

The DallasArtsRevue Calendar is growing and growing, and now under the direction of Anna Palmer, has more events and shows and pictures and community information than ever before. Read it and be sure to send Anna news of your next show — check out The Pink Box there to learn how to send us show and event information, so we can include your news, fast.

Short Shows 2010 gathers the little reviews and stories that appear on the Calendar and other DARts pages after they're not new news anymore.

Remember me getting all het up about who really founded D-Art? Well I was wrong. But not nearly as wrong as the Director and Board of Directors at The Contemp. Working that story up now. Nice to have friends who were in the right places and who keep all documentation and proof. Coming soon to a DallasArtsRevue near us.

Why Does The Contemp Keep Wanting to Hide Their Real History and Index of The History of D-Art

What does an artist say to those who've gathered to celebrate her own life? Read Veronica De Anda Tosten's own eulogy under the Community banner on the Calendar page.  

Valton Tyler   The Clock   oil on canvas   48 x 48 inches

Valton Tyler is a self-taught Dallas original who's not nearly as famous as he should be. Or as he will be, though that may take him dying. Many buyers, sellers and long-time self-righteous borrowers of his work are impatiently waiting for the day when Valton goes platinum ... 

Valton Tyler   Anxiety   1990   oil on canvas   36 x 48 inches
images from Valley House dot com
 

Continued on the Short Shows 2010 page with a few more words and a lot more paintings of his from the last century.

  The Contemp and its changing history is moved to its own page, and their inaugural exhibition, LA artist James Gilbert's Warnings & Instructions finally opens 8:30-11 pm Saturday February 6 is their giant new, old building. See our Calendar for more info. 

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