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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009If for some reason you happened to find yourself out in Abilene, TX this Thursday or Friday stop by the Shore Art Gallery on ACU Campus. I’ll be speaking about my art and career on Thursday morning at 10am.
Then my show, Wharton’s Jelly, will be opening Friday night from 5:30-7:30. I’ll make an informal gallery talk [...]
GIANT, 1956
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Almost a month ago now I watched the film GIANT from 1956. I can not get the images out of my head. The look of the film keeps haunting me in such a good way. The cast is incredible: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, and even Dennis Hopper.
But its not the characters that I’m [...]
Style Station
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009The best part of my Austin adventure was a trip to the Style Station. My co-workers had read about it in Lucky and said we had to stop. I was skeptical. I’ve made the drive to Austin/San Antonio more times than I can count and never seen a vintage store on the side of I-35 in the middle of [...]
the Missions
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009I spent the last few days in San Antonio with a stop over in Gruene to do some kayaking on the Gualdalupe river. It was the perfect weekend. Nothing like sitting along the river with some good salsa and chardonnay at the Gristmill. Being a good Texan, I made my visit to the Alamo. The day seemed more poignant [...]
5×7
Friday, May 22nd, 2009For the last few years I’ve donated to the Arthouse 5×7 Fundraiser. Artists connected to Texas are asked to create works at the size of 5″ x 7.” The art is then sold anonymously at $100 each. Its a cool concept and makes for a great show. The big event was a couple weeks ago, but the [...]
Texas Wildflowers
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009I love a Spring roadtrip in Texas. We headed about 5 or 6 hours south down I-45 for the Easter weekend to visit family. This is the BEST time to get out on the road in Texas. The wildflowers are everywhere! I remember taking roadtrips with my grandparents and them pulling over on the side of [...]
Objectified SXSW
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009R has been down in Austin the past several days for SXSW Interactive, which is also overlapping with the SXSW Film Festival. Jealous doesn’t begin to describe my feelings when I got a call from him a couple hours ago telling me that he was waiting in line to get tickets to a screening of Objectified. [...]
Rothko and Byzantine
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009A bit more on my lovely Houston afternoon….the Rothko Chapel and Byzantine Fresco Chapel . Both are part of the Menil Collection and both couldn’t be more stark in contrast. Or maybe they’re really not all that different. Maybe its just representations of a different spiritual time for a different culture. Either way, both spaces [...]
dearest Cy
Monday, March 9th, 2009After spending the week in LA I came home to make the drive to Houston and visit some very good friends. We spent the most wonderful Saturday afternoon in the museum district. And the most amazing was getting to visit Cy. He is a painter…a painter’s painter, the very best…so in awe and so in love with [...]
Austin Zombies!
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Apparently its a zombie kind of day. A super dense fog settled over Dallas this morning. As I drove to work I kept waiting for a zombie to run out in front of my car. In my brain fog= zombie attack. Then I browse over to Wooster and see the coolest hack. Like I need [...]
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