Julia Lucey’s art is Trying to Fit In
Julia Lucey’s mixed media collages in “Trying to Fit In” feature native plants and animals from her home region in California.… Read More
Botanical beauties in Patrick Puckett’s Western Civ. exhibition
Patrick Puckett’s richly colored, botanical-background portraits of women gaze straight out of the frame at the viewer.… Read More
Kehinde Wiley’s floral, haunting Archaeology of Silence
The supersized scale, botanical backdrops, and haunting poses of Kehinde Wiley’s portraits make for a powerful viewing experience.… Read More
Meeting artist Julie Speed at her Marfa studio
Artist Julie Speed’s studio in Marfa, TX, contains her enigmatic, surrealist works in oil, gouache, and collage. … Read More
Botanical portraits: Patrick Puckett art at Wally Workman Gallery
I’ve admired Puckett’s supersized oil portraits for years, but his new exhibition, Mythos, at Wally Workman Gallery is his best yet.… Read More
A bug’s eye view: Shawn Smith’s Ommatidium exhibition
Artist Shawn Smith’s “Ommatidium” exhibition at grayDUCK Gallery explores our complicated relationship with the insect world.… Read More
Layers of natural beauty, predators and prey, in Julia Lucey art
I’m in love with the enchanting art of Julia Lucey, who’s exhibiting her mixed media collages at Austin’s Wally Workman Gallery through 1/29.… Read More
Field of Light by Bruce Munro glows at the Wildflower Center
Field of Light at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is a fiber-optic, bioluminescent-eque display by artist Bruce Munro.… Read More
East Austin art safari
Sharing interesting art that I found on an art crawl in East Austin: works by Valerie Fowler, Will Hatch Crosby, and Chris Levack.… Read More
Zilker Garden turns surreal after dark with fantastical neon art
At the Surreal Garden event at Zilker Botanical Garden, fantastical neon art creates a Vegas-y glow amid the palms, cypresses, and ponds.… Read More
A collected home with heart at Via Libre garden
Back to Via Libre garden — the Freeway Garden — an enchantingly creative courtyard garden by artist-designer Cynthia Deegan. … Read More
Women in American art at Crystal Bridges Museum
At the marvelous Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, I admired many works by women artists and others featuring diverse American women.… Read More
The Joy of Nature: David Hockney exhibit at Houston Museum of Fine Arts
David Hockney’s landscape paintings mingle with Van Gogh’s at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts through June 20, 2021. Go see it. … Read More
Paris parks, pigeons, and masterpieces
June 28, 2018 After Venice earlier this June, we spent 5 nights in Paris, a city I hadn’t seen in 29 years. It is as beautiful and vibrant as I remembered. My husband took these twilight images from the top … Read More