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Anthony Sonnenberg on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Jun 21, 2025
https://discovernewfields.org/events-exhibitions/resplendent-dreams-reawakening-the-rococo
June 6, 2025 - March 29, 2026
Resplendent Dreams: Reawakening the Rococo showcases work from three contemporary queer artists—Robert Horvath, Diego Montoya, and Anthony Sonnenberg—who were influenced by the Rococo period, a movement in European art, architecture, and design that developed over the first half of the 1700s. The artists draw on the Rococo period’s sense of frivolity and extravagance to create extravagant contemporary pieces, demonstrating how the past continues to resonate with their concerns and sensibilities today.
Guests will be captivated by a broad range of media and artistic practices, including an immersive watercolor room by Robert Horvath inspired by Rococo palace interiors, ceramic sculptures by Anthony Sonnenberg, and extraordinary gowns from Diego Montoya, who is known for his Emmy Award-winning designs for We’re Here and RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Margaret Meehan interview With Good Reason
With Good Reason | Jun 21, 2025 | by Host: Lauren Francis
https://www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/brightness/?t=1680&autoplay=1#s1680
Our Stories, Ourselves
Margaret Meehan (University of Mary Washington)
Do you ever find yourself humming a favorite nursery rhyme to yourself or recalling a fairy tale to get through a tough time? Margaret Meehan says there’s a more sinister side to the classics. She remixes and explores those stories in her ceramic work to ask who were we taught to fear? To respect? How were we taught to be?
David Canright featured in Patron Magazine
Patron Magazine | May 30, 2025 | by Terri Provencal
https://issuu.com/patronmagazine/docs/patron_s_june_july_issue?fr=sYTgzZTgzOTg1NTU
David Canright exhibition review: Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News | May 28, 2025 | by Ben Lima
"This is one of the most distinctive and memorable shows of the year."
Jeff Gibbons and James Sullivan in Nasher Sculpture Center exhibition Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture
May 20, 2025
Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture
May 17, 2025 - August 24, 2025
Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture presents a new selection from the Nasher’s permanent collection offering conversations between works past and present about possibilities for sculpture across a century and a half. The period it encompasses spans two world wars, astounding technological innovations, dramatic changes to the earth’s environment, and increased movement across geographic borders for people of all kinds. All the while, artists have continued to find new ways to give form to concerns as old as humanity itself.
Conversations among the artworks fall into thematic groupings of sculptures and works on paper by artists of different generations. For example, contemporary artists such as Frances Bagley, Julian Hoeber, and James Sullivan share an enduring fascination for the human figure with historical predecessors like Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti and Willem de Kooning. Artists exploring the role of the void in sculpture include Barbara Hepworth (in the garden) as well as Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Tony Marsh, and Beverly Semmes, while Jonathan Borofsky, Jeff Gibbons, and Jean Tinguely consider sound and mechanical movement as elements of their work. Downstairs, sculptors ranging from Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder, and David Smith to Nairy Baghramian, Jody Pinto, and Matthew Ronay consider our connections to the natural world.
Generations also celebrates numerous recent acquisitions from individuals and foundations, and the Nasher's Drawing Forum, many on view for the first time. Of the 50 works in the exhibition, 22 were acquired in the last year, with 11 being a part of a major gift of 36 works from Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger--one of the largest gifts from a private family since the museum was founded--continuing the generosity and insight of Raymond and Patsy Nasher.
Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture is supported, in part, by Nasher Members and donors, The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, TACA, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Johnny Floyd included in the National Juneteenth Museum exhibition Declarations of Freedom
May 20, 2025
https://nationaljuneteenthmuseum.org/
June 12, 2025- July 19, 2025
Gallery of Dreams, Fort Works Art and the National Juneteenth Museum present: Declarations of Freedom, a group exhibition of contemporary art and selected works to celebrate Juneteenth and its message. Curated by Dr. Lauren Cross and Christopher Blay, this exhibition features multiple artists from Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth.
Declarations of Freedom is a powerful exploration of liberation in all its forms. It invites guests to delve into reimagined histories, the creation of new communities, the evolution of freedom over the past century, and the enduring power of personal and collective stories.
Opening Reception Thursday, June 12 from 6-9 PM
Vincent Falsetta, Billy Hassell, Robert Jessup and James Sullivan at Longview Museum of Fine Arts
Feb 21, 2025
https://www.lmfa.org/exhibits/six-degrees-of-separation/
The group exhibition, 6 Degrees of Separation, is on view at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts through December 2025.
Barsamian, Susan kae Grant and Lance Letscher featured in The Art of Dreams, Visions, Other Worlds book
The Art of Dreams, Visions, Other Worlds: Interviews with Texas Artists | Feb 15, 2025 | by Robert Craig Bunch
https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648432323/the-art-of-dreams-visions-other-worlds/
The hardcover book, published the the Texas A&M University Press, includes interviewed sixty current Texas artists, including Barsamian, Susan kae Grant and Lance Letscher. The book focuses on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and others whose work, broadly speaking, is inspired by dreams, visions, myths, and imagined worlds.
Billy Hassell in the inaugural Surls + Locke Museum exhibition Heard of G.O.A.T.S.
Feb 4, 2025
The Surls + Locke Museum in Cleveland, Texas, has announced that its inaugural exhibition, Heard of G.O.A.T.’s, will open on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Heard of G.O.A.T.’s is curated by Mr. Surls and features works by 21 Texas artists, including Terry Allen, Billy Hassell, Ellen Tanner, Jack Massing, and Julie Speed.
Johnny Floyd at the Mint Museum
Feb 4, 2025
https://www.mintmuseum.org/exhibition/coined-in-the-south-2024/
The exhibition, Coined in the South: 2024, is on view December 14, 2024 through April 27, 2025. Including the work of Johnny Floyd, the exhibition aims to bridge the gap between museums, galleries, and studios by showcasing thought-provoking works by the emerging artists living or working in the Southern United States.