Email Author Kelly Klaasmeyer

2005 Stories by Kelly Klaasmeyer

• Capsule Reviews

  published September 22, 2005

  "Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse" Bill Traylor and William Edmondson are two African-American artists whose work... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published September 15, 2005

  "Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse" Bill Traylor and William Edmondson are two African-American artists whose work... More >>

• How Touching

  published September 8, 2005

  Sometimes you go to an art show expecting one thing, and you get another. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's "Landscape Confection" is... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published September 8, 2005

  "Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse" Bill Traylor and William Edmondson are two African-American artists whose work... More >>

• The Little Weed that Could

  published September 1, 2005

  For Paul Druecke's conceptual project Bright Sun Partial Shade, he commissioned a work of art from another artist and donated it to the... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published September 1, 2005

  "Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse" Bill Traylor and William Edmondson are two African-American artists whose work... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 25, 2005

  "Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse" Bill Traylor and William Edmondson are two African-American artists whose work... More >>

• What's in a Name?

  published August 18, 2005

  In 1946, Allen Rankin wrote an article about artist Bill Traylor for Collier's magazine. "When Uncle Bill Traylor began to paint, he went... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 18, 2005

  "Amy Arbus: Rites and Rituals" This show presents work by Amy Arbus, the daughter of legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Diane is a tough... More >>

• Sold Out

  published August 11, 2005

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• Scenes from Summer

  published August 4, 2005

  Art Houston, our fair city's annual dead-of-summer art extravaganza, was originally called "Introductions," and galleries used the event to... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 4, 2005

  "Amy Arbus: Rites and Rituals" This show presents work by Amy Arbus, the daughter of legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Diane is a tough... More >>

• Hop on POP

  published July 28, 2005

  Populence is a great word, a combination of "pop" and "opulence." Coined by a music video producer named Sharon Oreck, it originally... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 28, 2005

  "From Myth to Life: Images of Women from the Classical World" The West has long lionized Greek civilization, but most Greek women probably... More >>

• Fine Lines

  published July 21, 2005

  Do you know Gego? Her work was one of the standouts in the 2004 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston exhibition "Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 21, 2005

  "Amy Arbus: Rites and Rituals" This show presents work by Amy Arbus, the daughter of legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Diane is a tough... More >>

• Fantastic Form

  published July 14, 2005

  With the exhibition of works by Luis Tomasello, Sicardi Gallery brings yet another little-known Latin American master of avant-garde work... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 14, 2005

  "Amy Arbus: Rites and Rituals" This show presents work by Amy Arbus, the daughter of legendary photographer Diane Arbus. Diane is a tough... More >>

• Process Proud

  published July 7, 2005

  A photograph shows German artist Mario Reis sitting in a lawn chair with a black sleep mask over his eyes and a drawing board in front of him.... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 7, 2005

  "Dan McCleary" The title of the painting Man Weighing Himself (2004) by Dan McCleary pretty clearly describes what's going on... More >>

• Art Lite

  published June 30, 2005

  Deborah Colton Gallery is located in the David Adickes compound on Summer Street, whose parking lot -- which is filled with gargantuan sculptures... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 30, 2005

  "Dan McCleary" The title of the painting Man Weighing Himself (2004) by Dan McCleary pretty clearly describes what's going on... More >>

• Tunnel of Love

  published June 23, 2005

  For the past month and a half people have been slamming on their brakes and craning their necks on Montrose Boulevard -- but not for any of the... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 23, 2005

  "Angel Rodriguez-Diaz/Carter Ernst" Angel Rodriguez-Diaz's hyperreal, kitsch-infused paintings depict luchadores, the masked stars... More >>

• Scary Ordinary

  published June 16, 2005

  Todd Hido has lurked in banal suburban neighborhoods photographing ranch-style houses at night. He has recorded the interiors of featureless... More >>