Email Author Kelly Klaasmeyer

2006 Stories by Kelly Klaasmeyer

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 10, 2006

  "Courbet and the Modern Landscape" Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) is widely considered the forerunner of the impressionists... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 3, 2006

  "Frank Stella - 1958" So here's a painter who became one of the leading lights of minimalism in painting in the '60s, one of the real... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 27, 2006

  "Fellowship Series XI: Expositions" CACHH's fellowship series exhibitions continue to offer up interesting, bite-size selections of work... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 20, 2006

  "Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary Argentine Photography" Addressing subjects as diverse as war, the tango and the country's current... More >>

• Long Life

  published July 13, 2006

  In Bert Long's painting Ride the Tiger (2002), the artist depicts himself astride a tiger, naked save for a massive pair of eyeglasses. His... More >>

• Fantastic 4

  published July 6, 2006

  A hefty woman lies on the bathroom floor next to the toilet, her shirt hunched up around her waist, her pants at her ankles and her crotch in full... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 6, 2006

  "Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary Argentine Photography" Addressing subjects as diverse as war, the tango and the country's current... More >>

• Picking Icky

  published June 29, 2006

  Kaneem Smith doesn't make pretty sculptures. Her work conjures up the same kind of queasy fascination you get looking at some weird dead thing on... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 29, 2006

  "Drawing Inside/Out" This sprawling drawing show is housed way up on Lawndale's third floor. Curated by Michelle White, Lawndale... More >>

• Space and Quiet

  published June 22, 2006

  I wasn't particularly expecting to like Swiss artist Urs Fischer's installation "Mary Poppins" at the Blaffer Gallery. I'd just seen his... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 22, 2006

  "Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary Argentine Photography" Addressing subjects as diverse as war, the tango and the country's current... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 15, 2006

  "Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary Argentine Photography" Addressing subjects as diverse as war, the tango and the country's current... More >>

• Junkyard Love

  published June 8, 2006

  Jim Love's sculptures first emerged after a trip to a Waco junkyard, where he found "huge mounds of junk 20 to 25 feet tall." According to Love,... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 8, 2006

  "Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary Argentine Photography" Addressing subjects as diverse as war, the tango and the country's current... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 1, 2006

  "Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary Argentine Photography" Addressing subjects as diverse as war, the tango and the country's current... More >>

• Curtain Call

  published May 25, 2006

  The first time I saw "Joseph Havel: A Decade of Sculpture 1996-2006" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, I'd wandered into the middle of a... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 25, 2006

  "Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary Argentine Photography" Addressing subjects as diverse as war, the tango and the country's current... More >>

• Art Remains

  published May 18, 2006

  You might remember Maria Fernanda Cardoso from her amazing "Flea Circus" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston some years back. The... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 18, 2006

  "Bringing Shadows to Light: Contemporary Argentine Photography" Addressing subjects as diverse as war, the tango and the country's current... More >>

• Olde School

  published May 11, 2006

  They ought to be serving mead at Inman Gallery. In "Forever Rafter," Bill Davenport -- a self-confessed teenage Dungeons & Dragons... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 11, 2006

  "Christian Eckart: Purpose Driven" Christian Eckart makes work that hovers between sculpture and painting. Shapes are cut from aluminum and... More >>

• Improv Art

  published May 4, 2006

  There's a piece in "Perspectives 151: Dan Steinhilber" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston that looks like the work of a manic clown.... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 4, 2006

  "Insistent Objects: David Levinthal's 'Blackface'" In the art world, a host of contemporary African-American artists have been... More >>

• The Body Shop

  published April 27, 2006

  A copy of "Donating Your Body for Plastination" was enclosed in my press kit for "Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds 3: The Anatomical Exhibition... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published April 27, 2006

  "Alfredo Jaar: The Sound of Silence" Artist Alfredo Jaar's installation The Sound of Silence at DiverseWorks tells the story of... More >>