Email Author Kelly Klaasmeyer

2009 Stories by Kelly Klaasmeyer

• Capsule Art Reviews: "A Room of Her Own", "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk", "Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil", Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III)

  published December 31, 2009

  "A Room of Her Own" Group shows of women artists are exceptionally patronizing when the only connection between the works presented is that... More >>

• Cool Threads

  published December 24, 2009

  I'm a sucker for a good painting gimmick, and Brian Wills has one. Wills creates stripe paintings with slender and precisely spaced strands of... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "A Room of Her Own", "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk", "Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil", Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III), "Dario Robleto: Some Longings Survive Death"

  published December 24, 2009

  "A Room of Her Own" Group shows of women artists are exceptionally patronizing when the only connection between the works presented is that... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "A Room of Her Own", "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk", "Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil", Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III), "Hypnopomp: Britt Ragsdale", "Tierney Malone: Third Ward Is My Harlem"

  published December 17, 2009

  "A Room of Her Own" Group shows of women artists are exceptionally patronizing when the only connection between the works presented is that... More >>

• Debating Dario

  published December 17, 2009

  Artist Dario Robleto has made it big nationally. The San Antonio native was chosen for the 2004 Whitney Biennial, his work has been included in... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil", "Hypnopomp: Britt Ragsdale", "Lisa Orr: Epergnier"

  published December 10, 2009

  "Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil" This rarely exhibited painting by Cy Twombly is accompanied by several works from the artist's private... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "A Room of Her Own", "Tierney Malone: Third Ward Is My Harlem"

  published December 3, 2009

  "A Room of Her Own" Group shows of women artists are exceptionally patronizing when the only connection between the works presented is that... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "A Room of Her Own", "Howard Sherman: When gorillas shoot pigs", "Tierney Malone: Third Ward Is My Harlem"

  published November 26, 2009

  "A Room of Her Own" Group shows of women artists are exceptionally patronizing when the only connection between the works presented is that... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "A Room of Her Own", "Howard Sherman: When gorillas shoot pigs", "Tierney Malone: Third Ward Is My Harlem"

  published November 19, 2009

  "A Room of Her Own" Group shows of women artists are exceptionally patronizing when the only connection between the works presented is that... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III), "Howard Sherman: When gorillas shoot pigs", "Jon Pylypchuk", "Josephine Meckseper"

  published November 12, 2009

  Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III) It's big, it's bright, it's art-historically important, and it's at the MFAH. Frank Stella's... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "A Room of Her Own", "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk", Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III), "Reduced Visibility"

  published November 5, 2009

  "A Room of Her Own" Group shows of women artists are exceptionally patronizing when the only connection between the works presented is that... More >>

• Toilet Brushes and Total War

  published November 5, 2009

  German artist Josephine Meckseper's work upstairs at Blaffer Gallery is billed as engaging "leftist theories and politics in a consumerist... More >>

• Animal Art

  published November 5, 2009

  A mutant frog head with bug eyes grows out of a small metal paint bucket. It's placed on the floor to greet you as you first walk in the door of... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas", "Second Seating"

  published October 29, 2009

  "Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas" Jason Villegas isn't old enough to remember the pinnacle of polo shirt popularity, but like some... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk", "Katy Heinlein: Project Space," "Sasha Pierce: New Paintings" and "John Sparagana: The Crisis Professionals", "Reduced Visibility", "Second Seating"

  published October 22, 2009

  "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk" You only have to drive past the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to see some of the hippest public art in... More >>

• Polo by Jason Villegas

  published October 22, 2009

  Artist Jason Villegas has an obsession with polo shirts. And in a certain dark period in the '80s, an unhealthy number of America's youth... More >>

• All About Meeeeee!

  published October 15, 2009

  Laurel Nakadate's art really irritates me, and I still can't decide if that is a good thing or a bad thing. You may have heard about her —... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP", "Katy Heinlein: Project Space, " "Sasha Pierce: New Paintings" and "John Sparagana: The Crisis Professionals", "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento"

  published October 15, 2009

  "BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP" Wayne White's installation at Rice Gallery is stunning. White, widely known for his... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP", "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk", "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento", "Second Seating"

  published October 8, 2009

  "BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP" Wayne White's installation at Rice Gallery is stunning. White, widely known for his... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP," "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento," "Second Seating"

  published October 1, 2009

  "BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP" Wayne White's installation at Rice Gallery is a stunning example of contemporary art with a... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Katy Heinlein: Project Space," "Sasha Pierce: New Paintings" and "John Sparagana: The Crisis Professionals", "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento", "No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston"

  published September 24, 2009

  "Katy Heinlein: Project Space, " "Sasha Pierce: New Paintings" and "John Sparagana: The Crisis Professionals" CTRL Gallery has three, count... More >>

• Site Scavenging

  published September 24, 2009

  The video monitor shows the Kool-Aid Man wandering through 3-D digital worlds. The smiling red pitcher ambles through desolate urban landscapes,... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Katy Heinlein: Project Space," "Sasha Pierce: New Paintings" and "John Sparagana: The Crisis Professionals", "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento"

  published September 17, 2009

  "Katy Heinlein: Project Space," "Sasha Pierce: New Paintings" and "John Sparagana: The Crisis Professionals" CTRL Gallery has three, count... More >>

• Happy 30th

  published September 17, 2009

  Lawndale Art Center just turned 30. The arts organization that was birthed in a sprawling, derelict, old warehouse/cable factory on Lawndale... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008", "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk", "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento", "No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston"

  published September 10, 2009

  "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008" The photographs Amy Blakemore takes with a crappy plastic camera can make you cry. Dad (1999) is an... More >>