Jim Tommaney
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6 years ago | Visual Arts
Sometimes an artist is inspired to proceed in a certain direction, but the direction to a viewer may seem the opposite - uninspired. This is the case with Julon Pinkston's solo show, "Nailed" at Zoya Tommy Gallery. There are two very different app...
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6 years ago | Visual Arts
The population shift of Asians toward large cities has captured the imagination of Kirk Pedersen, and he in turn has captured its complexity in a series of photographs and photographic montages on display at the Asia Society. Rudyard Kipling's dic...
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6 years ago | Visual Arts
This is a most unusual exhibition, interesting and innovative, and also almost a demonstration of how crucial color choices are. Arnold Bocklin's 1880 painting, Isle of the Dead, shows a white-shrouded figure being rowed to an island. Inevitably, ...
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6 years ago | Visual Arts
Mari Omori first captured my eye - and my imagination - as part of a brilliant two-person show at Total Plaza in July. She is Japanese born, now a Houston resident and educator, and she creates delicate, graceful, surprising art through use of tea...
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6 years ago | Visual Arts
Tucked away next to a parking lot, a remarkable collection of majestic sculptures by internationally famed artists is on display behind attractive stone walls in an open-air park. It's the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen ...
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6 years ago | Visual Arts
"Buildering" is a word you probably have never heard before, and the same is true of the French word "parkour", but both these describe overt acts of artistic expression with elements of rebellion against the establishment - a "flash mob" may be a...