The Lone Star State is often associated with the Southwest lifestyle and landscape: cowboy boots, football, longhorn cattle and a dry, dusty, sage-covered terrain, but it also has an unparalleled diversity that has attracted many creative-minded individuals of all walks of life.
From the town of Amarillo in Northern Texas, to the city of San Antonio in the Southern region, there is a plethora of art hubs, along with significant museums and institutions, that cater to the contemporary and representational art scene.
In Houston, the largest city in the state, and where the demographic is one of the most diverse in America, you’ll find cultural epicenters like the Theatre and Museum Districts—home to the popular Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where they strive to “connect the communities of Houston with diverse histories of art spanning 5,000 years and six continents,” say museum representatives.
Heading north, you’ll reach the very active and populated city of Dallas, boasting one of the “largest urban arts districts in the country,” according to the visitors bureau on their website, www.visitdallas.com. They also note that April is “Arts Month” in Dallas, where many flock to the Dallas Arts District to celebrate. “The 20-square block district is jam packed with fine art museums, performing arts venues, award winning restaurants and so much more,” the website explains.
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.
