This course introduces students to the history and practice of art criticism and provides them with relevant tools and experiences to craft their own body of art criticism.
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Calling Good Design a Spade Will Bryant’s exhibition, Outta Shape at Companion Gallery is an exuberant spectacle of wacky shapes in fun blues, pinks and yellows. Bryant’s coevals will recognize the vocabulary of zany squiggles and pastels at play as being “so eighties” though they may be less familiar with the Memphis Design … Continue reading
Subconscious Landscapes: Rocky Schenck’s The Recurring Dream
Nightmares cover the walls of Texas State’s Wittliff Collections as Rocky Schenck’s latest collection of photographs The Recurring Dream reflect the artist’s haunting inspiration. This collection is very large, made up of over one hundred images. Schenck says his photographs are “found realities” or natural scenes that he captures within his lens. He later brings … Continue reading
Moving More Than Mountains
By Kendall Mealey Imagine the home you grew up in, and the home that your family built, being torn down, and taken away from you in a matter of months. That is the exact feeling that the envelopes the hearts of the residents of Peru. The exhibition Moving Mountains: … Continue reading
Discovering the In-Between
You Don’t Know My Horizon, Kim Faler Art Pace One important thing that art does for the audience is getting the individual to think. This is accomplished through Kim Faler’s work You Don’t Know My Horizon. The work is a series housed in Art Pace, a residential gallery in San Antonio. The building serves as … Continue reading
Surrealism in the Real
The Whittliff Collections: Recurring Dream, Rocky Schenck SURREALISM IN THE REAL Walking into Rocky Schenck’s exhibition at the Whittliff Collections induces the feeling of venturing into a vault. Although the gates to the gallery are completely open, there is still a feeling that there are precious things held within, waiting for discovery and adoration. … Continue reading
Owo Ni Koko: Don’t Get Too Attached
Exhibition: “We Are All Bewitched” Artist: Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya, a.k.a. Akirash Location: Big Medium Gallery at Canopy Event: East Austin Studio Tour Unlike the other installations at Big Medium, “We Are All Bewitched” confronts the festival-goers with its part-art, part-consumer detritus concoction aimed at “addressing the economic systems that impact daily life.” At the center … Continue reading
A Chaotic Placement of Art: A critical review of “This is beyond insane. This is babel.” By ALAS
December 15, 2016 The best way to experience an exhibition is to enter with only knowing the title. Knowing just the title, leaves much more room for excitement and anticipation. Therefore, I find an exhibition’s name the most crucial aspect because it is the first encounter visitors have with the artworks. Upon entering, This is … Continue reading
