Gabriel Dawe at Dallas Contemporary

Plexus No. 4 by Gabriel Dawe

Gabriel Dawe's installation Plexus No. 4 at the Dallas Contemporary has been extended to January 23. One of the more impressive installation exhibits I've visited in the past few years. Gabriel's work with colored string seems to play with our visual perception through the interaction of the colors and the complex construction that moves between varying fields of depth. One exhibit that truly shouldn't be missed.

Dallas Contemporary
161 Glass Street
Dallas, Texas 75207

Gary Schott

eskimo kisser #5 by Gary Schott

I quite like Gary Schott's mechanical playthings. There's a bit of nostalgic whimsy in them, and they make me smile. A couple of his pieces are currently on view in the CraftTexas 2010 exhibit at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, up until Dec. 30. View Gary's portfolio here.

David Sullivan at Lawndale

image from David Sullivan's site

I visited Lawndale Art Center this weekend and one artist that caught my eye was David Sullivan. Sullivan's Fugitive Emissions installation includes three looping videos that explore the relationship between biological matter and the petro-chemical process. The imagery, constantly shifting in focus and forms, offers a visual approach that reflects the amalgamation of chemical sciences with living biology. The animations, created while Sullivan was at A Studio in the Woods, enter an already expansive discourse exploring the post-modern reality of the seen and unseen; questioning how, as a culture, progress and its impact on our very lifestyle can so easily depend on abominations of nature. Fugitive Emissions highlights the complex but not unfamiliar issues surrounding human intervention, through the framework of science, with our natural environment.