Pictures of Artists

Robert Boyd

Last weekend, Jack Massing hosted a one-day only exhibit dedicated his recently deceased partner Michael Galbreth. (They were the Art Guys.) The entire Houston art community showed up. I decided at some point to take phone photos of as many of the artists, collectors, etc., who were there. I missed a lot of people I wanted to photograph, but I got a few. And here they are.



Britt Thomas. Thomas has an exhibit up at the Galveston Arts Center through April 12, 2020.

Clint Willour


David Aylsworth


Dean Ruck. I've written about Havel + Ruck projects several times over the years.


Debra Barrera. Here is a post that Dean Liscum wrote about a Debra Barrera exhibit.


Dennis Nance.


Elaine Bradford. Here's a post I wrote about Elaine Bradford.



Emily Peacock. I've written about her several times over the years.


Emily Sloan. Emily Sloan was one of the first artists in Houston I ever wrote about.


Iva Kinnaird.


Jack Massing.


James Surls. I've written about this giant of Houston art several times.


Jim Pirtle. Jim Pirtle has appeared in this blog many times.


Joachim West.


Julon Pinkston. Julon Pinkston has had several appearances on this blog.


Neil Fauerso.


Paul Kremer (l) and Phillip Kremer. I wrote about Paul Kremer's former collective (maybe it would be better to be call it a club), I Love You Baby.


Paul Middendorf. Runs Space HL (formerly Gallery Homeland).


Peter Lucas.


Scott Gilbert.


Sharon Kopriva (center) and Brad Barber (right)


Susan Budge.


Travis Hanson.


Tudor Mitroi.


William Camfield.


Xandra Eden. Director of Diverse Works.

A Gathering of Flies: Texas Contemporary Art Fair, part 2

Robert Boyd

Continued from part 1.

Art I Liked, continued


David Ryan, Stacks, 2014, acrylic on wood, 15 x 20 inches at Galerie Richard


Don Martiny, Cayuse, 2013, polymer and pigment, 56 x 31 inches at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts


Iva Kinnaird, You Are Here

I liked Iva Kinnaird's charmingly naive floor map. Although the fair was so small this year and so rationally laid out that it hardly seemed necessary.


Iva Kinnaird, You Are Here

I think the idea was that over the course of the art fair, Kinnaird was to paint in notable artworks from various booths, but by Saturday she had only done a few.


Iva Kinnaird, You Are Here (detail)

Like this little detail of a Debra Barrera piece at the CAMH booth.


Iva Kinnaird, You Are Here (detail)

And this very accurate but tiny rendition of Ryan Humphrey's Tapes at the Public Trust.


Ryan Humphrey, Tapes, acrylic on canvas, 55 x 60 inches

At the last Diverse Works fundraiser, I got a tiny, unusual watercolor by Ryan Humphrey. The pieces he had at Dallas's The Public Trust we more typical of his work that I had seen elsewhere.


Ryan Humphrey, (left) Untitled, mixed media on hand-shaped skateboard, 24 x 8 inches and (right) Untitled, mixed media on panel, 12 x 10 inches

I spoke a bit with Public Trust gallerist Brian Gibb. He complained about his location in Dallas's Deep Ellum neighborhood. I countered that Deep Ellum seemed like a good location, what with Barry Whistler Gallery and Kirk Hopper Fine Art Right there (I didn't even mention the Deep Ellum Windows). He proceeded to dish gently on those two rivals (as gallerists are wont to do), but his main complaint was that he thought his gallery would be more visible in the Design District (where Holly Johnson, Conduit, the Goss Michael Foundation and Dallas Contemporary are). And he may be right--in my several visits to Dallas, I've never seen the Public Trust! And I regret that now, because it was one of my favorite booths at the fair.


Kim Beck at Mixed Greens


Kim Beck


Kysa Johnson at Morgan Lehman


Kysa Johnson

Kysa Johnson makes art for the physicist in your life. I loved these particle-decay paintings.


Jane Liang, Covered II, 2012, oil on canvas at Yvonamor Palix Fine Arts


Luis Jimenez at ACA Galleries


Nicholas Wood, Bubble #6, 2014, glaced ceramic, 16 x 14 x 4 1/2 inches at William Campbell Contemporary Art


Nikki Rosato at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery


Nikki Rosato (detail) at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery





Patti Oleon, Circular Corridor, 2010, oil on panel, 18 x 45 inches at Cris Worley Fine Art



Sandy Skoglund, Knees in Tub from the Reflections in a Mobile Home series, 1977, 14 x 14.5



Sandy Skoglund, Toaster from the Reflections in a Mobile Home series, 1977, 13 x 16.7


That's enough for this post, but keep on reading and looking in part 3 (the final chapter).