Garland Fielder

Garland Fielder reviews the exhibition "William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows," on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Garland Fielder on the tireless, cathartic work of Philip Guston.

Garland Fielder on Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin's elegant and moving exploration of long-forgotten lives.

Garland Fielder writes about "Dimensions Variable," a performance activation at the Moody Center for the Arts in Houston.

Cyrus has consistently made work that speaks to large, relevant, and topical issues while still managing to startle.

"Architecture is always the jumping off point for me."

McNeil's understatement and structural references belie a strength in subterfuge, like an unsensed yet omnipresent virus lurking in our midst.

Matthew Bourbon populates his paintings with figures handpicked from a variety of sources; viewing them is akin to channel surfing through the vast array of human folly available on late…

Lucas Johnson: Drawings 1971-1990 at Moody Gallery presents the artist’s mid-career works, lyrical renderings of the natural environment Johnson immersed himself in before his untimely passing in 2002. The pen-and-ink…

An interesting work of art can do many things. First and foremost, it can reveal a secret about the world in a way that is both fresh and stimulating, creating…

Ali Fitzgerald – Swan School; The Matriculation  Art Palace April 18 –  June 7, 2008 Depictions of adolescent angst can be powerful—think The Catcher in the Rye. But in the…

As a visual language, abstraction can be as predictable as it is iconic. Depending on your take, the results either seduce with their meditative surface or bore you to tears.…

Texas Gallery, arguably the bluest-chip gallery in Houston, harvesting talents such as Tony Oursler, Chuck Close and Elizabeth Murray among many others over the years, presentes the blandly titled Lines,…

Piotr (pronounced “Peter”) Chizinski’s show Jerry-Rigged Co-Op, at Redbud Gallery successfully combines a microscopic view of white-trash culture with a lovingly crafted display of quirky commentary.

Domestic bliss comes in many forms. For some, it means the ordered array of the banal elements that define our immediate surroundings. For others, it encompasses the timeless household chores…

Norman Bluhm, a second-generation abstract expressionist whose name is seldom bandied about, painted some of the most remarkably direct paintings of that genre at the end of his life, when…

For many Americans living north of the Rio Grande, visions of their neighbors to the south have a way of sustaining a worldview that defines the other as wild, oppressive,…