Joseph R. Wolin

Joseph Wolin discusses how artist Dana Robinson's monoprint paintings examine the history of corporate visions of Blackness.

Given the almost aggressive blandness of so much of the artist’s subject matter coupled with the relatively generic facture of the paintings, we might find ourselves a bit hard-pressed to know exactly what to make of this show or why the museum has chosen to anoint Wood with its institutional imprimatur.

As heir to multiple sculptural and cultural histories, Bhabha operates as a great synthesizer, yet her works never feel derivative of her forebears; they seem to glower with their own aesthetic logic and enigmatic meaning.

You can be forgiven for not knowing his name, even if you live in the Austin area. "It makes perfect sense, me being a narrative painter. It’s clearly an extension of my songwriter-self.”

McMillian’s elegiac works remind us that America’s current situation stems directly from unresolved original sins that go back generations, even to the country’s founding.

Molloy often works in precisely this way, employing a clever economy of means to manipulate our apprehension of images to which we would otherwise not give a second glance.

This mini-retrospective represents a formidable Texas debut for a newly minted local artist. Her labor-intensive process can be seen as a means for calling attention to things too important to be overlooked.