[Art] is a free spot in society, where you can do anything. Chris Burden, as quoted in a press release for Robert Beck / Robert Buck: A two-part presentation, Part 1: Robert Beck: Vestige, Ulterior Gallery, New York, 2018
Making things is a process by which to explore a universe out of reach, from within the limitations of our finite form. Jonathan Marshall
Austin-based artist Jonathan Marshall investigates historical perspectives and how they relate to a sense of place, conveying his commitment to making and sharing ideas as a means of declaring one’s presence on this planet at this time, what he sees as the thread that has connected the ancient language of art since its inception.
Both artists have what I call, at close range, “real artist” DNA. This means they make unexpected and very clever connections and juxtapositions—the kind the average human does not—that shows up in their work somewhere along a spectrum of abject and sublime. Christina Rees, review of Shelby David Meier & Iva Kinnaird: Make Time, Glasstire, October 9, 2016
The strange emotional pull in each picture comes from the artist’s obsessive need to make it. Calvin Tomkins, “A Doll’s House: Laurie Simmons’s Sense of Scale,” New Yorker, December 10, 2012
In this panel discussion, What Remains: The Legacy and Future of Confederate Monuments, curator, writer, and artist Dr. Noah Simblist and artist Lauren Woods converse with American historian Dr. Max Krochmal concerning the ways that communities tell the stories of our shared histories through art, scholarship, archives, and the built environment.
The purpose for our architecture, as with the National Memorial, is always to offer a z-axis for one’s individual and social identity in time, and a sense of hope for our natural environment and community. BAU Butzer Architects and Urbanism
Architect and director of the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture Hans Butzer, AIA, in conjunction with Fort Worth AIA’s 2018 Design Awards, presents “Architecture Is a Social Act.”
Our so-called “pillow talk” is so much about what we do. Not the specifics of how we make our work or what happened in the studio today as much as what it’s like to move your work from your mind to the studio to the world and, like, what exactly are we doing being artists in the 21st century? Laurie Simmons, interview with Sheila Heti for Interview magazine, March 4, 2014
"I'm not a storyteller, I'm an imagemaker. The story is made in the mind of the viewer." Dirk Braeckman
Texts are a kind of abstraction. Brad Tucker as quoted in the press release for Temporary Relief at Inman Gallery, Houston, November 2, 2018-January 5, 2019
There is also something to be said for zooming out from the granular political immediacies and considering the bigger picture. . . .
