Katherine Bradford

Bradford’s figures are all generically human yet singular in their execution, as if they tripped out of the brush and landed in unpredictable ways. As a fulcrum to build and drive her storylines, she uses the goofy little things that paint and accidental shapes can do. And hidden in her cavalier brushwork are wise and focused decisions.

Michael Frank Blair, “Katherine Bradford at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,” Glasstire, December 9, 2017

Fortress Presents Modern Music - An Evening with Alex Zhang Hungtai

This concert has been cancelled. Alex Zhang Hungtai show postponed: Unfortunately Alex is dealing with a broken wrist and is postponing all performances until 2019 to allow time to heal. Our best wishes for a quick recovery to Alex and please keep an eye out for a possible make-up show and additional programming at the Modern from Fortress Presents in the coming months!

Fortress Presents Modern Music - An Evening with Gingger Shankar

Gingger Shankar is a singer, violinist and composer, and was born into one of the world’s most acclaimed and influential musical families. Her accomplishments include working with top producers and film composers including Mel Gibson, The Smashing Pumpkins, Trent Reznor, Mike Nichols, Mike Myers, and James Newton Howard. In 2011 she was chosen as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s ‘25 New Faces to Watch’, as well as becoming a member of the Advisory Board for the Sundance Film Festival. Gingger composed music for the critically acclaimed 2011 Sundance U.S.

Fortress Presents Modern Music - An Evening with Helena Deland

Montreal's Helena Deland writes songs that are a testimony of a given time or place, converting her memories to something that sounds, in a word, unforgettable. A myriad of influences filter in and out of her writing, from '60's Parisian pop to indie folk to fuzz rock. She describes her songwriting as a collection of 'unsent letters,' perhaps fueling her self coined genre, 'sincere pop.' Helena captures the unapologetic aspects of womanhood the world needs today, highlighting powerful femininity in her vocals and refined writing in her unique lyrical choices. 

Kamrooz Aram

 

Over the last few years, Kamrooz Aram’s paintings have sought to rehabilitate the status of ornament and pattern within modernist aesthetics. Challenging the epithet ‘decorative’, Aram uses ornament conceptually. 
Murtaza Vali, “Kamrooz Aram: Recollections for a Room,” ArtReview Asia

Courtney J. Martin

“The work’s a combination of radicalism and humanism,” she says. “When I stand in front of these paintings, it forces me to be there in a way I recognize as essential to my well-being.” Artist Roni Horn quoted in Howie Kahn, “Home Is Where the Art Is: The Ryman Family,” Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2015

Michael Lobel

Soon after Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop paintings exploded on the art scene in the 1960s, observers grew curious about the popular roots of his work. Critics, curators, and scholars began to trace his borrowed imagery back to the comic books, newspapers, and other commercial printed media from which it came. Michael Lobel

William Cordova in conversation with Kate Green and Carter Foster

Having lived and worked fluidly between three different cities (New York, Miami, and his hometown of Lima, Peru), William Cordova creates artwork that deals with his real-life issues of transition and displacement. . . . Often site-specific, Cordova’s installations challenge preexisting histories of the places they occupy and present new perspectives on the fleeting significance of his subjects. Artsy, “William Cordova: Biography”

Blue Backdrop for Minor Arts

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Kamrooz Aram
Blue Backdrop for Minor Arts, 2018
Panel: oil an pencil on linen; Pedestal: oil on mdf, brass, terrazzo; ceramic Overall: 50 1/4 × 9 × 9 in. (127.64 × 22.86 × 22.86 cm) Pedestal Unframed: 48 × 66 × 2 in. (121.92 × 167.64 × 5.08 cm) Panel
Courtesy of the Artist and Green Art Gallery, Dubai

Photograph by Kevin Todora