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    Your Show of Shows

    Endings and anniversaries mark this month's best Dallas art gallery shows

    Kendall Morgan
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    Nov 6, 2015 | 1:14 pm

    Anniversaries and fond farewells make for a memorable November on the Dallas art gallery scene. We bid adieu to an ambitious Cedars gallery, discover the beauty in the banal courtesy of a local photographer, and celebrate a Deep Ellum stalwart space’s 10th anniversary.

    “The Instigators: Celebrating 10 Years of Kettle Art,” various artists, atKettle Art
    Exhibition dates: Through November 28

    Deep Ellum has evolved from Dallas’ nucleus of bars and clubs, to a place only the brave go after dark, to the next neighborhood likely to be ruined by overambitious developers. Through the last decade, Kettle Art founder Frank Campagna has been around to roll with the changes, and he’s not going away anytime soon.

    Focusing on emerging and mid-career Texan artists, Kettle celebrates a decade with work from Texas talent he dubs “the instigators,” the once-unrepresented stable of artists who launched their careers along with the space. For this anniversary, the likes of Sergio Garcia, Cabe Booth, and Erica Felicella are joined by newer talents furthering Campagna’s mission of bringing the neighborhood back to its artistic roots.

    “When we opened in 2005, Deep Ellum was pretty much over from its boom of the 1990s and really had become empty and somewhat dangerous,” Campagna says. “The local art scene was bursting with creativity in what seemed like an endless stream of talent that had no decent place to show. It simply made sense to embrace both the neighborhood and our friends by opening a venue with a focus on proper presentation. Ten years later, this concept still thrives.”

    We can’t wait to see what another decade will bring.

    “Open,” Fredrik Broden, at Stage 404 Studio
    Reception: November 7, 7-10 pm
    Exhibition dates: November 7-21, or by appointment

    Simple objects often hold complicated stories, even if we don’t discover them at first glance. Inspired by a collection of keys he purchased from a locksmith, Dallas-based photographer Fredrik Broden spent four years shooting his favorites until they evolved into modern relics.

    “The idea was to find the most pedestrian-looking ones; some were too pretty or ornate,” he explains. “I wanted the key that you have on your keychain. To me it’s almost like a coin — you look at it and wonder how many pockets it’s been in.

    “One key might have come out of a janitor’s belt and never gone outside of Dallas; another might have been on a businessman’s keychain and traveled the world.”

    Blown up to an epic 3-by-4-foot size, the limited series images are being sold for a relatively affordable $750. “Open” is just the first in a series of shows in the Exposition Park space that typically serves as photographer Kip Lott’s studio. More Dallas talent will exhibit their work in ongoing pop-ups during 2016.

    “Skeletons in the Closet,” Butch Anthony, at RE Gallery
    Reception: November 15, 6-8 pm
    Exhibition dates: November 15-December 13

    A folk artist with a very distinct viewpoint, Butch Anthony’s work has drawn breathless profiles from the likes of the New York Times and Garden and Gun. There’s just something about his old family portraits embellished with skeletons or tattoos (a style he has called “intertwangelism”), his Seale, Alabama-based “Museum of Wonder,” and his now-defunct “Doo-Nanny” festival that lend themselves perfectly to the Sunday Styles section.

    Inspired by a friend’s selling of a dashed-off drawing, Anthony’s first embellishment of a motel painting in 1994 led to a career that has taken him all over the world. For his exhibit at fellow Alabaman Wanda Dye’s gallery, Anthony is bringing about 20 big pieces and a “bunch of small,” all using “old photos and oil paintings that were just hanging on the walls in the 1890s — those spooky-looking ancestors. I scour junk shops and I’ve got people looking for ’em for me and I just graffiti over ’em.”

    Sadly, Dye, whose 1920s shotgun shack in the Cedars helped cement the area as an artistic destination, is moving on to greener pastures, returning to her native Alabama after the close of Anthony’s show. “Skeletons” will be the last chance for admirers of her experimental aesthetic to pay homage to the space.

    “Where You End and I Begin,” Frances Bagley and Ryan Burghard, at Cydonia
    Reception: November 14, 6-8 pm
    ​Exhibition dates: November 14-January 9. 2106

    The subject of marriage is one rarely explored within the gallery walls. A loaded topic to be sure, the human need to connect and unite influenced the upcoming dual artist exhibition at Cydonia.

    Portland-based Ryan Burghard has teamed with local legend Frances Bagley for a cross-generational exploration of the space where one person ends and the other begins. Through Burghard’s collages and Bagley’s installations, we have a call and response of what Burghard refers to as “a marriage of otherwise unrelated entities that feels accidental, yet inevitable.”

    Says Cydonia director Hanh Ho, “Frances … is coefficient to Ryan’s work. I wanted her, uniquely her, to answer his call. The context of these two artists together is interesting. I wanted this show … to force people to really look at what lies within and between the objects and between the contexts of the artists.

    “Finally the concept itself is interesting. Hardly anyone in contemporary art critically analyzes marriage.”

    And through analysis, we just might find understanding. Bring someone you love.

    Butch Anthony's is the final exhibition at RE Gallery.

    Butch Anthony
      
    Photo courtesy of RE Gallery
    Butch Anthony's is the final exhibition at RE Gallery.
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    Mall Art News

    Hammering Men return to NorthPark Center Dallas after 4-year nap

    Teresa Gubbins
    Feb 28, 2025 | 4:42 pm
    Hammering Men, 1982 at NorthPark Center
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    Hammering Men, 1982

    A signature sculpture at Dallas' NorthPark Center has returned to its stomping grounds: Five Hammering Men, 1982, a series by American artist Jonathan Borofsky, has returned to the mall following a four-year absence, which they describe as "a period of rest" to conribute to its longevity and lifespan, according to a release.

    Borofsky began his Hammering Men series in 1979; it became one of his best-known bodies of work with installations in Basel, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Seattle, Seoul, and Dallas.

    The piece can now be found in its original location in SouthCourt, located on Level One between Neiman Marcus and Dillard’s, their motorized arms slowly moving in a hammer-like gesture.

    “My original concept was to have many Hammering Men, all hammering at different locations around the world – all at the same time – sort of a worldwide installation connecting us all together,” said Borofsky in his artist statement on the series.

    When he was 25, Borofsky started counting for three hours a day, meticulously writing numbers in his sketchbook, convinced that this meditative process would reveal an underlying truth about the human spirit. He eventually began signing his works with numbers instead of his name — which can be found on the feet of the Five Hammering Men.

    The installation was removed in 2021 for this period of rest and restoration, the details of which — who did it, where they were stored — NorthPark Center does not reveal. However, NorthPark did post a video of the re-installation on Instagram.

    For its 20th anniversary in 1985, NorthPark corralled “A Celebration of Contemporary Art” — an exhibition of 33 works by 24 artists — many never seen in Dallas before, and the first time Five Hammering Men was shown in the U.S.

    NorthPark Center developer Raymond D. Nasher said in a statement at the time that it was their goal to give NorthPark an artistic dimension, confirming it as more than a commercial entity and abetting Dallas' dream to become an international place.

    That 1985 exhibition included these other works of art, still on view at NorthPark:

    • Barry Flanagan’s Large Leaping Hare, 1982
    • Antony Gormley’s Three Places, 1983
    • Roy Lichtenstein’s Double Glass, 1976,
    • Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure: Angles, 1979.

    Additional works by Borofsky have been displayed at NorthPark throughout the years, and a larger, singular Hammering Man, 1984-85, from the Nasher Sculpture Center, is currently on view outside of Neiman Marcus off Boedeker Street.

    NorthPark will celebrate its 60th anniversary this year, and this installation — which is from the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection — the first of several exciting additions to celebrate this milestone.

    "Five Hammering Men has been a favorite landmark at NorthPark Center for 40 years, catching the imagination of shoppers of all ages throughout the decades," NorthPark Development Company president Nancy A. Nasher says in a satement. "Bringing this iconic series by Jonathan Borofsky back to NorthPark is aligned with our mission to make museum-quality art accessible to the public and a wonderful way to celebrate our 60th anniversary."

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