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    Your Show Of Shows

    4 must-see Dallas art gallery shows to check off your list this December

    Kendall Morgan
    Dec 3, 2015 | 1:23 pm

    Nothing cheers us more than the gift of art. However, if your budget isn’t quite as expansive as your holiday spirit, the city’s galleries still have gorgeous presents, accounted for. A carefully curated selection of artistic-influenced gifts, a coffee table book examining the beauty behind America’s secret societies and some simply divine sculptural installations are just a few of the things on our holiday list.

    “Belonging,” Bumin Kim, Yuni Lee, and Jieun Lim, at Ro2 Art
    Reception: December 4, 7-10 pm
    Exhibition dates: December 4-January 9, 2016

    The personification of drawing in three dimensions. The marriage of strange and familiar forms and patterns. Materials as a metaphor for healing. For the Korean artists Bumin Kim, Yuni Lee, and Jieun Lim, things are not always as they first appear. Curated together by Ro2 Art, the trio’s work encompasses sculpture, installation, and painting, but there is a through line that runs along their very different viewpoints.

    The gallery’s co-owner, Jordan Roth, says he was first exposed to the work during visits to the University of North Texas, where Kim serves at adjunct professor, Lee is finishing up her MFA, and Lim is an undergraduate. Although they hadn’t been featured together in an exhibition before, their work proves to be complementary, as they all mix traditional Korean themes and techniques with contemporary global and Western themes.

    “There’s simplicity in form that’s apparent in each of the three artists’ works,” Roth explains. “Each of the artists is also experimenting in bending the rules in the use of the material, in the construction of original, shapes, forms, and compositions.”

    Although Ro2 has shown sculptural works from the beginning, the way the artists in "Belonging" upend traditional methods of presentation shows a new focus for the gallery, one that bodes for an interesting 2016.

    “El Mercado,” various artists at Erin Cluley Gallery
    Reception: December 5, 12-8 pm
    Exhibition dates: December 5-24

    A success in its 2014 iteration, Erin Cluley’s “El Mercado” is back for round two with a fresh focus on design and reimagined objects. This year, the gallerist has curated some of her favorite local talents, including haute rocks by the jewelry line B. Stellar and fresh prints by Neobantu.

    “I’m super excited about working with a couple of my Dallas faves,” says Cluley. “And I’m also showing surfboards by Richard Phillips and Stetson hats customized by René Treviño. (Artist) Rob Wilson and I have been working for months on a beautiful suite of risograph prints titled Pets Behaving Badly. The theme is whimsical, but the final product is seriously beautiful.”

    Rounding out the mix will be leather bags from Desert Hide, clothing, prints and a neon piece from Wheron, and embroidered works by bedthread. With kids’ clothes in the mix for the first time, this “Mercado” truly has something for everyone on your list.

    “As Above, So Below,” art from the fraternal lodge with Lynne Adele and Bruce Webb at Webb Gallery
    Reception: December 6, 4-7 pm
    Exhibition dates: December 6-February 14, 2016

    Masons, Shriners, and Odd Fellows alike, for years American fraternal societies have been a gold mine of esoteric knowledge, secret rituals, and iconography. Gallerist and artist Bruce Lee Webb has been fascinated with symbols such as the beehive, the heart in hand, and the skull and crossbones from the moment he started collecting fraternal lodge art in the late '80s.

    A discovery of objects from a defunct Odd Fellows lodge led to him being invited to join the organization itself, and Webb says he found the rituals “so meaningful to me. There were about five older men, including a number of WW II veterans, and they had practiced the lines and knew long sections of degree work from memory. (The lodge) was a way of connecting to the small town — they’re related to the old America that doesn’t exist anymore.”

    Webb, who is also a member of the Masons and the Knights of Pythias Lodge in Hastings, Nebraska, ultimately exhibited his collection at Austin’s Domy Books in 2011. Approached by a friend, Lynne Adele, who attended the event, Webb was convinced to create what ultimately became As Above, So Below. Complete with a forward from musician David Byrne and images by local photographer Kevin Todora, the coffee table art book will make its debut at the Webb Gallery this weekend with an accompanying exhibition and performance by the Austin band Lost Counts. The authors will move to Uncommon Objects in Austin on December 10, followed by a lecture and signing at New York’s Morbid Anatomy Museum on January 20.

    “New Works: Prints and Collages,” Dan Rizzie at Barry Whistler Gallery
    Reception: December 12, 6-8 pm, book signing 5-6 pm
    ​Exhibition dates: December 12-January 16, 2016

    A Dallas fixture in the go-go '80s, Dan Rizzie’s work could be found everywhere from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth to the walls of Shannon Wynne’s (Meddlesome Moth) storied Quadrangle bistro 8.0. Renowned for his vivid mixed-media works and bon vivant demeanor, Rizzie hasn’t had a one-man show in the area since the mid-2000s.

    But this month, Barry Whistler is bringing this Texas-trained talent back to unveil his latest collages and prints, as well as to sign copies of his first monograph, published this past March by the University of Texas Press.

    “Dan and I have known each other since the late '70s when I was working at the (now defunct) Gallery Delahunty, and he was showing there,” says the gallerist. “His SMU roots already made him a familiar artist in town, and we reconnected several years ago when he had a special exhibition at the Dallas Art Fair. Since this major 180-page monograph came out earlier this year, it was the perfect time to show a selection of his collages and paintings.”

    It promises to be a colorful evening, both on and off the gallery walls.

    Untitled White by Bumin Kim at Ro2 Art.

    Bumin Kim
      
    Photo courtesy of Ro2 Art
    Untitled White by Bumin Kim at Ro2 Art.
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    Ballet news

    Texas Ballet Theater executive director leaving for new gig in Northeast

    Stephanie Allmon Merry
    May 19, 2025 | 2:38 pm
    Vanessa Logan, Texas Ballet Theater
    Photo courtesy of Texas Ballet Theater
    Vanessa Logan joined Texas Ballet Theater in 2016.

    Vanessa Logan, who has served as Texas Ballet Theater executive director since 2016, is leaving TBT for a new role in the Northeast, the company says. Her final day with TBT will be June 30, 2025.

    The move will allow Logan to be closer to her family, the organization says. Her new position has not yet been announced.

    "While we will greatly miss Vanessa and her leadership at TBT, we support her decision to do what is best for her and her family and wish her well in her new pursuit," says TBT board of governors chair Anne T. Bass in a May 19 release. "Throughout her tenure at TBT, Vanessa has demonstrated the highest level of professionalism. It has been a delight to have worked closely with Vanessa over the last nine years, and I am most grateful for her unstinting efforts that have advanced TBT in so many respects."

    Logan joined North Texas' largest ballet company before the 2016-17 season; she previously had worked at the American Repertory Ballet in New Jersey and Boston Ballet.

    "Being part of TBT has been an immensely enriching and transformative experience. Partnering with Artistic Director Tim O’Keefe, working alongside such talented artists, and collaborating with a dedicated administrative and school staff has been a true privilege," Logan says in the release. "I am also deeply grateful for the unwavering support of our committed Board Chair and the Board of Governors, whose vision and leadership have been instrumental. Contributing to productions that bring beauty and artistry to our audiences and nurturing ballet education for countless children in Dallas-Fort Worth has been incredibly rewarding."

    During her tenure with TBT, Logan helped the company navigate through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 followed by a catastrophic winter storm of 2021; she helped smooth the transition of artistic director from Ben Stevenson to Tim O'Keefe in 2023; and she oversaw new school facilities in Richardson and Dallas. TBT has also begun a 65,000-square-foot renovation of its Fort Worth facility to support future growth.

    "Vanessa’s support and partnership during the transition was phenomenal. I cannot imagine another leader better equipped to guide TBT seamlessly through such a transformational change," O’Keefe says. "Her steadfastness instilled confidence and built trust with staff, students and subscribers as she ensured that we held true to TBT’s mission of honoring classical ballet while embracing a new chapter of artistic evolution."

    TBT’s Board of Governors will immediately start searching for Logan’s successor and will quickly name an interim executive director to oversee operations until a permanent leader is in place, they say.

    Texas Ballet Theater, which is a resident company of both Winspear Opera House in Dallas and Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, just closed its 2024-25 season with O'Keefe's all-new staging of the beloved ballet Giselle.

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