By MARK STOKES | Illustrator mark@mstokes.com Roll On! Name: Edgar Martinez Age: 19 Spotted: on the patio of Taco Cabana on Lemmon Avenue. 12:45 p.m. Occupation: When this hip-hop cutie is not DJing or trick skating at his job at a roller skating rink, you can find him rubbing elbows at Kaliente and Escandalo. This [...]
By Rich Lopez Staff Writer North Texas’ gay visual artists exercise their freedom of speech — and voice their social activism — through the power of the image ART PROJECT: The falling 8s in Robb Conover’s ‘Requiem for Silence,’ above, imagine the defeat of Proposition 8, while Mark Stokes’ fighting rainbow fist, below, symbolizes a [...]
By Rich Lopez Staff Writer Three diverse Dallas galleries plan to move you — one way or another Art is supposed to be moving. It can be boring or pretentious or worse, awful but it evokes a reaction. Intentional art is a different matter. It plans to move you and your soul. Moses Art Gallery’s [...]
By Mark Stokes – Illustrator What do you get when you cross a straight soprano with a lesbian church-goer? Best friends Let’s give ‘em something to talk about Who: Mary McMeans and Celina Garcia Spotted: At the Cathedral of Hope Mary (who’s straight) and Celina (a card-carrying lesbian) met in the Cathedral of Hope choir [...]
By David Taffet Staff Writer A day trip to DFW’s nearest West Texas neighbor offers unlikely art fare THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: A collection of pop-up artist Robert Sabuda’s amazing, life-sized books are on display this month in Abilene. Everyone knows that Fort Worth has world-class museums that often outshine Dallas (and for that matter, [...]
Jim Frederick discusses being an HIV+ artist on Internet radio Gay artist Jim Frederick has remained silent about his ailment, but will speak about it publicly on a Podcast. Two years ago, gay Dallas artist Jim Frederick contracted progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy — a viral infection better known as P.M.L. — and it turned his life [...]
By Daniel A. Kusner Life+Style Editor Big D’s creative forces unite for the Cedar Springs Art Fest: Meet queer vendors Clint Mordecai and Sherry Henry SATURDAY ALONG THE STRIP More than 200 artists and vendors are expected at the CSMA Art Fest 2009, which stretches along "the crossroads": from Cedar Springs Road at Regan Street [...]
By Daniel A. Kusner Life+Style Editor Queer artist Carl L. Andrews shoe-slaps Dubya for being a war-hungry, soulless, oil henchman CARL’S CANVAS: Andrews with his entry, "Soulless: Blood-Oil Diamonds on the Soles of His Shoes." While the Obama Age is in its infancy, many of us are still chewing on Bush 43′s legacy. Carl L. [...]
SEGAL’S GAY ICONS George Segal is generally credited with creating the first permanent piece of public art related to gay rights. His white bronze work called "Gay Liberation," in Sheridan Square in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, has been on display since 1980. It depicts two men and two women interacting, apparently in solidarity following the [...]
By ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com Sculpture can literally die in Marc Quinn’s twisted, wonderful world MARC QUINN Goss-Michael Foundation, 2500 Cedar Springs Road. Through Jan. 23. 214-696-0555. Maybe you’ll remember the firestorm in 1989 when a New York museum exhibited a photograph called Piss Christ, in which a crucifix was submerged in [...]
