Spring Gallery Night in Fort Worth is upon us. Twice a year, through cooperative programming, the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association (FWADA) brings together the collective spirit of the arts community.
Fort Worth’s art community has created a flourishing environment that produces top-tier talent, including celebrated local artists who exhibit their work nationally and internationally. The evening reminds patrons that the most authentic cultural connection they can make is the one that affords direct communication with the artists who interpret and illuminate the life experience they share. The local artists and the collecting audience are the lifeblood of the Fort Worth art market, and the members of FWADA are committed to maintaining a high standard of ethical conduct and professional integrity.
Here is a rundown of what’s on view this weekend in Fort Worth:
ARTES DE LA ROSA
1442 N. Main St., Fort Worth, TX 76164
817.624.8333
artesdelarosa.org
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Regular Hours: Tues.–Fri. 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Exhibition: Las Colecciones – Galeria de la Rosa & Annex Galleries
Las Colecciones (The Collections) exhibition celebrates and showcases local Latino/a/x artists working with different themes and across various disciplines. The exhibition highlights the diversity of the Latino/a/x experiences and perspectives in the North Texas region and Mexico. A special GRACIAS to all the artists that celebrate nuestra cultura!
ART ON THE BOULEVARD
4919 Camp Bowie Blvd., Suite B
Fort Worth, TX 76107
817.737.6368
artontheboulevard.com
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12-9 p.m.
Regular Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. or by appointment
Exhibition: Keep me Close: Work of Gloria Sepp
Gloria paints primarily in abstract expressionism, creating beautiful, thoughtful, soulful, and calming work. The majority of work is done in oil and acrylic on canvas, although watercolors on paper are also abundant, along with acrylic on wood panels. Gloria has multiple degrees in Art, and uses the brush, paint, canvas, colors, and paper to express her emotions. Additionally, stroll the gallery to visit and enjoy the work of Kay Wirz whose impressionistic, colorful pieces are delightfully playful and invoke smiles and awe, as does as the work of Camille Kerr depictions of nature and everyday events painted in oil acrylic and watercolor. Artist Barry Udoff’s abstracts contain small pieces of realism and mystery and are composed of oil on canvas with ground mediums added. Joe Badillo will be exhibiting his works in acrylic and oil on paper and metal, along with Phillip Ecton’s original concepts on printed on paper and canvas. Delores Hibbard works primarily in oil for landscapes, while Gale Johnston paints pastel hues in watercolor, acrylic, and on canvas. Also represented are Jennifer Stufflebeam (works on canvas), Bob Fox (monotypes on paper) and Todd Ford (works on canvas)
ARTS FORT WORTH
Fort Worth Community Arts Center 1300 Gendy Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107
817.298.3026
artsfortworth.org
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 9 a.m.–9 p.m. Regular Hours: Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Exhibition: CTRL+X Composed/desCompuestos
CTRL+X Composed/desCompuestos is a two-person exhibition curated by Maritza Bautista featuring the artwork of Gil Rocha and Cande Aguilar, both from South Texas in the Marlene and Spncer Hays Foundation Gallery. CTRL+X is the keyboard shortcut for “cut.” Here it represents a rasquache aesthetic of cutting, or taking from cultural representations, objects and visuals, that exist on the U.S./Mexico border region. The objects and materials are often scavenged or collected by Rocha and Aguilar from their original context—their hometowns—to reframe a new, yet authentic, survival mechanism needed to thrive as a contemporary artist living and creating in a culturally impoverished landscape—where few to no museums or galleries exist.
ARTSPACE111
111 Hampton St., Fort Worth, TX 76102
817.692.3228
artspace111.com
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12–8 p.m.
Regular Hours: Tue.-Fri. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Artspace111 will present Western Modernity, a reflection on Western Pop Culture through the Art of Ed Blackburn (1940-2022) and Linda Blackburn (1941-2022) for the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association Spring Gallery Night 2023. The duo spent most of their careers in Fort Worth becoming important fixtures in the North Texas Art Community, advancing the history of contemporary Texas art. Artspace111 will be open March 25, 2023, from 12-8 p.m. with music and food available for purchase in the evening hours.
ATRIUM GALLERY AT HSC
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Carl E. Everett EAD Building
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107 817.735.0301
unthsc.edu/atrium
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 2-7 p.m.
Exhibition: Caro Thompson Jackson
Caro’s style borders on impressionism, mainly concentrating on landscapes in oil; it’s full of motion and color. Mountains and southwest images capture her fancy. She shares her love of color in inspiring new work, with new motifs.
BEE STREET GALLERY
3000 Landers St., Fort Worth, TX 76107
214.668.2200
beestreetgallery.com
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Regular Hours: Tue.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. or by appointment
Exhibition: The gallery will feature a curated collection of artists from across the country.
FORT WORKS ART
2100 Montgomery Street Fort Worth, TX 76107 817.759.9475
fortworksart.com
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12 – 9 p.m.
Regular Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: March 25, 2023 – April 29, 2023
Exhibition: FWA presents two solo exhibitions from North Texas artists, Joshua Goode and Tejuola.
The Ruins of Burg Worth is a solo exhibition by Fort Worth artist and curator, Joshua Goode. The gallery will feature a collection of his faux artifacts and remnants of an “ancient” past while incorporating elements of an interactive installation and performance art.
Lines of Descent is a major retrospective of Tejuola. At the core of her work, Tejuola is focused on storytelling. Her chosen media, American gourds and African calabashes, are engraved with narratives of ancestry and the African and African American experience.
GALLERY 440
440 S. Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76104
817.335.0100
gallery440.net
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12-9 p.m.
Regular Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.–5 pm
Exhibition: Art Brut is a group exhibition that features paintings and drawings with shocking style and charisma by artists who are not afraid to rock the establishment of fine art. What unites these works is a sense of outsider energy and iconoclasm, a willingness to push beyond the boundaries of convention and create something wholly new. Artists include Texas natives George Zupp, Andy Don Emmons, Jackdaw Russell, and many others.
THE GALLERY AT UTA
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
502 S. Cooper St., Arlington, TX 76019
817.272.5658
thegallery.uta.edu
Gallery Night Hours: 12–6 p.m.
Life and Death: Luis Jiménez is an exhibition of works by the late, internationally known artist Luis Jiménez who was born in El Paso, Texas and died in Hondo, New Mexico in 2006. Guest curators Benito Huerta and Christina Rees have borrowed a wide array of Jiménez’s works from galleries, museums, and private collections throughout the region. The 35 works, ranging in date from 1973 through 2001, include maquettes, sketches, studies, drawings, and prints that he created to work through ideas that culminated in his famous large-scale sculptures.
Bridges III, a concurrent exhibition, features two borrowed museum pieces, Sherrie Levine’s After Russell Lee: 1-60, 2016, and Edouard Duval-Carrié’s Lost at Sea, 2014, for a third chapter in an ongoing collaboration with the Art Bridges Foundation. A photograph by local artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz was selected to create a metaphoric bridge or dialogue between the various artists’ themes and approaches to artmaking.
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM
3333 Camp Bowie Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76107
817.332.8451
kimbellart.org
Gallery Night Hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Exhibition: The Artist’s Eye with Matt Magee
The Kimbell presents The Artist’s Eye with painter/ sculptor/printmaker Matt Magee. In this ongoing series, practicing artists discuss their own works within the context of the Kimbell’s collections, revealing how contemporary concerns can parallel those of the past. Saturday, March 25 at 11 a.m.
The Kimbell Art Museum’s renowned permanent collection, which ranges from antiquity to the 20th century and includes European masterpieces, Egyptian and classical antiquities, and the art of Asia, Africa, and the ancient Americas, is on view in the iconic Louis I. Kahn Building and Renzo Piano Pavilion. Admission to the permanent collection is always free.
REBECCA LOW SCULPTURE GALLERY, INC.
7608 Camp Bowie West
Fort Worth, TX 76116
817.244.1151
rebeccalow.com
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12-9 p.m.
Regular Hours: Wed.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Dewane Hughes is the gallery’s featured artist. His work has always dealt with language. Influenced heavily by the poets of the Beat Generation, as well as subsequent linguistic scholars such as Noam Chomsky and Marshall McLuhan, he tries to create a formal reality that speaks to the essence of communication. It is his contention that all “art” happens in the space between the object and the viewer. One will, also, see new works by Rebecca Low, Chasity Hernandez, David Mikitka, Tatara Siegel, Crescencio Parra, David Burkhart, DeWayne Nall, Terry Jones.
SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM
309 Main Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817.332.6554
sidrichardsonmuseum.org
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 10 am–5 pm
Museum Hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Exhibition: Night & Day: Frederic Remington’s Final Decade, features artworks from the artist’s last
10 years of his life in which Remington strove to revise his color palette, compositional structure, and brushwork as he set his Western subjects under an interchanging backdrop of the shadows of night and the dazzling light of day. The exhibit includes 10 of Remington’s nocturnes, or what the artist referred to as his “moonlights.” In honor of FWADA’s Spring Gallery Night, the museum has invited Fort Worth artist Erika Duque to paint in our galleries. Visitors can stop by between 6:00pm – 7:30pm to see the artist in process as she paints night-based landscapes. No registration is required.
SINACA STUDIOS
1013 W. Magnolia Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104
817.899.0024
sinacastudios.org
GALLERY HOURS: Mon.–Sat. 10 a.m.–9 p.m., Sun. 12–6 p.m.
Gallery Night Live Demonstration – March 25, 6–9 p.m.
SiNaCa Studios is hosting local artist, Calder Kamin, the current Artist-in-Residence, as the featured artist for Spring Gallery night. Works that were created during the residency will be on display in the gallery from March 25th-April 1st. SiNaCa Studios will present collaborative in-person and online live-streamed demonstrations between Calder and the SiNaCa team from 6pm until 9pm on March 25th in the glassblowing studio.
Artist, educator and advocate, Calder Kamin, transforms trash into beautifully crafted creatures and opportunities to inspire others to be creative and courageous about the future. Kamin’s recycled art and public workshops have traveled to museums across the states including The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art American, The American Museum of Natural History, The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation, The DoSeum, the Contemporary Austin, and Women & Their Work. Kamin’s recent and upcoming exhibitions include Ivester Contemporary, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Presa House Gallery, and Cecille R Hunt Gallery at Webster University. Kamin is a 2023 resident artist at The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH.
TCC – TRINITY RIVER CAMPUS EAST FORK GALLERY
300 Trinity Campus Circle
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817.515.1126
tccd.edu/services/student-life/fine-arts/art-galleries/trinity-river-campus-gallery/
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 11 a.m.–2 p.m.
The Trinity River Campus presents an exhibition of TCC-Trinity River Campus student artwork. The show will be juried by William Giron, Executive Director of Artes de la Rosa, Fort Worth Cultural Center for the Arts. Attendees will also be able to view the RadioShack corporate art collection that is on permanent display throughout the campus. Trinity River Campus East Fork Gallery is located downtown in the 300 block of W. Belknap Street.
Park for free in their garage. Please use the Cherry Street entrance to enter the parking garage and inform the parking attendant that you are attending Gallery Night.
THE ART GALLERIES AT TCU:
FORT WORTH CONTEMPORARY ARTS
2900 W. Berry
Fort Worth, TX 76109
817.257.2588
theartgalleries.tcu.edu
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12–8 p.m.
Regular Hours: Wed.-Sat. 12-5 p.m.
Exhibition: 150 Years / 150 Artists
In conjunction with TCU’s sesquicentennial, the School of Art presents a group exhibition showcasing the work of 150 artists that explores and celebrates the legacy of the visual arts on campus. Artists featured include current and alumni TCU student and faculty artists, along with selections of work from the TCU permanent collection.
THE ART GALLERIES AT TCU:
MOUDY GALLERY
Moudy North Building
2805 South University Drive Fort Worth, TX 76129
817.257.2588
theartgalleries.tcu.edu
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12–8 p.m.
Exhibition: Over my Head: Benjamin Loftis – MFA Thesis Exhibition
It started with a hit and ended with a tear. Ever since I was a little boy, I remember the physical and emotional abuse that was my life. As an adult, those psychological and emotional effects still permeate; seeping out like a wound that won’t heal, a glass that’s too full. By using symbols and metaphors to explore the human condition, these childhood experiences fuel a desire to understand the psychological and physical tolls of the evocation of trauma. The physical body and the function of that body are a recurring thread throughout my work, specifically my role as a caretaker. Through the remembrance of that time, the smell of candy, the sound of a bang, a picture of shoes, this vulnerable work seeks to represent a common thread of humanity, which is the hurdles we experience in life. (Benjamin Loftis)
THE UPSTAIRS GALLERY
1038 West Abram St., Arlington, TX 76013
817.277.6961
upstairsartgallery.com
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12-7 p.m.
Regular Hours: 12:30–5 p.m.
Exhibition: Unheard Melodies gathers gallery artists and musicians to explore art about music art as music, music as art music about art “Heard melodies are sweet; but unheard melodies are sweeter” Keats.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL GALLERY One Gallery (Two Locations)
4935 Byers Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76107
817.737.9566
williamcampbellgallery.com
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12–9 p.m.
Regular Hours: Tues. – Fri. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sat. 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Exhibition: Bernd Haussmann | Awe
This original location of the gallery presents an exhibition by Bernd Haussmann in his solo exhibition titled: Awe. The works by Haussmann are organic in color and approach. Haussmann describes the delicate ink and turpentined oil renderings of plant life as they represent “nature as a fractional environment.” Bernd comments on the subject as: “And the Art of the Nature We Are, (Awe and the nurture of art – Awe and the art we are), The meaning of awe is open, undefined, a moment. It can go in opposite directions, towards awesome or awful.” The delicate palate and deliberate incised lines in the watercolors and oils convey the unifying message of the fragility of nature.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL GALLERY (Second Location)
217 Foch Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107
682.224.6131
GALLERY NIGHT HOURS: 12–9 p.m.
Regular Hours: Tues. – Fri. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sat. 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Exhibitions: Lee Albert Hill | Semioshphere & Lloyd Martin | Intonate Schemes
William Campbell Gallery is pleased to present two solo exhibitions at the gallery’s newest location in the Foundry District of Fort Worth. The solo debut of the gallery’s newest artist Lee Albert Hill in: Semioshphere, whose work is architecturally inspired and are robust canvas-wrapped panels in bold color. Lee is a Texas-based painter and architect by trade who has been painting for over 25 years.
Lloyd Martin’s solo exhibition titled: Intonate Schemes will also open on gallery night. Lloyd’s newest series of paintings are vibrant evolutions of his layered and translucent technique. The identifiable translucence of “under-color which are the ghosts of the central image” says, Martin.
FWADA’s important role as a contributor to the cultural and aesthetic richness of Fort Worth is commendable, and its model of cooperation and ethical conduct could serve as an example for gallery associations in other cities to emulate. So, watch for FWADA’s upcoming events and immerse yourself in the vibrant and dynamic world of Fort Worth’s art scene.
FWADA aims to stimulate interest in the visual arts through educational programs, art scholarships, and art competitions. The organization also sponsors several annual shows and events, including the highly anticipated Fall and Spring Gallery Nights and a summer Selections exhibition featuring submitted artworks from member institutions. You can find more information here.