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Shadow play: Artist Eva Steil’s light and dark
Art Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:00pmRemember playing with shadows when you were a kid? A sunny afternoon making you 12-feet tall, or a beam of light coming in from the hall at bedtime providing a stage for bunny ears, dogs and more?...
Damien Hirst exhibit to go downtown
Art Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:01pmIn his typical, over-the-top style, iconocalstic British artist Damien Hirst unleashed a barrage of colored spots upon the world a couple of years ago, exhibiting more than 300 spot paintings...
Warm geometries: New work by Jose Bellver
Art Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:01pm“Geometry is something I always avoided,” artist Jose Bellver says. “I thought it was too cold.” Glance at the art above — clearly he’s gotten over it. There’s no chill coming off of the paintings in...
Poster design appeals to Joseph Woolfolk’s midcentury sensibilities and political beliefs
Art Comments Jan 16, 2013 6:02pmThe first thing that strikes you upon entering artist Joseph’s Woolfolk’s live-in studio are the enormous glowing bulbs beaming down from the gray metal shell of a full-size streetlamp top, ensconced...
Iranian refugee artists find a new freedom in Las Vegas
Art Comments Updated: Jan 16, 2013 3:36pmThey weren’t “fired,” just told they didn’t have any classes to teach the following semester at the university where they were both tenured art professors. They weren’t “threatened,” just asked to...
First Friday Roundup
Art Comments Updated: Jan 09, 2013 3:46pmYOBANA GRACIANOIn FluxA butterfly folds into its gossamer casing and emerges as a brilliant new being. Likewise, humans pull their thoughts and strength into their core and may reinvent and transform...
First Friday Listings
Art Comments Jan 02, 2013 5:06pmHours: 5-10p. Shuttle service: 5-11p, with stops and parking at El Cortez, Golden Nugget, Arts District hub (Colorado and Main) and the Clark County Government Center. Additional $5 parking lots can...
Selection criteria: Jason Adkins wants you to recreate works at his Cosmo exhibit
Art Comments Jan 02, 2013 4:48pmOn second thought, Banksy wasn’t quite right.Henderson artist Jason Adkins — a painter known for his large, writhing abstracts and a sculptor known for arrangements of stacked boxes — was prepping...
Artist Michael Barrett will do something unusual on Friday night
Art Comments Dec 27, 2012 3:06pm2012 was a bust-out year for performance art in Las Vegas. One of the vanguard figures in this vanguard movement is artist Michael Barrett. This week will see Standing Room Only: Episode Two, the...
The Las Vegas art scene showed considerable growth and maturity in 2012
Art Comments Updated: Jan 03, 2013 11:28amA couple months back, L.A. Times art critic David Pagel, lecturing at UNLV, talked about the early days of the Los Angeles art scene and a “circling of the wagons” to protect the, at that time,...
