modern.dallas ed.43 // march 2023

‘23

// white rock home tour - 6325 vanderbilt photo: robert tsai

home tour dreams

Finally, after missing the past few years, 2023 rolls in and we celebrate the return of The White Rock Home Tour celebrating it’s 15th year. The tour was conceived by a small group of Hexter Elementary parents who were interested in mid-century architecture.

It was a fortunate coincidence that the Tour’s founding parents were neighbors and lived on a lovely street graced with Ju-Nel homes.

The combination of architecture and the commitment to support the Hexter Elementary PTA has made this one of the best home tours in Dallas.

White Rock has become an architecturally significant area with the development of modern and contemporary homes and continues the evolution of what started with the mid century modern Ju-Nel homes.

// 9729 van dyke photo: costa christ

The tour this year features 5 outstanding homes curated by this years chair, Jessica Stewart Lendvay who brings a wealth of knowledge with her background as an Architect and includes a bonus stop at St. John’s Church and Chapel designed by O’Neil Ford.

9729 Van Dyke is an important and iconic home designed by Donald Speck in 1960 as noted in the 1999 AIA Guide to Dallas Architecture. “This self-assured home utilizes a Wrightian planning grid and formal vocabulary to achieve its striking neighborhood presence. The angular glass

façade employs a variety of effective devices for sun control, including suspended vertical fins, which serve to balance the horizontal emphasis of the elevation, while also establishing a deceptive monumental scale.”

The home’s uniqueness is immediately intuited and further amplified by the later addition of the bridge entrance. Yet, much of the character of this home is not fully understood until experienced from the organically connected spaces of the interior. This home is not to be missed!

// 9729 van dyke photo: costa christ

6325 Vanderbilt is a new single family residence by Dallas based architecture firm, Far+Dang. Bang Dang explains how the characteristics of the site guided their thoughtful design.

“The site for the residence is an unusually deep lot that presents an opportunity to create a long spine with rooms that attach to either side of it. Intermittent voids of outdoor space break up the long building as small courtyards that bring in natural light, provide views of the outdoors, and carve out various exterior spaces for respite. The lone two story volume is set in the very rear of the property, hidden

behind the trees and anchored by the one story massing in the front; thus reducing the scale of the residence. The deep lot also allowed the orchestration of a gradual and purposeful entry path that is received by the entry court, providing a threshold between the more public and private realms before entering the residence proper.”

Interestingly, this wonderful modern home by Far+Dang seems quite inspired by the principles characteristic of Ju-Nel homes.

6325

vanderbilt photo: robert tsai

// 6325 vanderbilt photo: robert tsai

Thank you to our

Clients

for allowing us the privilege of working together to create beautiful living spaces.

// 1030 forest grove photos: sarah evans

// 1030 forest grove photos: sarah evans

1030 Forest Grove is a Ju-Nel! A full renovation was recently completed on this fabulous home. Framed by the canopy of the towering mature trees characteristic of this neighborhood, this home presents an interesting composition of a pair of simple, solid brick gabled walls

connected by a recessed courtyard of primarily floor to ceiling glass walls. Mysteriously private, despite its openness, the fullest experience of the courtyard is from the inside. It becomes the focus of the home from the interior.

8828 capri photo: angela flour

8828 Capri is a Midcentury Modern, purist hipsters will L-O-V-E the Capri home (and its owners) with its minimalist design that lets the home speak for itself,” Black said.

This house on a hillside underwent a full remodel in 2018 with new floors and roofing, a restored fireplace, walnut cabinets and granite countertops in the kitchen and custom cabinets in the master bedroom. One key feature that didn’t change: the original wooden ceilings and soaring beams, which gives the house a warm and open look.

The couple who lives here also owns the Sweet Tooth Hotel, a local interactive art installation, so it’s not surprising the house is chock full of original art – framed blueprints for Six Flags in the entryway, a print from a Roy Lichtenstein museum exhibit in one bedroom, and in the living room, a photo from the movie “Giant” bought at the Wrong Gallery in Marfa.

The outside features a Japanese cedar fence, a deck that spans the entire back of the house and a custom modern pool by Riverbend Sandler.

// 8828 capri photo: angela flour

11002 Creekmere, The home’s renovations pay homage to its history, preserving elements like the original custombuilt shelving and a Brady-Bunch style staircase with new finishes that bridge the gap between the original design and modern sensibilities. The yard is a gardeners’ paradise, filled with Japanese maples and unique plants.

Each home offers the tourgoer a unique perspective on residential architecture... from high-end to a budgetfriendly option to inspire DIY-ers. These homes have never before been featured on the WRHT and the tour is excited to showcase them to the community.

White Rock Home Tour is a self-guided on Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23, 2023 – from 12 pm to 5 pm in the White Rock Lake area in East Dallas.

100% proceeds benefit DISD’s Hexter Elementary to bridge the budget gap and provide much-needed resources for students and teachers

$20 in advance, $25 at the door.

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// 11002 creekmere

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The Place of Ted Kincaid

at Liliana Bloch Gallery by Cinzia Franceschini

In Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 19th-century Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich depicts an elegant man with turned shoulders at the top of a precipice. Wrapped in his overcoat, his blond hair waving in the wind, the protagonist contemplates the view: it is a valley swallowed up by fog, in which only the blurred mountain peaks are visible in the distance. In this spot, nature is not a welcoming and serene mother, but a brutal and fearsome place.

Yet, there is beauty in this landscape that is as eerie as it is majestic. It is a beauty that the Romantics called sublime, a feeling coming from the dark and unknown and triggering a mixture of awe and pleasure.

Ted Kincaid’s works elicit the same sublime impression. They are manufactured photographs in which statuesque male bodies and remote landscapes of oceans and forests

coexist in the same room. This unexpected combination builds an imaginary scenario that resonates with a somber sense of beauty. Human beings and the power of natural elements come together, in a powerful and inspiring dialogue.

Ted Kincaid his first comprehensive ten-year survey set up in Dallas. The exhibition Not In Another Place, But This Place showcases works created between 2012 and 2022. This is a relevant decade in the artist’s oeuvre, in which Kincaid subverts the traditional and objective medium of photography, altering the images into dreamlike visions. The results are photographic series that look like paintings,

Liliana Bloch Gallery dedicates to multi-disciplinary artist

// trinity 12171, 2017-2023 pigment on hahnemühle bamboo 290 gsm 60 x 80 in. edition of 3

installation view - lliana bloch gallery photo: kevin todora

characterized by the use of pigments with an oldfashioned appeal: shades of gray, sepia, and blue, almost as if they were cyanotypes and antique prints. In The Wild Unrest series, realized between 2018 and 2019, male bodies from academic classical poses, knot, twist, and cling together, like athletes intent on a tense struggle. The artist associates them with remote places, where blizzards or ships upset the landscape. Dramatic tension pervades both men and nature, placing them on the same parallel plane.

It is clear to the viewer: Kincaid captures the places where the power of the natural elements is majestically revealed. The dark and mystical Great Trinity Forest in Dallas, seascapes in gales, and mammoth icebergs floating in the oceans communicate the impetus of nature as nineteenthcentury paintings did.

However, Ted Kincaid’s art practice is not only aesthetic. The theme of identity is very strong in his works, which show a fluid identity that goes beyond the limits imposed

itrinity 32618, 2018-2023 pigment on hahnemühle bamboo 290 gsm 40 x 66.5 in.edition of 3

The ultimate in modern chill.

by the human body and merges with nature and its elements. The photographic series on display at Liliana Bloch Gallery unhinges the limiting concept of anthropocentrism: human and natural elements merge, undoing hierarchies and achieving a state of equality. Male figures, stormy waves, and forested landscapes become one, revealing relationships of interdependence and the

need for a cohesive, authentically organic ecosystem. Kincaid, an artist, and gay activist, subtly speaks through his works about rights and the importance of applying them to all forms of life. His photographs, in addition to attracting attention for their elegance and superb digital editing technical skills, are an ethical statement before an aesthetic one.

// seascape 1115, 2018 pigment on hahnemühle bamboo 30 x 20 in., 35 x 26.5 in. framed edition of 3

iceberg 42114, 2014 digitally manufactured photograph on hahnemühle photo rag® ultra smooth 40 x 40 in., 45.5 x 45.5 in. framed edition of 3

// academic nudes (for thomas eakins), 2021, carbon print on hahnemühle bamboo, 15 x 12 inches

The Liliana Bloch Gallery gives space to an artist who over the years of his artistic career has earned a place in the permanent collections of major international museums, such as the Dallas Museum of Art, L’Associazione Fotografica Imago in Arezzo, Italy, the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston and the Georgia Museum of Art, where Kincaid had his first solo museum exhibition in 2018. Traversing In Another Place, But This Place is a bit like engaging in a nautical exploration of the dream world, dealing with its irrational forces. Complicit in the artist’s color choices and the blurred effect, this exhibition seems like a journey through time. Memory plays a crucial role in Kincaid’s painting-photographs: they look like fragments transfigured by time. Imaginary places, reconstructed from memory, materialize here and now in the gallery space. Then to change form again, to another place.

Ted Kincaid: Not In Another Place, But This Place Works: 2012-2022

through May 13

// lilianablochgallery.com

The Dallas Architecture Forum is for everyone who wants to experience inspired design. The Forum presents an award-winning Lecture Series that brings outstanding architects,interior designers, landscape architects and urban planners from around the world, as well as Symposia, Receptions at architecturally significant residences, and Panel Discussions on issues impacting North Texas.

// semi finalist looking back category civic, cultural and public art charlotte

The Dallas Architecture Forum educates, enriches, and connects the North Texas community by presenting programs and events, creating experiences, and engaging global and local thought-leaders from all design fields to enhance how we live. This Season, The Forum is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. Over the last 25 years, Dallas/Fort Worth has seen great advances in its built

environment. The Dallas Arts District has been finished, new museums in both cities have been built, and significant public spaces, parks, and public art have opened, positively engaging the community. The Forum plans to recognize and honor these developments with a 25th Anniversary Design Recognition: Looking Back - Looking Forward.

& donald test pavilion at the arboretum

semi finalist looking back category residential - philip johnson’s beck house renovation

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Deborah Berke, FAIA

Yale University

Deborah Berke Partners

Andrea Cochran, FASLA

Andrea Cochran

Landscape Architecture

Maurice Cox, FAIA, NOMA

City of Chicago

Planning Director

Carlos Jimenez

Rice University

Carlos Jimenez Studio

Brigitte Shim, FRAIC, Hon. FAIA

University of Toronto

Shim + Sutcliff

The Forum will recognize twenty-five projects that have been completed over the last twenty-five years, regardless of whether that was in 1997, 2021, or anytime in between. Also, because many new projects are now in process, we will also recognize up to ten projects that are through design development. We invite a wide variety of submissions, including cultural, education, interiors, public spaces, retail, infrastructure, adaptive reuse, and

public art. Projects will be judged on design excellence, sustainability, resiliency, and inclusiveness.

This Design Recognition is a unique opportunity to recognize the remarkable growth of inspired design in Dallas/Fort Worth over the last twenty-five years AND into the future!

// semi finalist looking forward category residential - outcrop

// semi finalist looking back category education - lamplighter school innovation lab

North Texas has seen great advances in its built environment over the last twenty-five years.. The Forum will recognize and honor these developments with a 25th Anniversary Design Recognition: Looking Back - Looking Forward.

Looking Back

This Design Recognition will recognize twenty-five projects of significance that have improved the social and

urban fabric of North Texas, or have the potential to do so, since The Forum was founded twenty-five years ago.

Looking Forward

The Design Recognition will also recognize between 5 to 10 projects that have been completed since January 2022, are under construction, or announced with a targeted ground-breaking date. These projects will be submitted under the same categories as listed above but

semi finalist looking back category infrastructure and transportation - dallas fire station 27

semi finalist looking back category infrastructure and transportation - margaret hunt hill bridge

will be judged separately from the “Looking Back” projects. Projects will be evaluated on their potential to significantly improve the social and urban fabric of North Texas.

The Forum received over one hundred sixty submissions covering all ten categories of Looking Back, celebrating some of the most significant design projects of all types and scales completed over the last twenty-five years. We also received entries in almost every Looking Forward category, featuring new projects that will positively impact the urban fabric of North Texas.

Thank you again – we look forward to recognizing these outstanding and significant additions to the urban fabric of North Texas!

Finalists will be announced by the beginning of May, and we will have a celebratory event where the Award Winners will be honored.

for additional information:

// dallasarchitectureforum.org

// semi finalist looking back category landscape, urban design, public space, master plan - lexington residence

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2023 MEMBERS

Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art

Conduit Gallery

Craighead Green Gallery

Cris Worley Fine Arts

Erin Cluley Gallery

Galleri Urbane Marfa+Dallas

Holly Johnson Gallery

Keijsers Koning

Kirk Hopper Fine Art

Laura Rathe Fine Art

PDNB Gallery

Pencil on Paper Gallery

RO2 Art

Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden

RETAIL: Jon Sayah

ART: VELETTA FORSYTHE LILL + JOSHUA KING

ARCHITECTURE: RON Stelmarski

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jenette molded in polyurethane with metal armor is a link between rigid and flexible. available. scottcooner

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Dallas Architecture Forum

WALKING TOURS

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InTown Outing

CERAMICA SURO + EDUARDO SARABVIA

Dallas Contemporary

SENGA NENGUDI

Nasher Sculpture Center

MOVEMENT: THE LEGACY OF KINETICISM

Dallas Museum Of Art

JAPAN, FORM & FUNCTION EXHIBITION

Crow Museum Of Asian Art

I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR: ART AND THE DIGITAL SCREEN

The Modern Art Museum

CHARLES TRUETT WILLIAMS: THE ART OF THE SCENE

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Modern art, exhibits, around the Metroplex.

art galleries

TED KINCAID

Liliana Bloch Gallery

CHARLES FIELD

Kirk Hopper Fine Art

MILES CLEVELAND GOODWIN

Valley House Gallery

JAMES LUMSDEN

Holly Johnson Gallery

LEONARDO DREW

Talley Dunn Gallery

SHINE

PDNB Gallery

JOHNNY DEFEO + CELIA EBERLE

Cris Worley Fine Arts

J.A. FENG

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JANNA WATSON

Laura Rathe Fine Art

JAMES + DEBRA FERRARI

Ferrari Gallery