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white rock home tour

more than an address - how the white rock home tour continues to support the community

by J. Claiborne Bowdon

J. Claiborne Bowdon

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The White Rock Home Tour is celebrating its sixteenth year. Dallas has no shortage of home tours to choose from with houses and neighborhoods spanning over a hundred years and every conceivable style represented, as well as thrilling new contemporary work from our incredible community of architects going up in every corner of the city, but the White Rock tour is a particularly spe-

cial jewel on the calendar. Though most are probably not aware of why it is so special. The tour includes new contemporary builds, but it distinguishes itself from the others with a focus on the wonderful selection of mid-century homes found throughout the area. From the 1950s onward the area around White Rock Lake experienced most of its development, and the families that built their homes

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there would embrace the prevailing style of the time.

Jessica Stewart Lendvay, AIA NOMA, a Dallas native, with her own architecture practice and a resident of the White Rock area, is the chairwoman of the home tour this year continuing on from last year, noted “This region of Dallas…a lot of this neighborhood was developed during (the 1950s), so we have a lot of mid-century modern churches…the Hexter school, it’s kind of a natural fit.” However, what truly makes this tour special is that the home tour did not come into existence to highlight the mid-century

homes in the community. Instead it began because the homes could help the community. “(The parents of children at Victor H. Hexter Elementary School) started the home tour in 2006 by featuring their own homes to generate income for the PTA, and that’s how the White Rock Home Tour was started.”

The homes that were first featured on the tour were mid-century, cementing the form that would guide the tour through the years, but they had a special legacy in Dallas beyond exemplifying the once again popular style. The

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Ju-Nel homes showcased during the first tour were built by architects Lyle Rowlet and Jack Wilson, and are distinguished by their cozy wooded lots with generous outdoor space, brick floors, natural materials, open floor plans, and high beamed ceilings among many other signature characteristics that make them stand apart. To this day the passion for these homes continues in the area, and just this year White Rock resident Mark Weeks launched his website, Ju-Nel.com, to help document and celebrate

what had been an almost forgotten chapter in Dallas’ architectural heritage. While there aren’t any Ju-Nels on the tour this year the legacy they began continues today.

Lendvay works to advance that legacy as chairwoman, and advocates for the home tour because of what it does for the community through the school. “My kids have gone to Hexter, so I’m so happy to be able to support this community and I see the way that the money

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that we bring in from the home tour- how it supports our food pantry at Hexter; a lot of families rely on the food pantry to supplement their kitchen, and then the garden program…a mindfulness program led by one of our retired teachers, supplemental tutoring, and support for the teachers. All of that is able to happen because of the investment that people make in the home tour. It has a big

impact on students.”

There are six homes that are part of the home tour this year, and each has something special to offer anyone that visits them. Lanett Circle has a charmingly curious personality with a classic brick exterior that continues inside. It’s owned by the grandchildren of the original owners,

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and while it has been renovated over the years they have kept many of the original blend of features that make it so appealing. Rolling Rock is a must-see for MCM fans. It is every bit a reflection of the exciting possibilities of the future for when it was built with bright colors, period appropriate furniture, and even an original built-in kitchen device in the counter that powers different attachments. Wyatt Circle is another mid-century, and it has the dis-

tinction of being designed by celebrated Dallas architect Cliff Welch. It’s a remarkably elegant example of the style inside and out with a distinctive floor plan with an almost floating second story perched above the driveway to create a car port.

The more contemporary offerings this year are Biscayne and Carolyn Crest, and both are designed around tak-

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ing advantage of natural light. The window placement throughout Carolyn Crest allows light to flow through the home as the sun passes over it. Biscayne in particular is oriented on its site to make the most out of the daylight to minimize the dependence on electric light, and the shape of the house itself is formed to achieve this. Hambrick is an original 1951 cottage, but it has been carefully renovated to accomplish the same goal of welcoming in more

light. If there is a theme for this year’s tour it’s celebrating and enhancing what is already there.

Lendvay summed up her goal in her last year as chairwoman by saying “We put the home tour on hold during the pandemic, and it lost a bit of momentum, so we had to build that back up but it’s a popular tour that people really enjoy so it was really rewarding to bring it back…It’s

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a fun way for us to engage with the community…People can celebrate the work that they’ve done on their home. They’re passionate about their home…They enjoy sharing that and people love finding things that they might want to do with their home- ideas about materials or layout, so it’s a beneficial effort for the community that supports the PTA at Hexter.” The tour will run from April 20 - 21, and all

of the proceeds go to benefit Hexter Elementary and its programs. If you love architecture and believe in its ability to shape and support what surrounds it then this tour is a can’t miss.

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Adriana Carvalho

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The intimate details of our lives have long been a source for artistic expression. Even something as expansive as a landscape can be seen as a deeply personal exchange between the viewer and the artist. With every brushstroke they intimate the details of an experience we would otherwise not have had- revealing and hiding in equal measure and as only they can. Contemporary art-

ists would draw us in even closer by making a landscape of the interior life. Pop Art-precursor Robert Rauschenberg would make a canvas out of what was purportedly his own pillow, sheets, and quilt to create “Bed” in 1955. The splattered paint at its head, along with the scribbled messages in pencil, were not incidental flourishes in this context.

Tracy Emin would audaciously take this a step further with “My Bed” in 1998. It was the artist’s own bed, which had been more than slept in, and its surroundings in a mise en scene, including condoms, underwear, full ashtrays, empty vodka bottles, and other detritus. These

subjects are all the more potent in our minds because of what they insistently suggest but conspicuously lack- the presence of the human body. With “Empty Panties” Andrea Carvalho makes a similar proposition with the landscape of the body that relies on the connotations of the

display rather than the display itself. However, to see this work as simply underwear like you’d see on hangers in a department store with coquettish or inflammatory messages in an attempt at empty scandal is not seeing the forest for the trees.

For one thing, it’s not simply underwear. Carvalho was born in Taquaritinga, Brazil, and it was there that she began studying mechanics, welding, and metalwork before coming to the US. The “underwear” on display, for all their delicately sheer three-dimensional sensuality, is ac//

tually metal sculptures. Carvalho’s craftsmanship makes the illusion of the bodies that would occupy these sculptures (and their state of undress) real in our minds, and, by extension, the messages present on the sculptures. They hang in the air like suspended medieval cages, the side ties on the thongs frozen in a lingering ripple, and impart a startled blush to words as innocent as “Wel-

come” by their presence.

The material is, just like Raushcenberg’s paint splatters, not incidental. It perfectly conveys the two-sided coin of the power of women’s sexuality and how it confines just as it entices. This is best shown in the most compelling piece of the exhibition- a sheer bridal gown with panties

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clearly visible beneath the skirt. The gown is inscribed with curling metal script with Frida Kahlo’s ( a favorite subject and inspiration of Carvalho) last entry in her diary before her death– “Espero alegre la salida y espero no volver jamas” (“I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return”).

The exhibition runs through May 4.

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With all the hoopla about to descend on us with the Eclipse on April 8th, The Dallas Art Fair pre empts this great event with the opening of the fair from April 4-7 at the Fashion Industry Gallery. This year the fair will feature 91 galleries, representing 17 countries and 49 cities from around the globe.

This year includes galleries from around the world, London brings Josh Lilley, Tafeta and Cecilia Brunson Projects, Madrid’s VETA by Fer Francés, Amsterdam’s Torch Gallery, Taubert Contemporary from Berlin and a strong presence from Mexico as well galleries from Miami, New York, Los Angeles with a strong presence of Dallas galleries.

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The Art Fair week is filled with events starting with the annual Dallas Art Fair Foundation Preview Benefit which will take place on Thursday, April 4 from 5-9pm at the Fashion Industry Gallery. An amazing fundraiser for the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, and Dallas Contemporary, this signature festive event invites you to preview the fair and mingle with gallerists and friends before the public opening.

Events that you should add into your schedule are the Green Family Art Foundation Opening | In The Know, Sshow 5-7pm on April 2 at Atelier, 2121 Flora St, Dallas, TX 75201. April 3, the opening of Vojtěch Kovařík + Picnic Curatorial Projects: Miguel Sbatida, Future Reefs 6-10pm at The Power Station, 3816 Commerce St, Dallas, TX 75226 and the Dallas Contemporary Exhibition Opening Patrick Martinez: Histories Who’s Afraid of Cartoony Figuration? 7–9pm at 161 Glass St, Dallas, TX 75207

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April 4th includes a Conversation: Karen Gunderson & Maggie Adler 3pm at the Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St, Dallas, TX, 75201 and April 5th The Morning After Brunch at The Cedars Union 9am – 12pm The Cedars Union, 1219 S. Ervay St, Dallas, TX, 75215 as well as Jed Morse in Conversation with Gabriel Rico 11am – 12pm Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St,

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Regular one-day Dallas Art Fair admission is $34 ($29 for seniors and students). The fair runs through Sunday, April 7 ( Friday + Saturday 11am-7pm / Sunday 11am5pm) at the Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Ave.

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You may want to popover to the Fairmount Hotel April 4-6, 11am-6pm for the Dallas Invitational with a combination of New York, Los Angeles Galleries and Dallas Gallery AND NOW.

Highly anticipated Project 103 featuring 20 local artists including Le Cash, Jeffie Brewer Jim Malone and headed

by artist Laura Moore will take place April 4-5, 3-10pm in the Design District at 2285 Vantage Street.

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LEONARDO DREW: NUMBER 235T

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Cris Worley Fine Arts

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Talley Dunn Gallery

ADRIANA CARVALHO

Kirk Hopper Fine Art

ERIC CRUIKSHANK

Holly Johnson Gallery

HENRY FINKELSTEIN

Valley House Gallery

DIVING DEEPER

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GABRIEL DAWE

Talley Dunn Gallery

CECIL TOUCHON

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18TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

Cerulean Gallery

BILLY HASSELL + CARSON MONAHAN + W. TUCKER

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JEROME WITKIN + ROBERT WEISS

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