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MINDY BYRD is a Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist focusing on photography and collage. She combines her two creative worlds in the form of handmade cutout patterns and shapes paired with her original photographs for dynamic finished pieces. In Patron, A Blooming Good Time exemplifies her mixed-media talents. Her love of bold color, texture, and shape has been the driving force behind her collage work, which she’s explored with clients both locally and internationally.
CHRIS BYRNE authored the graphic novel The Magician (Marquand Books, 2013), included in the Library of Congress. He curated Peter Saul: 50 Years of Painting, named one of 2010’s top five shows by the Village Voice and organized Susan Te Kahurangi King’s first US exhibition, selected by Jerry Saltz for New York magazine’s The 19 Best Art Shows of 2014. Byrne chaired AVAM, the national museum for visionary art. He founded the Elaine de Kooning House and Studio in East Hampton, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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STEVE CARTER previews the Kimbell’s extraordinary The Language of Beauty in African Art, opening on April 3. For a behind-the-scenes look at the exhibition, organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, Carter spoke with Jennifer Casler Price, the Kimbell’s curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art. “This is one not to miss,” Carter says. “It’s a truly revealing look at African art, viewed through the indigenous perspective.” Read his story in Africa Speaks.
EVE HILL-AGNUS is a writer, editor, and translator. She has roots in France and California and has been a teacher of literature and journalism; an award-winning dining critic in Dallas who covered dining, art, and dance; and a freelance art writer and editor of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Her joy recently has been translation, whether the translation of one language to another or of art into words. In this issue, Eve previewed the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s Women Painting Women exhibition opening in May.
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LAUREN CHRISTENSEN has over two decades of experience in advertising and marketing. As a principal with L+S Creative Group, she consults with a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and businesses in many sectors, including retail, real estate, and hospitality. Lauren is a Dallas native and a graduate of SMU with a BA in advertising. Her clean, contemporary aesthetic and generous spirit make Lauren the perfect choice to art direct Patron.
BRANDON KENNEDY is an occasional artist, book scout/collector, and freelance curator and writer based in Dallas. For several years Kennedy was the director of exhibitor relations at Dallas Art Fair. He regularly covers North Texas artists for Patron magazine and occasionally contributes to Fine Books & Collections magazine. In Slip Inside This Home, Kennedy profiles the new publication, Amor Mundi: The Collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman, a two-volume set.
NANCY COHEN ISRAEL is a Dallas-based writer, art historian, and an educator at the Meadows Museum. Having grown up here, she has happily watched the city evolve into a major cultural destination. For the current issue, she enjoyed writing about spring exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art (Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity) along with Meadows Museum’s exhibitions Murillo and Ignasi Aballí, all three of which will be the only American stop for these works.
LUIS MARTINEZ is a Kim Dawson model/actor discovery currently based in Dallas who is equally adept as a fashion/beauty/ portrait photographer and videographer. Luis photographed Dallas-based artist Evita Tezeno and her studio in Evita Tezeno Breaks Through; Tezeno will have her first appearance at Dallas Art Fair with Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. He also went to meet Larry Whiteley at his iconic metalworks studio where he created custom installations and sculpture works for The Conservatory.
LEE CULLUM is a Dallas journalist who has worked in radio, television, newspapers, and magazines. She was a regular commentator on what is now called the PBS NewsHour as well as All Things Considered on NPR, and, more recently, has interviewed CEOs for the public TV affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth. In Guardians of the Arts, she spoke with Jennifer Altabef and Larry Angelilli, relentless supporters of the arts and winners of this year’s TACA Silver Cup Award.
DARRYL RATCLIFF is an award-winning artist and poet with a Dallas-based writing and curatorial practice whose work engages communities and mobilizes social issues. Darryl’s complex, collaborative, durational cultural projects help tell true community narratives, promote civic engagement, and increase community health. He is a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 10 Fellow addressing climate change and racial equity, and he founded Gossypion Investments, a company seeking to evolve the role of culture in society.
CARLOS GONZALEZ-JAIME is a consultant and art advisor with years of experience working with cultural institutions in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the US, along with an extensive background in the corporate world. He serves as outreach director at The Americas Research Network and editor for the digital catalogue of the exhibition Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers. He was executive director of Latino Arts Project, an institution designed to further Latinx and Latin American art, history, and culture.
ELAINE RAFFEL says Mindy Byrd was the obvious choice to shoot the fashion pages for Patron’s Dallas Arts Month issue. In and of themselves, her collages are works of art, made only cooler with amazing clothing, handbags, and jewels. On another note, she says, “I had the covetable assignment to profile supertalented designer Jonathan Simkhai. I’ve been a fan since he won the prestigious CFDA award in 2015. If you haven’t been by his Market pop-up, trust me: it’s a mustsee.”
