Editor’s Note

April / May 2022

TERRI PROVENCAL

Publisher / Editor in Chief terri@patronmagazine.com Instagram terri_provencal and patronmag

An exhilarating spring is before us with the return of Dallas Arts Month. With much to take in, we turn our attention to the vigorous schedule of visual arts programming stretching across North Texas.

Our cover heralds the return of Dallas Art Fair, back to its original April spot. Liliane Tomasko’s all that we touch mines the realms of sleep and dreaming, “delving into the gulf between what we understand as the ‘conscious’ and ‘subconscious,’” Kerlin Gallery’s Darragh Hogan offers. With the world in crisis and Earth Day just around the corner, let’s forge our dreams to encourage those fighting to lay down their arms and instead heal our vulnerable planet. And given art’s power to heal, the fair offers a rigorous roster of emerging artists to watch, to collect now, and blue-chip contemporaries to invest in. Read about some of the standouts in Collectors Study.

Women Painting Women sees the work of 46 female painters and their portraiture. Curated by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s chief curator, Andrea Karnes, the exhibition spans the late 1960s to the present and brings forth the perspectives of women who have historically been underrepresented in postwar figuration. Eve Hill-Agnus offers insight in A New Reckoning.

The Kimbell Art Museum’s The Language of Beauty in African Art proves that all humans, from ancient civilizations to modern, have their own unique point of view. Steve Carter enlightens in Africa Speaks. To further exemplify, Fall of Powers, Rise of Maison Cartier, written by Nancy Cohen Israel, shares the riches of Islamic art and its influence on Louis Cartier at the Dallas Museum of Art’s exhibition opening in May.

Stewardship is critical for the survival of all art forms, and we have plenty of them here. In Guardians of the Arts Lee Cullum describes two of the very finest, who are this year’s TACA Silver Cup Award honorees: Jennifer Altabef and Larry Angelilli. Their energy and commitment in both the best and worst of times is to be commended.

Meet local artist Evita Tezeno, who will have her first appearance at Dallas Art Fair with Luis De Jesus Los Angeles; and we introduce Various Small Fires, which opens here this month. Chris Byrne catches up with Lonnie Holley, fresh from a residence at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico, to create new ceramic work for his coming from the earth show at Dallas Contemporary. Meanwhile, Carlos Jaime-Gonzalez celebrates the women behind two important art fairs: Kelly Cornell and Zélika García, the founder of Mexico’s Zona Maco.

Slip Inside This House applauds the two-volume, slipcovered release of Amor Mundi: The Collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman as reviewed by bibliophile Brandon Kennedy. We are so pleased to share the tireless work that went into creating this extraordinary book, available at The Conservatory on Two, which currently pays homage to the renowned collector through the work of local artists. Read about them in Tableaux Vivant, taken from the title of Art Ball, chaired by Brian Bolke for the DMA. Through April 9, a portion of the sale of work by Annabel Dauo, Stephen Lapthisophon, Nic Nicosia, Anthony Sonnenberg, and The Conservatory’s Larry Whiteley and Matthew Gilley, will benefit Tableaux, as will the proceeds from Hoffman’s book sales. Plus, collectors share their favorites from Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia, on view during Art Ball and through July 10.

The Meadows Museum crosses centuries with two concurrent exhibitions: Murillo: Picturing the Prodigal Son and Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight: Ignasi Aballí, which showcases the Spaniard’s Empty Words. Aballí is representing his country at the Venice Biennale.

Find looks to wear during the flurry of artful activities in our final feature. Courting the season, A Blooming Good Time finds multidisciplinary artist Mindy Byrd and creative director Elaine Raffel in collaboration to bring brilliance to fashion at the prettiest time of the year.