DIPPED IN STARDUST

Green Family Art Foundation exhibits Hannah Lupton Reinhard’s crystal-embellished fantasy realism.

This summer, the Green Family Art Foundation presents Hannah Lupton Reinhard: A House of Stars and Angels featuring a collection of the artist’s work over the past four years. “The paintings were not made to be seen together so the title feels very broad and very descriptive. The stars could be the rhinestones and the angels could be the figures,” says Lupton Reinhard. But it’s the story behind each that aligns them so spectacularly.

“As a kid I was always drawing weird-looking figures. In middle and high school, I continued drawing and painting, but I always thought it was not a serious thing. When I studied art history at Berkeley, I realized I was super wrong: I wanted to be one of the artists that people might study. I wanted to do this full time, but not here.”

So she left Berkeley, moved home, and used the unstructured environment to make paintings and build a portfolio. After a year she was ready to make a career of it and transferred to RISD, which “totally solidified it.” There she worked on large-scale, “impressive” works and brought Shabbat to the campus, chasing away that “scary and mean” East Coast feeling. The Last Sunset nods to these celebratory rituals.

Perhaps the biggest turning point at RISD was the discovery of the “crystal palace”—a walk-in closet home to a Swarovski crystal emporium donated to the RISD furniture department and accessible to those students. She recalls thinking, “I know I need to have access to this, but I don’t know what I am going to do with them yet.” Eventually, she found her way to the crystal palace, enchanted by the treasures. This became a defining moment in her practice. She began applying crystals to the canvas, a gesture she describes as defacing. This final bedazzled layer adds to what she calls fantasy realism, her signature today.

Covid brought her home again in 2020, and she finished her senior year online. She was glad to be back to the sunshine, however, and the return to her studio (her parents’ garage on a cul-de-sac in Orange County) wasn’t so bad. Her best friend lived next door. “Covid absolutely changed my practice and the way I was making and thinking about paintings. I didn’t have the same resources I had a RISD, and nothing was open. I started painting my sisters using warmer colors.” Many of Lupton Reinhard’s paintings feature female figures embraced. Overwhelmed in affection, she clearly knows these women, who are her sisters and friends. Through this, her paintings became more “personal, slow, and less about scale and density and more about portraiture, and honest in a way.”

She thinks about depicting things in both a literal and an abstract way. “Now it’s been stripped down to Jewish femininity, it’s become much more abstract, and I’m currently using the veil as a prop—so representative to my relationship with being Jewish and with Jewish femininity and what it means to cover ourselves up and hide ourselves. What it means to be modest or not in 2022 LA.”

But within these luminous paintings, technically masterful yet mysterious, with hypnotic unsettling hues, she investigates duality. She thinks about beauty and the grotesque. “The paintings present themselves as beautiful, but when you get closer, they are not as beautiful and feminine.”

Today the artist lives in Los Feliz and works from her studio in LA, near the fashion district, with wholesale fabrics, beads, and rhinestones within walking distance. The crystal palace is in the past, but she is slowly buying rhinestones and refining their use. “Almost like painting with rhinestones, pointillism with rhinestones. You’re taking an oil painting that’s fine art, and you’re putting something on it that is craft, that is low art and lowbrow or for children or girly. It’s kind of funny because it’s going to take 30 to 40 hours to do it. And that’s another one of the paradoxes.”

Presently, she feels like her painting practice, “is like what I was doing at RISD, but I’m allowing my paintings to breathe. It’s about how the painting is made, built up, and what textures I am using. It can be this intimate image that has its own complications on a microcosmic scale. There’s a fantastical quality to them. They feel familiar but not to our world.”

Hannah Lupton Reinhard: A House of Stars and Angels, and Painters Painting Painters, are on view Jun. 4–Sep. 25 at the Green Family Art Foundation in River Bend.–Terri Provencal

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Goblet Invitational

Opening June 11th continues through July.

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16 DAVID DIKE FINE ART

DDFA specializes in late 19th- and 20th-century American and European paintings with an emphasis on the Texas Regionalists and Texas landscape painters. daviddike.com

17 ERIN CLULEY GALLERY

Karen Gunderson: Nature and the Nature of Royalty is on view at the gallery through Jul. 2. Image: Karen Gunderson, Beginning, 2020, oil on linen, 24 x 24 in. erincluley.com

18 FERRARI GALLERY

Ferrari Gallery presents contemporary metal sculptures by James Ferrari; Debra Ferrari’s nature-inspired paintings; photographs by Jeremy McKane, who utilizes water and camera to capture the human form and express a passion to preserve our oceans; and ceramic sculptor Kosmas Ballis’ intricate clay sculptures. Through Jul. 30, Milieu Earth, an invitational group show, features American artists focused on works inspired by our planet and wildlife. theferrarigallery.net

19 FWADA

Fort Worth Art Dealers Association funds and hosts exhibitions of noteworthy art. fwada.com

20 GALLERI URBANE

The Shape of Color, an exhibition of works by Rachel Hellmann, and Mel Prest: Time is Knots on a String will be on view through Jul. 2. From Jul. 9–Aug. 13, Urbane’s Annual Summer Group Show will be on view along with work by Jonathan Paul Jackson in Gallery Two. Image: Mel Prest, Sundial, 2022, acrylic and mica on wood panel, 60 x 60 x 2 in. galleriurbane.com

21 GREEN FAMILY ART FOUNDATION

Hannah Lupton Reinhard: A House of Stars and Angels and Painters Painting Painters: A Study of Muses, Friends and Companions will be on view Jun. 4–Sep. 25. greenfamilyartfoundation.org

22 HOLLY JOHNSON GALLERY

Margo Sawyer’s recent suspended glass works continue to hang through Jun. 25. Ana Esteve Llorens’ unique handwoven sculptural canvases for the wall will be on view through Aug. 6. Image: Ana Esteve Llorens, Untitled (Below and Above), 2020, natural cotton, jute, hemp, zacatlaxcalli dye, foam, poplar wood, acrylic paint, wax, 58.25 x 33.50 x 1.5 in. hollyjohnsongallery.com

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23 KEIJSERS KONING

Boozy Wurlitzer (Lernplanet) is a two-person show by Michael Bauer and Stefanie Popp, who have known each other’s work since their days at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig. This is their first joint exhibition in the US, through Jun. 18. keijserskoning.com

24 KIRK HOPPER FINE ART

KHFA displays Lee Baxter Davis and James Surls in an all-drawing exhibition through Jul. 2. From Jul. 9–Aug. 20, Ushio Shinohara’s Drawings and Sculptures fill the space. kirkhopperfineart.com

25 KITTRELL/RIFFKIND ART GLASS

The 28th Annual Goblet Invitational, Jun. 11–Jul. 30 features drinking vessels, from functional to fantasy, from over 65 contemporary artists. Image: Tutti Frutti Water Glass by Robert Dane. kittrellriffkind.com

26 LAURA RATHE FINE ART

Work by Carly Allen Martin and Nina Tichava fill the gallery through Jul. 2. Next, a group show for Marina Dunbar, Michael Schultheis, Bronson Shonk, and Sydney Yeager, Jul. 9–Aug. 20, rounds out the summer. Image: Bronson Shonk, Ode to Golconda (detail), acrylic on canvas, 48 x 72 in. laurarathe.com

27 LILIANA BLOCH GALLERY

Through Aug. 22, the photographic work of Leigh Merrill will be installed in the gallery. lilianablochgallery.com

28 MARTIN LAWRENCE GALLERIES

Martin Lawrence Galleries specializes in original paintings, sculpture, and limited-edition graphics. The gallery is distinguished by works of art by Erté, Marc Chagall, Keith Haring, and many other artists. martinlawrence.com

29 PENCIL ON PAPER

Through Jun. 2, JD Moore’s A Honing of Self lends viewers witness to a collection of four individual series, each containing its own intimate narrative and nuance that embody a collective whole. A solo show for Frank Frazier opens Jun. 18 along with Desmond Blair: In the Garden. Jul 2 through Aug. 27, Stacie Monday’s solo show will be on view. pencilonpapergallery.com

30 PETER AUGUSTUS

Peter Augustus is a contemporary art gallery focused on emerging and mid-career international artists. Housed in a historic storefront

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in the heart of the city’s Expo Park district, the gallery features Tobe Kan Kiu Sin through Jun. 25. The gallery will close for the summer Jul.–Aug. peteraugustusgallery.com

31 PHOTOGRAPHS DO NOT BEND

Through Jul. 2., two solo exhibitions, Cheryl Medow: Envisioning Habitat: An Altered Reality and Robert Milnes: Sea What I Think, will highlight the gallery. Envisioning Habitat: An Altered Reality transposes animals into an unfamiliar environment, while Sea What I Think, displays Milnes’ under-the-sea inspired ceramics. Carbon & Gold: Workson-Paper by Don Schol, Paintings by Pam Burnley-Schol will be on view Jul. 9–Aug. 20. Image: Pam Burnley-Schol, Nest Monarchs, 2022, oil paint and 24k gold and aluminum leaf on panel, 30 x 30 in. pdnbgallery.com

32 THE POWER STATION

Dedicated to providing a platform for contemporary art projects in Dallas, The Power Stations hosts the exhibition Young and Clueless through summer, showcasing the work of Hadi Fallahpisheh. powerstationdallas.com

33 RO2 ART

Ro2 Art will present Cheryl Finfrock: The Ties that Bind and work by Ken Craft Jun. 18–Jul. 16. From Jul. 23–Sep. 10, CHAOS 8 returns. The show will feature a variety of small works by more than 100 gallery-represented artists and guest artists. ro2art.com

34 SMU POLLOCK GALLERY

SMU Pollock Gallery provides a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. smu.edu/meadows/areasofstudy/art/pollockgallery

35 SWEET PASS SCULPTURE PARK

This summer, Bottomland presents an alternative understanding of the local, from monuments to native flora. Formal aspects of the show draw on extractive and additive methods used in the construction of the built environment, redefining topography, installing announcement systems, and placing signage to direct traffic through space. sweetpasssculpturepark.com

36 SAMUEL LYNNE GALLERIES

JD Miller and entrepreneur Philip Romano dreamed up a state-ofthe-art gallery that came to fruition in 2008. Their work along with work by Lea Fisher, Tyler Shields, David Yarrow, and Brandon Boyd remain on view. samuellynne.com

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June 26–September 11

Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

John Singer Sargent, A Venetian Woman (detail), 1882, oil on canvas, Cincinnati Art Museum, The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial, 1972.37

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Exploring Constructs features artist Harriet Korman, a longtime abstract painter from New York; and Ronald Llewellyn Jones, a young self-taught Texas sculptor, filling the gallery’s large, open walls and airy space with imposing artworks, through Jun. 18. site131.com

38 SMINK

A showcase of fine design and furniture, SMINK has become a purveyor of quality products for living. The showroom also hosts exhibitions featuring Robert Szot, Gary Faye, Richard Hogan, Dara Mark, and Paula Roland. sminkinc.com

39 SOUTHWEST GALLERY

For over 50 years, Southwest Gallery has provided Dallas with the largest collection of fine 19th–21st century paintings and sculptures. The gallery exhibits hundreds of artists who work in a broad range of styles, all displayed in their 16,000-squarefoot showroom. swgallery.com

40 TALLEY DUNN GALLERY

Flight Paths and Floor Plans sees a solo exhibition of work by sculptor Joseph Havel at the gallery through Jun. 18. Through Jul. 2, At What Point Do We Disappear? Black Women’s Obsession with White Femininity is an exploration by Vicki Meek of Black beauty in the face or, rather, shadow of idealized white beauty in America and abroad. Talley Dunn Gallery Equity in the Arts Fellowship Group Exhibition: Martha Elena, Charles Gray, Juan Negroni, Alex Ordoñez, Jae-Eun Suh closes out the summer, Jul. 9–Aug. 20. talleydunn.com

41 VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY

Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden continues its 50-year tradition of offering the highest quality fine art to collectors and museums. valleyhouse.com

42 WAAS GALLERY

Curated through a lens of sustainability, W.A.A.S. empowers artists to connect to their communities and facilitate societal change while offering an interstellar sanctuary to communicate artistic expression and immersion. waasgallery.com

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43 WEBB GALLERY

New Work by Ricky Bearghost, Collages and Paintings by Mike Combs, and Posters of Nuns by Julie Speed will be on view through Jun. 12. For the rest of summer Webb will host artists in a group show. webbartgallery.com

44 WILLIAM CAMPBELL CONTEMPORARY ART

Painting Reality features work by Peter Maier through Jul. 9. Maier’s realistic and natural paintings skew reality in exciting, colorful, and unexpected ways. williamcampbellcontemporaryart.com

AUCTIONS AND EVENTS

01 DALLAS AUCTION GALLERY

The auction house will hold a Fine & Decorative Auction on Jul. 27. dallasauctiongallery.com

02 HERITAGE AUCTIONS

HA slated auctions for the summer are the Urban Art Auction on Jun. 1, Fine European Art Auction on Jun. 3, In Focus: Be@ rbrick Auction on Jun. 7, Depths of Field Auction on Jun. 8, Fine & Decorative Auction on Jun. 9, Prints & Works on Paper from the Collection of Dr. Cornelius Osgood Showcase Auction on Jun. 10, Decorative Arts Auction on Jun. 14, Ethnographic Art: Property from an Important New York Collector Signature Auction on Jun. 15, The Corporate Collection Auction on Jun. 16, Through Her Eyes: The Artwork of Margaret Keane Showcase Auction on Jun. 21, Western Art Auction on Jun. 24, In Focus: Superflat Auction on Jun. 28, Urban Art Auction on Jul. 6, Depth of Field Photography Auction on Jul. 13, Fine & Decorative Arts Auction on Jul. 15, In Focus: Leroy Neiman Art Auction on Jul. 19, and Design Auction on Jul. 21. ha.com

03 LONE STAR ART AUCTION

Taking place on October 28–29 in Dallas, the Lone Star Art Auction is a Texas-sized auction specializing in the best American, Western, wildlife, sporting, and Texas fine art. Presented by Great American West and Phil Berkebile, Jr., the LSAA will bring buyers, collectors, and sellers of historic and contemporary fine art together for an enjoyable and highly entertaining event. Consignments are now being accepted for what will be Texas’ largest art auction event in 2022. lsartauction.com

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Paul Simon Songbook

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