Editor’s Note

February / March 2022

TERRI PROVENCAL

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

In these pages we feature visual art that stimulates the mind. On the cover, the work of the 2022 Nasher Prize Laureate Nairy Baghramian is profoundly conceptual yet approachable. There’s a softness to it. “Deeply intuitive but defying our grasping, the shapes themselves open up new possibilities of meaning,” contributor Eve Hill-Agnus writes of the laureate’s practice in The Body Abstracted.

Art Souls of the South investigates three galleries from Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina committed to Dallas Art Fair’s April edition. Steve Carter talks with the gallery directors of Scott Miller Projects, Tif Sigfrids, and SOCO Gallery about their ethos and the select artists plucked from their roster. Expect to see work by these artists when the fair returns.

Our design story takes a look at the work of accomplished designer Gonzalo Bueno. Always bringing the unexpected to any project, he has created the perfect pied-à-terre for his childhood friends from Monterrey, Mexico within the Residences at the Stoneleigh. We take a peek inside in The Finish Line.

Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place & Identity conflates the work of 28 female artists. Bound to be an engaging presentation, opening February 12, it’s the second exhibition from the Green Family Art Foundation. Spend some time with these paintings (and one sculpture) mining the artists’ dreams and memories in Amalgamations of the Female Mind.

When I met David-Jeremiah at The Public Trust a few years ago I was drawn to him immediately. He has so much to articulate, he deliberately packs his work with meaning. Eagerly inviting you into his world when he speaks about it, to appreciate the work, he wants you to understand it. This is an artist to catch on the rise and the opportunity is here in I Drive Thee, on view at 12.26 in River Bend. Brandon Kennedy enlightens in Step Into This Ring.

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts marks its centennial this year. Prior to the arts magnet designation, its roots, recalled in Urban Pioneers by Nancy Cohen Israel, stemmed from an all-Black high school. Much has changed since 1922 but the stuff of legends has not. Remember Cubs luminary Ernie Banks, a former student, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama?

Also in this issue, Frank Hettig introduces Bart Keijsers Koning on the eve of his gallery opening in Dallas, and Chris Byrne chats up Dallas-born Sally Horchow about her Broadway career in SHIP SHAPE.

Fifty-mile-an-hour winds were blowing today and some of our outdoor furniture and objects whooshed with it. It reminded me of the fluttery, billowing looks designed to move in our fashion feature. It’s without effort I imagine these dresses catching a March breeze. With creative direction by Elaine Raffel and photography by Luis Martinez, Spring Shifts in a Freeze Frame beguiles. Next, Wes Gordon, creative director of the house of Carolina Herrera, makes time to discuss his spring runway collection. Prepare to be tempted.

We also have some tasty treats for readers described by Diana Spechler. With chef Robert Del Grande and Don Short as her tour guides, she takes us inside New Artisan Distillery, home to Roxor gin, and samples the pair’s new bourbon. Next, she visits with Mario Carbone about his eponymous restaurant coming to the Dallas Decorative Center soon. The southern Italian food maestro is bound to have a line of foodies and fans waiting to meet him and taste his nostalgic flavors.

Lastly, Octavio Medellín left a lasting mark on his students through his Medellín School of Sculpture in Oak Cliff and his teaching career, which spanned two decades at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, today’s DMA. The museum examines his practice through a retrospective currently on view.

– Terri Provencal