Weekend Re-Cap: Art and reading and more art.

This weekend was full to the brim with art! Hooray!! Here's what we did:

 

Friday:

 

On Friday, we joined the Modern Contemporaries for the opening of Focus: Barry McGee. McGee began his artitic ventures doing unsanctioned works under the name Twist in public spaces. McGee moved into the gallery space after graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991. He presently has a midcareer survey happening at UC Berkeley Art Museum and it was clear that there were some serious fan boys present at the Modern on Friday. Hooray for reaching new audiences! It's my understanding that our installation is very pared down from McGee's usual installation style, and demonstrating a matrure style was important to him in this show. I'm still learning more about his work and hope to post about it soon, but in the mean time you can check it out for yourself at the museum.

 

Saturday:

On Saturday morning I read and read and read some more on my Kindle (review coming). When I finally decided to give my eyes a break, we hopped over to Calloways to pick up some new flowers for the window box. I loved the ornamental kale, but it was looking a little limp around the edges because of our warm weather- of course as soon as I got the new plans in though it froze so we'll see if they survive!

 

Saturday evening was one of my favorite spring events: Spring Gallery Night! Our first stop was the community arts center where we were delighted to find the Fort Worth Opera singing their hearts out for the visitors.

 

 

They are gearing up for the 2013 Festival Season, and if you're local it's not one to be missed.

 

My favorite art detour of the evening was the William Campbell Contemporary, currently exhibiting Tom Hollenback's work.

 

 

 

We had the opportunity to meet Tom at the event and he could not have been nicer. If you have a chance to pop over there I'd encourage you to do so- the cast pieces (like the orange piece immediately above) just cannot be photographed in a way that do them justice.

 

 

We rounded out our evening with a late dinner at Lili's. Funny enough, even though every.single.one.of.us commented on the gorgonzola fries being our favorite things on the planet, no one ordered them! If you haven't tried Lili's do yourself a favor and run there now. I don't think you'll be dissapointed.

 

So what did you do this weekend?

-DBC