Dallas, TX - Lisa Grossman’s oil paintings of the wide open rural eastern Kansas, painted en plein air (or on location), are a meditation on open spaces, exploring the emotional responses to atmospheric shifts in light, color, and the vast distance of land and sky. Grossman’s paintings are devoid of objects typically depicted in landscape painting, such as trees, dwellings, and other human-made contraptions such as cars and electrical lines. She instead wipes them out with her confident brushstrokes offering uninterrupted, contemplative fields of color open to self-reflection. On view  23 March through 17 April, 2010.  Reception: Saturday, March 27, 6-8 pm.

Austin, TX - In a special collaboration, the Harry Ransom Center and the Blanton Museum of Art presentManuel Álvarez Bravo and His Contemporaries: Photographs from the Collections of the Harry Ransom Centerand The Blanton Museum of Art. Organized by The Blanton as part of The University of Texas at Austin’s celebration of the Mexican Bicentennial, the exhibition will feature 45 iconic images by “the father of Mexican photography,” drawn from the Harry Ransom Center and The Blanton—UT’s two primary collections. The show will also include excellent examples of work by Álvarez Bravo’s contemporaries including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston.