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CHARISSA N. TERRANOVA
 

Art and Architectural Criticism:
 
 

Reviews published as a critic at Art Papers, a national art magazine:
2008-
“Kristi Lucas at And/Or,” February, 2008
“Noah Simblist at the Pollock Gallery, SMYU,” January, 2008
2007-
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, forthcoming
Lincoln Schatz, “From Here,” permanent video installation, One Arts Plaza, Dallas,Texas, April 24, 2007-ongoing


  Reviews published as a critic at the Dallas Morning News Dallas Morning News, a daily newspaper:
2008-
“Kehinde Wiley at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,” May 6, 2008
“Lifting at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts,” May 6, 2008
“Justing Quinn at Conduit Gallery,” April 24, 2008
“Early Video at University of Dallas's Haggerty Gallery,” April 24, 2008
“L.A.'s Ironies Revealed in Low-Tech Media,” March 13, 2008
“Student Scrap-Metal Art at Bryan Tower,” March 11, 2008
“Local Artists Find Community Spirit and a Place to Work at Old Shamrock Hotel,” March 9, 2008
“Shimsical Wood Sculputre Exhibit Opens-Martin Puryear at the Modern in Fort Worth,” February 23, 2008
“Media-Savvy Artist Kristin Lucas Exhibits Work at And/Or Gallery,” February 19, 2008
“New Art From Chicago at Road/Agent,” February 13, 2008
“Scott Barber at Barry Shistler,” February 13, 2008
“Thom Mayne Scored Museum Job with Edgy Approach” January 30, 2008
“Isaac Smith at Craighead-Green Gallery” January 21, 2008
“Orna Feinstien at Craighead-Green Gallery” January 21, 2008
“Architecturally trained at Skyline High School” January 7, 2008
2007-
“Brian Gibb at Public Trust,” December 26, 2007
“Dornith Doherty Layers Object upon Image in Her Nature Photographs,” December 20, 2007
“Dallas Museum of Art Hits Record Attendance” December 19, 2007
“Year in Review” December 19, 2007
“Elliott Johnson at Road Agent Gallery” December 12, 2007
“Group Show at And/Or Gallery” December 12, 2007
“Femininity Retold at Nasher's Lachaise Exhibit” November 30, 2007
“Video Artist Exhibits Paean to Morrissey at Dallas Museum of Art” November 13, 2007
“Richard Prince at the Guggenheim” November 10, 2007
“Noah Simblist at Pollock Gallery” November 8, 2007
“Damien Hirst at Goss-Michael” November 1, 2007
“John Pomara at Barry Whistler” October 25, 2007
“Raychael Stine at Road Agent Gallery” October 25, 2007
“Annabel Daou at Conduit Gallery” October 25, 2007
“Demuth Show at the Amon Carter, Small but Exquisite,” September 4, 2007
“Susan Barnett at Hamon Arts Library,” August 15, 2007
“Expressionism on Paper at the Dallas Museum of Art,” August 15, 2007
“Abstract Shapes Morph into Metaphors,” August 1, 2007
“Tracy-Emin at Goss-Michael,” July 19, 2007
“Lily Hanson, Jason Singleton at And/Or,” July 19, 2007
“Goss Changing Its Name, Mission,” June 28, 2007
“Fan Exhibit Spreads Wealth,” June 26, 2007
“Addressing America’s Ethnic Stereotypes,” June 21, 2007
“Molded Geodes Comment on Suburbia,” June 12, 2007
“Annual Gala Set to Honor Art Figures,” June 11, 20007
“A Gallery of Gaetanos,” June 7, 2007

“Developers Strive for a Community Feel,” March 25, 2007
“Bites of Gallery Gourmet: Group Show at And/Or Gallery,” March 13, 2007
“Romper Rooms: Modern Considers the Changing Child in ‘Pretty Baby’,” February 24, 2007
 
 

Reviews published as a critic at Sculpture MagazineSculpture Magazine, an international art magazine:
2007-
“Simpatico” Straw Sculptures by Mark P. Williamson at Dahlia Woods Gallery Dallas, Texas October 27-November 11 
“Ryan Humphrey: Diver Down” at Road Agent Dallas, Texas, September 9-October 28
 

 

Reviews published as art critic at Artlies Art Lies, a journal on contemporary art:
2008-
“Kristin Lucas at And/Or” Issue 56 (Summer 2008)
2007-
“Feedback: Television against Democracy & The Assault on Reason,” Issue 55 (Winder 2007)
“Ron Mueck” Issue 55 (Winter 2007)
“Michael Roque Collins,” at Gerald Peters Gallery, Number 54 (Summer 2007)
“Introduction: 2007,” Mulcahy Modern, Artlies, Number 53 (Spring 2007)
“Focus: Chinatsu Ban,” Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Artlies, Number 53 (Spring 2007)
“Introduction: 2007,” Mulcahy Modern, Artlies, Vol. 53 (Spring, 2007)
“Focus: Chinatsu Ban,” Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Artlies, Vol. 53 (Spring, 2007).
“Brian Fridge: Photographs,” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Artlies, Vol. 53 (Spring, 2007).
2006-
Everyman,” Book Review of Philip Roth’s Everyman, Artlies, Vol. 52 (Winter, 2006).
Façade,” Review of Tommy Fitzpatrick at Holly Johnson Gallery, Artlies, Vol. 52 (Winter, 2006).
“Beau Comeaux,” Review of Beau Comeaux at Marty Walker, Artlies, Vol. 52 (Winter,2006).
Investigations,” Review of Robert Dean Stockwell at Gerald Peters Gallery, Artlies, Vol.52 (Winter 2006).
-“Focus: Cornelia Parker,” Review of Cornelia Parker Show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Artlies, Vol. 50 (Summer, 2006) 113.
-“Third-way Photographs: Review of When Two Or More Things Are Gathered Together Photographs by Neal Slaven,” Artlies, Vol. 49 (Spring, 2006) 107.
2005-
“HAL on LSD, or Towards a Technocratic Aesthetic: Review of William Betts: Sliver of Clarity,” Artlies, Vol. 48 (Fall, 2005) 97.
“The Oh6 Art Collective – Giving a Little H2O to the Cultural Corpus of Dallas?” Artlies, Vol.45 (Summer, 2005).
 

  Reviews published as art critic at Glasstire.com Glasstire.com, an on-line art journal:
2008-
“Arthouse Renovation” April 2008
2007-
Goss-Michael Foundation: Yes-Saying and Saying Yes in Dallas,” July 2007
“Rebecca Holland: Sugar Sweet, Rock Solid” June 2007

“Christian Pitt,” Review of Christian Pitt in the Project Room at Conduit Gallery, February 2007
“Utopian Semblances in the work of Noah Simblist,” in February 2007
“Formless Yet Formal: Lily Hanson Is Mistress and Maker of the Soft Uncanny,” January 2007
2006-
“Unruly Animal Spirits,” Review of Feral Nature at UT Dallas Visual Arts Building Main     Gallery, fall 2006
“Faux-tography,” Review of Ted Kincaid at Marty Walker Gallery, spring 2006
“Girl, Femme, Feminine,” Review of the work of Margaret Meehan and Lesley Dill
“Drive By Booting,” Review of Driver, spring 2006
2005-
“Art in Iraq:  Humanism – That Old Heroic Sod?” Review of Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art and Drawing from Life: Steve Mumford in Iraq, 2004, March 2005
“The Warp and Woof of Impossible Play: Margaret Sawyer’s Hanging Web of Colored Tubes Makes Play-space Just Out of Reach,” January 2005
2004-
“Aesthetics from Forgetting, or Nietzsche after Ziegler,” Review of "Hold Your Breath" Exhibition of work by Mel Ziegler at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, May 2004
“Flatness in the Flatlands, Or, On the State of Cultural Production along the Urban Periphery of Dallas,” Review of “Altered States,” an Exhibition of Painting at the University of Texas at Dallas, January 2004

  Reviews published as critic at Art News Art News, an international art magazine:
2008-
“Annabel Daou” forthcoming in 2008
2006-
“I-35 Biennial Invitation,” May 19-July 8, 2006, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
“Patrick Kelly: Eye Want I Candy,” May 13-June 11, 2006, William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
 
 

Reviews published as critic at the Dallas Observer Dallas Observer, an alternative news weekly:
2006 –
“Field Not So Glorious: The DMA Hosts Two Exhibitions, One Provocative, One Pandering”
“Tuttle Unbound: Richard Tuttle Looses a Torrent of Idiosyncrasy”
“Piano Works: The Architect Renzo Piano Makes High Design for Our Local Culture of Kitsch”
“Patriot Acts: Art Sledgehammers Politics with a Smile at Barry Whistler Gallery”
“Painting as Petting Zoo: Candace M. Briceńo’s Sewn Surfaces Are Touchy Feely”
“Nintendo Wizards:  Senses are Overloaded at And/Or, the New Gallery on the Block”
“Shadow Remains: Francesco Patriarca’s Photos Float without Pretense”
“White Light White Noise: Painter Robert Ryman Does So Much with So Little”
“Electric Light Parade in the ‘Hood: Erwin Redl’s Light Installation Sits Quietly Next to Fahamu Pecou’s In-your-face Painting”
2005 –
“Pirates of Conspiracy: The Artists of Oh6 Turn Assassination into Comic Revelry”
“Somewhere between ‘Heaven and Earth:’ Anselm Kiefer Probes the Minefield of German Identity after WWII”
“Return of the Cogito: Trenton Doyle Hancock Reinstates the ‘I’ in Imagination…and Much More”
“What Goes Up: Shake-up in the Dallas Gallery Scene is the Stuff of Gossip Mill and Market Combined”
“Modernism Found: The Life and Work of Master Sculptor David Smith are Today's ‘Found Objects’”
Walking Between Known and Unknown: The Photos of Gordon Parks Register a World of Opposites and Extremes”
Mod God In the Details: Robert Bechtle Finds a Universe of Order in Car Doors, Roof Lines and Lawn Chairs”
From Classical to Candy-Colored New: Conceptual Artist Jim Lambie Wraps the DMA in Fruity Pinstripes”
Veni, Vidi, Vici Venice: The Venice Biennale Offers a Slice of Art Life in the Age of Globalization”
Star Focker: David LaChapelle's Photographs Will Rub You the Right Way”
“Wild Life and Industrial Chic: Vibrant Gallery Life Flourishes in the Design District”
Inner-City Kul: It's Too Cool for School, But Can We Call It Art?”
“Cabinets of Eccentricity: Tom Sale's Books, Boxes and Geegaws Show a World of Oddball Evolution”
“Chez Wal-Mart: The Wacky and Wonderful Objects of ‘Twang’ Show a Rethinking of Standardization”
“Stella’s Folly: Frank Stella’s Colorful Tangles and Whorls Show a Mid-career Misstep”
“Fragments of Fantasy: Daniel Roth Presents a World of Missing Parts and Tainted Possibilities”
2004 –
“Texas Tribalism: The Barrett Collection is All about Being Primitive in the Present”
“The Mongrel Cur of Art-chitecture: The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art Unleashes a Feisty Mutt”
“Schindler's Fist: Maya Schindler's Traumatized Sirens Pack a Powerful Punch”
“Life After Death Barber, Kincaid and Pomara Perform Shock Treatment on Painting”
“Manhattanism: The New Season in New York's Chelsea Galleries Offers a Mad Mixture of Artful Objects, Photo-optics and Cinematic Play”
“Train in Vein: Lothar Baumgarten's ‘Carbon’ Offers a Subtle Lesson on Manifest”
“From Buenos Aires to Bush-ville: Esteban Pastorino Diaz’s Photos Riff and Play on the So-Close-Yet-So-Far”
“Beyond the West Bank: Laray Polk's Book is Rich in Suggestion and Charged with Intellectual Fire”
“Second Skin: Deadpan and Droll, the World of Ed Ruscha Revolves around the Commonplace”
“Architectures of Truth: Pierre Huyghe's Videos Finger the Fault Line between Fact and Media Spectacle”
“Wisecracker Art: Michael Smith Corrupts the Gallery's White Walls with Digs, Jests and Jibes”
“Collecting Unconscious: Ellsworth Kelly at the DMA, from Art to Fetish and Back again”
“Girl Power Mystique: Jin-Ya Huang's Photos Inscribe the Feminine In-between”
“E-I-E-I-whoa: Betsy Odom's Barnyard is a Surreal Romp on the Old Farm”
“Cardboard Currency: Alex de Leon Builds a Shantytown on the Economics of the Underpass”
“Cold Flesh: Malerie Marder's Bodies Make a Strange Mix of Life, Death and the Unknown”
“Pimp Daddy of Video: Matthew Buckingham's Foxy Photoplay Brings a Vibrant Vision to Video”
“Time Traveler: The paintings of J.M.W. Turner Take you to a World beyond Beauty”

  Reviews written for Stretcher.org, an on-line art journal:
2003 –
“Theory in a Box,” Review of Two Shows in Paris, “Roland Barthes,” Centre Pompidou and “Ce qui arrive,” Fondation Cartier, spring 2003
“On the Hairy Idea of Beauty,” Review of Seven Works by Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, spring, 2003

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