With exhibition openings at the Power Station, Dallas Contemporary, and Dallas Museum of Art; talks at the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Art Fair; the Eyeboretum at the Joule; a video night at Pegasus Plaza; gallery openings around the town; and a tour of the Dallas Cowboys Art Collection, Dallas has become one of the best parts of our spring cultural calendar.
“We’re thrilled to celebrate the sixteenth year of the fair. We owe our longevity to the loyalty and enthusiasm of our substantial collector base, as well as to the excellent taste and quality of our exhibitors,” Kelly Cornell, Director of the Dallas Art Fair, told Galerie. “We have exhibitors traveling from all over the world to meet with buyers in Dallas, which shows our city’s strength in the international art market.” From fresh discoveries to seasoned contemporary masters, these are our favorite artworks from the 2024 Dallas Art Fair.
Blurring the boundary between figuration and abstraction, Maureen O’Leary paints landscapes, cityscapes, still lives, and portraits with a lively style of loose brushwork and bright colors that beckons back to the Fauvists and German Expressionists. Trained as both a photographer and a painter, the Washington D.C.-born, Long Island and Puerto Rico-based artist utilizes her tightly composed pictures as the point of departure for her painterly visions of a nomadic life. In a solo booth presentation, the gallery offered a group of lyrical canvases from the artist’s recent ROMA series. Created during and after her 2022 residency at the American Academy in Rome, the paintings capture the vitality of the Eternal City with flat planes of color and distorted views, which make the ancient capital seem all the more amazing.
