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Robert Boyd

(He/Him)
Houston
As seen in: Wiley Online Library, Substack, Chron, The Beaumont Enterprise, Comics Journal Magazine, Glasstire, The Great God Pan Is Dead
Covers:  Art, Comics, Culture
Doesn't Cover: Sports, Video Games
I occasionally publish a newsletter about art and books called The Great God Pan Is Dead thegreatgodpanisdead.substack.com
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F gallery is the unsung gem of the Houston art world

F gallery is the unsung gem of the Houston art world

Chron — For as much as we associate art with large, powerful institutions like museums, a lot of it comes from someplace smaller, bubbling up from the underground. In order to find an audience, it needs a facilitator, someone who can coordinate with artists to bring their work to a place where the public can experience it.
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Myth and Legend: Dawolu Jabari at the Galveston Artists Residency | Glasstire

Myth and Legend: Dawolu Jabari at the Galveston Artists Residency | Glasstire

Glasstire — Dawolu Jabari is an artist concern with African American history, myth and culture. Combining this with his enduring love of old comics and artists like Jack Kirby, he has created his new body of work, Lessons from Above: Constellation of Quilts. This piece is my review of that exhibit.
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The Last Night at the Media Center | Glasstire

The Last Night at the Media Center | Glasstire

Glasstire — The Media Center at Rice University has shown thousands of movies to generations of undergraduates and the general public. On Friday, June 4, it screened its last movie ever. I was there. The crowd in the theater was not huge, and tended toward an older demographic. Some, like me, had once been students there.
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Sharp by Havel+Ruck in Houston (and the specter of gentrification) | Glasstire

Sharp by Havel+Ruck in Houston (and the specter of gentrification) | Glasstire

Glasstire — Art in Houston stops at the 610 Loop. A few small institutions exist outside the Loop, and many artists live beyond its confines (pushed out in part by the difficulty of finding economic live-work space inside the Loop), but the further you get from the center, the less art there is to see.
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Patrick Renner's "Bounty" at Redbud | Glasstire

Patrick Renner's "Bounty" at Redbud | Glasstire

Glasstire — I am reading The Lives of the Artists, a collection of Calvin Tomkins' profiles that he wrote for The New Yorker. The first he wrote was in 1962 - a lengthy profile of Jean Tinguely, centered around Tinguely's creation of Homage to New York, which is a self-destructing mechanical sculpture made mainly from junk and second-hand machines.
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Ellsworth Kelly in Space: Katy Heinlein's Snake Eyes | Glasstire

Ellsworth Kelly in Space: Katy Heinlein's Snake Eyes | Glasstire

Glasstire — When I was in high school, I got a book on Impressionism for Christmas one year. I can't remember who wrote the introduction, but I have always remembered one thing the author wrote - he wrote that the Penetrables of Jesús Rafael Soto were like "Monets in space."
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Stella Sullivan and the Art of Seeing | Glasstire

Stella Sullivan and the Art of Seeing | Glasstire

Glasstire — I was 17 when I met Stella Sullivan. It was 1980. A family friend of my school chum John was taking painting lessons from her, which is how I met her. I had taken lessons from a Sunday painter in Spring Branch, but she was not a very good teacher.
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Pat Palermo's Galveston Diary - The Comics Journal

Pat Palermo's Galveston Diary - The Comics Journal

Comics Journal Magazine — Pat Palermo is a New York-based artist who has been an active participant in the art world while maintaining an identity as a cartoonist. This doesn't seem like such a strange thing now, as more and more people are getting MFAs in comics. But I come from a generation whose art professors looked down their...
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Crawl Space - The Comics Journal

Crawl Space - The Comics Journal

Comics Journal Magazine — Crawl Space's cover is a rainbow-color explosion-a geometric face on the cover with a screaming mouth and an eye in its forehead. Filled with colorful detail, it looks like the cover of some forgotten psychedelic record album. It doesn't let up inside. The inside cover pages feature grids of 71 grinning, wide-eyed faces, all drawing...
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Wura-Natasha Ogunji: Artist Profile

Wura-Natasha Ogunji: Artist Profile

Art Ltd. — This is another blast from the past. Art Ltd. is a defunct art magazine for whom I wrote several pieces. I was interested in writing about Ogunji because of the work she was doing at DiverseWorks, an art space here in Houston.]
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Impatience and Lapsos - The Comics Journal

Impatience and Lapsos - The Comics Journal

Comics Journal Magazine — Inés Estrada is a 26-year-old Mexican cartoonist currently living in the USA. According to her blog , she makes a living "making whatever the fuck I want," and that includes self-publishing Impatience, a beautifully printed and designed book. The cover is outlined in intense red which carries over to the edges of the pages and...
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Trenton Doyle Hancock

Trenton Doyle Hancock

Art Ltd. — The idea of a fictional universe has existed for centuries, but perhaps in modern times we can date it from 1960, the year that the Justice League first appeared, putting all of DC Comics most popular superheroes on one team. Or maybe 1977 is a better starting point.
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In the Clubhouse: I Love You Baby | Glasstire

In the Clubhouse: I Love You Baby | Glasstire

Glasstire — I Love You Baby was a Houston art collective that came together in 1992 as three friends working together and collaborating on artworks-Paul Kremer, Rodney Chinelliot and Will Bentsen. The name "I Love You Baby" was adopted in 2002. The group then expanded to include Chris Olivier and Dale Stewart and started meeting weekly at Commerce Street Art Warehouse (CSAW).
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Jess Johnson, 1970-2016 - The Comics Journal

Jess Johnson, 1970-2016 - The Comics Journal

Comics Journal Magazine — Note to readers: Jess Johnson was a transgender artist. I wanted to get the pronouns right for this obituary. Jeff Johnson transitioned to Jessica Johnson in the early 2000s, but then in 2010 started calling herself Jess-an ambiguous compromise between Jeff and Jessica.
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Chinquapin Pilgrimage: Searching for Forrest Bess | Glasstire

Chinquapin Pilgrimage: Searching for Forrest Bess | Glasstire

Glasstire — In 1947, Forrest Bess moved to Chinquapin, a tiny unincorporated settlement at the end of a dirt road on the northeast side of East Matagorda Bay. "The peninsula is a lonely, desolate place," he wrote, "yet it has a ghostly feeling about it-spooky-unreal-but there is something about it that attracts me to it-even though I am afraid of it."
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Two of the coolest artists in Texas just joined forces

Two of the coolest artists in Texas just joined forces

Chron.com — When two people share musical ambition and interests, forming a band feels like a natural step to take. But there's not exactly an analogous path for visual artists who want to collaborate. Why shouldn't there be, though? Two Texas artists, Tim Kerr and Robert Hodge, are forging that path-the visual arts version of starting a band.
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