There's no denying that David Comstock's abstract paintings are attractive, though to say that they're easy on the eyes would perhaps stray into the area of condescension.

A sense of place depends as heavily on our imaginations as it does on reality, while the definition of "reality" can be as fluid as it is ambivalent. What, then, is the reality of Memphis? Cinematically, the gamut runs from ...

I promise that at the end of this year, when I'm compiling my list of best exhibitions of 2012, this show, "Ted Faiers: Flat Space, paintings and works on paper 1953-56," will be among those selected. Since 2002, David Lusk ...

If you're feeling a bit of a letdown between Christmas and New Year's, drive down to the National Ornamental Metal Museum for a bright pick-me-up in the form of Sarah Perkins' "Tributary" exhibition. It's a compact show, and the 13 ...

For its last shows of 2011, David Lusk Gallery juxtaposes the witty, elegant and highly finished welded bronze sculptures of Carroll Todd with the purposefully unfinished -- or at least giving that illusion -- sketches and drafts of works by ...

Art is everywhere, it seems, displayed in commercial galleries, shops that specialize in local artists, museums, various stores that just want to hang some art and sell it, the lobbies of performing arts centers, storefront alternative spaces, restaurants.

Armed + Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal, newly installed in the main exhibition galleries at the Brooks, has a title worthy of an action movie. Like a fast-paced caper film, the display of over 125 examples of arms and armor ...

One doesn't expect to go into an exhibition of abstract paintings by Don Estes and be greeted by splashes of color, but in "Prosody," at David Lusk Gallery through Nov. 26, the artist reveals a radical transformation of his manner ...

Are we truly adrift? Are all matters and perceptions ephemeral? The answer to those questions is "Yes," at least in the light of the exhibition "Adrift," displayed in the Hyde Gallery of Memphis College of Art's Nesin Graduate School.

Bryan Blankenship has been defying expectations for two decades. A ceramic artist of exquisite taste and craftsmanship, he repeatedly crosses the borders or blurs the boundaries between craft and fine art, between provocation and décor.

We expect an art of chaste and enigmatic power from Terri Jones, and she fulfills that expectation in "Whirl," her exhibition at David Lusk Gallery through July 30. She also indulges a streak of playfulness -- or serious play -- ...

On Saturday at Beauty Shop Restaurant in Cooper-Young, Joel Hilgenberg exhibits 100 small envelopes on which he has drawn, stamped and written a veritable history of his dark cultural consciousness in what could be called a collaboration with the U.S. ...

"Digital Mettle: Jewelry and Objects of CAD," at the National Ornamental Metal Museum through Sept. 11, is an exhibition as confounding as it is beguiling, as confusing as it is benign but ultimately is a harbinger of the future for ...

It's a clever idea for Lisa Kurts Gallery to mount an exhibition called "Kurts-Bingham Retrospective" (through the end of July), because the result is a gathering of many of the artists that Memphians have loved for years, including local painters ...

Niles Wallace slyly poses a question in his exhibition "Sticks & Stones (one thing follows another)," at Gallery Fifty Six through June 25. It's not the traditional question whose implication we often expect at displays of ceramic art, that is, ...