Invited in 1970 to document the everyday lives of Texans, Earlie Hudnall Jr. built an archive celebrating a legendary Black community.
L'Oeil de la Photographie: Keith Carter: Ghostlight →
Throughout Keith Carter‘s extensive career, he has always had a keen eye on the landscapes, swamps, marshes and bayous along the Texas and Louisiana border. Soon, a survey of these mystical lands will be presented in the monograph, Ghostlight , published by University of Texas Press due to be release early 2023.
Art This Week: Voices on Art-At PDNB Gallery-Earlie Hudnall, Jr. in conversation with Keith Carter →
On November 19, 2022, Art This Week Productions filmed this conversation between Earlie Hundall, Jr. and Keith Carter at PDNB Gallerry. The two talk about their early lives, their careers, and their influences. This talk was filmed in conjunction with the exhibitions, Keith Carter: Ghostlight and Earlie Hundall, Jr. The exhibitions are on view at the gallery through February 11, 2023.
Huck Magazine: A glimpse inside America’s trans community in the ’70s by Miss Rosen →
During the early 1970s, American photographer Jeffrey Silverthorne (1946-2022) began visiting Homestead – a Providence bar that catered to the transgender community when it was still deeply underground. Blessed with a gentle nature, Silverthorne crafted portraits of the people he encountered out on the town as well as in the privacy of their homes.
Read moreThe Best Things To Do In Dallas, Nov. 16–22: Keith Carter and Earlie Hudnall, Jr. at PDNB Gallery →
PDNB Gallery (150 Manufacturing St.) is celebrating some big wins for its artists this week.
Mario Algaze (1947-2022)
The art world lost a gem last week.
Mario Algaze, born in Havana, Cuba, arrived in the U.S. in 1960, after the Cuban Revolution. In his twenties, he learned photography and found his passion.
Read moreDallas Observer: The Best Things To Do In Dallas, August 24-30 by Merritt Martin
Galleries are so often looking for the hottest, newest artist that it stopped us in our tracks to find PDNB Gallery (150 Manufacturing St.) opening an exhibition for three seasoned artists they’d long championed. In Memoriam, however is not just an exhibition, but a tribute and celebration of life for Jesse Alexander, Paul Greenberg and Jeffrey Silverthorne
Read moreGlasstire: FotoFest Announces Artists for 2022 Biennial Exhibition by Brandon Zech →
We are pleased to announce Delilah Montoya is participating in the FotoFest Biennial 2022, If I Had a Hammer, opening September 24 and running through November 6 in Houston.
The exhibition is co-curated by Steven Evans, Amy Sadao, and Max Fields and features twenty-three international artists, photographers, and activists whose work reveals the social and political impacts of image production and circulation.
FotoFest is a Houston-based arts organization dedicated to advancing photography and visual culture through the presentation of exhibitions, public programs, and publications.
Jeffrey Silverthorne (1946 - 2022)
We lost a dear friend and artist last week, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Fighting a battle with cancer, Jeffrey was still creating art, as seen in the attached, unnamed image.
Read morePaul Greenberg (1935 - 2022)
We sadly received news this week of the passing of our great friend, Paul Greenberg.
Read moreGlasstire: "One Work, Short Take: Robert Milnes at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas" by Matthew Bourbon →
Robert Milnes’ recent ceramic forms are partially inspired by life under the sea. The undulating and colorfully articulated shapes are not exact renditions of anything specific, but instead loosely suggestive of the often fanciful creatures that populate the underwater.
County Line Magazine: "Nature Takes Center Stage at PDNB Gallery" →
PDNB (Photographs Do Not Bend) Gallery features two solo exhibitions celebrating new works by photographer and birder Cheryl Medow and ceramic artist Robert Milnes. The exhibit runs through July 2.
Dallas Morning News: "PDNB Gallery’s ‘The Bauhaus in Texas’ examines state’s ties to global artistic movement" by John Zotos →
An exhibition with almost 40 photographs at PDNB Gallery, “The Bauhaus in Texas,” presents mostly abstract art photography informed by Bauhaus principles, moving the medium far beyond what we normally expect.
Musée Magazine: " Exhibition Review: The Bauhaus in Texas: PDNB Gallery" April-Rose Desalegn, Edited by Jana Massoud →
Bauhaus emerged into art spaces in 1919, and its bold aesthetic and social vision found widespread cultural resonance - transatlantic, in fact. The Texas Woman’s University embraced it, holding a visionary art program inspiring participants to work with Bauhaus methods of abstraction to dazzling results. In The Bauhaus in Texas, The PDNB Gallery will present the works of these artists who were a part of the 2021-2022 traveling exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, illuminating the German vision of Bauhaus and its enduring international impact.
Glasstire: "Patty Carroll: Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise at PDNB Gallery, Dallas" by Colette Copeland →
On first glance at Patty Carroll’s exhibition at PDNB Gallery, I immediately thought of Hal Foster’s 2011 book Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes).
Dallas Morning News: "Bill Owens’ classic images of late ‘60s ‘Suburbia’ get showcase at PDNB Gallery in Dallas" by Danielle Avram →
The photographer captured a fleeting cultural moment with his seminal 1973 book.
Patron Magazine: "Exploring Housewives and Suburbia at PDNB" →
PDNB Gallery’s two solo exhibitions by gallery artists Patty Carroll and Bill Owens deserve to be seen. The first exhibition, Anonymous Woman, marks the first solo show for Chicago-based Patty Carroll in the celebrated all-photographs gallery. Concurrently, Bill Owens has had a large presence at PDNB since the early 2000’s when the gallery first featured his groundbreaking series from the early 1970’s titled Suburbia. The exhibition marks a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking work of Suburbia. Both exhibitions continue through February 12.
Huck Magazine: "Vintage scenes of suburban America in the 1970s Family life" by Miss Rosen →
Bill Owens discusses his project documenting his neighborhood which sought to create an in-depth portrait that went beyond the shallow, dismissive tropes of suburbia.
ModCiti: DOMESTIC, DISTURBANCES + DOCUMENTARY NOW! By Kendall Morgan →
Photographs Patty Carroll and Bill Owens take on mid-century suburbia at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
PaperCity: "Patty Carroll Brings Her Captivating Photographs - and Limited-Edition Prints - to Dallas" by Catherine D. Anspon →
Catch the Lauded Chicago Photographer and Educator's Work in the Design District