A Guide to This Weekend's Gallery Extravaganza | Art&Seek | Arts, Music, Culture for North Texas

With the start of September, new art abounds in North Texas. From the abundance of opening receptions to art talks and art walks, there’s little chance you’ll be able to see it all this weekend — but that’s not going to stop you from trying, is it?

You can always find information about opening receptions at galleries in Art&Seek’s calendar. And for this event-packed week, we’ve created a special guide.

From the seasoned art aficionado to the uninitiated, September is one of the best times to discover what makes DFW such a thriving art scene.

Here are some of the weekend’s highlights in art happenings:

1. Objects From A Future Past

Had a great studio visit this morning to see the final works for Alison Jardine's exhibition opening September 9th. Mark your calendars and we will see you then! @alisonjardinestudio #castcement #pigment #urbanflora #objectsfromafuturepast

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Alison Jardine’s first solo exhibition with Erin Cluley Gallery explores her love of nature and a concern for its future. Her current series, Urban Flora, consists of cement casts of plastic bags found in nature and imbued with charcoal and pigments.

When: Saturday, Book signing @ 5 p.m., Reception @ 6 p.m.

Where: Erin Cluley Gallery, 414 Fabrication Street (Dallas)

2. Cleaver

Cassandra Emswiler Burd and Lucia Simek

The Art Beef collective presents an exhibition in their Expo Park gallery of new works from Dallas artists Lucia Simek and Cassandra Emswiler Burd. Emswiler Burd is probably best known for her tiled transformation of one of the gallery spaces at Dallas Contemporary. Both women have day jobs at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Cleaver runs from Sept. 2-30.

“It’s been difficult for me to balance my day job with an art practice, and over the past year, I’ve begun to find my way back to making work through tapestry — learning to weave and working with needlepoint,” Emswiler Burd says. “The main works I created in CLEAVER are three wool needlepoints, which together form a family portrait of me, my mom, and dad. As I prepare to become a new parent this fall, I’ve thought a lot about identity and beginnings and endings — in terms of who my parents were, and who I am and will become as a new mother.”

When: Saturday, Reception @ 7 p.m.

Where: Beefhaus, 833 Exposition Avenue (Dallas)

3. Alter Ego

The pre-installation chaos is always a tad overwhelming everything is in need of a place. Join us Saturday evening for the opening reception and see these works and others; of course, in a less chaotic state. #artshow #showprep #artinstallation #gallery #watercolor #cedarhilltx

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Cedar Hill’s Sly Cat Gallery has a new show, Alter Ego, featuring works from Theresa Brooks, June Covington, Laura Davidson, Christine Engebretsen, Curtis Frederick, Sarah Graham, Sandra Morante, David Ross, Hannah Tyler, and Ricky Dean Wyrick.

When: Saturday, Reception @ 6 p.m.

Where: Sly Cat Gallery, 206 South Broad Street (Cedar Hill)

3. Homecoming

We're back from August break. Install for #homecoming is complete. This is one of our favorite shows to date. #Textile, #sculpture, and video made of a variety of media including wood, paper, leather, steel, wool, rocks, rope are #curated in harmony with the architecture of the preexisting space. . . The #exhibition opens September 9 at noon for #fallgallerynight. . . #emiwinter #micahlexier #cydonia #contemporaryart #conceptualism #conceptualart #backportrait #installshot #cydoniagallery #fortworthart #dallasart #visualart

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CYDONIA will feature works from Michael Dumontier, Micah Lexier, Trish Tillman, and Emi Winter in the Homecoming exhibition, which is just one of the many shows you can catch as part of the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association (FWADA) Fall Gallery Night Saturday. Most FWADA member galleries will be open from noon to 9 p.m.

When: Saturday, Reception @ 6 p.m.

Where: CYDONIA, 2955 Crockett Street (Fort Worth)

4. David Conn at BRIT

David Conn

The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), located in Fort Worth, hosts a collection of paintings and prints from local printmaker and Shaw Street Studio founder David Conn. Conn is an expert in the creation of linocuts, a printmaking technique where artists use carved linoleum blocks as a relief surface. The result is an intricate weaving of lines reminiscent of a dense forest. Paintings and Prints 2000- 2016 will be open from Sept. 8 – Oct. 26.

When: Saturday, Reception @ 6 p.m.

Where: Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 1700 University Drive (Fort Worth)

5. Chromatic Shift

Zhuang Hong Yi

Chinese contemporary artist Zhuang Hong Yi presents new works at an introductory solo exhibition at Laura Rathe Fine Art. His vibrant “flower bed” creations are constructed from rice paper, which Hong Yi paints and folds by hand. The result is richly-textured works which beg to be seen up close and from all angles.

When: Saturday, Reception @ 5 p.m.

Where: Laura Rathe Fine Art, 1130 Dragon Street (Dallas)

More Saturday In Dallas:

Danny Rose & Haylee Ryan — Elsewhere at Jen Mauldin Gallery

Melinda Laszczynski — A Hole A Pool A Moon at Galleri Urbane

Casey Leone — Mr. Smith Goes to Washington at The Reading Room

Sidney Mullis — Preservation of Forgetting at Galleri Urbane

Leticia Huckaby — 40 Acres Gumbo Ya Ya at Liliana Bloch Gallery

ArtCult: An Exhibit of Contemporary Art from East Java at The Artists Showplace Gallery

Kevin Cole — Soundtracks of Color at Saigling House at Haggard Park

Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA) Fall Gallery Walk — Samuel Lynne Galleries

Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA) Fall Gallery Walk — Bath House Cultural Center