Hello, Dollys! — New Faces at Banowetz + Company

Leon Banowetz is a big Dolly Parton fan. Always has been. Always will be. And now the walls of B+Co feature a framed collection paying homage to the Queen of Country. A designer on our creative team, Lily Smith+Kirkley was one of the illustrators participating in a 2015 print exhibition featuring 35 Dolly portraits by some of the nation’s finest printmakers. The project, created by Margot Ecke of Smokey Road Press, was titled “Tease it to Jesus” — a nod to Dolly’s big... hair — and showcases a wide variety of illustration styles and print processes. Check it out here or the next time you stop by the studio. What can we say but “Dolly, we will always love you.”

  — Team Banowetz

NorthPark Center Unveils New Works by KAWS

Stop by and see the latest eye-catching additions to NorthPark Center’s impressive art collection, by Brooklyn-based artist KAWS. Clean Slate, a monumental sculpture on Level One near Macy’s, depicts one of the artist’s most famous figures carrying two smaller, adolescent figures. Survival Machine, on Level Two near Macy’s, is a series of five paintings containing popular imagery with layers of contradictions and subtleties.

Spanning the worlds of graffiti, pop art and consumer culture, KAWS conveys his underlying wit, irreverence and affection for our times. Well known for his larger-than-life sculptures and hard-edged paintings with similarities to popular cartoon figures that emphasize line and color, KAWS creates an emotional cast of hybrid cartoon/human characters in his work.

If you want to see more of KAWS, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is hosting a major exhibition KAWS: WHERE THE END STARTS through January 22, 2017.

Now, we think that’s KAWS for celebration!

— Team Banowetz

An Artful Exhibition: Bruce Weber and NorthPark Center

Viewing art is always inspiring. Viewing art in our client's backyard is even better.

In conjunction with the Dallas Contemporary and its current exhibition of Bruce Weber’s work Far From Home, NorthPark Center presents Bruce Weber: Artist Portraits, a free exhibition featuring 25 portraits by the iconic American photographer of some of the most important artists of the last 50 years. This never-before-shown exhibition, featuring Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Georgia O’Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Andrew Wyeth, among others, is both powerful and intimate. 

Weber is best known for his work for fashion icons Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Versace, Abercrombie and Fitch, Revlon, Louis Vuitton, and others, as well as magazines including Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone.

The NorthPark exhibition is open through April 16, 2017, at NorthPark Center on Level One between Neiman Marcus and Dillard’s, between Burberry and Louis Vuitton. You will not want to miss it!

— Team Banowetz