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

Art Meets Fashion: 1965 – 2015: An exhibit not to be missed

It is no secret that NorthPark Center is the go-to place for the best selection of fashion retailers in Dallas. NorthPark is also known for making world-class works of art available to the public, which are exhibited throughout the shopping center. So, to commemorate NorthPark’s 50th anniversary, a new exhibition, Art Meets Fashion: 1965 – 2015, was recently unveiled on Level One between Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom.

Curated by Texas Fashion Collection Director Myra Walker, this celebratory exhibition features specific examples of dress over the past fifty years from 1965 to the present, illustrating the synergistic relationship between the world of art and what shows up on the runway. Drawn primarily from the Texas Fashion Collection at UNT, twenty-nine looks are on display alongside two series of prints by Andy Warhol that inspired two of the pieces within the exhibition.

Banowetz + Company produced a perfect-bound book that walks viewers through the various fashion statements with insights into the designers’ inspiration, as well as some back story on the designers themselves. The brochure can be picked up from the NorthPark Center Concierge desk or the NorthPark Management Office. On-site signage was also produced for the exhibition.

Here are a couple of our favorite looks. But don’t miss the actual exhibit, which will be up just through the remainder of 2015.

— Team Banowetz