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Deep Breaths and Experimental Film: Recent Exhibitions in Dallas and McAllen

Ro2 Art's new location in West Dallas demonstrates the gallery's expanded potential. Compared to their compact former flagship space on 1501 S. Ervay St., their white cube gallery at 2606 Bataan St. emboldens exhibits featuring large-scale work.

Maps from a Hybrid Reality: Yuni Lee at Ro2 Art

Ro2 Art opens in their newest gallery space on Bataan in the Tin District with the vibrant and energetic large-scale paintings by Yuni Lee that are much more than abstract works of art.

Glasstire Top 5: January 19, 2023

Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. Yuni Lee: Mindscapes was number one the week of January 19, 2023.

D Magazine: The 11 Things You Must Do in Dallas This January

“'SOUTH/REALISM/X' is Edgar Cano’s first solo exhibition in the United States. The celebrated Mexican painter’s work draws from his experience in dance and theater; his compositions center on the body, and his paintings operate as a foil to its natural movements."

Glasstire: Post Pandemic: Julon Pinkston Talks About His Show at Ro2 Art | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by Jessica Fuentes

"His canvases are created using a variety of paint applications, ranging from thin layers reminiscent of photograms to thicker elements, some of which look like they’ve come straight from the paint tube, while others have been applied and blended in a manner resembling cake frosting. In this show, Pinkston also expands on the technique of sculpting three-dimensional elements from dried paint. In the past, the product of this process often looked more like duct tape, but in this new series, these pieces have been shaped to resemble flower petals and leaves."

Dallas Observer: Best Things To Do in Dallas - Uncommon Thread | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by Merrit Martin

"Textile arts are fascinating because they can intimidate with their complexity while exuding a certain warmth. With Uncommon Thread, a group exhibition of artists Candace Hicks, Bumin Kim and Erica Stephens at RO2 Art (1501 S. Ervay St.), there’s a distinctly different interpretation of threaded art between the artists, but each draws the viewer in for a closer look."

Glasstire: Alexander Revier at Ro2 Art | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by William Sarradet

"The paintings are adorned with minute, three-dimensional elements in various places — a resourcefulness owing to the artist’s ability to turn refuse to treasure. There is a slight sensation of traipsing through the Midway of the fairgrounds, with senseless-yet-sensational attractions blaring in all directions."

Dallas Morning News: 8 Top Talents Making a Difference in DFW | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by Steven Lindsey

"In celebration of the voices that echo throughout North Texas in one form or another, here are eight artists focusing on hope, inspiration and the simple notion of equality." - Profiles on Elizabeth Akamatsu, Jihye Han, and Loc Huynh

Glasstire: An Afternoon with Yasuyo Maruyama and Suguru Hiraide | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by William Sarradet

"The paintings are a decisive format. Why so square? When Yasuyo photographs her models, she points her camera into the spark that inspires her to paint. Suguru confirms that Yasuyo tends to move her camera very close to the model’s face. She interviews her models in the process; she asks about things like hobbies and color preferences."

Texas Monthly: Daniel Johnston's Drawings are as Wildly Inventive as His Music | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by Jeremy Hallock

"A Dallas exhibit of 179 mostly never-before-seen works shows that the beloved songwriter was also a serious artist."

Dallas Morning News: Exhibition at Ro2 gallery reveals late artist Daniel Johnston wasn't his family's only creative soul | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by Christopher Mosely

"One of the most acclaimed artists to ever hail from Austin, the late Daniel Johnston spent the final 4½ years of his life collaborating with his sister, Marjory Johnston. A portion of their collective output is on view at the Ro2 Art gallery in the Cedars this month."

Dallas Observer: The Other Half of Daniel Johnston's Creativity is on Display at Ro2 Art Gallery | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by David Fletcher

"One of the most acclaimed artists to ever hail from Austin, the late Daniel Johnston spent the final 4½ years of his life collaborating with his sister, Marjory Johnston. A portion of their collective output is on view at the Ro2 Art gallery in the Cedars this month."

Art&Seek: What Does It Mean To Be Visible? | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by Elizabeth Myong

"Trading hashtags and tweets for brushes, thread and clay, the exhibition creates room for a dialogue instead of pushing a single point of view. While the artists’ cultural backgrounds significantly influence their work, they’re not wholly defined by their Asian or Asian Americanness. Other experiences float to the surface as the richness of their identities — artist, immigrant, parent, educator, feminist — are given a platform."

Paper City: ARTNOTES | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by Catherine D. Anspon

"Two of Texas’ best talent scouts are Susan Roth Romans and her son, Jordan Roth, who own and curate Ro2 Art, with locations in the Cedars and downtown. This month, the pair gets kudos for discovering an overlooked mid-career painter whose haunting abstractions conjure plant life and an emerging Asian-American whose trajectory has collectors from Texas to Shanghai vying for his post-Pop canvases."

Visual Art Source: Yasuyo Maruyama: Mind’s Eye | Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas | by John Zotos

"But it’s through the eyes that Maruyama unifies this body of work, lifting them into an ethereal realm. The eyes are formed through laying down multiple layers of opaque and transparent oil paint. This is the most striking element in the paintings; the people become otherworldly, evoking but distinctive from references to cyborgs, Japanese anime films and manga comics."

Representation Matters - In America by Joey Brock at Ro2Art - | article written by Kendall Morgan

"In his multi-media show at Ro2 Art, Joey Brock inspires empathy and engagement through a plethora of personal stories.
How we view ourselves–and how others view us–has been at the forefront of artists' minds in 2020. Yet the subject of identity is a loaded one, as Dallas artist Joey Brock has discovered in his current body of work."

Let it Burn: Brian K. Jones and Alexander Paulus at Ro2 Art Review | Glasstire | William Sarradet

"A couple of exhibitions, each with their own depictions of American symbols.” Brian K. Jones displays Big Tex as an abstract everyman. Alex Paulus paintings present humorous scenes of everyday life.

The Art of Self-Acceptance | Dallas Voice | David Taffet

"Joey Brock’s new exhibit at Ro2 Art in downtown Dallas — In America — is about self-acceptance. Each of his works displayed began with an interview."

Glasstire Top Five: September 24, 2020

Alex Paulus was chosen for the Top 5 in Texas this past week. Christopher Blay said, “These paintings really capture the collective consciousness that exists.”

Dallas Observer: Best of Dallas 2020

For the second time in 10 years, Ro2 Art Gallery received the Best Gallery of Dallas award. Ro2 thanks its artists, collectors, staff, and friends for the support. We would also like to thank the Dallas Observer for this distinction.

Four New Art Shows In Dallas

Ironically, Ro2 Art had to cancel its 10th annual group exhibition, Chaos, because the year has been too chaotic. In lieu of the planned exhibition, the gallery is presenting works that explore current events and feelings, simply titled 2020.

Ro2 Opens Its Virtual Art Gallery

Even though the physical doors at Ro2 Art Gallery are closed, the downtown gallery is open virtually. Jordan Roth is the director of the gallery that he runs with his mom, Susan Roth Romans. He says they are focused on three exciting programs.

This Friday, RO2 Gallery Will Host an Auction Benefiting the North Texas Food Bank

If you’re a philanthropist and an art collector, then Friday is the perfect day for you to open your heart and wallet. Dallas art gallery RO2 Art will host an online art auction, with over 90 works by 50 different artists, and all proceeds will benefit the North Texas Food Bank.

Dallas' Ro2 Art offers poignant, heart-stopping work in group show "Thingness"

Currently housing the contemporary group show, Thingness, and an important solo show of new works from Dee Shapiro, this tiny gallery is bursting with illumination. There’s no escaping the art – you enter the space and it’s all right there before you. You’re in the middle of it, and the further back into the small gallery you go, the more you uncover.

The Proposition of Teaching New Art Media-Part 2

David Van Ness is an artist working with 3D printing and digital fabrication. He combines data to alter and create 3D models. Also, Van Ness currently uses biological materials such as stem cells that will be grown on the two-inch sculptures that will be converted into human bone when complete. Van Ness is the New Media Art coordinator at Northern Arizona University, teaching cutting-edge digital and interdisciplinary New Media Art courses. I am happy to invite Van Ness to Tk-21 to listen to what it means to teach art in the advanced digital age.

The Uncolonized: Angel Cabrales at Chamizal National Memorial

The impact of art exhibitions can’t be delivered or communicated in a meme or a sound bite, but there are components of Cabrales’ work that deliver meaning in the same quick and biting manner. But spending time with his work delivers further reward — I could have spent all day in this show.

LA MOCA Press Release / / With Pleasure; Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1972 Dee Shapiro included in an important exhibition covering the pattern and decoration movement.

Pattern and Decoration artists practiced a postmodernist art of appropriation borne of love for its sources rather than the cynical detachment that became de rigueur in the international art world of the 1980s.

Terry Hays Featured in Texas Highways

Through three-dimensional, hand-painted sculptures, Duncanville-based artist Terry Hays imagines otherworldly trees, waterfalls, and islands. However, this “Cosmic Garden,” on display at The Grace Museum, actually takes inspiration from this planet—Hays is influenced by art from Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, China, and Japan as well as tattoo art.

Top Five: June 6, 2019

Thank you Glasstire for including BROKEN, a collaborative show of works by Joachim West and Thor Johnson, in Top 5 Texas shows!

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on his love for fake-food art, Christina’s thing for animal art, and some shows that wade into darker territory.

Modern Dallas
Chaos!!!! 2018 at Ro2Art

Why Chaos Matters

Year after year, RO2 has this crazy show of more than a hundred artists’ artwork hung on their walls. These small works can be a great introduction for gallery goers. I have been introduced to artists from the DFW area and hundreds of miles surrounding the Metroplex through this show. There are even a few from far-flung places. I for one love to get lost in the crazy contrasting styles and subject matter displayed salon style.

Top Five: August 16, 2018

Thank you Glasstire for including CHAOS!!!!!! 2018 in Top 5 in Texas!

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the last summer shows you can catch in Texas, which means group shows galore, and a few unexpected solo shows that feel more like fall.

Voyage Dallas
Adam Palmer

Today we’d like to introduce you to Adam Palmer.

Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
I was born and raised in west Texas in a small town called Monahans. I was lucky enough to be raised by very progressive parents. I think I was one of the only kids in west Texas whose parents didn’t listen to Modern Country music. My Mother loved all the British Invasion music and Motown and my Father loved Classic Rock. So right off the bat I was exposed to other cultures. They also allowed me to watch MTV and HBO when I was really young. I was about 4 years old when I started watching Music videos in the early eighties.

Glasstire
Party Pics: Aug. 4 at Ro2 Art in Dallas

The show: Chaos!!!!!!
The venue: Ro2 Art
The city: Dallas
The date: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018
Photographs by Maya Joubert

Modern Dallas
Nancy Ferro

Another exciting summer Dallas Gallery Day is upon us. July 14th from noon to 6 PM several galleries around town will be open for the city to see some art on the walls. Maybe a few on the floor too. That is right, all participating galleries will have a t-shirt and other goodies for the first 15 visitors to each venue. The Brooklyn Brewery will be having an after party from 6-8. 23 galleries are participating this year, yet RO2 isn’t one of them and that happens to be the show I wanted to write about. Because I was taken by Nancy Ferro’s project room exhibition.

Dallaesthetic
Joshua Goode | Treasures from the Rhoman Rodeo | James Freeman Gallery

In a nod to Islington’s both real and mythical past, American artist Goode will create a lost world at James Freeman Gallery of archaelogical artifacts and items “discovered” in the London borough. Goode discovered that in Medieval times Islington and North London were considered to be an unknown wilderness where mythical beasts roamed freely, the notion romanticised through the telling of fairytales and folklore. There have also been various claims of findings dating back to Roman times around Islington, two tombstones thought to be from the Roman period were later debunked.

Wall Street International Magazine
Bumin Kim

Known for her mesmerizing thread paintings, Bumin Kim pushes the boundaries of what defines a painting. Her work is especially inspired by elements found in nature, often extracting and simplifying landscapes and organic forms into geometric color fields. She breathes new life into the surface of her paintings, shifting the energy of each piece to exude an unexpected yet irresistible presence.

D Magazine
The Trinity River: It Runs to the Sea

In the second-floor gallery, adjacent to the Trinity River Project, Chance Dunlap will display his handmade fishing lures. The artist is also creating a “swap wall” for visitors to have the opportunity to trade their own lures, which, according to Nance, “is a common practice at trade shows for fishing lure enthusiasts.”

Central Track
Array Will Bring Wide-Ranging Disciplines Together

As if that weren’t enough, those shows on The Bomb Factory’s stage will be paired with a free-to-attend next-door offering of interactive visual art installations at the Deep Ellum venue’s neighboring sister venue, Canton Hall. The featured artists at that showing are Sheryl Anaya, Mattheiu Brooks, Alejandra Camargo, Jordan Castilleja, Jeremy McKane, Carmen Menza, Darcy Neal, James Talambas, Tramaine Townsend and Eric Trich — each of whom is a Dallas-based or North Texas native creator. Installations include Townsend’s “ACCLAIM,” a 360-degree virtual reality experience, Trich and Castijella’s 3-D sculptural effort “PARTIAL PERSONALITY” and Brooks and Menza’s immersive audio-visual “Starting at the Sun” piece.

D Magazine
An Insider's Guide to the Busiest 10 Days of the Dallas Art World

Ro2 will close a stellar group show, The Women of Ro2, at their pop-up location on Commerce downtown. Alaena Hostetter has all you need to know on that exhibition and what’s coming up from Ro2.
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Although it was disappointing to not see Ro2’s perennially interesting booth included in this year’s fair as they have perennially had one of the most interesting booths, Erin Cluley, Conduit, AND NOW, Cris Worley, and Liliana Bloch should hold it down for the home team.

D Magazine
In the Old Dallas Power & Light Building, Three Art Shows Find Space This Month

Ro2’s handsome satellite outpost at 1508 Commerce Street is alive before, during, and after the Dallas Art Fair. Admirers can visit three art shows in the space this month thanks to Ro2 Art. The sometimes-roving gallery began popping up in locations around Dallas in 2010. Ro2 has a home base in the Cedars; at 1500 square feet, it’s cozy. The lobby of the 19-story building on Commerce, though, lets a comprehensive exhibition called The Women of Ro2 breathe through Saturday. And a special anniversary show will coincide with Dallas Art Fair April 12-15.

austin360
It's a star-studded week with Sean Penn, Chrissy Metz and hot rods

Artist and professor Julie Libersat’s solo show explores symmetry and patterns common within the landscape of today’s capitalistic society, using an interactive video installation to present consumption as a modern form of worship. In this metaphorical work, the shopping mall is a temple of the golden age of capitalism, the parking lot a labyrinth. “Paved Paradise” is part of an ongoing series of parking lot mazes.

The Austin Chronicle
Review: "Julie Libersat: Paved Paradise" at W&TW

You've been there: behind the wheel, cruising slowly up this lane and down that one, again and again as you scout for the perfect slot to ease your auto into. You're determined to get as close to the mall as humanly possible, so you just keep a-drivin', past hundreds of meticulously measured spaces lined in white paint and those strategically placed light towers and the occasional concrete-enclosed island of greenery, weaving up and down those narrowly prescribed paths like your car was stitching some floral outline on the asphalt around the shopping center. You've been there. So you can expect a touch of déjà vu when you visit Julie Libersat's installation at Women & Their Work.

My Modern Met
Exotic Island Sculptures Made from Layers of Psychedelic Patterns.

Texas-based artist Terry Hays creates cross-cultural, abstract sculptures adorned with ornate, colorful patterns. Made by cutting and assembling hand-painted pieces of wood and plastic, Hays’ sprawling works are like large-scale pop-up books, bursting with psychedelic landscapes. Hays explains, “My own personal work has followed a never ending path in search of defining and redefining the urban and rural landscape that surrounds me."

Glasstire
Terry Hays: Irreversible Change and Selective Memory

Terry Hays has unveiled a new sculptural installation in the South Campus Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College in Fort Worth. This exhibition is the initial installment and first public showing of what will be an even larger installation that is slated for exhibition at another venue a couple of hours from Fort Worth.

Hays explains the meaning of the one of the two themes of the installation: “Irreversible Change is all about the recent unsettling frequency of natural disasters (forest fires in California, floods in Houston, the tsunami in Japan, hurricane Katrina) the devastating results and the long road to recovery.” Sendai is one of the pieces that represents the Irreversible Change of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that engulfed this Japanese city.

Dallas Morning News
Statement Pieces

It’s been an ongoing trend for many young artists to make art that collapses together myriad subjects, histories and methodologies. There’s a deftness (perhaps bordering on glibness at times) and unwavering honesty that permeates this particular generation’s way of exploring the growing weirdness of contemporary culture. These are artists who grew up with the internet at their disposal, cellphones in their pockets, and big box stores on every corner; for them, making art is about finding the personal in the truly ubiquitous. Case in point, two of the region’s best emerging artists each have new exhibitions stemming from personal experiences swathed in layers of art history, pop culture, critical theory and mythologies. Iva Kinnaird’s “A Two Page Paper on Impasse” (The Reading Room, 3715 Parry Ave., through Mar. 24) is a humorous look at the oft-Sisyphean routine of art-making, while
Benjamin Terry’s “Limerick” (Ro2 Art, 1501 S. Ervay, through March 17) spins a childhood grudge into a rumination on poetry and space.

Peripheral Vision
Salon 2017

One of the most intriguing opportunities of an open call juried exhibition such as SALON 2017 is that it imposes few limitations upon the artists. Submissions vary staggeringly in the visual narratives they expound, the formal or contextual concerns they examine, and the mediums they employ. Such diversity is reflective of the evolving role artists play in modern and contemporary society. The artist’s studio, Christine Macel notes in her introduction to this year’s Venice Biennale, is no longer solely a place for introspection and solitary production. In today’s world of conflict, social disparity, racial and gender inequality, climate change, and increased nationalism and anti-elitism, the voice of the artist becomes all the more vital. Artists are encouraged to develop public personas and address these critical issues.

Congratulations to Ro2 Artists Barbara Horlander, Bumin Kim, Jeanne Neal, and Kathy Robinson-Hays for their inclusion in Peripheral Vision Press Salon 17 with essay by Georgia Erger.

ModernDallas
EP:135 - The Low-Slung Roof Lines of this 1963 Modern post and beam home restored, expanded and modified in 2017! RO2ART - C. Mark Burt's and Georganne Deen and Dulce Interior Consignment Showplace

ModernDallas visited with and interviewed Gallery Director and Co-Owner, Jordan Roth, at Ro2 Art to learn more about C. Mark Burt's and Georganne Deen's shows. The interview also touched upon the relationship between those two exhibitions and the background story behind Mark's works. Mark and Georganne's shows are currently on view through January 6, 2018.

Glasstire
Top Five: December 7, 2017

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech lay down another top five art shows for the week. Georganne Deen and Mark Burt's shows at Ro2 make the list. Georganne Deen's show, Psychic Violence in America, deals with a type of invisible implicit violence that worms its way into the public psyche. It has no laws governed against it and runs rampart in politics, religion, and corporations around the world. Deen has been working on pieces for Psychic Violence since before the recent presidential election, but her pieces and motif are much more relevant now in the aftermath. Mark Burt's show, Through The Dark Place, sees Burt creating a allegorical society of humanoid creatures, known as Mugawumps, which must fight to reach a sort of promiseland but are faced with plentiful distractions. Burt is a member of the Lizard Cult, a collective of artists inspired by Lee Baxter Davis, who create elaborate fantasy worlds and characters that provide some sort of commentary. Both shows are up at Ro2 Art Gallery through January 6th, 2018.

Modern Dallas
Joshua Goode + Erika Duque at Ro2 Art

Although both Joshua Goode and Erika Duque's shows have been taken down recently, Todd Camplin at Modern Dallas was so enamored by them that he saw fit to write a late review. Joshua Goode's show, Pegasus Armor, saw the artist creating armor and weaponry out of old toys. The armor and weaponry fashioned from old Tonka Trucks, G.I. Joe Planes, and Simpsons Calendars are part of Goode's fabricated civilization which he stages archaeological finds for. Camplin called the show both fun and a unique critique of our "display culture" which robs graves to learn more about the past. Erika Duque's show, Paraiso, a lush jungle themed reflection on the artists recent trip to Tulum Mexico, was a favorite of Camplin's young daughter. Soon Camplin also appreciated Duque's unique way of rendering foliage and the greenhouse effect created by the gallery. Although both shows closed down recently, Camplin expressed excitement for Ro2's upcoming shows by Mark Burt and Georganne Deen and praised the gallery for it's strong lineup.

ArtFunk Podcast
One Simple Trick To Being a Successful Artist

ArtFunk sat down with Ro2 Artist Brian Keith Jones and chatted with him about his career and how he has evolved over the years. Brian reminisces about how he plans to always has to have a show going at any given time, how laziness sometimes keeps the influx of ideas in his head from reaching paper, and how keeping a notebook instead of a sketchbook helps ideas flow faster because notebooks are much less formal and imposing than a blank sketchbook. His partnership with Brian Scott, called Chuck and George, helps him explore things he wouldn't normally though and stretches him creatively by not allowing him to focus on the same themes or subjects. Brian talks about his growth as an artist, from not having a show for 10 years to Chuck and Georges very first show and the bitterness associated with being a young artist trying to figure out their place in the art world. Brian says to hold on to and let fuel you. Side note, don't show up to a Brian Scott/Brian Jones Halloween Party without a costume or you might be stuffed into a piñata and beaten.

Wall Street International
Georganne Deen

Known for her unconventional methods of circumnavigating the minefields of psychological chaos, Deen says the matrix of willful indifference to corruption in which she’s felt trapped, and the need to record something, anything that acknowledges experiencing the drama of a dying world, brought to mind the idols of her youth: Goya, Ensor, Grosz and Dix. Driven by an awareness of the sheer volume of blabber that has smoked out all reasonable attempts to locate the truth in this shifting soap opera, she adopted the role of a court painter and PR agent for the age of fatuity, and proceeded to advance the notoriety of the sordid character types and events in formal (psychic) portraiture.

Dallas Observer
7 Dallas Artist's to Watch in 2018

Ro2 Artist, Adam Palmer, had the honor of being featured as one of Dallas Observer's artists to watch in 2018. His most recent exhibition Sisters Sticker Collection featured "pixy stick" bursts of color that served as an homage to colorful 90's cartoons and music videos. His flamboyant "kaleidoscopic" paintings will help kick the new year off to a colorful start.

Voyage Dallas
Meet James Zamora of Denton

Voyage Dallas recently sat down with Ro2 artist James Zamora to discus his work, education, and inspirations. James, who is known for his stunning hyper realistic paintings, has been making art from a very young age where he was inspired by the likes of Power Rangers and Jack's sketchbook in Titanic. James was inspired to try painting by his high school art teacher and hasn't turned back since, receiving his BFA in drawing and painting from the University of North Texas and quickly finding galleries, such as Ro2, to showcase his work upon graduation. James enjoys making paintings inspired by grocery store aisles or Instagram photos. He reflects fondly on how seasonal transitions affected his childhood.

ARTSY
8 Great Art Gifts Under $500

To kick off the holiday season and encourage some creative and relatively inexpensive gift giving for the art lover in your life, popular Art Market and News Sites Artsy published a list of "8 Great Art Gifts Under $500." Featured next to high profile artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Kaws, is none other than Ro2 Artist James Zamora. James is known for his stunning hyper realist oil paintings depicting still lifes, Instagram pictures, and nostalgic video and gaming equipment, among other subjects. Congratulations James! Your pieces certainly do make great gifts!

CultureMap Dallas
Give thanks and go see these 5 essential DFW gallery exhibits in November

It’s rare for local sculptor Joshua Goode to show his conceptual pieces in his hometown. On the heels of his well-received New York show at Ivy Brown gallery earlier this year, Goode brings his fascination with personal mythology and ancient artifacts to Ro2 Art. Inspired by the Arms and Armor room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (a space he says looks “like it was painted by Caravaggio”), he has created a full set of armor that references both his childhood and classical antiquities.

Glasstire
Top Five: November 16, 2017 with Eric Jarvis

Ro2 Artist Angel Cabralas is featured this week in Glasstire's prestigious Top Five for his show A Hole in One, at the MAC. A Hole in One comments on the current rocky political climate and the United States relationship with the rest of the world. Utilizing a golf course as a metaphor, Angel created courses in the shape of countries. Participants are able to fire golf balls at the countries from the United States courses while sitting in recliners.

Dallaesthetic
Studio Tour: Adam Fung

For our first post on Ro2's exciting new blog Dallaesthetic, former Ro2 intern Sabine Fletcher sat down with artist Adam Fung to learn more about his trip to the artic ircle and the reasoning behind his show Iceberg X. The interview also touched upon Adam's education, studio space, favorite tools, and some helpful tips for aspiring artists.

Glasstire
Adam Fung At Ro2 Art

Glasstire reviewer Michael Blair visited Ro2 Art to view Adam Fungs show, Iceberg X and offer his impressions on it. Blair had a lot to say about Adams ghostly monochromatic painting style as well as his thoughtful integration of the X motif. He argues that while there is a certain amount of eco fetishizing to get through, Adams paintings provide thoughtful commentary on the state of our planet that goes well beyond making the icebergs poster child's against climate change.

Peripheral Vision
Julie Libersat: The Unknown City

For Texas artist Julie Libersat the landscape is a site increasingly mediated by personal and collective memory, political ideology, and technology. The urban landscape, in particular, occupies the central focus of Libersat's interventionist projects, many of which begin with the artist's personal experience of a site that is then translated or re-presented in its mediated format within a gallery context.

The Modern Teen/Artist Project Blog
Personal Mythologies with Joshua Goode

Joshua Goode has joined T/AP as our final artist and mentor of the 2012–2013 class year, and we are very excited to have him with us. Working in various media, he is an artist interested in not only creating an art object, but also harnessing its setting as an integral part of the work. As he discussed his own art practice, we learned that much of his inspiration is autobiographical, often dealing with his family and personal history.

Wall Street International
Peggy Wauters

Peggy Wauters’ newest body of work sees the artist returning to her famed miniature paintings. These paintings, often barely several inches long, embody all the splendor, gravitas, and technique that many artists struggle with putting into much larger paintings.

Clusters of paintings are framed in vignettes that work as miniature narratives, while also retaining their power as singular pieces. Wauters’ signature portraits, landscapes, and subtle sense of humor make a return as well as some bold new fungus inspired sculptures.

Wall Street International
Adam Fung

In his newest series, artist Adam Fung recaptures the enchanting landscapes that he witnessed during his Artist Residency in the Arctic Circle. While his paintings offer a gorgeous glimpse into this frozen wonderland, Fung is also intent to provide a sobering reminder that many of these sites now look drastically different, or no longer exist, due to climate change. Fung’s work features ghostly monochromatic renditions of the various glaciers, icebergs, and seas that inspired him, paired with an unexpected, yet unmistakable, symbol of loss. The significance of Iceberg X lies in its ability to present a visual quandary for the viewer; the X reinforces the painted surface, but its transparency allows the viewer to re-enter the painting as a window into another world.

Wall Street International
Julia Trinh

In her work, Julia Trinh explores texture and its relationship between organic form and geometric line and shape. Although Trinh works with often unpredictable mixed media materials, her process is incredibly intuitive. After cutting magazine pages into repetitive, linear strips, Trinh incorporates other materials, such as fabric, canvas, beeswax, oil pigment, and acrylic paint, to alter the structured nature of the paper. She is fascinated by the varying effects that each material offers. For example, the malleability of beeswax allows it to be melted, sculpted, scraped, or gouged down to reveal unexpected layers.

The Memphis Flyer
The Work of Alex Paulus

Alex Paulus always had a talent for art since a young age when he used to shatter many older students egos by besting them in art competitions. Later in life Alex gravitated towards making colorful humorous art that poked fun at his catholic upbringing including a "Catholic Survival Kit for Hell" or "Man Counteracting All Of Gods Punishments." He also made morbidly humorous pieces that put dead people in absurd situations. Continuing his trend for dark absurdist humor, Paulus' newest line of work deals with "people trying to make their lives better, but it's not working."

Art Funk
The World Is Melting

Rachel and Ryan Rushing at Art Funk visited Ro2 for Adam Fung's "Iceberg X" opening and offered their opinions on the show via their podcast. The duo offered praises on Ro2's economic use of space, as well as Adams detailed paintings, gorgeous thought provoking video, and use of vinyl X's hidden around the gallery space. More critical opinions were held for Adams differing uses of the X motif, smaller painting sizes, and his overlying messages and themes.

It's Nice That Alex Paulus’ humorous paintings reflect failure, denial and perseverance

Artist Alexander Paulus' new series of paintings center around people trying to "improve their situation but ultimately failing." These people are blissfully unaware that their life sucks and are ready to keep trying and keep failing till they possibly eventually persevere. This series is much bigger than is previous works and builds upon the idea of mixing oil and acrylic so the paint stands out from the canvas. Paulus's paintings are often surreal and humorous, featuring odd misshapen characters in bizarre situations that are made relatable by pop culture references and feelings of familiarity.

Dallas Observer
Chris Dreier + Gary Farrelly: Fruit Efficiency

In their upcoming Dallas exhibition, Farrelly and Dreier comment on the redundancies of bureaucratic processes through the ongoing exchange of documentation within their fabricated corporation. Their joint ability to record their personal obsessions through the methodical organization of superfluous surveys and polls reflects their tongue-in-cheek approach. Both members of OJAI take their positions very seriously, devoting much of their time to drafting documents, filing papers, and mailing correspondence back and forth between Brussels and Berlin. FRUIT EFFICIENCY is the third exhibition of OJAI’s farcical content, presented as the company’s annual report.

Glasstire
Chris Dreier + Gary Farrelly: Fruit Efficiency

A collaborative show of works by Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly, the co-founders of The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (OJAI). "Farrelly and Dreier comment on the redundancies of bureaucratic processes through the ongoing exchange of documentation within their fabricated corporation."

CultureMap Dallas
Ro2 Art Gallery presents Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly: "Fruit Efficiency" opening reception

In their Dallas exhibition, Farrelly and Dreier comment on the redundancies of bureaucratic processes through the ongoing exchange of documentation within their fabricated corporation. Their joint ability to record their personal obsessions through the methodical organization of superfluous surveys and polls reflects their tongue-in-cheek approach.

Peripheral Vision
Peripheral Vision Announces The Salon 2017 Publication Fellows

Peripheral Vision is pleased to award Publication Fellowships to forty eight emerging and mid-career professional American artists in conjunction with our inaugural salon-style exhibition, curated by critic Georgia Erger. Submitted works represent the diversity of contemporary art practice and occupy various points of intersection around common themes and aesthetic concerns. Salon 2017, forthcoming this fall, will take the form of an introductory essay by the curator containing links to artist project pages. Included in this year's selection are Ro2 Artists Barbara Horlander, Bumin Kim, Jeanne Neal, and Kathy Robinson-Hays.

Blouin ArtInfo
Mary Jo Karimnia: Cups are Emotion at Ro2 Art, Dallas

Mary Jo Karimnia works in a variety of media, building up images from smaller pieces in a mosaic-like fashion using traditional and non-traditional materials like seed beads or discarded toys. She grew up in Detroit, earned her BFA from Stephen F Austin State University in Texas and moved to Memphis in the 1990s to raise her family and reassert her arts lifestyle. Karimnia's early drawings and paintings were intuitive in an Abstract Expressionist fashion and spontaneity remains an important component, even in the more meticulous pieces.

ModernDallas
This Mid-Century Modern Beautifully Landscaped Mockingbird Park Home, Chaos at Ro2 Art, Parade of Playhouses by Dallas CASA

Ro2 Art's annual summer small works show, CHAOS, is currently on view through August 19. ModernDallas visited with Gallery Director and Co-Owner, Jordan Roth, to learn more about the show, which consists of over 360 works by 140 artists. Under the creative direction of Co-Owner, Susan Roth Romans, the show visually comes together, seamlessly incorporating artwork of various styles and media, all sized below 10 inches.

Wall Street International
Adam Palmer: 14 Jun — 18 Jul 2017 at the Ro2 Art in Dallas, United States

Adam [Palmer]’s first experience with color and composition came from watching cartoons on Nickelodeon, music videos on MTV, and movies on HBO. Palmer’s vibrant abstract pieces attempt to capture the untamed spirit of his childhood influences. "In my latest drawings and prints, I try to convey all of my childhood influences in an abstract form. I grew up in a small and remote west Texas town. Nickelodeon, MTV and HBO provided an escape from my everyday life."

Modern Dallas

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CultureMap Dallas
4 top exhibits and one can't-miss tour make this a hot month for Dallas art

The annual Chaos!!!! at Ro2 has a two-fold appeal. For the collector, it’s an instant way to see the work of all of the artists in the gallery’s roster, allowing them to hone in on styles or mediums they might like to explore in a larger piece. It’s also an easy way to get started on a gallery wall: ranging from under $100 to just over $1,000, smaller canvases or sculptures are both less intimidating and more affordable.

Glasstire

Top Five: July 6, 2017

Texas Monthly
Adam Palmer: "Sister's Sticker Collection"

Raised in Monahans Texas, Adam Palmer received his BFA in Printmaking from Angelo State University in 2004 and his MFA, also in Printmaking, from the University of North Texas in 2011. In addition to printmaking and screen printing, Palmer also explores other media such as drawing and sculpture. Palmer currently lives and teaches high school art in the Fort Worth area.

Dallas Observer
5 Art Events for your Week: June 14-18

Dallas Observer highlights the top five art events of the week. At the top of the list is Adam Palmer's solo exhibition Sister's Sticker Collection at Ro2 Art at The Magnolia Theatre. Like a tween dream hopped up on Pixy sticks, Adam Palmer’s solo exhibit Sister’s Sticker Collection is throwing it back to the '90s, the decade whose progenies grew up on TRL, TeenNick, and Beanie Babies. The abstract pieces in this show celebrate that unbridled enthusiasm, thanks to the fact that Palmer’s sister had cool stickers when they were kids. Following the reception on June 15, the show will run through July 18.

CultureMap Dallas
Ro2 Art Gallery presents Mark Ross: "Life Works" opening reception

Ross’ expressive paintings of the human form are created in the presence of his models. By working with live subjects, rather than with photographs, Ross is challenged to focus in the moment under the constraints of time and media. Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on display through June 24.

CultureMap Dallas
Ro2 Art Gallery presents Ray-Mal Cornelius: "Every Day" opening reception

As in his past work, Cornelius is concerned with reflecting on personal experience and how that experience can be interpreted as both objective reality and the creation of an individualistic mythology. For his new series Every Day, the artist turns his attention away from the rural and wilderness milieu of his prior work towards the urban environment that he encounters on a daily basis. Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on display through June 24.

Oak Cliff Advocate
A local artist's portraits of Oak Cliff landmarks

Oak Cliff-based artist Ray-Mel Cornelius opened a show called Every Day at Ro2 Art last week. The show includes portraits of Oak Cliff landmarks you’ll recognize, including “Sister Hope,” the two-story prairie-style house in South Winnetka that’s been the home to a “reader advisor” for decades. The show is up at.

Modern Dallas
Modern Dallas Visits Ro2 Art

Ray-Mel Cornelius' Every Day and Mark Ross' Life Works are two beautiful shows currently on view at Ro2 Art. Modern Dallas visited the gallery to view these shows and interview gallery owner Jordan Roth. Jordan talks about the artists' contrasting yet complimentary styles in creating portrait-style works.

Dallas Observer
5 Art Events For Your Weekend: May 26-28

Dallas Observer highlights five can't miss art events this weekend, two of them being shows by Ro2 Art artists. The first is Allison Belliveau-Proulx's solo exhibition Choosing Heroes, a study on how the media affect our perceptions of heroes on view at The Magnolia Theatre through June 6. The second is the opening reception for Ray-Mel Cornelius' new series Every Day, in which he explores Oak Cliff’s heritage, diversity and charm with his typically playful approach to color, texture and scale. Every Day is on view at Ro2 through June 24, along with Mark Ross' solo show Life Works.

Glasstire
Top Five: May 18, 2017

Art Scoop

MARY JANE REVIEWS BARBARA HORLANDER AT RO2 ART GALLERY

Dallas Observer

5 Art Events For Your Weekend: May 5-7

OSSO

Le strane composizioni di Alex Paulus (The Strange Compositions of Alex Paulus)

Dallas News

Some of the coolest, grooviest artwork being shown at the Dallas Art Fair comes from right here

Artnet

‘Everyone Is Excited to Learn’: Why Dealers From Around the World Love the Dallas Art Fair

Berlin Art Link

Top Seven Booths at The Dallas Art Fair

D Magazine

Five Reasons to be Excited For the Dallas Art Fair

Paper City

International Jet Setters, NASCAR Royalty and Major Surprises: This Dallas Art Fair Rocks

Urban Art & Antiques
Temple of Small Wishes by Carroll Swenson-Roberts

George O’Keefe once painted her frame, the only way to ensure that it won’t be thrown away and replaced by an exorbitant decorative one. Carroll Swenson-Roberts has a better idea. In her new body of work – Temple of Small Wishes, currently shown at the Magnolia Theatre in Dallas, a wood frame is both the device and the content, unified through an architectural design.

Paper City

At Ro2 Art in the Cedars – one of 10 Texas exhibitors in the upcoming Dallas Art Fair – Jeff Parrott’s psychedelic canvases evoke frenetic yet compelling struggles with abstraction. Paired with Parrott is a solo for Brian K. Jones, one half of the infamous Oak Cliff duo Chuck & George. Jones’ latest figuration adds a Pop component, exhibited under the strange title “Eat Your Vegetables!” (both shows, through March 11).

Dallas Observer

Joshua Goode Makes a Case for Ordinary People in New Faux Archaeological Exhibit

The Dallas Morning News

Ro2 Art seeks to parrot 'stream of consciousness' with new show by engaging Dallas artist

Modern Dallas

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Dallas Observer
21 Best Things to Do in Dallas This Week: December 20-26
Sure, procrastinators can grab a last-minute gift off a shelf at any department store or big-box retailer, but for gift buyers looking for a more one-of-a-kind, meaningful memento to give someone special, Ro2 Art and Art Tooth present Ro2ooth Gift Grab. The collaborative group exhibition showcases a diverse collection of “small works” projects by area artists, and the Gift Grab presents art lovers of all sorts a chance to affordably browse from an eclectic array of mediums, including painting, prints, photography and sculpture by some emerging and established artists from North Texas.

CultureMap Dallas
Dallas-Fort Worth galleries have the goods to gift your artsy friends
Says gallery co-owner Jordan Roth, “It’s Dallas-Fort Worth’s most talked about talent combined with emerging artists. It’s going to be rock solid. We’re thrilled for the opportunity to bring the two cities together to celebrate North Texas art for the holidays.”

Dallas News
On the eve of the presidential election, immigration issues invade Dallas-area art shows
Immigration, of course, is chief among the hot-button issues. It's the focal point of "Operation: Al Pastor," an exhibition by Angel Cabrales that, according to the folks at Ro2 Art, "places its focus on the social impact of Mexican culture and its recent presence in conservative politics." The show runs through Nov. 12.

The Dallas Morning News
NFL quarterbacks can relax: Man Ray was an artist, not a defensive lineman
"She's a very important artist, who's best known among other artists," says Jordan Roth, who with his mother, Susan Roth Romans, runs Ro2 Art. "We're thrilled to be hosting her show. It's amazing we even have the opportunity to work with her. She's 83 and so prolific."

"Some may ask why I choose to live and work in the world of objects," Ragin says. "It is the only way I can think of to remold the crushing realities of life."

Dallas Observer
5 Art Events for Your Weekend, July 7-10
Korean-born artist Bumin Kim considers her pieces paintings rather than sculptures, or perhaps drawings personified. Utilizing the associations of the material she uses, Kim embodies her works while harmoniously composing a drawing in a three-dimensional field. Thread and string are synonymous with the actions of weaving and stitching and serve as metaphors for the joining of two separate entities. Kim’s forms are exacerbated value studies, gesture drawings or economical sketches one might find in the foundations of drawing. The opening reception is 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday. More info at ro2art.com.

Modern Dallas

Brad Ford Smith at Ro2 Art

The Dallas Morning News
Alexander Paulus zeroes in on Kevin Bacon and Honey Boo Boo
"It's been a really fun show to host," says Roth, who revels in Paulus' ability to depict daily life "at its most absurd. The compositions are beautiful, brightly colored, well composed, but each one of them contains a bit of irony. With each one, there's so much more than meets the eye."

Dallas Observer
5 Essential Art Events, June 2-5: Puppetry, Piñata-Inspired Art and More
Memphis-based artist Alexander Paulus' solo exhibition of new paintings playfully explores the unexpected response viewers experience when encountering barely hidden realities. In Paulus’ work, happiness and grief coexist: a small dead body is embedded in a beautiful landscape, a roller coaster is surrounded by dead bodies. This is strange imagery, often in bright and bold colors, about how ridiculous life can be sometimes, tempered with a sense of humor. The opening reception is 7-10 p.m., Saturday, June 4. More info at ro2art.com.

Dallas Art Dealers Association
Top Five: June 2, 2016
An exhibition of paintings by Memphis-based artist Alexander Pualus. The artist on his work: “My paintings are a representation of how ridiculous I think life can be.”

Front Row Blog

5 Art Events for Your Weekend

New paintings by Alexander Paulus at Ro2.

HARDWOODDISTRICT.COM
Ken Craft Artist Reception at Magnolias Sous Le Pont
Born in New Mexico, but now based in Dallas, Craft's work reflects an interest in representational scene painting alongside cartoon story telling. He’s influenced by Gustave Courbet but also Art Spiegelman. By both Gerhard Richter and George Herriman. And lately, Philip Guston. He is creating original comics characters for his paintings. The work is meant to exist as both traditional easel painting and as a form of comics.

The Dallas Morning News
Mother-and-son teams infiltrate the Dallas gallery scene
“It’s quite an honor,” Jordan says, “to work hand in hand with someone I admire so much, who has not only raised me but who also lends her expertise in the industry so that we can work together doing something we both love.”

Dallas Observer
5 Essential Art Events This Week: Geometric Forms, Childhood Relics and More
A solo exhibition of works in various media by Texas artist Thomas Menikos, this is a space in which the experiences of adolescence and adulthood collide. Vaguely nostalgic, ad-hoc representations of childhood consumer goods beg to be perused and pondered, intending to find identity within authenticity.

Dallas Observer
Weird Things We Saw at the Dallas Art Fair
Dallas' Ro2 Art came through with a lot of amusing art this year, not the least of which were Brian Scott's paintings of couples mid-coitus, one called "Toe Lunch" (it's what you might guess) and another called "Nervous Excitement of the New," which showed both people biting their nails while love-making. But for the nostalgia factor, this piece of medieval armor made of Pogs, the popular ' 90s game, took the prize.

Front Row Blog
Six Art Events for Your Weekend
Here are two openings on behalf of the folks at Ro2 gallery. The first, at the Magnolia Theatre, features photography by Dannie Liebergot that was created during the artist’s residency at Listhús Artspace in Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. In the gallery’s Cedars space, Thomas Menikos’ installation of appropriated consumer goods grapples with the fuzzy boundaries between adolescence and adulthood.

Paper City
Dallas’ Hippest ‘New’ Neighborhood? Historic Ice Cream Area Made Over With Restaurants and Game-Changing Art
One of the most eagerly watched urban redevelopment stories in the Southwest is happening in Dallas: two high-profile projects with an arts and preservation focus in the red-hot district of The Cedars.

Paper City
Fresh activity comes from Ro2 Art in the Cedars

Culture Map
The events to attend this February–“Observations and Alterations,” Sonali Khatti and Scott Winterrowd, at Ro2 Art
Ro2 plans to settle in for the next nine months in an old pharmacy building at 1501 S. Ervay St. With an eye to permanently reside within the MAC’s environs once its remodel is complete, Ro2 is keeping up the ambitious programming with a two-person show exploring a modern twist on classic landscapes.

Dallas Observer
Jeff Parrott – An intensely prolific psychedelic artist
Parrott is still making final decisions on which pieces will be included for his show opening this weekend at an enormous.

Dallas Morning News
More Dallas galleries are on the move.
McKinney Avenue Contemporary has left Uptown for the Cedars, another fast-growing area, and now Ro2 Art has announced that it, too, is headed to the Cedars, leaving behind a downtown space.

Culture Map
Must-see Dallas Shows – “Belonging” at Ro2 Art
The personification of drawing in three dimensions. The marriage of strange and familiar forms and patterns. Materials as a metaphor for healing. For the Korean artists Bumin Kim, Yuni Lee, and Jieun Lim, things are not always as they first appear. Curated together by Ro2 Art, the trio’s work encompasses sculpture, installation, and painting, but there is a through line that runs along their very different viewpoints.

Dallas Observer
Bradshaw-Smith is working on an exhibit for the new Ro2 location in the fall

Dallas Observer
As Part of Aurora, There Will Be Mind-Reading Art at New Mac Location
One of the new MAC's galleries will focus on new media. Construction has not yet started on this massive building, a former Ford dealership and showroom that closed in 1962. After being unused for decades, the warehouse is now cleared out and skeletal. The plan is for the building to be completed late 2016. The MAC will be part of a commercial development with offices and a lobby, and Ro2 Art will have a space in the building.

D Magazine
Things To Do In Dallas This Weekend: July 31–Aug. 2
Time to send July off in style and start August right with one of those crossover weekends.
For the third edition of the popular 'CHAOS!!!' small works show, the gallery has invited participation by more than 100 artists who have created portable, intimately scaled works in virtually all media.

D Magazine
Things To Do In Dallas This Weekend: July 31–Aug. 2
Time to send July off in style and start August right with one of those crossover weekends. There are some art events that you cant miss! For the third edition of the popular 'CHAOS!!!' small works show, Ro2 Art has invited participation by more than 100 artists who have created portable, intimately scaled works in virtually all media.

Glasstire
Top Five July 30, 2015
This week, Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees tackle ocean trenches, CHAOS, and an exhibition they know nothing about. For the third edition of the popular 'CHAOS!!!' small works show, the gallery has invited participation by more than 100 artists who have created portable, intimately scaled works in virtually all media.

D Magazine
Four Art Events You Should See This Weekend- June 10
Olaniyi R. Akindiya is an Austin-based artist who works largely in textiles. The work straddles a line between large-scale abstract painting and immersive installation, while using traditional weaving techniques – from the Southwest Nigerian Aso Oke to the Kenyan Kente cloths – to infer and reference various cultural histories and allusions.

FD Luxe
Coming Out: Dallas Art Events June 5 to June 11
Ro2 Art presents 365, a project by Danielle Georgiou in which the artist took a photograph of herself at the moment of waking every day for a year. Georgiou posted the pictures on Instagram with the hashtag #iwokeuplikethis, and monitored how many “likes” and comments each image received. This exhibition highlights selected portraits and includes a video of all 365 images.

Dallas Observer
5 Art Exhibitions to See This Weekend- June 3
In much of her practice, multi-disciplinary artist Danielle Georgiou is interested in subjects like femininity and the male gaze. She challenges preconceptions in the off-the-wall experimental movement with her dance troupe, DGDG, and her collaborative project with Hilly Holsonback, Slik Stockings. Her year-long project #iwokeuplikethis, pre-dates Kim Kardashian's selfie book, and contains a collection of photographs and videos that offer an up-close look at Georgiou every morning for a year.

Dallas Observer
5 Art Exhibitions to See This Weekend- May 6
With background in both rural Texas and Oklahoma, artist Chance Dunlap admits to pulling directly from his surroundings for inspiration in his sculpture. He focuses on vivifying the materials, pulling in his experiences, observed surroundings, and the generally impulsive nature of making art.

Art & Seek
No Trace of Subtlety
While universal in nature, the content of Meraz’s new work is especially poignant in Dallas, a city that has always been associated with loud lifestyles. It’s a place where you find couture next to cowboy, a place in which the well-to-do have immediate access to styles imported from fashion hubs around the globe. HAUTE FAUXX calls for an examination of why and how we participate in an industry that sells products which so blatantly project fantasy.

Central Track
25 Things Worth Celebrating In The Dallas Arts Right Now.
Susan and Jordan Roth's Downtown space has been coming into its own for a while now, but it now feels fully realized and deserving of a place in the conversation alongside the best galleries in town.

Art & Seek
Dallas Art Fair 2015: The Home Team Had The Advantage
Jordan Roth, owner of RO2, remarked, “There were many repeat visitors. Not just from year to year, but there were noticeably a lot of people who came back every day of the Fair. It was the place to hang out.”

Patron Magazine
Locavore- Editor's Picks
"We’re very proud to exhibit emerging and established artists from our region—so, it’s exciting to have an opportunity to introduce our favorite artists to visitors from around the world, and to collectors who may have not visited the gallery before,” Jordan Roth, co-owner of Ro2 Art says. In addition to artists from Texas and the US, Ro2 has included works by Irish artist Gary Farrelly and Belgian artist Peggy Wauters.

Dallas Observer
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 18 Gallerist Jordan Roth
It's rare to find someone in the art business so eager to promote the whole scene. And sincerely, too. If anyone wants Dallas art to be on the international map, it's Roth. This organic approach to building a gallery seems to have paid off. After five years in business, Roth and his mom seem to be successful and they're having a hell of a lot of fun.

D Magazine
4 Art Events For Your Weekend
Via the release: “In his recent body of work, Jesse Meraz’s interests lie in the ambivalent relationship between art and fashion.” Starting to spot a trend? Yep, it’s Art Fair April in Dallas, and so our minds turn to all the blurring of pomp and circumstance. But this is an exhibition you should hit, especially since it is Jesse Meraz’s first solo show in a decade. Meraz was a member of Denton’s Good/Bad Art Collective, and he currently dwells in Fort Worth.

Dallas Observer
Cedars Fever!
When Claude Albritton led a tour of his new space in the Cedars on October 2, 2014, he called the monstrous space, "Claudey world." Certainly, the man at the helm of the bright blue building on McKinney Avenue has bought himself a veritable playground for the arts.

Dallas Observer
5 Shows To See This Weekend
Much of the work you'll see at Eliana Miranda's exhibition at Ro2 Art will be pulled straight from the headlines. The artist, who is completing her MFA at University of Dallas, uses current events as inspiration, currently taking an interest in the Mexico/United States border disputes. See her paintings on display at an opening reception 7-9 p.m. Friday or through March 24. More at Ro2art.com.

Glasstire
Top 5 in Texas, March 5, 2015
Adam Neese - Terra Incognita: Imaginary landscapes–photographs from a National Park Guidebooks rephotographed in the landscape of the American Southwest. Do you see a theme emerging here?

Huffington Post Arts & Culture
A Hyperrealism That Questions Reality With James Zamora and Sarah Atlee at Ro2 Art
Both of them paint food and still life. Zamora's is contemplative and, at times, confounding. Atlee's is luscious and bright. Both call into question what it is that we see when we look at food and items of commonplace.

Art News
Dallas Art Fair 2015
The seventh edition of the annual Dallas Art Fair will run from April 9 through 12 at the Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g) in Dallas’s downtown Arts District.

Dallas Observer
Inside the Beautifully Grotesque World of Dallas-based Artist Joachim West
January 6, 2015
You'll be standing with me in the corner of the room in a state of beautiful self-loathing. Beautiful because it's honest, and because a few pieces of art containing people on whom you look down just became about you, and now you're the one who has to change.

PaperCity Magazine: Art Notes, December 2014
Paper Trumps Scissors
Irish artist Gary Farrelly and co-owner Susan Roth Romans turn a quirky space into an important Mecca, curating new works by Farrelly himself and Belgium talent Antonine Gougeau, alongside five others who push and probe the possibilities of paper. Co-owner Jordan Roth also Rolls out giftable treasures Brooks Oliver's widely collected ceramics and Robin Ragin's sculpture.