{"id":462115,"date":"2026-10-10T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462115\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:28:09","slug":"dallas-keijsers-koning-art-gallery-offers-bold-pairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462115\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas’ Keijsers Koning art gallery offers bold pairing"},"content":{"rendered":"

For its final showing in its\u00a0Design District<\/a> gallery before moving to a yet-to-be-revealed location,\u00a0Keijsers Koning<\/a> presents a bold pairing of two different takes on the human figure as filtered through art history, spanning painting and sculpture, the U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n

The Belgian sculptor Johan Tahon shows three stoneware figures, partially coated with a glaze that drips down the side, and a single, life-size figure of plaster and wood. Their distortions and fragmentations, similar to those in the modernist works of Giacometti and Rodin, suggest a sense of heroic struggle, as the artist wrestles with his materials. It is difficult to repress the urge to touch their gorgeously rough surfaces.<\/p>\n

In her three acrylic paintings, the Louisville-born painter Natalie Westbrook superimposes designs at multiple scales, and in multiple styles, on top of one another. While voluptuous, Rubenesque Baroque-style figures whirl around each other in the middle ground, they are encompassed by both larger-scale shapes that spread across the canvas (eyes, snakes, paws and other primal motifs), as well as smaller-scale geometric patterns (leopard-print and otherwise) that fill the rest of the space.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssumptions Abide: Johan\u00a0Tahon and Natalie Westbrook\u201d continues through Oct. 24 at\u00a0Keijsers Koning, 150 Manufacturing St., Suite 201, Dallas. Free. Open Thursday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.\u00a0keijserskoning.com<\/a>. 469-961-5391.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For its final showing in its\u00a0Design District gallery before moving to a yet-to-be-revealed location,\u00a0Keijsers Koning presents a bold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87998,95961,89018],"class_list":["post-462115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-design-district","tag-tp-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}